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Elizabeth Abbate (Music History) B.A., M.M., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching Fellow, Harvard University 1989-94 and 1997. Whiting Fellowship, 1994-95. Paper on Mahler's First Symphony delivered at New England Chapter meeting of American Musicological Society, 1994. Violin studies with Philip Lewis, Syoko Aki, Shirley Givens, Koichiro Harada, Karen Clarke. Orchestral violinist: Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Ballet, Boston Baroque, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Early Music Ensemble of Boston, Leonora String Quartet, Cantata Singers and Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, Boston Lyric Opera/ Recording of Salamone Rossi Hebreo with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Early Music Ensemble of Boston. Formerly: performer with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. matteo@aol.com

Ken Amis (Tuba) B.M. (Composition) Boston University; M.M. (Composition) New England Conservatory of Music. Former member of the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra and the New World Symphony and soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra. Has served on the faculty of Boston University, B.U. Tanglewood institute, the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University, and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. In 2003, he received New England Conservatory of Music's "Outstanding Alumni Award." He is currently a member of the Empire Brass Quintet and the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, and the assistant conductor for the M.I.T. Wind Ensemble . He is an active composer, and has been commissioned to write for, Symphony Hall, N.E.C. Wind Ensemble, University of Scranton, among many others. He has also taken commissions/residences with the Boston Classical Orchestra the New England Conservatory of Music, the Massachusetts instrumental conductors association and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston.

Laura Ahlbeck (Oboe) is currently the Principal oboist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and has recently been appointed Principal oboe of the American Symphony Orchestra. She is also Principal oboe of the Boston Lyric Opera, and is heard in many groups in Boston, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, the Boston Classical Orchestra, and in many chamber groups, including the Boston Chamber Music Society and Walden Chamber Players. She has been principal oboe for the Bard Festival Orchestra since 1993. Prior to moving to Boston in 1990, she was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has also been a member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Maracaibo, and the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia. Ahlbeck joined the Bard College faculty this year, and also teaches at New England Conservatory, Boston University, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Early training was at Ohio State University with William P. Baker, and she finished her Master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Elaine Douvas.

Keith A. Aleo (Percussion) B.M., Eastman School of Music; M.M., University of Miami. Percussion studies with John Beck, Jim Chapin, Doug Howard, Chris Lamb, Charles Owen and Fred Wickstrom. Mr. Aleo was a member of the percussion section of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989-2003. He recently performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine conducting (2005), and is a member of the New Bedford and Indian Hill Symphony Orchestras (MA). His chamber music and solo accomplishments include the Florida Philharmonic, the Miami Chamber Symphony, the New Percussion Quartet, Ensemble 21 and many solo recitals. He has also recorded several orchestral works on the Harmonia Mundi, Spectrum, and Word Records labels. Mr. Aleo has given master classes and percussion workshops at numerous universities, and at both state and international percussion conventions including the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Nashville (2002). He was a jury member for the International Snare Drum Competition at the Journées de la Percussion festival in Paris in 2004. Mr. Aleo's book, “Advanced Etudes for Snare Drum,” published by HoneyRock, has received critical acclaim. He also serves as the Director of Education and Orchestral Activities at the Avedis Zildjian Company. A member of the percussion faculty at the University of Miami from 1994-2003, Mr. Aleo was also Director of Percussion Studies at Florida International University from 1999-2003. Currently, he also teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp (MI) and serves on the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Directors.

Elizabeth “Libby” Allison (Music Education) B.S. Music Education, M.A. Education, University of Connecticut; C.A.G.S. Education Leadership and Administration, Fitchburg State College Asst. Professor of Music Education, Berklee College of Music; Choral and Music Education clinician, festival adjudicator and choral conductor Board of Directors, Massachusetts Music Education Association; Chairperson, 2005 MMEA conference, member of MMEA, MENC, American Choral Directors, Gordon Institute for Music Learning, Dalcroze Society, Boston Area Kodaly Educators, Organization of American Kodaly Educators, Former classroom, instrumental and vocal music teacher grades K-12, E. Hartford CT. Charles River School, Dedham, MA, Boston Collegiate Charter School Former Director of Performing Arts, Canton, MA. public schools Performances in New England, Canada, Great Britain, India and Sri Lanka as vocal soloist and choral conductor. Performances and recordings of early American music under maiden name (Elizabeth LaFramboise) for Old Sturbridge Village.

Cathy Basrak (Viola) B.M., Curtis Institute. Ms. Basrak's teachers include Joseph de Pasquale, principal viola of the BSO from 1947 to 1964; Michael Tree of the Guarneri String Quartet; and Richard Young of the Vermeer String Quartet. She has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, the Banff Center for the Arts, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In addition, she has performed with the Brandenburg Ensemble and Boston's Metamorphosen Ensemble, and appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Symphonie Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks. Ms. Basrak has won several awards, including Grand Prize in the General Motors/Seventeen Magazine National Concerto Competition, First Prize in the William E. Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competition, First Prize in the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, and Second Prize in the 46th International Music Competition of the ARD in Munich.

Jonathan Bass (Piano) B.M., The Juilliard School; D.M.A., Indiana University; studies with Menahem Pressler. Mr. Bass has received high acclaim for his performances throughout the United States and around the world. He has appeared with numerous American orchestras, including the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall. Mr. Bass gave his New York debut in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall as First Prize winner of the 1993 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition. He has been featured on the nationwide "Performance Today" series on National Public Radio. Mr. Bass' new CD, entitled "Jonathan Bass plays Bach, Chopin, Scriabin, and Pinkham" was recently released on Americus Records. Among the awards he has received are First Prize in the 1989 American Pianists Association Competition, and First Prize in the American National Chopin Competition. Mr. Bass is also an active chamber musician. He is the pianist for the Walden Chamber Players and is Co-Music Director of the Curtisville Consortium. Mr. Bass has been on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory since 1993 and also teaches at New England Conservatory in the Division of Preparatory and Continuing Education.

Rhoda Bernard (Chair, Music Education) A.B. cum laude (government), Harvard University; B.M., academic honors (jazz voice), New England Conservatory; Ed.M. (Arts and Education) and Ed. D., Harvard Graduate School of Education. Voice with Dominique Eade; improvisation with Ran Blake and Bevan Manson; Jewish music with Hankus Netsky. Yiddish language, literature, and culture, Columbia University. Performances with Klezamir, Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Barry Shapiro Orchestra, and Mashke; cantorial soloist. Co-founder and Learning Through Music Coordinator, Conservatory Lab Charter School. Former faculty, New England Conservatory; Longy; Powers Music School; Suzuki School of Newton. Former general music teaching, Conservatory Lab Charter School; Johnson School; Beethoven School; Trotter School. Former curriculum developer, Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerts; From the Top. Former Editorial Board, Harvard Educational Review. Member: MMEA, MENC, AERA; Editorial Board, Massachusetts Music News; Board Member, Young Audiences of Massachusetts. Numerous conference presentations, articles, chapters, book reviews, and conference proceedings. Two compact disk recordings.

Bonnie Bewick (Violin) B.M., Curtis Institute. Studies with David Cerone, Aaron Rosand, Ruggiero Ricci, Paul Makanowitzsky and Elizabeth Holborn. Member: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Former concertmaster: New England Philharmonic. Featured soloist with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Cape Ann Symphony, New England Philharmonic, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony and Beach Cities Symphony. Summer Festivals include Grand Teton Music Festival, Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, and Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds.

Ann Bobo (flute) B.M. with Honors New England Conservatory; recipient of George W. Chadwick Award. Member of Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Opera Boston, Springfield Symphony. Performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and the Boston Lyric Opera. Former Tanglewood Fellow and recipient of the Henri Kohn Memorial Award from Tanglewood. Holds awards from the Pappoutsakis Memorial Competition, Shoreline Alliance Competition and both the Coleman and Carmel Chamber Music Competitions. Student of Fenwick Smith.

Norman Bolter (Trombone) studied under Ronald Rickets and Steven Zellmer of the Minnesota Orchestra and John Swallow at the New England Conservatory. A Tanglewood Fellow and C.D. Jackson award winner. Joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age 20 as second trombone, becoming the youngest member of the orchestra at that time. He is also principal trombonist of the Boston Pops Orchestra. A founding member of the Empire Brass Quintet. He has toured extensively in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America and made numerous recordings with the BSO, the Pops, and the Empire Brass Quintet. His compositions have been preformed throughout the world, with performances in Europe, Asia, Australia , New Zealand, South America, and the U.S. He serves on faculty for New England Conservatory and the Longy School of Music. He is also co-author of several papers and booklets and is an author of a unique sight reading book for advanced trombone players "Reading at the Speed of Sight."

Christine K. Borning (Music Education) B.A. Music Education, University of Massachusetts; B.A. English, University of Massachusetts. M.M. Music Education, Boston University (expected 2007). Former All State clinician, district adjudicator, Southeastern District Chairperson, Massachusetts Music Educators Association. Current editor of Massachusetts Music News, 2008 MENC Chairperson of Council of State Editors. Former instrumental and general music teacher, Duxbury, MA, Avon, MA, West Springfield, MA. Current instrumental and general music teacher, Bourne Middle School. Performances as a percussionist throughout New England.

Marilyn Bulli (Voice) D.Mus., Voice Performance, Indiana University; M.M., Voice Performance, Indiana University; B.A., Mus. Ed., St. Olaf College. Additional studies: Opera Program of the American Institute of Music Studies, Graz, Austria; Wesley Balk New Music Theater Ensemble Institute; with Joan Dornemann, Will Graham, Susan Ormont, and Kristin Linklater. MA. Voice study with Sharon Daniels, Phyllis Curtin, Martha Lipton, Reri Grist, Virginia Zeani, Lucille Evans. Voice Pedagogy studies with Richard Miller and Trish Doyle. Soloist with Boston Lyric Opera, Emmanuel Music, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and many area choral groups. Performances with conductors Seiji Ozawa, John Harbison, Craig Smith, Stephen Lord, Christopher Hogwood, Grant Llewellyn, William Christie, and with directors Nicholas Muni, Christopher Alden, Leon Major,Colin Graham, David Kneuss, and Mary Zimmerman. Also currently teacher and Coordinator of Voice Faculty/Performing Arts Department at University of Massachusetts/Boston. Previous teaching: St. Olaf College, University of Rhode Island, Emerson College, The New School of Music. First Place Winner, Metropolitan Opera District Auditions; Finalist, New York Oratorio Society Competition; Fellow, Bach Aria Festival and Institute; First Place Winner, Bel Canto Regional Artist Competition; Fellow, Amherst Early Music Festival; Performance Grant, St. Botolph Foundation, Boston.

Sarah Brady (Flute) BM, University of Connecticut, MM and AD, Longy School of Music. Performs with the Boston Ballet, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Opera Boston and the Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra. Chamber Music appearances with Brave New Works, the Firebird Ensemble, the Radius Ensemble, Yo Yo Ma's Silkroad Project and the Fromm Players at Harvard. An avid new music promoter she has premiered new music for flute throughout the United states and Canada and featured as a soloist in then New Gallery Concert Series, the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, BMOP's Club Cafe Series, Detroit Institute of Art Classical Series, and the St. Botolphe Club's Artist Spotlight series. She has taught new music seminars on composing for the flute at Tufts University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Windsor University in Canada and Harvard University. Awards from the Pappoutsakis Flute Competition, Myrna Brown Competition, Heida Hermann Competition and the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. Studied with Robert Willoughby.

Richard Bunbury (Music History) B.A., Armstrong State College; M.M., New England Conservatory; M.A., Boston College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Performance studies: conducting, Harold Farberman, Tamara Brooks and Wayne Abercrombie; organ, James David Christie. Second place, National Organ Playing Competition, Region I, 1977. Organ recitals throughout the US, Europe, and Israel. As conductor of the Choral Art Society, numerous works with orchestra, including several premieres. Articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Musicand Musicians, Choral Journal, The American Organist, Journal of Research in Music Education, Pastoral Music. Papers read for numerous conferences including the American Musicological Society. Guest lectures given at Yale, Hollins, Georgetown, and Boston Universities. Since 1979, Organist, Music Director, and Faculty at St. Theresa Parish and School, West Roxbury, MA. Presently teaching at Boston University. Previously on the faculties of public and private schools and colleges. rbunbury@bostonconservatory.edu

William Buonocore (Guitar, Guitar Pedagogy, Guitar Performance Seminar, Chamber Music) B.A., William Paterson College, cum laude; M.M., The Boston Conservatory, magna cum laude. Masterclasses with Oscar Ghiglia, Manuel Barrueco, David Russell, Sharon Isbin, Robert Guthrie, John Holmquist, Michael Newman, John Duarte. Performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Boston Philharmonic, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Portland, Chautauqua, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indian Hill, Nashua and Cape Symphony Orchestras. Chamber music credits include An die Musik, Collage New Music, Boston Musica Viva, Lumen Contemporary Ensemble, Manhattan String Quartet, Folios Guitar Duo, Alea III, Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, Masterworks Chorale and others. Recordings on Koch International, Arabesque, Neuma, Nepenthe, Arsis and Centaur.

Kirsten Cairns (Associate Director, Opera Department) BA (Honours) (English Literature), University of Durham; PGCE (English and Drama), University of Durham; Certificate of Postgraduate Studies (Voice), and MMus (Voice), Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; Graduate Diploma (Performance – Voice), New England Conservatory of Music. Vocal studies with Peter Alexander Wilson, Marjorie Thomas, Jane Irwin and William Cotten; opera with Patricia Maria Weinmann. Dance training at the Julie Morton School of Dance (Buckinghamshire) and the Dance House (Glasgow). Directing work for Durham University ( England); New England Conservatory; Opera North ( New Hampshire); Dartmouth University. Master classes, Longy School of Music; guest teacher, Boston Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Days in the Arts’ program, Tanglewood; Shakespeare tutor, Duke University’s Talent Identification Program. Production work (stage crew), Royal Shakespeare Company. Many solo voice recitals and oratorio appearances throughout Britain and in America, including the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow; Ayr Town Hall; Durham Cathedral; Amersham Music Festival (guest artist); Edinburgh Festival Fringe. John Warner Memorial Award winner; Sir James Caird Scholar; BUNAC Scholar.

Lisa Caliri (Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Piano Class) BM, The Boston Conservatory; Performance Diploma, The Barcelona Conservatory; Graduate studies at New England Conservatory, Harvard University. Piano study with Seymour Bernstein, Lily Dumont, Eugene List, and Herbert Stessin. Performances at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Aspen Music Festival, and in France, Spain, The Canary Islands, Thailand, and Taiwan. Orchestral soloist with the Czech Radio Orchestra, Medford String Orchestra, Salem Philharmonic, and Melrose Symphony Orchestra. Recorded for Albany Records and Centorino Productions. Radio broadcasts in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Romania. Top prize winner of the Pinault International Piano Competition, Clara Wells Piano Competition, Crescendo Young Artist Competition, recipient of the Yamaha Scholarship, and Sigma Alpha Iota Professional Development Grant. Published article in Pan Pipes Magazine and panelist for "A Contemporary View" sponsored by Steinway Pianos. Has presented masterclasses at the Siam School of Music in Thailand and judged the Music Teachers National Association and New England Piano Teachers Association piano competitions.

Lynn Chang (Violin) violin BA in Music, Harvard University. Violin studies at Juilliard Pre-College with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. Top prize winner, International Paganini Competition. Winner, Concert Artists Guild and Young Concert Artists Auditions. Attended Marlboro, performed at Tanglewood and Wolf Trap Festivals. Also collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, Cleveland, Vermeer, Muir and Orion String Quartets. Appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on PBS' “Live from Lincoln Center”. Member, Boston Chamber Music Society. Can be heard on Yo-Yo Ma's “Made in America” CD on Sony, and Dawn Upshaw's “Girl with Orange Lips” Grammy Award winning CD on Nonesuch. Former students now members of such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Recently performed with Yo-Yo Ma on his Silk Road Project. Director of the Hemenway Strings at the Boston Conservatory.

Ya-Fei Chuang (Piano, Chamber Music) Artist Diploma with honors at Musikhochschule Freiburg (Germany) with Robert Levin, Soloist Exam (final performance degree) at Musikhochschule Cologne with Pavel Gililov, Graduate Diploma at New England Conservatory with Russell Sherman. Performed at Spectrum Concerts (Berlin), Boston Celebrity Series, at major festivals including Gilmore, Ravinia, Sarasota, Oregon, Tanglewood, Beethoven Festival with Christoph Eschenbach, European Music Festival (Stuttgart), Schleswig-Holstein, Bach (Leipzig), Ruhr Festival (Germany)—CD of solo recital released worldwide and with the July 2007 issue of FonoForum Magazine; in venues such as Boston's Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, Ozawa Hall, Cologne and Berlin Philharmonien, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Gewandhaus Leipzig, National Philharmonic Hall Warsaw. Duo partner with Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin, Steven Isserlis; chamber music with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recent performances include Handel & Haydn Society, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , in South America, Asia ; four recordings will soon be released.

Jonathan Cohler (Clarinet, Chamber Music) is in demand as both a conductor and an internationally recognized virtuoso clarinetist. Mr. Cohler is the newly appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Massachusetts Philharmonic Orchestra, a professional orchestra in Boston. He is also the Assistant Conductor of the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at the New England Conservatory of Music under world renowned conductor Benjamin Zander, as well as Artistic and General Director of the International Woodwind Festival in Boston. For ten seasons Mr. Cohler was Music Director of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and the critics unanimously praised his energetic transformation of that orchestra. Mr. Cohler is also very active as a guest conductor. Born in Boston, Mr. Cohler began his musical studies at the age of six. Mr. Cohler's teachers include legendary Boston Symphony Orchestra clarinetist Pasquale Cardillo, Harold Wright, Karl Leister, Charles Neidich and Frank Martin. Mr. Cohler graduated with high honors in physics from Harvard University. In his first year at Harvard, he won a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, of which he was the youngest member. He also held the principal clarinet position of the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Cohler is a member of the clarinet, chamber music and conducting faculties of the Longy School of Music , the New England Conservatory, and the Boston Conservatory in Boston.

Geralyn Coticone (Flute) B.M., Summa Cum Laude, Boston University. Flute studies with Doriot Anthony Dwyer and Kazuo Tokito. Second Flute/Piccolo, New York Chamber Symphony, 1987-1988. Second Flute/Piccolo, The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, 1987-1988. Piccolo and Flute, North Carolina Symphony, 1988. Solo Piccolo and Flute, National Symphony Orchestra, 1988-1990. Solo Piccolo and Flute, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1990-2003. Solo Piccolo and Flute, The Boston Pops, 1990-2003. Chamber Prelude Concert Series with National Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Guest artist Casals Festival, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Concerto Soloist with the New York Chamber Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Wellesley Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Guest professor/masterclass clinician, Greater Boston Flute Association, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, The Boston Conservatory, and the Masterworks Music Festival. Recordings on labels including: Erato, Angel, EMI, Philips, RCA, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, BMG, and Koch. Numerous television broadcasts including the Evening at Pops series, Salute to Symphony and A Capitol Fourth. Member, Scarlet Key Society, Greater Boston Flute Association, and the National Flute Association. Listed in International Who's Who of Musicians.

William Cotten (Voice) B.M. (Instrumental and Vocal Education), Mississippi State University; M.M. (Vocal Performance), New England Conservatory; Opera Theater/Boston and New England Conservatories; Teachers-Susan Clickner, Mark Pearson, Lucy Phillips; Coaches-Angela Vanstory Ward, John Moriarty, Margo Garrett, Terry Decima, Dennis Helmrich; Master Classes-Phyllis Curtin, Gérard Souzay, William Warfield; Directors-Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, John Moriarty, Linda Brovsky, Leon Major; The Marriage of Figaro, Boston Opera Theater, filmed in Vienna, aired on PBS's Great Performances, performed in Paris and Barcelona (Gran Teatro del Liceu); World Premiere, Robert Moran/Phillip Glass's The Juniper Tree, American Repertory Theater; Opera-Wolf Trap Opera, June Opera Festival of New Jersey, Augusta Opera, PepsiCo Summerfare, Boston Music Theatre Project; Soloist-Chorus pro Musica, Banchetto Musicale, Emmanuel Music, New Hampshire Symphony, Nashua Symphony Choral Society, Monadnock Music, Indian Hill Orchestra, Dartmouth Handel Society, Greater Merrimack Valley Chorale, Hampshire Choral Society, Swanhurst Chorale; Metropolitan Opera New England Regional Auditions (3rd Place, 1986); Fellow, Tanglewood Music Center (1986); Resident Soloist, Breckenridge Music Institute of Colorado (1990); Faculty, New England Conservatory (1998-Present); Director-Voice Division, UMass/Boston (1990-2000); National Association of Teachers of Singing Massachusetts District Governor (2002-Present); NATS Boston Chapter Board of Directors (1998-2004).

William Cutter (Director of Choral Activities, Choral Conducting) Now in his sixth season as music director and conductor of the Brookline Chorus, Dr. William C. Cutter is also lecturer in music and Director of Choral Activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is conductor of the M.I.T. Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus. A member of the choral faculty at the Boston Conservatory, he has also held academic posts at the Boston University School for the Arts, the University of Lowell and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. For five summers he was conductor of the Boston University Young Artists Chorus of the Tanglewood Institute, and was music director and conductor of the Opera Laboratory Theater Company, as well as founder and music director of the vocal chamber ensemble CANTO, which specialized in contemporary choral music. He has prepared choruses for John Williams and Keith Lockhart for the Boston Pops. With degrees in composition, Cutter maintains an active career as a composer with recent performances by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Boston Pops, the Toronto Children's Chorus, the Cathedral of St. Philip Choir in Atlanta, Georgia, Melodious Accord of New York City, Opera Omaha, and the Bedford Symphony. He has taught voice at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.

James Dalton (Theory) B.A. w/honors, Rutgers; M.M. University of Idaho; Composition studies w/ Louie White, Neely Bruce, Robert Dickow, Dan Bukvich. Guitar studies with Michael Newman, John Abercrombie. Master Classes w/Christopher Parkening, Angel Romero, Benjamin Verdery. Performances (guitar, mandolin, banjo) with Maggi Smith-Dalton (soprano), with the 92nd Street "Y" Chamber Orchestra, Indian Hill Symphony, New England Mandolin Ensemble. Compositions performed in US, Canada and Europe by Idaho Brass, Toronto Camerata, Ensemble Decadanse; at Kansas Symposium of New Music, Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel, France. Published by Wolfhead, Fenwick Parva, Katrid. Works in anthologies: The Albany Carillon Book, Carillon 2002. First prize, 1997 Toronto Camerata Competition. Faculty: Cape Cod Mandolin Festival. Former faculty: National Guitar Workshop, University of Idaho, Philadelphia College, Fitchburg State, Merrimack College, Indian Hill. Book: Mandolin for Beginners (Alfred 2001). Broadcasts: Connecticut Public Radio, Idaho Public Television. Member: Pi Kappa Lambda, Society for American Music, Classical Mandolin Society of America.

Kerry Deal(Voice) B.A., The College of William and Mary; M.M., The Boston Conservatory. Studies with Maria Spacagna, Carol and Nico Castel, and Elisabeth Phinney. Young Artist at Opera in the Ozarks. Performances and recordings with St. Cecilia Music; oratorio and opera performances throughout New England and New York with Longwood Opera, New York Opera Forum, and Opera Aperta.

Tatiana Dimitriades (Violin) Pre-College Division, The Juilliard School; B.M., M.M., Artist Diploma, Indiana University. Awards: Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, Performer's Certificate (IU), Guido Chigi Saracini Prize, Mischa Pelz Prize. Currently a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Artists' Ensemble. Concerto appearances at Carnegie Hall and Grand Teton Music Festival. Frequent recital and concerto performances throughout New England.

Libor Dudas (Aria & Song Repertoire, Vocal Coaching) Diploma, Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria; M.M., University of Notre Dame; D.M.A., New England Conservatory. Piano studies in Zagreb, Croatia. Recitals as solo pianist, organist, harpsichordist, fortepianist in Germany, Austria, Croatia and USA. Numerous performances as chamber musician and as partner to singers; conductor of Fine Arts Chorale, Music Director at Old North Church; Coaching staff of Crittenden Opera Workshop; Faculty, Boston Archdiocesan Choir School.

Stuart Dunkel (Oboe) B.M., Boston University; M.M., Mannes College of Music; D.M.A., The Juilliard School. Principal oboe with New Hampshire and Vermont Symphonies: positions with Opera Company of Boston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Hong Kong Philharmonic. Solo performances and appearances with New York Philharmonic, Mostly Mozart, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Naumberg Orchestra and others. Founder of the Tampa Bay Chamber Soloists and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. Author of The Audition Process: Anxiety Management and Coping Strategies.

Doriot Anthony Dwyer (Flute) Former principal flute of the Boston Symphony (1952-1990), the first woman ever permanently appointed to a principal chair of a major symphony orchestra. Flute studies with Ernest Leigl, Georges Barriere, William Kincaid, Joseph Mariano. Previously a member of the National Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Charter member: Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Solo performances with the Boston Symphony and other orchestras in this country and abroad. Recipient of Sanford Fellowship from Yale School of Music in 1975. Solo recitals in Alice Tully Hall and Sanders Theater. Nominated to the Women's Hall of Fame. Accepted Woman of Achievement Award on behalf of her ancestor, Susan B. Anthony.

Judith Eissenberg (Chamber Music) M.M., Yale University. Ms. Eissenberg is the second violinist and a founding member of The Lydian String Quartet, in residence at Brandeis University since 1980. With the quartet, she has won numerous international prizes, including the Naumburg Award for Excellence in Chamber Music, and has toured extensively in the US and abroad. A performer on both modern and period instruments, Ms. Eissenberg is a member of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and has appeared with other performing organizations in Boston, including the Boston Chamber Music Society, The Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, Emmanuel Music, Boston Pops and Boston Baroque. She is a founding member and assistant director of Music From Salem, a chamber music festival in upstate NY founded in 1987. At Brandeis, Ms. Eissenberg created and teaches the chamber music course "Performance and Analysis from the Players' Perspective," a course integrating structural analysis with traditional chamber music coaching, and an advanced course for performers: "Surfing the New Wave": Survival Techniques in Contemporary Chamber Music Performance.

Eli Epstein (French Horn; Chamber Music) B.M., Eastman School of Music. Second Horn, The Cleveland Orchestra, 1987-2005. Principal Horn, Aspen Chamber Symphony, 2000-present. Horn Faculty and Conductor, The Cleveland Institute of Music, 1989-present; Kent/Blossom, 1998-2004; Aspen Music Festival and School, 2000-present; Music Academy of the West, 2005-present. Soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. Chamber Music performances at Severance Hall, Tanglewood, Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, Aspen Music Festival, and the Kennedy Center. Master classes at major conservatories in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Recordings on Telarc, Teldec, London/Decca, and Deutsche Grammophon. Many former students hold positions in major orchestras and conservatories in the United States and abroad. Advocating the idea that music can be a healing force in society, Mr. Epstein is the creator and presenter of INSIDE OUT programs designed to help people actualize their potential to enjoy music by accessing their memories and activating their imaginations.

Steven Emery (Trumpet) B.M., Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; M.M., Ohio State University. Studies with Gene Young, Richard Burkart, Adolph Herseth, and Vincent Cichowicz. Member of The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Formerly member Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras. Formerly principal trumpet, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Brass Quintet, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; assistant principal trumpet, Kansas City Philharmonic. Performances as principal trumpet with Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony. Performances with Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. Soloist with Boston Symphony at Tanglewood. World and American premeires of compositions by Andre Jolivet, Nebojsa Zivkovic and Kensaku Shimizu. Recordings for WGBH Productions, Touchstone Pictures, Empire Brass Quintet, Proteus 7. Former faculty, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Missouri Western State College, Eastern Nazarene College. Member: Pi Kappa Lambda.

John Faieta (Trombone) B.M., M.M., Boston University. Hailing from Lynn, Massachusetts, Mr. Faieta is a founding member of the award winning Atlantic Brass Quintet. Mr Faieta also performs with the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the Vermont Symphony and is currently on faculty at The Boston Conservatory and Boston University School for the Arts.

Ronald Feldman (Cello) Since joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra's cello section at the age of 19, Ronald Feldman has received critical acclaim for a wide variety of musical achievements. Increasingly in demand as a conductor, Mr. Feldman was appointed assistant to Boston Pops conductor John Williams in 1989, a position he held until 1993. In 1988 and in 1991 with the New England Philharmonic and the Berkshire Symphony respectively, he received the prestigious ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music. Mr. Feldman has appeared as guest conductor with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Quebec Symphony, the Springfield Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the George Enescu Chamber Orchestra and most recently with the London Symphony Orchestra. A recording with the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Arturo Sandaval performing John Williams Trumpet Concerto was recently released by Denouement Records. Mr. Feldman has appeared as cello soloist with numerous ensembles including the Boston Pops, Symphony by the Sea, and the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra. His many chamber music affiliations have included performances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and with the new music ensemble, Collage. He is a member of the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, The Williams College Chamber Players, and The Ensemble for the Romantic Century, based in New York City.

Miguel Felipe (Conductor, Women's Choir) B.M., summa cum laude, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (Theory); M.M. Boston University (conducting). Visiting faculty, Brown University, 2005. Conductor of the Boston Choral Ensemble; Director of Music at Arlington Street Church, Unitarian Universalist, since 2000. As a singer, has held positions at The Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains, (Cincinnati, Ohio), Grace Episcopal Church, (College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio), and was a member of the Choir of Men and Boys, St. Thomas Episcopal, (Terrace Park, Ohio). Conducted choirs at Boston University and was artistic director of the Maine Gay Men's Chorus. Conducting studies with Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, Craig Smith, Michael Jinbo (The Monteaux School), John Leman, Christopher Zimmerman. Studied piano at Interlochen Arts Academy, Michael Coonrod. Member, Pi Kappa Lamda.

Rebecca Folsom (Voice) D.M.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City; M.M., University of Missouri, Kansas City; B.M., University of Texas, Arlington. Performances with the Ft. Worth Opera, Utah Festival Opera, the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, the St. Charles Music Festival, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and other solo engagements in the United States and abroad. Winner of the Naftzger Young Artist Award and a full fellowship to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan . Students are active in opera companies and summer music festivals such as Glimmerglass, Tanglewood, Wolftrap, Des Moines Metro Opera, Dallas Opera, Ft. Worth Opera, Chatauqua Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, and have won and been finalists in regional and national competitions including the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Oratorio Society of New York, and the Janssen Awards. Currently on the vocal teaching faculty of the Seagle Opera Colony, and is vocal consultant/teacher for the Dallas Opera Young Artist Program and the Ft. Worth Opera Young Artist Program.

Edward Gazouleas (Viola) B.M., Curtis Institute; Graduate Studies, Yale University. Viola study with Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, Raphael Hillyer and Steven Ansell. Member: Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. Former member: Pittsburgh Symphony, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, New Haven Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of New England and New York String Ensemble with Alexander Schneider. Chamber Music with: Boston Artists' Ensemble, Collage New Music, Pensacola Chamber Music Festival. Former faculty: Temple University and Swarthmore College.

Sara Goldstein (Voice) B.A., University of Rochester, concurrent studies at Eastman School of Music in Voice; M.M., New England Conservatory. Studied with Susan Clickner, Grace Hunter and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Additional studies with William Christie, Rita Streich, and Hugues Cuenod. Solo recitals on France Musique Radio, Festival du Perigord Noir, opera premiere on France Culture Radio; solo concerts at Jordan Hall, the French Library and the Goethe Institute, Boston. Other performances: with the Foundation for Baroque Music, NY and Washington, DC; Boston's Opera UnMet; oratorio soloist throughout New England and France. Co-founder/director of voice workshops (Etudes et Rencontres Artistiques) in Dordogne, France and Cape Cod, MA. Previous teaching: American College in Paris, Berklee College of Music. Former Board member. Brookline Commission for the Arts; NATS Boston Chapter.

Osvaldo Golijov (Composition) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Composition studies with George Crumb, Lukas Foss and Oliver Knussen. Awards: Koussevitsky Composition Prize from Tanglewood Music Center (1993 and 1995), Kennedy Center Friedheim Award; France's Diapaison D'Or (1997); Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Stoeger prize for Contemporary Music (1996); BMW prize for music-theatre composition awarded by jury of Munich Biennale (1994); Paul Fromm Award (1992). Commissions: Hans Werner Henze for the city of Munich, New York's Lincoln Center, the Minnesota Orchestra, London's South Bank Centre, Birmingham (UK) Contemporary Music Group, Lisbon's Expo '98, the Schleswig-Holstein, Tanglewood, Spoleto USA and Oregon Bach Festivals. Grants from the Koussevitsky, Guggenheim, Barlow, and Fromm Foundations, Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Performances throughout the world including New York's Lincoln Center and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Washington's Kennedy Center, Boston's Jordan Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Paris' Theatre de la Ville, London's Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Centre, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and major festivals in America and Europe. Performances: Kronos Quartet, the Cleveland and St. Lawrence String Quartets; conductors Oliver Knussen and Helmut Rilling, clarinetists Giora Feidman and David Krakauer, singers Dawn Upshaw, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Luciana Souza and Diamanda Galas, the Romanian Gypsy band Taraf de Haiduks, the Mexican rock band Café Tacuba, and Tablas virtuoso Zakir Hussain. Residencies: Spoleto USA Festival and New York's Merkin Hall. Faculty: Tanglewood Music Center and Holy Cross College. Recordings on Nonesuch.

Thomas Gregg (Voice; Vocal Pedagogy; Vocal Repertoire) B.M. with honors (voice), Capital University; M.M. (voice), University of Michigan, D.M.A. (voice), Ohio State University. Voice studies with Ellen Faull, John McCollum, Eileen Davis. Fellow ('87) Kent/Blossom School. Oratorio Solos with Columbus Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Lake Charles Symphony, Cincinnati Choral Society, Back Bay Chorale, Providence Singers, Harvard University Choir and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium musicum. Opera in New Orleans, Memphis, Columbus, historical operas in Boston and Washington, D.C. Recitals at the Fontana Festival in Michigan, many guest recitals at southern U.S. colleges; European debut at the 1995 Franz Schubert Institute in Baden-bei-Wien, Austria. Chamber music with harpist Emily Laurance as the duo DoubleAction and the Early American music ensemble Columbia's Musick. Early music with Boston Early Music Festival, Early Interval, PanHarmonium, Texas Baroque Ensemble, Orchestra of New Spain, Fort Worth Early Music. Ensemble work with Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, Trinity Choir, Boston Secession, Boston Baroque, King's Chapel, Cantari Singers in Columbus, Ohio, Washington Bach Consort. Former professor, University of Mississippi. Recordings on Titanic, Dorian, Pro Organo labels; broadcasts on NPR, Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama Public Radio. Fellow, Aston Magna Academies and Bach Aria Institutes; member, Pi Kappa Lambda; Phi Mu Alpha, NATS, Early Music America, Society for American Music.

Ian Greitzer (Clarinet; Chamber Music) B.M. with honors and M.M. with honors, New England Conservatory. Studies with Peter Hadcock, Gunther Schuller, Harold Wright and Rudolf Kolisch. Principal Clarinet, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Classical Orchestra. Member, Boston Musica Viva, Zephyr Wind Quintet, Dinosaur Annex Contemporary Ensemble, Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. Numerous chamber concerts throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East, including Carnegie, Merkin, Alice Tully and Jordan halls, and the Library of Congress. Appearances with the Vermeer, Manhattan, Lydian and Blair String Quartets. Former member, New England Woodwind Quintet. Former faculty, Longy School of Music, Atlantic Union College and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Recordings with CRI, Koch, South German Radio, Newport Classics, Philips and Northeastern Records. Fellow (1976) Tanglewood Music Center.

John Grimes (Timpani) B.M., University of Miami; M.M. New England Conservatory of Music; doctoral studies, University of California, San Diego. Percussion studies with Fred Wickstrom, Vic Firth, Cloyd Duff. For the past three decades, Mr. Grimes has been solo timpanist with Boston Baroque and Handel & Haydn Society orchestras. He also performs with Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Cantata Singers and other Boston organizations. Career summary: Solo timpanist - Opera Company of Boston (1976-1990); Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela (1970-1972); Percussionist - Greater Miami Philharmonic; San Diego Symphony (1960’s). Festivals performed: American Wind Symphony, Dartmouth Congregation of the Arts, Monadnock Music, Tanglewood, Marlboro, Lake George Opera. Audio Recordings: Works of Bach, Handel, Mozart - Boston Baroque (Telarc); Works of Handel, Mozart, Taverner - Handel & Haydn Society w/ Chanticleer (Arabesque & Teldec); Fussell- Specimen Days - Cantata Singers (Koch); A. Tcherepenin - Symphonies & Pft. Concerti - Singapore Symphony (BIS). In 2003, he performed in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio with Concerto Koln at the Concertgebouw and Luzerne Festivals and will again join the group for a recording of Bel Canto arias in summer 2007. An advocate for musicians’ intellectual property rights and economic fair play, Mr. Grimes also serves as Vice President of the Boston Musicians Association, Local 9-535.

Bruce Hangen (Director of Orchestral Activities) Bruce Hangen was appointed in May 2003 as Director of Orchestral Activities at The Boston Conservatory. Hangen also continues in his position as Principal Pops Guest Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. This position was created in May 2002 especially for Hangen, reflecting the strong musical relationship built between him and the Boston Pops over two decades of regular guest conducting. Hangen is also now in his sixth season as the Music Director of the Orchestra of Indian Hill, having been appointed in 1997. Hangen also remains active as the Artistic and General Director of the Portland Main Opera Repertory Theater (P.O.R.T.). For 12 years (1984–96), Hangen was Music Director of the Omaha (Nebraska) Symphony. Under his direction, the Omaha Symphony achieved recognition for its significantly expanded program offerings. Previous positions have included posts at the Utah and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras; the Portland (Maine) Symphony; the Denver Symphony; the Arapahoe Chamber Orchestra in Denver; the Colorado Philharmonic (now the National Repertory Orchestra); the Syracuse Symphony; the Buffalo Philharmonic; and as Faculty Conductor at the Eastman School of Music. Hangen maintains an active schedule of guest conducting. Recent appearances have included concerts with the Florida Philharmonic and Boston Symphony, as well as the orchestras of St. Louis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Houston. His repeat engagements with the Boston Pops and Boston Pops Esplanade orchestras alone now total well over two hundred performances since 1979. Hangen also has guest-conducted orchestras in Japan , Canada, Taiwan, and New Zealand, as well as opera companies in Chicago, Fargo , and Tacoma. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music with a major in conducting, Hangen was a conducting fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for two summers, where his conducting teachers included Gunther Schuller, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Bruno Maderna, and Joseph Silverstein. Hangen is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New England, and in Omaha he received the ICAN Foundation’s 1990 Browning Award for Career Excellence and Vision.

Olav Chris Henriksen (Guitar) Soloist Diploma, Schola Cantorum, Basel, Switzerland; private study with Eugen Dombois, Hopkinson Smith and Anthony Bailes. Solo recitals in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. Ensemble performances with Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Camerata, Chanticleer, Mark Morris Dance Company, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Member of Duo Maresienne. Lectures at Harvard University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nelson Atkins Museum (Kansas City), Aston Magna Academy, and Musikkshøgskolen (Oslo). Recordings with Museum Music, Centaur, Pro Musica, Nonesuch, Decca, Erato and Telarc.

David Herbert (Timpani) is currently Principal Timpanist of the San Francisco Symphony, a title he has held since 1994. He is widely considered the leader of cutting-edge solo timpani repertoire, accomplishing many commissions and world premiere performances every year. Mr. Herbert served as timpanist of the New World Symphony and has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony and Saint Louis Symphony, and with the latter orchestra he made his professional solo debut after winning its young artist competition in 1991. Since then, he has appeared as timpani concerto soloist with five different major orchestras worldwide including his Lincoln Center debut with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting. Mr. Herbert also performed the world premiere of William Kraft's Grand Encounter Timpani Concerto #2 in 2005 with the San Francisco Symphony, a commission written specifically for Mr. Herbert. Mr. Herbert is sought after as a chamber musician and clinician around the world and has conducted master classes throughout North America, Japan, China, and Europe. He was a featured clinician at The Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Herbert is currently International Principal percussion instructor of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.

Kyoko Hida (Oboe) B.M., Tokyo College of Music; Graduate Diploma, New England Conservatory; Studies with Keisuke Wakao, Katherine Greenbank, Neil Black, and Richard Killmer; coachings with György Ligeti, Luciano Berio and John Harbison. Principal oboist with New England Chamber Orchestra, Gardner Museum Orchestra; Performances with Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Taiyo Wind Quintet. Awards: E.P. Richardson Award, Coleman Award for Woodwinds and Brass, Florence Allan Award, Grand Prize-Shoreline Alliance Chamber Music Competition. Live WGBH radio broadcasts. Teaching positions: Wakao Oboe Camp and Yokohama Music School, Japan.

Robert Honeysucker (Voice) B.M., Tougaloo College; M.M., Miami University; additional studies at Boston University. Voice studies with Donna Roll, Mary Davenport, Barbara Stevenson, Mac Morgan, Thomas Holt, George Barron, and Areil Lovelace. Opera and oratorio performances world-wide.

Joseph Holt (Double Bass) A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Joseph Holt is principal bass of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, a member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and peforms frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His principal teachers were Edwin Barker and Henry Portnoi, and he has also taught at the Boston Uninversity Tanglewood Institute.

Kathleen Howland (Music Education). B.M. in Music Therapy, Emmanuel College; M.A. and Ph.D. in Speech Language Pathology, University of South Carolina. Special research in Music and Cognition; 20 years of lecturing, consulting, and research on the effects of music on the mind and body. Faculty member, Wellesley Public Schools, Wellesley, MA.

Lawrence Isaacson (Assistant Director, Music Division; Chair, Brass Department; Trombone) B.M. with honors, Northwestern University. Additional studies with Arnold Jacobs, Frank Crisafulli, Dave Langlitz, Ron Barron, Glenn Dodson. Fellow ('79) Tanglewood Music Center. Former faculty Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New England Conservatory, University of New Hampshire, Tufts, Mannes College of Music, Tanglewood. Former member Empire Brass Quintet, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Pops. Performances with Boston, Chicago, Detroit and San Diego Symphonies. Performances in all musical mediums including Television, Radio, Commercials, Recordings, Ballet, Opera, Musical Theater and Music Video. Traveled extensively for concerts to Europe, Japan, Canada, and most of the United States. Conductor of the Old South Brass in Boston and Director of the TBC Brass Ensemble. www.lawrenceisaacson.com

Victor Jannett (Voice) B.M., Webster University; Artist Diploma, St. Louis Conservatory; Certificate in Lieder Performance, Schubert Institute, Baden Bei Wien, Austria. Summer performances with Rome Festival Opera. Studies with Edward Zambara, Hans Hotter and Elly Ameling. Major roles in Le Nozze di Figaro, La Boheme, Die Zauberflöte, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Roberto Devereaux, and Rigoletto. Performances with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Bel Canto Opera, Cambridge Chamber Opera, Longwood Opera, Salisbury Lyric Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Granite State Opera, Mississippi Opera and Rome Festival Opera. Soloist with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Rockport Community Chorus, Thayer Academy, Paul Madore Chorale, Bach Society of St. Louis. Lieder recitalist at Princeton, Harvard, Brown University and, North Shore Lieder Series. Broadcasts on NPR, PBS, and WGBH, Boston. Master teacher at NATS, Rhode Island, and Boston Conservatory Summer Choral Institute. Previous teaching: St. Louis Conservatory.

James Javore (Voice) B.S. (Mus. Ed.), B.M., M.M. (Performance), University of Illinois, Urbana. Studies with James Bailey; coaching with John Wustman, Paul Ulanowsky, David Garvey, Eric Dalheim; opera with Ludwig Zirner, Alan Thomas. Additional study at Goldovsky Opera Institute, American Conservatory (Chicago); Northwestern University. Performances in over 60 operas, 30 musicals, and 25 oratorios. Recitals throughout US, Canada, Japan and Europe, including Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, Carnegie, 92nd Street Y and Merkin concert halls. Appearances with New York City, Chautauqua, Chicago Lyric, Cleveland, Connecticut, Goldovsky and Hawaii Operas; New York Philharmonic; Baltimore, Chautauqua, Columbus, Hartford, Iceland, Portland and West Virginia symphony orchestras under Solti, Boulez, Robert Shaw, Skitch Henderson, Victor Borge, and Eve Queler. Broadway: King David; Off-Broadway: The Mother Of Us All, Lust. Regional Theater: Huntington, Long Wharf, Paper Mill Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, St. Louis Muny, North Shore Music Theatre. Tours: The Secret Garden, Phantom. Television: Law And Order, Oz. Films: Godfather III, Thomas Crown Affair, You've Got Mail, Center Stage. Cantor, St. Patrick's Cathedral. Faculty, Concordia College (Bronxville), AMDA, LaGuardia High School For The Performing Arts, Riverdale Music Studio. Master classes, Boston Conservatory Summer Choral Institute, Dordt College, Wayne State University, Panama City Junior College, Valdosta State University, Buena Vista College, Concordia College, Northwestern College (Iowa).

Jung-Ja Kim (Piano) Diploma and Post-Graduate Diploma, Julliard School. Piano studies with Irwin Freundlich and Ilona Kabos; chamber music with Walter Trampler and Felix Galimir. U.S. recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Gallery, Jordan Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Merkin Hall. Tours in France, Switzerland, England, Holland, Finland, Germany, Japan and Korea. Orchestral engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, St. Louis Chamber, Boston Civic Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic and Czech National Symphony Orchestras. Broadcasts on CBS Television Network, NPR, Radio France. Recipient of the Olga Samaroff Scholarship and Frank Damrosch Scholarship, Julliard School. Winner, Young Concert Artists International Auditions. First Prize, Kosciuszko International Chopin Competition. Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant recipient. Recordings of solo piano works by Ravel (SEM Gramophone, 1993), the Chopin piano concerti (Carlton, 1998) and the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes (Kleos Classics, 2001).

Ronan Lefkowitz (Violin) B.M., Harvard. Born in Oxford, England, Mr. Lefkowitz joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1976. A graduate of Brookline High School and Harvard College, his most notable teachers included Gerald Gelbloom, Max Rostal, Louise Vosgerchian, Joseph Silverstein, and Szymon Goldberg. He was concertmaster of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the International Youth Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. In 1986, Mr. Lefkowitz joined the contemporary music group Collage. That summer he performed the American premiere of Witold Lutoslawski's Chain 2 for violinist and chamber orchestra as part of the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood; leading to performances of the piece in its Boston Symphony premiere under the composer's direction in October 1990. Recent concert engagements have included two performances with Yo-Yo Ma: a benefit at Harvard for Philips Brooks House, and a Tanglewood performance of the Ives Piano Trio with pianist Gilbert Kalish. Most recently, Mr. Lefkowitz has been involved with the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation, directed by BSO colleague Mark Ludwig, which seeks to find, perform, and record music written in the early 1940s by such composers as Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, Viktor Ullmann, and Pavel Haas during their internment at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In addition, he has recently recorded two compact discs of chamber music by Arthur Foote and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for Koch International with Harold Wright, Virginia Eskin, and the Hawthorne String Quartet, of which he is first violinist. Faculty: Tanglewood Music Center and The Boston Conservatory.

Sharan Leventhal (Violin) has toured the U.S. and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She has received grants from the NEA, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording, and the Fromm and Koussevitzky foundations, and has premiered over 100 compositions. Leventhal has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Toledo, Milwaukee, Topeka, and Albany symphonies, among others. She is a member of the Gramercy Trio, the Kepler Quartet, the Boston Artists Ensemble and Present Music, and was co-founder of the duo Marimolin. Leventhal can be heard on Newport Classic, New World, GM and Catalyst labels. She also teaches at Interlochen Arts Camp, is a coach with the Hong Kong-based Asian Youth Orchestra, and has served on the faculties of Michigan State University and the Berklee College of Music. Leventhal is founder and director of Play On, Inc., a non-profit supporting chamber music programs for children.

Max Levinson (Piano; Chamber Music; Piano Literature). First Prize, 1997 Dublin International Piano Competition, 1999 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2005 Andrew Wolf Award. B.A, Harvard; Artist Diploma, New England Conservatory. Piano studies with Patricia Zander, Aube Tzerko, Bruce Sutherland. Soloist with Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Boston Pops, Utah Symphony. Recitals throughout US and Europe including New York's Alice Tully Hall, Washington DC's Kennedy Center, London's Wigmore Hall, Zürich's Tonhalle, Musee d'Orsay in Paris, Boston's Jordan Hall. Chamber music concerts with Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Stoltzman, Tokyo, Vermeer, Mendelssohn, and Borromeo Quartets, and appearances at major music festivals including Santa Fe, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart. Artistic Director San Juan Festival ( Colorado). Master classes taught at Harvard, Royal Irish Academy, MIT, University of Washington, Rutgers, BYU. Recordings on N2K Encoded Music, Warner Classics, Stereophile.

Benjamin Levy (Double Bass) B.M., New England Conservatory. Double bassist Benjamin Levy was born in Cooperstown, New York in 1980 and grew up in Pennsylvania and Colorado. Mr. Levy has appeared in performance with soprano Dawn Upshaw, the Borromeo String Quartet, and the Hawthorne String Quartet. In 2002, while a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Mr. Levy was the recipient of the Maurice Schwartz Prize and was reviewed in The New York Times for his performance of Jacob Druckman's Valentine for solo double bass. Mr. Levy joined the bass section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2003 Tanglewood season. Mr. Levy's teachers have included David Potter, Todd Seeber, Timothy Pitts, Paul Ellison, and Stuart Sankey.

Michael Lewin (Chair, Piano Department) B.M., M.M., The Juilliard School. Piano studies with Leon Fleisher, Irwin Freundlich, Adele Marcus and Yvonne Léfebure. Winner: Liszt International Competition, Kapell International Competition, American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship. Grants from Rockefeller and Copland Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts. Performances in over 30 countries, including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Washington’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, Wilmington’s Grand Opera House, Moscow’s Great Hall, Taipei’s National Concert Hall, Hong Kong’s City Hall Theatre, Holland’s Muziekcentrum, Athens Megaron, Spoleto Festival, PBS Television. Soloist with Bucharest, Guadalajara, Netherlands Philharmonics, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Cairo Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Symphonies of Phoenix, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, West Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina and Nevada. Six solo recordings on Naxos and Centaur, including music of Liszt, Griffes, Gottschalk, Scarlatti, Balakirev, Glazunov and Scriabin. Member, Lewin-Muresanu Duo. Frequent competition adjudicator and Master Classes. www.michaellewin.com

Harriet Lundberg (Piano; Theory) B.M.E., Indiana University; M.M., Boston Conservatory; Ph.D. studies, University of Connecticut. Piano with Bronja Foster, Maria Bono, and Leonard Seeber. Theory and composition with Hugo Norden. Member of the piano ensemble team Gourdin and Lundberg with performances in the New England area. Performances of original compositions in the Boston area, second place winner of Delta Omicron Triennial Composition. Former faculty, Emerson College.

Andrew Mark (Chair, String Department; Cello; Chamber Music) B.M. and M.M. with distinction, New England Conservatory. Cello studies with Laurence Lesser, Bernard Greenhouse, George Neikrug, and Colin Carr. Chamber music studies with Eugene Lehner, Madeline Foley, William Kroll, Louis Krasner, Mischa Schneider, Artur Balsam, and Isadore Cohen. Alexander Schneider's New York String Seminar ('84). United States Artistic Ambassador '88 - '91- recitals and master classes throughout Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Cellist of the Boston Composers String Quartet ('87 - '94) and The CORE Ensemble ('93 - '00). Member of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1990. Concerto performances: Florida Philharmonic, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony, Waterloo Symphony (IA), the Yamagata Symphony (Japan). Performances at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Newport (RI) Chamber Music Festival, Moscow Autumn Festival, Schreyener Herbst Festival (Germany), June in Buffalo Festival, Daytona International Festival, Chautauqua Festival, and Rockport (MA) Chamber Music Festival. Former faculty positions: Longy School of Music, M.I.T. Faculty: New England Conservatory Preparatory Division and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Master classes at Sibelius Academy (Finland), Enescu Conservatory (Roumania), Nuremberg Conservatory (Germany), Reykjavik College of Music (Iceland), and throughout U.S. Recordings: New World, Koch, Albany, Dorian, CRI, Ongaku, and Neuma labels. Silver medalist, Osaka (Japan) International Chamber Music Competition ('93). Presented M.I.T's 2000 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts for innovative work in the chamber music field.

Patricia McCarty (Viola) B.M. magna cum laude, M.M., University of Michigan. Viola studies with Francis Bundra; chamber music studies with Joseph Silverstein. Soloist with Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Boston Pops, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,Valencia Turiae Camerata, Kyoto and Shinsei Nihon Symphonies. Recitals in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Valencia, Geneva, London's Wigmore Hall. Chamber music performed throughout North America, Japan, Australia, and Aspen, Sarasota, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Bowdoin festivals. Tours with Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Music from Marlboro, Lenox Quartet, Boston Chamber Music Society. Faculty, Meadowmount School of Music. Former member Lenox Quartet (1977-79); assistant principal viola, Boston Symphony Orchestra (1979-93). Recordings for Ashmont, ECM, Northeastern, Nonesuch. Articles published in Strad, Strings, American Viola Society Journal, American String Teacher, and book Playing & Teaching Viola. Prizes won in Primrose, Tertis, Washington D.C. competitions; Silver Medalist, Geneva International Competition; two NEA Solo Recitalist Grants.

Joseph McGauley (Violin) B.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.M., Yale University. Mr. McGauley began his musical training when he was nine. A native of Uniondale, New York, he turned down a full college scholarship in swimming to pursue a career in music. Mr. McGauley's principal teachers were Jacqueline McCann, Nathan Gottschalk, and Joseph Silverstein. He has been a member of the Albany and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, and he has been heard in recital throughout New York and New England. In 1983, with three BSO colleagues, he appeared as soloist in Vivaldi's B minor Concerto for four violins with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra in a performance televised by PBS; other solo appearances have included the North Shore Philharmonic, the New Hampshire Philharmonic, the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, the Boston University Symphony, and the Albany Community Symphony Orchestra. Mr. McGauley was concertmaster of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra when it won the silver medal at the Herbert von Karajan International Orchestra Competition in Berlin in 1976. While a fellowship student at the Tanglewood Music Center he was awarded the Joseph Silverstein Prize for outstanding violin playing. In 1978, while still a doctoral candidate at Boston University, he successfully auditioned for his present position as a Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist. Mr. McGauley teaches privately at his home on the North Shore of Boston.

Brian Moll (Music Director, Opera Studio; Vocal Coaching) B.A. magna cum laude, Hamilton College; Diploma, Hochschule für Musik, Vienna; M.M., University of Michigan. Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Austria. Studies in accompanying, chamber music and opera with Martin Katz. Recitals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, and Japan. Currently, Chair of Collaborative Piano Department at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA; has worked as Assistant Conductor for productions with Boston Lyric Opera, Opera North, and Vienna Volksoper. Performances with Handel & Haydn and Boston Lyric/Opera New England outreach programs. Presenter of numerous masterclasses, most recently at universities in Texas, Oklahoma, and in Bulgaria.

Irina Muresanu (Violin; Chamber Music) B.M., Bucharest Conservatory; M.M., University of Illinois; Artist Diploma, New England Conservatory. Violin studies with Stefan Gheorghiu, Michele Auclair and Interpretative Semantics with Dinu Ciocan (Bucharest Conservatory). Top prize winner: Montreal International Violin Competition, Washington International String Competition, Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition, Pro Musicis International Award. Career grants: Presser Foundation, Harvard Musical Association, Paul Rolland Memorial Foundation. Active solo and chamber music career in the United States and Europe, including appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Washington's Phillips Collection, Amsterdam's Concertgebow Hall, London's Barbican Centre, Brussels' Theatre des Beaux-Arts, Hong Kong's Academy for Performing Arts, Pretoria's Symphony Hall. Soloist with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Montreal Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and many others. Frequent guest artist of the Boston Chamber Music Society, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival (Maine), Strings in the Mountains (Colorado), Maui Festival (Hawaii), Recontres de Musiciennes (France), Ravello Festival (Italy). Member: Lewin-Muresanu Duo, Boston Trio and Walden Chamber Players. CD recordings on Albany Records ( the world premiere of Marion Bauer's Violin Sonata) and VPRO -Netherlands Radio label - (Korngold works) for the ARe-Se French label.. Broadcasts on NPR, WGBH (Boston), Hong Kong Radio, Radio France and Romanian Radio. www.irinamuresanu.com

Suzanne Nelsen (Bassoon) grew up on a pig farm in Alberta, Canada. She comes from a musical family; her parents are opera singers and her siblings are also professional musicians. She earned a degree from McGill University and pursued further study at The Hague Conservatory in Holland, earning a UM degree. During that time she performed throughout Europe and Great Britain as soloist and chamber musician. In 1995, during post-graduate study at McGill, she won a position with the Montreal Symphony where she stayed for 5 years. In the Fall of 2000, Ms. Nelsen joined the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops orchestras. While a member of the Boston Symphony, she appeared with the Grand Teton Festival, and with the Super World Orchestra in Tokyo, Japan. She has recorded numerous CD's with both the Montreal and Boston symphonies. Now, a mother of two, one of her favorite things to do is to talk to kids, students and parents about life as a professional bassoonist .

Michael Norsworthy (Clarinet) B.M. with honors Southern Illinois University, M.M. and G.D. with honors New England Conservatory. Studies with Richard Stoltzman, Kalmen Opperman, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, and Eric Mandat. Acclaimed soloist and sought-after chamber musician. Collaborations include John Zorn, Borromeo Quartet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Tony Arnold, Marilyn Nonken and many others. Numerous concerts throughout the United States and Europe including Carnegie, Jordan, Merkin, Casals Festival (Puerto Rico), Old First Concerts (San Francisco), St. Louis Pro Musica, FestiVal Gardena (Italy), and Aspen Music Festival. Worked with conductors Knussen, Ozawa, Robertson, and Muti among others. Recordings on Mode, Cauchemar and Gasparo. Member of Ensemble 21 (NY), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, co-artistic director Sound Encounters Festival. Premiered works by the most respected living composers including Carter, Finnissy, Lindberg, Hyla, Ferneyhough and others. Artist in residence at Harvard University with HGNM and faculty at The Boston Conservatory and Columbia University. www.michaelnorsworthy.com

Brian M. O'Connell (Music Education) BS in MusEd, UMass/Lowell; MM in Choral Conducting, Boston Conservatory; Certification in Voice Therapy, Boston Conservatory; EdD in Curriculum and Teaching with Music Education Emphasis (ABD), Boston University. Vocal studies with David Blair McCloskey and Robert Gartside. Performance studies with Lucas Foss, John Gibbons and Peter Phillips. Performances with Handel & Haydn Society and Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Presently, Founder/Director of the Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop in Italy for music educators and conductors. Director of Choral Activities at Lexington High School, adjunct faculty UMass/Lowell. Former Chair of Voice Department at Berklee College, Director of Choral Activities at Tufts University, Guest Conductor Northeastern University. Developed curriculum and taught graduate choral conducting at New England Conservatory, choral methods/conducting at Boston University. Lead Teacher as part of the BU/Chelsea Partnership. Directed the Handel & Haydn Youth Chorus, Cambridge Chorale, Nashua Choral Society, Quincy Choral Society, Neponset Choral Society and Nashoba Valley Chorale. Premiered works by Kacinskas, Levine, Maloof, Prosser, and other composers. Frequent festival conductor and adjudicator. Numerous recordings in the commercial music industry. Awarded the Lithuanian Presidents Medal in Chicago (1985), Boston University Consortium Scholarship (1992), Boston University/Chelsea Partnership Scholarship (1991), Lexington Education Foundation Grant (1994-5) to develop a jazz choral curriculum and to study with Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars in Rimini, Italy (2003). Member Phi Delta Kappa, Past President Massachusetts ACDA.

James O'Dell (Assistant Dean of the Conservatory; Conducting; Brass Techniques; Brass Pedagogy; Secondary Instrumental Methods; Tuba and Euphonium) B.S., Southern Oregon University; M.M., University of Oregon; Doctoral Residency, Arizona State University. Studies with Daniel Perantoni, Samuel Pilafian, Stuart Turner, David Caffey and Jeffrey Williams. Tours and performances with Jazz Composers' Alliance Orchestra, Eugene (OR) Symphony Orchestra, Rogue Valley Symphony, University of Oregon and Mansfield University Faculty Brass Quintets, Orange then Blue, and Shrim Klezmer Orchestra. Conductor and Music Director of the Middlesex Concert Band, and Acting Music Director of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony. Formerly: Music Division Director, The Boston Conservatory; Director, Festival Jazz Ensemble at M.I.T.; Director of Bands and University Music Organizations, Boston University; Director of Bands and professor of Tuba and Euphonium, Mansfield University (PA); Assistant Director of Bands, Phoenix College (AZ). Past President and Vice President: New England College Band Association. Founder: New England Collegiate Jazz Festival.

David Ohanian (French Horn; Chamber Music; Orchestral Repertoire) B.M., New England Conservatory. Fellow, Tanglewood Music Center, 63, 64, 65. Horn study with James Stagliano. Doctorate Honoris Causa Hartwick College, Doctorate Honoris Causa, New England Conservatory. Member Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, 1970-1981. Founding member, Empire Brass, and member, Canadian Brass, 1986-1998. Performances in every major Concert Hall and outdoor venue in United States, Europe and Asia. More than 40 recordings for Phillips, BMG, Sony, Columbia and others. Recorded instructional, audio and video recordings and published critical editions of Strauss and Mozart Concertos for Hal Leonard Publishing Co. Former faculty, New England Conservatory and Boston University. Performances with Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Georg Solti, Seiji Ozawa and Michael Tilson Thomas. Soloist with Mostly Mozart, Boston Pops. Appeared with Saito-Kinen Orchestra (1999), Super World Orchestra (2002 and 2004) and Grand Teton Festival. Member, TransAtlantic Horn Quartet, 2000-.

James Orent (Principal Conductor, Repertory Orchestra; Guest Conductor, Ballet/ Conservatory Orchestras). A.B. Magna Cum Laude, Amherst College; Yale School of Music: Otto Werner Mueller; Tanglewood: Maestri Ozawa, Masur, Leinsdorf, Previn, Abravanel, Akiyama; BSO Assistant: Oedipus Rex; Pierre Monteux School: Charles Bruck. Violin: Phillipp Naegele, Stanley Benson. Airline Transport Pilot: Northwest Airlink; United States Parachute Association C-License. BSO, Inc. (18 yrs.): Guest Conductor (30+ engagements), Boston Pops Orchestras, Tanglewood Festival Chorus/Gloriae Dei Cantores: NBC-TV/Golf Channel, Radio; Historic substitution for Maestro Lockhart, Ravinia Festival, 2004; Violinist. Assistant Concertmaster: Boston Lyric Opera. Music Director: Millennium 2000 Gala Simulcast; Boston Festival Pops, Windvoyager Productions, Erie Ballet. Interim M.D. GBYSO. Venue highlights: Tanglewood, Hollywood Bowl, Wolf Trap, Ravinia, Mozarteum (Salzburg), Musikverein (Vienna), Caesarea (Israel), Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Blossom, Edinburgh Festival, Davies Symphony Hall, Chastain Park (Atlanta), Interlochen, Chautauqua, Saratoga, Suntory Hall, Tokyo Forum. Guest Conductor: Fort Worth Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Spokane Symphony; Hartford Ballet, Indian Hill Symphony, Lexington Sinfonietta. Assistant Conductor: Springfield, NH Symphonies, Bernstein Festival of American Music. Consultant ARCADD Concert Hall Design. Coach: seminars/private study: conducting and performance anxiety. Commercial recordings, Film, Video (MTV/ABC-TV). National Winner: Affiliate Artists Conducting Assistant, Erie Philharmonic (NEA/Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund); Sundquist Prize performance/composition.

Kevin Owen (Horn) Principal horn of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Boston Philharmonic. He has been a soloist with all of the above orchestras, as well as the New Haven Symphony, the Portland (Maine) Symphony, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Ocean State Chamber Orchestra, the North Shore Philharmonic, the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, as well as other orchestras. He has toured internationally with the Empire Brass, the Boston Chamber Music Society, and was a first place winner in five chamber music competitions with the Boston Wind Quintet. He attended Boston University, where he was a Dean's Scholar and the winner of the Outstanding Brass Player Award and the Concerto-Aria and Boston Pops competitions. kevinowen2@hotmail.com

Karl Paulnack (Director, Music Division; Collaborative Piano; Chamber Music) B.M. with distinction (piano), Eastman; M.M., D.M.A. (accompanying), University of Southern California. Piano studies with Maria Luisa Faini, Gwendolyn Koldofsky and Brooks Smith; opera with Henry Holt; conducting with David Effron. Fellow ('83, '84, '87) Tanglewood Music Center. Over 500 concerts throughout North America, Europe and Russia, including Alice Tully, CAMI, Carnegie and Merkin halls, Hollywood Bowl, Library of Congress. Recital collaboration with Cleveland Quartet, Ensemble Capriccio, André Emilianoff, Jorja Fleezanis, Frederick Hemke, Mark Hill, Stephen Kates, Richard Killmer, Robert Langevin, Harry Sargous, Lucy Shelton. Section keyboard (celeste, piano, harpsichord) with Binghamton Symphony, Cayuga Chamber, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Syracuse Symphony orchestras. Concerto soloist, Cayuga Chamber and Syracuse Symphony orchestras. Rehearsal pianist/musical assistant to Sir Charles Groves, Christopher Hogwood, Henry Holt, Kurt Masur, Otto Werner Mueller, Seiji Ozawa, Helmut Rilling, Carl St. Clair, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Faculty, Tanglewood Music Center. Former faculty, Ithaca College, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, Madeline Island String Camp, Music Academy of the West, Round Top Festival, Royaumont. Guest artist/master teacher, New England and St. Petersburg conservatories; Concordia College, Interlochen Academy, Walnut Hill School, and state academies of Bulgaria, Estonia, Macedonia, Norway, Poland and Romania. U.S. Artistic Ambassador to Eastern Europe (1996). Recordings on Koch, Innova, SEAMUS, MSR Classics and Five Oaks labels; broadcasts on NPR, Minnesota Public Radio and the BBC. Koldofsky Fellow; George Eastman Scholar; National Merit Scholar; member, Pi Kappa Lambda; honorary member, Pi Delta Phi (French National Honor Society).

Walter Pavasaris (Music Education) B.M., Hartt College of Music; M.M., University of Michigan; Ed.D., Boston University. Formerly: bassist with West Point Band; Director of Orchestras, Belmont Public Schools. Currently: Coordinator of Fine Arts, Lexington Public Schools; adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor throughout New England. Conductor, Arlington (MA) Philharmonic and All University Orchestra, Boston University.

Monique Phinney (Voice) B.M., cum laude, Hartt College of Music. Studies with Clara Shear, John Moriarty, Judith Oas, Joan Caplan, Alberta Masiello, and Robert Hess. Apprentice Artist with Santa Fe Opera. Solo appearances with Boston Concert Opera, San Angelo Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Opera Shop in Manhattan and the Concord Band, under conductors including Edo deWaart, John Fiore, Raymond Leppard, Richard Westenberg and directors Rhoda Levine, Bliss Hebert, and Rosalind Elias. Ensemble performances with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Robert Shaw, Gerard Schwarz, and Johannes Somary in numerous concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully and Symphony Hall in Boston. Solo oratorio performances in New York with Musica Sacra and Amor Artis. Finalist: Connecticut Grand Opera Competition, Eleanor Steber Vocal Competition and the Houston Grand Opera Studio. Most Promising Young Artist, 1984 National Opera Club of America. American premiere of Debussy's La Chute de la Maison Usher with Ignace Strasvogel - aired on CPTV. Musical theater appearances with Hartt Opera Theater and Indian Hill Symphony. Recorded on DGG. Member of National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Henry Platt (Music Education) B.A., Tufts University; B.M., Berklee College of Music. Studies with Dave Mash and Richard Boulanger. Instructor of Music Synthesis and Music/Computer Applications. Director of Bands and General Music Instructor in Media, Wellesley Public Schools.

Felice Pomeranz (Harp) B.M. (harp), New England Conservatory; M.M. (jazz studies), New England Conservatory. Harp Studies with Margaret Ling, Marjorie Call and Bernard Zighera. Fellow, Tanglewood Music Center. Founder, The Gilded Harps (A harp resource network of harpists for events in the New England area) Clinician and performer, United States, Europe and the Czech Republic. Arrangements for classical/popular harp, Vanderbilt Music Co. Member: Board of Directors, American Harp Society, Boston Chapter. Co-President and Leader, The Felice Pomeranz Jazz Quartet. Performances throughout New England, France, Switzerland and the Caribbean. Recordings: A Gilded Christmas, harp/flute (Spectra), A Concert of Connecticut Composers, Tomorrow's Dream, The Felice Pomeranz Jazz Quartet.

Cynthia Price-Glynn (Harp; Chamber Music; Career Skills) B.A., Pomona College (visual arts); B.M., University of Kansas (harp); M.M., New England Conservatory (harp). Harp studies with Geraldine Wright, Marjorie Call, Margaret Ling, Bernard Zighera. American Wind Symphony Orchestra ('68), Tanglewood Music Center Fellow ('69, '70). Principal and Solo Harp for Boston Ballet since 1976. Past performances include: Opera Company of Boston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Handel & Haydn Society; Bolshoi Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet; many major musical theater productions in Boston (from "Peter Pan" through "The Producers"). Chamber Music work includes Scarborough Chamber Players, Musica Viva, many festivals and series in New England, and the celebrated Latin American ensemble ANDANZAS. Recordings include the award- winning "Lullabies" and "Musical Backgrounds" on Effective Productions, two highly acclaimed ANDANZAS recordings, and three with the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Co-founder of the music publisher New Boston Editions. President of The American Truths Foundation, Inc. (www.americantruths.com). Founder and coordinator of the award-winning GentleMUSES, which trains and provides lever-harpists playing therapeutic-music at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Initiator of the Boston Urban Harp Program, teaching lever harp to Boston Public High School students. Primary Harp Department Collaborators are Deborah Henson-Conant, Ursula Holliger, Nancy Hurrell, and Felice Pomeranz.

Kenneth Radnofsky (Saxophone) B.M. cum laude, University of Houston; M.M. with honors, New England Conservatory. Studies with Joseph Allard, Jeffrey Lerner, David Salge, Terry Anderson and Duncan Hale. Performances in Rome, Taipei, Havana, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Montreal, Manchester, UK, and Beijing. Saxophonist for Boston Symphony since 1976.Performances include world premiere, Schuller Concerto, Pittsburgh Symphony, NY premiere of same at Carnegie Hall. New York Philharmonic debut (with Masur), Debussy Rhapsody. World premiere, David Amram Concerto, Portland Symphony (with Hangen) Soloist with Leipzig Gewandhaus (Masur), Dresden Staatskapelle, Boston Pops, Taipei and Taiwan Symphonies, New World Symphony, BBC Concert Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Marlboro Festival, Portland String Quartet, Moscow Autumn. Commisioned new works from composers including Theofanidis, Bell, Martino, Babbitt, Sims, Fatas, Bourland, Horvit, Johnson, Schuller, Amram and more than a dozen others. Commissioned John Harbison Sonata premiered Dec. 3, 1995 by 43 saxophonists around the globe. Recordings: Debussy Rhapsody/NY Philharmonic (Teldec), 'Radnofsky.com' (Boston Records), 'Fascinatin' Rhythms' (Boston Records), Martino Saxophone Concerto (New World); 'A Place in the Sun,' (Philips), Michael Colgrass' 'Dream Dancer' and Elliott Schwartz 'Mehitabel's Serenade.' Faculty, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music. Website: www.kenradnofsky.com

Magdalena Richter (Violin) Diploma, Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland; additional studies, Boston University; M.M., The Juilliard School (Extraordinary Student Award). Solo appearances with the Warsaw and Cracow Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Cape Ann Symphony, Nashua Philharmonic, Symphony by the Sea. Awards include Aspen Music School Fellowship, a Special Award from the International Competition for American Contemporary Music in New York City, first prize awards from National Competitions in Poland, prizes in International Wieniawski Competition and International Young Violinists' Competition in Paris. Member, New England String Quartet. Chamber music recitals with Arthur Balsam, Ronald Feldman, Roman Totenberg, and Judith Stillman. Primary teachers include Dorothy Delay and Roman Totenberg.

Rhonda Rider (Chair, Chamber Music; Cello) B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; M.M., Yale School of Music. Studies with Aldo Parisot, Richard Kapuscinski, Zara Nelsova, Robert Koff, Louis Krasner. Founding member, Lydian Quartet (Naumburg Award; Evian, Banff and Portsmouth prizes, ASCAP Awards, Meet the Composer and Copland Fund Grants). Current member, Triple Helix Piano Trio (Artists of the Year, Boston Globe). 50 - 60 concerts annually including Kennedy and Lincoln Centers, Wigmore Hall, American Academy Rome, Moscow Conservatory, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Twenty recordings: Harmonia Mundi, Centaur, New World, CRI, Nonesuch (Grammy nominations, "Critic's Choice", New York Times). Numerous premieres of works by John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Steve Mackey. Concert Artists' Guild Award. Chamber music performances with Robert Levin, Kim Kashkashian, David Krakauer, Mstislav Rostropovich. Masterclasses: Yale, Oberlin, New England Conservatory. Panelist: NEA, ASTA and Chamber Music America. Summer festivals: Music from Salem, Green Mountain, Tanglewood, Asian Youth Orchestra ( Hong Kong).

Martha Rogers (Music Education) B.A., Lewis and Clark College; Dalcroze Eurhythmics Certificate, Carnegie-Mellon University; M.Ed., Lesley College, Dalcroze Eurhythmics License. Directed Music Outreach Program for the Boston Public Schools; Teacher: Lesley College; Cambridge Performance Project; Multi-Cultural Project for Communication and Education. Author and Producer of musical drama for children; Oral History Collector of International Lullabies; Composer of scores for Musical Theater for Children.

Dennis Roy (Double Bass) B.M., New England Conservatory. Joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 1993-94 season. Mr. Roy was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1990 until the time he joined the BSO. He was also a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and performed as a substitute player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. A Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 1987 and 1989, Mr. Roy attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 1983 and 1984.