Daniel Kelly - trumpet Festival Artist Daniel Kelly, a native of Charleston, SC, is associate professor of trumpet at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He joined Lucas Borges - trombone Festival Artist Lucas Borges is an Assistant Professor of Trombone at Ohio University (OU) and is a Conn-Selmer Performing Artist. Jessica Mathaes - Concertmaster Hailed “a violinist like no other” (The New York Times) and “a master of the Khachaturian violin concerto” (Austin Chronicle), Jessica Mathaes enjoys an international Michael Karcher-Young - Assistant Conductor and pianist Winner of the Audience Prize at the Leeds Conductors’ Competition for his “electric conducting”, MahlerFest Fellow and Assistant Conductor Michael Jordan Pyle - Oboe Oboist Jordan Pyle’s love of music came at an early age when she fell in love with Mozart operas—dancing, singing, Philip Sawyers - Visiting Composer Philip Sawyers’s works have been performed and broadcast in many countries worldwide including USA, Canada, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic, France David Rahbee - Symposium Speaker David Alexander Rahbee is currently Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle, where Jason Starr - Biography JASON STARR Producer and Director Jason's films are available on DVD and Blu-Ray from the MahlerFest store. Award-winning filmmaker Jason Parry Karp – cello Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence and Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he Suzanne Casey - violin Violinist and Festival Artist Suzanne Casey studied as a young musician at the Hereford Cathedral School, and while there was a Karen Bentley Pollick – violin Festival Artist Karen Bentley Pollick joined the Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Ensemble in 1999 and champions a wide range of solo Jennifer Hayghe – piano Pianist and Festival Artist Jennifer Hayghe is an Associate Professor of Piano in the Roser Piano and Keyboard Area at Lauren Spaulding - viola Dr. Lauren Spaulding, under the alias of @MonochromeViola, has established herself as a rising genre-defying soloist and chamber musician through Jay Reise - Symposium Speaker Award-winning composer Jay Reise wrote both the music and libretto for his opera Rasputin which was commissioned by the late Beverly Sills Hannah Porter Occeña - Flute Hailed by the New York Times as possessing “rich tone and deft technique,” Hannah Porter Occeña is Assistant Professor of Daniel Silver – clarinet Festival Artist Daniel Silver, professor of clarinet at CU, is a versatile performer and teacher whose career encompasses a full Lydia Van Dreel - horn Festival Artist Lydia Van Dreel, Professor of Horn at the University of Oregon, joined the faculty in 2006. Prior to Michael Tetreault - Timpani Michael Tetreault holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and a Master of Kellan Toohey - Clarinet Kellan Toohey is an avid performer whose varied career includes recitals and solo appearances, chamber music, teaching, and orchestral playing. Andrew Brown - cello MahlerFest Fellow Andrew Brown has served as the principal cellist of Aspen Music Festival’s Opera and the Longmont Symphony, and
