TONY ARNOLD, Soprano: July 20
Internationally recognized for her interpretation of contemporary repertoire, in 2001 she became the first vocalist to win the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition. She is committed to the creation of new vocal music, working closely with both established and emerging composers including those at the University of Buffalo, where she joined the faculty in 2003. She has appeared with eighth blackbird, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, New York New Music Ensemble, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW. She received a bachelor�s degree in voice from Oberlin College and a master�s in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University. 2004 marks her debut at this Festival.
MARY ARTMANN, Cello: July 27
Active as a chamber and orchestral musician in the Buffalo area, she performs with pianist Frieda Manes, and in the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Slee Sinfonietta. In summers she is on the faculty at the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado. With her husband, she tours in the U.S. and Europe as the Artmann/Golove cello duo, recording for the West German Radio and Radio France. She was a member of the Sartory Quartet at Kent State University, and the Syracuse Symphony, and studied with Siegfried Palm in Germany on a Hertz Traveling Fellowship. This is her first concert with this Festival.
ELIOT BAILEN, Cello July 13, 20
He is Artistic Director of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble in Connecticut and Principal Cello/Assistant Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble. Principal cellist with several NYC area orchestras, he also appears with the American Symphony, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke's and New Jersey Symphony. A recipient of the DMA from Yale University, he teaches at Columbia University. He and his wife, Susan Rotholz, live in NYC with their three children. This is his eleventh season with the Festival.
YURI FUNAHASHI, Piano July 13
A member of the Festival Chamber Music Society of New York City and the Pane-Funahashi Piano Duo, she is co-founder of Maine Mountain Chamber Music. Her chamber music performances have been heard at the Seattle and Vancouver Festivals, the Kennedy Center, the 92nd Street Y and Weill Carnegie Hall. She was honored at the 1990 Tchaikovsky Competition as an outstanding accompanist. A recipient of the DMA from the Juilliard School, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. This is her third Festival appearance.
CARMELO GALANTE, Clarinet August 3, 6, 8, 10
Principal Clarinet of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, he is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Formerly Principal Clarinet of the South Bend Symphony in Indiana, he was a member of the Springfield (Illinois) Symphony, the South Bend Woodwind Quintet, and the Cassini Trio, and has taught at St. Mary�s College. A student of James Pyne, Lawrence McDonald and Franklin Cohen, he is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music. This is his fourteenth season with the Festival.
MAUREEN GALLAGHER, Viola August 3, 6, 10
She is Co-Principal Violist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Principal Violist of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. A member of the New Jersey Chamber Music Society and Speculum Musicae, she is invited to numerous chamber music festivals world-wide and is Co-Principal Violist of the Mito Chamber Orchestra in Japan for several weeks each year. She has recorded over 75 CDs for Deutsche Grammaphon, Nonesuch, Decca and RCA. This is her seventh summer at the Festival.
JONATHAN GOLOVE, Cello July 20, 27
Cellist, composer, and teacher, he is Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo, where he is a member of the Baird Trio. He is founder and co-director of The Instrumental Factor (Buffalo), and Just Like It Sounds (San Francisco), chamber ensembles dedicated to the performance of new music. Summer festivals include the European Academy of Music, Roycroft, Pacific, Rome, and Sarasota. He performs on a number of recordings of improvised music with composer/performer Vinny Golia. This is his fourth season with the Festival.
LAURIE KENNEDY, Viola July 13, 20, 27, Aug 3, 6, 8, 10
She is Principal Violist of the Portland Symphony and co-founder of Maine Mountain Chamber Music, a new series in Farmington. Before moving to Maine in 1981, she was a member of the Montreal Symphony, Principal Viola of the Vancouver Symphony and Associate Principal of the Buffalo Philharmonic. She is a graduate of Smith College with a Master's degree from Indiana University School of Music. A participant in the Festival since 1977, she has been co-Music Director since 1985 and was appointed Music Director in 2000.
MIHAE LEE, Piano Aug 3, 6, 8, 10
Since her debut at age 14 with the National Orchestra in her native Korea, she has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, as soloist with das Symphonie Berlin, and in recitals in Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. A member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Tempest Trio, she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is heard regularly at Bargemusic in NYC. This is her tenth summer at the Festival.
TIMOTHY LEES, violin Aug 3, 6, 8, 10
A Philadelphia native and graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he is Concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He has served as Concertmaster of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra both here and abroad, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Charleston (SC) Symphony. In chamber music, he has collaborated with such artists as Peter Wiley, Steven Tennenbaum, Ida Kavafian, Yefim Bronfman and Jaime Laredo and appears regularly at the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati. This is his fifth season at this Festival.
FRIEDA MANES, Piano July 20, 27
A native of Melbourne, Australia, where she frequently performed in recitals as well as on radio and television, she came to the United States in 1958 to study at the Juilliard School with Irwin Freundlich. In addition to her four-hand performances with her husband, she has been soloist with orchestras including the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Vermont Symphony, and is an active recital and chamber music performer. She is much in demand as a teacher and performer in the Western New York area. A performer at this Festival since it�s inception in 1973, she was co-Music Director from 1982-1985.
STEPHEN MANES, Piano July 20, 27
Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department and a member of the Baird Trio at the University at Buffalo SUNY, he has been soloist with many American orchestras and has collaborated with the Cleveland, Tokyo, Kronos, and Cassatt String Quartets. He is noted for performances of the complete solo music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, as well as the complete Beethoven Sonatas and the solo works of Schubert. Co-Music Director of the Festival from 1982 to 1985, he has participated since the first concert in 1973.
VARTY MANOUELIAN, Violin July 15, 22
A prize winner in competitions in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the United States, she has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras in the United States, the former Soviet Union, Poland, Spain, Italy and her native Bulgaria. She has performed chamber music at the Marlboro, El Paso, Olympic, and Apple Hill Festivals. Currently a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, she resides in Grosse Pointe, Michigan with her husband, Movses Pogossian, and their three young children. This is her fourth appearance at the Festival.
PHILIP PALERMO, Violin July 27, Aug 3, 6, 8, 10
Associate Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra since 1984, and frequent soloist with that orchestra, he has also appeared as soloist with the Baltimore, Houston, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh Symphonies. Festival credits include Mainly Mozart in San Diego, Aspen and the Utah Music Festival. He performs with the Ronen Chamber Ensemble in Indianapolis. A graduate of Indiana University School of Music and the Juilliard School, he was first prize winner of the Kosciuszko Foundation's Wieniawski Competition. This is his twelfth season with the Festival.
MOVSES POGOSSIAN, Violin July 13, 20, 27
A prize-winner in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition, he is the youngest ever to win First Prize in the USSR National Violin Competition. Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Shady Side Chamber Music Festival in Pittsburgh, he also performs with the El Paso and Olympic Festivals, and the Apple Hill Chamber Players. He has taught at Duquesne and Bowling Green Universities, and is currently Visiting Artist Teacher and a member of the Baird Piano Trio at SUNY Buffalo. This is his fourth season with the Festival.
WILLIAM PURVIS, French horn August 10
He pursues a multifaceted career in the U.S. and abroad as soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator. A member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke�s, and Mozzafiato, an original instrument wind sextet, he also performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has appeared as solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nicholas Harnoncourt. A graduate of Haverford College in philosophy, he is on the faculties of Yale School of Music, The Juilliard School and SUNY Stony Brook. This is his fourth concert with the Festival.
SUSAN ROTHOLZ, flute July 13, 20
Principal Flutist of the New England Bach Festival, the New York Chamber Ensemble, and the Greenwich Symphony, she is a founding member of the Sherman Chamber Ensemble and Hexagon. Summer festivals include Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Cape May and Salt Bay. She has recorded the Bach Sonatas and Solo Partita for Bridge Records. She teaches at Columbia University, Hunter College and Manhattan School of Music, and lives in New York City with her husband, Eliot Bailen, and their three children. She has been with the Festival since 1991.
BONNIE THRON, Cello Aug 3, 6, 8, 10
Principal cellist of the North Carolina Symphony, she is once again a full-time musician, after eight years of doubling as cellist and registered nurse in Baltimore. Formerly a member of the Peabody Trio, assistant principal cellist of the Denver Symphony and freelancer in New York City, playing with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Speculum Musicae, she has frequently performed with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and taught at their summer Chamber Music Center. She received the BM and MM from the Juilliard School. This is her third summer with the Festival.
In his 5th year as Associate Principal Cellist of the St. Louis Symphony, recent chamber music ventures have included the Olympic Music Festival in Washington, Maine Mountain Chamber Music, and a collaboration with Sarah Chang and Joseph Kalichstein at the Aspen Festival in 2003. Recent recital tours have taken him to Orlando, Miami, Nashville, Interlochen, Kansas City, and San Francisco. He credits his success to the master teaching of Janos Starker and chamber music coaching of Josef Gingold and Rostislav Dubinsky. Over the last decade, his own students in St. Louis have progressed to most of the major music schools. This is his first appearance at the Festival.
PAUL WOLFE, Violin July 13, 20, 27
Conductor and Music Director of the Florida West Coast Symphony for 35 years, he is now Conductor Laureate. He founded the Sarasota Music Festival in 1965. Earlier in New York City, he performed with such artists as Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Artur Rubenstein, Leonard Bernstein and Igor Stravinsky, and was violinist and keyboard artist for the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In 1995 he received the "Citation for Excellence" from Chamber Music America. He has performed here every summer since 1974.
