Donald Enos

Pianist Donald Enos, a native Cape Codder, is the founder and director of the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Enos holds a Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory. Here on Cape Cod he has appeared as soloist with Cape Cod chamber orchestras playing Mozart's Concerti K449 and K459. In 2001 he played the solo piano part in d'Indy's Symphony on a French Mountain Air with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra and recently performed the Haydn Concerto in D Major and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Chatham Chorale Cape Sinfonietta. He is the resident pianist for the Chatham Chorale and Chamber Singers, as well as organist and choir director at the South Dennis Congregational Church, which houses the Snetzler Chamber Organ of 1762.

Amit Peled

From the United States to Europe to the Middle East to Asia, Israeli cellist Amit Peled, a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence, is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today.

Mr. Peled has performed as soloist with orchestra and in the world's major concert halls, such as: Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, New York, Salle Gaveau, Paris, Wigmore Hall, London, Konzerthaus, Berlin, and Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium.

Peled is also a frequent guest artist, performing and giving master classes at prestigious summer music festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, Schleswig Holstein Festival and Euro Arts Festival in Germany, Gotland Festival in Sweden, Prussia Cove Festival in England, The Violoncello Congress in Spain, and the Kfar Blum Music Festival in Israel.

As a recording artist, Mr. Peled has just released two critically acclaimed CDs: "The Jewish Soul" and "Cellobration" under the Centaur Records Label. In 2009/10 Mr. Peled will make his debut with the Baltimore Symphony, and the Columbus Symphony, return to Taiwan for the Brahms Double concerto with the National Symphony, to Israel for performances with the Jerusalem Symphony and Maestro Botstein, and will appear with about twenty more orchestras worldwide.

Amit Peled has been featured on television and radio stations throughout the world, including NPR's "Performance Today", WGBH Boston, WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago, Deutschland Radio Berlin, Radio France, Swedish National Radio & TV, and Israeli National Radio & TV.

Noreen Cassidy-Polera

Pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera ranks among the most highly-regarded and diverse chamber artists performing today, and maintains a career that has taken her to every major American music center and abroad to Europe, Russia, and Asian centers. Winner of the Accompanying Prize at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Ms. Cassidy-Polera regularly collaborates with laureates of the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky and Naumburg international competitions. She has collaborated with leading soloists including David Shifrin, Matt Haimovitz, Carter Brey, Antonio Menesis, Aurora-Natalie Ginastera, Yo-Yo Ma and Leonard Rose. Her mastery and affection for the complete standard cello-piano repertory is well-known, as is her attention and dedication to the works of living composers. In recent seasons she performed Elliott Carter's venerable Sonata for Cello and Piano on tour in Paris, New York and Philadelphia, along with new works by Lowell Liebermann, Benjamin C.S. Boyle and Kenji Bunch to critical acclaim. Her CD recording Sound Vessels (with cellist Scott Kluksdahl) features the recording premiere of Richard Wernick's Duo, and works of Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas as well as Elliott Carter. She has recorded for EMI, Audiophon and Centaur Records. Ms. Cassidy-Polera holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School.

Katie Lansdale

Katie Lansdale, violinist, highly accomplished as soloist, chamber musician and teacher, performs actively both in America and Europe. As concerto soloist, she has performed a wide range of repertoire with diverse orchestras: the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, NYC Spectrum Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Austin Mozart Orchestra, and the New York Repertory Orchestra. Recent recitals and guest artist venues have included the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection (DC), the Palais de l'Europe (Paris), Merkin Hall, and Jordan Hall in Boston.

Lauded for her Bach performances, she won high praise from the American Record Guide for her solo Bach CD: "This is one of the best recordings there is of this music." Grand prizewinner at both the Yellow Spring and Fischoff National Chamber Competitions, Ms. Lansdale is a frequent guest on chamber series, collaborating with Yo Yo Ma, Felix Galimar and Donald Weilerstein. As a member of the Lions Gate Trio, she has toured America and Europe annually for sixteen years. Now in residence at Hartt and Yale, the Trio's concert tours have taken them across Europe, and their third CD (duos and trios of Robert Schumann) was released to acclaim last year by Centaur Records. Former Artist-in Residence at SUNY-Stony Brook, she is currently on the faculty at the Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut.

Joyce Hammann

Joyce Hammann's distinctive versatility and virtuosity have won her praise and a loyal following whether appearing on the concert stage, in a jazz club, or before 17,000 screaming, rock concert fans. Hailed for "splendid soloing" and a "sweet, rich tone" by The New York Times, she has performed and recorded with such artists as Paul McCartney, Sting, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen. Joyce's discography includes John Zorn's String Quartets, Sam Zyman's Bashe, Uri Caine's Wagner and Venezia, Mozart Re-imagined and The Othello Syndrome, Michael Breckers' Grammy award winning Wide Angles, Gil Goldstein's Under Rousseau's Moon, Ted Nash's Double Quartet and Mark Feldman's Book of Tells. Currently Concertmaster for Broadway's longest running show, The Phantom of the Opera, Joyce continues to perform with The Harlem Chamber Players, The Craftsbury Chamber Players (Vermont) and The Meeting House Players (Cape Cod). She will be touring Europe as solo violinist with Uri Caine's jazz ensemble and as concertmaster for Fred Hersch's Coma Dreams, jazz theater project.

Scott Woolweaver

Scott Woolweaver, violist, graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan School of Music. He continued his studies with Walter Trampler at the Boston University School of Fine Arts and the New England Conservatory. Mr. Woolweaver was a founding member of the Vaener String Trio, which won the Grand Prize at the Joseph Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and a founding member of the Boston Composer's String Quartet, which won the Silver Medal at the 1993 Chamber Music Festival in Osaka, Japan. From 1999 to 2006 he was a member of the Ives Quartet, based in San Francisco. A champion of new music, Mr. Woolweaver has premiered many new works, including pieces written especially for him. Since 1980 he has been a member of Alea III, in residence at Boston University. He is also a member of the period chamber orchestra Boston Baroque, plays for the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Handel and Haydn Society, and is instructor and lecturer at Eastern Michigan University and at Tufts University. Along with the Meeting House Festival, he is a regular guest of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival and is director of the Adult Chamber Music Institute at Kniesel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine. Scott plays a Johan Georg Thir viola made in Vienna in 1737.

Ronald Lowry

Ronald Lowry is an active performer in many of Boston's leading musical organizations. Called a "superb cellist" by the Boston Globe's Richard Dyer, he is the principal cellist, and on occasion appears as soloist, with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Former principal cellist of the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Lowry performs frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with the Boston Pops. Also heard frequently as a chamber musician, he has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Muir String Quartet, the Boston University Faculty Artists, and the First Monday concerts at the New England Conservatory. He has premiered numerous compositions with contemporary ensembles such as Collage, Griffin Ensemble, NuClassix, Composers in Red Sneakers and with the Boston Musica Viva, with whom he was the cellist from 1990 to 2004. A graduate of Indiana University and the New England Conservatory, Mr. Lowry is currently on the faculties of the Longy School, The NEC Extension Division, and the Rivers Music School, and also serves as Artistic Director for the Needham Concert Society.

Lee Wadenpfuhl

Lee Wadenpfuhl is a freelance artist in the Boston Area. He received his undergraduate degree in horn performance in his hometown from the University of Houston in 2004, followed by a masters at the New England Conservatory in 2006. He has studied with Bruce Henniss, Roger Kaza (both of the Houston Symphony), and Jay Wadenpfuhl (Boston Symphony) each for two years. Lee has appeared as a soloist with the Houston Sinfonietta and with the Civic Orchestra of Boston.

Since finishing school, Lee has become a member of the Bangor Symphony, Atlantic Symphony, New Bedford Symphony, and is currently Principal Horn of the Cape Cod Symphony. He also plays with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Philharmonic, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, and most recently the Sydney Symphony in Australia. This spring, Lee was Principal Horn on the 75th anniversary tour of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, which toured the midwest and southern states. During the summer, he also served as Principal Horn on the US and Canada tour of Star Wars in Concert. He can also be heard on the soundtrack to the 2010 film The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.

Lee comes from a very musical family, most of whom are horn players and music educators. His father was his beginning horn teacher and Lee finished up his studies with his 2nd cousin Jay Wadenpfuhl, who held the position of 3rd horn in the Boston Symphony from 1981 to 2010.

Sungmin Yoo

Violinist Sungmin Yoo, native of Korea, began to win national recognition at an early age. She made her concerto debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11. Three years later she made her debut with Korea's leading orchestras such as the Korean Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Symphony Orchestra. In 1994, she came to the U.S. to study with Rafael Druian at Curtis Institute of Music. In 2001, Ms. Yoo performed Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Oberlin Orchestra under Paul Polivnick after winning the concerto competition. Most recently, she has appeared as a soloist in Jordan Hall performing Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

An avid chamber musician, she has participated in numerous music festivals. Recent collaborations include chamber music performances at 2009 Banff Music Festival with Andres Diaz, Chen Halevi, Soovin Kim and Berry Shiffman and chamber music performances at 2010 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival with members of the Tokyo String Quartet. Ms. Yoo is currently the assistant concertmaster of the Cape Cod Symphony since 2009. She holds a Master's degree from the Juilliard School and Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she has also recently completed her doctorate of musical arts.

Bo Ericsson

Bo Ericsson, cellist, a native of Sweden, graduated from the Gothenborg Conservatory of Music and studied at the Swedish Radio School in Stockholm. He has been principal cellist with both the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic Orchestra and the Upsala (Sweden) Chamber Orchestra. As a cellist of the Berwald String Quartet he toured extensively throughout Europe. On Cape Cod he is principal cellist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, an active chamber musician and teacher of cello and is a member of the Schultze-Ericsson Cello Duo.

Alexey Shabalin

Alexey Shabalin was born in Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Professors Bezrodny and Melnikov. He completed his postgraduate studies in violin performance in 1995. As a student, he won third prize in the Soviet national string quartet competition in 1991. During the same year he was a semifinalist in the International Shostakovich Chamber Music Competition. For several years, Alexey was a member of the world renown Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra. The group played in 32 countries and in most of the major concert halls of the world. In 1995 the group gave the second performance ever held of Mozart's newly unearthed Triple Concerto, with Shabalin playing the solo violin part. In recognition of his talent, he was allowed to perform on a priceless Stradivarius violin owned by the Russian government. Alexey moved to the United Stated in 1996. Since 2003, he has served as Music Director and Symphony Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestras and Youth Soloists. In 2005, the Siemens Foundation appointed Shabalin as Artistic Director to select talented students from elite colleges around the country. He created a concert in New York City featuring an eclectic mix of pieces by these young performers. Alexei lives in Rhode Island with his family and teaches at MIT, Brown University, and Providence College. The Boston Globe has called him "a very gifted and unusually personal violinist," and praised his playing for projecting "a certain aristocratic air that is solidly supported by technique and musicality."

Laura Manko

Violist Laura Manko has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout the United States and Europe. She made her solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2005 and has subsequently won numerous solo competitions in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Ms. Manko has performed with the Knoxville, Winston-Salem, and Vienna Radio Symphony orchestras, as well as participating in the Institute for Contemporary Music, Heifetz Music Institute, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and Meadowmount School of Music.

Ms. Manko is currently Principal violist of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, and violist of the Boston Harp Trio. She teaches viola and violin at the Rivers School Conservatory, Boston School of Music Arts, Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Ms. Manko is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma as a student and teaching assistant of Michelle LaCourse. She earned her Masters of Music from Boston University with Professor LaCourse and Bachelor's of Music Degree from University of North Carolina School of the Arts as a student and teaching assistant of Sheila Browne.

Matthias Naegele

Matthias Naegele has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Asia. He has participated in the Marlboro, Apple Hill, Dubrovnick, Jerusalem, Curagao, California State Summer Arts, Aspen, International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, and Edinburgh music festivals. Many of Naegele's performances are regularly broadcast over National Public Radio and Public Television. He has also appeared on Dutch, French, Austrian, BBC radio, and BBC television.

He performs regularly with numerous chamber music ensembles, including the Kaleidos String Quartet, the Prometheus Piano Quartet, the Music Project, the Chamber Music Society of New York University, Anthony Newman's Brandenburg Collegium, the Chamber Music Society of New Jersey, Sergio Luca's Context, An Die Musik, and the microtonal group New Band. He has performed on the Lincoln Center Great Performers Series. Naegele has recorded with the New Jersey Chamber Music Society for Koch International. In 1995 he recorded with Dawn Upshaw for Nonesuch. With his father, violinist Philipp Naegele, he has recorded for Musical Heritage and Beyer Records.

Mr. Naegele plays on a Mateo Gofriller cello made in Venice in 1735. This cello was previously owned by Hermann Busch of the Busch Quartet.