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The Sixteenth Annual Summer Series of Chamber Music Concerts |
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Artists 2008 |
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Basia Danilow, violin, enjoys a diverse musical
life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo
performances. Ms. Danilow has appeared in recital at Lincoln Center,
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and the Kosciuszko
Foundation as well as in Yugoslavia and Russia. She is the
concertmaster for the New Philharmonic of New Jersey and the Princeton
Symphony often appearing as soloist. An active chamber musician, Ms.
Danilow was a winner of the Artists International Competition as a
member of the Hollaender Ensemble and also maintains a busy
concert schedule with the Danilow-Keremedjiev violin and guitar duo,
which presents concerts of classical, ethnic and Russian-gypsy music.
In addition she is a member of the Ariadne Trio and performs and records
as guest artist with the Perspectives Ensemble and the Harmonie Ensemble
of New York. Ms. Danilow performs regularly in the United States and
abroad with L'Opéra Français de New York, the Orchestra of St. Luke's
and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has participated in numerous
festivals such as Caramoor, Lincoln Center Festival, Amadeus, Summit,
Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, Windham and the International
Summer Institute at the Moscow Conservatory. Radio and television
broadcasts include performances on PBS, WQXR, National Public Radio and
Vermont Public Radio. Ms. Danilow has recorded for Sony, Atlantic and
RCA Victor - Red Seal. |
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Arturo
Delmoni, violin & viola,
is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. His remarkably
distinctive playing embodies the romantic warmth that is the special
province of the great virtuosi of the golden age of violin playing.
Yo-Yo Ma describes Delmoni as “an enormously gifted musician and an
impeccable violinist. His playing style is unique, and his gorgeous
sound is reminiscent of that of great violinists from a bygone era.”
Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the NY Philharmonic, says, “Delmoni’s
playing always goes right to the heart, and his charisma is
irresistible.” Delmoni’s stylish, elegant interpretations of classical
masterpieces have earned him critical acclaim in the United States and
abroad. Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote “It’s hard to imagine
how the violin could be much better played than Delmoni did --- he plays
with astonishing speed, lightness, fluency and sweetness of tone.” Alan
Heatherington of the American Record Guide wrote “The growing
discography of Arturo Delmoni testifies to a musician who must possess
an artistic soul of exceptional beauty. Each new issue reveals
additional aspects of a winsome musical personality and verifies an
impression of great warmth and geniality.” Delmoni made his debut at
Carnegie Hall at age 14 playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the
Little Orchestra Society under Thomas Scherman. Since then he has been
a soloist with the St. Louis, Dallas, Spokane, Jupiter, El Paso,
Glendale and Tucson Symphony Orchestras; the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
of Boston; the California Chamber Symphony; the New York City Ballet
Orchestra; the Rhode Island, Brooklyn, Boston, Omaha and Kansas City
Philharmonics; and the Boston Pops. He has appeared as a recitalist
throughout the United States and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and
Hong Kong. As a chamber musician, Delmoni has performed with
illustrious colleagues such as Pinchas Zukerman, Elmar Oliveira, Emanuel
Ax, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura Parker, Jeffrey Kahane and Dudley
Moore. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Delmoni’s recording of romantic
miniatures, received extraordinary reviews from prominent critics.
Audiophiles and audio critics generally regard his recording of
unaccompanied violin music of Ysaÿe, Kreisler and Bach as a reference
for the sound of a solo violin. Delmoni’s duo recital recording with
cellist Nathaniel Rosen, entitled “Music for a Glass Bead Game” was
nominated for an AFIM Indie Award, received a Golden Ear award, and was
on Fanfare’s “Best of the Year” list. Arturo Delmoni plays a JB
Guadagnini, 1780, and a viola from the same period. |
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Adela Peña, violin, a native New
Yorker, enjoys touring the U.S., Europe and Asia with the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, for which she has served as concertmaster, and
recorded several CD's on the Deutsche Grammophon label. As a
founding member of the Eroica Trio, she can be heard on seven CD's
released by the EMI label, and has received two Grammy nominations.
She has appeared as soloist in the Beethoven Triple Concerto with
notable orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago, San Francisco,
Seattle, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh symphonies, as well as the Hong
Kong and Budapest philharmonic and Prague Chamber Orchestra. As a
soloist and recitalist, she has played with the English Chamber
Orchestra, performed at Carnegie Hall, the Sorbonne in Paris, and
toured England, Italy and South America. She earned her Bachelor's
and Masrer's degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of
Margaret Pardee. She was also greatly influenced by her first
teacher Rochelle Walton, and her coaches Felix Galimir and Harry
Shub. Ms. Pena has participated in various summer festivals,
including Ravinia, Caramoor, Bridgehampton, Monadnock and Central
Vermont. Since starting the violin at the age of four, she has
received tremendous support and inspiration from family, friends and
colleagues, for which
she continues to be very grateful. |
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David
Cerutti, viola,
performs internationally as violist and violist d'amore. A resident of
New York, he
enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording,
orchestral and solo performances. He appears regularly in the US and
abroad with groups such as Orpheus, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. A former member of the Smithson String
Quartet, he is a founding member of Trigon and has been a guest artist
with the Brentano String Quartet, the Cygnus Ensemble, and St. Luke's
Chamber Ensemble. Performing on Stradivarius instruments, he
collaborated with members of Archibudelli on a recording of the
Mendelssohn and Gade string octets, for the Sony Classical label. His
unedited performances of J.S. Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto was
chosen by National Public Radio as one of seven best live recordings of
Bach from "Performance Today", and was subsequently released on CD. He
is a regular participant in the Helicon Concert Series in New York, and
performed as featured soloist in Athanasia Tzanou's Epigramma I on the
Double Exposure series at the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. He
earned his Master's Degree at the Mannes College of Music, where he was
a student of Karen Tuttle. |
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 Chauncey
Patterson, viola,
was
the violist of the Miami String Quartet from 1990 -2006. Prior to
joining the quartet, he held the post of Principal Viola with the Denver
Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. As a
soloist, he has appeared with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Ars Nova
Chamber Orchestra, the Eastern Philharmonic, the Blossom Festival
Orchestra, and the Colorado Philharmonic. Mr. Patterson has been a
member of the faculties of the University of Denver, Kent State
University, Florida International University, Hartt School of Music and
was a visiting professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He
attended both the Curtis Institute of Music and the Cleveland Institute
of Music where he studied with Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, and Robert
Vernon.
Mr. Patterson is a Kent/Blossom Music alumnus from 1981 |
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 Adam Grabois,
cello,
has a varied career as chamber musician, soloist,
teacher and recording artist and founded the record label Reflex
Editions in 2002. Soon after, he released its first recording, music
by Beethoven, Debussy and Rachmaninov, about which the Philadelphia
Inquirer wrote, “Sometimes, the way he plays with the sound of a
single note has enough emotional sustenance in it to launch a
half-dozen distinct feelings in quick succession.” A second disc,
DUOS: Martinů Kodály Ravel, was released in December 2007. He is
also featured on the recently released compact disc, "The Finckel
Cello Quartet Plays Bach". A resident of New York City, Adam
Grabois is the cellist of the New York Chamber Soloists with whom he
performs throughout the country. Recent concerts have included
appearances at the National Gallery in Washington and at the Getty
Center in Los Angeles. Collaborations have included performances
with Menahem Pressler and, in past seasons, with Mikhail Baryshnikov
in a dance by Jerome Robbins for solo dancer and on-stage cellist
with performances in the capitals of Brazil, Argentina and in the
Caribbean. He offered a New York solo recital on the inaugural
season of Makor and, last season, two separate concerto appearances
with the Vermont Mozart Festival. Adam Grabois was educated at the
Lycée Henri IV, Swarthmore College and Kinhaven Music School on
whose board of trustees he now serves as President. He studied with
David Finckel and has taught as his assistant. He plays a cello made
in Brooklyn by Samuel Zygmuntowicz and dated 1998 and a bow made by
Ole Kanestrøm and dated 2004. |
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 Christopher Oldfather, piano, has devoted
himself to the performance of twentieth-century music for more than
thirty years. He has participated in innumerable world-premiere
performances, in every possible combination of instruments, in
cities all over America. He has been a member of Boston’s Collage
New Music since 1979, New York City’s Parnassus since 1997, appears
regularly in Chicago, and as a collaborator has joined singers and
instrumentalists of all kinds in recitals throughout the United
States. In 1986 he presented his recital debut in Carnegie Recital
Hall, which immediately was closed for renovations. Since then he
has pursued a career as a free-lance musician. This work has taken
him as far afield as Moscow and Tokyo, and he has worked on every
sort of keyboard ever made, including, of all things, the
Chromelodeon. He is widely known for his expertise on the
harpsichord, and is one of the leading interpreters of twentieth
century works for that instrument. As soloist he has appeared with
the MET Chamber Players, the San Francisco Symphony, and Ensemble
Modern in Frankfurt, Germany. His recording of Elliott Carter's
violin-piano Duo with Robert Mann was nominated for two Grammy
Awards in 1990. Recently he has collaborated with the conductor
Robert Craft, and can be heard on several of his recordings. |
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 Paul Woodiel, fiddle,
A busy New York-based purveyor of a broad range of violin and fiddle
styles, Paul Woodiel was described by Leonard Bernstein as "a
first-class performer – one who combines spirituality with intellect".
His versatile scope has made him an in demand performer with myriad
musical specialties, including the fiddle traditions of America and the
British Isles, ragtime repertoire, and the violin music of Charles Ives.
As a recitalist, Paul has presented concerts at the 92nd St. Y, the
Miller Theater at Columbia University, and the New York Festival of Song
at Carnegie Hall, and has appeared as soloist at music festivals from
Bard College in New York to the red rocks of Moab, Utah. An unabashed
theater musician, Paul is a veteran of dozens of Broadway productions,
and currently performs there as concertmaster of Oprah Winfrey’s
production of “The Color Purple”. A three-time New England Fiddle
Contest champion, he is a widely respected exponent of traditional
fiddle styles. In this traditional vein, he performs across the US and
abroad with the Scottish dance band Local Hero. Other collaborations
include tours, performances and recordings with Steve Reich and
Musicians, piano wizards Dick Hyman and Neely Bruce, Marin Alsop's
Concordia, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, the American Composers
Orchestra, and the Grammy Awards Orchestra. As a recording musician,
his fiddling is heard on a wide variety of contexts, ranging from Woody
Allen films to ads for sugary “Irish” breakfast cereals. Also among his
eccentric interests are the Viper, a seven-string electronic instrument
created by Mark Wood, and his Stroh Violin, an anachronistic hybrid of
the violin and gramophone, made in 1910. |
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 Jeremiah
McLane, accordion,
the music
of composer, accordionist, and pianist Jeremiah McLane is a
unique blend of Franco-American, Celtic, jazz, and roots
influenced music that is at once exuberant and introspective,
tender and passionate. He places familiar sounds in unusual
settings, and combines a gift of improvisation with a keen
appreciation for the power of melody. Early on I was influenced
by the music of Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, and other blues
artists. As a teenager I was introduced to the music of Miles
Davis, Les McCann, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, John Coltrane, and
other jazz greats. I went to Oberlin Conservatory where I
studied classical and jazz piano, then transferred to the
Cornish Institute in Seattle and studied with Gary Peacock. I
also studied Indonesian Gamelan, West African drumming, and the
music of minimalist composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass. In
1980 I started studying Celtic music and began playing the
accordion. My major influences at that time were the Bothy Band
and Dedanann. I started playing in Celtic bands and studied with
Chicago accordionist Jimmy Keane and Cape Breton pianist Doug
McPhee. In the early 1990s I helped start two bands with strong
traditional New England roots: The Clayfoot Strutters and
Nightingale, both of which are active today. Nightingale has
recorded three CDs and tours regularly throughout the US. In
2003 I formed Le Bon Vent, a sextet specializing in Breton and
French music. In 2001 I attended the New England Conservatory of
Music and got a Master’s of Music in Contemporary Improvisation.
In 2005 I started the Floating Bridge Music School, where I
teach traditional and contemporary music. I am a faculty member
at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, NY, and also
teach at various summer music camps including Ashokan Fiddle &
Dance, Augusta Heritage Arts Center and Centrum’s American
Festival of Fiddle Tunes. Since 1990, I have recorded 9
CD's, my second solo recording, Smile When You’re Ready, was
nominated by National Public Radio in their “favorite picks” of
1996. I have composed music for theatre and film, including Sam
Shepard’s “A Lie Of The Mind”, and been awarded the Ontario
Center For The Performing Arts “Meet The Composer” Award, and
the Vermont Council On The Arts “Creation Of New Work” grant. |
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Steve
Gibb, guitar,
born in Inverness, Scotland, began teaching himself guitar at the age of
6 after being influenced by the guitar sounds of Duane Eddy and The
Shadows. At 18, he studied music at Napier College in Edinburgh and went
on to win a place at the highly prestigious Royal Academy of Music in
London studying Classical Guitar (with Hector Quine and Timothy Walker),
Double-Bass & Composition. He has worked with many of today’s leading
composers and has had many works written especially for him. After a
successful London debut in 1992 (in which he performed Sequenza XI by
Luciano Berio, Guitar Sonata by Sir Peter Maxwell Davis, Electric
Counterpoint by Steve Reich and the world premiere of 2 Motets by
Michael Finnissy), and numerous recitals around the world, Steve took a
break from the ‘classical’ world and became involved with the ‘theatre’
world. After touring Europe in Oklahoma! during 1993/4 he returned to
London and joined the cast of BUDDY. For several years Steve was Musical
Director for the London West End, UK Touring, Toronto and recent US
touring productions of BUDDY and appeared in all those productions in a
number of roles including the role of Buddy Holly! Steve has also
appeared as John Lennon, Bobby Vee and Don Everly in Bill Kenwright’s
production of The Roy Orbison Story. In addition to guitar and bass,
Steve plays a number of other instruments including harp-guitar, banjo,
mandolin, dobro, lute, bouzouki, oud, harmonica, drums & keyboards. He
has worked in many different fields from Opera to Rock ‘n’ Roll
appearing with a variety of artistes, including Eartha Kitt, The London
Sinfonietta, Meatloaf, Music Theatre Wales and Britney Spears. TV
credits include The Big Break, National Lottery Show and Whatever You
Want. Now residing in New Jersey, USA, Steve is currently working on
several recording projects. His debut CD (Zig-Zag) was released in 2002
to great critical acclaim and his next solo disc is due out in 2008.
Steve
has
written and recorded numerous production library music CD’s for The
American Music Company and others and his music is regularly heard on US
television e.g The Jay Leno Show. His suite for guitar trio "RANT
(2005)", received its premiere in 2007. In much demand as a session
guitarist Steve plays with a number of singers and musicians and can
currently be seen on Broadway in the Tony Award Winning Musical ’Jersey
Boys’. In 2000, The Royal Academy of Music honored Steve by making him
an Associate of The Royal Academy (ARAM). |
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Sue Ellen Colgan-Borror, Director of Education and
Outreach, has taught strings in
the Bedford Central School District since 1991. Having spent
many years teaching at the elementary and intermediate
levels, she currently serves as the Director of Orchestras
at the Fox Lane High School in Bedford, NY. She received her
Bachelor of Music in Music Education from SUNY Potsdam, the
Crane School of Music and her Masters of Science in Music
Education at Western Connecticut State University. Ms.
Colgan-Borror frequently guest conducts state and regional
festival orchestras and has served as orchestra chairperson
for the Westchester County School Music Association. She is
a certified New York State School Music Association
All-State string adjudicator. She holds active memberships
to the Westchester County School Music Association, the New
York State School Music Association, the Music Educators
National Conference, the American String Teachers
Association and the American Federation of Musicians. In
addition to her career with the Bedford Schools, Ms.
Colgan-Borror maintains an active private violin studio and
is in her 32nd year as a violinist with the New York City
Ballet Orchestra. |
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Peter
Sanders, cello, is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the
Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Sanders is a member of the New York City
Ballet Orchestra (for which he has served as Acting Principal),
principal cello for the New Philharmonic of New Jersey and performs with
the Riverside Symphony, the Stamford Symphony and has performed and
recorded as a guest artist with the Perspectives Ensemble. He has
toured Southeast Asia twice with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and as
concerto soloist with the group performed in concerts in Taipei and
Singapore. He is Artistic Director of the Central Vermont Chamber Music
Festival, which had its inaugural season in 1993. Mr. Sanders was a
winner of the 1998 Artists International award as a member of the Hollaender Ensemble and is currently a member of the Ariadne Trio. He
has participated in many summer festivals including the Colorado Music
Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival,
Eastern Music Festival (faculty position), CVCMF, Lancaster Festival,
Ohio (where he was principal cello from 1992-98), Windham Chamber Music
Festival, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble and the Park City & SLC Autumn
Classics Music Festival. As a studio musician Mr. Sanders has recorded
for a variety of popular artists including Pat Metheny, Jewel, Kathie
Lee Gifford and Carlinhos Brown. He can be heard on the Delos, Muse,
Bridge, RCA Victor-Red Seal, New World, On the Lamb and KOCH
International Classics labels.
Karen
Kevra, flute,
