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Violist Cathy
Amoury is a teacher, performer, and chamber music coach in the
DC area. She attended the University of Texas in Austin and the
Aspen Music Festival. She studied with Donald Wright, Atar Arad and
Harold Coletta. Cathy performs with the Arlington Symphony, the
Alexandria Symphony, Baltimore Concert Artists and Baltimore Opera,
and has appeared at the Wolftrap Festival and Kennedy Center. She
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Violinist Brenda
Anna attended the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with
Yong Ku Ahn,Charles Libove, and David Geber of the American String
Quartet. She has also studied and participated in workshops with
Elisabeth Adkins and Arnold Steinhart. She currently serves as
concertmaster of the Columbia Orchestra and is a member of the
National Philharmonic. In addition, Brenda is a busy freelance
performer in the Baltimore/Washington area. An avid chamber music
performer, Ms. Anna plays with the Columbia Orchestra Piano Trio and
has worked with the Dickinson Piano Quartet, the Gallery String
Quartet, and the Riversdale Chamber Ensemble, which she also
manages. Ms.Anna has performed as soloist with numerous local
orchestras and teaches in her private studio.
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Cellist
David Bakamjian performs regularly as a recitalist, ensemble
player, and recording artist on both modern and baroque cello. In
addition to appearances in New York's premiere concert halls, he has
appeared several times on National Public Radio and WQXR, and was a
winner or finalist in four international chamber music competitions.
As a member of the Casa Verde Trio, he completed six critically
acclaimed national tours and a month-long tour of China. He has
performed as soloist with the Allentown Symphony, Philharmonia
Virtuosi, Beijing Symphony, Early Music New York, Bachanalia
Festival Orchestra, Musica Bella, the Hunterdon Symphony, and the
Lehigh University Philharmonic, and he has served as principal
cellist for numerous orchestras. On baroque cello, he performs with
Concert Royal and the American Classical Orchestra, and he was
principal cello of Early Music New York for several years. He is a
founding member of the New York Classical Quartet and of Brooklyn
Baroque, whose CDs were deemed a “must buy” by the American Record
Guide. A dedicated teacher, he directs the Summer String-In,
and the Play Week chamber music workshops for adult amateurs.
He earned his B.A.at Yale, and his Master’s and Doctorate degrees at
SUNY Stony Brook, and he was a faculty member of Lehigh University
for eight years.
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Phillip Coonce,
violinist and violist, has studied with Leonard
Felberg, Hiroko Yajima, Felix Galimir, Blanche
Moyse and Raphael Bronstein. He earned a
Bachelor of Music from the University of New
Mexico, a Master of Music from SUNY at Stony
Brook, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
the Manhattan School of Music. He has performed
with the New Jersey Symphony, Brooklyn
Philharmonic, the Hudson Chamber Players and the
Martha Graham Ballet. Dr. Coonce is former
member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and
the Right as Rain Bluegrass Trio and has served
on the faculties of the Joiner Academy, the
Toronto School for Strings, Play Week,
Summertrios, and the Chamber Music Conference at
Bennington. He is also the author of Toquemos el
Violín, and is the inventor of the Don’t Fret
Finger Position Indicator.
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Violist
Kim Foster is a graduate of the
Yale School of Music and is a frequent guest
artist in demand across multiple genres with New
York’s preeminent chamber ensembles from the
Alaria Chamber Ensemble at Weill Hall to the
FLUX Quartet at Roulette in Brooklyn. Passionate
about psychology and well-being for the creative
artist, Kim is a pioneer graduate of the first
Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology
course through the New York Open Center, and is
the first classical musician to receive this
certification. Her work with Positive Psychology
translates to the field of music through Peak
Performance topics. Kim serves as a faculty
member of several chamber music workshops,
including Summertrios, Princeton Playweek,
Summer String-In and Music, Etc. She has also
been a guest lecturer at both the Juilliard
School and The Mannes School of Music in NY,
speaking on private teaching studio creation as
well as positive psychology and
peak performance
for audition preparation. She is designing a new
course entitled Entrepreneurship 2.0 which
combines positive psychology and
entrepreneurship for today’s professional
artists.
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Cellist Julia
Goudimova was born in Moscow. She began
studying piano at the age of five and cello at
the age of seven. After nine years of music
school she studied at Tiraspol College of Music
with Prof. G. A. Balykbaev. Julia received her
master’s degree from Belarus Academy of Music
under the instruction of E. L. Ksaveriev,
professor of cello, who was a student of M.
Rostropovich and N. Gutman. She has performed in
recitals and chamber music concerts in Belarus,
Moldova, Germany, South Korea, Bahrain and Saudi
Arabia. Since moving to the United States, Julia
has been actively participating in the music
life of Western Virginia and is involved in
symphony orchestra and chamber music
performances in Lexington, Roanoke, Lynchburg,
and Buena Vista, as well as Bath and Rockbridge
Counties. Currently Julia is principal cellist
of the University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra
and a cello instructor at Washington and Lee
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An accomplished
performer, collaborator, teacher and
instrumentalist,
cellist Katharine Knight co-founded the
Colorado-based Da Vinci Quartet, with whom she
performed and recorded extensively from 1980 to
2005. For the past two decades she has coached
string quartets and other chamber ensembles as a
member of the faculty of the University of
Denver’s Lamont School of Music. She has served
as a faculty member at the University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs and Colorado College
as well as teaching as a visiting artist at many
colleges and universities throughout America
while on tour. Her advocacy for chamber music
engagement extends to musicians of all levels of
expertise and age. While maintaining a private
studio of adult cello students, she supports
avocational as well as professional ensemble
work, coaching groups from many of the Denver
area orchestras, such as Evergreen Chamber
Orchestra, the Arapahoe and Denver Philharmonic
Orchestras.
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Cellist and
conductor Jason Love has been Music
Director of the Columbia Orchestra (MD) for
twenty-one years. Praised for his “intelligent
and innovative programming,” the Baltimore Sun
has called the orchestra “Howard County’s
premier ensemble for instrumental music,” noting
that “Love has the musicians playing not only
with verve and passion, but with an awareness to
enter into the emotional core of the works they
perform.” His many recognitions include the
American Prize for Orchestral Programming, and a
Peabody Alumni Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Music in Maryland. As cellist,
Love gave the American Premiere of Guillaume
Connesson’s Cello Concerto in 2019 and had
previously given the North Carolina premiere of
Tan Dun’s cello concerto The Map. He has
recently performed concertos by Haydn,
Shostakovich, and Dvořak with groups including
the Piedmont Symphony, the Frederick Orchestra,
and the Columbia Summer Strings. He performs
chamber recitals with the Franklin-Love Duo and
the Columbia Orchestra Piano Trio. For five
years he was Music Director of the New Horizons
Chamber Ensemble, a contemporary chamber
ensemble in Baltimore, and now maintains a
private cello studio.
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Violist
Lois
Martin completed her undergraduate work at
the Eastman School of Music, where she was a
scholarship student of Francis Tursi, and went
on to graduate studies at the Juilliard School
under the tutelage of Lillian Fuchs. She is
Principal Violist of the Stamford Symphony,
Amici New York, and The Little Orchestra
Society, a member of the Orchestra of St.
Luke’s, American Chamber Ensemble, and
frequently appears with the Mostly Mozart
Festival Orchestra and New York City Ballet
Orchestra. She is also on the faculty of the
Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College, and
has taught at Princeton University. A founding
member of the Atlantic String Quartet, which is
dedicated to the performance of newly written
compositions, her commitment to contemporary
music includes performances with the Group for
Contemporary Music, ISCM Chamber Players,
Ensemble Sospeso, Ensemble 21, New York New
Music Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Composers'
Guild, Da Capo Chamber Players, Composers Forum,
and Steve Reich and Musicians. Lois has recorded
the works of over 50 contemporary composers. On
the Jazz and Popular circuit, she has performed
with artists including Michael Brecker, Randy
Brecker, Chris Potter, Ornette Coleman,
Esperanza Spalding, String Fever, Shirley Bassey,
Elton John, Paul Simon, Tyne Daley, Gil
Goldstein, Don Alias, Richard Bona, Mike
Mainieri, Judy Collins and Roberta Flack.
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For eighteen years,
Margaret Miller was violist of the Da Vinci
Quartet, touring throughout the United States.
The quartet won both the Naumburg and
Shostakovich Quartet Competitions and recorded
the chamber music of Arthur Foote and Charles
Martin Loeffler for Naxos American Classics. She
holds degrees from Indiana University and the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a
certificate from the Chamber Music Institute at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Current
positions include Assistant Professor of Viola
and Chamber Music at Colorado State University,
performance faculty at Pikes Peak Community
College and the Colorado Springs Conservatory.
Ms. Miller received the 2010 Outstanding Teacher
Award from the Colorado American String Teachers
Association, Inc.
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Flutist Jayn Rosenfeld plays with the
League of Composers/ISCM Ensemble and the
Washington Square Contemporary Music Society.
She has taught flute at Princeton University
for more than 35 years, and coaches chamber
music there, runs PUO wind rehearsals, and
performs with the Richardson Chamber Players,
the faculty instrumental ensemble. She formed
and led the Flute Workshop at Greenwich House
for nearly a decade, and conducts flute
workshops privately. Ms. Rosenfeld was the
flutist and executive director of The New York
New Music Ensemble for many years, and first
flute of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. She
gives master classes in flute and chamber music
at Westminster Choir College , around the
country and abroad, most recently in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia and. Notre Dame University. She has
recorded concerti by Cimarosa, Steiger, Kraft,
Gilbert, et al, the flute chamber music of
Albert Roussel, and many contemporary chamber
works and is active on the boards of the League
of Composers and the New York Flute Club.
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Violinist
Sebu
Sirinian was born in Bucharest, Romania, and
has toured internationally. He held residences
at Queens College, Bard College, and the Turtle
Bay Music School as the first violinist of the
award-winning Meridian String Quartet. He has
won distinctions at the Evian International
Competition and Chamber Music America and has
performed chamber music with Paul Neubauer,
Seymour Lipkin, Daniel Phillips, and William
Sharp. He has performed as soloist with the New
York Chamber Orchestra, Bach Aria Festival
Orchestra, and the Barbad Chamber Orchestra.
Mr. Sirinian has performed as a principal player
for the American Symphony Orchestra, Stamford
Symphony, and the Princeton Chamber Orchestra,
and is a member of Brooklyn Philharmonic and
Amici New York. He is on the faculty of the New
York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program and
has been heard on WQXR and WNYC. His chamber
music recordings can be heard on LRC, Liquid
Silver, Midder Music Records, Capstone, and
Arizona Records. Sebu Sirinian earned his BA and
MA from the Juilliard School, and has studied
with Joey Corpus, Ivan Galamian, Lewis Kaplan,
Joyce Robbins, Gerald Beal, and the Juilliard
Quartet.
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Violinist Margaret Soper
Gutierrez began her professional life in the
Washington, D.C. area, performing as a member of
the National Symphony Orchestra and touring
extensively with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. Soper Gutierrez performed regularly
as a soloist and chamber musician on concert
series at the National Gallery of Art, the
Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National
Cathedral. She also served as concertmaster of
the Washington Bach Consort and the Baltimore
Opera Orchestra and performed with the Rochester
Philharmonic, and the San Antonio Symphony. An
avid chamber musician, Soper Gutierrez was a
member of the Maia Quartet, the faculty
quartet-in-residence at the University of Iowa.
During her tenure with the quartet, she taught
and performed at the Austin Chamber Music
Festival, the Castleman Quartet Program and at
the Interlochen Arts Academy and Summer Camp.
She has also taught at the University of Memphis
and the University of Northern Colorado. Soper
Gutierrez is a member of the Colorado Chamber
Players and is currently concertmaster of both
the Opera Colorado orchestra and the Colorado
Bach Ensemble. Numerous chamber music
performances of hers have been broadcast on
Colorado Public Radio and she has been featured
in recordings on the Naxos, Crystal and Koch
labels. Soper Gutierrez received degrees from
the Eastman School of Music and the Cleveland
Institute of Music. The major teachers who have
inspired her teaching and playing include Donald
Weilerstein, Charles Castleman, David Updegraff
and Doris Preucil.
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Violist Willy Sucre is a
member of the New Mexico Philharmonic and the
driving force behind the “Willy Sucre & Friends”
concerts. Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Sucre studied
at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in La
Paz, Colby College Chamber Music Institute in
Waterville, Maine, Mannes School of Music in New
York, and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore,
Maryland. He has been conductor and Music
Director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic
Orchestra, assistant conductor and principal
viola of the Canada Symphony Orchestra in
Montreal, assistant conductor and assistant
principal viola of the New Mexico Symphony
Orchestra, principal viola and guest conductor
of the National Symphony of Bolivia, the Chamber
Orchestra of La Paz, and the Albuquerque Chamber
Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Sucre was the
founder of the Cuarteto Boliviano and for ten
years the violist of the Helios String Quartet.
He has performed, recorded, and lectured
throughout South, Central and North America.
Sucre frequently travels to South America to
find new works of chamber music by modern
composers and to encourage composers both here
and in South America to write new pieces.
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Violinist, Lisa
Tipton, a vibrant, versatile musician,
contributes as a performer, educator mentor,
arts administrator and advocate. The seed for
Lisa's love of chamber music germinated while
growing up in a musical family. After several
years studying science at Cornell University,
the seed sprouted and blossomed when she caught
the chamber music bug one summer at Kneisel
Hall. Lisa, co-founder of the award-winning
Meridian String Quartet, has toured
internationally, held residencies and has won
distinctions from the Evian International
Competition, Artists International, and Chamber
Music America. As a devoted interpreter of new
music, Ms. Tipton established the "Made in
America" series at Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall. This season Lisa, along with
colleagues Adrienne Kim and Lisa Kozenko,
launched the The NY Chamber Music CoOP, a new
creative performance collaborative in New York
City. Lisa's critically acclaimed recording of
the Ives' violin sonatas was released in 2006 on
Capstone Records. She is the Director of the New
York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program and on
the faculty of The School for Strings and New
York Summer Music Festival. She earned a B.A.
from Cornell University, an M.A. from the Aaron
Copland School of Music at Queens College, and
is currently a D.M.A. candidate at the CUNY
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