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 WESLEY
BALDWIN (violoncello
<wbaldwin@utk.edu>) performs throughout the
United States and Europe as a cello soloist and
chamber musician. As a soloist he has appeared with
orchestras including the Laredo Philharmonic, the
Oregon Mozart Players, the Symphony of the Mountains,
the Bryan Symphony, the Oak Ridge Symphony, and
the Wintergreen and Hot Springs Festival Orchestras.
Upcoming concerto appearances include repeat appearances
with the Wintergreen and Oak Ridge Symphonies, as
well as concerts with the New River Valley and Bismarck-Mandan
Symphonies. He has performed chamber music at the
Aspen, Cazenovia, Ojai, Sandpoint, Mainly Mozart,
May in Miami, Skaneateles, and Subtropics Music
Festivals, and internationally in Italy, France,
Monte Carlo, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Argentina,
the United Kingdom and Costa Rica. Wesley has recorded
CDs for on the Naxos, Zyode and Centaur labels.
His first recording on the Albany label, featuring
the music of Alan Shulman, including a live recording
of the Shulman Concerto made at last year’s
Hot Springs Festival, has just been released. Formerly
the founding cellist of the Plymouth String Quartet,
Wesley is now cellist of the James Piano Quartet,
the resident ensemble at Sweet Briar College, with
whom he performs throughout the United States. Dr.
Baldwin serves as associate professor of cello at
the University of Tennessee. In the summers he performs
and teaches at the Hot Springs Music Festival, the
Michigan City Chamber Music Festival, and at the
Wintergreen Festival, where he serves as principal
cellist and faculty member of the Wintergreen Academy.
Wesley Baldwin is a member of the Board of Directors
of the Hot Springs Music Festival. Wesleybaldwincello.com |
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 SAMUEL
COMPTON (horn <samcompton@gmail.com>)
has been principal horn of the Memphis Symphony
Orchestra since 1998. He has performed with the
Rochester Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,
the Baltimore Opera, the Colorado Music Festival,
the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, the Washington
Chamber Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House in
Sydney Australia.Mr. Compton has performed as soloist
with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Washington
Chamber Symphony. He earned degrees from Temple
University and Tennessee Technological University,
and studied with Randall Gardner, Brice Andrus,
Peter Landgren, Sylvia Alimena and Arthur T. LaBar.
Prior to Mr. Compton's orchestral career he was
a member of the United States Air Force Band in
Washington D.C.. Among his many performances with
the Air Force Band was the HBO presentation of President
Bill Clinton's inauguration. Samuel lives in Memphis
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 TODD
CRANSON (tuba/ensembles coordinator <rcran2@uis.edu>)
is Director of the University of Illinois Springfield
Band and Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director
of the Vintage Brass Band of Springfield, IL. Every
summer Todd also performs historic American band
music with the Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass
Band of Silverton, Colorado. Todd is currently a
DMA student at the University of Illinois studying
tuba with Mark Moore. Current research, performance,
and recording projects focus on 19th Century American
band and dance orchestra music. Todd received his
bachelor of music and bachelor of music education
degrees from Louisiana State University where he
studied tuba with Larry Campbell. He received his
master of music degree in instrumental conducting
from the University of Arkansas and was a tuba student
of Kabin Thomas. Before receiving a Post Graduate
Diploma with distinction in performance from the
Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England
where he was a student of Roger Bobo, James Gourlay,
and Mel Culbertson, Todd was Director of Bands at
Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero, Louisiana.
Todd was previously an apprentice at the Hot Springs
Music Festival, and the subject of the award-winning
documentary, The Sound of Dreams.He is
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 DEBORAH
FLEISHER (harp <dafleisher@miami.edu>)
in on the Frost faculty at the University of Miami
as lecturer in the department of Instrumental Performance.
Deborah began harp studies with her grandmother,
Nettie Druzinsky, at age seven. She is a graduate
of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied
with Marilyn Costello and received an Artists Diploma
from the Peabody Institute as a student of Ruth
Inglefield. Deborah also worked with Alice Chalifoux
and Gloria Agostini. She was the harpist with the
Baltimore Opera, Delaware Symphony, Concert Artists
of Baltimore, Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet,
and Florida Sunshine Pops. She has performed at
the Marlboro and Aspen Music Festivals. Deborah
has been in the pit orchestras for such shows as
Hello Dolly with Carol Channing, The King
and I with Yul Brynner, Evita, Phantom,
A Chorus Line, and The Fantastiks
and performed with Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald,
Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido
Domingo, Jose Carrerras, Andrea Boccelli, and Gladys
Knight and the Pips. She has played with the Mineria
Orquesta de Mexico, Sinfonica Nacionial de Santo
Domingo, and Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Bolivia.
Ms. Fleisher performs throughout South Florida from
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 MICHAEL
GURT (collaborative piano <mugurt@lsu.edu>)
is Paula Garvey Manship Distinguished Professor
of Piano at Louisiana State University. Professor
Gurt is also the head of the piano department at
the Sewanee Summer Music Center. He has served as
Piano Chair of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association,
and he has taught at two summer music seminars held
at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Professor
Gurt holds degrees from the University of Michigan
and the Juilliard School. In 1982 he won First Prize
in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition,
and he was also a prize winner in international
competitions held in Pretoria, South Africa, and
Sydney, Australia. Prof. Gurt has performed as soloist
with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
the Utah Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis
Symphony, the Capetown Symphony, the China National
Symphony Orchestra, and the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra
in Durban, South Africa. He has made solo appearances
in Alice Tully Hall in New York, Ambassador Auditorium
in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, City
Hall in Hong Kong, the Victorian Arts Center in
Melbourne, Australia, Baxter Hall in Capetown, South
Africa, and the Attaturk Cultural Center in Istanbul,
Turkey. Gurt has collaborated with the Takacs String
Quartet, and he recently performed at the Australian
Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland.
He has served on the juries of both the Gina Bachauer
International Piano Competition and the New Orleans
International Piano Competition, and he has recorded
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 JARED
HAUSER (oboe <Jared.Hauser@Vanderbilt.edu>)
Described as a “sensitive, elegant soloist”
with a “subtle refined style” by the
Gramaphone Magazine, and as a “meditative
and thoughtful” player by the American Record
Guide, Jared Hauser has performed internationally
as soloist and chamber musician. Recently appointed
to the faculty of the Blair School of Music at
Vanderbilt University, he previously served as
principal oboist of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
and as artist faculty at the Lynn Conservatory
of Music. Jared has appeared as soloist with such
diverse groups as the Bournemouth Symphonette,
Bella Baroque, the Hot Springs Music Festival
Orchestra and the Orchestra of Northern New York
among others. Jared’s other orchestral credits
include appearances as guest principal with the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony
Orchestra, and the Orchestra Camerata Ducale (Turin,
Italy); as well as performing with the Florida
Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, and the Palm Beach
Opera Orchestra. A recipient of numerous awards,
Jared has received top prizes at the 2001 Isle
of Wight International Oboe Competition and the
2000 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Bradlin Competition.
His performances have been broadcast on NPR’s
“Performance Today”, CBC/Radio Canada
and BBC Radio 3, and has recorded for Koch International,
Naxos, AUR and received critical acclaim for his
recordings with Blue Griffin Records. Each summer,
In addition to the Hot Springs Music Festival,
Jared performs and instructs the Interlochen Center
for the Arts. Jared holds degrees from the Oberlin
Conservatory, Rice University and University of
Michigan, where his principal teachers were James
Caldwell, Alex Klein, Robert Atherholt, Dan Stolper,
and Harry Sargous. |
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 ANDREW
IRVIN (violin <drewirvin@gmail.com>)
has a broad range of experience in concert and
recital across America and in Europe. Solo appearances
include works by Paganini, Bruch, Vivaldi, Korngold,
Bach, Mozart, and Dvorak. This upcoming season
concerto appearances include performances of Ravel's
Tzigane, Beethoven's Triple Concerto
and Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy. Mr. Irvin
has been heard in recital in New York, North Carolina,
Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, California, Texas,
& Arizona. He can be heard in recording on
the Naxos label. In the Rochester, New York based
orchestra "Air de Cour" he served as
concertmaster, leader, and soloist. His ensembles
have received grants from New York's State Legislature,
and The New York Council for the Arts. Highlights
of his chamber music career include performances
with the Ying Quartet, the Audubon Quartet, and
New York City premiere of composer Steve Mackey's
Troubadour Songs. Mr. Irvin's European
Debut was made at the Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele
where he was principal violin in the festival
orchestra and was featured on the chamber concert
series. Before moving to Arkansas, he was Principal
Violin in the Arizona Opera Orchestra. Currently,
Mr. Irvin is living in Little Rock, Arkansas where
he is Co-Concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony.
Andrew also enjoys training for his other obsession,
endurance sports. In 2007 he ran his second marathon
in March and completed his first Ironman Triathlon
in August. (Ask him how it went!) He plays a 1765
Gagliano violin. (photo credit:
©www.Shields-MarleyPhoto.com) |
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 DAVID
LEE JACKSON (trombone <Posaune97@aol.com>)
was recently a featured soloist at several engagements,
including performances at Midwest Band and Orchestra
Clinic in Chicago, Music at Gretna in Mt. Gretna,
PA, and with the Ann Arbor Concert Band. Mr. Jackson
was also guest soloist with Los Angeles Symphonic
Winds both in Los Angeles and at the MidEurope
Festival in Schladming, Austria. Other recent
solo performances were with the Interlochen World
Youth Wind Symphony and with the Idyllwild Festival
Wind Ensemble at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. In
addition to those performances, Mr. Jackson has
performed recitals and masterclasses at the Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Alaska-Fairbanks,
the University of Minnesota, UCLA, California
State University-Northridge and Pepperdine University.
An advocate of contemporary music, Prof. Jackson
has commissioned and performed the world premieres
of numerous works for trombone. His orchestral
experience includes performances with the Detroit
Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Chicago Symphony,
the Michigan Opera Theater, the Fort Worth Symphony,
the New World Symphony, the Cabrillo Music Festival
Orchestra and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in
Italy. A respected chamber musician, he has performed
with the Galliard Brass, the Music of the Baroque
and the Brass Band of Battle Creek. Mr. Jackson
is Associate Professor of Trombone at the University
of Michigan. He also has been a faculty member
at Baylor University, Eastern Michigan University
and the University of Toledo. He is currently
a member of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
and of Chicago's Fulcrum Point New Music Project.
Mr. Jackson, a Conn-Selmer artist and clinician,
also teaches and performs at the Idyllwild Arts
Festival. This season marks Prof. Jackson's ninth
season as a Mentor with the Hot Springs Music
Festival. |
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 SEAN
KELLY (production management <SEKELLY@tceq.state.tx.us>)
has been an Air Force pilot, wellhead geologist,
waiter, cook, bartender, bouncer, environmental
consultant, and presently serves as an Emergency
Response Coordinator for the State of Texas. Raised
in a military family, he has lived from Virginia
to California to Michigan to Texas. He attended
Tulane University in New Orleans. A resident of
Austin, Texas, Mr. Kelly has been a member of
the Hot Springs Music Festival Board of Directors
and has served as the Festival's Production Manager
since 1997. In addition to having co-written the
Hot Springs Music Festival's new American-idiomatic
English translation of the Mozarts The Magic
Flute, Mr. Kelly was also the Production
Designer for the opera, and appeared convincingly
onstage as a tree. He has also been Production
designer for Brundibár and Cio
Cio San. Sean is married to Festival Harp
Mentor Shana Norton, and affectionatly addressed
by the Festival production assistants as the "Lord
of Light." |
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 MANA
SAXOPHONE QUARTET (associate ensemble-in-residence
<info@manaquartet.com>) Since it’s founding
in 2004, the Mana Quartet’s frequent performances
throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe
have exposed listeners to an astonishing array of
sonic possibilities, which consist of thoughtful
presentations of music ranging from the contemporary
American composer, Charles Wuorinen, to the Argentinean
tango master, Astor Piazzolla. As a result of their
extensive work with the Raschèr Saxophone
Quartet, the Corigliano String Quartet, and the
Imani Winds, the Mana Quartet has been acclaimed
for their sensitive and skillful presentation of
chamber music- a point driven home by their recent
win at the 2009 Coleman International Chamber Ensemble
Competition, where they became the first, and only,
saxophone quartet ever to receive the prestigious
Alice Coleman Grand Prize. Also, in 2007, they were
awarded First Prize at the 2007 National MTNA Chamber
Music Competition, and recently they were featured
on NPR’s Performance Today performing Philip
Glass’ Concerto for Saxophone Quartet.
In the upcoming summer, the Mana Quartet will
be the Associate Ensemble in Residence at the annual
Hot Springs Music Festival, where they will be presenting
a saxophone quartet workshop, multiple feature recitals,
and the U.S. Premiere of Anders Nilsson’s
Concerto Grosso, for saxophone quartet and orchestra.
During this exciting event, MSQ members will
offer private instruction and a series of seminars,
during which they will share their experience and
skill with participants. Getting out into the community
and spreading the word about chamber music is a
frequent and true joy for the Mana Quartet. By exploring
history, current events, and humor in their workshops,
they strive to communicate more than just a musical
line-they get to the crux of the matter! Another
absolute passion for the Mana Quartet is presenting
new music to audiences – this season, they
are working to have 2 concertos composed, 1 piece
for quartet and choir, and 2 for saxophone quartet
alone. The Mana Quartet’s use of historical
instruments is particularly intriguing. When the
Belgian born inventor, Adolphe Sax, set out to create
his newest invention, he envisioned an instrument
that would reconcile the timbres of the standard
orchestra. The result was a tone that was highly
praised by composers, such as: Berlioz; Rossini;
and Meyerbeer. Over the years, the saxophone has
undergone acoustical changes, which have given the
instrument a different character. Audiences today
readily notice these tonal differences and find
the ‘vintage’ sound delightful. |
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 JESSICA
MATHAES (violin) [pronounced MAH-tes] was
praised by Jaime Laredo as “a superb violinist,”
and by Philippe Entremont as “a born player…
a wonderful violinist!” Recently hailed by
critics as “a master of the Khachaturian Concerto
for Violin” (Austin Chronicle), Ms. Mathaes
has appeared in concert throughout the United States
and Europe, and has been featured on numerous radio
stations and ARTE, the French-German cultural television
channel. Her debut solo album, Suites and Sweets,
was released in May of 2009 on the Centaur label
to critical acclaim. Her appearances in the upcoming
2009-10 season will include performances with the
Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and the Northwest
Iowa Symphony Orchestra, and recitals at Texas Christian
University, Northwestern College and the Fredericksburg
Music Club. The first-ever winner of the Classical
Artists Development Foundation fellowship, Ms. Mathaes
has given masterclasses at numerous universities
including Baylor University and the University of
Houston, and has been on the faculty of the International
Festival-Institute at Round Top. Ms. Mathaes holds
degrees in both violin and viola performance from
Rice University, where she graduated magna cum laude
and studied with Kenneth Goldsmith, Karen Ritscher,
and Raphael Fliegel. She currently resides in Texas,
where she balances her solo career with being the
youngest-ever concertmaster of the Austin Symphony,
a position she won in 2005. Ms. Mathaes performs
on a violin crafted in 1807 by Johannes Cuypers,
“the Dutch Stradivarius.” For more information,
please visit her website. |
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 KEVIN
MAULDIN (double bass <kgm60@aol.com>),
principal bass wth the Naples Philharmonic, earned
a Bachelors of Music degree from Memphis State
University and a Masters of Music degree from
University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
of Music. His teachers have included Frank Proto,
John Chiego, Herman Burkhardt, and Peter Rofe.
Mr. Mauldin, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, has
played concerti with the Chattanooga Symphony
and the Southern College of Seventh Day Adventists,
where he was on the faculty. His experience includes
engagements with the Richmond (IN) Symphony, the
Cincinnati Symphony, the Memphis Symphony and
as principal bass with the Chattanooga Symphony.
Mauldin spends the remainder of his summers at
the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina as
part of the artist-faculty and as the assistant
principal bass player in the Brevard Music Symphony.
Kevin Mauldin is a member of the artist faculty
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 MATTHEW
McCLUNG (percussion <matthew.mcclung@tamucc.edu>)
Equally at home with orchestral, solo, and chamber
music, Dr. Matthew McClung has appeared with a
wide variety of prestigious ensembles throughout
the United States. He has performed with the Houston
Grand Opera, the Hawaii Opera Theater, the River
Oaks Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras
of Houston, Lexington, San Antonio, Kentucky,
Austin, Arkansas, Maui, and Honolulu. As a chamber
musician, he has performed with renowned cellist
Alisa Weilerstein, the Percussion Group Cincinnati,
the So Percussion Group, Strike 3 Percussion,
Musiqa, the Houston Composers Alliance, the San
Antonio Chamber Music Society, and others. As
a soloist, he has been featured on the ChamberX
concert series in Houston, with the Shepherd School
Percussion Ensemble, and in solo performances
across the state of Texas. Recently the Houston
Chronicle raved about his concerto performance
with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, saying
“McClung played stylishly and smartly …
The performance sang with a distinctive joie de
vivre.” Dr. McClung is currently the principal
percussionist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra,
and Assistant Professor of Percussion at Texas
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MOORE (trumpet
<memphistrumpet@gmail.com>) is Principal Trumpet
of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed
with the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony,
the Baltimore Symphony, and the Toronto Symphony.
He has recorded and performed with the Nashville
Chamber Orchestra, and with I Fiamminghi, the Orchestra
of Flanders. As a soloist, Mr. Moore has appeared
with the San Antonio Symphony, the Nashville Chamber
Orchestra, the Tennessee Summer Symphony, the Chattanooga
Symphony, and on numerous occasions with the Memphis
Symphony. Mr. Moore was a featured guest artist
at the 1994 International Trumpet Guild Conference.
A review of that recital in the International Trumpet
Guild Journal praised his "superbly fluid and
beautiful trumpet playing". The Nashville Chamber
Orchestra's 2002 Naxos recording of Aaron Copland's
music featured Mr. Moore in Quiet City for solo
trumpet, English horn, and strings. Classicstoday.comlauded
his "smooth-as-silk trumpeting" on that
recording. Scott Moore has a Master of Music degree
from the New England Conservatory of Music, and
a Bachelor of Arts degree from McNeese State University.
His teachers have included Charles Schlueter, Arnold
Jacobs, and Michael Ewald. This marks Mr. Moore's
third season with the Hot Springs Music Festival.
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MARIE ROESKE (viola <amroeske@swbell.net>)
Associate Principal Viola of the Dallas Symphony
since 1999, Ann Marie Roeske has performed in
solo and chamber music recitals at Carnegie Hall,
the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center,
Aspen Music Festival, Library of Congress, Sarasota
Music Festival, Severance Hall, Rockport Music
Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, Interlochen
Center for the Arts, the Rockport Music Festival,
Alice Tully Hall, Merken Hall, Nasher Sculpture
Center, and the Dallas Museum of Art. An avid
chamber musician, Ms. Roeske’s performances
with the Amernet String Quartet were praised by
the New York Times as “an accomplished and
intelligent ensemble. Their fine performances
were most notable for the quality of unjaded discovery
that came through so vividly.” She has coached
and performed in residencies for Chamber Music
America with the Cavani String Quartet, has twice
been a fellow at the Aspen Center for Advanced
Quartet Studies and was invited by Isaac Stern
to participate in his Chamber Music Workshop at
Carnegie Hall. First-prize winner in both the
Nakamichi Foundation Concerto competition at the
Aspen Music festival and the Darius Milhaud Performance
Prize Auditions, she has also won the Florence
Allan Award at the Carmel Chamber Music Competition.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Dallas
Symphony, Aspen Sinfonia, World Youth Symphony,
and the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra and
has played principal viola with the Spoleto Festival
USA and Italy, Juilliard, Cleveland Institute
of Music, Interlochen Arts Academy and the Chautauqua
Music School Festival Orchestra. First introduced
to the viola at the age of ten in a public school
strings class, Ann Marie became one of the youngest
members of the Pensacola Symphony, performing
in the viola section while a freshman in high
school. She later enrolled at Interlochen Arts
Academy, where she was a featured soloist with
the World Youth Symphony, received a Fine Arts
Award and graduated with high honors. Ann Marie
received her Bachelor of Music with academic honors
from the Cleveland Institute of Music and was
awarded the Jim Hall prize for achievement and
leadership in music. She received her Master of
Music from the Juilliard School where she was
awarded the prestigious William Schuman Prize,
the single graduate prize given at commencement
exercises. Her principal teachers were Karen Tuttle,
Heidi Castleman and David Holland, and her chamber
music mentors include the Cleveland, Orion, Cavani,
Emerson, and Juilliard String Quartets. Ms. Roeske
has served on the faculties of Baylor University,
Interlochen Arts Camp, Hot Springs Music Festival,
Music in the Mountains Conservatory, Dallas Symphony
Young Strings and The Institute for Strings at
Southern Methodist University. When not playing
the viola, Ann Marie can be found in the kitchen
or at the pool. A US Master's swimmer since 2000,
Ann Marie has twice completed the 10-mile Maui
Channel Swim, the only inter-island relay race
in the world. A frequent traveler to Europe, she
has studied and performed traditional Irish music
in County Kerry, Ireland, has taken numerous classes
at the Apicius Culinary Institute in Florence,
Italy, and is a part-owner of two cheese shops
in Dallas named Molto Formaggio. Ann Marie lives
in Dallas with her husband Rodney and their three
miniature dachshunds, George, Annabell, and Flash.
Ann Marie plays a Lorenzo & Tommaso Carcassi
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(Wendy) ROSE (bassoon <wendy.rose@wmich.edu>)
Rose has performed nationally and internationally
as a guest in major orchestras including the
Detroit Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the
Vancouver Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the
Utah Chamber Orchestra and the Grand Rapids
Symphony. A former member of The National Ballet
Orchestra of Canada and principal bassoonist
with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra (Canada)
from 1991-2002, she appeared frequently as a
soloist with the orchestra and was heard on
CBC Radio in national broadcasts, including
a recording from the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. She has performed at Stratford
Summer Music (Canada), the Spoleto Festival
(Charleston, S.C. and Spoleto, Italy), the Banff
Festival of the Arts (Canada) and was selected
to be a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.
She is a member of RAD with hornist Paul Austin
of the Grand Rapids Symphony, and Lake Winds
Octet; an exciting new wind octet featuring
Canadian musicians from major orchestras in
the Great Lakes region. Rose is Associate Professor
of Music at Western Michigan University where
she teaches bassoon, chamber music, and music
theory and is a member of the Western Wind Quintet.
She is on the faculty at The Interlochen Center
for the Arts, and has taught at the University
of Michigan, Wayne State University, the University
of Windsor and National Music Camp (Parry Sound,
Canada) and the Hot Springs Music Festival.
Ms. Rose received degrees in bassoon performance
from the University of Toronto and the University
of Michigan where her principal teachers were
David Carroll, Hugh Cooper, Christopher Millard,
and Richard Beene. She also holds a diploma
in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory
of Music in Toronto. Prof. Rose plays a Heckel
bassoon. Wendy Rose resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan
with her husband oboist, Brad Smith and their
son Alexander.
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ROSENBERG (executive director, arts administration
& chorus director <laura@hotmusic.org>)
has served as Director of Concert Activities for
Northwestern University, Director of Production
for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,
Artistic Advisor and Director of Special Projects
for the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor,
and Concert Director of San Francisco's Old First
Concerts series. As a festival administrator,
she produced the international performance/scholarship
event Michigan MozartFest and the Festival
of Contemporary American Dance. Trained as a choral
conductor at Temple University, the Aspen Music
Festival, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana,
Ms. Rosenberg was Chorus Director for the Ann
Arbor May Festival's Brahms Requiem performance
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director
of the Berkeley Chorus Pro Musica in California.
In addition to her work with the Hot Springs Music
Festival, Ms. Rosenberg has served as president
of the Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce
Arts & Business Committee, as executive committee
member of the National Park Arts Council and as
an adjunct faculty member of the Arkansas School
for Mathematics, Sciences & the Arts. She
was recently appointed to the steering committee
of the Garland County Juvenile Drug Court, and
is an honorary Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary
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 RICHARD
ROSENBERG (artistic
director/conductor <rr@hotmusic.org>)
See 'Artistic
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SIMARD (guest conductor
<psimard@vancouverislandsymphony.com>)
was recently appointed Artistic Director of the
Vancouver Island Symphony in 2008 and Associate
Conductor with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra,
he is also Artistic Director with the Orchestre
Symphonique de Drummondville (QC). As guest conductor,
he performed with major orchestras in Milwaukee,
Toronto, Ottawa (National Arts Centre), Hamilton,
Okanagan, Québec’s Les Violons du Roy
and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain.
This season, he makes an appearance with the Victoria
Symphony. Recipient of many honours, Pierre Simard
was awarded the Canada Council’s Jean-Marie
Beaudet Award in Conducting, recognizing his work
on a national scale. He is also grantee of the Québec
Music Council, the Québec Arts Council and
the Montreal Mayor’s Foundation. A passionate
defender of orchestral repertoire, Pierre Simard
devotes himself to reinventing the concert form,
combining his fresh ideas, fantasy and humour with
music. His outstanding creativity and engagement
with youth audiences inspire him to write and perform
original symphonic shows, featured all across Canada.
Holder of a Master’s Degree in Conducting
from the Peabody Institute (Johns Hopkins University)
and five Conservatory Prizes from the Conservatoire
de musique de Montréal, Pierre Simard studied
with Raffi Armenian, Frederik Prausnitz and JoAnn
Falletta.
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SUNG (violin <jsung_1600@yahoo.com>)
has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as
the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic,
the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Pusan Philharmonic
in South Korea, the Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra
in Russia, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston,
as well as the orchestras of Hartford, Delaware,
Boise, Corpus Christi, Adrian, Dubuque, Fargo-Moorhead,
Owensboro, Wheeling and Wyoming. Her performances
have been aired on radio and TV across the U.S.
and abroad, including multiple broadcasts on NPR’s
“Performance Today” of her performance
of the Korngold Violin Concerto with
the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra. Ms.
Sung is also a frequently heard artist at distinguished
music festivals such as Switzerland’s Lucerne
Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Sewanee
Summer Music Festival. She has been presented
in recital in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville,
New York City and Pittsburgh, and internationally
in Odense, Denmark, Lausanne, Switzerland and
Queenstown, New Zealand. A virtuoso of diverse
talents, she also tours regularly as the featured
classical soloist with Mark ’Connor’s
American String Celebration and recently released
a Live recording of Vivaldi’s The Four
Seasons available on CD. Among numerous prizes,
she has won the Passamaneck Award (chosen by Leonard
Slatkin), for which she performed at Carnegie
Music Hall, and the Nakamichi Violin Competition
of the Aspen Festival. She was also a Clifton
Visiting Artist at Harvard University. Ms. Sung
serves as assistant faculty at the Juilliard School,
initially as the Starling/Delay Institute Fellow,
and was recently appointed violin professor at
the SUNY-Fredonia School of Music. Born in New
York City, Ms. Sung began violin studies at the
age of seven, made her public debut the following
year, and orchestral debut at age nine, performing
with the Pittsburgh Symphony. At age ten, she
began a decade of private studies with renowned
pedagogue Josef Gingold, a period that overlapped
with her attendance at Harvard University, from
which she graduated with honors with a double
degree in anthropology and music. She was later
invited to study with esteemed teacher, Dorothy
DeLay, at the Juilliard School on a full scholarship.
Ms. Sung also studied extensively with Masao Kawasaki,
David Cerone, and the Juilliard String Quartet.
She plays a c.1600 Maggini violin.
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JAMES TAGG (recording
engineering <jamietagg@gmail.com>) has been
working as an audio and recording engineer since
1998. Skilled with both musical as well as technical
aspects of recording music, James Tagg (Jamie) has
worked as a recording, sound, and post-production
engineer for the following organizations: The Banff
Center for the Arts; Setnor School of Music at Syracuse
University (Visiting Senior Recording Engineer);
The Boston, Imperial, Canadian, and Dallas Brass
Ensembles; Hugh Fraser; David Leibman; The Cassatt
String Quartet; The Bergonzi String Quartet; the
Gregg Smith Singers; The University of Miami; and
Miami's professional vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire
directed by Patrick Dupré Quigley. Mr. Tagg
holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Engineering
Technology from the University of Miami (under the
direction of Ken Pohlmann), with a principal in
Jazz Guitar, a concentration in Auxiliary Percussion
(under the teaching of Ney Rosaro) and a minor in
Electrical Engineering. His technical awards include
a first place prize in the internationally competitive
Audio Engineer Society (AES) collegiate recording
competition in the jazz category. As an Audio Associate
work/study at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta,
Canada, Jamie worked as a recording, mixing, mastering,
post-production, and film-set engineer. His life
as a young musician began with the study of piano
at age five, and branched out at age eight when
he was accepted as a chorister in the Syracuse Children's
Chorus under the direction of Dr. Barbara M. Tagg.
He then went on to sing with numerous choirs including
a vocal jazz ensemble, Swing Set. As a student,
Jamie started the Jazz Band at Camillus Middle School,
which to this day is an active ensemble. He later
performed as an instrumentalist with the Syracuse
Children's Chorus; the Children in Harmony Choral
Festival in Orlando, FL; and has accompanied and
soloed with the Gregg Smith Singers while in residence
at the Adirondack Festival of American Music on
guitar and saxophone. Mr. Tagg continues to freelance
in the audio field, and enjoys sharing his frequent
and relevant experiences with students, giving a
constantly up-to-date perspective on technology,
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 ANTHONY
TAYLOR (clarinet
<anthotaylo@mac.com>) joined the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music
faculty in 2007. A former Hot Springs Music Festival
Apprentice, he is an active performer in solo, chamber,
orchestral and jazz. This fall, he presented a paper
on his research into John Adams’s clarinet
concerto Gnarly Buttons in Bangor, Wales
at the International Conference on Music and Minimalism.
Recent performance highlights include the world
premiere of Seattle composer Gail Gross’s
Bossa Velha at the Washington State Music
Teacher’s Association convention, solo performances
with jazz piano master Dick Hyman, and the world
premiere recording of Gregory Yasinitsky’s
solo clarinet work For All That Has Been Given.
He has been a member of the Spokane Symphony, the
Boise Philharmonic, Spokane Opera and professional
contemporary music ensemble Zephyr. He has been
on the faculties of Washington State University,
Eastern Washington University, Whitman College and
Gonzaga University. Each August, Taylor also teaches
at the Midsummer Musical Retreat, a band camp for
adult amateur musicians. He will complete his doctorate
this summer at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music, and also holds degrees from The Florida
State University and Washington State University. |
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 CAEN
THOMASON-REDUS (flute <caentr@uwm.edu)
is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and enjoys traveling the
country performing and presenting master classes.
At UWM, Caen is particularly active in the performance
and coaching of chamber music through the faculty
artist series Chamber Music Milwaukee, the Leonard
Sorkin International Institute of Chamber Music,
and his own series of flute recitals. Other recent
performances include solos with the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra and UWM’s major ensembles, African
American repertoire recitals at the National Flute
Association Convention and Madison Flute Festival,
and numerous guest appearances around the country.
Baroque music is always a major part of Caen’s
performing as represented by recent collaborations
with Milwaukee’s own Bach Babes, Milwaukee
Symphony Concertmaster Frank Almond’s Frankly
Music series, and UWM’s Bach and Before
concerts.Prior to arriving in Milwaukee, Caen spent
two years performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
as their Minority Fellow and now performs often
with professional orchestras including the St. Louis,
Milwaukee and Kansas City symphonies. Caen began
playing Muramatsu flutes in 2003 and is a Muramatsu
Artist. You can hear Caen on The Flute Collection,
three new recordings and annotated anthologies of
graded flute solos published this year by Schirmer.
Active musically from an early age, Caen began playing
the flute in public school, studied privately at
the San Francisco Conservatory, sang in San Francisco
Opera productions with the San Francisco Boys Chorus,
and studied saxophone with former Duke Ellington
band member Ben Miller. His activities later expanded
to include performance on Baroque and Renaissance
flutes and the research and performance of African-American
classical music. Caen has worked with many contemporary
composers including Philip Glass, Gunther Schuller,
Chinary Ung, Mario Davidofsky, Barbara Kolb, David
Maslanka and Robert Beaser, and always makes it
a point to perform and premiere the works of younger
composers. Caen received performance degrees from
Rice University (MM) and the University of Redlands
(BM), and did additional studies at the University
of Michigan and the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg,
Austria. His primary instructors were Leone Buyse,
Candice Palmberg and Yaada Weber. Through his participation
in festivals and master classes such as Aspen, Spoleto
USA, Sion Academy (Switzerland), Domaine Forget
(Canada) and the San Francisco Early Music Society
Baroque Workshop, Caen also worked with Mark Sparks,
Martha Aarons, Trevor Wye and Doriot Anthony Dwyer.
As the Detroit Symphony fellow, Caen studied with
Jeff Zook and the other members of the DSO flute
section. Caen ’s previous teaching activities
include faculty positions at Wayne State University
and the Sphinx Preparatory Academy, both located
in downtown Detroit. Caen and his wife, hornist
Kristi Crago, served as principals in the Evansville
Philharmonic Orchestra and as faculty at the University
of Evansville in Indiana. Dedicated to education
and musical outreach, Caen and Kristi spend much
of their personal time creating and taking part
in programs that bring music closer to people of
all backgrounds and ages. |
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 LUIS
MIGUEL VARELA (violin <luismivac@yahoo.com>)
Prof. Varela has been active in the orchestral
and chamber music genre as well as television
and radio; recording and performing in Venezuela
and beyond its boundaries, including a very successful
tour of the most prestigious halls in Germany
(Tonhalle, Ötker Hall, Cologne Philharmonie)
and Croatia (Lisinski Vastrolav) in April 2008.
In July the same year he performed as soloist
with the Monagas State Symphony Orchestra and
in 2009 participated as a soloist with the Orquesta
Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas in the Caracas
Municipal Theater. Prof. Varela began his musical
studies at the age of 9 in the José Gabriel
Núñez Romberg School of Music, under
the tutelage of Jesús Pandolfi on the violin,
Maria Luisa Araya on piano and Antonio Salazar
in theory and sightreading. He joined the Monagas
Youth Orchestra at age of 13 under the guidance
of maestro Narciso Herrera and later Jose Apolinar
Cantor, whom imparted a myriad of musical knowledge
and orchestral literature. Luis Miguel is a founding
member of Dr. Carlos Molhe Symphony Orchestra
and the Monagas State Symphony Orchestra. In 1996
he entered the violin class of master Ulyses Ascanio
at the Musical Conservatory “Simón
Bolívar” in Caracas and the following
year competitively won a first violin position
with the Symphony Orchestra “Gran Mariscal
de Ayacucho” in Caracas. In 1997 he performed
with the Symphony Orchestra “Gran Mariscal
de Ayacucho” in its Ecuadorian tour and
was an apprentice at the Hot Springs Music Festival
in Arkansas, USA. he has also participated in
the VIII Violin Andean Festival (2005) in Tovar,
Mérida State. This reknown Festival is
dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of
traditional Venezuelan music. Prof. Varela was
part of the violin class “Arts Union”
under the tutelage of Naranjo Williams, with whom
he studied from 2005 until February 2009. Sr.
Varela, a prominent Venezuelan violinist, is a
professor of violin at the Orquesta Sinfónica
Municipal de Caracas, where he has been a member
of the first violin section since 1999. He
has appeared many times as soloist with the Orquesta
Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas under the
baton of Maestro Rodolfo Saglimbeni. |
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