Baylor University. She has been the winner of competitions such as the William T. Gower, and was a prize-winner of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. She has performed as soloist and in several ensembles in Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In addition, she served as the principal cellist of the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has worked with conductors François Lopez-Ferrer, Josep Vicent, Kiyotaka Teraoka, Christopher Dragon, and Gergely Madaras. Ms. Monsanto is currently pursuing a doctor of arts degree in cello performance at the University of Northern Colorado.
musician in the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
IVA RAYKOVA, viola, began her musical studies in Bulgaria at age four and graduated from the National Musical School “Lyubomir Pipkov.” Iva holds a BM and AD in performance from Texas Christian University, where she studied with Misha Galaganov, and an MM in performance from Southern Methodist University, studying with Barbara Sudweeks. She has appeared in festivals such as AIMS in Graz, Castleton Festival, Brevard Music Center, and Music in the Mountains. Iva performs regularly with Irving Symphony, San Angelo Symphony, Plano Symphony, Waco Symphony, and Oddysseus Chamber Orchestra. Since 2016, Iva has been a teaching artist in the El Sistema-inspired program “B Sharp Youth Music,” focusing on creating social change through music. Iva has participated in master classes with E. Goldstein, E. Eckert, M. Strauss, Hugo Wolf Quartet, and Samuel Rhodes, and has performed as chamber and orchestral
Kansas, she holds performance degrees from Kansas State and Oklahoma State Universities, and recently completed additional studies at Cleveland State with Takako Masame. In addition to various university and pit orchestras, she has played with the Tulsa Symphony and numerous chamber ensembles. When Emory isn’t playing violin, she enjoys reading, knitting, and gardening (with limited success). She currently resides in Columbus, where she gigs and teaches, and where she and Mark attempt to get her cat Mr. Butters to exercise (also with limited success).
MITCHELL REINER-COFFEY, double bass, is an incoming senior at the Cleveland Institute of Music, under the direction of Scott Dixon and Maximillian Dimoff. Hailing from Columbus, OH, Mitchell participated in the Chamber Music Connection (CMC), a nationally renowned chamber music organization for aspiring musicians. With CMC, Mitchell toured Italy and had the opportunity to play alongside professional chamber ensembles. Traveling to Cleveland every weekend, Mitchell participated in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, with which he toured China, and the Contemporary DEVIN MORTON, oboe, is thrilled to be Youth Orchestra, for which he played alongside returning for his third season with OLO. Devin artists such as Styx, Bootsy Collins, Graham recently completed his DMA at the University Nash, and many more. of Missouri-Kansas City, where his dissertation THOMAS ROBLEE, percussion, is in his third research focused on adapting Bach’s oboe year as assistant band and orchestra director of d’amore cantatas for performance on modern Alliance City Schools. After completing degrees instruments. In the Kansas City community, he from SUNY Fredonia and The University of has been a featured performer with the Midwest Akron, he has been performing with OLO Chamber Ensemble, the Kansas City Baroque for eleven seasons. Thomas is timpanist of the Consortium, and the Ancora Chorale. Devin has Tuscarawas Philharmonic and has performed also performed with the Kansas City Symphony, with the Akron, Ashland, and Wooster Symphony the Mississippi Symphony, and the North Orchestras. He has performed concerti with Mississippi Symphony orchestras. He holds an orchestras on marimba, timpani, and steel MM from Arkansas State University and a BME pans. Thomas continuously presents clinics and from Mississippi State University. His primary performances of traditional African music on teachers include Celeste Johnson, Barbara gyil (Ghanaian xylophone) and drums. When not Bishop, and Dan Ross. He has performed in performing, he enjoys downhill skiing, mountain master classes for Alex Klein, Sherry Sylar, and biking, and traveling. Thomas and his wife Rene David Cowley. Apart from music, Devin loves welcomed their first child, Oliver, in April 2018. cooking—particularly hand-crafting fresh breads EMORY ROSENOW, violin, is happy to be and pastries. joining OLO for a fifth season. A native of
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JOSHUA SCHAIRER, bassoon, is returning to OLO for his second season this summer. Joshua is an active freelancer, and has played with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the Cheyenne Symphony, the Greeley Philharmonic, and the Loveland Opera Theatre Orchestra. Currently residing in New York, he has been heard with the St. Andrew’s Chamber Orchestra, the Geneseo