Claude Cobert
Claude Cobert has performed with the Bach Aria Group Festival, The Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in Wyoming, American Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria), Orquestra de Guadalajara, Mexico, The Goldovsky Grand Opera Tours and Summer Festivals, Spoletto Festival of Two Worlds, The Norfolk/Yale Summer Chamber Music Festival and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Mr. Cobert has had the opportunity to play in orchestras led by Eleazar Carvalho, Colin Davis, Gunther Herbig, Lorin Maezel, Lawrence Leighton Smith and Michael Tilson Thomas. Principal teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Doriot Dwyer, Andre Jaunet, Judith Mendenhall, Louis Moyse, Nora Shulman and Ransom Wilson. Read More
Don Krishnaswami
Praised by the Boston Globe as “noteworthy among the solo voices” and as giving his instrument “a soulful workout,” violist Don Krishnaswami is active in the Boston area as a performing musician and teacher. He collaborates with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a member of the LiveArts String Quartet, and has also performed with BSO musicians as a guest artist with the Walden Chamber Players. He has been a core member of the Art of Music Chamber Players as well as a founding member of the South Coast Chamber Music Society of New Bedford, Mass. Other chamber music hkghlights include the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) in the American Composers Series, the Summergarden series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center’s Focus! Festival, the Shanghai (China) International Arts Festival, and an invited guest artist appearance at the 27th International Viola Congress in Toronto, Canada. Radio appearances have included Classical Performances with Richard Kn isely on WGBH Radio, Boston; Paine Webber’s Traditions on WNCN Radio, New York; and Listening Room with Bob Sherman on WQXR Radio, New York. Read More
Donna Marie Cobert
has earned a reputation throughout New England as a prominent soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared as english horn soloist with the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic where she premiered a concerto written for her by David L. Post. It is recorded on MMC Recordings, Inc. As founder of the New England Reed Trio, Ms. Cobert commissioned dozens of new pieces and was very active in promoting 20th-century wind repertoire. Read More
Janice Weber
Janice Weber’s New York recital debut, performed under the pseudonym Lily von Ballmoos, was an early indication of the eclecticism and fluency for which she has become known.
A summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Miss Weber has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, National Gallery of Art, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops, Chautauqua Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Hilton Head Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic, and Syracuse Symphony in concertos of Hanson, Sowerby, Stenhammar, Bernstein, and Leroy Anderson as well as the standard repertoire. She has performed at the Bard, Newport, La Gesse, Husum, and Monadnock summer festivals and has twice toured China under the auspices of the American Liszt Society. Read More
Piotr Buczek
Piotr Buczek (violin) was born in Chorzow, Poland. He was a founding member of the Penderecki String Quartet, which since 1991 is quartet in residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). Mr.Buczek began violin studies at the age of eight. In 1986, he graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, receiving a Diploma of Art with special distinction. Read More
Timothy Roberts
An active cellist, teacher and chamber musician in the Boston area, Timothy Roberts received his Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory, Master of Music from Northwestern University and pursued Doctoral work at the Cleveland Institute of Music. His principal teachers include Alan Harris, Timothy Eddy and Paul Tobias. Mr. Roberts performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players in New York and Washington D.C. and recorded with them on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. He has toured with the Vienna Choir Boys as a member of the Brandenburg Ensemble, with Alea III to Greece, and with the New England Ragtime Ensemble under Gunther Schuller. He has performed and gone on tour numerous times with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Read More