2024 Apple Hill Program Book

APPLE HILL CENTER for CHAMBER MUSIC 2024 – 2025 Program Book

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Dear Friends,

Welcome and thank you for joining us for the 2024 summer season of music at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. Whether this is your first time at Apple Hill, or you’ve lost count of how many times you’ve driven up Apple Hill Road for concerts, we are thrilled you’re here.

This year marks, in many ways, a new and exciting chapter for Apple Hill. The Apple Hill String Quartet (AHSQ) formally welcomes new cellist and co-artistic director, Jacob MacKay, a longtime friend, alumnus and summer faculty member. This is our first summer festival in five years with full attendance at all sessions. The AHSQ resumed its Playing for Peace program this year with a trip to Cyprus. Closer to home, our campus will soon transition to solar energy, saving critical resources that can then be reinvested in our mission. In short, there is much to celebrate together this summer and to look forward to this fall and beyond.

Just like the different voices in a chamber piece are essential for the audience to experience the fullness of the music, each member of the Apple Hill community— including you—plays a critical role in our growth and success. Thank you for playing your part and I look forward to seeing you again soon.

With deepest gratitude,

Molly McCarthy President, Board of Trustees Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Program book cover photo: Jeffrey Newcomer, www .partridgebrookreflections.com

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Javier Caballero, Executive Director | Apple Hill String Quartet, Artistic Directors

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Molly McCarthy, President

Taryn Fisher, Vice-President

Patsy Beffa-Negrini, Secretary

Jan Weekes, Treasurer

Alison Frisbee

Mark C. Gebhardt

Dan Goodman

Vanessa Holroyd

Ari Levine

Nelly Palmer

Jean Prior

Sue Quinn

Reem Abu Rahmeh

Peter Roos

STAFF

Javier Caballero, Executive Director

Apple Hill String Quartet & Artistic Directors:

Elise Kuder and Jesse MacDonald, violins; Michael Kelley, viola; Jacob MacKay, cello

Richard Anderson, Facilities Manager

Keegan Brosseau, Facilities Assistant

Gail Malitas, Office Administrator

Amelia Perron, Summer Workshop Administrative Director

At Apple Hill we believe in inclusion, support, and artistic excellence. As a contributor, you help us sustain these values day after day. We dream that Apple Hill will be able to continue its mission for generations to come. We hope you feel the same way.

Please help us make this dream a reality!

Many Apple Hill supporters choose to designate estate or planned gifts through their will, retirement plan, or insurance policy. Others donate now through IRAs or gifts of appreciated stock. Let us know so that we may recognize you for your thoughtfulness! If you are one of these supporters who have already identified a planned gift to Apple Hill in your will or trust, please contact Javier Caballero at javier@applehill.org so that we may add you to our legacy society, Apple Hill for the Ages.

The following individuals have included Apple Hill in their estate plans:

Anonymous

Mike and Serafin Anderson

Doug and Barb Bletcher

Victoria Gray Bross

Arthur E. Cohen

Lindsay Dearborn

Dita and Bob Englund

Cecile Goff

The Estate of Bernie Gondos

Bill and Peggy Heyman

The Estate of Rev. Olivia Holmes

Eric Kawamoto

Lenny Matczynski

Mary Day Mordecai and Ned Hulbert

The Estate of Polly Perry

Linda Singer and Greg Rothman

Linda Stavely

Judy and Bill Waterston

The Estate of James F. Whipple

The Estate of Dorian Zachai

Mailing address: P.O. Box 217, Sullivan, NH 03445 • Location: 410 Apple Hill Road, Nelson, NH 03457

Phone: 603.847.3371 • Email: music@applehill.org • Website: www.applehill.org

For 53 years, the Summer Concert Series has nourished audience members from New Hampshire and beyond. Each Tuesday evening performance features the Apple Hill String Quartet, Summer Workshop faculty, and guest artists— hosted in Apple Hill’s Louise Shonk Kelly Concert

SINGLE TICKET PRICES:

• $35 Reserved seating

• $10 Students/children

• $125 Gala ticket

• Outside seating is always FREE!

SEASON PASSES:

$405 Nine concerts + Gala (1 free concert)

$280 Nine concerts (1 free concert)

$282 Five concerts + Gala (includes $18 discount)

$157 Five concerts (includes $18 discount)

$247 Four concerts + Gala (includes $18 discount)

Barn on the Apple Hill campus, 410 Apple Hill Road, in Nelson, New Hampshire. Reserved seating tickets are $35 for adults and $10 for students/children. Reserve online or call 603-847-3371 for more information. Outside seating is always FREE!

JOIN US FOR A PRE-CONCERT DINNER

6:00–6:45 pm on Tuesdays in the Summer Concert Series

• Pre-concert dinner $25 per person

• Advanced reservations required

• Or bring your own picnic!

AUGUST 6 – THE SUMMER GALA

Tickets: $125, event starts at 6pm www.applehill.org

All Tuesday evening concerts begin at 7:30 pm.

Box Office Telephone: 603-847-3371

• Order online at www.applehill.org

• The summer concert series is wheelchair-accessible.

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MITSUKO UCHIDA & JONATHAN BISS, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

Apple Hill began in 1971 as a summer chamber music camp in rural NH. While the original focus was the educational program, a performing group emerged in 1973, the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and they performed throughout the U.S. for the next 20 years.

The summer program soon expanded and evolved from a music camp for teenagers to a program for all ages and levels with an inclusive philosophy of teaching and community-building based on mutual respect, acceptance, listening to each other, and supporting and cultivating each student’s unique abilities, no matter their skill level or experience.

On its first international tour, to the Middle East in 1989, Apple Hill expanded its philosophy of acceptance by founding Playing for Peace so Israeli and Palestinian students could play music together. After 30 years Playing for Peace has expanded its reach, now bringing together communities underrepresented or underexposed to classical music, separated by racial or ethnic discord, or with gender, orientation, religious, age, or playing level differences.

In 2008, Apple Hill faculty and violist Lenny Matczynski took over the leadership of Apple Hill as the Director. That year, the Apple Hill Chamber Players became the Apple Hill String Quartet, when longtime Chamber Players Elise Kuder, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; and Rupert Thompson, cello, were joined by Sarah Kim, violin, to create a string quartet in residence. Violinist Colleen Jennings joined the group in 2013, replacing Sarah, and violinist Jesse MacDonald joined the group in 2020, replacing Colleen. In 2021, the organization celebrated its 50th anniversary year. In 2022, longtime Apple Hill alum, faculty, and cellist Javier Caballero was appointed as Apple Hill’s next Executive Director. In 2024, we are excited to welcome Jacob MacKay as our new cellist, replacing Rupert.

Today the Summer Workshop and Concert Series is still a vital part of Apple Hill, fully enrolled, with sold out concerts, and a diverse faculty and student body of all races, cultures, levels, and ages from around the globe playing music together.

JAVIER CABALLERO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Executive Director Javier Caballero joined Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in 2022 with nearly 20 years of experience as an arts leader, educator, and cellist. He is committed to celebrating Apple Hill’s 50-plus year legacy, preserving its spirit, and continuing to foster a community of radical inclusivity—Apple Hill has always been at the forefront of what it means to create space for everyone to have a voice, to feel valued, and to feel a sense of belonging across boundaries.

Mr. Caballero previously served as part of the senior leadership team at NPR’s From the Top as its Scholarship and Recruitment Manager, leading all aspects of its national admissions department as well as the prominent Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. He also served as the Artistic Director of Project STEP, a string training program for students from underrepresented communities in classical music. He led student performances for the Governor of Massachusetts and the Mayor of Boston, as well as joint appearances with the Boston Pops. During his tenure, Project STEP visited the White House to

receive an award from First Lady Michelle Obama in 2014 and returned in 2016 to perform for a State Dinner with President Obama. In 2017, Javier was invited to speak before the National Endowment for the Arts on Project STEP’s legacy of artistic excellence.

A graduate of the University of South Florida and the Boston Conservatory, Javier has studied with J. Alfredo Carbonell, Scott Kluksdahl, and Rhonda Rider. With performances in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, he has previously served on the faculties of Apple Hill, Point Counterpoint, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Junior Strings Intensive summer festivals, as well as the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and the Brookline and Watertown (MA) public schools.

He also serves on the board of directors for A Far Cry, The Theater Offensive, Challenge the Stats, and is a member of the Monadnock Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging (MDEIB) Coalition. Born in Puerto Rico, Javier is a passionate advocate for artistic excellence, music education, and social justice.

THE PLAYING FOR PEACE PROGRAM

Central to Apple Hill is Playing for Peace, founded in 1988 to assemble musicians from areas in political conflict to play chamber music together. Over the span of 30 years, the program has grown to include communities that are underrepresented or underexposed to classical music—communities separated by racial or ethnic discord, or gaps in equality based on gender, orientation, religion, age, and playing level. In small ensembles, our musicians play music focusing on the five skills of chamber music—listening, watching, adjusting, sensitivity, and flexibility—the same skills needed to work and function effectively in the world. Everyone learns

not only to play music, but also to communicate and connect with each other in ways that may not be possible in their home communities.

Because Apple Hill is alive with people from all over the world doing a task together, our chamber music is not just an artistic, academic, or technical pursuit, but a powerful catalyst for connection.

In order for Apple Hill to ensure diversity and acceptance, we have formed partnerships with similar music programs and institutions around the world. These include embassies, universities, schools, conservatories, and youth orchestras in many countries, as well as organizations that reflect the

racial and ethnic diversity of our U.S. communities such as Project STEP in Boston; Dallas Young Strings in Dallas; Community MusicWorks in Providence; the Juilliard MAP Program in New York City; Burncoat High School in Worcester; and schools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Memphis. Through scholarship programs with these organizations, students who would otherwise not have access are able to attend Apple Hill’s Summer Workshop.

Students come to Apple Hill from New Hampshire, many U. S. states, and around the world to work with one another in an atmosphere that promotes diversity, creativity, and understanding through excellence in music.

To learn more about supporting the Playing for Peace program, call 603-847-3371 or visit www.applehill.org.

Above: Children at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon listen to the Apple Hill String Quartet and Kinan Azmeh. Left: Students from Dallas Young Strings.

MAKING WORLD CLASS MUSIC

June 22, SAT, 6PM | “Bon Appetit” Supper Club - $125 (7 course dinner)

23, SUN, 3PM | Piano Trio ~ Rindge - FREE

25, TUE, 5:30PM | Member & Musician Potluck ~ Rindge - MEMBERS

26, WED, 7PM | Library Concert ~ Amherst - FREE 27, THU | 5PM, Supper Club ~ Jaffrey - $100 (4 course dinner) 7PM, Salon Concert ~ Jaffrey - $35/$30

July 7, SUN, 3PM | Flute & Organ ~ Peterborough - FREE

30, SUN, 3PM | String Quartet & Baritone ~ Westmoreland - FREE

11, THU, 7PM | Solo Violin Recital ~ Dublin - FREE 13, SAT, 12PM | Progressive Garden Party ~ Thruout the Region - $100/$85

14, SUN, 4PM | Harp Trio ~ Francestown - FREE 17, WED | Family Concerts ~ 12PM, Keene - FREE 2PM, Peterborough - FREE 4PM, Nelson - FREE

17, WED, 5:30PM | Member & Musician Potluck ~ Rindge - MEMBERS

21, SUN, 6PM | Soprano, Cello, Piano ~ Hancock - FREE 25, THU, 12PM | String Quartet ~ Peterborough - FREE 26, FRI, 6PM | Gil Rose Supper Club ~ Jaffrey - $100 (dinner & music) 28, SUN, 3PM | String Quartet ~ Harrisville - FREE

August 1, THU, 6PM | Members Event ~ Jaffrey - MEMBERS 4, SUN, 3PM | Vivaldi and Piazzolla Eight Seasons Peterborough Town House ~ Peterborough - $25/$20

7, WED, 7PM | Cello & Guitar ~ Nelson - FREE 18, SUN, 6pm | Monadnock Music Summer Gala ~ Keene - $125/$100

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Aphilosophy of teaching and community building has evolved at Apple Hill that is based on inclusivity, mutual respect, acceptance, listening, supporting, and cultivating each student’s unique abilities, no matter what their skill level or experience. These three values form the basis of everything we do:

1. Everyone is accepted

2. Everyone has an expressive voice

3. Everyone deserves to be encouraged and supported equally

Our philosophy of acceptance brings out the true identity of each person. Instead of people strategizing to fit in, they find and free themselves, and are able to grow, heal, and connect with each other and themselves through music. Our outlook is that we want each person to be unique, to be creative, to feel free, and to express individuality while at Apple Hill.

Since one of Apple Hill’s core values is that all participants are coached and supported equally, each chamber music group requires the same care. Regardless of a musician’s experience level, we want to ensure that everyone has a group where they will be challenged and another where they will be a leader. Students play new works as well as established masterpieces. We accommodate their requests if possible, and at the same time push them towards music they might not have realized they love (yet)— all while maintaining Apple Hill’s commitment to creating as diverse an environment as possible.

We have other values too: we value the authority of the teacher; we value learning through self-esteem— everyone can learn without judgment; we value critical thinking; we value exploration—our work is in depth (13-½ hours of coaching per movement); and we work out all the details by using many different methods like the five skills of chamber music (watching, listening, being sensitive, being flexible, and adapting), slow playing for tuning/ensemble work, and feedback on the physical technique of playing.

Learning a piece of music can be difficult, but we believe everyone can learn and this enables our students to gain self-confidence and self-esteem. Since chamber musicians are constantly assessing how they are doing, they develop the skills of discipline and critical thinking.

Our philosophy is reflected in the makeup of the groups, the coaches, and the composers of the pieces. Luckily the chamber music repertoire is a deep well and something wonderful exists for just about every person and every situation.

Students performing. Summer 2018.

Faculty coaching a student group.

At Apple Hill, we continue to realize our dream of bringing students together from all over the world to live, create, relax, replenish, and converse. We teach people how to experience the true essence of music and how to relate to each other without words by using the skills of chamber music. When students are here, this is their physical and creative home.

Apple Hill spans 100 acres with 41 buildings. Over the past few years, we have continued improving the living environment for everyone—from upgraded living and practice spaces for participants who live in 22 cabins, to renovations of the Sugar House, Rehearsal Barn, a bath and shower building, and the beautiful Hoffman Community Auditorium.

We recently completed a major milestone: upgrades to the central campus buildings. This update has brought more public space; a transformed entrance and lobby area; an expanded kitchen that includes a dishwashing station; more space for the

winter/green room; new accessible restrooms adjacent to the entrance lobby; new practice rooms; new mechanicals and storage in the basement; decks that allow the public to enjoy the outdoors; expanded brick pathway; a new water well; Apple Hill’s firstever electric vehicle charging station; and physical changes that, along with our ever-growing student and audience population, represent an effort to open up Apple Hill and break down any boundaries due to outdated facilities.

An upcoming major milestone includes plans for the installation of solar energy in order to ensure Apple Hill’s environmental and financial sustainability. Our upgraded physical space is an essential ingredient to our continued viability. It offers us additional capacity, positive residential experiences and camper comfort, and a campus that reflects the beautiful, natural setting of Nelson, NH.

Your support has made this possible—thank you!

APPLE HILL STRING QUARTET

Artistic Directors and Resident Artists of Apple Hill

Called “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad magazine, the Apple Hill String Quartet are the Artistic Directors and resident musicians at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, winner of the CMAcclaim Award from Chamber Music America. The Quartet serves as the Music Directors for Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop in Nelson, New Hampshire, known for cultivating connection and understanding among people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, playing levels, and ages through its guiding philosophy, Playing for Peace.

During the regular concert season, the Quartet performs concerts and conducts residencies locally in NH, nationally in major U.S. cities, and internationally around the globe—in venues as diverse as the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, ChatterABQ, Burncoat High School in Worcester, Project STEP in Boston, Cedarcrest Center for Children with Disabilities in Keene, NH, the Ketermaya refugee camp outside Beirut, Lebanon, the Moscow Conservatory, the Conservatorio National de Musica in Lima, Peru, the Gitameit Music School in Yangon, Myanmar, and the Harrisville General Store.

The Quartet’s concert programs reflect the diversity of Apple Hill: pieces amplifying new voices, views, and backgrounds in classical music; compositions from places representing the Quartet’s global travels and the summer workshop community; and music from the historic canon and new commissions, especially from renowned alumni.

The Quartet has collaborated with members of the Brentano String Quartet and Attacca String Quartets, Silk Road Ensemble, Dorian Wind Quintet, Warp Trio, and Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo. Members of the Quartet have received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Brandeis University, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and a Fulbright Fellowship to London, England.

Elise Kuder, Violin

Called “first-rate” by the Boston Globe, Elise Kuder is the first violinist of the Apple Hill String Quartet and Co-Artistic Director of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music where she has been a resident musician since 1998. With Apple Hill, Elise has performed and taught across the U.S. and internationally in Aleppo, Algiers, Amman, Ankara, Aqaba, Baku, Beirut, Belfast, Bethlehem, Bursa, Cork, Cusco, Da Lat, Damascus, Derry, Donegal, Dublin, Edirne, Gyumri, Homs, Istanbul, Izmir, Jenin, Jerusalem, Kuala Lumpur, Kyrenia, Lima, Limassol, Madaba, Moscow, Naples, Nicosia, Paphos, Penang, Procida, Ramallah, Saigon, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Yangon, and Yerevan. Elise is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School where she studied with Marilyn McDonald and Joel Smirnoff. She attended the Tanglewood Music Center where she served as concertmaster

under conductors Robert Spano and Bernard Haitink. As a Fulbright Scholar, Elise studied in London with David Takeno. In her spare time away from Apple Hill, Elise is a studio regular in the New York City disco scene, including Red Bull Music Academy performances at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem with disco legends Patrick Adams, Black Ivory, and Donna McGhee.

Jesse MacDonald, Violin

Jesse MacDonald, second violinist of the Apple Hill String Quartet and Co-Artistic Director of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, has participated and placed in festivals and competitions in various regions of the United States. With the AHSQ, Jesse has toured and given masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, University of

Iowa, UCLA, Ulster University (Northern Ireland), Keene State College and around the East Coast. He is also currently a core violinist of the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra and Palaver Strings (Portland, ME). He has also played with the Cape Symphony, The Dessoff Choirs (NYC) under the baton of Doctor Malcolm Merriweather and with Off-Broadway Theaters such as the Company Theatre in Norwell, MA, and the Seacoast Repertory Theater in Portsmouth, NH. He was also the lead fiddle player for the Broken String Band, a contra dance and swing band based out of Bozeman, MT, for 10 years. He has also previously performed with the Luminaria String Quartet, based in NYC, and the Emma String Quartet and the Tempest String Quartet, both based out of Boston, which have performed in NEC’s Jordan Hall, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), and the Harvard Club (NYC). New to the arranging and composing scene, Jesse has arranged all types of genres of music extensively for Palaver Strings, and Scuta Music Productions (MA), a Cape Verdebased recording studio for which his string arrangements can be heard on numerous recordings. Jesse also has private teaching studios on the Seacoast and Southwest regions of New Hampshire and has been a substitute conductor and violin faculty with the University of New Hampshire Youth Symphonies, and their summer program String Youth Music School (SYMS). Previously, he was an orchestra manager, judge, chamber music coach and music theory tutor at the New England Conservatory and NEC Prep Programs. Jesse received his Bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Masuko Ushioda and Joanna Kurkowicz, and was awarded the Rachmael Weinstock Scholarship for Violin and Hugo Kortschak Award for Chamber Music while graduating with a Master’s degree studying with Mark Steinberg at the Manhattan School of Music.

Michael Kelley, Viola

Mike Kelley, Apple Hill String Quartet violist and Co-Artistic Director at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, graduated from The Walnut Hill School for the Arts and has received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School. His teachers have included Leonard Matczynski, Jeffrey Irvine, and Karen Tuttle. A Primrose International Viola Competition finalist at the age of 18, Mike joined the resident ensemble of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music three years later and has been performing and

touring internationally with the group for over 25 years. Mike has been a Teaching Fellow in Electronic Music at Juilliard, and is a frequent New York studio session player. An active multidisciplinary composer, he has written pop music for Pharrell and Madonna; rock music for fight nights at Madison Square Garden; art music for members of Eighth Blackbird and the Yale University Anthropology department, and can be heard singing on Queen Latifah’s The Equalizer on CBS. Under a pop-disco alias, he has performed worldwide in clubs such as Webster Hall (NYC), the O2 (London), and Berghain (Berlin). His recorded albums have been selected for the “best of the decade” lists of music magazines Stylus and Fact, and have been highly recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, and the Guardian. His most recent album, Au Suisse, was recently voted a Top 10 Album of the Year by the BBC. Fulfilling a lifetime devotion to Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop (where he first attended as an 11-year old), he has coached hundreds of chamber music ensembles there, acting as a Music Director since 2001.

Jacob MacKay, Cello

Joining the Apple Hill String Quartet in 2024, Jacob MacKay recently served as the Resident Cellist and Education Coordinator at the Newport String Project. As an educator, he has served on the faculty of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Worcester Chamber Music Society’s Neighborhood Strings, Salve Regina University, St. George’s School, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School. As a performer, he collaborated with the Silk Road Ensemble, and has been featured in concert series around the world including Classical Impromptu in Key West and the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. Jacob graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University in 2016 with degrees in Environmental Studies and Cello Performance. He was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship, and was a recipient of the Coffey Award for “excellence in the performance of music” and the Fisher Prize for “extraordinary achievement in the creative arts.” In 2019, Jacob received a master’s degree in Cello Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He is currently a member of the New Bedford Symphony and performs regularly with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Jacob is a lover of dogs, kayaking, lazy Susans, primates, and chairs.

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Molina

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Verdi

Urtext

Turina

Spohr Chung-ba Dobbs

Mascagni

Humperdink

Resphigi

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the Session I Faculty

Concert I

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Pièces de viole MarinMarais(1656–1728)

ChelseaBernstein,violadagamba

Idyll for 2 clarinets, Op. 155

Times for Flying, for 2 clarinets

CharlesKoechlin(1867–1950)

SadieHarrison(b.1965)

I. On Saturdays (Hard-Edged and Aggressive but becoming softer)

II. After borrowing wings (Flexible, poco espressivo, verging on mournful)

III. With ducks (Always rhythmic, relentless, perhaps a little panicked and eventually taking off!)

RaneMoore,EricThomas,clarinets

Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 2

FrankKelleyandLennyMatczynski,narrators; AmySchroeder,violin

~ INTERMISSION ~

Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

I. Allegro molto moderato III. Adagio

II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace IV. Allegro molto

PhilipGlass(b.1937)

GabrielFauré(1845–1924)

ParanAmirinazari,violin;MikeKelley,viola; FelixUmansky,cello;PhilipSolomonick,piano

This concert generously underwritten by the Apple Hill Board of Trustees and is dedicated to the memory of John F. Wilson.

Please drive slowly and carefully on Apple Hill Road 25 MPH speed limit.

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring Aron Zelkowicz, cello and Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano

Concert II

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Differences for cello and piano (1998) CarterPann(b.1972)

I. Strand

II. Air

III. Country Dance

IV. Blues

V. Song

Manhattan Serenades (1995)

I. Uptown

II. Midtown

III. Downtown

GabrielaLenaFrank(b.1972)

Troubled Water (1967) MargaretBonds(1913-1972)

~ INTERMISSION ~

Air for cello and piano (2004) KevinPuts(b.1972)

American Vignettes (1988) StephenPaulus(1949-2014)

I. The Dying Cowboy

II. Whoa Back, Buck

III. The Water is Wide

IV. Sweet Betsy from Pike

V. Single Girl

VI. She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain

AronZelkowicz,celloandChristinaWright-Ivanova,piano

This concert generously underwritten by Nancy Roberts in memory of Rev. Olivia Holmes

Please drive slowly and carefully on Apple Hill Road. 25 MPH speed limit.

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the Session II Faculty

Concert III

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Summerland

WilliamGrantStill(1895-1978) Nocturne LiliBoulanger(1893-1918) Cortège

MaianidaSilva,violin;MikaelDarmanie,piano

Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello

I. Movement 1

II. Movement 2

NatalieHunt(b.1985)

RieSuzuki,clarinet;KiyoshiHayashi,violin; RohanGregory,viola;IrisJortner,cello ~ INTERMISSION

Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, B. 162, Op.87

I. Allegro con fuoco

II. Lento

III. Allegro moderato, grazioso

IV. Finale. Allegro, ma non troppo

AntoninDvorak(1841-1904)

JesseMacDonald,violin;ChrisJenkins,viola; PeiLu,cello;MikaelDarmanie,piano

This concert is generously underwritten by Bob & Dita Englund.

Please drive slowly and carefully on Apple Hill Road. 25 MPH speed limit.

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring Ziv Wainer Bobrowicz, bassoon and Miles Walter, piano

Concert IV

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Concertino (1948) MarcelBitsch(1921—2011)

Reminiscences, Op. 25 ManueldeFalla(1876 1946)

~ INTERMISSION ~

Sonata in G major; Op. 25, No. 2

I. Allegro maestoso

II. Adagio

III. Rondeau moderato

Tilt (2021)

FançoisDevienne(1759 1803)

ToniaKo(b.1988)

Sonatine Tango (1983) PierreMaxDubois(1930 1995)

ZivWainerBobrowicz,bassoon;MilesWalter,piano

Please drive slowly and carefully on Apple Hill Road. 25 MPH speed limit.

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the Session III Faculty

Concert V

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Serenade for flute, violin & viola in D major, Op.25

LudwigVanBeethoven(1770-1827)

JeiranHasan,flute;MandyWolman,violin; JesseHolstein,viola

Two Fleeting Daydreams QuinnMason(b.1996) I. “Lights that fire up the sky” II. “Sanic Fast”

GeorgeGeorgiou,clarinet;EalaínMcMullin,violin; MyriamAvalosTeie,piano ~ INTERMISSION ~

Piano Trio in B flat major, D. 898 (Op. 99)

FranzSchubert(1797-1828)

EliseKuder,violin;EdvardPogossian,cello; SallyPinkas,piano

This concert is generously underwritten by Elisabeth & Peter Roos in memory of Elisabeth "Tibby" Tobey.

Please drive slowly and carefully on Apple Hill Road. 25 MPH speed limit.

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the 2024 Fellowship Quartet

Concert VI

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Danzas de Panama WilliamGrantStill(1895—1978)

I. Tamborito

II. Cumbia y Congo

String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49 DmitryShostakovich(1906 1975)

I. Moderato

II. Moderato

III. Allegro molto

IV. Allegro

RoseRutkowski,MakaelaFoerderer,violins; ChrisDahlke,viola;ZoëBell,cello

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String Quartet No. 23 in F major (“Prussian 3”), K. 590 W.A.Mozart(1756 1791)

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante (Allegretto)

III. Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio

IV. Allegro

MakaelaFoerderer,RoseRutkowski,violins; ChrisDahlke,viola;ZoëBell,cello

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Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the Session IV Faculty

Concert VII

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Peace for Clarinet and Piano (2020)

JessieMontgomery(b.1974)

EranEgozy,clarinet;JeanSchneider,piano

Duo for Violin and Cello Montgomery I. Meandering II. Dirge III. Presto

JoshuaAddison,violin;TonyRymer,cello

World premiere for oud and string quartet

KareemRoustom(b.1974)

KareemRoustom,oud;SalleyKoo,JesseMacDonald,violins; BesteTiknazModiri,viola;JacobMacKay,cello

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Clarinet Quintet, Op. 40 JacobWeinberg(1879 1956)

EranEgozy,clarinet;JesseMacDonald,JoshuaAddison,violins; BesteTiknazModiri,viola;TonyRymer,cello

Trio No. 4 in E major, K. 542

W.A.Mozart(1756—1791)

SalleyKoo,violin;JacobMacKay,cello;JeanSchneider,piano

This concert is generously underwritten by Elisabeth & Peter Roos.

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WELCOME

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the Apple Hill String Quartet

Concert VIII: The Summer Gala

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

VanessaHolroyd&TarynFisher,GalaCo-Chairs

Silent Rain ArikaMorningstar(b.2005)

String Quartet No. 3 ("Mishima") PhilipGlass(b.1937)

I. 1957-AwardMontage

II. November25-Ichigaya

III. GrandmotherandKimitake

IV. 1962-BodyBuilding

V. BloodOath

VI. Mishima/Closing

PRESENTATION

JavierCaballero,ExecutiveDirector&MollyMcCarthy,BoardPresident

Al Yemeni KamranAziz(1922-2017) Arr.AliHoca

TheAppleHillStringQuartet

EliseKuder,JesseMacDonald,violins;MikeKelley,viola;JacobMacKay,cello

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Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring the Session V Faculty

Concert IX

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

Quartet for 4 violins

I. Allegretto

II. Andante tranquillo

III. Molto allegro

GrazynaBacewicz(1909—1969)

NicoleCherry,MovsesPogossian,HeatherBraun,EliseKuder,violins

Oriental Ensemble

RamziAburedwan,buzuq;LizzyCook,cello

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Nocturne AntonínDvořák(1841 1904)

MovsesPogossian,NicoleCherry,violins;MikeKelley,viola; LizzyCook,cello;MaxZeugner,doublebass

Sextet GuillaumeConnesson(b.1970)

VanessaHolroyd,flute,EliseKuder,HeatherBraun,violins; MikeKelley,viola;MaxZeugner,doublebass; Yi-hengYang,piano

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Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Tuesday Summer Concert Series

Featuring Dana Lyn, violin and Kyle Sanna, guitar

Concert X

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn

The Coral Suite DanaLyn&KyleSanna

DanaLyn,violin;KyleSanna,guitar

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Hailedas“first-rate,versatilemusicians”by The New Yorker and“atop-notchfiddle-and-guitar duo”by The New York Times,DanaLynandKyleSannaconnectthedotsbetweentheirexperience ascomposersandimprovisersinNewYorkCity’srichmusicalcommunityandtheirdeep admirationfortraditionalIrishmusic.Rootedinthistradition,thebranchesofLynandSanna’s collaborationextendtoincludeprojectedanimations,augmentedreality,dance,video,and orchestralcompositions.TheduohascollaboratedwithsomeofthegreatestinterpretersofIrish music,includingMartinHayesandDennisCahill,CillianVallely,KevinBurke,andMickMcAuley, andwithchoreographersDarrahCarrByrneandSeánCurran.Theyhavereceivedcommissions fromNewYork’sIrishArtsCenterandfromPalaverStrings.Theirprojects“TheGreatArc”,“The CoralSuite”,and“UndertheSea-Wind”arefocusedonthemesofenvironmentalfragility.

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“Each artist is a dreamer, or should be,” says Ramzi when speaking of his musical journey. “Borders have been created by human beings. But through music we can dream, break down these borders. In music, I feel completely free… I can travel with the sounds wherever I want.” The musical oeuvres of Palestinian violist, bouzouq player, composer, arranger and artistic director Ramzi Aburedwan are the living sonic expression of this sentiment. Ramzi’s music spans and bridges the embodied pull of Palestinian folk music, the deep emotionality of tarab, the complex harmonic and polyphonic vocabulary of Western music, the spirituality of Sufi traditions, and the playfulness embedded in a variety of improvised world traditions. Ramzi is the founder, composer, musical director and driving spirit of several ensembles that have extensively toured Palestine and internationally to critical acclaim, including Dal’Ouna, Al Manara, The Palestine National Ensemble for Arabic Music, and The Jerusalem Sufi Ensemble. While a student in France, Ramzi founded Al-Kamandjâti, a nonprofit organization that today manages a multi-branch conservatory in Palestine and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, establishes introductory music programs in Palestinian schools, organizes events and festivals, and develops locally-based orchestras and ensembles. Ramzi is also the founder, producer and co-director for several annual music festivals in Palestine, including the Musical Journey for Spiritual and Traditional Music Festival, the Baroque Festival, and the Music Days Festival. The story of Ramzi’s life and of Al-Kamandjâti is the subject of several documentaries (It’s Not a Gun 2005; L’archet de la Paix, 2012; Just Play, 2012), a play (AlKamandjâti Show, 2008) and a book (Children of the Stone: the Power of Music in a Hard Land, Sandy Tolan, Bloomsbury Press 2015). Ramzi is also a 2017 recipient of the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award and of the Palestinian Cultural Personality of the year – 2017.

Violinist Joshua Addison is a passionate chamber musician and music educator who currently teaches violin and viola in the Natick Public Schools. He previously served as Associate Director and Resident Musician at musiConnects, a unique non-profit musical residency centered in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale & Mattapan. Joshua has performed with many orchestras throughout New England, and appeared as soloist with the Keene Chamber Orchestra, where he served as concertmaster for five years. Joshua holds a B.A. in History from Boston University and a M.M. in Violin Performance from University of California, Los Angeles. His primary teachers include Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Daniel Phillips, and Rohan Gregory.

Boston native, Paran Amirinazari, currently calls Madison, Wisconsin her home where she is founder and artistic director of the award-winning Willy Street Chamber Players. In its 10th year, the Willy Street Chamber Players continue to be celebrated for their innovative

programming and ability to create community through chamber music. Outside of her artistic director position, Paran has a vibrant career as a chamber musician, orchestral musician, concert curator, and educator. She is the first violinist of the Hunt String Quartet, first violinist in the Madison Symphony Orchestra and active teaching artist and private violin teacher. Paran earned her DMA from the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 where she studied with Felicia Moye and Soh-hyun Park Altino. During her time at UW-Madison, she was the winner of the UW-Madison Concerto Competition and a member of the graduate string quartet. Prior to Madison, Paran lived in Reno, Nevada where she attended the University of Nevada, Reno School of Music and earned her MM in Violin Performance and Orchestral Career Studies and was a member of the Nightingale String Quartet in Residence. Paran holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Mr. James Buswell IV. Outside the classical realm, she has collaborated with various non-classical ensembles and has toured with Ian Anderson (from Jethro Tull), Larkin Grimm, and Beat Circus.

Hailed for her passion and power, expression and sensitivity, Myriam Avalos Teie’s performances and master classes throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia have earned her critical acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician, clinician and pedagogue. At the age of three, she gave her first public performance, made her orchestra debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru at twelve, and was awarded full scholarships to the Eastman School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory. Ms. Avalos Teie holds a Doctoral degree in Chamber Music and a Taubman Piano Method Certificate. She is a collaborative pianist at the Kennedy Center, maintains a private studio in Northern Virginia, and is a guest faculty, adjudicator and performing artist at festivals in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America

Appearances and broadcasts include the Kennedy Center, the Phillips Collection, Dumbarton Concert Series, Embassy Concert Series, Purcell Room in London, Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Voice of the OAS, San Antonio Festival, WGMS Radio, Teatro Municipal de Lima and two US State Department-sponsored tours of China and Brazil. She has recorded for the MSR Classics label. For her pedagogy, Steinway & Sons recognized Dr. Avalos Teie with the Top Teacher Award for outstanding instruction and leadership in piano education. In 2004, Dr. Avalos Teie was conferred the title of Cultural Ambassador by the Government of Peru. Her mission is to promote and expand the arts in Peru, and to expose and exchange Peruvian artists and students throughout the world.

Dr. Chelsea Bernstein enjoys an active and varied career as a specialist in the performance of modern cello, historical cello, and

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viola da gamba. On stage, she performs regularly as a multi-instrumentalist with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Four Seasons, Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, Washington Performing Arts, Les Arts Florissants, American Bach Soloists, Gotham Early Music Scene, and Music Before 1800 concert series. Chelsea holds advanced performance degrees from The Juilliard School and the University of Maryland. In her free time, she enjoys chipping away at the restoration of the 19th century home she shares with her husband, Frank, and little dog, Arrow, in historic Dedham MA. Chelsea serves on the music faculties of Salve Regina University and St. Georges School, in Newport, Rhode Island.

Heather Braun performs as first violinist of the prize-winning Arneis Quartet and as a member of the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music and Taconic Music Chamber Players. Heather began teaching violin and chamber music at the Boston University School of Music in 2014 and joined the Saint Anselm College faculty in 2016. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, China, and Italy, including venues such as the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Cabot Theater, Concord Free Library, Frederick Collection, Music on Main (Vancouver), Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Stanford University, Swarthmore College, University of Indianapolis, and Williams College. Heather has performed as a soloist with various orchestras in Boston, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Danbury, CT and Manchester, VT. She has performed as visiting concertmaster for the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and as a guest artist with the Greenwich Chamber Players. Other chamber music and solo collaborations include performances with Tony Arnold, Randall Hodgkinson, Marc Johnson, Robert Levin, St. Lawrence String Quartet, and Shanghai Quartet. Heather earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University, studying with Peter Zazofsky. While a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, she received the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize; other awards received include the Zulalian Foundation Award (BU), the John Lad Prize (Stanford University) and Silver Medal at the ICMEC Competition. Heather is on the faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Taconic Music Chamber Intensive and Danbury Chamber Music Intensive. She has also taught at Point Counterpoint, Duxbury Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. Her recordings include chamber music by John Wallace, as a violinist soloist and member of the orchestra for Bach Cantatas with soprano Kendra Colton, and on Elena Ruehr’s latest album, Icarus, released in the spring of 2022 and featured on NPR and BBC Proms.

Dr. Nicole Cherry is Assistant Professor of Violin at The University of Texas at San Antonio and second violinist of the award-winning Marian Anderson String Quartet. Dr. Cherry currently holds the

appointment of Faculty Fellow for Faculty Success by the Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. Dr. Cherry has held artist-teacher residencies at Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M, University of Washington, and Brown University where she, with the quartet, trains promising string players of all ages. Dr. Cherry has performed extensively in distinguished venues including the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian, and the Banff Centre. A solo tour of the Middle East and Asia included performances before the Queen Noor of Jordan and in underdeveloped townships in Johannesburg during Apartheid. Dr. Cherry serves as artistic director of the Marian Anderson String Quartet Chamber Music Institute held in the Brazos Valley, Texas. In recognition of this outreach with the quartet, Dr. Cherry garnered two Mayoral Proclamations, the Congress of Racial Equality’s MLK JR. Award for Outstanding Arts Achievement and Chamber Music America’s Guarneri String Quartet Award and after a recent visit the quartet was given the Arkansas Traveler, the highest distinction of the Arkansas House of Representatives. A regular presenter on diversity, community engagement and the performing arts, Dr. Cherry has given talks some of the leading arts conferences such as American String Teachers Association, National Association for Music Education, the American Musicological Society in addition to TED Talk. Dr. Cherry’s award-winning research on the nineteenthcentury Afro-European violin virtuoso, George Bridgetower has led to engagements in some of world’s most prestigious institutions including University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, Berklee College of Music, Sydney Conservatory of Music (AU), Cambridge University (UK), the Royal Academy of Music (UK) and the Juilliard School. Her work has expanded into a commissioning project, ForgewithGeorge which has engaged some of today’s most exciting composers. The Juilliard School profiled Dr. Cherry in the Journal’s 100th-anniversary issue, “A Quiet Revolution: Juilliard Alumni and the Transformation of Education in America Through the Arts.” Dr. Cherry holds degrees from the University of Maryland, Peabody Conservatory, the Shepherd School of Music and the Juilliard School.

Elizabeth Cook is a Boston based cellist who grew up in North Carolina where she studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She went on to obtain degrees from Mannes College and SUNY Purchase, where she studied with renowned cellists such as Marcy Rosen, Brooks Whitehouse, Zvi Plesser and Julia Lichten. In 2018 Elizabeth was awarded a Gloria Miner Fellow at the 2018 Sitka International Cello Seminar and performed as soloist with the Western Piedmont Wind Symphony in the “Music Beyond Borders” concert series which highlighted the stories of refugees. Elizabeth’s passion for social change has driven her to serve in many different places all over the world such as Sounds of Palestine, an orchestral program for refugee youth, in Bethlehem

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and Children of Cambodia, a sponsorship program for orphans in Cambodia. Elizabeth spent three years as a cello teacher for Al Kamandjati, a music organization that exists to teach music to Palestinian children, especially those in marginalized areas. Currently, she performs with Shelter Music Boston and is on faculty at musiConnects and Milton Academy.

Maiani da Silva first picked up the violin at age 8 thanks to public schooling with Ms. Carol Dobbs in Los Angeles. She has since concertized with her four-time Grammy-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird, founded Brouhaha—an interdisciplinary project combining newly commissioned solo violin pieces with the work of scholars in anthropology—and is currently Lecturer at Yale’s Department of Music where she teaches a course on contemporary chamber music performance. She has premiered concertos with the Cincinnati Symphony and the U.S. Navy Band, premiered works by Joan Tower and David Lang, and has also collaborated with Bang On a Can All-Stars, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Electric Earth Concerts, Wild Up, Louis Andriessen, Kelley Polar, Viet Cuong, Childish Gambino, Julianna Barwick, Peter Gabriel, Joe Hisaishi, and more. Maiani is an Artist in Residence and Fellow at Morse College at Yale University. Maiani was born in Bahia, Brazil, grew up in Los Angeles, and also lived in Boston, Paris, Mexico City, and San Francisco before settling in woodsy Connecticut. Maiani also enjoys in-person philosophical debates, traveling the world, and reading. Listening to 90s slow-jams and Motown always lifts her spirits. For more info: www.maianidasilva.com

Mikael Darmanie regularly performs throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean as a pianist, improviser, conductor, chamber musician with his group the Warp Trio, and as a DJ. He is currently a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in composition and is a Doctoral Candidate in Piano Performance at Stony Brook University in New York under the mentorship of Gil Kalish.

Eran Egozy, clarinet, hailed as “sensitive and energetic” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), is a musician, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Harmonix Music Systems, which developed Guitar Hero, Rock Band, The Beatles: Rock Band, and Dance Central. Eran and his business partner are recipients of the Time 100, Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40” award, and USA Network’s “Character Approved” award. Eran is currently Professor of the Practice in Music Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches and conducts research on new forms of interactive computer music systems. He holds degrees in electrical engineering

and music from MIT and studied clarinet with Jonathan Cohler and William Wrzesien at New England Conservatory. He has performed as soloist with the MIT Symphony Orchestra and has appeared with Emmanuel Music, A Far Cry, Winsor Music, and the Worcester Chamber Players.

Hailed for his energetic and inspirational performances, clarinetist George Georgiou enjoys a career as a classical and contemporary performer. He has appeared for solo concerts and recitals in Europe, the Middle East and the USA. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians and ensembles such as the legendary cellist Rohan de Saram, Prazak Quartet, Apple Hill String Quartet, Chilingirian String Quartet, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, Commandaria Orchestra and Moscow Virtuosi (as a soloist). In his research for new repertoire, he has collaborated with some of the most notable composers from Cyprus and abroad, he has been the dedicatee of many new works and has given the premiere performance of them. George is a member of Lyrical Noise Ensemble, Quintus Ensemble, Chronos Contemporary Music Ensemble and Patsiaoura Ensemble and he holds the clarinet position at the ARTE Academy of Music and at the Nicosia and Paphos State Music Schools. George Georgiou is a graduate of City University, London, where he studied clarinet with Julian Farrell and Joy Faral at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is also an MBA graduate from the Neapolis University Paphos, Cyprus and a member of Mensa Cyprus. His busy profile gained him an international recognition and he became an ambassador for Selmer Paris Clarinet, a SilversteinWorks, Marca Reeds and a Royal Global. He is also the Cyprus Chair and the Middle East Regional Chair of the International Clarinet Association and a member of the association’s New Music Committee. His first CD dedicated to solo clarinet works by Cypriot Composers was released in 2023, while his upcoming CD with Clarinet Chamber Music by Cypriot Composers is expected to be released later in 2024.

Rohan Gregory, violinist, has cultivated a wide-ranging expertise in chamber music, new music and world music. His travels have taken him to Europe and Brazil with the Klezmatics, to Panama with flamenco guitarist Juanito Pascual, to Thailand with multi-ethnic flute player Abbie Rabinowitz, to India with Natraj, to Russia and the Netherlands with the Arden String Quartet, and across the US with his Greek folk band Revma. Rohan is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera Company and the Worcester Chamber Music Society. He has performed with Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Itzhak Perlman, the Boston Pops, the Boston Ballet, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the New England String Ensemble, the Portland Symphony, the Springfield Symphony, and has spent decades playing in in the Arden, QX, and Pedroia String

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myself as a musician.”

—Apple Hill alumnus

Thai Garden

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Quartets. Rohan has coached chamber music and taught at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, Holy Cross College, the Putney School, the St. Paul’s School, and for the Neighborhood Strings Program. He has an extensive private studio, and spends his summers coaching at Music at Port Milford in Ontario, Canada, at the WCMS Chamberfest, and at the High School Composer’s Intensive at Boston Conservatory/Berklee.

Azerbaijani-American flutist Dr. Jeiran Hasan is the Assistant Professor of Flute at Utah State University. An active and versatile musician, Hasan enjoys a multi-faceted career as a flutist and educator. A sought-after master teacher and adjudicator, Jeiran has given masterclasses around the globe, on four continents and the Middle East and in numerous languages, including Azerbaijani, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. Dr. Hasan is also a frequent presenter and clinical at flute fairs and colleges and universities across the U.S. Passionate about chamber and contemporary music in addition to orchestral playing, Dr. Hasan has performed with many professional ensembles throughout the U.S including a recent performance at Carnegie Hall as the principal flutist of the International Virtuosi Orchestra and as the Principal Flutist of Andrea Bocelli’s 2023 tour. She has also performed with the Omaha Symphony, Des Moines Symphony and Cleveland Opera Circle. She has been a fellow at some of the most prestigious summer festivals in the United States including the Hot Springs Music Festival, the National Repertory Orchestra, National Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Institute, Spoleto USA, and Weekend of Chamber Music Festival. A champion for new music, she is commissioning and premiering numerous new works for flute especially by female Azerbaijani composers. In November 2019, she gave the US premiere of Anze Rozman’s “Phoenix for Flute and Orchestra” with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony (IL), of which she was principal flute. Dr. Hasan has competed in and been a prize winner or finalist in over twenty international and national competitions including the National Flute Association’s Orchestral Excerpt and Young Artist Competitions, as well as the first prize winner of the San Francisco, Kentucky, Upper Midwest, San Diego, and Atlanta Flute Association Young Artist Competitions, to name a few. Her first prize win at the Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition in 2018 resulted in her debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Jeiran is the Vice President of the Utah Flute Association where she also served as this past season’s Utah Guest Artist and Masterclass Coordinator. As a committee member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Committee through the National Flute Association, she is the co-founder and mentor of the Young Artist Mentorship Program, which serves to provide additional career opportunities for traditionally marginalized flute students. Dr. Hasan is a LefreQue Sound Bridge performing artist and holds degrees from the University of Iowa (D.M.A.) and the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM and BM).

Kiyoshi Hayashi is the founder and violinist of the award-winning Rasa String Quartet, Co-Artistic Director of the string ensemble and nonprofit organization, Palaver Strings, and the Career Advising Manager at the New England Conservatory of Music. He regularly performs with notable ensembles around New England including the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, Phoenix Orchestra, and A Far Cry and has taught at Institutions like the Longy School of Music, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Roxbury Youth Orchestra. Kiyoshi’s principal teachers include Nicholas Kitchen, Almita and Roland Vamos, and Thomas Wermuth, and he received his B.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2016. In addition to his musical endeavors, Kiyoshi has a personal health & career coaching business where he empowers young musicians in developing the entrepreneurial skills and holistic lifestyle necessary to design meaningful and sustainable careers. To find out more, check out Kiyoshi’s personal website: kiyoshihayashi.com.

Flutist Vanessa Holroyd is a frequent soloist and regular Principal performer with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music in Boston and enjoys an active freelance career with a focus on chamber music. Past collaborations include performances with Helga Davis at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Arneis Quartet, Phoenix, A Far Cry, the Craft Quartet and her most recent chamber music project, “Trichrome” with harpist Franziska Huhn and violist, Daniel Doña. She has been privileged to perform and coach as a guest summer faculty artist at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music since 2007 and has participated in chamber music concerts presented by the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Emmanuel Music, Steinert & Sons, Rochester (VT) Chamber Music Society and Winsor Music, in addition to recitals throughout the US and British Virgin Islands with pianist Joy Cline Phinney. Vanessa is a member of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and has been invited to perform with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Back Bay Chorale in addition to other Boston-area ensembles. Currently, Vanessa co-owns and operates Music Management Inc.(musicmanage.com), an entertainment agency that contracts and produces over 500 events annually and employs hundreds of freelance professional artists. She is eternally grateful for her teachers: Geralyn Coticone, Robert Willoughby, Michael Parloff, Ransom Wilson and Elssa Green. Thanks in large part to their guidance, she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University, a M.Mus. in Flute Performance from McGill University and an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Vanessa resides in Boston with her husband, two children, and highly energetic shih-tzu.

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Jesse Holstein graduated from Oberlin where he studied with Marilyn McDonald and then received his Master’s with James Buswell at the New England Conservatory. Prior to Oberlin, he studied violin with Philipp Naegele in Northampton, Massachusetts. He would be remiss if he did not send a huge thank you to his wonderful Suzuki teacher Diana Peelle who started him at age 5 and was extremely patient with his slouching posture for years. An active orchestral and chamber musician, Jesse is currently concertmaster of the New Bedford Symphony. In recent summers, he has performed at the Bravo! Festival in Vail Colorado, the Montana Chamber Music Festival in Bozeman, the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine, the Apple Hill Festival in Sullivan, New Hampshire, the South Coast Chamber Music Series, among others. While an undergraduate, Jesse taught for the Oberlin Preparatory Program in the Lorain, Ohio public schools. Also at Oberlin, he served as Assistant Concertmaster and later as Music Director of the Royal Farfissa Disco Juggernaut, the premier disco orchestra in the greater-Cleveland area in the mid-1990s. Currently, Jesse is a teacher and resident musician for Community MusicWorks and was a founding member of the Providence String Quartet. Jesse performed with the Muir, Borromeo, Miro, Apple Hill, Orion, Turtle Island, and St. Lawrence Quartets, as well as pianists Jonathan Biss and Emanuel Ax, cellist Matt Haimovitz; Cleveland Orchestra Principal Oboe, Frank Rosenwein, and violist Kim Kashkashian, among many others. Jesse also has attended the Violin Craftsmanship Institute in Durham, New Hampshire, where he learned about instrument repair. He manages all of the instruments at Community MusicWorks and the program’s 150 students. Jesse has been a Violin Professeur at L’Ecole de Musique, Dessaix Baptiste in Jacmel, Haiti and is currently on the faculty at Brown University. Some of his life forces are mindfulness, running, animals, and visiting Donegal, Ireland with his wonderful wife, violinist Ealaín McMullin.

At Oberlin Conservatory, Christopher Jenkins is the Associate Dean for Academic Support; the Conservatory Liaison to the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology. He teaches courses on hip-hop analysis and the racial politics of classical music. He is earning a DMA in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a PhD in Musicology from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), where his work focuses on AfricanAmerican musical aesthetics. Before coming to Oberlin, he was Deputy Director and instructor of viola and violin at the BarenboimSaid Foundation in Ramallah, West Bank. Alongside music theorist Philip Ewell, Chris is a cofounder of the Theorizing African American Music conference, held at CWRU in 2022, UC Denver’s College of Arts and Media in fall 2023, and Emory University in spring 2025. Chris is the winner of several awards for scholarship and music performance,

including the Cleveland Orchestra’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service in the Arts Award; the Music Settlement’s Ida Mercer Community Service Award; Karamu House’s “Room in the House” Fellowship; CWRU’s Adel Heinrich Award for Excellence in Musicological Research; the American Society for Aesthetics’ Irene Chayes “New Voices” award; the American Viola Society’s David Dalton Research Competition; and as third-place laureate in the Sphinx Competition. In 2023, his first book, Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education, was published by Routledge Press and the College Music Society. In 2024, his first solo recording, of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms, will be released by the American Viola Society, and his chamber group Linking Legacies will release its debut recording on Innova Records. His alma maters include Harvard University, Columbia University, New England Conservatory, and the Manhattan School of Music.

Iris Jortner, cellist, a native of Israel, has performed in important venues in Israel, Europe, China, Australia, and the United States. Iris has collaborated in chamber music performances with Yefim Bronfman, Michael Tree, Itamar Golan, Levon Chilingrian, Belcea Quartet, the Orion Quartet, the Avalon Quartet, and the Apple Hill Chamber Players. She was a member of the Aviv Quartet from 1997-2002; with the Quartet she won the first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and top prizes in competitions in Holland and Prague. She has recorded for Naxos and Live Classics, and taught at the University of Virginia and Queens College in NYC. Iris has performed in numerous festivals including Verbier, Banff, Tanglewood, Taos, Prussia Cove, Dubrovnick, Kfar Blum, Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, and has performed in important venues such as Carnegie Hall, Vienna Concert House, Köln Philharmonic Hall, and Wigmore Hall. Her teachers include Uri Vardi, Aldo Parisot, Bernard Greenehouse, Paul Katz, Timothy Eddy, Marcy Rosen, and members of the Alban Berg Quartet. She has been principal cellist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and performs regularly with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the 21st Century Ensemble. She is artistic director of Roosevelt Island Concerts. This year she performed Marie Jaell’s cello concerto with the Campus orchestra, and is acting principal cellist for the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

Frank Kelley, tenor, has appeared with opera companies throughout the world, including the

Peter Sellars productions of Die Sieben Todsünden, Das Kleine Mahagonny, Cosi fan tutte, and Le Nozze di Figaro. The Mozart operas were recorded by Decca and Austrian Public Television, and were broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances. He has sung with the Boston, Cleveland, Dallas, Chicago, and National Symphony Orchestras, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He has

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performed medieval and renaissance music with Sequentia, the Boston Camerata, and the Waverly Consort, and baroque music with Emmanuel Music, the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Music of the Baroque, and Aston Magna. He has participated in major summer music festivals and has recorded for London, Decca, Erato, Harmonia Mundi France, Teldec, Telarc, Koch International, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Arabesque, and Northeastern.

Salley Koo began her violin studies at the age of 4. She has been lucky enough to study with many famous people at many famous schools. Ms. Koo performs all over the world with very cool people of varying degrees of fame and tries to get along famously with her colleagues and her own students. She now splits her time between her homes in Urbana, IL, and Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and their very cute dogs. www.salleykoo.com

Cellist Pei Lu is the recipient of many awards and honors including the second prize of the National Cello Competition in China and the Gregor Piatigorsky Award from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She has performed in Europe, Asia and the East and West Coasts of the United States. She also toured in the Middle East, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and China with Apple Hill. Ms. Lu began her musical education at the Xian Conservatory of Music where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance. Upon her arrival in the United States, Ms. Lu completed the Master’s Degree and the most prestigious Artist Diploma in Cello Performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she studied with Professor Stephen Kates.

Brooklyn-based visual artist and composer Dana Lyn has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including Tony Award-winning songwriters Stew and Heidi Rodewald, actor-directors Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio, performance artist Taylor Mac, cellist Hank Roberts and Natalie Merchant, and Irish poet Louis de Paor. She has received commissions from Brooklyn Rider, the National Arts Council of Ireland, the Apple Hill String Quartet, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, violist Nicholas Cords, A Far Cry, and Palaver Strings. She has made eight albums as a bandleader or co-bandleader and has written music for short films, New York Times’ audio stories and for dance. Her contributions to the Ken Burns documentary American Holocaust were called “sublime” by The Boston Globe. Dana was an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in the Spring of 2017, an awardee of the 2018 American Composers Forum Create Commission, a recipient of a 2020 NYFA Women’s Fund Award for Media, Music and Theater and a Sundance Composer Lab Fellow in 2021. Her radio play with De

Paor received a Gold Award at the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards. Her recently released album “A Point on a Slow Curve (In-a-Circle Records)” is a suite of music for septet and four voices; “brilliantly capturing the rigours and abandon of creativity (A Closer Listen)”, it has been featured on WNYC’s New Sounds program and noted for it “singular expressionism, incorporating forms common to the modern jazz idiom alongside chamber, choir, folk, and avant-garde (Dave Sumner, The Bird is the Worm).”

Lenny Matczynski, former Director of Apple Hill (2007-2022), made decisions that shaped Apple Hill’s performance, educational, and administrative structure, its concert and touring programs, its longrange plans, and the development of new programs. Once he stepped down from this position, he decided to use what he learned at Apple Hill and work as a consultant in order to help and mentor the next generation of individuals and organizations. He also serves as a trustee for Historic Harrisville, Peterborough’s Firelight Theatre, Newport Strings in Newport RI, and Boston’s Winsor Music. As a concert violist, he studied with Martha Katz, Heidi Castleman, and Karen Tuttle and has been on the faculty of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and the Tanglewood Music Center. He received NH’s 2021 Ewing Arts Lifetime Achievement award for artistic excellence; was one of the founders and past chairs of Arts Alive, an organization that promotes arts and culture in the Monadnock region of NH; and was chosen to participate in the 2016 Leadership NH program, a program that increases civic involvement in communities by educating and connecting leaders from throughout the state of NH.

Ealaín McMullin, violinist, was first introduced to chamber music through one of Apple Hill’s very first Playing for Peace tours to Donegal, Ireland. An avid devotee ever since, Ealaín has been a long-time summer participant at Apple Hill and was a Playing for Peace scholar at Keene State College in 2006. A graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and The Boston Conservatory, her influential teachers have included Michael D’Arcy, Elise Kuder, Mike Kelley, and Lenny Matczynski. She has performed with members of the Miró, Brooklyn Rider, Kronos, and Lydian String Quartets and has performed at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Ireland) and Music From Salem (New York). In 2011–13, Ealaín was a Fellow at Community MusicWorks (Providence) a nationally acclaimed organization exploring the intersection between artistry, education and community. Currently, Ealaín is the co-director of the Newport String Project, a performance and youth mentoring initiative serving youth, families and audiences in Newport, RI.

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Clarinetist Rane Moore enjoys an active performing schedule at home and abroad. She is a member of the Talea Ensemble, Sound Icon, and the award-winning wind quintet The City of Tomorrow. Ms. Moore has given numerous premieres of new works and appeared with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Guerilla Opera, New York New Music, Alarm Will Sound and the Bang on a Can All-Stars among many others. She is a frequent guest with Boston-based ensembles Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. She is also the principal clarinetist of the Boston Philharmonic and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. She serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Winsor Music, a Boston area-based concert series and community engagement organization. Ms. Moore has recordings on Tzadik, Pi, Wergo, and ECM records and is on faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Longy School of Music of Bard College. Critics have praised her “enthralling,” “tour-de-force,” and “phenomenal” performances.

Following her London debut at Wigmore Hall, pianist Sally Pinkas has garnered universal praise as soloist and chamber musician. Among highlights are performances with the Boston Pops, the Aspen Philharmonia, New York’s Jupiter Symphony and Indonesia’s Bandung Symphony. Summer festival credits include Marlboro, Aspen, Rockport, Apple Hill, Pontlevoy (France), Havana (Cuba) and HCMC Conservatory (Vietnam). Pinkas tours widely as member of the Hirsch-Pinkas Duo and Ensemble Schumann, and collaborates frequently with the Adaskin String Trio, Cuarteto Latinoamericano and the Apple Hill String Quartet. Praised for her radiant tone and driving energy, Pinkas’ extensive discography includes music by Mozart, Schumann, Fauré, Debussy, Gaubert, Martinů, Shapiro, Pinkham and Wolff for the MSR, Centaur, Naxos, Toccata Classics and Mode labels. Her most recent CD release of Sonatas by Shostakovich and Bridge was hailed as “A mandatory purchase for all pianophiles: two major works, in performances of utter power… ideal melding of strength and emotional pliancy…” by Fanfare Magazine. She holds performance degrees from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Composition from Brandeis University. Pianist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, she is Professor of Music at Dartmouth’s Music Department.

Cellist Edvard Pogossian was the proud Overall Winner, Strings Winner, and Audience Prize Winner at the Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition in 2022. As the winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition, Edvard performed the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations at David Geffen Hall in New York and at the Harris Theater in Chicago with the Juilliard

Orchestra under the direction of Itzhak Perlman. The Chicago Tribune praised Edvard’s performance for his “astonishing musical and technical maturity,” as well as his “winning lightness of touch to everything he played, combined with a velvety tone.” He has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the New Mexico Philharmonic. Edvard attended Yellow Barn and the Marlboro Festival from 2019 to 2022. Highly committed to chamber music, he is a member of Trio Isimsiz, who have performed throughout Europe, most notably at the Wigmore Hall. He is a frequent guest principal cello in the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Movses Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops in 1990, about which the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and discipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance…” Laureate of several competitions, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition, he performs worldwide in a wide variety of genres. A devoted chamber musician and Founding Artistic Director of the acclaimed Dilijan Chamber Music Series, Pogossian has performed with members of the Tokyo, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets, and with such artists as Kim Kashkashian, Jeremy Denk, Lynn Harrell, Ani and Ida Kavafian, and Rohan de Saram. He frequently collaborates with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, teaching annually at their summer music festival since 1992. A committed champion of new music, Pogossian has premiered over 100 works, and works closely with composers such as G. Kurtág, K. Saariaho, T. Mansurian, Gabriela Lena Frank, and many others. Pogossian’s extensive discography includes the Complete Sonatas and Partitas by J. S. Bach, “Con Anima” (ECM), and solo CDs “Inspired by Bach”, “Blooming Sounds”, “In Nomine”, and, most recently, “Hommage à Kurtág” (2022). Pogossian is Distinguished Professor of Violin at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and Founding Director of the UCLA Armenian Music Program. As Head of the Music for Food’s Los Angeles Chapter, he actively participates in projects which raise awareness of the hunger problem and give the opportunity to experience the powerful role music can play as a catalyst for change.

Syrian-American Kareem Roustom is a composer whose genre crossing collaborations include music commissioned by conductor Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, arrangements for pop icons Shakira and Tina Turner, as well as a recent collaboration with acclaimed British choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh. Roustom has been composer-in-residence at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming, and with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in Germany and the

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Mannheim Philharmonic. A musically bi-lingual composer, Roustom is rooted in the music of the Arab near-east but his music often expresses beyond the confines of tradition. The themes of a number of his works often touch issues of those affected by war and instability. Roustom’s music has been performed by ensembles that include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Boulez Ensemble, Oregon Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, The Crossing choir, Lorelei Ensemble, A Far Cry, and at renowned festivals and halls such as the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Verbier Festival, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and others. Roustom has been composer-in-residence with the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Grant Park Music Festival, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, and the Mannheim Philharmonic. Roustom has received commissions from the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Teton Music Festival (2018 & 2023 seasons), the Grant Park Music Festival, the Daniel Barenboim Stiftung (2013, 2015, & 2017), the Pierre Boulez Saal, the Royal Philharmonic Society & Sadler’s Wells Theatre (U.K.), A Far Cry & Lorelei Ensemble and others. Roustom’s music has also been recorded by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (Berlin), and the Philharmonia Orchestra (London). Roustom holds the position of Professor of the Practice at Tufts University’s Department of Music in Boston. Roustom’s awards include an Emmy nomination and an Aaron Copland House Residency Award.

Cellist Tony Rymer has performed major concerti to critical acclaim with the Atlanta Symphony, Boston Pops, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, and Pittsburgh Symphony, among others. He was the first prize winner in the Washington International Competition and the Sphinx Competition Senior Division, Second Prize Winner in the Enescu Competition, and took 3rd place in the Stulberg International String Competition. A native of Boston, Tony began playing cello at age five, attended the Walnut Hill Arts School, was a Project STEP scholarship student from 1996-2007, and was awarded the prestigious Kravitz scholarship in 2007. One of the first recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Award on the NPR national radio show From the Top, he has also been heard as soloist on WGBH Boston, WCLV Cleveland, and NPR’s Performance Today and the BBC Proms. An avid chamber musician, Tony has performed at festivals and concert series throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Most recently he has performed at the Festival del Lago, Marlboro Music Festival, Krzyzowa Music, Leeds International Concert Series, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Eufonia Music Festival, Perlman Music

Program, Bard Music Festival, Ravinia Steans Institute, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and Incontri Musicali. Tony has performed chamber music with artists such as Hilary Hahn, Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Ani Kavafian, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Katz, Martin Helmchen, Dénes Várjon, and members of the Guarneri, Takacs, Juilliard, and Cleveland Quartets. Tony worked privately with Yo-Yo Ma and performed in master classes for Anner Bylsma, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, and Pieter Wispelwey. He completed his BM and MM at the New England Conservatory where he studied with Paul Katz and Laurence Lesser while holding the Laurence Lesser Presidential Scholarship. Tony then received a Masters of Music, with highest marks, as a student of Frans Helmerson at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik.

Hailed by The New Yorker as a “first-rate, versatile musician”, guitarist Kyle Sanna’s musical practice includes composition, improvisation, the recording studio, coding, and the traditional music of Ireland. His compositions have been performed at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Royal Opera House in Oman, Sydney’s ABC studios, the National Recital Hall in Taipei, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and many points between. Kyle Sanna has received commissions from Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Palaver Strings, Beta Collide, soprano Danielle Birrittella, and flutist Alex Sopp. His music appeared on the 2022 PBS documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust” by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein. Kyle Sanna has arranged music for Béla Fleck, Jan Vogler, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, Martin Hayes, The Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and for Yo-Yo Ma on two Grammy Award-winning albums: 2010’s “Songs of Joy and Peace” and 2016’s “Sing Me Home” with Silkroad. His arrangements have appeared on The Colbert Report, NPR’s Performance Today, and on the Sony Classical, Sony Masterworks, In a Circle, and Naïve labels. In addition to his composing and arranging, Sanna performs regularly as an improvising guitarist with Kinan Azmeh’s CityBand and Ground Patrol, and performs music based in the Irish tradition with the Seamus Egan Project, Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble, Maeve Gilchrist, and a duo with violinist Dana Lyn. Kyle Sanna studied jazz at the University of Oregon and composition at the Université Lumière Lyon II in France.

Jean Schneider, piano, began her piano studies at age seven, and by the age of fifteen had performed three times as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has been heard in recital in the U.S. and Europe, and on the radio in Germany, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and on NPR’s Performance Today. She has collaborated with numerous artists in concerts at Tanglewood, Aspen, and Norfolk Festivals, the Banff Centre, and the Sarasota Music Festival, where she is Associate Piano Faculty. Jean

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currently lives in New York City, where she performs as soloist and chamber musician.

New York based violinist Amy Schroeder is a founding member of the two-time GRAMMY-award winning Attacca Quartet and has been hailed by the Washington Post as ‘an impressive artist whose playing combines imagination and virtuosity.’ While much of her time is spent touring internationally with her quartet, Ms. Schroeder also performs in the Schroeder Umansky Duo with her husband Felix Umansky of the Harlem Quartet and their group Trio Raconteur with pianist Yalin Chi. She currently plays on two different violins, a Fernando Gagliano made in 1771 on loan to her from the Five Partners Foundation, and a violin made by Nathan Slobodkin in 2012. Outside of performing and recording Ms. Schroeder loves spending time with her husband and 3-year-old daughter as well as composing and arranging, gardening, crafty home projects, and when given the chance - scuba diving.

Philip Solomonick won numerous awards, including a ‘Grand Prix’ at the Art towards the 21st Century Competition (Ukraine), 1st prize at the Chopin competition (Tel-Aviv), and 1st prize at The Pnina Zaltzman Competition. His first two degrees are from the Music Academy (Jerusalem), under professor Irina Berkovich, where he received the Dean’s Award after winning the Haim Kalmi Competition and the Academy’s Concerto Competition. In 2016, Solomonick made his debut at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, and in 2017 became a semi-finalist at the NYCA Worldwide Debut Audition. He earned his DMA at the University of Michigan under professor Arthur Greene, during which he became a finalist at the American International Piano Competition in Washington DC. Some of the highlights of his career thus far include numerous solo recitals in remembrance of Yuri Lyubimov, and the various times he played as a soloist with orchestras in Israel, France, Russia and the USA.

Clarinetist Rié Suzuki is currently a tenured member of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and serves as principal clarinet of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. Her recent soloist appearances include concerto performances with the Rowan University Wind Ensemble and the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. Her notable collaborations and tour include a recital series with the Poulenc Trio in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and a concert tour of Central America sponsored by the U.S. Embassy with the Liberty Winds. Her live performances on broadcast include WQXR in New York, WRTI in Philadelphia, podcasts from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and an appearance on Nicaraguan National TV. Her performances led to her recording on Capstone

Records, New World Records, Centaur Records, Naxos Records, Warner Brothers, and her most recent recording of the commissioned work, Threes by Maurice Wright, under BCM&D Records label. Suzuki holds both a doctorate and a graduate performance degree from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University where she was awarded the Orchestral Fellowship. For her full biography, visit www.riesuzuki.com.

Winner of the international Concert Artist Guild competition Eric Thomas is an active performer, a virtuoso clarinetist who has appeared as a guest artist with several groups including the internationally acclaimed Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Sylvan Winds, the Boston Pops Traveling Ensemble, the Bravo! Festival at Vail, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival. As a freelance artist he has toured with Goldovsky Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera New England, The New England Ragtime Ensemble, The New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, and The National Gilbert and Sullivan Tour. He has been a substitute with several orchestras including The Florida Orchestra, The Charlotte Symphony, La Orquesta Sinfonica de Monterrey, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New York City Opera in the Park Orchestra, The Southwest Florida Orchestra, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. As a composer, his most recent commissions have come from the Sonad Project, Colby College Symphony Orchestra, concert pianist Ilya Friedberg, and the Bar Harbor Music Festival. Eric has been a guest lecturer/performer at several colleges and universities including Brown, Harvard, Boston University, Centenary College, Southeastern Louisiana University, Boston Conservatory of Music, and Duke. Recently retired as the Director of Bands at Colby College, Mr. Thomas is the newly appointed Conductor and Director of Music for the Keene Chamber Orchestra and Director of Music at the Putney School in Putney, VT. He is adjunct faculty at University Maine Augusta and this past fall served as guest conductor for the Phillips Exeter Symphony Orchestra.

Violist Beste Tiknaz Modiri was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and began her viola studies at Istanbul Conservatory with Ani Inci. She received a Performance Diploma from the Boston Conservatory with Leonard Matczynski, and an Artist Diploma from Istanbul University and Chamber Music Diploma from The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna MDW with Prof. J. Meissl. She is currently Professor of Viola at Istanbul University State Conservatory and head of string department. Founder and Artistic Director of Bosphorus International Music Academy and Vice President of Turkish Viola Society and Music Director of Point Counter Point Session 4 in Vermont. In addition to being a prize-winning soloist, Beste is also an

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active chamber music player and principal violist of many orchestras. Her Album on Turkish Music for Viola and Piano has been released on Alto Music Label in October 2021. As principal violist of Borusan Istanbul Philarmonic, she has recorded for Deutche Grammophon, Onxy, and Deutsche Welle. As an Apple Hill alumna, Beste received one of the first Turkish Playing for Peace scholarships to attend Apple Hill in the summer of 2003.

Praised for his “sublime” playing by Cleveland Classical, cellist Felix Umansky is a frequently sought-after recitalist and pedagogue. As cellist of the world-renowned Harlem Quartet, Mr. Umansky is currently on the faculties at Montclair State University and Fundación por la Música, Santo Domingo. One of Mr. Umansky’s missions is to bring a wide range of music to as many communities as possible. A native of Carmel, Indiana, Mr. Umansky holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale University. Outside of Harlem Quartet, Mr. Umansky performs with his wife, violinist Amy Schroeder, as the Schroeder Umansky Duo, and the two collaborate with pianist Yalin Chi as Trio Raconteur. These days he is also part of a band with his 3-year-old daughter, Aria, playing on found objects in and around the house. Mr. Umansky performs on an 1850 J.B. Vuillaume cello, generously on loan to him.

Up and coming to the stage, bassoonist Ziv Wainer Bobrowicz is an internationally active performer. Just in the past few months Ziv has appeared with ensembles such as the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Israel Philharmonic, The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Israel opera, and he has produced a critically acclaimed CD with Collegium Novum Zurich showcasing contemporary masterworks. In addition, Ziv is currently on trial for the role of Sub Principal Bassoon with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and is a student of Valeria Curti at the Hochachule der Kunste Bern. When he’s not obsessing over his reeds or preparing for an audition, Ziv can be found working in the kitchen, obsessing over the Maillard reaction, or preparing some daring sauce.

American composer and pianist Miles Walter’s music, praised as “densely contrapuntal” and for its “churning, Romantic-era-infused harmonies’’ (Aspen Times), has been commissioned and performed by (among others) the Venice Biennale, Bertrand Chamayou, Aspen Music Festival and School, Yale Percussion Group, New York Virtuoso Singers, Argento Ensemble, Ensemble Lontano, and Merz Trio, and has received awards from BMI, AMFS, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a pianist, Miles is an avid collaborator and chamber musician, and has worked

with artists and ensembles including Rolston, Callisto, and Isidore Quartets, Cantata Profana, icarus Quartet, Orchestra New England (world-premiere Ives recordings on Naxos), choreographer Jennifer Jancuska (Hamilton) & the BringAbout, New Chamber Ballet, and Mark Morris Dance Group. Committed to an eclectic and wideranging performance practice, he has premiered over four dozen works by his peers, students, and mentors alike, and plays fluently in numerous non- and semi-notated styles, in- and outside the concert hall. Miles holds a BA and an MM from Yale; further studies and festival credits include Norfolk, Ostrava Days, Bowdoin, Apple Hill, and Prussia Cove. He currently lives in London, where he’s pursuing doctoral studies in composition with Sir George Benjamin.

Mandy Wolman has been described as an “impressive and bold leader” by the Chestnut Hill Local. She received a Grammy Award in 2018 for the CD Zealot Canticles with the Crossing Choir, and enjoys working with composers on new works, both for period and modern instruments. She has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, premiering a piece by Philadelphia composer Andrea Clearfield. She performs as a section violinist with Tempesta di Mare, Apollo’s Fire, Bach Festival of Philadelphia, Washington Cathedral Orchestra, Spire Ensemble, The Sebastians, Washington Cathedral Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival among others. As a modern orchestral player, Mandy has performed with Chamber Orchestra of New York, Philly Pops Orchestra, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Prometheus Chamber Orchestra. She has recorded for Chandos Records with Tempesta Di Mare and has been concertmaster for baroque concerts with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Most recently she has premiered music by Jeremy Gill at National Sawdust in New York. Aside from her busy freelancing career, Mandy enjoys teaching students, both privately and at various organizations. She gives coaching in chamber music for the Early Music Ensemble at Temple University and has performed as a guest artist at Curtis Institute of Music. She has been a teaching artist/performer at Portland Bach Experience, SoundFest Music Festival alongside members of the Colorado String Quartet, Point Counterpoint, and Apple Hill Music Festival. When she isn’t performing music, Mandy enjoys Flamenco dancing and working on her visual art.

Dr. Christina Wright-Ivanova, hailed by critics as “a brilliant pianist” (Wiener Zeitung, Vienna) and an “ideal partner” (Huffington Post), is an Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Keene State College. As a chamber musician, she has been heard in over 25 countries throughout North & South America, UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia, as well as on several recording labels. She frequently performs with singers and instrumentalists in concert series around the US and has

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previously held faculty appointments at New England Conservatory, UMass Amherst, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. A passionate advocate for new music performance, she spends summers on faculty at Colorado’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice and has premiered over 150 works worldwide by living composers. Degrees: University of Texas at Austin (DMA), New England Conservatory (MM), University of Victoria, Canada (BM). www.christinajwright.com

Pianist and fortepianist Yi-heng Yang has been described as an “exquisite collaborator (Opera News), “superbly adept (Gramophone)” and noted for her “remarkable expressivity and technique (Early Music Magazine).” Her work spans from collaborations on period instruments with visionary artists such as the Grammy award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman, in their acclaimed and timely album, “Where Only Stars Can Hear Us (Avie Records),” to groundbreaking and provocative explorations into Romantic and Classical performance practice with cellist Kate Bennett Wadsworth (Brahms Cello Sonatas, Deux-Elles). In May 2022, she released her first solo fortepiano album, “Free Spirits: early Romantic music on the Graf piano (Deux-Elles),” received 4-stars from BBC Music Magazine. Yi-heng just appeared in the People’s Symphony Concerts in NYC’s Town Hall with baritone Roderick Williams, and at the Brattleboro Music Center, VT. Other recent recitals include The Boston Clavichord Society, UNC Greensboro, Early Music of the Islands, BC, Carnegie Hall Subscription Series, The Phillips Collection, Chatham Baroque, Columbus Early Music, Mountainside Baroque, Gotham Early Music Midtown Concerts, and The Helicon Series. Yi-heng is on the faculty at The Juilliard School, teaching piano, fortepiano, and improvisation in the Precollege, College, and Historical Performance departments. www.yihengyangpianist.com

With a broad career as a cellist, performer, teacher and administrator, Aron Zelkowicz has cultivated a repertoire both classical and ethnic, familiar and obscure. As the Founder and Director of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival, he oversaw every aspect of fundraising, marketing, production, and artistic direction in presenting rare and diverse works from Jewish musical traditions. Critics noted his “impressive” directorial debut of an original, fully staged production of the chamber opera “The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds” by Ofer Ben-Amots, and dubbed the Festival “one of the highest quality concert series in town” (Pittsburgh Tribune- Review) and a local “best-kept secret” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). As a cellist, Aron Zelkowicz has performed at the Tanglewood, Banff, Aspen, Sarasota, Chautauqua, Colorado, Cactus Pear and Sunflower festivals, with members of the Emerson and Cleveland Quartets, as Principal Cello of the Miami Symphony

Orchestra, with the Toronto Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, and on international tours with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He is currently based in Boston and performs throughout the New England region as a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, the ProArte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), as Associate Principal Cello of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and as Principal Cello of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Boston Festival Orchestra.

Max Zeugner joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2012 and serves as Associate Principal Bass. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, he began taking lessons at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School with bassist Deborah Dunham and studied with Richard Hartshorne. He went on to become a scholarship student of New York Philharmonic bassist Orin O’Brien at The Juilliard School and Edwin Barker at Boston University. He has performed, recorded, and toured with the Apple Hill Chamber Players and has been on their Summer Chamber Music Faculty since 2006. He is a founding member of the Worcester Chamber Music Society; gave a performance of Mozart’s Per questa bella mano with bass-baritone Daniel Gross at the Elbereth Chamber Music Series in New York City; and performed with the Providence Quartet, Apple Hill String Quartet, and Quartet X. As a soloist, Zeugner performs frequently with his wife, pianist/fortepianist Yi-heng Yang. In the non-classical realm, he is a former member of the Eastern Jazz Project, Charles Ketter Quartet, and Delfino Brothers Duo and has performed with such artists as Joanna Newsom, Kelley Polar, and the Pet Shop Boys. Zeugner was previously section leader (i.e. principal) double bass of the Northern Sinfonia and was offered a trial as principal double bass with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, following a brief stint with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Zeugner was appointed principal double bass with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, England. Zeugner has served on the faculties of the Royal Northern College of Music, Newcastle University, and The Sage Gateshead Weekend School. In August 2008 he made his debut as a conductor leading the Darlington Youth Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival. He continues to work as a music educator at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music.

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$1,000–$4,999

Anonymous (3)

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Associated Chamber Music Players Foundation

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$100–$499

Anonymous (3)

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Joyce Willmer

Jan Woiler Meuse

Barbara Wright

Thomas L. Wright

Yankee Publishing Inc.

We gratefully acknowledge gifts in memory of:

Julie Albright

Donna Boyko

Joan D’Alessio

Kenneth Hanawalt

Nancy Hansen

Rev. Olivia Holmes

Fred Kelley

Marilyn La Due

Shane MacGowan

Doris McLaughlin

David Post

Mary Ruth Ray

Steve Rosenthal

Elisabeth “Tibby” Tobey

Barry Weyburn

John F. Wilson

We gratefully acknowledge gifts in honor of:

Apple Hill String Quartet

Patsy Beffa-Negrini

Alexander Guida

Mike Kelley

Sue Kelley

David A. Klaus

Elise Kuder

Jesse MacDonald

Marilyn McDonald

Ealaín McMullin

Rupert Thompson

Matching Gift Companies

Google

Johnson & Johnson

McKinsey and Company

Mass Mutual

Omidyar Network

In-Kind Donations

Apple Hill Campus Beautification Crew

John C. Calhoun

Eat More Cake

Friends of Apple Hill

Frozen Pines Studio

Genest Design/Jodi Genest

Girouard Plumbing

Vanessa Holroyd & Olivia Jamrog

Madeni Software/Brian Ford

Northeast Wine Co./Sarah Trubnick

Oster & Wheeler

Julia Perry Price

Chris Salmon

Cornelia (Nina) Schwartz

Miriam Sharrock & Ben Santerre

Linda Singer & Greg Rothman

Jayne West

Apple Hill is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

FRIENDS OF APPLE HILL

We’d like to extend our deepest gratitude to The Friends of Apple Hill—a small group of dedicated volunteers who support, donate items, and help organize special events that cultivate new relationships and steward existing ones within the Apple Hill community. To join the Friends of Apple Hill or request more information, please contact music@applehill.org.

Taryn Fisher, Chair

Mike Anderson

Emily Carr

Suzanne Coble

Maria Coviello

Dita Englund

Deb Ford

Glenn Galloway

Anne Havill

Don & Joyce Healy

Bill Heyman

Ari Levine

Mark Meess

Sara Mustin

Ann Shedd

Linda Singer

Craig Stockwell

Judith Waterson

Chip & Kathy Woodbury

The Sostenuto Society

Want to help Apple Hill in a unique way? Join the Sostenuto Society (a musical term that means to be played in a sustained or prolonged manner) and become a monthly donor. Monthly donations are quick, effortless, and even a small amount adds up:

$5 per month = $60 per year

$10 per month = $120 per year

$25 per month = $300 per year

You get the picture! To become a member: Go to applehill.org and click on “Give” and then “Recurring Donation.” Indicate the amount you wish to donate monthly, fill out the form, click submit, and you’re done. You will see the transaction on your account every month.

We are grateful for the 33 members of the Sostenuto Society who collectively contribute nearly $1,500 per month to Apple Hill. We’d love to increase both the number of donors and the amount given; a monthly gift is easier on your budget and is also terrific for Apple Hill in that it provides a steady stream of income all year long.

Reem Abu Rahmeh

Pat Belfer

Ed and Susan Bureau

Hannah Bureau

Jack Calhoun and Beth Healy

Jim and Leslie Casey

Joy Clendenning

Wendy Clymer

Russell Cobb and Brett Amy Thelen

Carolyn Cunningham and Christopher Hague

Siobhan Cute

Joan Epro

Pamela Worden and Charles Faucher

Richard J. Forde, MD

Katie Gardella and Peter Straus

Matt Gillman

Vanessa Holroyd and Dave Jamrog

Susan Quinn Jacobs

Patty Ladpli

Leslie Lawrence

Molly McCarthy and Tito Carvalho

Daniel Melody

Naomi Morey and Glenn Parker

Dana Polson

Jean and Jay Prior

Nancy B. Roberts

Linda Singer and Greg Rothman

Annette Schaich

Deborah Shapiro and Elena Botella

Suzan Smith and Peter Shea

Judith and William Waterson

Janet and Anthony Yeracaris

Edward Yoxen

Have a question? Please contact us at music@applehill.org or 603-847-3371.