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2000—Susanna Cortesio —violinist
Handel & Haydn, Faculty- Longy School of Music
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2000—Polina Sedukh—violinist SanFransisco Symphony
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2000—Mimi Reiter—violinist,violist
Royal Philharmonic, BBC Radio Orchestra
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2000—Victoria Mazin—pianist
Member Yanvar Trio, 2nd Prize winner in the
Val Tidon International Chamber Music Competition
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2000-2002—Paula Majerfeld—violist,violiist
Faculty, The Quartet Program and the Longy School of Music
Co-Director, LyricaBoston
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2000-2002—Carrisa Redick—cellist
Hartt School of Music/ University of Connecticut
(teaching assistant -Theory Depts.)
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2000-2001—2003-2006—Russell Wilson—violinist,violist
New Haven and Vermont Symphony Orchestras
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2000-2003—2005-2006—Andrew Eng—violinist,violist
Lead Violinist MASS Tango, Faculty, LyricaFest solo appearances with
Elmar Oliveira, founding member- Quartet Chagall-Boston
and the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra
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2000 & 2006—Courtenay Vandiver—cellist
A Far Cry, founding member
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2000-2006—Becky Hood—University of Connecticut
faculty Community School of the Arts/Powers Music School
and the Newton Suzuki School.
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2000-2003—Mitch Branick—cellist
Private studio/ Dallas,TX
(Mitch consistently places his students in the top level
Texas All-State Orchestra)
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2001—Pierre-Alain Bouvrette—cellist
Violin du Roi (Montreal), member, Yanvar Trio
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2001—Frederic Bednarz—violinist
Yanvar Trio
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2001—Min Jeong Kim—violinist
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
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2001—Dimitar Petkov—violist
Portland Symphony Orchestra (ME)
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2001—Maia Chance—violinist
Romance Novelist Season of Winter and Grass
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2001—Yun-Yang Lin
Fauclty Hartt School of Music (Community Music School)
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2001-2005—Isaac Allen—violinist, violist
1st violinist of the Hausmann String Quartet in residence at the
’06 Norfolk Music Festival and assistant to the Miami String Quartet
at Kent State University. Performances with Paul Katz, Steven Ansell,
Ron Thomas, Dong-Suk Shin on the Lyrica Chamber music series.
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2001-2005—Yuan Zhang—cellist
Performances with Joseph Silverstein and Kim Kaskashian as a guest artist
on Lyrica Boston’s Chamber Music Series. Also see Hausmann Quartet above.
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2002—Nikola Latakov—violinist Rhode Island Philharmonic, Portland
Symphony Orchestra, Founding member, Kalistos Chamber Orchestra
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2002—John Richards—violist
Founding member, Alarm Will Sound
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2002—Viki Tcherthchian—violinist,violist
Founding member Kalistos Chamber Orchestra
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2002—Justin Caulley—violist
Mozarteum Orchestra, Assistant to Thomas Riebl; Salzburg Mozarteum
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2002—Leo Eguchi—cellist
Brookline Music School, faculty; founding member,
Kalistos Chamber Orchestra
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2002—Adda Kridler—violinist
Assistant Professor of Violin, Ball State University
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2002-2004—Belinda Yu—violinist, violist
journalist for Reuters News/ Articles published in the Boston Globe,
Washington and New York Post. CBS/Boston News Station consultant.
Stanford School of Journalism ‘06
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2003—Melanie Olsen—violinist
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
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2003—Anglea Choong—violinist
Flordia State University, Assistant to Beth Newdome
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2003—Sasha Callahan—violinist Rhode Island Philharmonic; Chair,
Brookline Music School String Dept.
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2003—Yi Ching Fedkenheuer—violinist
Administrative Assistant for the Sierra Club.
Collaborator with the Muir and Borremeo String Quartets
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2003—Bradley Ottesen—violist
Lunaire String Quartet
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2003-2004—Jessica Helie—violinist, violist
Faculty, Concord Music Academy/ Longy School of Music
Assistant to Paula Majerfled
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2003—Charlotte Whitman—cellist
Founder, Hartford Public Schools’ Satellite Music Program
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2003-2004—Bram Goldstein—violinist
2nd Violinist Hausmann String Quartet
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2003-2006—Nick Upton—cellist
featured on Lyrica Chamber Music’s newly released orchestra CD
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2004—Yoko Kida—pianist
collaborative pianist for Charles Castleman, Charles Neidich,
Victor Rosenbaum, and invited by famed singer, Elly Ameling
to perform for the Franz-Schubert Institute in Austria
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2004—Carlos Boltes—violist/ charango
member of the Alturas Duo and ensemble hailed as playing with
"...marvelous virtuosity..." by
The Washington Post.
The only group of its kind, the Duo formed with the idea of playing
South American and classical music by bringing together the unusual
combination of the viola, charango and guitar creating fiery programs that
move at ease between J.S. Bach, South American folk rhythms and new
music commissioned by the duo.
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2004—Scott Hill—guitar
member Alturas Duo. See above for description.
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2004—Meredith Riley—violinist
Syracuse Symphony (Winner of the ’06 Concerto Competition/ Soloist
with the Syracuse Symphony)
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2004—Laura Shaw—cellist
Preucil School of Music, Faculty
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2004-2005—Keith Sanders—violinist/violist
member of Trio Essence/ finalist on America’s Got Talent ( Fall ’06)
and Artsehcor ( a hip-hop orchestra)
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2004-2005—Lauren Burns—violist
Brookline Music School, faculty; Hausmann String Quartet
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2005-2006—Monty Bloom—violinist
MTV appearances, LyricaBoston Guest Artist for the Annual April Fool’s
Concert Series
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2006—Colin Benn—viola
Member the Sao Paolo State Symphony Orchestra and the
Brazilian Symphony Orchestra
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LYRICAFEST MARRIAGES—
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Beth Ringel and Alex Maynegre — May, 2003
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Katilyn Vizmeg and Carlos Boltes — 2004
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Viki Tchertchian and Nikola Latakov — August 2005
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Angela Choong and Isaac Allen — June 24, 2006
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Up coming marriages—Sasha Callahan and Leo Eguchi
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