2011 Artists
Tina, Yu-Ting SuFrench Horn |
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Dr. Yu-Ting (Tina) Su was appointed Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Northern Iowa in 2006. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Su was a member of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and has toured with the group to Spain and Austria. As an active performer, Dr. Su has performed under the batons of Kurt Mazur, Otto-Werner Mueller, Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jahja Ling and among others. Dr. Su was featured on the nationally televised PBS special "Backstage of Lincoln Center" as principal horn of The Juilliard Orchestra. As a soloist, Dr. Su was chosen to give recitals for the "1999 Rising Stars" and the "2003 National Concert Hall Soloists" Series in Taiwan. Dr. Su was featured as soloist with the Pro Arte Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra and Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Su is also an active performer of contemporary music. In 2001, Dr. Su was engaged by Verne Reynolds to premiere his new composition, Sonata Concertante for Horn and Piano. Dr. Su was also engaged by the Contemporary Music Society in Taiwan to perform Ling-Hui Tsai's Sonata for Horn and Piano in 2005. Besides orchestral performances and solo recitals, Dr. Su is also an active chamber musician. She founded the horn quartet, Wonder Horns, with colleagues from the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. The group has won the Bach Rising Stars Series and gave its debut recital in the Bach Recital Hall in Taipei in the spring of 2004. Wonder Horns subsequently was invited to perform Robert Schumann's Konzertstück for Four Horns, op. 86 with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in the winter of 2004. Dr. Su is also the founding member of Ars Nova woodwind quintet, which won the NTSO Chamber Music Competition in 2005. Dr. Su is the recipient of many scholarships and prizes, including First Prize at the 2005 NTSO Chamber Music Competition, First Prize at the 1989 & 1991 National Music Competition in Taiwan, the Jung-Fa Chang Foundation Scholarship, the Eastman Merit Scholarship, the Hanna Rubens Scholarship, the James Chamber Scholarship and a DMA fellowship from SUNY Stony Brook for the years 1992 to 2001. In addition to her frequent performing activities, Dr. Su taught applied horn lessons and coached chamber music groups at Tung-Hai University, National Taichung Teacher's College and the National Tainan College of Arts in Taiwan from 2001 to 2006. |
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Karen Holvik Vocal Soprano  |
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Soprano
Karen Holvik brings
a wealth of experience in many styles of music to her
performances. She
began her singing life in the world of popular music and jazz,
but set her sights on a career in classical music while earning
a Master’s Degree and Performer’s Certificate in Opera at the
Eastman School of Music.
After touring with San Francisco Opera's Western Opera
Theater, Ms. Holvik settled in New York City where she pursued
an eclectic musical path, building a large repertoire of concert
music, oratorio and operatic roles.
Highlights of her work in regional opera include appearances
with Houston Grand Opera’s Spring Opera Festival, Skylight
Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Opera Illinois, Anchorage
Opera, and Texas Opera Theater, singing roles including
Constanze, Lucia, Juliette, Adina, Micaela, Marzelline and Baby
Doe. She has toured
extensively in the United States, and has appeared in Canada and
Western Europe singing both popular and classical repertoire.
She has been successful in vocal competitions including
the American Opera Auditions, Liederkranz Foundation, Oratorio
Society of New York, Carnegie Hall International American Music
Competition, and Joy in Singing, which sponsored her debut
recital at Alice Tully Hall.
The Richard Tucker Gala Concert marked her Avery Fisher
Hall debut, an event that was recorded by RCA Victor Red Seal
and shown nationally on PBS, and she made her Carnegie Hall
debut singing Handel’s
Messiah with the Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra.
Other New York venues in which she has appeared in
concert and oratorio include Merkin Hall, the 92nd
St. Y, the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, Miller Theater and
St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, The Knitting Factory
and Dance Theater Works. Ms. Holvik spent five summers as an Opera
Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, where she was a student of
Jan DeGaetani and Arleen Augér and sang leading roles in
numerous opera productions.
She returned as a guest artist, appearing with baritone,
William Sharp and pianist, Steven Blier in a program of songs by
George Gershwin as part of the celebration of the opening of the
Joan and Irving G. Harris Concert Hall. Also at Aspen she sang
the soprano solos in Mozart’s
Mass in C Minor and
performed Bach’s Cantata
202 in concerts given in memory of Jan DeGaetani.
In New York she was featured in three concerts in Miller
Theater presented by many of Ms. DeGaetani’s students and
colleagues to honor her life and work.
Also in New York Ms. Holvik sang at the memorial service
held in honor of Arleen Augér Thanks to her extensive experience in popular
music and jazz, Ms. Holvik has long been a champion of
contemporary American song and operatic repertoire, and has
premiered works by Ricky Ian Gordon, Aaron Jay Kernis, John
Musto, James Sellars, Stewart Wallace, Tom Cipullo and Richard
Wilson. She was
featured in the New York premiere and on the subsequent tour of
Kabbalah by Stewart
Wallace and Michael Korie, and appears on the Koch International
Classics recording.
She created the role of Rose in the premiere of
The World is Round by
James Sellars on a text by Gertrude Stein, conducted by Michael
Barrett. Another premiere,
Aethelred the Unready
by Richard Wilson, marked her debut with the American Symphony
Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein.
In a subsequent appearance with the ASCO, she sang Samuel
Barber’s Knoxville:
Summer of 1915.
Ms. Holvik has appeared on television, radio and in concert with
the acclaimed recital series, New York Festival of Song, and is
featured with William Sharp and Steven Blier on a NYFOS
recording released by Koch International Classics,
Zipperfly & Other Songs
by Marc Blitzstein.
Ms. Holvik sang concerts throughout the United States
as part of Trio Con Voce, with pianist, Brian Suits and
violinist, Kyung Sun Lee, and appeared frequently in New York
with the popular series
Friends and Enemies of New Music. She has been a featured
soloist in numerous seasons with the Boulder and Kalamazoo Bach
Festivals, and she appeared at the Colorado Music Festival in
Boulder singing Mozart concert arias and Beethoven’s
Egmont songs.
In 2002 she premiered the songs of Vivian Fung during a
residency in Florence, Italy, sponsored by the Atlantic Center
for the Arts. Ms. Holvik began her teaching career at the
University of Missouri-Columbia, and she taught at Vassar
College, New York University and the Eastman School of Music
before joining the faculty of the New England Conservatory in
2008. She remains
active as a performer in both classical and popular music.
Recent performances include the role of Julie in Jerome
Kern’s Show Boat with
Mercury Opera Rochester in June of 2007, and an appearance with
the New York Festival of Song in May of 2008 for their 20th
Anniversary Gala in Zankel Hall in New York City.
In October of 2009 she appeared at the 50th Anniversary
Gala Concert of the Joy in Singing Competition in Merkin Hall,
New York City.
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Emily Osinski Violin  |
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Emily Osinski was born in 1983 and began playing the violin at
age three in Anchorage, Alaska. During her childhood years she
studied with Beverly Beheim and later Therese Fetter and
Frederick Halgedahl in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She attended the
Indiana University Summer String Academy to study with Mimi
Zweig, the Hot
Springs Music Festival with Thomas Moore, Academy of Music at
Ramapo College with Isaac Malkin and Emanuel Borok and Music
Academy of the West with Zvi Zeitlin. At age fifteen Emily won
her first job as a member of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony
Orchestra. At eighteen she won the orchestra's Concerto
Competition, resulting in her concerto debut.
Emily holds a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the
Eastman School of Music (2006), where she studied with Mikhail
Kopelman. While at Eastman, she regularly sat in the
Concertmaster chair with the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra
and the Eastman Philharmonia. After graduating, she studied
privately with Zvi Zeitlin for two years. Now Emily is a
freelance violinist in Upstate New York. She is the
Concertmaster/Adjunct Faculty of the Roberts Wesleyan College
Community Orchestra, Co-Concertmaster of the Brighton Symphony
Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster of the Orchestra of the
Southern Finger Lakes, a regular substitute in the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Binghamton
Philharmonic, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Skaneateles Festival
Orchestra, and the Rochester Oratorio Society. She was the solo
violinist for the 30th anniversary production of
Sweeney Todd at Geva
Theatre in 2009. Emily has been on the faculty of the Hochstein
School of Music and Dance as a chamber music coach since 2008,
as well as the New Horizons Summer Chamber Music program at the
Eastman Community Music School. Chamber music experience
includes playing with Quartsemble from 2008-09, the Marini
String Ensemble from 2006-present, performing at the Cedar
Valley Chamber Music Festival from 2007-present, and starting a
new string quartet at Hochstein.
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Julia Bullard Viola  |
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JULIA BULLARD teaches viola, string pedagogy,
and string methods and techniques at the University of Northern
Iowa. She is an active solo, chamber and orchestral
performer both in the US and abroad. Recent solo engagements
include performances in Russia, Central and South America, New
York and Iowa. She has also presented master classes at The
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; Herzen Pedagogical
Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia; the University of Costa
Rica in San José, Costa Rica; Facultad de Musica, Universidad
Juan N. Corpas in Bogota, Colombia; and the State University of
New York at Fredonia. Bullard has served on the board of the
Iowa Viola Society and as President of the Iowa String Teachers’
Association.
Dr. Bullard received the D.M.A. degree from the University of Georgia, where she was the Director of the Pre-College String Program. She received her M.M. (string pedagogy and music history) and B.M. (performance) degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and her principal teachers have included Sidney Curtiss, Emanuel Vardi, Joseph de Pasquale, Mark Cedel, and Levon Ambartsumian. She has also coached with Robert Mann (formerly of the Juilliard String Quartet), Jeffrey Solow (Amadeus Trio), Roger Chase (Nash Ensemble), and Evelina Chao (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra). In the summers, Dr. Bullard is on the faculty of the Madeline Island Music Festival.
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Lee Schmitz Piano  |
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Lee Schmitz was born in Trinidad, Colorado. He began his study
of music in Anchorage, Alaska at the age of
five and later moved
to Cedar Falls, Iowa where he studied piano with Joan Smalley
and John Halstad. In high school, he won the Iowa Music Teachers
Association piano competition two years in a row, and was
granted a full tuition scholarship to the University of Northern
Iowa School of Music. He also won third prize in the Terrace
Hill Piano Competition in 2000. He later studied with Dr. Robin
Guy, Dr. Jeongwan Ham, Sean Botkin and Genadi Zagor.
In 2001-2002, he lived
in Angers, France and studied piano with Vovka Ashkenazy, the
son of the famous Vladimir Ashkenazy. Lee has performed across
the United States, as well as in Saint Petersburg, Russia and in
different cities in France.
In addition to having been a rehearsal
accompanist/performer for various productions including
The Magic Flute,
The Threepenny Opera,
The Tender Land, and
Sweeney Todd, he also
has extensive experience as a choral accompanist. He can also be
heard on his father’s commercially distributed CD,
90’s Time Flow.
He recently received
his Masters Degree of Music in Collaborative Piano at the
Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Anita
Pontremoli and Elizabeth DeMio. In May of 2007, he was offered a
job as staff accompanist at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He
currently works there in addition to University School and
resides in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with his wife, Sandrine.
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Nathan Cook Cello  |
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Nathan Cook has been praised for his “authoritative yet relaxed”
playing, his “sweet and pliant” sound, and “the combination of
vigor and beauty” in his interpretation (Houston Chronicle).
Dr. Cook has taught and performed throughout North and
South America at festivals from the Chenango Summer MusicFest in
Hamilton, New York to the Festival Internacional de Música in
Chile. Cook has
been a guest clinician, coaching chamber ensembles and
individuals in locales as far-spread as the Universidade do Vale
do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil and Lawrence University in his hometown
of Appleton, Wisconsin. Dr. Cook is a founding member of both the Hot Earth Ensemble, a
group specializing primarily in music of the Baroque period, and
the Exorior Duo with flutist Michelle Cheramy.
His solo and chamber performances have been heard on WBFO
radio in Buffalo, KUHF radio in Houston, and CBC radio in Canada
both regionally in St. John’s, Newfoundland and nationally on
the CBC radio program “The Signal.” Dr. Cook holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from
Grinnell College in Iowa as well as a Master of Arts in Teaching
degree from Colgate University in New York.
Dr. Cook received his masters and doctoral degrees in
music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in
Houston, Texas where he studied with Norman Fischer.
Dr. Cook’s other teachers have included Terry King, Evan
Jones, Richard Eckert, Andre Emelianoff and Einar Holm.
Dr. Cook joined the faculty of the School of Music at
Memorial University of Newfoundland in the fall of 2007 as the
coordinator of the school’s chamber music program and is
grateful to Memorial for its continued support in providing
partial funding for travel to participate in CVCMF.
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Frederick Halgedahl Violin
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Violinist
Frederick
Halgedahl has been a member of the 1st violin sections
of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Hamilton
Philharmonic and Philharmonic Virtuosi, the orchestra of
the Hamburgische Staatsoper, and the North German Radio
Symphony (N.D.R.). In addition, he has served as
concertmaster of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids,
Des Moines, and Savannah (GA) Symphony Orchestras, and
the New Hampshire Music Festival. Halgedahl's interests have always been wide-ranging, and in 1980 he accepted an invitation to head a new division of the Cosanti Foundation, home of visionary architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri, in Scottsdale, Arizona. As Director of Music/Poetry, he instituted a link between his career in music and his life-long love of literature, a connection that eventually won him an Iowa State Board of Regents Professional Development Leave to begin a book on the subject in 1994. His scientific research (another sphere of interest) with physicist and faculty colleague Roger Hanson has resulted in invited papers at national and international scientific meetings, as well as publications in prestigious scholarly journals, such as that of the Catgut Acoustical Society. Both Physics Today and Science News have noted their pioneering investigations of "ALF" tones (anomalous low frequencies), a phenomenon of the bowed string known to have been practiced by Paganini. More recently, Halgedahl has traveled to Russia with faculty colleague Jonathan Chenoweth, performing in St. Petersburg's prestigious House of Composers and lecturing at Herzen Pedagogical Institute. In October, 1999, he accepted the newly created position of Associate Concertmaster of the New Hampshire Music Festival, a professional chamber orchestra with which he has been associated for over thirty years. In addition to a busy schedule of chamber music performances which, this academic year, has included the Mendelssohn Octet, Brahms C minor Quartet, String Sextet from Capriccio, by Strauss, Mozart's G minor String Quintet, Crusell's Clarinet Quartet in Bb, and the Ravel Duo, Halgedahl will teach a Presidential Seminar in British and American Poetry during the Spring semester. "This Living Hand," (after Keats' poem) will emphasize the memorization and recitation of poetry, reviving an old tradition of introducing this most musical of all the literary arts as a study of phrase, line and breath.
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Heather Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Oboe and Music
Theory at Luther College, where she works with one of the
largest oboe studios in the area and teaches music theory and
double reed methods.
She plays principal oboe with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony
Orchestra and performs at the Cedar Valley Chamber Music
Festival during the summer.
She is a member of the Talus Trio, a Luther College
faculty woodwind trio that recently performed several concerts
in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Heather will join the faculty of Lutheran Summer Music in
the summer of 2010.
Heather received her DMA and MM degrees from the Eastman School
of Music, where she studied with Richard Killmer.
She received her BM degree from Houghton College.
Heather has also studied at the Banff Centre and the
Chautauqua Institution.
Before teaching at Luther College, she held teaching
positions at Houghton College, Hochstein School of Music and
Dance, Roberts Wesleyan College, Eastman Community Music School,
and Csehy Summer School of Music.
She is dedicated to supporting and performing new music,
and has received grants from the Hanson Institute of American
Music and Luther College’s Ylvisaker Endowment for Faculty
Growth to support the commissioning and performing of new
pieces.
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Hunter Capoccioni
Double Bass  |
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Korey Barrett Piano  |
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Dr. Korey Barrett, vocal coach at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music, is a talented and diversely experienced musician and music educator. His background includes training as a vocal coach, accompanist, pedagogue and singer. Most recently he served as coach and pianist for four seasons of the Des Moines Metro Opera’s James M. Collier Apprentice Program, and on mainstage productions of Macbeth, Un ballo in maschera, Regina, Carmen, Otello, The Rake’s Progress and The Magic Flute. He is also an active recitalist and masterclass clinician. Recently he performed in recital and presented masterclasses with John Hines, bass-baritone, at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. Prior to his appointment at the University of Northern Iowa, Barrett served as Vocal Coach at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Music from 2006-2007. He was recently resident artist coach and accompanist at the Minnesota Opera, where he coached the area’s leading operatic talents in concert, recital, and in productions including Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Maria Padilla, Orazi e Curiazi, Don Giovanni, Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man, Nixon in China, Carmen, Il Signor Bruschino and Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Additional coaching and performing experience includes work with Opera North, The Ohio Light Opera, the Columbus Academy of Vocal Arts, as well as projects with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Eastman School of Music Summer Institute, New Breath Productions and Grinnell Productions. He also served as adjunct professor of voice at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. Barrett received his Doctoral degree in piano accompanying and chamber music from the acclaimed Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, under the tutelage of Jean Barr. He earned both his Masters and Bachelors degrees in voice from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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Jennifer Stevenson Clarinet  |
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Dr. Jennifer Stevenson received her BM from DePaul University
where she studied with Larry Combs, principal clarinetist of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and her MM from Rice University,
where she studied with Dr. Michael Webster. She received her
Doctorate from University of Southern California, where she
studied with Yehuda Gilad.
A sought-after orchestral and chamber
musician, Jennifer has performed with Orchestra X, the Woodlands
Symphony, the Symphony of Southeast Texas, the Classical
Symphony Orchestra, the Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival,
the Definiens Project, the Orion Winds, and is a founding member
of The Vientos Trio. Her compositions have been premiered at the
Chicago Civic Center as part of the New Artists in Chicago
Festival, the International Clarinet Association’s convention in
Ostend, Belgium, and at the 2009 Fresno New Music
Festival. Jennifer is also a multiple recipient of Meet the
Composer’s Creative Connections grant and received an American
Composers Forum SUBITO Grant through the San Francisco and Los
Angeles chapters. A CD of her Musical Adventures, musical
stories for children, was recently released through Tessella
Music. She has also made multiple appearances performing and
speaking about music on Classical KUHF Houston and Iowa Public
Radio. Jennifer has passion for music education and
outreach, and currently works to design innovative music
programming as part of the University of Southern California’s
Residential Education program. Founder of the Parkside Piano
Program, Jennifer teaches composition, theory, improvisation and
piano skills, as well as a course in paraprofessional counseling
at USC. Jennifer is also currently on faculty at the American
Festival for the Arts. Additionally, Jennifer is the Education
and Outreach Manager of The Definiens Project.
Jennifer has performed at masterclasses with such great artists as John Adams, Alfred Prinz, Eddie Daniels (jazz clarinet), John Bruce Yeh, David Howard, David Peck and Mitchel Lurie.
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Timothy Peters, violinist, received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and his Master of Music degree from Rice University. An avid chamber musician, Peters was the second violinist of the Degas Quartet for three years. With this ensemble, he has performed at the Library of Congress (on the “Ward” Stradivarius) and on the Charlotte, Raleigh, and Chicago Chamber Music Series. He was also second violinist of the Brutini String Quartet, which made appearances at Carnegie Hall in the Stern Auditorium, and on the Schneider Concert Series at The New School. Mr. Peters was also a prizewinner at the 1998 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Other recent chamber music performances include Chicago’s Jewel Box Series, an appearance at the Kimmel Center, a residency at Seattle University with the Young Eight Octet, a recital in the Austin Chamber Music Series, and an appearance with the Enso Quartet in Texas. Mr. Peters currently performs regularly in Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts as a founding member of the Apollo Chamber Players, currently in their 2nd season. An equally avid orchestral musician, Peters has performed with the Houston, San Diego, and San Antonio Symphonies, as well as the Houston and Sarasota Opera Orchestras. He has made many festival appearances including Breckenridge, Swannanoa, the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Seminar, Musicorda, Chamber Music at the Barn, Summertrios at Bryn Mawr College, and has been Concertmaster or the Spoleto and National Orchestral Institute Festivals. As an educator, Mr. Peters has given masterclasses and coachings at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the University of North Carolina-Pembroke, Appalachian State University, Seattle University, the Merit School in Chicago, the American School in Dubai, the Austin Chamber Music Center, and with the Houston Youth Symphony. His teachers have included William Preucil, David Updegraff, Kenneth Goldsmith, and James Buswell. Mr. Peters currently resides in Houston, Texas. |
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Matthew Coley
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Matthew Coley is a marimba, percussion, and dulcimer artist specializing in contemporary solo and chamber music and concerti. He performs regularly as a soloist throughout the US and Europe, and has traveled twice to Chisinau, Moldova to perform concerts, concerto premieres, and master classes. He has performed as soloist with such ensembles as the San Francisco Sinfonietta, Millennium Chamber Players, Moldavian Philharmonic and Tele-Radio Orchestras, and Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim. He has also been featured three times on Chicago’s WFMT Classical Radio Station and in a feature article in Time Out Chicago Magazine. Matthew is frequently presenting concerts and master classes at universities throughout the US. He has visited universities in Illinois, Minnesota, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, Utah, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Iowa for several events. Matthew has also just released a new solo marimba album called “Circularity”, and is working on his next solo album, “Running on Empty”.
Matthew is currently professor of percussion at Iowa State University, and holds degrees from Northwestern University and the University of North Texas. He is endorsed by Marimba One, Innovative Percussion, and Sabian Cymbals, and published by Innovative Percussion and Edition SVITZER. He can be found on the web at www.hearmatthewcoley.com. |
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Kathleen Sihler, principal violist of the WCFSO, received
performance degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and SUNY
at Stony Brook.
Summer performing appearances have included the New Hampshire
Music Festival, the
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