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Cellist Claire Bryant has appeared as a soloist with orchestra including the Kuopion Symphony Orchestra of Finland, the National Symphony of Honduras in Tegucigalpa, the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, and the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with Donald Weilerstein, Anthony Marwood, the Peabody Trio, Roger Tapping, Maria Lambros, Peter Frankl, Boris Berman and members of the St. Lawrence, Orion, Mendelssohn, and Pacifica string quartets. Claire is the founding cellist selected by The Academy: A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute, a two-year fellowship program encompassing performance, teaching, and community engagement. Through the Academy, she is a member of Ensemble ACJW, the resident ensemble at Weill Hall, and a teaching artist at PS157X in the South Bronx. She is the founder, producer, and artistic director of the acclaimed chamber music series With Strings Attached, which has raised over $10,000 for arts education in her native state of South Carolina. Claire received her degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School, and is currently Assistant Faculty to Bonnie Hampton in the pre-college and college divisions of The Juilliard School.
PCMF Artistic Co-Director and violinist Jennifer Elowitch, a Portland native, is the assistant principal second violinist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and performs regularly with the Boston Symphony and Emmanuel Music, with whom she recently toured Europe. She has appeared as guest concertmaster of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and is a member of the faculty at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and the Longy School of Music. Ms. Elowitch has recorded for CRI and Albany Records.
Cellist Michael Kannen was a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet, with whom he performed throughout the world and on radio, television and recordings. He has appeared at chamber music festivals across the country and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also been a member of the Meliora Quartet and the Figaro Trio. He is currently a member of the Apollo Trio and is the Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he holds the Sidney Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music.
As a former member of the Mendelssohn, Ridge and Meliora String Quartets violist Maria Lambros has performed in Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw. She has recorded for RCA and Telarc, nominated for a Grammy Award in 1993. Ms. Lambros appears in chamber music series and festivals, such as Aspen, La Jolla and Mostly Mozart, and has performed with the Guarneri, Juilliard, Muir, Brentano and Borromeo Quartets, among others.
PCMF Artistic Co-Director and pianist Dena Levine has appeared at the Marlboro and Tanglewood Festivals and at international music series and festivals in Germany, Holland, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. As a founding member of the Laurel Trio, she was a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the ProPiano Com- petition, and completed a residency on New York's WQXR Radio. Ms. Levine is Assistant Professor of piano at Seton Hall University and has recorded for CRI.
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Violinist Sunghae Anna Lim is a founding member of both the Laurel Piano Trio and the New Millennium Ensemble, with whom she won the Concert Artist Guild Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, respectively. Ms. Lim has appeared as soloist with the Honolulu Symphony, Harvard-Radcliffe Bach Society Orchestra, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and the Princeton University Orchestra. She has been a participant at the Marlboro, Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, Laurel Festival of the Arts, and the Portland Chamber Music Festival, where she appeared most recently in the summer of 2005. She is currently a member of the faculty at Princeton University.
Three time Grammy nominated artist; soloist with Atlanta, Houston, BBC Scottish, New York Chamber Symphonies; St. Paul & Cincinnati Chamber Orchestras, I Musici de Montreal, among others. Collaborative artist with Borromeo, Brentano, Daedalus, Pacifica, St. Lawrence, and Ying quartets; sopranos Kathleen Battle, Renee Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Heidi Grant Murphy, Dawn Upshaw, as well as many other artisits. He has championed Osvaldo Golijov's Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind around the world and commissioned the theatre work Orpheus & Euridice by Ricky Ian Gordon which was presented by Great Performances at Lincoln Center in 2005. Participant for 15 years at the Spoleto Festival USA as well as many other summer music festivals around the country. This season he premiered David Bruce's Gumboots, a Carnegie Hall commission, written for him and the St. Lawrence Quartet. Discography includes DG, EMI, Koch and Ghostlight records.
Carol Rodland, violist, made her solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age seventeen. Praised by Fanfare for possessing a tone which is "larger than life, sweetly in tune, and infinitely variegated" and for her "delicious" playing, she presently enjoys an international career as a concert and recording artist and pedagogue. Recent performances have taken her throughout the Americas and Europe, and her solo recordings on the Crystal and Neuma labels have been critically acclaimed. A Fulbright Scholar, she holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Musikhochschule Freiburg. She has held professorships at New England Conservatory, where she was recognized in 2005 with the "Krasner Award for Excellence in Teaching", at the Musikhochschule "Hanns Eisler" Berlin, at Arizona State University, and as guest faculty at the Juilliard School. In 2008 she was appointed to a tenured professorship at the Eastman School of Music.
Acclaimed by the New York Times as an "extraordinary violist" of "immense flair," Dov Scheindlin has been violist of the Arditti, Penderecki and Chester String Quartets. His chamber music career has brought him to 28 counties around the globe, and won him the Siemens Prize in 1999. He has appeared as soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Paris Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic. Mr. Scheindlin has recorded extensively for EMI, Teldec, Auvidis, Col Legno, and Mode, and won the Gramophone Award in 2002 for the Arditti Quartet's recording of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Pulse Shadows. As a member of the Arditti Quartet, he gave nearly 100 world premières, among them new works by Elliott Carter, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, and Wolfgang Rihm. He has also been broadcast on NPR, BBC, CBC, the German WDR, HR, SWR, NDR, MDR and SFB networks, as well as French, Swiss, Austrian, Dutch and Belgian national radio networks.
Peter Sykes performs widely on the organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and fortepiano as a soloist and as an ensemble musician. He has recorded ten discs of solo organ and harpsichord music, including his award-winning organ transcription of Holst's The Planets. He holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and Concordia University in Montreal. In May 2005 he received the Outstanding Alumni award from the New England Conservatory for career achievement since graduation. He is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University, Director of Music at First Church in Cambridge, a member of the faculties of the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory, and is a founding board member and current president of the Boston Clavichord Society.
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