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 WESLEY
BALDWIN (violoncello)
performs throughout the United States and Europe
as cello soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist
with orchestra he has appeared with orchestras including
the Laredo Philharmonic, the Oregon Mozart Players,
the Symphony of the Mountains, the Oak Ridge Symphony,
and the Wintergreen and Hot Springs Festival Orchestras.
Upcoming concerto performances include the Saint
Saens Concerto with the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
and conductor Adrian McDonnell, and the North American
premiere of the Jacob ter Veldhuis Rainbow Concerto
in November with the Bryan Symphony and Dan
Allcott. He has performed chamber music at the Aspen,
Cazenovia, Ojai, Sandpoint, Mainly Mozart, May in
Miami, Skaneateles, and Subtropics Music Festivals,
and internationally in Italy, France, Monte Carlo,
Spain, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom,
and Costa Rica. Wesley has recorded CDs for on the
Naxos, Zyode, and Centaur labels. Formerly the founding
cellist of the Plymouth String Quartet, Wesley is
now cellist of the James Piano Quartet, the resident
ensemble at Sweet Briar College, with whom he performs
throughout the United States. Dr. Baldwin serves
as associate professor of cello at the University
of Tennessee. In the summers he performs and teaches
at the Hot Springs Music Festival, the Michigan
City Chamber Music Festival, and at the Wintergreen
Festival, where he serves as principal cellist and
faculty member of the Wintergreen Academy. |
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 KAREN
BUSLER (flute), a native Memphian,
holds The Marion Dugdale McClure Principal Flute
Chair of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. She has
been a frequent soloist during her 32-year tenure
with the MSO as well as performing the major orchestral
repertoire for flute. As part of the Symphony, she
also plays Principal Flute for Opera Memphis and
the Memphis Ballet. Ms. Busler is a charter member
of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra and was a featured
soloist last season. She is also a frequent soloist
with the Memphis Chamber Music Society. Ms. Busler
is a repeatedly invited guest performer in the J.S.
Bach Commemorative Concerts in Savannah, GA during
the summers. Her most highly regarded milestones
have been her Benefit Concerts for the International
Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF), as producer,
director, coordinator, and featured performer. Those
efforts raised many thousands of dollars for the
humanitarian work of the ICHF. Ms. Busler and the
ICHF, commissioned a major work by Dr. Marjan Helms
that was premiered to glowing commentary. She is
an active recitalist, championing solo flute music
and flute chamber music with widely varied instrumentation.
In addition to her playing responsibilities, Ms.
Busler’s current efforts have been focused
on founding a new concert series, The Assisi Concerts,
at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, of which
she is Executive and Artistic Director. She toured
Alaska in 1999 and 2002 with the Rosetta Trio, of
which she is a founding member. She is a member
of the National Flute Association where she has
judged competitions and performed. Recordings include
Symphonic Elvis with the MSO, IRIS, A New
Orchestra, vol. 1, and Kallen Esperian’s three
CD’s; American Treasure, An Enchanted
Reverie, and Lover Come Back. Ms.
Busler studied with Paul Eaheart at the University
of Memphis where she earned her Bachelor of Music
degree in Performance with honors. While at UM she
won the Concerto Competition and the coveted Performer’s
Certificate. She also studied with Murray Panitz,
Principal Flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra,
and has played in Master Classes for Jean-Pierre
Rampal and Paula Robison. Karen Busler plays a 14k
white gold Brannen Brothers flute. Ms. Busler performed
the Nielsen Flute Concerto with the Hot Springs
Music Festival Orchestra in June, 2005. |
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 RUSSELL
TODD CRANSON
(tuba/ensembles coordinator) is Director of the
University of Illinois at Springfield Band and Chamber
Orchestra, and works in a number of other capacities
to help build UIS' young music department. In addition
to these duties, Todd is Band Master of the 10th
Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Band, a civil war period
brass band. Todd Cranson received his bachelor of
music and bachelor of music education degrees with
honors in 1997 from Louisiana State University where
he studied tuba with Larry Campbell. In 1999 he
received his master of music degree in instrumental
conducting from the University of Arkansas and was
a tuba student of Kabin Thomas. In 2005, he received
his Post Graduate Diploma with distinction in performance
from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
England where he was a student of Roger Bobo and
James Gourlay. From 1999 to 2004 Todd worked as
Director of Bands at Archbishop Shaw High School
in Marrero, LA. Todd has participated in a number
of music festivals and courses. He was selected
to perform in Italy with the Rome Festival Orchestra
and participated in courses held in Kalavrita, Greece
and Le Domaine Forget, in Quebec, Canada. Todd also
works as Co-Editor of the internationally successful
web magazine, TubaNews.com. Mr. Cranson was previously
an apprentice at the Hot Springs Music Festival,
and the subject of the award-winning documentary,
The Sound of Dreams. He is married to tuba
player Rose Schweikhart. |
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 DELEEN
DAVIDSON (voice),
a native New Orleanean, performs throughout the
United States, with an emphasis on maintaining her
Southern artistic roots. She made her professional
opera debut with the Gulf Coast Opera as Zerlina
in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona,
followed by mainstage roles with the New Orleans
Opera as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto
and Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana. Her New
York debut followed in 2005, when she sang Susanna
in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with
Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance
series. Passionately devoted to bringing opera to
everyone, Ms. Davidson has traveled the South with
the Metropelican Opera Young Audience’s production
of Opera a la Carte, and with the new Death
by Opera, which she co-wrote and directed.
She regularly “crosses over” into musical
theatre territory as well, singing featured parts
in Pippin, Barnum, Evita, Scrooge, Man of La
Mancha and, most recently, the role of Irene
Molloy in Le Petit Theatre’s production of
Hello, Dolly! in New Orleans’ French
Quarter. Recipient of a Fulbright Grant to pursue
advanced music study at the Feldkirch Musik Hochschule
in Germany, Ms. Davidson followed her studies there
with an internship at the Karlsruhe Opera House.
She also holds an honors degree in history, music,
fine arts and German from the University of New
Orleans, and received specialty voice coaching from
Dr. Lori Bade at Louisiana State University and
from Ruth Falcon in New York City. Bringing unusual
perspective to her music is the fact that Ms. Davidson
also is a talented visual artist. Trained in Europe
on a Rotary Foundation Scholarship, she is a licensed
interior decorator. Ms. Davidson relocated to Hot
Springs, Arkansas after Hurricane Katrina rearranged
her life. She sang the lead role of the Princess
in the Hot Springs Music Festival’s world
premiere live performance of Cole Porter’s
final musical, Aladdin, and returned the
following season as Yum-Yum in The Mikado.
She also serves as Artist-in-Residence at Garvan
Woodland Gardens and holds a faculty position at
National Park Community College. In October 2007,
Ms. Davidson became the founding director of “The
Muses,” a non-profit organization that offers
a regular series of concerts, art shows, creativity
seminars and other projects to further augment the
cultural life of Hot Springs. Deleen Davidson’s
compact disc recordings, Sapphire Sky and
Deep Peace, along with more information
about her work, are available through her website:
www.deleendavidson.com. |
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 WILLIAM
FULTON (lecturer/recording production)
now lives in Manhattan but travels frequently to
perform, lecture, teach and lead musical/cultural
tours. He recently took a group to the Bayreuth
and Salzburg Festivals for Dailey-Thorp Travel.
Before moving to New York he was Director of Arts
and Cultural Programming for Mississippi Public
Broadcasting. For eleven years he served as Director
of the agency's radio division, Public Radio in
Mississippi (PRM), where he was host/producer of
the morning classical music program. He is also
well known to his fellow Mississippians through
his frequent appearances on its television counterpart.
Mr. Fulton first appeared in opera in 1993 in Madama
Butterfly with Mississippi Opera. He recently
performed with the company as the Voice of God in
Britten's Noye's Fludde, Sir Joseph Porter
in H.M.S. Pinafore and in the title role
of The Mikado. Last season William made
his debut with New York’s Metropolitan Opera
as Pothinus in Handel’s Giulio Cesare.
This season at the Met he was seen in Ernani,
La Boheme and covered Duncan in the new production
of Verdi’s Macbeth. Last season at
the Hot Springs Music Festival he sang the title
role in The Mikado and performed Kurt Schwitter’s
Ursonata. In previous seasons as a mentor,
Mr. Fulton appeared as the Emperor in Cole Porter’s
Aladdin, recited Edith Sitwell’s poetry
in William Walton's Façade, was
the chansonnier in HK Gruber's Frankenstein!!,
played the Devil in Stravinsky's The Soldier's
Tale, narrated Kleinsinger's Tubby the
Tuba and even played the tuba for the Festival's
Millennium Ball. He has produced the Festival’s
five compact discs for the Naxos label. Each December
he appears as Drosselmeier in Ballet Mississippi's
Nutcracker. He leads the Opera Seminars in
the Summer Classics Program at St. John's College
in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to his popular
pre-performance talks for the Hot Springs Music
Festival, William has lectured for Mississippi Opera,
the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, New Orleans
Opera, Wildwood Festival and the Metropolitan Opera
Guild. He served as Development and Administrative
Director of the New Orleans Opera and is a panelist
on the Opera Quiz from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Mr. Fulton studied at the University of Florida,
Schiller College in Heidelberg, Germany and at Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. |
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 LOWELL
GREER (horn) holds a unique place among
the hornists of his generation. Known for his musicianship
and versatility with or without valves, he has received
critical acclaim and international recognition as
an orchestral hornist, chamber musician, soloist,
educator and horn maker. A Wisconsin native, Lowell
studied with Ernani Angelucci, John Barrows, Helen
Kotas, Frank Brouk, Dale Clevenger and Ethel Merker.
While in Chicago, he freelanced extensively performing
with the Chicago Civic Symphony, Lyric Opera of
Chicago, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet,
shows, recordings and as extra horn with both the
Chicago and Milwaukee Symphonies. Winning an audition,
he joined the Detroit Symphony in 1972 as assistant
principal. In 1978, he accepted the position of
principal horn of the Mexico City Philharmonic and
began to pursue his solo career. In 1980, Lowell
moved to Europe to better pursue his natural horn
interests, and performed in Belgium as guest principal
horn of the Antwerp Philharmonic/Royal Flemish Orchestra.
He returned to the US in 1984 where he served as
principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony until
1986. Mr. Greer also performed as principal of the
Toledo Symphony from 1990-97. During this time,
he somehow made room in his schedule to enter and
win seven first prizes at six prestigious international
horn competitions: Heldenleben, (1977), Gian Battista
Viotti, Vercelli (1978), Hubertus Jaachthoornfestival
(1979), SACEM, Paris (1981), Jacques-Francois Gallay
(1981), and American (1983, 1984). As a soloist,
Mr. Greer has performed on natural and modern horn
with some 50 orchestras in the US, Canada, Mexico
and all across Europe not to mention his appearances
at numerous chamber music venues. His extensive
discography includes four CD’s on Harmonium
Mundi including the Mozart Horn Concertos and Quintet,
Brahms Horn Trio and the Beethoven Sonata on natural
horn and a recording for Decca L’oiseau Lyre
of the entire music of Mozart for winds performed
on original instruments. A dedicated scholar and
educator, Mr. Greer has taught at Wheaton College,
Oakland University, Interlochen Arts Academy, The
School for Perfection in Mexico City, The University
of Cincinnati, The University of Michigan and currently
at the Carl Neilsen Academy in Odense, Denmark.
An acclaimed expert on natural horn performance,
his research has led him to become a maker of fine
reproductions of classic instruments and he has
taught a course in natural horn building techniques
at the William Cummings House since 1994. Lowell
has performed on natural and modern horn with over
50 orchestras throughout North America and Europe.
His discography includes numerous CDs on Harmonium
Mundi including the Mozart Horn Concertos and Quintet,
the Brahms Horn Trio and the Beethoven Horn Sonata.
In addition, Lowell has conducted ground-breaking
research on the design and construction of authentic
natural horns. |
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 MICHAEL
GURT (collaborative piano) is Paula
Garvey Manship Distinguished Professor of Piano
at Louisiana State University. Professor Gurt is
also the head of the piano department at the Sewanee
Summer Music Center. He has served as Piano Chair
of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, and
he has taught at two summer music seminars held
at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Professor
Gurt holds degrees from the University of Michigan
and the Juilliard School. In 1982 he won First Prize
in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition,
and he was also a prize winner in international
competitions held in Pretoria, South Africa, and
Sydney, Australia. Prof. Gurt has performed as soloist
with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra,
the Utah Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis
Symphony, the Capetown Symphony, the China National
Symphony Orchestra, and the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra
in Durban, South Africa. He has made solo appearances
in Alice Tully Hall in New York, Ambassador Auditorium
in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, City
Hall in Hong Kong, the Victorian Arts Center in
Melbourne, Australia, Baxter Hall in Capetown, South
Africa, and the Attaturk Cultural Center in Istanbul,
Turkey. Gurt has collaborated with the Takacs String
Quartet, and he recently performed at the Australian
Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland.
He has served on the juries of both the Gina Bachauer
International Piano Competition and the New Orleans
International Piano Competition, and he has recorded
on the Naxos, Centaur, and Redwood labels. |
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 JARED
HAUSER's (oboe) performing career
has taken him throughout North America and Europe
appearing as soloist and chamber musician. Recently
appointed to the faculty of the Blair School of
Music at Vanderbilt University, Jared has served
as principal oboist of the Orlando Philharmonic
Orchestra since 2002 and as artist faculty at
the Lynn Conservatory of Music since 2004. Jared
has been a featured soloist with the OPO on numerous
occasions and has also appeared as soloist with
such diverse groups as the Bournemouth Symphonette
at the Isle of Wight International Oboe Festival,
Bella Baroque, the Hot Springs Music Festival
Orchestra and the Orchestra of Northern New York
among others. Jared’s other orchestral credits
include appearances as guest principal with the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony
Orchestra, and the Orchestra Camerata Ducale (Turin,
Italy); as well as performing with the Florida
Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, the Palm Beach
Opera Orchestra and the Michigan Opera Theater.
A recipient of numerous awards, Jared has received
top prizes at the 2001 Isle of Wight International
Oboe Competition (the only American prize winner
in the competition’s history) and the 2000
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Bradlin Competition.
Some of Jared’s performances have been broadcast
on NPR’s “Performance Today”,
CBC/Radio Canada and BBC Radio 3, and his performances
can also be heard on recordings from the Koch
International, Naxos, Blue Griffin Records, AUR,
and Phoenix labels. Each summer Jared performs
and instructs at the Hot Springs Music Festival
in Arkansas, and the Interlochen Center for the
Arts. He has also been a faculty member at the
University of Central Florida, Florida International
University, Concordia College, and the Crane School
of Music at SUNY Potsdam where he was a member
of the Potsdam Woodwind Quintet. Jared holds degrees
from the University of Michigan, the Oberlin Conservatory
and Rice University. His principal teachers include
James Caldwell, Robert Atherholt, Alex Klein,
Elizabeth Camus, Dan Stolper, Harry Sargous and
Mark Dubois. |
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 ERNEST
HOETZL (special guest conductor)
is often referred to as “the” Austrian
Ambassador of Music. Fluent in English, French,
Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin and Greek,
Dr. Hoetzl regularly works with more than thirty
orchestras all over the world including the Bombay
Chamber Orchestra (as Principal Guest Conductor),
Philippine Philharmonic, Delhi Symphony, Nairobi
Orchestra, Manila Symphony, Monterrey Symphony
(Mexico), Penang Festival Orchestra, Orquestra
Classica di Madeira, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional
del Ecuador, Izmir Symphony, Adana State Symphony
and the Orchestra de l´Institut Musical
Alger. As guest conductor, he has been well received
by such prestigious orchestras as the Vienna Symphony,
Graz Symphony, Festival della Valle d´Itria
Martina Franca; the Armenian Philharmonic, Thessaloniki
State Symphony, Megaron Musikis Thessaloniki,
the Orchestra of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg,
the Ukraine National Philharmonic, Toronto Philharmonic,
Austin Symphony, Orquestra Metropolitana Lisboa.
Singapore Symphony, Brno Philharmonic, Budapest
Symphony MAV in Budapest and the North Czech Philharmonic--to
name a few. Dr. Ernest Hoetzl is the only conductor
to have performed in both North and South Korea;
he is the first western musician to perform in
post-revolutionary Iran (Teheran Chamber Orchestra)
and the first Austrian artist to perform in Nigeria’s
new capital, Abouja. Ernest Hoetzl received a
Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Texas
at Austin, where he earned one of his three Master’s
Degrees (in Classical Languages, Music Education
and Opera Conducting). He also holds a Doctorate
in Musicology from the University of Graz, where
he is presently Professor of Music History and
Conducting. A published author, Dr. Hoetzl is
also Artistic Director of the Musikverein Kärnten
and the International Wörthersee Music Scholarship
Competition. Upcoming engagements include performances
at the Festival della Emilia Romagna, with the
Israel Symphony and the New England Symphony at
Carnegie Hall. Maestro Hoetzl has also recorded
and toured extensively as an accomplished organist.
His wife, Marianne Hoetzl, is an artist and teacher
near Klagenfurt--an exhibition of her paintings
will be featured during the entire month of June
at Taylor's Contemporanea
Fine Arts in Hot Springs. |
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 ANDREW
IRVIN (violin) has a broad range
of experience in concert and recital across America
and in Europe. Solo appearances include works
by Paganini, Bruch, Vivaldi, Korngold, Bach, Mozart,
and Dvorak. This upcoming season concerto appearances
include performances of Ravel’s Tzigane,
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and
Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy. Mr.
Irvin has been heard in recital in New York, North
Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, California,
Texas, & Arizona. He can be heard in recording
on the Naxos label. In the Rochester, New York
based orchestra "Air de Cour" he served
as concertmaster, leader, and soloist. His ensembles
have received grants from New York's State Legislature,
and The New York Council for the Arts. Highlights
of his chamber music career include performances
with the Ying Quartet, the Audubon Quartet, and
New York City premiere of composer Steve Mackey's
Troubadour Songs. Mr. Irvin's European
Debut was made at the Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele
where he was principal violin in the festival
orchestra and was featured on the chamber concert
series. Before moving to Arkansas, he was Principal
Violin in the Arizona Opera Orchestra. Currently,
Mr. Irvin is living in Little Rock, Arkansas where
he is Co-Concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony.
Andrew also enjoys training for his other obsession,
endurance sports. In 2007 he ran his second marathon
in March and completed his first Ironman Triathlon
in August. (Ask him how it went!) He plays a 1765
Gagliano violin. (photo credit:
©www.Shields-MarleyPhoto.com) |
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 DAVID
LEE JACKSON (trombone) was recently
a featured soloist at several engagements, including
performances at Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic
in Chicago, Music at Gretna in Mt. Gretna, PA,
and with the Ann Arbor Concert Band. Mr. Jackson
was also guest soloist with Los Angeles Symphonic
Winds both in Los Angeles and at the MidEurope
Festival in Schladming, Austria. Other recent
solo performances were with the Interlochen World
Youth Wind Symphony and with the Idyllwild Festival
Wind Ensemble at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. In
addition to those performances, Mr. Jackson has
performed recitals and masterclasses at the Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Alaska-Fairbanks,
the University of Minnesota, UCLA, California
State University-Northridge and Pepperdine University.
An advocate of contemporary music, Prof. Jackson
has commissioned and performed the world premieres
of numerous works for trombone. His orchestral
experience includes performances with the Detroit
Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Chicago Symphony,
the Michigan Opera Theater, the Fort Worth Symphony,
the New World Symphony, the Cabrillo Music Festival
Orchestra and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in
Italy. A respected chamber musician, he has performed
with the Galliard Brass, the Music of the Baroque
and the Brass Band of Battle Creek. Mr. Jackson
is Associate Professor of Trombone at the University
of Michigan. He also has been a faculty member
at Baylor University, Eastern Michigan University
and the University of Toledo. He is currently
a member of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
and of Chicago's Fulcrum Point New Music Project.
Mr. Jackson, a Conn-Selmer artist and clinician,
also teaches and performs at the Idyllwild Arts
Festival. This season marks Prof. Jackson's ninth
season as a Mentor with the Hot Springs Music
Festival. |
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 SEAN
KELLY (production management) has
been an Air Force pilot, wellhead geologist, waiter,
cook, bartender, bouncer, environmental consultant,
and presently serves as an Emergency Response
Coordinator for the State of Texas. Raised in
a military family, he has lived from Virginia
to California to Michigan to Texas. He attended
Tulane University in New Orleans. A resident of
Austin, Texas, Mr. Kelly has been a member of
the Hot Springs Music Festival Board of Directors
and has served as the Festival's Production Manager
since 1997. In addition to having co-written the
Hot Springs Music Festival's new American-idiomatic
English translation of the Mozarts The Magic
Flute, Mr. Kelly was also the Production
Designer for the opera, and appeared convincingly
onstage as a tree. He has also been Production
designer for Brundibár and Cio
Cio San. Sean is married to Festival Harp
Mentor Shana Norton, and affectionatly addressed
by the Festival production assistants as the "Lord
of Light." |
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 MARK
KILSTOFTE (composer
in residence) is admired as a composer of lyrical
line, engaging harmony, strong, dramatic gesture
and keen sensitivity to sound, shape and event.
Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “exciting
and beautiful, consistently gripping,” his
music has garnered a growing number of awards
and honors including the Rome Prize, ASCAP’s
Rudolf Nissim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship
and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aaron Copland
Award, MacDowell Colony’s Francis and William
Schuman Fellowship, and the Composers’ Award
for String Quartet. His symphonic, chamber and
choral compositions have been featured by the
Oakland East Bay Symphony, Louisville Orchestra,
Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Bowling Green Philharmonic,
Thornton Wind Ensemble, University of Michigan
Symphony Band, Orchestre des Gardiens de la Paix,
Nanset Wind Orchestra, eighth blackbird, Alea
III, Brave New Works, Contemporary Directions
Ensemble, NODUS, ModernWorks!, Ambassador Duo,
Bernini String Quartet, Montclaire String Quartet,
Roma Brass Quintet, Aurora Brass Quintet, Dale
Warland Singers, San Francisco Choral Artists,
Boston Choral Ensemble, Lutheran Choir of Chicago,
Amadeus Choir, Greenville Chorale and GAMAC at
such venues as the Yantai International Wind Art
Festival (China), World Saxophone Congress (Spain),
International Festival of Brass (Italy), World
Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (Sweden),
Coups de Vents (France), Festival di Nuova Consonanza
(Italy), Violoncello 2005 (Belgium), International
Double Reed Society (Ithaca), Bowling Green Festival
of New Music and Art, June in Buffalo and Gunther
Schuller’s Festival at Sandpoint. An experienced
performer and conductor, Kilstofte is one of relatively
few composers also trained as a singer. He studied
at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan
where he was a Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellow and
assistant conductor of the new music ensemble,
Contemporary Directions. He is currently associate
professor of theory and composition at Furman
University, a private liberal arts college in
Greenville, South Carolina. His music is published
by the Newmatic Press. |
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 WILLIAM
LUDWIG (bassoon) joined the faculty
of the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana
University as Professor of Bassoon in August of
2007. Previous to this appointment he had been
Professor of Bassoon at Louisiana State University
since 1985. For the last seven summers he has
been in residence at the Brevard Music Center
as principal bassoon and artist faculty. His orchestral
experience also includes principal bassoon with
the Baton Rouge Symphony (1986-2007) and the Florida
Orchestra (1980-1985). A noted chamber musician
he has performed in a wide variety of settings
in the United States and Europe, including Prague
Spring International Music Festival, Highlands
(NC) Chamber Music Festival and with the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, Timm Wind Quintet and Ars Nova
Wind Quintet. He was artist-in-residence at the
State University of New York-Stony Brook Department
of Music from 1989 to 1994 concurrently with his
LSU appointment and taught at the University of
South Florida from 1979 to 1985. He holds degrees
from Louisiana State University and Yale School
of Music and has had the privilege of studying
with John Patterson, Sol Schoenbach, Leonard Sharrow,
Bernard Garfield and Arthur Weisberg. He is sought
after to present recitals and master classes at
many universities and colleges, including the
University of Illinois, Eastman, University of
Georgia, Ohio State University, University of
Michigan, Michigan State University, and Cincinnati
College-Conservatory. Additionally, he has been
an invited performer to numerous International
Double Reed Society Conferences in this county
and in Europe. He has also received numerous prizes
and grants, including the 1987 McMahon Competition
(2nd prize) and the 1991 and 2001 Louisiana Artist
Fellowship. Ludwig has transcribed works of Bach,
Brahms, Beethoven, and Prokofiev for the bassoon.
He has commissioned works for bassoon with orchestra,
jazz trio, and interactive computer and for solo
bassoon and oboe/bassoon duo. A committed and
caring teacher and mentor, he has received several
teaching awards and has been sponsored in teaching
residencies at the major conservatories of San
Jose, Costa Rica, Beijing, China and Cairo, Egypt.
His students are successful in the world of performance
and secondary and college teaching. Former students
are or have been members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Symphony
Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, The
President’s Own Marine Band, Coast
Guard Band, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and
numerous regional orchestras, and faculty members
of University of Oregon, James Madison University,
Wichita State, and Dickinson State University.
Graduates of LSU have gone on to such graduate
schools as the New England Conservatory, Rice
University and Cincinnati College-Conservatory. |
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 KEVIN
MAULDIN (double bass), principal
bass wth the Naples Philharmonic, earned a Bachelors
of Music degree from Memphis State University
and a Masters of Music degree from University
of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. His
teachers have included Frank Proto, John Chiego,
Herman Burkhardt, and Peter Rofe. Mr. Mauldin,
a native of Memphis, Tennessee, has played concerti
with the Chattanooga Symphony and the Southern
College of Seventh Day Adventists, where he was
on the faculty. His experience includes engagements
with the Richmond (IN) Symphony, the Cincinnati
Symphony, the Memphis Symphony and as principal
bass with the Chattanooga Symphony. Mauldin spends
the remainder of his summers at the Brevard Music
Center in North Carolina as part of the artist-faculty
and as the assistant principal bass player in
the Brevard Music Symphony. Kevin Mauldin is a
member of the artist faculty at the University
of Miami. |
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 MATTHEW
McCLUNG (percussion) Equally at home
with orchestral, solo, and chamber music, Dr.
Matthew McClung has appeared with a wide variety
of prestigious ensembles throughout the United
States. He has performed with the Houston Grand
Opera, the Hawaii Opera Theater, the River Oaks
Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras
of Houston, Lexington, San Antonio, Kentucky,
Austin, Arkansas, Maui, and Honolulu. As a chamber
musician, he has performed with renowned cellist
Alisa Weilerstein, the Percussion Group Cincinnati,
the So Percussion Group, Strike 3 Percussion,
Musiqa, the Houston Composers Alliance, the San
Antonio Chamber Music Society, and others. As
a soloist, he has been featured on the ChamberX
concert series in Houston, with the Shepherd School
Percussion Ensemble, and in solo performances
across the state of Texas. Recently the Houston
Chronicle raved about his concerto performance
with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, saying
“McClung played stylishly and smartly …
The performance sang with a distinctive joie de
vivre.” Dr. McClung is currently the principal
percussionist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra,
and Assistant Professor of Percussion at Texas
A&M University – Corpus Christi. |
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MOORE (trumpet) is Principal Trumpet
of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He has also
performed with the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis
Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Toronto
Symphony. He has recorded and performed with the
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and with I Fiamminghi,
the Orchestra of Flanders. As a soloist, Mr. Moore
has appeared with the San Antonio Symphony, the
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, the Tennessee Summer
Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, and on numerous
occasions with the Memphis Symphony. He was a
featured Guest Artist at the 1994 International
Trumpet Guild Conference. A review of that recital
in the International Trumpet Guild Journal praised
his "superbly fluid and beautiful trumpet
playing". The Nashville Chamber Orchestra's
2002 Naxos recording of Aaron Copland's music
featured Mr. Moore in Quiet City for
solo trumpet, English horn, and strings. Classicstoday.com
lauded his "smooth-as-silk trumpeting".
on that recording. Scott Moore has a Master of
Music degree from the New England Conservatory
of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from McNeese
State University. His teachers have included Charles
Schlueter, Arnold Jacobs, and Michael Ewald. |
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NORTON (harp) plays principal harp
with the Mid-Texas Symphony and performs frequently
with the Arkansas, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Abilene,
Temple and the San Antonio Symphonies. She is
a founding member of Chaski, an Andeam
music ensemble that performs and records Latin
American folk music that features traditional
instruments, colorful costumes, cultural insight,
Andean dances, often with audience participation.
Based in Austin, Texas, Chaski has toured the
U.S., Europe, and Central and South America enthralling
audiences since 1985. Ms. Norton graduated with
highest honors earning a Bachelor of Music Education
from Abilene Christian University and attended
the Eastman School of Music, studying with Julia
Hermann Edwards and Eileen Malone. In 1995 she
graduated from The Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs with a Master of Public Affairs
degree. In addition to her musical activities
and her work for the City of Austin, she is a
member of the Hot Springs Music Festival Board
of Directors. Ms. Norton is married to Hot Springs
Music Festival Production Manager Sean Kelly. |
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MARIE ROESKE (viola) has been the
Associate Principal Viola of the Dallas Symphony
since 1999. She has performed in solo and chamber
music recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Mostly Mozart
Festival at Lincoln Center, Aspen Music Festival,
Library of Congress, Sarasota Music Festival,
Severance Hall, Rockport Music Festival, Banff
Centre for the Arts, Interlochen Center for the
Arts, the Rockport Music Festival, Alice Tully
Hall, Merken Hall, Nasher Sculpture Center, and
the Dallas Museum of Art. She has coached and
performed in residencies for Chamber Music America
with the Cavani String Quartet, has twice been
a fellow at the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet
Studies and was invited by Isaac Stern to participate
in his Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall.
First-prize winner in both the Nakamichi Foundation
Concerto competition at the Aspen Music festival
and the Darius Milhaud Performance Prize Auditions,
she has also won the Florence Allan Award at the
Carmel Chamber Music Competition. She has played
principal viola of the Spoleto Festival USA and
Italy, Juilliard, Cleveland Institute of Music,
Interlochen Arts Academy and the Chautauqua Music
School Festival Orchestras. Ann Marie received
her Bachelor of Music with academic honors from
the Cleveland Institute of Music and was awarded
the Jim Hall prize for achievement and leadership
in music. She received her Master of Music from
the Juilliard School where she was awarded the
prestigious William Schuman Prize, the single
graduate prize given at commencement exercises.
Her principal teachers were Karen Tuttle, Heidi
Castleman and David Holland, and her chamber music
mentors include the Cleveland, Orion, Cavani,
Emerson, and Juilliard String Quartets. Ms. Roeske
has served on the faculties of Baylor University,
Interlochen Arts Camp, Hot Springs Music Festival,
Music in the Mountains Conservatory, Dallas Symphony
Young Strings and The Institute for Strings at
Southern Methodist University. When not playing
the viola, Ann Marie can be found in the kitchen
or at the pool. A US Master's swimmer since 2001,
Ann Marie has twice completed the 10-mile Maui
Channel Swim, the only inter-island relay race
in the world. A frequent traveler to Europe, she
has studied and performed traditional Irish music
in County Kerry, Ireland, and has taken numerous
classes at the Apicius Culinary Institute in Florence,
Italy. Recently featured in the Dallas Morning
News's High Profile column, she lives in Dallas
with her husband Rodney and their three miniature
dachshunds, George, Annabell, and Flash. Ann Marie
plays a Lorenzo & Tommaso Carcassi viola made
in Florence, Italy c. 1765. |
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ROSENBERG (executive director, arts administration
& chorus director) has served as Director
of Concert Activities for Northwestern University,
Director of Production for The Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center, Artistic Advisor and Director
of Special Projects for the University Musical
Society in Ann Arbor, and Concert Director of
San Francisco's Old First Concerts series. As
a festival administrator, she produced the international
performance/scholarship event Michigan MozartFest
and the Festival of Contemporary American Dance.
Trained as a choral conductor at Temple University,
the Aspen Music Festival, and the Accademia Musicale
Chigiana, Ms. Rosenberg was Chorus Director for
the Ann Arbor May Festival's Brahms Requiem
performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
and Music Director of the Berkeley Chorus Pro
Musica in California. In addition to her work
with the Hot Springs Music Festival, Ms. Rosenberg
has served as president of the Greater Hot Springs
Chamber of Commerce Arts & Business Committee,
as executive committee member of the National
Park Arts Council and as an adjunct faculty member
of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences
& the Arts. She was recently appointed to
the steering committee of the Garland County Juvenile
Drug Court, and is an honorary Paul Harris Fellow
of the Rotary International Foundation. <laura@hotmusic.org> |
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ROVIT (violin)
was among the last students of Josef Gingold at
Indiana University where he also studied Baroque
violin with Stanley Ritchie. His other teachers
have included Mitchell Stern, Philip Setzer and
Cho-Liang Lin. Prof. Rovit has been the recipient
of numerous awards and scholarships including the
Kuttner Scholarship at Indiana University, The Performance
20/20 Scholarship at the Hartt School, the C.V.
Starr Scholarship at the Juilliard School, and the
Aspen Music Festival's String Fellowship. As a chamber
musician and recitalist he has performed throughout
the United States and at the Spring in Saint Petersburg
Festival in Russia. Performances have included concert
appearances with the International Sejong Soloists
and on Baroque violin with the Rebel Ensemble and
with Harpsichordist Robert Edward Smith. Most recently,
he has been in Montgomery, Alabama, a recipient
of the prestigious Montgomery Symphony Fellowship
which involved performing as concertmaster and soloist
with the symphony and giving numerous concert appearances
throughout the area. During the summers he also
teaches and performs at the Kinhaven Music School
in Weston Vermont. He is currently Assistant Concertmaster
of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. |
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SAGLIMBENI (special
guest conductor) Since returning to his native Venezuela
in 1987, Rodolfo Saglimbeni has become one of the
most sought after conductors in the country. He
studied music in Venezuela and the Royal Academy
of Music in London with Colin Metters, John Carewe
and George Hurst, obtaining his degree with Honors,
Diploma de Director de Orquesta and numerous awards.
He was a pupil of Franco Ferrara in the Academia
Santa Cecilia de Roma in 1981. He was Associate
Director of the Sinfonietta Caracas and the Venezuelan
Symphony, Artistic Director Founder of the Orquesta
Sinfónica Gran Mariscal Ayacucho and Director
Musical del Teatro Teresa Carreño. Maestro
Saglimbeni has been a guest conductor of symphony
orchestras in France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom,
Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina
and El Salvador. From 1990, he was hired as a tutor
and then as co-chair of the Summer of Canford Summer
School of Music in England. He has been awarded
with the Mejor Director del Año y Premio
Nacional del Artista and awarded with the Order
of “José Félix Ribas”
at its First Class. He also was awarded the honorary
degree ARAM by the Royal Academy of Music in London
and was the winner of the Fellowship of the Americas
of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. In March
1999, he was winner of the Director of the Americas
in Santiago, Chile. In the year 2003 Maestro Saglimbeni
was appointed Artistic Director of the Orquesta
sinfónica Municipal de Caracas |
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SUNG (violin)
has appeared as soloist with such orchestras
as the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic,
the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Pusan Philharmonic
in South Korea, the Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra
in Russia, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of
Boston, as well as the orchestras of Hartford,
Delaware, Boise, Corpus Christi, Adrian, Dubuque,
Fargo-Moorhead, Owensboro, Wheeling and Wyoming.
Her performances have been aired on radio and
TV across the U.S. and abroad, including multiple
broadcasts on NPR’s “Performance
Today” of her performance of the Korngold
Violin Concerto with the Hot Springs Music
Festival Orchestra. Ms. Sung is also a frequently
heard artist at distinguished
music festivals such as Switzerland’s
Lucerne Festival, the Aspen Music Festival,
and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. She has
been presented in recital in Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland, Louisville, New York City and Pittsburgh,
and internationally in Odense, Denmark, Lausanne,
Switzerland and Queenstown, New Zealand. A virtuoso
of diverse talents, she also tours regularly
as the featured classical soloist with Mark
’Connor’s American String Celebration
and recently released a Live recording of Vivaldi’s
The Four Seasons available on CD. Among
numerous prizes, she has won the Passamaneck
Award (chosen by Leonard Slatkin), for which
she performed at Carnegie Music Hall, and the
Nakamichi Violin Competition of the Aspen Festival.
She was also a Clifton Visiting Artist at Harvard
University. Ms. Sung serves as assistant faculty
at the Juilliard School, initially as the Starling/Delay
Institute Fellow, and was recently appointed
violin professor at the SUNY-Fredonia School
of Music. Born in New York City, Ms. Sung began
violin studies at the age of seven, made her
public debut the following year, and orchestral
debut at age nine, performing with the Pittsburgh
Symphony. At age ten, she began a decade of
private studies with renowned pedagogue Josef
Gingold, a period that overlapped with her attendance
at Harvard University, from which she graduated
with honors with a double degree in anthropology
and music. She was later invited to study with
esteemed teacher, Dorothy DeLay, at the Juilliard
School on a full scholarship. Ms. Sung also
studied extensively with Masao Kawasaki, David
Cerone, and the Juilliard String Quartet. She
plays a c.1600 Maggini violin.
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JAMES TAGG (recording
engineering) has been working as an audio and recording
engineer since 1998. Skilled with both musical as
well as technical aspects of recording music, James
Tagg (Jamie) has worked as a recording, sound, and
post-production engineer for the following organizations:
The Banff Center for the Arts; Setnor School of
Music at Syracuse University (Visiting Senior Recording
Engineer); The Boston, Imperial, Canadian, and Dallas
Brass Ensembles; Hugh Fraser; David Leibman; The
Cassatt String Quartet; The Bergonzi String Quartet;
the Gregg Smith Singers; The University of Miami;
and Miami's professional vocal ensemble Seraphic
Fire directed by Patrick Dupré Quigley. Mr.
Tagg holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Engineering
Technology from the University of Miami (under the
direction of Ken Pohlmann), with a principal in
Jazz Guitar, a concentration in Auxiliary Percussion
(under the teaching of Ney Rosaro) and a minor in
Electrical Engineering. His technical awards include
a first place prize in the internationally competitive
Audio Engineer Society (AES) collegiate recording
competition in the jazz category. As an Audio Associate
work/study at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta,
Canada, Jamie worked as a recording, mixing, mastering,
post-production, and film-set engineer. His life
as a young musician began with the study of piano
at age five, and branched out at age eight when
he was accepted as a chorister in the Syracuse Children's
Chorus under the direction of Dr. Barbara M. Tagg.
He then went on to sing with numerous choirs including
a vocal jazz ensemble, Swing Set. As a student,
Jamie started the Jazz Band at Camillus Middle School,
which to this day is an active ensemble. He later
performed as an instrumentalist with the Syracuse
Children's Chorus; the Children in Harmony Choral
Festival in Orlando, FL; and has accompanied and
soloed with the Gregg Smith Singers while in residence
at the Adirondack Festival of American Music on
guitar and saxophone. Mr. Tagg continues to freelance
in the audio field, and enjoys sharing his frequent
and relevant experiences with students, giving a
constantly up-to-date perspective on technology,
recording, mixing, and mastering techniques. |
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TAYLOR (clarinet)
joined the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
School of Music faculty in 2007. A former Hot Springs
Music Festival Apprentice, he is an active performer
in solo, chamber, orchestral and jazz. This fall,
he presented a paper on his research into John Adams’s
clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons in Bangor,
Wales at the International Conference on Music and
Minimalism. Recent performance highlights include
the world premiere of Seattle composer Gail Gross’s
Bossa Velha at the Washington State Music
Teacher’s Association convention, solo performances
with jazz piano master Dick Hyman, and the world
premiere recording of Gregory Yasinitsky’s
solo clarinet work For All That Has Been Given.
He has been a member of the Spokane Symphony, the
Boise Philharmonic, Spokane Opera and professional
contemporary music ensemble Zephyr. He has been
on the faculties of Washington State University,
Eastern Washington University, Whitman College and
Gonzaga University. Each August, Taylor also teaches
at the Midsummer Musical Retreat, a band camp for
adult amateur musicians. He will complete his doctorate
this summer at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music, and also holds degrees from The Florida
State University and Washington State University. |
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VAPPIE & THE CREOLE JAZZ SERENADERS.
Undoubtedly, the Creole Jazz Serenaders is New Orleans'
premiere classic jazz orchestra. This group has
acquired a unique following of music lovers that
spans the generations. Young and old, are among
the eager when the band takes the stage. "CJS's"
performances have been mesmerizing. After thoroughly
enjoying the music one begins to understand why
New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. The CJS repertoire
includes creole jazz from the early years as well
as music from Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis
Armstrong. Duke Ellington. McKinney's Cotton Pickers,
Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Jabbo Smith, The New Orleans
Owls, The Astoria Hot Eight and many others. CJS
had the honor of performing the world premier of
Jelly Roll Morton's lost manuscripts and got rave
reviews for a classic jazz program of Jelly Roll
Morton, creole and other classics performed with
the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra. Their CD
In Search of King Oliver was the subject
of a PRI radio program of the same name. The CD
Creole Blues is one of Offbeat Magazine's essential
100 CDs of the 20th century from Louisiana and has
been featured on Delta Airlines inflight music program
as well as Nick Spitzer's American Routes radio
program on NPR. |
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