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Play Week Chamber Music
Our 37th Season of Workshops for Adult Musicians
Play Week Faculty & Staff
See individual workshop pages for this year's faculty at each venue.
Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams, viola, performs with the New York Chamber Ensemble, the Claring Chamber Players, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, the Friends of Mozart, and the Saratoga Chamber Players.
She is principal violist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Riverside Symphony and the violist of the Roerich Quartet,
performing and recording in NYC, upstate New York and Vermont.
Formerly violist with the Cassatt Quartet and assistant principal violist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Adams is a member of the American Ballet Theatre, and performs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, the New York City Opera Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others.
She has performed as soloist with the Jupiter and Riverside
Symphonies in Alice Tully Hall as well as in recital with the New York Viola Society.
Ms. Adams’ festival appearances include the Bard Music Festival, the Cape May Music Festival, the Windham Music Festival, the Sherman Chamber Music Festival, and the Catskill Mountain Foundation concerts.
Ms. Adams has been teaching viola and chamber music at Columbia University since 1993.
She is principal violist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Riverside Symphony and the violist of the Roerich Quartet,
performing and recording in NYC, upstate New York and Vermont.
Formerly violist with the Cassatt Quartet and assistant principal violist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Adams is a member of the American Ballet Theatre, and performs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, the New York City Opera Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others.
She has performed as soloist with the Jupiter and Riverside
Symphonies in Alice Tully Hall as well as in recital with the New York Viola Society.
Ms. Adams’ festival appearances include the Bard Music Festival, the Cape May Music Festival, the Windham Music Festival, the Sherman Chamber Music Festival, and the Catskill Mountain Foundation concerts.
Ms. Adams has been teaching viola and chamber music at Columbia University since 1993.
Cathy Amoury
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 toured with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project in 2001.
Brenda Anna
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.
Jason Love
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.
Lois Martin
The violist Lois Martin is originally from York, Penna. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, she moved to New York for graduate studies at The Juilliard School. She is a founding member of the Atlantic String Quartet, which is dedicated to the performance of newly written compositions. Her continuing commitment to contemporary music includes performances with the Group for Contemporary Music, the ISCM Chamber Players, the Ensemble Sospeso, Ensemble 21, the New York New Music Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, the Composers’ Guild, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Composers Forum and Steve Reich and Musicians. Currently, she is principal violist for the Stamford Symphony, OK Mozart Festival and The Little Orchestra Society, and is a member of the Orchestra of St Luke’s. She is also on the faculty of the Composers Conference at Wellesley College and has taught at Princeton University. Throughout her career, she has recorded more than sixty chamber music pieces in many different genres including the GRAMMY® Award-winning CD Wide Angels, with Michael Brecker.
Margaret Miller
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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