MEET THE ARTISTS

University and The Juilliard School. He has recorded the organ works of Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker for Albany Records, and is a frequent collaborator with brass instrumentalists. As a composer, he has written numerous works for chorus and orchestra, orchestral works, concertos, chamber music, song cycles, an opera, and works for organ and piano. Trent is the recipient of grants from Meet the Composer, funding from the NEA, and is the recipient of the Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award in composition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City.

Márta Hortobágyi Lambert was born in Greenville, North Carolina, and began her musical studies on piano and violin, later developing a love for viola. A passionate educator and advocate for the arts, Márta has held fellowship positions at The Juilliard School, and is currently on faculty at Queens Pre-College, Suzuki on the Island, and Kinhaven Music School.

Márta’s devotion to chamber music has created opportunities to perform with members of the Cleveland, Alban Berg, Brentano, and Cooperstown Quartets, including performances with Miriam Fried, Ida Kavafian, and Colin Carr. Márta has also performed at music festivals including Donaueschingen Musiktage with Talea Ensemble, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Prussia Cove, and Kneisel Hall, where she was a founding member of the prize-winning Blue Hill String Quartet.

Márta was recently awarded The Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award from The Juilliard School in March 2021, the Dean’s Prize at Yale University in May 2019, and is a current recipient of the C.V. Starr Fellowship for doctoral studies at The Juilliard School.

Cellist Clara Abel is a versatile artist who enjoys performing in a variety of traditional and non-traditional venues in order to share her belief that music is for everyone. Equally at home on modern and baroque instruments, Clara has completed three degree programs at Juilliard, where she avidly pursued chamber music and historical performance practice. As a student of Joel Krosnick she was awarded the prestigious Kovner Fellowship, and as a baroque cellist she was the winner of the school’s Historical Performance concerto competition. Recent highlights include performances with the Vera Quartet and Twelfth Night ensemble, concerto appearances with Juilliard415 at the Boston Early Music Festival and Alice Tully Hall, a solo collaboration with NYO-USA, and concert tours of Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, England, and California. She looks forward to the next adventure!