Mario Rivera is a Honduran-born first-year Viola Fellow at the New World Symphony. Prior to joining NWS, he was a founding member of the Ajax Quartet, which held a residency at the University of Colorado Boulder to study extensively with the Grammy Award-winning Takacs Quartet. Mr. Rivera has collaborated with renown musicians such as […]
Peter Franklin retired as Professor of Music at the University of Oxford in 2014; he remains an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine’s College there. He edited the English translation (by Dika Newlin) of Natalie Bauer-Lechner’s Recollections of Gustav Mahler (Faber 1980) and subsequent publications include Mahler. Symphony no.3 and The Life of Mahler (both with […]
LEAH BATSTONE is a musicologist specializing in the music and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler, the transnational culture of the late Habsburg Empire, 20th-century art music in Ukraine, and the intersections of music with social and political change broadly. Her book on the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on the early symphonies of Gustav Mahler is […]
Nick Pfefferkorn was born in Leipzig in 1976. At the age of 7, he took up playing the trombone and later the bassoon, the instrument that has accompanied him to this day. After his school education and civilian service, he first completed a commercial apprenticeship. Then, in 1996, he founded the Pfefferkorn Musikverlag, an independent […]
It is no coincidence for Michael Baker to end up as a career musician as he was surrounded by all types of music from childhood. Sunday family dinners were always followed by impromptu concerts of Neapolitan Art songs and opera arias. Michael’s dad was an amateur violinist and a semi-professional alto sax man. Michael’s first […]
Highlights: Philippe in Don Carlos (Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein). Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin (San Francisco Opera, The National Symphony). Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Opéra Atelier, Boston Lyric Opera, Vlammse Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Wolftrap Opera). Blitch in Susannah (Orlando Opera, Arizona Opera, Nashville Opera). Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress […]
Christopher Gunning is a prolific British composer with a passion for writing large-scale symphonic works, more intimate concert pieces, and film and TV scores. In his concert music he has developed an individual yet approachable, colourful, and highly expressive language which frequently gives his music a strongly dramatic and emotional flavour. In film, he has […]
International pianist and educator Jeremy Reger maintains an active performing, teaching, and coaching career. During the summer of 2020 he will be working on programs for Central City Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Western Slope Concert Series. He spent the previous summer in São Paulo, Brazil, where he was the principal pianist and vocal coach […]
Hailed by the New York Times as possessing “rich tone and deft technique,” Hannah Porter Occeña is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Northern Iowa and Principal Flutist of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra (Topeka, KS). Previous positions include Principal Flute of the Midwest Chamber Ensemble (Prairie Village, KS) and Associate Principal Flute of […]
Festival Artist Lucas Borges is an Assistant Professor of Trombone at Ohio University (OU) and is a Conn-Selmer Performing Artist. He holds a Doctoral degree from the University of North Texas (UNT), Master’s degree from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s degree from Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil). Before his appointment at OU, Dr. Borges served as a teaching […]
Festival Artist Daniel Kelly, a native of Charleston, SC, is associate professor of trumpet at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He joined the A&M-Commerce faculty in the fall of 2010 after serving on the faculty of Indiana State University and the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Kelly is a member of the Dallas Winds (formerly the Dallas […]
Festival Artist and The Indianapolis Quartet first violinist, Zachary DePue has established himself in concert venues around the world delivering virtuosic high-energy performances. He demonstrates command as a leader, soloist, collaborator, and improvisational artist reaching across a diverse landscape of music. His authentic warmth and generosity on stage invites audiences to join him in all […]
Festival Artist April Fredrick is a soprano with a passion for nuance and text which gets to the heart of both music and character. Equally at home on the opera stage, concert hall and recording studio, April has recently premiered the title role of John Joubert’s opera Jane Eyre in a live concert recording for […]
Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing” by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborator. Korevaar has performed and given master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Recent highlights include recitals and master classes in Taipei, and […]
Dr. Lauren Spaulding, under the alias of @MonochromeViola, has established herself as a rising genre-defying soloist and chamber musician through her “anonymous practice blog” on Instagram. As a lover of learning, Spaulding has sought a variety of mentorship and has worked intensively under the tutelage of Professor Peter Slowik at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, […]