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Storm King Music Festival
A Celebration of Classical Music and New Technology
Composers & Artists Biographies 2001
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Barbara Siesel,
Artistic Director Storm King Music Festival, Flutist. . Siesel is a Flutist
who performs traditionally and is also active in experimental new media
and performance projects. Ms. Siesel has appeared as soloist in principal
halls of China, Korea, Spain, Japan, Taiwan, Russia and the United States.
She has made extended tours of the Far East, Spain and China including
three weeks of workshops, master classes and recitals at the Central Conservatory
in Beijing, and appearances in Japan and Taiwan sponsored by the Altus
Flute Co., Ltd. In 1995, representing women in the arts, she appeared
in solo concert at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing.
Ms. Siesel served as soloist at Jornados de Musica del Siglo XX in Segovia,
Spain, California's Redwood Festival, the Adirondack Festival of American
Music, the Derriere Guard Festival in New York City, and the Festival
of the Performing Arts at Florida International University. Executive ProducerIva Kaufman is the founder of Art, Culture & Technology. She is a specialist in designing programs that address contemporary issues, including artist and community access to new media and technology. Most recently, she co-produced public art installations for the Downtown Arts Festival in New York; Art Center South Florida; the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia; and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Ms. Kaufman has helped initiate programs in the public interest that range from conflict resolution to women's financial and economic empowerment. She directs the Sun Hill Foundation's program on the environment, community development, and arts education and outreach. Ms. Kaufman has assembled the team of program and technical consultants, curators, and multimedia producers to carry out the work of ACT. James Kraft is a director of development for arts organizations. He was a Senior Vice President at Brakeley, John Price Jones where he advised and directed campaigns at Arena Stage, Cleveland Museum of Art, John F. Kennedy Library, and London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He was Assistant Director at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he was responsible for development and membership, and Vice President for Development at Manhattan School of Music. He is now a private consultant and directs the capital campaign at the American Craft Museum. He has a Ph.D. in English and has taught at the University of Virginia, Université Laval in Quebec, and Wesleyan University. Technical DirectorHoward Weiner is responsible for coordinating and managing technology and engineering for the Storm King Music Festival. He is the leading specialist in integrating computers and video in film environments. In addition, his company, Video 35, has provided videowalls and computer displays for commercial productions and the advertising campaigns of Lucent Technology, AT&T, MCI, NEC, Microsoft, Federal Express, Chrysler Corporation, and others. As Director of Systems and Technology for Art Culture & Technology his credits include equipment and technical support for festivals such as "CrossWaves/Performance = Technology," the Alternative Museum, and the recent anti-gun violence launch event of PAX. He engineered the 26-monitor videowall for the 1992 Democratic National Convention and works regularly on feature films and episodic television. Robin Hastey, Administrative Director, web site designer, graphics work. After 15 years in the banking industry, Robin switched to music working primarily with folk artists. She has been creating publicity materials and web sites while managing a small crafts business locally. Composers
Highly regarded as a composer of instrumental music, her newly commissioned work for trumpet virtuoso Christopher Gekker will be released on Helicon Records in 2001. She has also written for, among others, flutist Elizabeth Mann and the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the Meridian String Quartet, the San Jose Symphony, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the North/South Consonance Orchestra and the Absolute Ensemble, conducted by Kristjan Jarvi. Her popular piano sonata Sunburst has been honored with three different recordings and is available simultaneously on the North/South, E.R.M. and Leonarda labels; a CD devoted to her chamber music, performed by renowned clarinetist Julian Milkis and the Andiamo Chamber Ensemble, has just been released on North/South Records. Recent operatic successes include The Monster Bed, a comedy, and The Other Wise Man, a holiday fable, presented to critical acclaim as a double bill by the Mannes Opera in 1998; the latter piece made its debut with the Singapore Symphony in December 2000. Her song cycle The Muse Is Not Amused premiered at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 1999; it was subsequently recorded and is broadcast regularly by WNYC-FM in New York. Her new work for the Turtle Creek Chorale premiered in Dallas in 2000 and travels to London, Amsterdam, and Jerusalem next season. Upcoming projects include a dramatic cantata for soprano Marni Nixon, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano Desiree Halac, a recording of The Other Wise Man with the Cologne Opera under the baton of maestro James Conlon, as well as a song cycle for the internationally acclaimed baritone Bryn Terfel. "Ms. de Kenessey's music here is often neo-Classical and neo-Baroque
(there are several Mozartean and Handelian stretches), with touches of
theater music and early rock drifting through it. Accessible melody prevails...lovely
moments of tonality and old-fashioned lyricism." She is also the founder and artistic director of The Derriere Guard,
an alliance of traditionalist contemporary artists, architects, poets
and composers. The First Derriere Guard Festival took place "Her music is unrepentantly neo-19th century in both its techniques
and values, though it has some interesting quirks thrown in. I am most
impressed with its strong rhythmic energy, which combines with clear motives
and harmonies to make an ultimate product that sounds fresh, in spite
of the familiarity of its language...one hears hints of Liszt and Bartok,
as well as the lengthy shadow of Brahms....I find de Kenessey's music
the most intensely wrought and, paradoxically, the most original..." A native of Budapest, Stefania de Kenessey was educated at Yale and Princeton
Universities, receiving her doctorate under the tutelage of Milton Babbitt.
She is a Professor of Music at the New School University and resides in
New York City. David Dramm
In addition to his composing activities, Dramm performs with the avant-rock
group Analecta, whose two CDs are available on X-OR. Other recordings
are available on BVHaast, Vanguard Classics, and Composer's Voice. Dramm's
music is published by Donemus and Saprophone Music. Travel funds for David Dramm were provided
Travel funds for Anne La Berge were provided by the Gaudeamus Foundation and the Dutch Funding for the Podium Arts.
Threnodies and Anthems, scored for tenor saxophone and bagpipes, was inspired by the AIDS-related deaths of Lazarus' parents in 1993 and 1994. The composer trained at Juilliard, studying composition with Vincent Persichetti and Andrew Thomas. Fascinated by structure and musical roots, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in theory and composition (Rutgers 1999). Residencies at Yaddo - the arts colony - and other important awards (NJ Arts Fellowship, American Guild of Composers) have recognized Lazarus’ talent. Lazarus’ oeuvres include 30 major works which range from full orchestral
pieces, chamber music, and solo piano to experimental combinations such
as bagpipe and saxophone. Inspired by space exploration and astronomy,
Lazarus taps into that sense of infinite space and awesome beauty with
musical ideas that linger meaningfully in listeners' ears. His solo piano
works are available on CD.
Carman Moore
- (Composer and Conductor) Born in 1936 in Lorain, Ohio, Carman Moore played French horn with the Columbus Symphony before moving to New York City, where he studied composition privately with Hall Overton and at the Juilliard School with Luciano Berio and Vincent Persichetti. He began composing for symphony and chamber ensembles while writing lyrics for pop songs, gradually adding opera, theatre, dance and film scores to his body of work. Among his early commissioned orchestral works were Wildfires and Field Songs for the New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez and Gospel Fuse for the San Francisco Symphony with Seiji Ozawa conducting and Cissy Houston the vocal soloist. In 1980 he founded the innovative electro-acoustic SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE, which since has performed in America, Europe and Asia, including at La Scala in Milan, Geneva's Made-In-America Festival, and at the 9th Hong Kong Ready-to-Wear (fashion)Show. Based in New York City, SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE, for which Moore acts as conductor and principal composer, appears at venues ranging from the Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where Moore and the Ensemble have been Artists-in-Residence for many years. Carman Moore's intermedia Mass for the 21st Century was commissioned by Lincoln Center, where, at its enthusiastically-received 1994 outdoor performances conducted by the composer, the Mass attracted the largest audience in Lincoln Center history. In December of 1999 it was performed at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Cape Town, South Africa and in New York on the World Financial Center's Millennium Series. In 1998 Carman Moore scored a libretto by Ishmael Reed for a gospel opera, Gethsemane Park, which played at New York's Nuyorican Poets' Cafe during the summer of 2000. A previous Moore-Reed collaboration, the musical Wild Gardens of The Loup Garou, was commissioned by the Music Theare Group and subsequently produced both at New York's Judson Memorial Church and at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco. Moore's comic opera The Last Chance Planet received over 70 performances in 1994 by the Dayton Opera Company during Moore's year as Composer-in-Residence to the City of Dayton, Ohio, where he taught at all levels and also had his works performed by the Dayton Philharmonic, Dayton Ballet, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Among Moore's scores for theatre are Yale Rep's production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens (starring James Earl Jones and directed by Lloyd Richards) and When The Bough Breaks at LaMama E.T.C. directed by Lawrence Sacharow. Among Moore's scores for film have been PBS-aired documentaries The Other Side of The Moon (for the 20th anniversary of the first moon landing), Building Hope (on post-War U.S. neighborhoods), and Melinda Camber Porter's The Art of Love. Well-known as a composer for dance, Carman Moore served from 1986-1995 as Master Composer and Co-director of the American Dance Festival's Young Choreographers and Composers Residency Program. Among his scores for dance are Goddess of the Waters, choreographed by Alvin Ailey for the Ballet Company of La Scala; Memories for Anna Sokolow ; Salon for Garth Fagan; The Mourning Kiss for Susana Tambutti of Argentina's Nucleodanza; Lunar Transformations for Cleo Parker Robinson; Vehicle for Mark Dendy; Love Notes To Central Park with Sarah Pearson; and several major works for Donald Byrd and Ruby Shang with whom he was awarded coveted Meet-the-Composer Readers Digest Composer/Choreographer Awards. A dedicated educator, Moore has taught at the Yale University Graduate School of Music, Queens and Brooklyn Colleges, Carnegie-Mellon University,Manhattanville College, and The New School for Social Research. Particularly interested in reaching out to children, he spent several years as a teaching artist for Lincoln Center and Jazzmobile and at The Dalton School. Moore conducted his work and lectured in New York public schools with the Lincoln Center Institute, which commissioned his The Magic Turn Around Town. In 1995 he served as consultant to Wynton Marsalis on his popular PBS-broadcast home video series for children, Marsalis On Music. Carman Moore has served as music critic and columnist for the Village Voice and has contributed to The New York Times, The Saturday Review of Literature, Vogue, and Essence among others. He is the author of two books: Somebody's Angel Child: The Story of Bessie Smith (Dell), and Rock-It (a music history and theory book for Alfred Music Publishers). Mr. Moore's score to Michiyo Sato's dance drama The Plum Tree Is In Bloom
was premiered in Tokyo in October of 2000 and his work for string trio
and synthesizer The Mystery of Tao had its world premiere in February
2001 with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In the Spring of
2002 Moore's large intermedia work for children RASUR, GOD OF PEACE will
have its premiere in San Jose, Costa Rica, opening their International
Festival of the Arts.
Eric Somers - Eric Somers has devoted most of his career to exploring the relationship of sound and music to the visual arts. He first became interested in this study while a cinema and media studies student at Michigan State University, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. In addition to the study of film and video/audio arts, his studies included courses in music, theatrical design and directing, and mathematical logic. The latter field led to early work in computer graphics and sound. His has produced fine arts television programs for network television; created award winning radio, television and print advertising; pioneered the use of electronic imaging and computer animation; composed electro-acoustic sound compositions for dance, theatre, television and art galleries; and taught courses in media production, sound composition and visual design. As a television producer working with the noted Executive Producer, Dr. Donald A. Pash, Mr. Somers taped performances of many musical artists including Wolfgang Sawallisch, Eugene Ormandy, William Steinberg, Thomas Schippers, Richard Goode, Radu Lupu, Benita Valente, Rudolf Bookbinder, Ruth Laredo and others. His role was to plan camera shots at musically appropriate places in the score, follow the score and cue the shots during taping, and supervise the audio quality. Mr. Somers began working with electronic imaging in 1969 and electronic music in 1972. His moving image and sound compositions made during the 1970s were shown widely around the world. More recently he has composed sound for theatre and dance. This work has included collaboration on three major theatre works -- "Psalm," "Matisse: A Performance Collage for Theatre," and "Frog Jazz" -- with the American painter and theatre artist, Ann Wilson, and a composition danced by Sefa Jorques in the Merce Cunningham Studio in NYC. Eric Somers has been active in the Storm King Music Festival from its inception, having lectured and had tape works performed. Last year he recorded all of the concerts during the Composers Forum weekend. He also serves as recording engineer and producer for the avant garde trio, D'Divaz, an ensemble he met at Storm King. Mr. Somers chairs the Department of Performing and Visual Arts at Dutchess Community College of the State University of New York, where he also teaches courses in electro-acoustic sound composition, digital photographic reproduction/compositing, sound recording, and theatre directing. He also maintains a classical music recording and media design practice, the Sandbook Studio. An active member and participant in several scholarly organizations, Eric Somers is Editor of the Newsletter of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), serves on the SEAMUS board, is President of the International Community for Auditory Display, and serves on the board of directors of the Dutchess County Arts Council and the Museum for the Preservation of Illustrative Art. He is currently working on two book projects: one exploring the relationships between sound and the visual arts, and the other a handbook of classical music concert recording for musicians. Website: http://www.sandbook.com
His stage works include three operas and several ballets for Martha Graham. His orchestral works have been performed by major orchestras here and abroad under such conductors as Mitropoulos, Bernstein, Steinberg, and Mehta. Interpreters of his music include Janos Starker, Jaime Laredo, Paula Robison and Leontyne Price. The recording of his Violin Concerto (Itzhak Perlman with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa) was nominated for a Grammy. Excerpts from his book CONTINUO: A Life in Music have appeared in the New Yorker, Musical America, and the London Times. In 1997 the Overlook Press published THE MUSIC TEACHER, his first work of fiction. The opening chapter was excerpted in The Keyboard Companion. CD recordings of his music are available from CRI, VOX, Albany Records, Transcontinental and MMC. Top Raymond Torres-Santos
Born in Puerto Rico, he studied at the Casals Conservatory of Music and at the University of Puerto Rico. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed advanced studies at Stanford University. He furthered his studies in Europe, first at the Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in Germany, and later at the University of Padua in Italy. His major professors were Henri Lazarof, David Raksin and Alberto Ginastera. The PerformersAcadamey Wind QuintetThe Academy Wind Quintet presents a varied and colorful program of virtuoso chamber music for winds, featuring repertoire ranging from the late eighteenth century courts of Europe to the contemporary masters of the twentieth century. This ensemble comprises players from within the United States Military Academy Concert Band and carries on the great tradition of woodwind playing that has existed at West Point since 1815. The members of the quintet are committed to bringing a wide variety of musical styles to their programs, including turn-of-the-century waltzes, popular music, and educational works like Peter and the Wolf. The Academy Wind Quintet performs music for official military functions, social occasions, formal concerts, public service and educational youth clinics and concerts. JOHN PARRETTE - CLARINET, recieved his Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Peter Hadcock. Originally from Kansas City, he began his studies with his father, who also served with the U.S. Military Academy Band. Parrette has been with the Military Academy Band since 1987 and assumed the position of principal clarinetist in 1996. He has made numerous solo appearances with the band, including his own arrangements of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Mozart Sinfonia Concertante. Mr. Parrette is a founding member of the Academy Wind Quintet. CHRISTIAN EBERLE - BASSOON, is originally from Kansas City, Missouri. He entered the Army in June of 1987 after receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has studied with Leonard Sharrow and Sherman Walt. Mr. Eberle is a frequent soloist with the Military Academy Band and is a founding member of the Academy Wind Quintet. He has been a regular performer in numerous ensembles throughout the tri-state region including the Pone Ensemble for New Music at New Paltz. JULIE WILLIAMS - FLUTE, received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, located in her native Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to joining the U.S. Military Academy Band in 1990, she worked as a free-lance musician and clinician. Since arriving at West Point, Ms. Williams has performed as soloist with the band on several occasions, to include a solo performance at the National Flute Association Convention in 1996. Her teachers have included Jane Kirchner and Julius Baker, with whom she collaborates in coaching sessions and master classes on a regular basis. Williams currently is principal flutist of the Highlands Symphony Orchestra and free-lances throughout the Hudson Valley region. TROY MESSNER - FRENCH HORN, who hails from Lakeland, Florida, began playing the horn at the age of twelve. Soon after his graduation from high school in 1986, he joined the United States Marine Corps. After a tour in the Fleet Marine Forces Pacific Band located in Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Messner left the Marines to pursue studies in horn performance. Before and after graduating from the University of South Florida in Tampa, SSG Messner was principle horn with the Imperial Symphony of Lakeland, fourth horn with the Florida West Coast Symphony, fourth horn with the Brevard Symphony. He substituted with the Naples Philharmonic, the Southwest Florida Symphony and the Orlando Symphony. He also performed with the touring Broadway shows Miss Saigon, Sunset Blvd, Buskers, Carousel and Beauty and the Beast among others. In 1998 Mr. Messner returned to the Marine Corps, but soon after, joined the United States Military Academy Band in September of 1999. JAMES MULLINS - OBOE, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s degree, also in performance, from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his arrival at West Point in July of 1996, Mr. Mullins served with the 392nd Army Band at Fort Lee, Virginia and the Army Ground Forces Band in Atlanta, Georgia. He has performed with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra and the Cobb Symphony Orchestra, both in Georgia. His teachers include Philip Teachey, principal oboist of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, in Virginia; and Joseph Turner, principal oboist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in Maryland. Hsia-Jung Chang
Kenneth CooperHarpsichordist, pianist, musicologist and conductor Kenneth Cooper is one of the world's leading specialists in music of the 18th century and one of America's most exciting and versatile performers. He is famous for his improvisations which enable him to revive a long-lost 18th century art, lending extraordinary authenticity to his performances. The possessor of a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University, Kenneth Cooper is on the faculty there as well as at the Manhattan School of Music where is Chair of the Harpsichord Department and Director of the Baroque Aria Ensemble. Kenneth's Cooper's association with the music of Bach has been the result of a lifelong passion and study. His harpsichord solo performances are authoritative and stimulating; his riveting versions of the harpsichord concerti constantly offer new perspectives, and his chamber music collaborations have been enthusiastically received. As Music Director of the Berkshire Bach Ensemble, he has instituted a series of Concertofests, recreating the atmosphere of Zimmermann's Coffee-Haus, where Bach held his weekly concerts with his Collegium. Kenneth Cooper was co-director of the legendary Our Bach Concerts, and he has been soloist and guest conductor with the American Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Little Orchestra Society and Mostly Mozart Festival. He has been resident at many music festivals, most notably those at the Grand Canyon, Yale-Norfolk, Santa Fe and Spoleto-Charleston. Emily FaxonViolinist, Assistant Concertmaster, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Hudson Valley String Quartet, Artist in Residence State University of New York at New Paltz. PONE Ensemble for New Music. Festival including Music in the Mountains and the Bach festival. Top David Holzman
Kevin Schempf
Ruthanne SchempfPianist, Probably the most sought after Pianist in the Hudson Valley She is a pianist for the West point Glee Club with which she performs world-wide and is on the faculties of Marist College and SUNY New Paltz. She has performed with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, The Hudson Valley String Quartet among others. As a soloist she has performed with the West Point Band and Wind Ensemble. Top Peter Serkin
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Sidney Corbett has received major commissions from IKAB Berlin, the Schwetzinger
Festival, and Rascher Saxophone Quartet. His orchestral performances include
the RSO Stuttgart, and South German Radio Chorus. Corbett's work has been
played at many important festivals including the Gaudeamus Music Week;
and Amsterdam, Vienna, Zurich, Wien and Vienna Festivals. He is currently
at work on an opera commissioned by the Bremen Theater. 
is a leading figure in the current revival of contemporary classical music.
Her style is tuneful, sophisticated, and unabashedly beautiful; uniquely,
it fuses tradition with innovation, Eastern modes with Western forms.
Her music, honored repeatedly with awards from ASCAP, has been heard in
Europe, Australia, Singapore and China as well as throughout the US.
(b.
1961) was born in Illinois, growing up in San Diego, California. His composition
studies began with Robert Erickson at University of California, San Diego,
and later at Yale University with Louis Andriessen and Earle Brown. The
Volkskrant described his music as "ground-breaking terrain between
Charles Ives, Jimi Hendrix and Lou Reed." The NRC Handlesblad wrote,
"As rock musician, writer and composer, Dramm is creating a furore
in Holland." His performances include appearances in such diverse
venues as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the BIM-Huis and the pop temple
of Europe, Paradiso. His music has been performed regularly throughout
Europe and elsewhere including Freunde Guter Musik in Berlin, New Music
Days in Tallinn, Estonia, and the Finnish 'Time of Music' Festival. Recent
commissions have included works for ASKO Ensemble, Orkest de Volharding,
Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, Frances-Marie Uitti, and an extended video
project with Hotel Pro Forma (Copenhagen) in collaboration with flutist/composer
Anne La Berge. 
Joshua
Fried
Ms. Griffiths' music has been performed in New York beginning in the 1980's
when she performed with her band at clubs like CBGB's. Since then she
has composed chamber works, art songs, dance scores and an opera "The
Quiet American" which she received a generous grant from National
Endowment for the Arts to compose. Her music has been performed at the
Storm King Music Festival 2000, on the Composers Concordance series, at
the Merce Cunningham studio and the Manhattan School of Music, at the
Yale-Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and in Stockholm as part of a festival
of American Chamber Music. Ms. Griffiths has an M.M. from the Mannes College
of Music and received her D.M.A. from CUNY where she studied with Thea
Musgrave, Bruce Saylor and David Olan. She currently teaches in the Extension
and Preparatory Divisions of the Mannes College of Music and runs the
vocal music division of Music Under Construction, a new music presenting
organization in New York of which she is a founding member. Recently,
Ms. Griffiths has appeared as a keyboard player with the Greenwich Village
Orchestra and with her ensemble Changing Modes (on the web at 
Flutist/composer
Anne La Berge grew up in Stillwater,
Minnesota, and is now based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her education
indudes a Bachelor of Music degree cum laude from the University of New
Mexico where she studied with Frank Bowen, a Master of Music degree from
the University of Illinois where she was a teaching assistant to Alexander
Murray, and two years of theoretical research studies at the University
of California San Diego where one of her projects as a composer/performer
was a microtonal flute duo with John Fonville. She was awarded the performance
prize from the 1990 Darmstadt Ferenkursen für Neue Musik and is a
regular guest performer and lecturer for music festivals in Europe and
the United States.
Bruce
Lazarus
Since 1979, composer Judith Shatin has lived in Charlottesville, Virginia,
where she is currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Director of
the Virginia Center for Computer Music at the University of Virginia.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglass College (AB), she holds degrees
from The Juilliard School (MM) and Princeton University (Ph.D). Additional
studies included two summers as a Crofts composition fellow at Tanglewood,
as well as studies at the Aspen Music Festival.
Robert
Starer
Raymond
Torres-Santo's multifaceted career encompasses amazing wide range of musical
talents as a composer, teacher, conductor, pianist and arranger, equally
at hme in both classical and popular music. His style bears the hallmark
of no particular orthodoxy, but rather shows the effect of an assimilating
musical ear, subtle and sophisticated but also startling and novel as
well. In recent years his verstality and music has attracted audiences
in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He is considered one of
the leading composers of his generation. His works have been performed
by the American Composers Orchestra, Boston Pops, Pacific Symphony, Bronx
Arts Ensemble, Continuum, New Jersey Chamber Music Society, Queens Symphony
Orchestra, Quintet of the Americas, the orchestras of Virginia, Puerto
Rico, Mexico City and Vienna as well as many other independent groups
in the USA, Spain, Italy, Germany and Argentina. Featured at the Casals
Festival, World Fair in Seville and Op Sail 2000, his music has been used
for television and radio programs, and choreographed by dance companies.
pianist,
A native of Taiwan, Hsia-Jung Chang grew up listening to the rehearsals
and performances of her singer-guitarist mother, whose musical repertoire
ranged from Taiwanese folk songs, flamenco, to her own transcriptions
of Chopin. At home in both solo and chamber music, Ms. Chang's repertoire
encompasses a wide variety of styles: the fortepianist for Capitol Chamber
Artists's 1996-97 season is also a champion of new works, premiering numerous
works for the Neworks series of New York, and for the American Chamber
Music Festival at Edsvik of Sweden. Ms. Chang has been featured on KUHT
television and on KAMU and KPBX radios. Of her recent debut at Weill Hall,
the New York Concert Review perceives Ms. Chang to be "a distinctive
and important new voice in the annals of pianism." Ms. Chang was
invited to be guest lecturer at the Manhattan School of Music, Prince
George's Community College, the Shengyang Music Conservatory, and Dong
Bai University of China. For the very young audiences Ms. Chang performs
in the Metropolitan Opera Guild Outreach programs, introducing opera to
children in schools of the greater New York area.
Hailed
as "a master pianist" (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker), David
Holzman has won acclaim both for his recitals and his recordings. Among
his honors and awards have been recording grants from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the Alice B. Ditson Fund. Commissioning grants
have come from such organizations as Reader's Digest-Meet the Composer
and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Concentrating on Twentieth Century
keyboard masterworks, Holzman has premiered hundreds of works by composers
throughout the world and has made first recordings of many of them. His
all-Wolpe CD, to be released on Bridge Records in 2001, features several
premieres and is sponsored in part by the Stefan Wolpe Society. Mr. Holzman's
website is 
is
a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds bachelor's and master's
degrees with the performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music.
He has taught on the faculties of Connecticut College and Wesleyan University,
and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman Wind
Ensemble, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the Skaneateles Festival,
and the Society for New Music in Syracuse. He was a member of the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra and the U. S. Coast Guard Band prior to joining the
faculty at Bowling Green State University where he is assistant professor
of clarinet. He also plays regularly with the Toledo Symphony and as a
soloist and chamber musician. Kevin lives with his wife, JoAnn and three
small but busy children, Annika, Micaela and Erik.
Pianist, Recognized
as an artist of passion and integrity, American pianist Peter Serkin is
one of the most thoughtful and individualistic musicians appearing before
the public today. Throughout his career he has successfully conveyed the
essence of four centuries of musical repertoire and his performances with
symphony orchestras, recital appearances, chamber music collaborations,
and recordings are respected worldwide. 
Clarinet,
Has a D.M.A. in clarinet from The Manhattan School of Music, M.M. and
B.M.A. from The University of Michigan School of Music. Dr. Shillea is
on the faculty of The Hartt School, as Director of Performance 20/20,
and clarinet and chamber music instructor. At the Juilliard School Pre-College
Division, he is the former Director of the Pre-College Wind Ensemble,
(which he founded and conducted through Spring 2000) and is the clarinet
and chamber music instructor. Principal teachers: John Mohler, Charles
Russo, David Shifrin. He is the Principal clarinetist of the Connecticut
Grand Opera and Orchestra and the Greater Bridgeport Symphony. Dr. Shillea
has frequent performances with the Greenwich, Hartford, and Springfield
Symphonies. 
Barbara
Siesel
trumpet, has performed in the premieres of works in both Carnegie Hall
and Lincoln Center, performed in Europe, Asia, Canada and the U.S. as
soloist and chamber musician. Originally from Springfield, Ohio, he is
currently the principal trumpet with the Ridgefield Symphony (Connecticut),
associate principal trumpet of the Queens Symphony (NYC), cornet soloist
with the New York Ragtime Orchestra, and a member of the Modern Brass
Quintet (NYC). His has performed regularly with the New York Philharmonic,
Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and several Broadway shows. He has also performed
with the American Symphony, Solisti New York, Trier Bach Soloists (Germany),
Vienna Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony. 
Wendy Yun Chen violin I Yinzi Kong viola
Kimberly
Baranowski
Jeffrey
Maron