Lucas Borges - trombone Festival Artist Lucas Borges is an Assistant Professor of Trombone at Ohio University (OU) and is a Conn-Selmer Performing Artist. 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 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 Nick Pfefferkorn - Breitkopf & Härtel Nick Pfefferkorn was born in Leipzig in 1976. At the age of 7, he took up playing the trombone and Leah Batstone - Musicologist LEAH BATSTONE is a musicologist specializing in the music and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler, the transnational culture of the Peter Franklin - Professor of Music Peter Franklin retired as Professor of Music at the University of Oxford in 2014; he remains an Emeritus Fellow of Mario Rivera - Viola Mario Rivera is a Honduran-born first-year Viola Fellow at the New World Symphony. Prior to joining NWS, he was Jeremy Reger - Piano International pianist and educator Jeremy Reger maintains an active performing, teaching, and coaching career. During the summer of 2020 he Christopher Gunning - Composer Christopher Gunning is a prolific British composer with a passion for writing large-scale symphonic works, more intimate concert pieces, and Gustav Andreassen - Bass Highlights: Philippe in Don Carlos (Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein). Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin (San Francisco Opera, The Michael Baker - Timpani It is no coincidence for Michael Baker to end up as a career musician as he was surrounded by all David Korevaar - piano Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing” by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar is in demand Zachary DePue - Concertmaster Festival Artist and The Indianapolis Quartet first violinist, Zachary DePue has established himself in concert venues around the world delivering April Fredrick - soprano Festival Artist April Fredrick is a soprano with a passion for nuance and text which gets to the heart of Stacey Rishoi - mezzo soprano Returning Festival Artist, Stacey Rishoi has received critical acclaim on concert stages across the U.S. for the beauty and power 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 Lauren Spaulding - viola Dr. Lauren Spaulding, under the alias of @MonochromeViola, has established herself as a rising genre-defying soloist and chamber musician through Jennifer Hayghe – piano Pianist and Festival Artist Jennifer Hayghe is an Associate Professor of Piano in the Roser Piano and Keyboard Area at 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
