Donald Enos

Jean Danton

Bo Ericsson

Natalie Favaloro

Originally from Sydney, Australia, Natalie began playing the violin at the age of three and gave her debut solo performance the age of four under the tutelage of Yasuki Nakamura.

From a young age as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, Natalie has performed not only around Australia, but around the world in places such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, the United States, South America, New Caledonia and France as well as participating in several international festivals in Hawaii, Vienna, Amberg and Spoleto in Charleston, South Carolina.

Joyce Hammann

Joyce Hammann, violinist, enjoys a varied career ranging from the concert stage to Broadway musicals to the recording studio. She has had the recent pleasure of recording with Michael Brecker, Abby Lincoln, and Regina Carter for their new releases. Ms. Hammann can also be heard on Jane Monheit’s new DVD, String Quartets,(John Zorn), Wagner and Venezia (Uri Caine), Book of Tells (Mark Feldman), Ereia (Dr. Nerve),Double Quartet (Ted Nash), Grains of Paradise (Erik Friedlander), and Bashe (Samuel Zyman). She has performed with such artists as Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, and Sheryl Crow.

A native of St. Louis, Ms. Hammann began her Suzuki studies at age seven, later graduating from The Juillard School, where her teachers included Dorothy DeLay, Oscar Shumsky, and Ivan Galamian. During that time she was the winner of the Berg Violin Competition and the Peter Oundjian Award. Ms. Hammann has appeared as soloist with many orchestras, recently premiering three concertos with Scandia Symphony. She can be heard on Late Night with David Letterman, The Today Show, and Saturday Night Live. She is currently concertmaster of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and tours throughout Europe with Uri Caine.

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.

Mark Miller

Conductor, clarinetist, and composer Mark Miller is well-known as a performer and teacher in Massachusetts. For many years he has been an assistant conductor of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, where he works with the BYS and its chamber orchestras. He also conducts the Boston University All-Campus Orchestra and the chamber orchestra at the Community Music Center of Boston. As a clarinetist, he serves as principal clarinet of the Cape Cod Symphony, the Plymouth Philharmonic, and the Simon Sinfonietta. With the wind quintet Arcadian Winds, specializing in contemporary music, he has premiered countless new works and performed most of the classics of the chamber music repertoire. He has appeared as clarinet soloist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, Harvard’s Mozart Society Orchestra, and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He has also coached orchestras and orchestra wind sections at Harvard, Brandeis, Wellesley, and the Longy School. During the summer season, he has been a frequent performer at the Warebrook (Vermont) Contemporary Music Festival and has coached for the Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College.

Mr. Miller was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, and attended the Florida State University, where he earned degrees in composition and clarinet performance. He holds a master's degree in composition from Boston University. Mr. Miller appears as clarinet soloist on several recordings by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and his compositions, arrangements and transcriptions for wind quintet have been performed and recorded by Arcadian Winds. He makes his home in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

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.

Krista River

Praised by The New York Times for possessing a “shimmering voice…with the virtuosity of a violinist and the expressivity of an actress,” mezzo-soprano Krista River demonstrates these distinctive qualities in all of her performances, whether it is on the operatic stage, in an art-song recital or in front of a symphony orchestra.

Ms. River is a winner of the 2004 Concert Artists Guild International Competition and is also a 2007 grant recipient from the Sullivan Foundation. Ms. River’s 2007-2008 season features several return engagements, most notably at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall where she gave her critically acclaimed debut recital in 2004. Ms. River also appears with the North Carolina Symphony as Cherubino in a semi-staged production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and in performances with the Handel & Haydn Society in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Last season she made her debut with Opera Boston. Other recent engagements include singing with the Santa Fe Symphony, Opera Southwest, the North Carolina Symphony, Duruflé’s Requiem with the York Symphony, and de Falla’s El Amor Brujo with the Boston Symphony. Krista River has performed chamber music as a guest artist at John Harbison’s Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, Music from Salem, the Saco River Festival, and the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Maine.

She began her musical career as a cellist, earning her music degree at St. Olaf College. She resides in Boston and is a regular soloist with Emmanuel Music’s renowned Bach Cantata Series.

Charles Sherba

Charles Sherba, violinist, has performed at the Monadnock, Grand Teton, Aspen, Colorado, Eastern, and Newport Music Festivals. Originally from Wisconsin, Mr. Sherba has been on the faculty of Haverford College in Pennsylvania and at Brown University, where he is currently a teaching associate in music. Since 1986 he has been concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and also serves as concertmaster of the Simon Sinfonietta. From 1983 until 2000 he was first violinist of the Charleston String Quartet and played over 700 concerts with that group in the US and abroad. Since 2002 he has played concerts in New England, Chicago, and New York City with Aurea, a group that explores the interface between chamber music and the spoken word.

Consuelo Sherba

Lee Wadenpfuhl

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 is currently completing her doctorate degree under Donald Weilerstein while serving as his teaching assistant.