BARD PREP SUMMER MUSIC CAMP

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Phyllis Clark

Phyllis Clark lives in West Camp, NY with her husband Michael S. Brown and Corbie 2 Sox the Havanese (not in that order).  She began making music and harmony with her family in Really Upstate, NY (northern Lake Ontario) before going to Boston University and to The Hague, the Netherlands to study opera and singing. 

After returning to New York City to sing Bach, symphony choruses, and opera, Phyllis joined the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble and travelled the world performing their expansive repertoire.  She further honed her craft as an a capella ensemble singer, arranger, teacher, song seeker and storyteller.

In 2001 Phyllis joined the faculty of the Saint David’s School in New York City to build the choral, theater, and liturgical music programs for K-8; incorporating methods from Kodaly, Dalcroze, and Starer with traditional music in her experiential curriculum.

Phyllis holds degrees in voice performance from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Boston University and she has studied the Kodaly method at NYU and Dalcroze at the Kaufman Center.  A multi-instrumentalist, Phyllis has also taught piano and recorders, and continues her studies on viola and bagpipes.
 

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David Ji

David Ji is a widely recognized pianist, who combines insightful understanding, fearless imagination, and sensitivity in mature performances. He made his concerto debut with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s Emperor concerto. As a versatile musician, he has performed in numerous countries and prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Opera Center, DiMenna Center, Merkin Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and Kumho Arts Hall in Korea. He is a winner of the Korean National Symphony Orchestra Competition and the Arthur Balsam Duo Competition in New York.

Dr. Ji has collaborated with highly renowned soloists and members of esteemed orchestras such as the Chicago, Metropolitan, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Vienna Philharmonic. He has worked with internationally acclaimed musicians such as Augustine Hadelich, Ani Kavafian, Tai Murray, Sylvia Rosenberg, David Shifrin, Pinkas Zukerman, as well as members of the Emerson and Brentano String Quartets. Mr. Ji participated in masterclasses conducted by Anton Kuerti, Robert McDonald, Julian Martin, Kum-Sing Lee, and his masterclass accompaniment credits include Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, and Jans Jensen, among others. Additionally, he has participated in prestigious summer festivals, including the Gijon International Piano Festival, Orford Music Festival, and Arizona State University as a guest lecturer. He has also served as a collaborative piano fellow at the Yale School of Music and a faculty at the Heifetz International Institute of Music.

Beyond performing, Mr. Ji serves as the artistic director of Muse Avenue, a collective group of musicians aiming to share music and support communities through concerts. The musicians of Muse Avenue hail from major US orchestras and prominent opera theaters. Born in South Korea, David Ji began playing the piano at the age of 6; moved to Canada to study at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Marc Durand and Andre Laplante. As a former recipient of the Lado Scholarship Foundation in New York, he earned both his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Manhattan School of Music.

www.davidjipianist.com

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Janara Khassenova

Originally from Kazakhstan, pianist Janara Khassenova is a graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory where she completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies. While in United States, she completed an Artist Diploma Program in Chamber Music from the Longy School of Music. She has performed as a soloist and with chamber ensembles and orchestras in countries of the former Soviet Union, Italy, Greece as well as United States.

Janara collaborates frequently with various musicians in a variety of projects and regularly performs in a piano 4-hand duo with pianist Ellina Blinder.

In addition to the Bard Preparatory Division, Janara currently teaches piano at her studio in New York City, where she resides.

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Victoria Schwartzman

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Victoria Schwartzman (formerly Mazin) performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. Victoria has appeared at the Music Mountain Festival with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, in the New York Philharmonic Ensembles series at Merkin Hall, at Summit Music Festival with Dmitri Berlinsky, at Bargemusic, in the Gessner-Schocken concert series in Cambridge, WMP Concert Hall, and the Nicolas Roerich Museum concert series in New York City. As a member of the Yanvar Trio, she was a prizewinner in the Val-Tidone Chamber Music Competition and a finalist in the Zinotti International Chamber Music competition, both in Italy.

After graduating from Jerusalem Conservatory, Victoria continued her education at the Longy School of Music and New England Conservatory. While pursuing various degrees in solo and chamber music performance, she was selected to perform in masterclasses given by Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, and Richard Goode, among others. Her principal teachers include Irina Kivaiko, Issak Kossov, Victor Rosenbaum, Sally Pinkas, Eda Shlyam, and Eteri Andjaparidze.

As soloist with orchestra, Victoria has performed with the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra, the Longy School of Music Chamber Orchestra, and the Riverside Orchestra. She has performed at the Quartet Program in Pennsylvania, and participated in the Tel-Hai International Piano Festival in Israel and the Lyrica Chamber Music Festival in New Jersey. Also active in the field of opera and art song, Victoria was vocal coach and accompanist at Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Bard Music Festival, the Brevard Music Center, the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute, and the American Institute of Musical Studies Festival in Graz, Austria.

Victoria is as committed to performance as she is to education. She recently gave a master class in Russian vocal repertoire at Queens College, NY. She is on the coaching faculty in the Vocal Department at Montclair State University and Long Island University Post. Victoria is also the co-founder of the Newburgh Music Festival, a week long immersive classical music program devoted to both solo performance and chamber music, located on the shore of the Hudson river, in Newburgh, NY.

Website: https://www.victoriaschwartzman.com

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Jingwen Tu

Hailed by The Mercury News (San Jose, CA) as "a pianist with insight and passion, practically vanishing into the notes…" Jingwen Tu has forged a chamber and solo career throughout North America and Europe. Recent performances have taken her to such venues as Alice Tully Hall, the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, The DiMenna Center, The Morgan Library and Museum, the Banff Center, and Matav Music Hall in Budapest, among many others. Ms. Tu has been featured at the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, the Perlman Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Center Chamber Music Residency, the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, and the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival. She has also collaborated with renowned musicians Peter Serkin, Donald Weilerstein, Colin Carr, and Katherine Murdock.

Ms. Tu has garnered awards and recognition at several international piano competitions. She was a Laureate of the Ackerman Chamber Music Prize and a recipient of the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Award, as well as a prize winner at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Lima Symphony Young Artist Competition.

In addition to being lauded for her performing career, Ms. Tu is recognized for her passionate commitment to education. She has enjoyed visiting artist and lecturer positions at major institutions including Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, Ohio University, Hunter College, the Casita Maria Center of Arts and Education, and the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Ms. Tu currently serves as faculty at Bard College Conservatory Preparatory Division, and adjunct professor of piano at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institution. 

Ms. Tu holds a B.M. from Oberlin College, an M.M. from The Juilliard School, where she was a recipient of the Susan W. Rose Piano Fellowship and the Irene Diamond Fellowship, and a D.M.A. from SUNY-Stony Brook University. She counts among her principal teachers Sedmara Rutstein, Thomas Sauer, Julian Martin, Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl.

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Phyllis Clark

Phyllis Clark lives in West Camp, NY with her husband Michael S. Brown and Corbie 2 Sox the Havanese (not in that order).  She began making music and harmony with her family in Really Upstate, NY (northern Lake Ontario) before going to Boston University and to The Hague, the Netherlands to study opera and singing. 

After returning to New York City to sing Bach, symphony choruses, and opera, Phyllis joined the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble and travelled the world performing their expansive repertoire.  She further honed her craft as an a capella ensemble singer, arranger, teacher, song seeker and storyteller.

In 2001 Phyllis joined the faculty of the Saint David’s School in New York City to build the choral, theater, and liturgical music programs for K-8; incorporating methods from Kodaly, Dalcroze, and Starer with traditional music in her experiential curriculum.

Phyllis holds degrees in voice performance from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Boston University and she has studied the Kodaly method at NYU and Dalcroze at the Kaufman Center.  A multi-instrumentalist, Phyllis has also taught piano and recorders, and continues her studies on viola and bagpipes.

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Katherine Rossiter Mancus
 

Originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, soprano Katherine Rossiter, is a performer with diverse experience spanning from opera to musical theatre and oratorio to art song. In recent seasons she has been heard as the soprano soloist in Bach’s Coffee Cantata with the Broad Street Orchestra, the Grammy-award winning Albany Symphony Orchestra in Bach’s Jesu, der du meine Seele, in Handel’s Messiah with Classics on Hudson, in Requiem for Anna Poitkovskaya at Bard’s Fisher Center, and in recital with Concerts at Camphill Ghent and Saugerties Pro Musica. 

Her operatic roles include Morgana in Alcina and Le Feu/Le Rossignol in L’enfant et les sortilèges with CCM Opera d’arte, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre, and Die Zweite Dame/Erste Knabe in Die Zauberflöte with the Bard Vocal Arts Program. 

Katherine has been a Young Artist with Songfest, Opera on the Avalon, and the Berlin Opera Academy. She is also an alumna of the Academie Nationale d’été de Nice in France and the Accademia Vocale di Lorenzo Malfatti in Lucca, Italy. She holds degrees from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory of Music, as well as the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. 

She currently lives in Tivoli, New York and is the director of admission for the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Website: https://www.katherinerossiter.com

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Martha Sullivan

Composer and singer, Martha Sullivan creates music in various genres but is best known for her works for the human voice. She has earned accolades for her choral music and has won competitions sponsored by such organizations as the Dale Warland Singers and the Sorel Organization. Her music has been commissioned and performed by groups as far away as Glasgow, Tokyo, and Zurich, as well as by numerous choral groups in the United States. 

She is also a professional singer, specializing in new music; she has recorded and premiered works by such avant-grade composers as Toby Twining and John Zorn. She currently sings with, conducts in, and composes music for C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective in New York City. She has also sung in every opera staged at Bard Summerscape since 2009. 

Her education includes a B.A. in Music from Yale and studies at Boston University's Opera Institute; she is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Music Composition at Rutgers. Her dissertation focuses on the semiotic implications of one particular musical gesture—the Siren topos—in music ranging from early 19th-century Lorelei songs to 20th-century operas to 1960s television theme songs. She has presented parts of this work at various international conferences on music theory. 

She has taught for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (as voice faculty and as coordinator of the Music Theory program for high-school singers); New York University/CAP21 (teaching music theory to music-theater students at NYU's Tisch School); the Gregg Smith Singers (teaching voice and composition to students in Gregg's summer workshops); Rutgers (Aural Skills, Intro to Music Technology, and Intro to Music); and Westminster Choir College (Musicianship I and Musicianship III, both of which combine music theory with hands-on aural skills work).

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Olivia Moaddel

Olivia Moaddel has performed in venues across North America and Europe and has won numerous awards and competitions as both a soloist and chamber musician. She has played alongside orchestras such as Symphony in C, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Ottawa Symphony, and Connecticut Virtuoso Symphony.

From 2018-2019, she was a recording violinist for film and TV composer John Delvento, where she recorded for National Geographic and the Super Bowl. In the summers of 2019 and 2021, she was a full-time performer in productions of The Scottsboro Boys and Into The Woods with the Playhouse Theatre Group Inc in West Hartford, CT. As a passionate collaborator, Moaddel has performed in many chamber music concerts. This led to collaborations with internationally acclaimed musicians including Jethro Marks, Paul Marleyn, Rachel Mercer and Axel Strauss. She has attended music festivals across North America such as Brevard Music Center, Music Academy International, Domaine Forget, Orford Music Academy, Indiana University’s Sonata Seminar, and the National Repertory Orchestra. In May of 2021, she was a finalist in the National Arts Centre Bursary Competition. In April of 2022, she won first place in the Rutgers Chamber Music Competition performing the Mozart Oboe Quartet in F Major.

Moaddel studied extensively with professors Todd Phillips, Katie Lansdale, Yehonatan Berick, Shari Mason and Michael Van der Sloot. She has studied and taken masterclasses with distinguished performers and faculty such as Augustin Hadelich, James Ehnes, Joel Quarrington, Lucie Robert, Ani Kavafian, Soovin Kim, Masao Kawasaki, Ronald Copes and many more, as well as for world renowned string quartets such as Dover Quartet, Attacca Quartet, St. Lawrence Quartet, Chiara Quartet, Heath Quartet and more.

She holds degrees from The Hartt School (BM), University of Ottawa (MM), and OAcademy (AD in Orchestral Performance).
She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Rutgers University where she also holds a position as the Assistant Graduate Advisor.

Moaddel’s passion is collaborating with her peers and is currently building a career as an orchestral and chamber musician, and as a professor for young professionals. 

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Anita Balázs

Hungarian cellist, Anita Balázs was born into a musical family and started her music studies at the age of 5. From early childhood, she has been giving concerts in Europe, taking part in international festivals and masterclasses in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Croatia, France and Switzerland with professors such as Heidi Litschauer, László Fenyő, Philippe Muller and Wolfgang Boettcher.

At the age of 17 she was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music of Budapest, Hungary in the class of Laszlo Mezo (Bartok Quartet) where she obtained both her Bachelor's and first Master's degree. 
From fall 2012, she also studied under Prof. Philippe Muller in France, attending two schools at the same time in Hungary and France.

She holds an Artist’s Diploma from Montclair State University where she studied with Nicholas Tzavaras (Shanghai Quartet) as well as a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale School of Music where she studied with legendary cellist and teacher Aldot Parisot, as well as Ole Akahoshi, Ani Kavafian, Peter Frankl, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Paul Watkins (Emerson String Quartet) - to whom she served as graduate assistant.

Laureate of several international competitions such as the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Porec, Croatia or the Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig International Competition in Italy, she has also been awarded 1st prize as well as the Grand Prix of the Jury at the Janos Starker Competition in Hungary and 1st prize at the International Cello Competition in Liezen, Austria.
   
She has performed before audiences all around Europe and the United States and has been invited to play as soloist with famous Hungarian and European orchestras and conductors such as Andras Ligeti, Izaki Masahiro and Kenneth Lam from the age of 12. She also performed in world-famous venues such as the Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera, Philharmonie de Paris, or the Palace of the Arts of Budapest. Throughout her career, she has played with renowned artists such as Rodion Zamuruev, Julian Gargiulo, David Chan, Zoltan Kocsis, Ole Akahoshi, Leon Botstein or Peter Oundjian.
   
She is invited every year to participate in the "Les Pianos Folies du Touquet" piano festival in Le Touquet, France as soloist and chamber musician among world-famous pianists such as Boris Berezovsky, Nikolai Lugansky, Benjamin Grosvenor or Andrei Korobeinikov.
  
Two time scholar of the Hungary Initiatives Foundation’s Graduate Scholarship ( 2017,2018) awarded to talented Hungarian individuals who have achieved outstanding results in their field of study.
 
She served as cello and chamber music tutor at Montclair State University’s Extension Division and she is also cellist and founding member of the Trio Confero.
 

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Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher is a pianist and multi-instrumentalist with a broad musical range.
An industrious musician, Sean performs regularly with his jazz quartet Sean G
and the Downbeat and is the founding organist of the soul jazz ensemble The
Forefathers. Sean is an energetic teacher and band leader who also teaches
music theory and jazz harmony for all instruments. He has instructed kids and
adults of all ages for over 15 years and currently works as a teacher at the
Community Music Space in Red Hook NY.
Sean plays and teaches Piano, Accordion, Trombone, Trumpet, Double Bass, and even Bansuri Flute! Sean holds a BA in Jazz Performance and Composition from SUNY New Paltz.

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Greg Dinger

Greg  is the child of musical parents (his mom was a pianist and his father a  cellist with the New York Philharmonic).  In addition to  Dalcroze/Eurythmy training as a child he studied the piano until his  early teens (with Katerina Rado, Edgar Roberts and Jacqueline Marcault),  and credits those early experiences for much of his strong  musicianship.  Greg  began to play guitar as a youngster,
like so many others of his  generation, inspired by The Beatles and others rock performers (though he began with a Joan Baez folk music songbook). He formed his first  band in 7th grade and played in it throughout much of high  school.

In  9th grade Greg became interested in the classical guitar, and began his study of it with the area’s leading teacher, Luis Garcia-Renart (also a prize-winning cellist & conductor). Greg studied with Garcia-Renart for 4 years and then went to Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music, from which he received his Bachelors of Music degree with honors in 1980.  At  NEC he studied with Robert Paul Sullivan and Frank Wallace, formed the Parnassus Guitar Duo, and gave the school’s first all-solo  graduating guitar recital.  At the start of his career in the 1980s Greg played in  masterclasses of several of the world’s leading classical guitarists: Manuel Barrueco,  Eliot Fisk, Frederic Hand, Sharon Isbin and  Christopher Parkening.

After returning to Woodstock, N.Y., where he grew up, Greg began teaching the  guitar, and soon was teaching various guitar styles several days a week  at Allegro Music in Kingston.  In the 1980s he also became the  classical guitar instructor at SUNY New Paltz and Bard College and began  teaching guitar & other music subjects (music theory & history) at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge (now called SUNY  Ulster).  In the 1990s he began teaching the Classical Guitar Seminar at  Bard and Greg is still the classical guitar instructor for their Music Dept.  Greg also plays each year in the Faculty Showcase concerts and often presents recitals at these schools.  At present Greg teaches private lessons primarily at his home music studio in  Woodstock, N.Y.,  and is also affiliated with Barcone’s Music, in Kingston, NY.

Greg  has been involved with a large variety of music groups throughout his career, from chamber music ensembles to rock bands to orchestras.  In the 1980s he played in a heavy-metal  group called “Uncle Sam” as well as in the blues &  originals “Ben Prevo Band.” In the 1990s he played Beatles & Eagles songs in “The Beagles” and a variety of guitars in a  folk-pop-oldies group called “TimePieces.”
Lately Greg has played guitar & sung in “Decoy” (2015), the “West Saugerties Boys” (2016-18), and currently with “Fishbowl” and “Rare Bird.”
In  the course of his performing career Greg has played electric guitar,  steel-string & nylon-string guitars, banjo and mandolin
in a number of musical theater productions including “The  Three-Penny Opera,” “Tommy,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Footloose,” “The Sound of Music,” “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” “Evita,” “8-Track:  The Sounds of the 70s,” and “Honky Tonk Laundry.”
As  a classical guitarist Greg has been a member of several chamber music ensembles, including the Arabesque Trio (flute, guitar & bassoon; formerly: Trio Con Brio), the Catskill Mountain Renaissance  Consort (recorders, viola da gamba, guitar & hand percussion), Cantilena (flute & guitar; formerly: Interlude), and the SAGAD Trio (viola, guitar & cello).  Greg’s talents as an arranger — taking music  originally intended for one instrument or ensemble and creatively recasting it in a new setting — have produced most of the repertoire of  these groups. Years ago he published through Music Arts Graphics; now his GDG Editions — music for solo guitar & guitar in ensemble — are available through this website.

With the Arabesque Trio he has recorded a CD of music by Debussy, Bach, Faure, Mozart, Granados, Handel, Joplin, Ligeti, de Falla, Bartok & Lennon/McCartney titled “Reverie.” Available from his website.

Many people in the Hudson Valley fondly remember his 15+ years providing live classical guitar music on weekends at Joshua’s Cafe in Woodstock.  Greg  has played over the years with many of the best instrumentalists and singers in the Hudson Valley:  violinists Carole Cowan and Akiko Kamigawara, cellists Susan Seligman, Ling  Kwan & Jean Vilkelis, violist Anastasia Solberg, flutists Marcia Gates, Pauline Mancuso, Lynn Peck, Sarah Plant, Melissa Sweet and Marisa Trees, oboist Joel Evans, clarinetists Tony Penz and Kay Sutka, classical guitarists Terry Champlin & Helen Avakian, David Temple and Richard Udell, fiddle & guitar duo Jay Ungar & Molly Mason,
and singers Harvey Boyer, Kimberly  Kahan, Cecelia Keehn, Jonell Mosser, Anita Shamansky, and Danielle  Woerner, among others.  In the 1990s Greg was a member of the early music acapella group Woodstock Renaissance, and he has sung (bass) with Ars Choralis since the 1990s; he is currently that organization’s president too.  He frequently accompanies them in music that involves various types of guitars, and has arranged a number of  songs for them: several Beatles songs, The Beach Boys’ “Good  Vibrations,” Springsteen’s “American Land,” and an ambitious setting of “Where Have All The Flowers  Gone” (premiered in 2014).  The chorus has gone on tour to Europe several times in the 21st century, always with Greg & his guitar! Greg also did the instrumental music arrangements for Ars Choralis’ “Music in Desperate Times” program which they performed in NYC’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine as well as  their  2009 tour to Germany.  Greg’s also been the curator of Ars Choralis’ “Artist Within” series of concerts at the Sheeley House in High Falls, NY, including  Valentine’s Day-themed shows, a folk “jamboree,” the “Just For The Fun Of It!” show, several classical recitals, a Kung Fu martial arts (Greg’s hobby for 35+ years) demonstration, and 2017’s “A Night In Argentina."

Greg also programmed & hosted WDST radio’s innovative classical music  show “Sunrise Concert” for over 25 years starting in the mid-1980s (and winning Hudson Valley Magazine’s Best Classical Music show award for 1996); and  for a number of years he reviewed classical CD releases for the Kingston  Daily Freeman’s “Preview” magazine.

More recently Greg helped form the Mid-Hudson Classical Guitar Society, presenting their first concert at  the Morton Library in Rhinecliff in 2010, and closing their 8th season  in May 2017.

Greg  directs & arranges music for SUNY Ulster’s Guitar & Mixed  Instrument Ensembles, producing new arrangements of music ranging from Renaissance pavanes to Haydn piano sonatas, solo guitar pieces expanded, and a variety of famous songs including:
“Tico Tico,”  “Miserlou,” “Fever,” “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “Shenandoah,” “Down  On The Corner,” “Billie Jean,” “Everybody  Wants To Rule The World,” “Fragile” & several Beatles medleys, and an original minimalist piece: “Blip, Blop, Plink, Plunk, Ting & Bong.”  Greg  became involved with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra soon after  graduating from NEC and returning to Woodstock (when that orchestra was forming); he played the popular Vivaldi Concerto in D major with them in 1980.  Since then he has performed works for  guitar & orchestra with them several times: Herbert Haufrecht’s  “Divertimento” in 1985, Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Guitar Concerto in 1993,
the  “Fantasia para  un Gentilhombre” by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1999, and his famed “Concierto de Aranjuez” in 2004 and again in January of 2018.  In the fall of 2018 the orchestra became the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra. Greg has served as president of the WCO since 1995, seeing the orchestra through several Conductor Searches, and he’s organized & played in  numerous fundraising concerts for the WCO over the years.

Greg also played with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in their “New Wave”  concerts in the 1990s, backing Sterling Morrison of The Velvet Underground, and  providing support for singer Natalie Merchant.  One of his toughest  musical challenges was negotiating the guitar part for Frank Zappa’s  “Alien Orifice” with the HVP when no other guitarist around could do  it!  Greg also played solo guitar as the “opening act” for that  concert.  He’s also opened for Leon Redbone and “3” (Emerson, Palmer & Berry) at The Chance in Poughkeepsie. Greg has also played with other top Hudson Valley music organizations including Cappella Festival, the Mendelssohn Club, the  Gilbert & Sullivan Musical Theater Company, the Pone Ensemble and the Hudson Valley Recital Project.

 

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Patricio Morales

Patricio Morales, Chilean born and Swiss national, is an Emmy award-winning composer and guitarist. His music reflects the many cultures in which he has been immersed, combining elements of jazz, folk, and classical music, distilling the best features of each, and always evoking the spirit of his native Chile.

He received his classical guitar training from SUNY Purchase, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and jazz studies at Seattle's Cornish Institute. In the years that followed his formal music training in the United States, he studied under and toured with American guitarist/composer Ralph Towner for three years. Patricio considers this experience to have been of the utmost importance, positively impacting his understanding of composition and forming his musicianship.

Patricio lived and worked in Switzerland and Italy for over twenty-five years. While in Europe, he performed as a guitarist, published his second album, "Doble Sol," and composed music for film and television. While working from Switzerland, Patricio earned an Emmy award in 2013 for outstanding composition for Daytime Drama Series in the US.

Over the years, Patricio has explored and developed different genres of playing and music-making. He has taught guitar to children and adults of diverse ages and levels. He has also taught improvisation, composition, and songwriting. Patricio holds an advanced diploma in Music Therapy Studies from the Helvetic Music Institute in Switzerland, and advocates using music as a therapeutic measure for improving the lives of every individual.

Since relocating to the States in 2015, he has served on the adjunct music faculty at Marist College, lecturing in Jazz History, Music for Film, and World Music.

Patricio resides with his wife in Red Hook, NY. He is currently working on completing an album of his original music, collaborating with a group of talented and recognized musicians living in New York.

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Jillian Reed

Jillian Reed is an associate flutist with The Orchestra Now, and has played with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Vermont Philharmonic. In Spring 2023, she performed Tōru Takemitsu’s “I Hear the Water Dreaming” for flute and orchestra with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Tan Dun. Jillian enjoys working closely with living composers, and has performed with the White Mountains Music Festival, Da Capo Chamber Players, Capitol City Concerts, and at the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival.

 Jillian maintains a vibrant flute studio, and has taught at Middlebury Community Music Center, the Pittsburgh Flute Academy, and El Sistema El Salvador. Her students have won awards at the International Grande Music Competition, played with Empire State Youth Orchestra, and have participated in NYSSMA festivals. Her primary goal as a teacher is to help her students express their ideas freely and fully through music making. 

Jillian began her undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University and graduated from Bard College & Conservatory with degrees in Human Rights and Flute Performance, studying with Tara Helen O’Connor. Her thesis investigated issues of health and ableism in the music world, and her research findings were published in a feature in Flutist Quarterly. 

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Viktor Toth

Hungarian clarinetist Viktor Toth graduated from the Bard College Conservatory of Music in May 2016 and pursued his Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance Studies under the direction of clarinetists including Laura Flax, David Krakauer, Pascual Martínez-Forteza and Anthony McGill. He also studied Italian language and literature as his second major at Bard College.

As a member of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Mr. Toth appeared in Alice Tully Hall, New York in 2013, at Brown University in 2015 and has collaborated with conductors such as Leon Botstein, Jeffrey Milarsky, Cristian Măcelaru, Adam Fischer, Carl Bettendorf, Jeffrey Kahane, José-Luis Novo, Marcelo Lehninger and JoAnn Falletta. In 2014, he performed with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra in Europe’s major cities including Warsaw, Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Budapest, Bratislava, Wien, Prague and Berlin. In 2016, he went on a tour in Cuba with the same orchestra and performed in Cienfuegos, Santa Clara and Havana.

As a full László Z. Bitó–Scholarship holder at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, Mr.Toth has worked with professors and coaches such as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Edward Carroll, Laura Flax, Marc Goldberg, David Krakauer, Pascual Martínez-Forteza, Anthony McGill, Tara Helen O’Connor, Daniel Phillips, Peter Serkin and Joan Tower, Alan Kay, Bart Feller, Nadine Asin and Patricia Rogers. During his studies at Bard, he participated in master classes given by Yehuda Gilad, Peter Kolkay (The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), Janis Vakarelis and David Gould.

He also appeared on the “Side-by-Side Concerts” with the members of American Symphony Orchestra and the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, participated in the world premier of the opera “Payne Hollow” by Shawn Jaeger in 2014 and performed with Natalie Merchant in 2015.

He was one of the winners of the Bard Conservatory 2016 Concerto Competition and performed Copland’s Clarinet Concerto as a soloist with The Orchestra Now at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. After finishing the Advanced Performance Studies Program in the Bard Conservatory, he got accepted to The Orchestra Now where he received his Master’s Degree in Curatorial, Critical and Performance Studies in 2021. During his time at The Orchestra Now, he had the opportunity to perform Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie as soloist with Academy Award-winning composer and conductor, Tan Dun and The Orchestra Now at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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Daniel Shaut

 

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Hsiao-Fang Lin

Hsiao-Fang Lin, trombone, was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. She completed her double degrees at Bard College: a bachelor of music degree in trombone performance, studied with John Rojak, Demian Austin, Weston Sprott, and Denson Paul Pollard, and a bachelor of arts degree in computer science.

In addition to working as an audio video engineer for Bard SummerScape for the past few years. Hsiao-Fang performed with America Symphony Orchestra for Le Roi Malgré Lui (The King in Spite of Himself) in The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in 2012. She has also participated in numerous music festivals including the Summer Trombone Workshop and the Asian Trombone Seminar, studied with Dietmar Küblböck, Haim Avitsur, David Taylor, James Olin, Ko-ichiro Yamamoto.

Hsiao-Fang is currently working as the Director of Music Programming at the US-China Music Institute and the orchestra manager at Bard Conservatory of Music.

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Forrest Albano

 

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Petra Elek

Petra Elek received her Bachelor of Music from the Bard Conservatory in 2016 and her Master of Music degree at California State University, Long Beach in May 2018. She has studied with former principal percussionist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Edward (Ted) Atkatz, members of So Percussion, and Géza Bánky at Secondary School of Arts in Pécs, Hungary. She has won first place in College Solo Division and College Ensembles division, as part of the University Percussion Group at Long Beach, at the CA Percussive Arts Society Solo and Ensemble Competition in 2017. She completed the Advanced Performance Studies Program as a Percussion Teaching Fellow at Bard and now she has started her first year in The Orchestra Now.

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Martha Sullivan

Composer Martha Sullivan creates music in various genres but is best known for her works for the human voice. She has earned accolades for her choral music and has won competitions sponsored by such organizations as the Dale Warland Singers and the Sorel Organization. Her music has been commissioned and performed by groups as far away as Glasgow, Tokyo, and Zurich, as well as by numerous choral groups in the United States. 

She is also a professional singer, specializing in new music; she has recorded and premiered works by such avant-grade composers as Toby Twining and John Zorn. She currently sings with, conducts in, and composes music for C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective in New York City. She has also sung in every opera staged at Bard Summerscape since 2009. 

Her education includes a B.A. in Music from Yale and studies at Boston University's Opera Institute; she is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Music Composition at Rutgers. Her dissertation focuses on the semiotic implications of one particular musical gesture—the Siren topos—in music ranging from early 19th-century Lorelei songs to 20th-century operas to 1960s television theme songs. She has presented parts of this work at various international conferences on music theory. 

She has taught for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (as voice faculty and as coordinator of the Music Theory program for high-school singers); New York University/CAP21 (teaching music theory to music-theater students at NYU's Tisch School); the Gregg Smith Singers (teaching voice and composition to students in Gregg's summer workshops); Rutgers (Aural Skills, Intro to Music Technology, and Intro to Music); and Westminster Choir College (Musicianship I and Musicianship III, both of which combine music theory with hands-on aural skills work).

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Sean Gallagher

Sean Gallagher is a pianist and multi-instrumentalist with a broad musical range.
An industrious musician, Sean performs regularly with his jazz quartet Sean G
and the Downbeat and is the founding organist of the soul jazz ensemble The
Forefathers. Sean is an energetic teacher and band leader who also teaches
music theory and jazz harmony for all instruments. He has instructed kids and
adults of all ages for over 15 years and currently works as a teacher at the
Community Music Space in Red Hook NY.
Sean plays and teaches Piano, Accordion, Trombone, Trumpet, Double Bass, and even Bansuri Flute! Sean holds a BA in Jazz Performance and Composition from SUNY New Paltz.