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Instructor/Performer of Violin, graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and University of Michigan School of Music, is on the faculty of the University of Toledo, where he is Director of Orchestral Studies, Professor of violin and member of the Toledo Trio. Mr. McNeela has also taught at Arkansas University, Illinois Wesleyan University and Allegheny College and participated in numerous summer music festivals.
Instructor/Performer of Violin, is a member of the Virginia Symphony, in Norfolk, VA. A native of Montreal, Canada, Ms. Montour was formerly on faculty at Ecole Polyvelente Pierre Laporta, and returns to Montreal periodically to perform. She holds a Masters of Music degree from Northern Illinois University, where she studied with Schmuel Ashkanazy, and has performed both as a soloist with numerous orchestras and as a solo recitalist in Canada and U.S.A.
KAREN SANNO
MELINDA DAETSCH Senior Session Instructor/Performer of Violin & Viola, Conductor of String Orchestra & Coordinator of Chamber Music, holds degrees from Harvard University and Juilliard School of Music, and serves on faculty at the Hartt School of Music (CT) and as Co-Principal Viola of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, NY. She regularly performs with orchestras throughout the U. S. and Europe, with Philadelphia Orchestra members at the Luzerne & Gretna Chamber Music Festivals, and as a guest artist with the Lions Gate and Claremont piano trios, the Philadelphia Piano Quartet, the Everest and St. Petersburg String Quartets and, most recently, with eclectic musician Josh Groban. Her ties to the European music scene include annual performances at the Assisi Festival, in Assisi, Italy, appearances with the Orchestra Symphonique Neuchatelois and Bern Kammerorchester, in Switzerland, and leading four groups of students on concert tours of Europe under the auspices of Hartt and State College, PA.
WILLIAM GOODWIN Junior Session Instructor/Performer, Viola, Violin, Chamber Music is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music of Philadelphia, where he studied with Joseph De Pasquale. He also holds a Master's of Music in Performance Degree from Florida State University. He resides, teaches and performs in Tampa, FL and plays with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, in Napes, FL.
Ms. Schulman has
taught double bass at Luzerne and performed in the Luzerne
Chamber Music Festival for almost a decade, appearing most
recently in Chris Brubeck's Danze del Sol. She is
currently pursuing graduate work.
EDUARD GULABYAN He currently lives in Naples, FL, where he teaches and performs with the Southwest Florida Symphony of Ft. Meyers and as principal cellist of the Naples Opera.
TROY CHANG
BERT PHILLIPS Instructor/Performer of Cello and Co-Executive Director of the Luzerne Music Center and Classic Chamber Concerts with spouse Toby Blumenthal, is cellist emeritus and frequent substitute with the Philadelphia Orchestra, of which he was a member from 1959 - 1990. His complete biography is located with that of Ms. Blumenthal on faculty page 1.
TOBY BLUMENTHAL Pictured
here at her grand piano, Ms. Blumenthal
is Director of
Piano Studies of the Luzerne Music Center and Co-Executive
Director of both the Luzerne Music Center and Classic Chamber
Concerts
with spouse Bert Phillips.
Her full biography is located with that of Mr. Phillips
on faculty page 1.
DAVID PASBRIG Associate Director of Keyboard Studies, this American pianist has received critical and audience acclaim throughout the US and Far East. Known for his “Impressive…range of tonal qualities and technical finesse” (Schenectady Gazette), Pasbrig is equally in demand as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Recent engagements include master classes & concerts in Shenyang, Dalian, Panju and Beijing, China; concerts with Ann Fontinella at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra at Verizon Hall; at the Scotia Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and with the West Jersey Chamber Music Society. Mr. Pasbrig studied at The Peabody Conservatory and Temple University where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His teachers have included Marian Hahn, Charles Abramovic, Lambert Orkis and Harvey Wedeen. Mr. Pasbrig is currently Associate Director of The Rivers School Summer Music Program in Boston, MA, and teaches at Temple University. He can be heard on Centaur and New World Records.
Instructor/Performer of Piano, Senior Session, is a native of Hungary and holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Indiana University, having studied with Gyorgy Sebok, a Piano Artist Degree and Teachers Diploma from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and an Artist Diploma from the Conservatorio Beethoven in Argentina. She has performed across Europe, Argentina and the United States. Ms. Szokody was Associate Instructor of Piano at Indiana University, served as studio pianist for cellist Janos Starker and has been on the faculty of Chautauqua Institution, New York from 1999-2006. She currently teaches throughout New York's Capital District.
TATIANA ABROMAVA
Instructor/Performer of Piano is currently a doctoral student at the Piano Department of Temple University, Philadelphia, Ms. Abromava was born in Chernogorsk, Russia in 1976. By age 11, she was admitted into Special Music School for Gifted Children attached to the Novosibirsk State Conservatory, and studied with Professor Sofia Gindis. In 1994, she entered the Novosibirsk State Conservatory under the tutelage of the distinguished professor, Honored Artist of Russia, Mary Lebenzon until her graduation in 2002. From 1999 to 2002 she also held a teaching position at the Special Music School attached to the Novosibirsk State Conservatory. From 2002 to 2005 Tatiana Abramova studied in the U.S., in a Piano Artist Diploma program at Texas Christian University, with renowned Professor Tamas Ungar. Tatiana was the first-prize winner of numerous competitions including the 10th All-Russia Piano Competition, named after Vassiliy Safonov, in 1997; the Second International Piano Competition and the International Competition of Chamber Music in Pavia, Italy, 1997; and the First Prize Competition of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society, 2002; second prize winner of Los Angeles International Liszt competition, 2006; and prize winner of the 34th Annual Heida Hermanns International Competition in Westport, CT. A very active concert pianist, Ms Abramova excels in solo works, concerto performances, as well as chamber ensembles. She has performed extensively throughout her native country of Russia, as well as France, Italy, Israel and Japan. |
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