Private Music Study/Lessons – Applied Music

The Music Department provides students the opportunity for private study of instrumental and vocal performance with the outstanding faculty in our Applied Music Program. Click here for more on the program. See below for biographies of our applied faculty members. These faculty members do not have offices at Tufts University, but can be reach via Edith Auner, coordinator of applied music, at edith.auner@tufts.edu.

CLASSICAL PIANO

Hisako Hiratsuka is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Arts and Music. She was a very active piano teacher in Japan prior to coming to the United States in 1989. She enjoys a fine reputation as a chamber music player and accompanist. Recently, she has been performing in recitals with her colleagues in the Baltimore, Washington, Maine, and Boston areas as well as in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kamakura, Japan. Her teachers include Victor Rosenbaum and Yasuko Tani, a former professor at the Tokyo University of Arts and Music.

Michael McLaughlin Klezmer Ensemble Director...Pianist, accordionist, arranger, and composer for the Klezmer ensemble Shirim and the experimental Klezmer group Naftule's Dream. Performances on such stages as the Berlin Jazz Festival ('99), the Texaco Jazz Festival ('97, '98) as well as the Ashkenaz New Jewish Music Festival ('96, '98). Michael holds an MM in Composition from Tufts University ('99) where he studied with John McDonald, and a BM in composition from Berklee College of Music in 1993. He is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grand Award in composition for 2001.

Steven Morris - Opera Ensemble Director, has spent the last fifteen years working with singers as coach, accompanist and music director. As an accompanist he has performed throughout the United States, England and Italy. Holding degress in Piano Performance and Accompanying from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Western Michigan University and the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Morris has been on the faculties of the Bayview Music Festival and the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy. While in Italy he served as music director and pianist for a production of Monterverdi's "La incoronazione di Poppea" with Fabrizio Melano as stage director.

Andrew Rangell is a graduate of the Julliard School, earning a doctoral degree in piano under Beveridge Webster. He made his New York debut as winner of the Malraux Award concert Artists Guild and has since performed throughout the United States, with subsequent New York recitals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 92nd Street Y and Columbia's Miller Theater. From 1977 to 1985 he was resident artist and principal piano instructor at Dartmouth College, and a frequent guest with some of New England's foremost performing groups and festivals.

Greg Pauley, piano, has been praised by critics for having “perfect dynamic nuances,” being “at all times technically brilliant,” (The Newark Star Ledger) and for “playing with a maturity that belied his age.” (The Portland Press Herald) A native of Southern California, Mr. Pauley earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Southern California. He also holds a Master’s Degree from Mason Gross School for the Arts at Rutgers University where he studied with Ilana Vered. Mr. Pauley has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall among many others, and has performed live on radio and television in Vermont, New York, Maine and Alberta Canada. In addition to performances in New Hampshire, concerts have taken Mr. Pauley to Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and California. In February of 2000 Mr. Pauley released his first recording, “What the West Wind Saw,” a CD of solo piano music inspired by elements of nature (earth, wind, fire and water) which features works by Ravel, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy and Scriabin. In addition to his busy performance schedule, Mr. Pauley maintains a full teaching schedule and is in demand as an adjudicator and Master Class teacher.  Mr. Pauley lives with his family in Concord, New Hampshire where is on the piano faculty at St. Paul’s School and the Concord Community Music School.

Katherine Chi, piano, has performed throughout Europe and North America to great acclaim, including her 2003 New York recital debut, about which The New York Times raved, “Ms Chi displayed a keen musical intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique.” She has established herself as one of Canada’s fastest rising stars of classical music. “…the most sensational but, better, the most unfailingly cogent and compelling Prokofiev's Third I have heard in years,” said The Globe and Mail.   She has appeared with the CBC Radio Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Toronto Sinfonia, and the Alabama, Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Philadelphia, Quebec, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Victoria Symphony Orchestras and at festivals including Aldeburgh, Banff, Canada’s Festival of the Sound, Domaine Forget, Launadière, Marlboro, Osnabrück Kammermusik, Germany's Ruhr, Santander Summer Music, and Festival Vancouver. Bolzano Orchestra Recitals Milan, Rome, Salzburg, tour of Italy and Germany, Hannover.  Ms. Chi gave her debut recital at age nine. A year later she was accepted to The Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Seymour Lipkin. She continued studies with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she received her Master's degree and Graduate and Artist Diplomas. She later studied for two years at the International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Ms. Chi was a prizewinner at the 1998 Busoni International Piano Competition and was the first Canadian and first woman to win Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition. Her debut recording, of works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, was released in 2003 on Canada’s Arktos label.

Thomas Stumpf, piano, received his degrees in piano performance from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He won concerto competitions at both institutions, and was awarded the Bösendorfer Prize (Vienna, 1970) and the Lilli Lehmann Medal (Salzburg, 1972). His performing career has taken him across four continents and he is featured on six CD's. Stumpf’s repertoire ranges from Bach to the avant-garde; he has conducted several Mozart concerti from the keyboard, and performed the complete solo piano works of Mozart at Boston University during the 1991-92 season and at UMassLowell in 2006-7. He has premiered many compositions by contemporary American composers and has performed with such luminaries as Rita Streich, Edith Mathis, D'Anna Fortunato, Richard Stoltzman, Jack Brymer, Walter Trampler and Leslie Parnas. He has also appeared with the HongKong Philharmonic, the Boston Pops Orchestra (under Arthur Fiedler), Alea III (under Theodore Antoniou), and numerous other ensembles.  Stumpf's compositions have appeared on concert programs in Boston, throughout the U.S. as well as in Germany and the U.S.S.R.; in 1992 he won the Kahn Award for his music theater project "Dark Lady," one section of which was recorded on the Neuma label by soprano Joan Heller. Most recently his choral work “Though I walk” was premiered at St. Bartholomew’s in New York City by the Pharos Music Project. He is Director of Music at Follen Church in Lexington MA, where he has conducted many major choral works. His experience at Follen has led to his first book: a collection of essays entitled "A Sounding Mirror: Courage and Music in our Time," published in 2005 by Higganum Hill Books. He is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Prism Opera, and has conducted and directed Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" (in his own translation), as well as operas by Britten, Vaughan-Williams and Holst. Stumpf has taught piano at the New England Conservatory, UMassLowell (where he was head of the keyboard department), and Boston University (where he  was Chair of the Collaborative Piano Department). He regularly gives master-classes at the Musikschule in Mannheim, Germany.

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Carol Mastrodomenico -Opera Ensemble Director, M.M. in Vocal Performance, M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy, New England Conservatory. Ms. Mastrodomenico is an active performe and teacher in the Boston area. Her recital credits include: Tanglewood Music Center, Jordan Hall in a program of works by composer David Leisner, Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, 1794 Meeting House Concert Series in New Salem, and the Music at Noon Concert Series at the Swedenborg Chapel. She was heard as Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Clorinda in Cenerentola at Longwood Opera, Pamina in Die Zauberflote with Hillman Opera, and Princess Toto and Columbine with Royal Victorian Opera Company. In addition to Tufts University, she is presently on the faculties of Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Thomas Gregg holds degress in voice performance from Capitol University in Ohio, the University of Michigan, and Ohio State University, and has won numerous performance and academic awards, including fellowships to attend two Bach Aria Institutes and two Aston Magna Academies. In addition to his appointment at Tufts, he is Director of Vocal Studies for Harvard University's Choir and is on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory. He has sung with the Handel & Hayden Society and many more ensembles. In addition, he has appeared as soloist with many of the choral, opera, and early music groups throughout the southern and eastern United States.

Charles Blandy has been critically praised for his performances in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Berio’s Sinfonia at Tanglewood. He was in the premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar at Tanglewood and Los Angeles. The year 2005 included two appearances with Opera Boston, in Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne and Glück’s Alceste. In 2006 he will sing Tamino in Mozart’s /The Magic Flute/ with Emmanuel Music in Boston. Mr. Blandy has sung Handel’s /Messiah /with the Charlotte Symphony, premiered Jorge Liderman’s Song of Songs with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and performed Britten’s St. Nicolas, conducted by Raymond Leppard. He frequently performs works of Bach with Emmanuel Music in Boston, and he has sung several works with the Cantata Singers under David Hoose and John Harbison. He studied at Indiana University (Masters), Oberlin College, the Britten-Pears School in England, and Tanglewood, where he was the recipient of the Grace B. Jackson prize. He is a native of Troy, NY.

Andrea Ehrenreich, Soprano
Andrea Ehrenreich has appeared in recital throughout the United States, as well as in Germany, Austria, France, Ireland, Poland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, New Zealand and India.  She has appeared as a guest soloist with such highly acclaimed organizations as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester Leonberg, the Miami Symphony, the St. Cecilia Orchestra of Dublin, the Boston Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgarter Bach Collegium, the Back Bay Chorale of Boston, the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, and with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Summer Pops Orchestra.

As an advocate of American music, Ms. Ehrenreich has toured the South Pacific and the Far East under the auspices of the United States Information Agency’s Artistic Ambassador Program.  The recital tour included highlights from American opera, art song, and musical theatre.  Ms. Ehrenreich gave concerts in New Zealand, Indonesia and India to enthusiastic critical acclaim.

Her extensive oratorio credits include performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Back Bay Chorale of Boston, Handel’s Messiah with the Stuttgarter Bach Collegium and the Miami Symphony, Haydn’s Creation and Brahms’ Requiem with the St. Cecilia Orchestra of Dublin, Haydn’s Theresienmesse with members of the New World Symphony, Goodman’s Kaddish at Marsh Chapel at Boston University, the Mozart Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra’s PAND Festival, Haydn’s The Seasons with Assabet Valley Mastersingers, as well as the Bach’s Magnificat and  the Vivaldi Gloria.  Recently, Ms. Ehrenreich performed Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 with the Tufts University Symphony Orchestra.  Ms. Ehrenreich has been featured on live radio broadcasts of National Public Radio, Art of the States, RTHK-Hong Kong, and the internationally syndicated ‘Voice of America’.

As a promoter of new music, Ms. Ehrenreich has premiered works composed expressly for her by Andrew Vores, Donald Hagar, Marusya Nainggolan, David Gallagher, Uli Süsse, and Mathias Schneider.  In addition to numerous performances of contemporary music, she has also premiered works by John McDonald, Marti Epstein, Persis Vehar, John Yukashi and Julian Wachner.

Ms. Ehrenreich has enjoyed success in the operatic field as well.  Her most recent performances include the roles of “Marie” in The Bartered Bride by Smetana, “the First Lady” in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, “Norina” in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, and “Susanna” in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

Oboe
Lynn Jacquin, B.M., New England Conservatory of Music, where she is now Woodwind Chamber Music Chair of the Extension Division. She is also on the faculty of the Longy School of Music. Ms. Jacquin was a founding member of Oboe International and E.L.M. (Everybody Loves Music), and has appeared as soloist and chamber music player in North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. She is an active free-lance and chamber music player in the Boston area, and has performed with the Cantilena Quintet, Alea III, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, Opera New England, and Bank Boston Celebrity Soloists Youth Concerts with Bassoon Chamber Players. Ms. Jacquin has also coached music at the Wellesley Composers Conference and was guest lecturer in Brizal under the Auspices of the Fulbright Commission.

Bassoon
Ronald Haroutunian, B.M., New England Conservatory. Studied with Sherman Walt and Matthew Ruggiero. Performs regularly with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony, and numerous other organizations throughout New England. He has appeared with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras. He has recorded with Philips, Opus One, Golden Crest, CRI and Albany records. Mr. Haroutunian has served on the faculty of Hartt School of Music and also has served as principal bassoon with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

BRASS

Trumpet
Dana Russian B.A., Colby College, Waterville, Maine. He has performed with the Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, and Rhode Island Philharmonic, and is currently a member of the Springfield Symphony and the Beacon Brass Quintet.

Trombone
Hans Bohn keeps a diverse and active performance schedule of concerts with the Bostn Ballet, Lyric Opera, and Handel and Hayden Society orchestras. He has performed with the Boston Symphony in Boston and Carnegie Hall, with the Esplanade Pops Orchestra, and can be heard on several Boston Pops recordings with John Williams. He also performs with symphony orchestra in Springfield, MA, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Hartford,CT, Portland, ME, and with the new music group Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Hans performed with the Empire Brass Quintet including a live broadcast on NPR, as well as with the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Heidelberg Festival Orchestra, and the Orchestra de Mineria in Mexico. Hans is also a trombone instructor at Brandeis University and a member of the Burning River Brass.

French Horn
Anne Howarth, is a founding member of the chamber group Radius Ensemble, and performs often in the greater Boston area. She holds the position of principal horn with the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra and freelances with other orchestras, including the Boston SymphonyOrchestra, Hartford Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Portland Symphony Orchestra. She maintains a private teaching studio in Somerville, MA, teaches horn at U Mass Boston, and has taught horn and brass methods at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Anne holds degrees from Oberlin College and New England Conservatory.

Tuba/Euphonium
Michael S. Milnarik enjoys an eclectic range of performances with many different types of organizations such as orchestras, chamber groups, jazz ensembles and as a soloist.  Some of the places he has been heard are with the Boston Ballet, Portland (ME) Symphony, on television, radio and on recordings. Michael is the director of INNOVATA (a brass quintet), the Boston Nights Jazz Trio and Dr. Fidgety (New Orleans Style Dixieland Band).  He is a member of the Portland Brass, Cantabrigia Brass, guiTUBAtar (guitar/banjo and tuba duo), the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and has performed frequently with the Portland Ballet Orchestra. 

Michael has a large private tuba and euphonium studio in Massachusetts, as well as in Maine.  He is presently on the faculty of Tufts University, the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, Anna Maria College, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is the low brass instructor at the Lexington (MA) Public Schools.  These students range from beginner through professional. In addition to his busy performance and teaching schedule, Michael is the director of the Youth Brass of Boston chamber music program, is an avid arranger of brass quintet music, is an audio recording and sound reinforcement engineer (on the side) and has served on the board of the New England Philharmonic as a member and also as the president.  Most recently Michael has opened TubaStudio.com which carries 'stuff' for tuba players.

STRINGS & EARLY MUSIC

Violin
Joanna Kurkowicz, Praised in GRAMOPHONE Magazine for “disciplined virtuosity” violinist Joanna Kurkowicz enjoys an active and versatile career as an award-winning soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and concertmistress. She has performed on many of the great concert stages of the world, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Boston and the Grosse Saal, Salzburg, and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in US ,Europe and New Zealand.  She has received awards from the Samuel Chester, Presser, Saint Botolph, Kosciuszko, and Olevsky Foundations, the Harvard Musical Association, the Irving McKlein International Competition, the Carmel and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions, and in Poland, the Henryk Wieniawski and Tadeusz Wronski International Competitions.

Ms. Kurkowicz currently serves as concertmistress of the Boston Philharmonic and the Berkshire Symphony  Orchestra.  Her previous positions as concertmistress include the Boston Modern Orchestra Project  (1999–2004) and the Vermont Symphony (1999–2001). She was a member of the acclaimed Metamorphosen and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras (1997–2003). Since fall 2002, she holds the position of “Artist in Residence” at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and recently joined the faculty at Tufts University. An avid and sought-after chamber musician, she is a founding member and Artistic Advisor of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and the Plymouth Chamber Music Festival.

As a guest artist, she has participated in the Mozarteum Festival in Salzburg, the Ravinia Festival, Barge Concert Series (NY), the Asia Pacific Festival in Wellington, New Zealand,, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, the EuroSilesia International Music Festival and the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society.

Ms. Kurkowicz as a strong advocate of contemporary music has premiered works by G. Schuller,R. Shapey, P. Ruders,, D. Kechley, G. Bacewicz., and S. Korde, some of which were dedicated to her. Her recent solo CD featuring music of Grazyna Bacewicz released on CHANDOS RECORDS has been praised in FANFARE  Magazine as “spectacular release” and in INTERNATIONAL RECORDREVIEW for “...passion, authority and sheer élan...” and received fantastic reviews in numerous magazines including STRAD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE and MUZYKA21. Her BRIDGE RECORDS release featuring music of Alfred Schnittke has been noted in the STRAD Magazine for “strong impact… her playing holds one enthralled, demonstrating strong personality and assured technique.” The CD was chosen by Boston Herald as “Best of Year 2001.” Ms. Kurkowicz can also be heard on the Centaur, CRI, Capstone, Albany, New World Records, Neuma and Archetype labels. Her Boston premiere of sonatas by Rebecca Clarke was listed in the Boston Globe “Best Concerts of 2000.” Please visit her website for more information.

Sarita Uranovsky, A native of Cape Town, South Africa, Sarita Uranovsky, enjoys a varied career as soloist, chamber musician, teacher and orchestral musician. Since her debut at the age of 15, she has appeared as soloist and in recital with, among others, Boston University, Cape Town, Richmondshire and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Symphony Orchestras. Sarita has been Concertmaster of Orchestra Geminiani de Fallonica (Italy), the RSAMD Symphony Orchestras and Assistant Concertmaster of the Cape Symphony Orchestra.  She can be seen performing regularly in groups around Boston including Boston Musica Viva, the Cantata Singers, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Boston Pops. Ms. Uranovsky is a founding member and violinist of Boston based group, MONTAGE Music Society. She has recorded and broadcast for both the BBC and SABC. Sarita has performed in concert for HRH Prince Charles, HRH Princess Anne and at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields.  Ms. Uranovsky teaches at Tufts University, is teaching Assistant to Bayla Keyes at Boston University and serves on the faculty of MIT’s Emerson program.

Double Bass 
Pascale Delache-Feldman. French double bassist Pascale Delache-Feldman has enjoyed a diverse career performing as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, commissioner of new music, educator and founder and artistic director of the Boston Bass Bash, an international festival dedicated to the double bass. As a soloist, she has performed with the North Shore Philharmonic, Greensboro Festival Orchestra, Longy Chamber Orchestra and others.  New Music Connoisseur described her playing from a recent concert as having “technical certainty and musical imagination”. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with violinists Midori, Joel Smirnoff, pianists Virginia Eskin, Victor Rosenbaum, Randall Hodgkinson, the Borromeo String Quartet, St. Petersburg String Quartet, members of the Lark String Quartet, Fidelio and with mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato.  Shewas a prizewinner at the Prague International Chamber Music Competition and won first prize with honors for double bass performance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.  She has recorded chamber works with the Albany, Archetype, Arsis, AFKA and CRI labels. 

As co-founder of Cello e Basso (formerly the Axiom Duo) with cellist Emmanuel Feldman, she has concertized both in the US and in Europe at such distinguished venues as the Phillips Collection, Jordan Hall, Sanders Theater, Ferenc Liszt Academy, Vienna’s Altes Rathaus, Radio France Paris and many others.  Cello e Basso has been dedicated to new music having commissioned more than a dozen new works and has appeared on NPR's Artbeat, WGBH Boston, Vermont Public Radio, France Inter (Carrefour de L’Odéon), Radio France Toulouse, and local television stations.  The duo has collaborated with Rebecca Rice Dance Group and will perform together next season on the Bank of America’s Marquee Celebrity Series.  Their debut CD was released on Synergy Classics in January 2002. Ms. Delache-Feldman teaches double bass at the Longy School of Music, Tufts University, Brown University, Rivers School of Music and frequently is a guest for master classes.  She has taught at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, Summit Music Festival and Wellesley Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center. A second-generation bassist, she studied with her father Jean-Claude Delache at age 10 at the Toulouse Conservatory, later studying with Jacques Cazauran and Frédéric Stochl at the Paris Conservatory where she earned her Bachelor of Music.  Ms. Delache-Feldman came to the US to study with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she received her Artist Diploma.  She was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow and participated in the Pablo Casals Festival (France), Schlesswig Holstein Musik Festival (Germany). 

Viola
Scott Woolweaver B.M. graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan School of Music before moving to Boston for graduate work with Walter Trampler. He was founding member of the Boston Composers String Quartet, which won the silver medal at the 1993 String Quartet and Chamber Music Festa in Osaka, Japan, and with the Quartet, performed across the United States and Europe. He is violist of the award-winning New England Piano Quartette, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and he spends his summers at the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park (CO) Chamber Music Festival, and the Adult Chamber Music Seminar at the Interlochen (MI) Arts Camp. A champion of twentieth century music, Mr. Woolweaver has premiered numerous works for the viola, many of which were written for him. He is also a faculty member of the All Newton Music School, the University of Massachusetts and has recorded for Orion, Koch International, TelDec, Audiofon, Albany Records, Decca and Northeastern Records.

Cello
Emmanuel Feldman, hailed by John Williams, Grammy award winning composer and conductor "an outstanding cellist and truly dedicated artist", American cellist Emmanuel Feldman enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, champion and commissioner of new music and educator. Mr. Feldman has performed as a soloist with the Boston Pops, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, Greensboro Festival Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, New England String Ensemble and many others.  The Boston Globe described his playing “as beautiful as it is enormous, and he can carry a long line with great flexibility, never sacrificing the logic of its direction”.   He has appeared frequently on radio and television broadcast on WQXR New York, WCRB and WGBH Boston, Radio France and local cable television.  His recordings include a solo album with pianist Mariann Abraham with music by Kodaly, Gershwin and Ligeti on ZenCD, a CD of the music of Pamela Marshall with mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato on Clique Track and this coming season, he will be releasing a solo album of American music by Virgil Thomson and Charles Fussell on Albany Records.

An avid chamber player, Mr. Feldman has collaborated with pianists, Robert Levin, Gilbert Kalish, Jorge Bolet, Yehudi Wyner, Max Levinson, violinists Lynn Chang and Arturo Delmoni, the Borromeo String Quartet, members of the Lydian String Quartet and was invited to participate in the Marlboro Music Festival. He has also worked with the Mark Morris Dance Group and soloed with renowned pop and jazz artist, Bobby McFerrin.  Mr. Feldman has recorded chamber works on the Naxos, Arsis and Zimbel labels. As co-founder of Cello e Basso (formerly the Axiom Duo) with bassist Pascale Delache-Feldman, he has concertized both in the US and in Europe at such distinguished venues as the Phillips Collection, Jordan Hall, Sanders Theater, Ferenc Liszt Academy, Vienna’s Altes Rathaus, Radio France Paris and many others.  Cello e Basso has been dedicated to new music and has commissioned more than a dozen new works.  The duo has collaborated with Rebecca Rice Dance Group and will perform together this season on the Bank of America’s Marquee Celebrity Series.  Their debut CD was released on Synergy Classics in January 2002. A consummate advocate of new music, Emmanuel has given the premieres and first recordings of cello works by composers Aaron Kernis, Charles Fussell, David Diamond, Gunther Schuller, Yakov Yakoulov, John McDonald, Jan Swafford, Gilbert Trout to name a few.  Emmanuel's own musical compositions have been performed by Cello e Basso, the New England String Ensemble, and the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival. 

Currently, Mr. Feldman teaches cello at Tufts University and New England Conservatory's Preparatory and School of Continuing Education. 

Viola da Gamba/Recorder
Jane Hershey, Director of the Early Music Ensemble, studied at The Hague conservatory with Sigiswald and Wieland Kuijken, and Frans Bruggen. As a member of the Boston Camerata from 1982 to 1987, she toured in the US and Europe, and recorded with Erato, Harmonia Mundi and Nonesuch; as a viol and violin player she has performed with the Aston Magna Festival, New England Bach Festival, Handel and Haydn Society, Hesperus, LiveOak, Emmanuel Music and the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. She performs regularly with New Quartet, Arcadia Players, and with Laura Jeppesen at the MFA in Boston; as a duo with Ms. Jeppesen, she can be heard on the new CD Music for Viola da Gamba on Titanic. Active as a workshop director for the Viola da Gamba Society-New England, Ms. Hershey is on the faculties of the Longy School of Music and the Powers Music School.

Classical Guitar
David Patterson - David Patterson has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the U.S. and abroad. In 1988 he founded the critically acclaimed New World Guitar Trio. The group, dedicated to forging new ground in the music world, gained international recognition through its arrangements, commissions, recordings and innovative performance style. As the groups producer and arranger, David explored various genres of music from Beethoven to the folk music of Portugal. He also worked closely with composers Osvaldo Golijov, Claudio Ragazzi and Dana Brayton on works commissioned by the Trio In addition to his work with the New World Guitar Trio, David Patterson has performed with various ensembles including the Auros Group, Musica Viva, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Harvard Group for New Music as an artist in residence. He has been a guest artist at the Tangewood and Bowdoin music festivals. David worked with Composer Osvaldo Golijov and soprano Dawn Upshaw as an arranger and performer in the Tanglewood 2003 world premier of the opera Ainadamar under the baton of Robert Spano. In 2003 David’s recording of Jimmy Page’s White Summer/Black Mountainside was featured in a compilation CD Guitar Harvest along with guitarists Andy Summers, Bill Frizel and Ralph Towner among others. The CD’s proceeds are donated to provide resources for the music education programs for inner city schools. His most recent project, a solo classical guitar recording, features music by Villa-Lobos, Sor, Ginastera in addition to arrangements of Bach and Albeniz. The CD will be released in 2005. David is currently on the faculty of Gordon College in Wenham MA and the Longy School in Cambridge MA.. He has also conducted master classes at Berklee College, University of Hawaii and The Saint Louis Guitar Society in addition to various music institutions in South America and Asia.

Harp
Mary Jane Rupert. B.M., Oberlin College. M.M., in Harp and Piano, Indiana University. D.M., in Piano Performance, Indiana University. Private harp study with Marcel Grandjany. Ms. Rupert is currently a faculty member of Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts. Free-lance harpist and recitalist in the Boston area. Other performances in Carnegie Recital Hall and the Beijing Concert Hall, China. She has published an arrangement of The Nutcracker Suite for flute and harp (or piano) with New Boston Editions.

Joe Galeota, Jr. (focusing on African/Brazilian percussion) - B.M., Berklee College of Music, studied Ethnomusicology at the University of Ghana (West Africa); M.A., Wesleyan University, 1985. Assistant Professor of Music, Berklee College of Music. Percussionist for Spirit of Africa and the Radicals World Tour 1994-1996. Consultatn and recording artist for movie soundtrack for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Lucas Films). Owner of West African Drum company Jag Drums.

Robert Schulz, Percussionist Robert Schulz has become a familiar face to Boston audiences, known for his multi-faceted performances with many of the areas premier ensembles. The Boston Globe has referenced his virtuoso work as "subtle, with cat-like alertness", his musicianship as "dazzling" and his performance as "spellbinding". Highly sought after by instrumentalists, composers and conductors alike for his collaborative skills, his percussive expertise extends through the traditional symphonic repertory, contemporary solo and chamber ensemble works to jazz, improvisational forms and world music.

He is principal percussionist for the Andover Chamber Music Series, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Musica Viva, Dinosaur Annex, the Fromm Players at Harvard and Music at Eden's Edge. He works with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and Pro Arte Chamber orchestras and has collaborated with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Collage New Music and Firebird Ensemble on several occasions. Additionally, he has been a featured soloist and ensemble member with the Bank of America Celebrity Series numerous times. In 2004-05 he was nominated for a Grammy Award in the categoryof Best Small Ensemble Performance for his work on Yehudi Wyner's The Mirror and gave the Boston premier of Tan Dun's Water Concerto with BMOP. He has led his own group, the BeatCity Art Ensemble, in performances for the Celebrity Series, Lincoln Center and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He has toured across the United States and Canada as well as to venues in Paris, Athens and Tokyo.

Originally from Buffalo, N.Y., Mr. Schulz' first teachers were John Rowland and Lynn Harbold of the Buffalo Philharmonic and later Jan Williams at SUNY Buffalo, where he earned his Bachelor's Degree (1989). After moving to Boston in 1990 for study at the New England Conservatory, he completed a Masters in Jazz Studies with Fred Buda (1992) and was offered successive fellowships to the Tanglewood Music Center while pursuing a Graduate Diploma in Solo Percussion with Frank Epstein of the Boston Symphony (1994).
A gifted teacher and mentor to many, current affiliations include Brandeis, Harvard and Tufts Universities. His work at these institutions includes private lessons, ensemble coaching and conducting, musician contracting, and compositional seminars. He makes his home in Arlington with his wife Rose and their two children, Natalie and Jesse.

WORLD, ETHNIC, FOLK, AND TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS, VOICE, MUSIC

Koto
Cathleen Read B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Wesleyan University. Studied sokyoku (koto music) of the Yamada School for twenty years. In 1974 she became the first foreigner to join a professional Yamada School musicians' guild, when she was admitted into the shachu of Nakanoshima Kin'ichi-Sensei, one of Japan's renowned artists, and given the performing name Ayakano. Ms. Read has concertized widely in the United States, Japan and West Africa. 

Shakuhachi
Elizabeth Reian Bennett is the first woman to be certified a Grand master of the shakuhachi and one of only a handful of western players trained in traditional Japanese music. She has studied and performed for 25 years with Living National Treasure Aoki Reibo, recognized as Japan's foremost shakuhachi instrumentalist. Reian Bennett has performed frequently in Japan and worldwide; her most recent appearances in Japan include Tokyo National Theater and Japanese National TV (NHK). Her repertory encompasses the ancient wandering monk solos, classical Japanese chamber music, east-west contemporary compositions and works of her own improvisation. For recent reviews of her CD, “Song of the True Hand” and music clips, go to www.cdbaby.com/cd/erbennett. Ms. Reian Bennett teaches Shakuhachi at Tufts University.

Violin traditions of the World
Beth Bahia Cohen has spent a large part of her career exploring how the violin is played in various cultures. She was trained as a classical violinist and violist in NY, getting her Master's Degree from Manhattan School of Music, and spent several years performing with numerous symphony, ballet, opera and chamber orchestras in New York and Europe, as well as in Broadway shows and commercial recording studios.

Beth then traveled, studied and performed with masters of the violin and other bowed instruments from Hungary, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, and Norway. She plays several Greek lyras, the Turkish bowed tanbur and kabak kemane, the Egyptian rababa, the Norwegian hardanger fiddle, and more. She plays village music from Hungary, Greek music from various regions of Greece, Turkish classical and folk music, and Arabic and Klezmer music. She has been the recipient of many travel and research grants, including the NEA/Artists International grant and the Radcliffe Bunting fellowship. She performs regularly with several groups and as a soloist in The Art of the Bow, which brings together the various bowed instrument traditons as well as her original music, and she teaches workshops and ensembles in universities throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. As an Applied Music faculty member in the Tufts WEFT program, Beth teaches the violin traditions mentioned above, as well as European classical violin and Celtic music.

Hindustani Music, Voice (Indian Music)
Warren Senders. The artistic traditions of Hindustani music have been at the core of Warren Senders’ life and work since 1977, when he began his study of Hindustani music with Smt. Kalpana Mazumder. After living for five years in India and learning from master teacher Pt. S.G. Devasthali, he is recognized as the foremost non-Indian performer of Hindustani singing; his concerts in India, Europe and North America have been widely acclaimed. Warren has received grants and fellowships including the Indo-American Fellowship, the Jon B. Higgins Memorial Scholarship for Indian Music, a Senior Research Fellowship and a Performing Arts Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, support for music composition from Meet the Composer, and travel awards from the Fund for U.S. Artists. His writing on music has been published by Rhythm Magazine, Bansuri, the New England Conservatory Journal for Learning Through Music, and World Rhythm. Mr. Senders is on faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University.

Oud
Kareem Roustom is an award-winning composer who has composed music for film, television, the concert hall and album projects. Steeped in the musical traditions of the Arab Near East and trained in Western music, Roustom is a musically bi-lingual composer who has collaborated with a wide variety of artists ranging from the Philadelphia Orchestra to Shakira. An active composer of film music, he has scored a number of short and feature-length films, and his score for the award-winning documentary Encounter Point earned him the Best Musical Score Award at the 2006 Bend International Film Festival. Of his recent score for Amreeka, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the Hollywood Reporter wrote "Kareem Roustom's Middle Eastern-flavored score contributes greatly." Amreeka recently won the Internation Critic's Award at the Director's Fortnight during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and will be released in the USA in September of 2009.

Mandolin
Ian Goldstein teaches celtic/ bluegrass/ folk/ blues/ jazz mandolin to learners at all levels of experience and ability. Emphasizing an encouraging, individualistic approach, lessons are highly practical, using songs as tools to achieve ergonomic form, boost listening skills, understand theory and begin to improvise. Students learn chords and melodies en route to a full understanding of the instrument and how to play in solo and ensemble contexts. Ian teaches privately, as well as through both The Music Emporium and Tufts University. He has been performing for years on mandolin, guitar and lap slide in his own groups, with other Boston-based folk/rock groups and supporting singer-songwriters. He has played venues throughout the eastern U.S. & the San Francisco Bay area, and has appeared on National Public Radio (WPLN Nashville NPR). Ian studied mandolin privately with John McGann (Berklee College of Music), Michael Kerry, and guitar with Armand Qualliotine (Brandeis and Berklee). He received his B.A. from Brandeis University, and is currently working towards his MA. in Music at Tufts, with a focus in ethnomusicology.

Banjo
Ben Krakauer, banjo, has taught and performed throughout the United States, collaborating with top musicians in traditional and contemporary North American string music. He has won prizes at prestigious competitions at Merlefest, Rocky Grass, and Telluride. He was a founding member of Old School Freight Train, with whom he recorded three original CDs, and seven “Pickin’ On” CDs, featuring bluegrass-inflected interpretations of popular music. In 2005-2006, he toured and performed with mandolin master David Grisman, playing “Dawg” music in such venues as Town Hall, Sanders Theatre, and World Cafe. Ben’s recent work includes his performance on the “Fiddle Masters: Volume 3” DVD, alongside Paul Kowert (of the Punch Brothers), Grant Gordy (of the David Grisman Quintet), and young fiddle luminaries Tatiana and Alex Hargreaves (of Mike Marshall’s Big Trio). In 2005-2007, Ben taught banjo as adjunct faculty at University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music. He currently teaches banjo at Tufts University, where he is an M.A. candidate in Ethnomusicology.

Arabic clarinet + hand drums
Mal Barsamian represents the third generation of oud (lute) players in his family. Having obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in classical guitar performance under Robert Paul Sullivan at the New England Conservatory of Music, he went on to become a sought-after player of the oud  and dumbeg (hand drum). He has played within Armenian, Greek, and Middle Eastern musical communities throughout the country for over thirty years, and also performs on guitar, clarinet and saxophone. He performed with the late Esber Korporcu, an important figure in Boston’s Middle-Eastern music community, and has also appeared with Mehmet Sanlikol’s Dunya organization. Mal is a specialist in music written by Armenian composers active in Istanbul during the later years of the Ottoman Empire.

JAZZ AND ROCK

Jazz Piano
David Zoffer B.M., Oberlin Conservatory in Jazz Composition, M.M. New England Conservatory in Jazz Studies; department chair and faculty, NEC Cont. Ed. and Prep Jazz dept.; faculty, Rivers Music School; former faculty, Cleveland School of the Arts, Oberlin Conservatory; former teacher instructor at Carnegie Mellon University; recordings and performances with Eddie Gomez, Don Alias, Paul Bley, Bob Moses, Dave Liebman, Don Byron, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Harry Connick, Jr.; Marcus Belgrave, Luciana Souza, Stan Stickland, George W. Russell, Hr.; winner, 1995 Boston Jazz Society Award.

Fernando Michelin Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Michelin came to Boston in 1989 to study at Berklee College of Music.  He has since remained in the Boston area and has undoubtedly made his impact on the jazz scene. His past bands have included such up and coming artists as bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding and drummer Richie Barshay.  His discography includes Art, an album featuring songs dedicated to modern visual artists, and Duende, an album described in the Boston Globe as a “fluid and literate” collaboration between the three featured artists. Entre Amigos will be his ninth studio album.  In addition to being a band leader, Michelin has worked as a producer and as a sideman.  He helped create the awarded “Amores Torcidos” with Katie Viqueira and as a sideman he has performed with icons like Jair Rodriguez and Maucha Adnet. He is also an educator, working as a member of the applied faculty at Tufts University.

Jazz and Rock Guitar
Jerry Bussiere has jazz guitar, composition and improvisation privately with Ross Adams, Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Banacos. In addition to extensive performing in many styles of western popular music as a guitarist and vocalist, he has been a mainstay in the Boston Modern Dance Community as a composer and accompanist. On May 7, 1994 he was presented the "Dance Belt Award" by Cambridge's Kenneth Reeves. Mr. Bussiere continues to perform with jazz saxophonist Stan Strickland, vocalist Wannetta Jackson, and the Terry Anthony Dance Band.

Jazz Vocal
Diane Richardson, holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California. She completed her Masters of Music at The Boston Conservatory and her undergraduate degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music. Dr. Richardson has led and arranged repertoire for Mashandi Jhaz, a four piece all-female ensemble. She has traveled as lead singer with top-40 bands Eli and with Split Image and has also been a frequent participant of the Annual Women in Music festival as well as served as host of "About the Arts", a weekly cable television program in Boston (becoming a community cable arts award nominee). She has performed with Wayne Naus' Heart & Fire and has been a guest artist for Mobius, the Dilloway-Thomas House, and African-Heritage Museum. Dr. Richardson’s recording projects include “SingusMingus: A Jazz Lieder Program” --a tribute to bassist Charles Mingus; The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington; African American Spiriuals and Arts Songs. Her compositions include a setting of the poetry of Langston Hughes to jazz. Dr. Richardson performs as part of a jazz duet with Boston artist and vocalist Lynn Doran, and currently teaches at Berklee College of Music and Tufts University specializing in jazz, pop, r&b, and vocal technique.

Jazz Saxophone
Stan Strickland, a singer, saxophonist, and flutist, has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Scandinavia and the former Soviet Union performing in clubs and concert halls including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in NY and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Morty Ehrlich, Mama Tongue, Webster Lewis and Brute Force, and with his own band, Legacy. He has composed many original scores for television, video and dance productions. Mr. Strickland is Adjunct Professor of Music and Movement at Lesley College and teaches woodwinds at Longy School of Music, Boston College and is Visiting Professor at Institutes in Finland, Holland and Israel.

Paul Ahlstrand, saxophonist, holds a degree in Music Education from Syracuse University. He has studied privately with Nick Brignola, Bill Pierce, Jerry Bergonzi, and Charlie Banacos. He has performed at night clubs and festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe with a variety of artists, including The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Toni Lynn Washington, Mighty Sam McClain, Son Seals, Luther "Guitar Junior"Johnson, Susan Tedeschi and many others. He is an active performer, studio musician, arranger, and composer. A discography and current performance schedule are available at www.paulahlstrand.com..

Jazz/Rock - Electric Bass
Fernando Huergo born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1968. He has recording over 60 albums, including three as leader and four as co-leader. Fernando has toured in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. He has given clinics in Argentia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Portugal, England, France, Germany, Sweden, Finalnd, Turkey, Japan and many American cities. Fenando graduated from Berklee Collge of Music in 1992, where he has been Assistant Professors in the Bass Department since 1996.

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