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.
Originally from Long Island, New York, Anthony D’Amico is in demand as a freelance musician throughout the New England area. He is a member of the Portland and Springfield Symphonies, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. He also serves as principal bass of the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Opera Boston. He is currently on faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School.
Charles Dimmick is concertmaster and frequent soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He is concertmaster of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and assistant concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. In addition to his orchestral career, he is an active teacher, chamber musician, and soloist throughout New England. His primary teachers include Joseph Silverstein and Peter Oundjian. He lives in Boston with his wife, flutist Rachel Braude.
YURI FUNAHASHI, Piano
Yuri Funahashi has been a guest artist at numerous chamber music festivals and has performed in Japan, Australia, Canada and Europe and in many of the major halls in the U.S. including the Kennedy Center, the Music Center in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Jones Hall in Houston, and the 92nd Street Y. She has collaborated with The Verdehr Trio, and the Brentano and Cassatt String Quartets. She is Co-Director of the Maine Mountain Chamber Music and is a performing member of the Festival Chamber Music Society in New York City. She is on the faculty of the University of Maine at Farmington.
CARMELO GALANTE, Clarinet
Currently Principal Clarinet of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, he was formerly Principal Clarinet with the Lincoln Symphony, the South Bend Symphony and the Springfield Symphony Orchestras. He has performed with the Sebago-Long Lake Festival since 1986. Other summer festivals include the Chenango Music Fest (NY), the Peninsula Music Festival (WI) and the Omaha Chamber Music Society. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with James Pyne and Franklin Cohen and at the Oberlin Conservatory with Lawrence McDonald. He and his wife Lynn Castrianno, a research psychologist, have a son, Rosario and a daughter, Antonia.
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.
ERIN KEEFE, Violin
Winner of the 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Erin Keefe has won Grand Prizes in the Schadt and Corpus Christi Competitions and Silver Medals in the Nielsen, Sendai and Gyeongnam Competitions. She has appeared at the Marlboro, OK Mozart, Music@Menlo, Seattle and Bridgehampton festivals and is a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two program. Ms. Keefe has collaborated with artists such as Leon Fleisher, The Emerson Quartet, Edgar Meyer, Richard Goode, David Soyer and Gary Graffman, and she attended Curtis and Juilliard where she studied with Arnold Steinhardt, Ida Kavafian, Philip Setzer and Ron Copes.
She has been Principal Violist and frequent soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1981. This November she will be performing the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the PSO and violinist/conductor, Joseph Silverstein. She co-founded Maine Mountain Chamber Music, a series in Farmington, where she also maintains her teaching studio. Before moving to Maine, she was a member of the Montreal Symphony, Principal Viola of the Vancouver Symphony and Associate Principal of the Buffalo Philharmonic. A participant at the Festival since 1977, she was co-Music Director for fifteen years and was appointed Music Director in 2000.
A performer, teacher and composer, he appears as a duo with his wife, violinist Juliette Kang, with the ensemble Mistral, and with the free improvisation duo Dithyramb. He is also a member of the trio Auricolae, performing new music based on children’s stories. Kraines has performed his own compositions at the Moab Music Festival, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, the Longy School of Music, and at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. A graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School, he currently teaches cello at Princeton University and Temple University Preparatory.
MIHAE LEE, Piano
For more than two decades Korean-born pianist, Mihae Lee has captivated audiences, in such venues as Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Accademia di Santa Cecelia, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall. She is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Triton Horn Trio, and also appears at numerous chamber music festivals, including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Great Woods, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Rockport, Bard, Norfolk, Music from Angel Fire, and Seattle. A graduate of The Juilliard School and New England Conservatory, she has recorded for Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCMS labels.
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.
JASMINE LIN, Violin
As soloist she has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, and with orchestras in Singapore, Brazil, Uruguay, and Taiwan. She began violin at age four, graduated from the Curtis Institute, was a prizewinner in the Paganini Competition, and won second prize in the Naumburg Competition. As a chamber artist she has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, and on tour with the Chicago String Quartet. She is currently a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and is also a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won first prize in the London International String Quartet Competition in 2006, and released its first recording recently on the EMI Debut Series.
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.
Jan Müller-Szeraws, Cellist
Cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws’ musical journey has taken him over three continents as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Recent performances have included solo-engagements with the New England Philharmonic, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. His recording of the Allende cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile has been recently released. Müller-Szeraws has been a guest artist at many festivals such as the Cape & Islands, Rockport, El Paso Pro-Musica, Music at Gretna and Kingston Chamber Music Festivals. He is a member of Mistral, the resident and touring ensemble of the Andover Chamber Music Series and QX String Quartet. He regularly performs with contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. This year he has been invited as a guest lecturer by the Universidad Católica de Chile and is currently on the faculty at the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.
PEGGY PEARSON, Oboe
Winner of the Pope Foundation Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Music, she is solo oboist with the Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra, a founding member of La Fenice, Director of Winsor Music, Inc., principal oboist with the Boston Philharmonic, and a member of the Bach Aria Group. Her New York debut in 1995, with soprano Dawn Upshaw, featured the premiere of John Harbison’s Chorale Cantata. She has toured and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as principal oboist, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music from Marlboro.
ANDREW PELLETIER, French Horn
He was awarded first prize in the American Horn Competition in 1997 and 2001, and, as a member of Chamber Music Southwest, received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Classical Recording (Small Ensemble). He is a touring soloist, and serves as Assistant Professor of Horn at the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts, and Principal Horn of the Ann Arbor Symphony. He spent over seven years as a free-lance performer in Los Angeles, recording for film and television. A Lewiston, Maine native, he holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Maine, and a Master’s and Doctorate from the University of Southern California.
MARGARET PHILLIPS, Bassoon
Margaret Phillips is a free-lance bassoonist and contrabassoonist in the Boston area. She regularly performs with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, Portland Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Opera Boston, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and frequently appears with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as an extra player. As a chamber musician, she is a member of Chameleon Arts Ensemble. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Boston University. She is currently Associate Professor of Bassoon at Berklee College of Music and teaches at Brandeis University.
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.
WILLIAM PURVIS, French Horn
He pursues a career as soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator. A member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Yale Brass Trio, the Triton Horn Trio, and Emeritus of Orpheus, he is a frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has appeared as solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nicholas Harnoncourt. His recording of Peter Lieberson’s Horn Concerto received a WQXR Gramophone Award and was nominated for a Grammy as Best Classical Recording for 2006. A graduate of Haverford College in Philosophy, he teaches at The Juilliard School, Yale, and SUNY Stony Brook.
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.
JOHN
SCHNELL, Trumpet
Principal trumpet with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1974, he has performed as soloist on the PSO’s Classical, Pops and Chamber Orchestra series. He was Principal Trumpet and soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra of Boston for eleven years, performed with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and was also guest Principal Trumpet with the Beethovenhalle Orchestra in Bonn, Germany. John has taught numerous wine courses and shares his intense interest in wine with his wife, Suzette. He became a Registered Nurse four years ago, and is now, pursuing his goal of becoming a Nurse Practitioner.
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 at this festival every summer since 1974.
