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.

Presently Chair of Strings and Chair of Chamber Music at New England Conservatory, her career has included solo and chamber music concerts throughout the USA, Europe, Korea and Japan. She has also served as Acting Associate Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and first violin of the Muir String Quartet. She is a frequent guest with the Boston Chamber Music Society, a returning participant at the Busan Festival in Korea and the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, and a long-time faculty member at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she also earned a Masters in Education from the Antioch New England Graduate School, specializing in Waldorf Education.

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.

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.

JOSEPH HIGGINS, Bass

For over 20 years his career has taken him to a variety of musical settings including symphonic, jazz, musical theater, and chamber music. He has performed with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony, Emmanuel Music, the Artie Shaw Orchestra, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and the world music group, Natraj. Currently a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Vermont Symphony, and the National Lyric Opera, in summers he is Principal Double Bass of the New Hampshire Music Festival.

Among the most versatile and sought-after musicians of his generation, he has traveled worldwide as co-principal clarinetist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and with his wind quintet, Windscape, which has recently released an all-Dvorák CD on MSR Classics. He is Principal Clarinetist of New York’s Riverside Symphony, the Little Orchestra Society and the Queens Symphony, and appears regularly as a guest with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Symphony, American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the New York City Opera. He appears frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Trio Solisti and with Bravo! Vail Valley Music, Yellow Barn, and many other summer festivals, and is on the faculties of the Juilliard, Manhattan and Hartt music schools.

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.

MARK HOLLOWAY, Viola

He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Michael Tree, and he received a B.M. summa cum laude from Boston University. Summer festivals include Marlboro, Angel Fire, Sarasota, Prussia Cove, Banff, Taos, Casals, Ravinia, Caramoor, and Mainly Mozart. He has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and at Bargemusic, 92nd St. Y, Carnegie Hall, and the Library of Congress, and plays as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has recently been chosen as a member of the prestigious Chamber Music at Lincoln Center Two program.

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.

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.

PETER SYKES, Harpsichord
A widely recorded keyboard artist, he has performed at such festivals as the American Guild of Organists, the International Society of Organbuilders, Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna Festival, New England Bach Festival, and with Ensemble Project Ars Nova, The King’s Noyse, and Musica Antiqua Köln. Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University, and Director of Music at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, he is also on the faculty of the Longy School of Music. In May 2005 he received the Outstanding Alumni award from the New England Conservatory for career achievement.

BONNIE THRON, Cello
Principal cellist of the North Carolina Symphony, she is a member of the Quercus Quartet and a frequent artist with the Mallarme Chamber Ensemble. 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 been a guest artist and teacher with the Apple Hill Chamber Players in her home state of New Hampshire. As well as degrees from the Juilliard School, Bonnie also has a BSN from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and worked for several years as a nurse in Baltimore, MD. She and her husband, clarinetist Fred Jacobowitz, have an 11 year old son.

Matthew Fritz is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he received a degree in orchestral conducting under the direction of Neil Varon. A native of Scottsdale, Arizona, he studied conducting with Robert Moody and holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in violin performance. He has had the opportunity to conduct the Southern Arizona Symphony, Quincy and Cape Ann Symphonies in Massachusetts, and the Phoenix Symphony Guild Youth Orchestra. He has also conducted concerts with the Mendoza Symphony in Argentina, and worked with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra through the Eastman Summer Conducting Institute.