ELIOT BAILEN, Cello
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 twelfth season with the Festival.
Principal horn of the Portland Symphony and a member of the New Hampshire Symphony, he is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southern Maine. He performs with the Portland Brass and Prometheus Chamber Winds, and plays natural horn as a member of the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston under the direction of Christopher Hogwood. He lives with his family in Liberty, Maine. This is his fifteenth season with the Festival.
Violinist Jennifer Elowitch, a Portland native, is the Co-Founder of the Portland Chamber Music Festival, which celebrates its twelfth season in late August. She is the Assistant Principal Second Violinist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and performs frequently with the Boston Symphony and Emmanuel Music, with whom she toured Europe. A committed performer of contemporary music, Ms. Elowitch has appeared with Boston Musica Viva, Collage New Music, the Fromm Players at Harvard, and the Wellesley Composers Conference. She is currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and has recently moved back to Portland, where she lives with her husband and stepson. Photo credit: Susan Wilson
Originally from Long Island, New York, he is in demand as a freelance musician throughout the New England area. A member of the Rhode Island and Boston Philharmonics, and the Portland, Springfield, and Vermont Symphonies, he also performs with such Boston groups as the Pops, the Pops Esplanade, the Ballet, the Modern Orchestra Project, and the Academy of Music as well as the Boston and Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Societies. He teaches at Providence College and the New England Conservatory of Music Extension Division. This is his fifth season with the Festival.
YURI FUNAHASHI, Piano
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 fourth Festival appearance.
CARMELO GALANTE, Clarinet
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 fifteenth season with the Festival.
MAUREEN GALLAGHER, Viola
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 eighth summer at the Festival.
JONATHAN GOLOVE, Cello
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 fifth season with the Festival.
Katie is a native of Carthage, Maine where she began cello studies with her father, Jim Kennedy. She graduated in 2002 from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where her teacher was Peter Rejto, and then spent several years living in Budapest, Hungary, studying cello with Csaba Onczay of the Liszt Academy. Concert tours have taken her to Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark. She is presently living in Berlin, Germany. Summers were spent at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and Encore School for Strings. Members of the Vermeer, Juilliard, St. Petersburg, Miami and Muir String Quartets have been her coaches. A recipient of scholarship awards from the Bay Chamber Concerts Young Artists Foundation, she also performed as soloist with the Bangor Symphony as a competition winner. This is her second appearance at the Festival.
LAURIE KENNEDY, Viola
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
She has appeared frequently as a soloist with das Symphonie Berlin and in recitals in Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. She is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and the Triton Horn Trio, with violinist Ani Kavafian and hornist William Purvis. Festivals include Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Great Woods, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Chestnut Hill, Rockport, Bard, and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. A guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; she has performed regularly at Bargemusic in New York; and has collaborated with the Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan string quartets. Born in Seoul, Korea, she came to the United States in 1972, and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. This is he twelfth summer with the Festival.
TIMOTHY LEES, Violin
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 sixth season at this Festival.
STEPHEN MANES, Piano
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
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 Los Angeles Philharmonic, she resides in Glendale, California with her husband, Movses Pogossian, and their three young children. This is her fifth appearance at the Festival.
PHILIP PALERMO, Violin
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 thirteenth season with the Festival.
MOVSES POGOSSIAN, Violin
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 fifth season with the Festival.
WILLIAM PURVIS, French horn
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 fifth concert with the Festival.
SUSAN ROTHOLZ, Flute
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
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 fourth summer with the Festival.
PAUL WOLFE, Violin
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.
