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 Enso String QuartetMAUREEN NELSON, violin With a 2009 Grammy nomination for “Best Chamber Music Performance,” the Enso String Quartet has quickly become one of the country’s most accomplished young ensembles. Shortly after the group’s inception at Yale University in 1999, Enso had success at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and has consistently received high praise for performances ever since. The quartet’s debut recording was described by Strad Magazine as “an auspicious start to their recording career,” and was followed by the recent Grammy-nominated release of the quartets of Ginastera. MusicWeb International summed up this album as “playing of jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the 20th century quartet literature … seek out this group – they are clearly bound for greatness.” The disc was selected as one of MusicWeb’s Recordings of the Year for 2009.
 Jasper String QuartetJ FREIVOGEL, violin The Jasper String Quartet has been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and as having “played with sparkling vitality and great verve... They are polished, engaged, and in tune with one another.” (Classical Voice of North Carolina) This unity comes from a quartet belief in the timeless pursuit of music’s depth and meaning. They share a commitment to exploring each work to its fullest and to discovering new musical connections through each performance.
 INESSA ZARETSKY has been at our piano for over a decade, the foundation instrument for so much of the chamber-music repetoire. Professor of Piano at Mannes School of Music, New York, she was a winner of the Frina Auerbach International Competition and has been the recipient of awards from Mannes College, Yale University and the Exxon Corporation. She maintains a busy performance schedule in New York City, and has emerged as an extremely gifted composer as well. For more information about Inessa visit http://www.inessazaretsky.com.  PAUL NITSCH is the Carolyn G. McMahon Professor of Music and the Macavity Artist-in-Residence at Queens University of Charlotte. He is also Artistic Director for the Friends of Music University, and is a noted chamber music performer, teacher and competition judge.  TRACY ROWELL, from Cleveland Heights, teaches at the University of Akron and for the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is principal bassist for CityMusic Cleveland, and performs regularly with Apollo's Fire and Opera Cleveland. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Cavani Quartet and the Cleveland Chamber Collective. She has served as Assistant Principal Bassist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and Carmel Bach Festival. She studied with Paul Ellison, and holds a Masters degree from Boston University, where she was a student of Edwin Barker.  LYNN HILEMAN is assistant Professor of Bassoon at West Virginia University, principal bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, and plays in the Laureate Wind Quintet and the bassoon duo Tuple, and has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, New Haven Symphany, and Buffalo Festival Orchestras. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale and the Eastman School of Music, where she was a Bogiages Prize laureate, and studied with John Hunt, K. David Van Hoesen, Frank Morelli, Christopher Millard, and Richard Beene. She has been a champion of contemporary music and innovative experimentation in concert programs, and was a co-founder of Rochester's “A\V” gallery and performance space.  GEORGE POPE, flute. Professor of Flute at the University of Akron. He is a founding member of the Solaris Wind Quintet, and has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Canton and Toledo Symphony Orchestras. His solo and chamber performances throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil, and broadcasts on National Public Radio, have received unanimous acclaim.  CYNTHIA WATSON, oboe. Professor of Oboe at the University of Akron. She performs with the Solaris Wind Quintet and is the principal oboe of the Akron and Youngstown Symphonies. She has performed with the Cleveland Symphony, the Cleveland Opera, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Virginia Opera, to reviews full of praise.  DAVID BELL, clarinet, received his training at Oberlin Conservatory where he was a student of Lawrence McDonald and Northwestern University as a student of Robert Marcellus. Other teachers have included Larry Combs, Arnold Jacobs, and Clark Brody. He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the Milwaukee Symphony and has toured internationally with the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Solaris Wind Quintet. Mr. Bell is the Professor of Clarinet at Lawrence University and has held faculty positions at the Oberlin Conservatory, Baldwin-Wallace College, the University of Akron, West Virginia University, and Western Illinois University. Former students perform with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the National Symphony, and others hold appointments at colleges and universities throughout the country. David has held Principal chairs with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Opera, Cleveland Ballet Orchestra, and Akron Symphony Orchestra and has played with the Midsummer Music Festival. He continues to be a frequent guest teacher and clinician nationwide. Mr. Bell is a member of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, the La Crosse (WI) Symphony, and the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival. He performs with the Fox Valley Symphony and appears frequently as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the country.  WILLIAM HOYT is currently Professor of Horn at the University of Akron. He is also Music Director of the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival. He performs regularly with the Paragon Brass Quintet, the Solaris Quintet, the Jazz Unit, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. Mr. Hoyt played in the Spoleto Festival, the Claremont Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as well as many others. He has also performed with the Akron Symphony, the Canton Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He has degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Yale University and his primary teachers have been John Barrows, Barry Tuckwell, and Paul Ingraham. As a soloist he has performed with many organizations including the Akron Symphony Orchestra, the Juneau Symphony, and the Wooster Symphony. As a jazz player, which is not common on the French Horn, Mr. Hoyt has performed regularly with the Jazz Unit, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and at the Tri-C Jazz fest. He has performed with the likes of Joe Lovano, Dan Wall, and many other great jazz players. Internationally, Mr. Hoyt has performed and given master classes in China, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Austria. Arranging has always been an interest and he has arranged for many varied ensembles such as woodwind quintet, horn quartet, jazz ensemble and many others. Several of these arrangements have been published. Mr. Hoyt was the winner of the coveted Concert Artists Guild Award in 1977 and as a result performed a debut recital in Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City in December of that year. Mr. Joseph Horowitz of the New York Times reviewed the recital and declared Mr. Hoyt, "clearly a poised, sensitive horn player." Mr. Hoyt can be heard with the NFB Horn Quartet on Crystal Records and GM Recordings, with the Solaris Quintet on Capstone Records, and with the Jazz Unit on the Go Bop label. |
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