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David
Colwell, concertmaster
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David
Sariti, violin
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Iris
Jortner, cello
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Pete
Spaar, bass
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Alan
Cox, flute
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Scott
Perry, oboe
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Nancy
Garlick, clarinet
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Ibby
Roberts, bassoon
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Ayn
Balija, viola
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Paul
Neebe, trumpet
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Ian
Zook, horn
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Steve
Kellner, trombone
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I-Jen
Fang, percussion
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The
Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra
principal musicians are members of the Performance
Faculty in the McIntire Department of Music at
the University of Virginia. They are supported
through ticket sales, donations to the orchestra's
annual fund and endowment, and the University
of Virginia.
David
Colwell, concertmaster
dac6p@virginia.edu
The Mary Dean Scott Chair
Since his solo debut with the Edmonton Symphony
in 1995 at the age of 14, violinist David Colwell
has performed as a soloist and chamber musician
in Europe, Canada, and the United States, and
has been recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. In 2000, David, together with Martin
Riseley, Aaron Au, Tanya Prochazka and Stéphane
Lemelin performed Brahms's Piano Quintet in F
minor; this performance was included on a CBC
promotional CD. In June of 2003, he was featured
on the CBC music program Our Music.
As a winner of a Johann Strauss Foundation Scholarship
in both 1998 and 1999, David was afforded the
opportunity to study at the Internationale Sommerakademie
Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Igor Oistrakh,
Michael Frischenschlager, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
and Igor Ozim. In the summers of 2004 and 2005,
he studied and performed at the Steans Institute
for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago.
In June of 2005, David made his formal Ravinia
Festival debut at the Martin Theater with a performance
of Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor. Other recent
memorable performances have included chamber music
collaborations with bassist Edgar Meyer, cellists
Timothy Eddy and Ole Akahoshi, and pianist Ralf
Gothóni.
A native of Alberta, Canada, David received his
first violin lessons from Dr. Elfreda Gleam and
William van der Sloot. After further studies with
Ranald Shean and Edmond Agopian, he began his
undergraduate education in 1997 at the University
of Alberta where he studied with Dr. Martin Riseley.
In September of 2001, he entered the studio of
Peter Oundjian and Ani Kavafian at Yale University
School of Music and in 2003 was awarded a Master
of Music degree in Violin Performance. He is currently
working towards his Doctor of Musical Arts degree
from Yale. David is grateful to the Winspear Fund
for its generous support of his studies from 2001-2005.
While studying at Yale, he formed the Branford
Trio together with pianist Ilya Poletaev and cellist
Yves Dharamraj. In 2003, the trio was chosen to
perform in the prestigious Chamber Music at Yale
concert series. In addition to its many performances
on campus, the Branford Trio appeared in Southport,
Connecticut and St. Petersburg, Florida. In December
of 2005, David joined cellist Alexandre Lecarme
and pianist Toma Popovici in the Boston-based
Trio Tancrède. During the 2005-2006 season,
the trio gave regular concerts in Massachusetts
and Maine.
David
Sariti, violin
djs6k@virginia.edu
The Robert D. Cross Memorial Chair
David Sariti joined the UVa faculty in 2005, performing
in the Rivanna Quartet and as Principal Second
Violinist of the Charlottesville Symphony. Active
as a recitalist and chamber collaborator with
an unusually broad range of musical interests,
he has recently appeared at Monticello's Center
for Jefferson Studies, the Staunton Music
Festival, the Summer Chamber Music Workshop at
UVa, and will present the featured recital in
UVa's 2006-07 Chamber Music Series. Accomplished
also on the Baroque violin, he has played with
such groups as the Arcadia Ensemble and the Fanfare
Consort, with whom he performed at the Boston
Early Music Festival and recorded for Champignon
International. His experience as an orchestral
musician includes the orchestras of Hartford,
Vermont, Albany, Tanglewood, Springfield (MA),
Akron, and the Ohio Ballet.
Mr. Sariti has taught violin and music history
at the Hartt School, and is a coach and clinician
passionately devoted to the advancement of string
pedagogy. His articles have been featured in American
String Teacher and California Music Teacher,
with a forthcoming article in American Music
Teacher.
Mr. Sariti completed his doctoral degree at Hartt
in the Honors Chamber Music program, writing on
"The Austro-German Violin Sonata, c. 1650",
and is currently preparing a violin sonata by
Heinrich Lizkau (1657) for its first-ever publication,
by King's Music of London. He also holds degrees
from the University of Akron and Ithaca College;
Principal studies were with Katie Lansdale, Pamela
Gearhart, Debra Moree, and Alan Bodman, and additional
work with Pamela Frank and members of the Cleveland
and Miami quartets.
Iris
Jortner, cello
ij7t@virginia.edu
The Genevieve B. Horween & Marion H. Chase
Chair
Cellist Iris Jortner was born and raised in Tel
Aviv, Israel. As an active chamber musician she
has collaborated with Yefim Bronfman, Michael
Tree, Itamar Golan, Levon Chilingrian, the Orion
Quartet, and the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and
has performed in numerous festivals including
Verbier, Banff, Tanglewood, Taos, Prussia Cove,
Dubrovnick, Kfar Blum, Jerusalem International
Chamber Music Festival, Isaac Stern's Encounters,
and Rolandseck. Ms. Jortner was a founding member
and cellist of the Aviv Quartet between 1997-2002.
She has performed at important venues including
Wigmore Hall, the Louvre, Theater du Chatelet,
Vienna Concert House, Cologne Philharmonic Hall,
Weill RecitaCabell Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice
Tully Hall, Bargemusic, Merkin Hall, and the Manoel
Theater, and has recorded for Naxos and Live Classics.
Ms. Jortner toured in Australia, Canada, China,
Europe, Israel, and the USA. She studied with
Uri Vardi, Aldo Parisot, Bernard Greenhouse, Paul
Katz, Dmitri Ferschtman, Timothy Eddy, and members
of the Alban Berg Quartet.
Ms. Jortner earned her BM degree from the Eastman
School of Music, her MM from the Amsterdam Conservatory,
a Chamber Music Diploma from the Hochschule of
Musik in Cologne, and her Professional Studies
Diploma from the Mannes College of Music. She
taught at Marywood University (Pennsylvania),
Opus 118 Harlem Center for Strings, and is on
the faculty of the Apple Hill Summer festival.
Ms. Jortner was a recipient of the American-Israel
Cultural Foundation scholarships, received a special
award from the New York Foundation of the Arts,
the Performer of Connecticut Award, prizes by
the Ministries of Education of Israel and Germany,
and special prizes at Tanglewood for outstanding
chamber music performances.
Pete
Spaar, bass
ps4a@virginia.edu
The Robert & Ruth Cross Chair
Bassist Peter Spaar holds a Master of Music from
University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Music
from James Madison University. His former teachers
include Sam Cross, Ed Rainbow, Tom Lederer and
Mark Bernat. Mr. Spaar is the founder and bassist
of the Free Bridge Quintet, UVA's jazz quintet-in-residence.
He is also a member of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to his teaching duties, Mr. Spaar
maintains a very active freelance career as both
a jazz and classical bassist.
Alan
Cox, flute
amc7s@virginia.edu
The Thomas C. & Margaret M. MacAvoy Chair
Flutist Alan Cox joined the faculty of UVA's McIntire
Department of Music in 2004. Mr. Cox currently
serves as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta
and is a member of New York's Mostly Mozart Festival
Orchestra. He has worked extensively in New York
City and San Francisco. While in San Francisco,
he was principal flute of the San Francisco Opera,
Sinfonia San Francisco, and the San Francisco
Chamber Symphony, as well as being solo flute
of the Anchor Chamber Players and appearing in
numerous recitals and concerto engagements. In
New York Mr. Cox has been principal flute of such
prominent ensembles as the St. Luke's Chamber
Ensemble, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Philharmonia
Virtuosi, the Opera Orchestra of New York, and
has been a member of the New York Chamber Symphony
and solo piccolo of the Metropolitan Opera. He
has additionally appeared frequently with the
New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony.
He has participated in tours throughout the United
States, Europe, Japan, and Korea. A founding member
of the New York New Music Ensemble, he has given
premiere performances of works by Joseph Schwantner,
Peter Maxwell Davies, Tod Machover and other leading
composers. He has been a faculty member of Rutgers
University, where he was a member of the Raritan
Winds, the faculty woodwind quintet, the Juilliard
School, SUNY-Binghamton, and Westminster Choir
College. He has recorded for Columbia, Warner
Bros., Opus One, Delos, Musical Heritage Society,
Finnadar, ROM Productions, Mediaphon, and Sony
Classical. Mr. Cox studied with Julius Baker at
the Juilliard School, where he earned Bachelor
and Master of Music Degrees, and collaborated
with Mr. Baker as editor for a number of publications,
including Baker's Daily Exercises for the Flute.
He also studied with Marcel Moyse and William
Bennett.
Mr. Cox is also a composer. He acknowledges guidance
from such diverse teachers as Vincent Persichetti,
Lester Trimble, Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions,
and Vladimir Ussachevsky, but considers himself
primarily self-taught. His output ranges from
solo and chamber works to a song cycle for soprano
and chamber orchestra, "Illuminations",
set to texts by the poet Arthur Rimbaud, to a
piece for large orchestra, "Six Orchestral
Images after Magritte", musical depictions
of paintings by the surrealist painter Rene Magritte.
Scott
Perry, oboe
sp7j@virginia.edu
The Jason I. & Ellen U. Eckford Chair
California-born Scott Perry holds degrees from
Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati's
College-Conservatory of Music and is currently
a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University.
An active freelance musician, he has performed
with orchestras throughout the West and the Midwest,
including the Seattle Symphony, the Civic Orchestra
of Chicago, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Perry has performed on three continents for
audiences that have included heads of state, royalty,
and even the Pope. He is the oboist of the Albemarle
Ensemble, and is a faculty member of UVA's McIntire
Department of Music.
Nancy
Garlick, clarinet
nbg4c@virginia.edu
The Henry Jacob Javor Chair
D.M.A. Catholic University, M.M. Manhattan School
of Music, B.S. from the Crane School of Music,
Advanced studies at Tanglewood and Ecoles Americaines
des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France. Soloist
with the Boston Pops, Westchester Pops, Crane
Symphony, Wooster Symphony, Pennsylvania Sinfonia,
Charlottesville and University Symphony and others.
Guest appearances with the Canton and Chester
Quartets. New York debut at Carnegie RecitaCabell
Hall, 1981, with The Wooster Trio. Principal clarinet
with the New Haven Symphony, American Wind Symphony,
Waterbury, Lakeside, and Missouri and Westchester
Symphony Orchestras. Music Director of The Wooster
Symphony, the Youth Orchestra of Charlottesville-Albemarle
and the Mozart Ensemble. Formerly Associate Professor
at the College of Wooster; member of the faculties
at James Madison University and Mary Baldwin College.
She is a founding member of the Albemarle Ensemble
and UVA Chamber Music Series.
Ayn
Balija, viola
violayn@yahoo.com
The Elizabeth W. Gatewood Chair
Following her dreams, Ayn Balija earned her BM
from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and MM
from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Jeffrey
Irvine and Peter Slowik continue to be her principal
instructors and mentors.
Between degrees Ayn explored various teaching
philosophies including Karen Tuttle's Coordination
philosophy and the Suzuki Violin method. Upon
completing her undergraduate studies she was a
founding instructor of the Oberlin Community Music
School. For four years, she provided Suzuki violin
lessons, group classes, chamber music coachings,
and music theory classes to Lorain County.
An avid orchestral musician, Ms. Balija performs
with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus,
OH, Red {an orchestra}, Southwest Michigan Symphony
Orchestra, and Camerata Chicago. For the 2006-2007
season she was asked to tour with Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra on their East Coast Tour.
During summers, she has attended numerous festivals
including the Aspen Music Festival and School,
Banff Center, Credo, and the Colorado College
Summer Music Festival. She participated as an
orchestral musician, chamber coach, mentor, and
quartet fellow. Starting the summer of 2006, Ms.
Balija was awarded the Aspen Mentor Fellowship
to aid in the instruction of aspiring orchestral
musicians.
Her passion for teaching at the collegiate level
developed while serving as an assistant to her
conservatory instructors. Other interests include
modern music and early music performances on the
baroque viola. She has had the opportunity to
study with members of Apollo's Fire including
Jeanette Sorrell and Cynthia Roberts. Currently
she serves as Lecturer of Viola at the University
of Virginia and principal violist of the Charlottesville
and University Symphony Orchestra.
Ian
Zook, horn
irz5z@virginia.edu
The Johanna & Derwood Chase & Chase Investment
Counsel Corp. Chair
Ian Zook, horn, is an active orchestral and solo
performer and has appeared in concert throughout
the United States, Europe, and Asia. In addition
to his faculty position at the University of Virginia
and performance as the principal horn of the Charlottesville
and University Symphony Orchestra, he also performs
with the Princeton and Haddonfield Symphony Orchestras
in New Jersey, and as a substitute musician for
the Vermont Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In 2006, he performed as principal horn of the
Pacific Music Festival under the baton of Valery
Gergiev with concerts in Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka,
and Tokyo for collective audiences nearing 50,000
in number. He performed alongside principals of
the Vienna Philharmonic in both orchestra and
chamber music, and also worked with principal
musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Before relocating to the east coast, he was an
active freelance musician in Michigan where he
held positions with the Dearborn, Adrian, and
Birmingham-Bloomsfield Symphony Orchestras, as
well as a mentorship with the Detroit Civic Orchestra.
He also had the opportunity to perform on Naxos'
Grammy Award-winning recording of William Bolcom's
Songs of Innocence and of Experience under Leonard
Slatkin.
He has also performed both orchestral and chamber
music at the National Orchestral Institute, Sarasota
Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and American
Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
A proponent of period-instrument performance,
he has performed natural horn with the New York
Collegium and the Washington Bach Consort. He
was also a featured performer at the 2005 Northeast
Horn Workshop playing trompe de chasse.
A native of North Carolina, he received his Bachelor
of Music degree from the University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill and a Master of Music from the University
of Michigan. He is currently a candidate for Doctor
of Musical Arts at Rutgers University.
Ibby
Roberts, bassoon
ear4x@virginia.edu
The Ann Saunders Roberts Chair
Ibby Roberts, a native of Alexandria, Virginia,
holds a B.S. in Early Childhood Education from
the University of Illinois. She taught kindergarten for two years in suburban
Chicago, then began pursuing her dream of becoming
a professional musician. She earned a Professional
Studies Diploma and a Bachelor of Music degree
from the Harid Conservatory, where she studied
with Arthur Weisberg, and a Master of Music Performance
degree at the University of Southern California,
where she studied with Stephen Maxym. During her
second year at USC she was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda and was selected to be a Presidential
Fellow. Upon graduating she was awarded the Dean's
Special Commendation. She has also studied bassoon with Nancy Goeres, and contrabassoon with Lew Lipnik.
Ms. Roberts has served on the performance faculty in the music department at the University of Virginia since 2001, where her duties include playing principal bassoon with the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra (CUSO), and bassoon with the Albemarle Ensemble, UVA's faculty woodwind quintet. She coordinates CUSO's outreach program, Preludes,
and freelances with orchestras in Virginia, Washington, DC, and North Carolina, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. She has performed as a soloist with the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra, the Harid Conservatory Orchestra, and the Waynesboro (Virginia) Community Orchestra. Ms. Roberts is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Adult Degree Program at Mary Baldwin College, and she teaches bassoon, reed making, and chamber music in the Charlottesville area.
As a student, Ms. Roberts held fellowships at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (CT) and at the Aspen Music
Festival (CO) where she served as principal
bassoonist of the American Academy of Conducting
Orchestra at Aspen for three summers. Ms. Roberts has performed and taught at the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival (VA), Beyond the Notes (UVA), Music Mind and Reading (NC), and the Cascade Festival of Music (OR).
Ms. Roberts has given world premiere performances of works by Arthur Weisberg, Bernard Rands, Gary Schocker, and Walter Ross. She also gave the Virginia premiere of a recently discovered concerto for bassoon by Gioacchino Rossini.
Paul
Neebe, trumpet
pmn9r@virginia.edu
The Dr. & Mrs. Kennerly H. Digges Chair
American trumpet virtuoso Paul Neebe has performed
widely throughout the U.S. and Europe as both
an acclaimed soloist and respected orchestral
musician. Recognized for his beautiful solo sound
and artistic flair, Mr. Neebe has also been praised
for his commitment to commissioning and recording
contemporary American works for the trumpet. In
2000, he commissioned the American Composer Roger
Petrich to write a piece for Trumpet & Organ,
a work premiered in Germany in 2002 and recorded
on the German Label MDG in 2003. He also recorded
with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra a CD
consisting of all World Premieres of "American
Trumpet Concerto's" to be released on the
Albany Records Label in 2005. Neebe recently commissioned
several new American works for trumpet and orchestra
by: Dr. Walter Ross, Professor Emeritus of the
University of Virginia, Dr. Eddie Bass, Professor
Emeritus of the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, as well as Roger Petrich of St. Thomas
More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill.
Mr. Neebe currently serves as principal trumpet
of the Roanoke Symphony and the Wintergreen Festival
Orchestra in Virginia, and is on the faculty of
the University of Virginia. In recent seasons,
he has performed as a featured soloist with the
Roanoke, Charlottesville and Durham Symphonies,
the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and the Elon
University Wind Ensemble. In 1995 he received
honors at the First International Trumpet Festival
Competition in Moscow. In addition to numerous
concerts throughout the U.S., he has performed
several times for the Goethe Institute Cultural
Program in Rothenburg, Germany and has toured
with orchestras in Italy, Austria, Australia and
New Zealand.
Mr. Neebe received both the Bachelor and Master
of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. While
at Juilliard, he was a member of the National
Orchestra of New York, performing at Carnegie
Hall. In May 1999, he completed his Doctorate
of Musical Arts degree at the Catholic University
of America. His teachers have included Bernard
Adelstein, Arnold Jacobs, Steve Hendrickson, Douglas
Myers, Vincent Penzarella, and William Vacchiano.
For more information visit www.paulneebe.com.
Steve Kellner, trombone
psk3c@virginia.edu
Steve retired in October 2004 after a 25 year
career in military bands, including eleven years
as principal euphonium of the U.S. Marine Band
in Washington, D.C. In addition to hundreds of
performances with the band at the White House
and in support of the President, he was a featured
soloist on several of the band's national concert
tours, summer series concerts, and chamber series
concerts, and served as principal euphonium on
the band's tours of Norway, England, the Soviet
Union, and Switzerland. He also played on more
than fifteen Marine Band recordings and was a
featured soloist on the band's recording Charles
Ives's America. Guest conductors of the band during
Steve's career included Frederick Fennell, Gunther
Schuller, Osmo Vanska, Leonard Slatkin, and John
Williams.
In addition to his performances with the Marine
Band, Steve has been a guest soloist at the Texas
Bandmaster's Association Convention, the All-Eastern
Band Clinic, and the U.S. Army Tuba-Euphonium
Conference. He has premiered numerous new works
for the euphonium, including works by Stephen
Bulla and Douglas Court, and presented master
classes and clinics at colleges and universities
across the country, including the Eastman School
of Music, Arizona State University, Brigham Young
University, and the Armed Forces School of Music.
He has also performed as an orchestral euphoniumist
with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Maryland
Symphony, the Chesapeake Orchestra, the Oklahoma
City Metropolitan Orchestra, and the Arlington
Symphony, and has performed and recorded with
the Washington Symphonic Brass.
A native of Atlanta, Steve received nearly all
of his early musical training in Salvation Army
brass bands. He has served as principal euphonium
of several S.A. brass bands and performed on numerous
brass band recordings, including appearances as
a featured soloist on the CD recordings Songs
of the States with the National Capital Band,
and Live in England with the Southern Territorial
Band. Steve's euphonium teachers include Robert
Schramm, Mark Mordue, and Michael Moore and his
trombone teachers include Milt Stevens, Matt Guilford,
and James Kraft.
I-Jen
Fang, timpani & percussion
if4n@virginia.edu
The James E. & Yolonda T. Roberts Chair
I-Jen Fang was born in Taipei, Taiwan and began
her musical education at age six taking piano.
Taking up percussion at the age of nine, she came
to the United States at age fifteen to pursue
her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Percussion
Performance at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
PA. Later, she received her Master of Music degree
from Northwestern University and her Doctor of
Musical Arts degree from the University of North
Texas where she served as a teaching fellow. Her
principle teachers include Tim Adams, Michael
Burritt, Christopher Deane, Mark Ford, Paul Rennick,
Robert Schietroma, Ed Smith and Ed Soph.
As a percussionist, Ms. Fang has performed or
recorded with artists such as Keiko Abe, William
Cahn, Mark Ford, Mike Mainieri, Michael Spiro,
Nanik Wenton and Nyoman Wenton. She was a guest
marimba soloist with the Taiwan Youth Orchestra
in Austria, France, Hungary, Romania, and South
Africa. Also, she has performed as a soloist with
the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in Carnegie Music
Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a pianist,
she was a winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society
Young Artist Competition. In 2003, she was a featured
performer with the Bain Percussion Group at the
Percussive Arts Society International Convention
(PASIC). In that same year, she was selected as
a marimba soloist to perform in the Marimba Mania
Concert at the 6 èmes Journées de
la Percussion in Paris, France. In 2004 she performed
at PASIC as one of the finalists in the Solo Vibraphone
Competition. Last year she was invited to perform
on the Gamelan Gender Wayang at PASIC 2005.
Ms. Fang has performed with many ensembles, which
include the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra,
Taiwan Youth Orchestra, North Texas Wind Symphony,
UNT Indoor Drumline, Northwestern Symphony Orchestra,
Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble, Carnegie
Mellon Philharmonic, Carnegie Mellon University
Wind Ensemble, UNT Steelband, South Indian, Gamelan,
Afro-Cuban, contemporary and classical percussion
ensembles, and is a member of a percussion quartet,
the Bain Percussion Group. She has been involved
with recording eleven CDs and a DVD with the North
Texas Wind Symphony on the Klavier and GIA labels.
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