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CATHERINE BROUCEK ORR Artistic Director The Eleva Chamber Players is pleased to welcome Catherine Broucek Orr as artistic director. Catherine did her first musical studies in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Vienna, Austria. She has performed professionally in Chicago, Los Angeles, Vienna, Spain and Germany. Her conducting studies began privately in Los Angeles with Helen Martin, IHM, Joseph Palmieri and H. Vincent Mitzelfelt. After moving to Vermont and conducting choruses and orchestras for some time, she continued her studies at Eastman, Dartmouth, and in the 1990s earned her M.Mus. at Indiana University. Excited by new developments in musical research and by her principal teachers, Jan Harrington & Thomas Dunn, she focused on imaginative programming and new performance practices as conductor of the newly formed Montpelier Chamber Orchestra (MCOS). Retired from MCOS after ten successful years, she continues to bring good music to the Central Vermont area through her work as Music Director at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier. She serves on the board of Capital City Concerts and assists the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble as well as the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival.    WILLIE DOCTO Founder & General Manager Violin Willie enjoys combining his musical background with his management experience. He has served as general manager of the Georgetown Symphony Orchestra and the Virginia Chamber Orchestra working with conductors Andrew Litton and Fabio Mechetti. He has also worked with the Fairfax Symphony and the American Symphony Orchestra League. Since 1996, he has owned an association management company providing event planning and marketing consulting services to clients in the U.S, Poland and the Philippines. Willie has served on the boards of the Monteverdi Music School and the Vermont Arts Council. Willie performed as a freelance musician in the Washington, DC area for over 15 years. He has performed in the Georgetown Symphony, Prince William Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, and Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra. He is a principal player in the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra Society and is a member of the Vermont Philharmonic. Willie studied violin at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK, and graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Willie performs on the "Aunt Lulabelle" violin handcrafted by Thurmond Knight of Glover, Vermont. LYNNETTE COMBS Harpsichord Lynnette Combs received a degree in music from Swarthmore College, where she studied organ with Robert Smart and played harpsichord with various student ensembles. She is organist at the First Church (Universalist) in Barre, Vermont and is a founding member of Consort Courante, which plays music from the Baroque era on period instruments. In 2002 Ms. Combs was named Artist of the Year by the Vermont Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She has played with the Vermont Symphony, the Vermont Philharmonic, the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra and numerous other chamber ensembles and choruses. LINDA J. GALVAN Cello Linda J. Galvan (who has also performed as Linda Hougland) attended the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Ronald Leonard and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance and a Performer's Certificate. Ms. Galvan was a Fulbright Scholar with Maurice Gendron in Germany and remained in Europe as first solo cello with the National Ballet, Dance Theatre of the Netherlands, and as a member of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Galvan later joined the faculty of the University of Victoria (British Columbia). Performances spanning the entire gamut of orchestral soloist, recitals, and chamber music have taken Ms. Galvan throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. After performing with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Galvan moved to New England, where she is an active teacher and performer in recital, as a guest soloist, as principal cellist with the Hanover Chamber Orchestra and as a member of Trio Veritas. Linda and her husband Carlos are co-founders of A Carlin Foundation, providing music education for children in under-served areas. COLLEEN JENNINGS Violin Colleen Jennings performs regularly as an orchestral player and chamber musician in Europe and the USA. She is a member of the Kammerorchester Basel in Switzerland and principal second violin of Opera North. She has participated in several orchestral festivals including The Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra under the direction of James Levine, a group with whom she has toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia. She was also a participant in the Miyazaki Festival in Japan and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Formerly she held the post of principal second violin in the Vermont Symphony Orchestra under maestro Jaime Laredo. As a chamber musician, she performs with Ex Luce Color, a group she founded with soprano Ana Arnaz, and focuses on bringing early music and folk based contemporary works together. The group has performed concerts in the USA, Spain, France and Germany. She also performs regularly with the Classicopia Chamber Music Series. Colleen received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Rice University. She also studied with Antonio Pellegrini in Basel, Switzerland where she received a performance diploma from the SMPV (Schweizerischen Musikpädagogischen Verband). Colleen currently teaches at the Upper Valley Events Center in Norwich, VT where she offers private classical violin lessons and group folk fiddle classes.    LOU KOSMA Bass Lou Kosma is presently a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He teaches privately and is an adjunct double bass instructor at New Jersey City University. Past affiliations include principal bassist for the American Ballet Theatre, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and acting principal for the New Jersey Symphony. He was also a member of the Chautauqua Symphony for 17 years. Lou continues to play radio and television jingles and industrials. He received his degree in music education with applied double bass from Temple University. During the summers of 1967 and 1968, he was a fellowship student at Tanglewood. Lou is Music Director of the Vermont Philharmonic, the Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra, and conductor of the Junior Orchestra of the Youth Orchestras of Essex County.    JOHN LINDSEY Concertmaster John Lindsey is the Concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Northern New York, The Hanover Chamber Orchestra (NH), and the Eleva Chamber Players (VT). He is the First Violinist of Aurora String Quintet, the violinist in the Ruggieri Chamber Soloists, and Full Professor of Music of the State University of New York at Potsdam. He has also served as Concertmaster of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra (KY), the Dallas Chamber Players, the Castle Farm Summer Festival Orchestra in Charlevois (MI), the Warren (Ohio) Chamber Orchestra and the Champlain Valley Symphony Orchestra (Plattsburgh). Mr. Lindsey has appeared in solo recitals at The Carnegie Recital Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center (five time) and in Boston, Montreal, and Chicago on the Dame Myra Hess Series. In late November 2007, he will give a recital and workshop on the island of St. Lucia and will also play concertos with Eleva and the Orchestra of Northern New York. Prior to his appointment at The Crane School of Music in 1981, Mr. Lindsey was chairman of Strings at Baylor University, The Governor's School of North Carolina, and the University of Kentucky. In 1989, he was selected from over 200 applicants to serve a four-week residency as the winner of the City of Dayton's Second Annual Allegro Residency for the Arts. In the summer, Mr. Lindsey is a member of the violin faculties of the Ameropa Festival in Prague (The Czech Republic), the Adult Chamber Music Conference at Interlochen Michigan, and the Mozart Festival in Woodstock, Vermont. In previous summers he was on the faculties of the Ithaca Chamber Music Institute (NY), the National Music Camp at Interlochen, the Ottawa Suzuki Institute (KS), the Southeastern Music Camp(GA), the Illinois Chamber Music Festival, the Stage de Musique in Marcillat-en-Combraille, France, and the Canna International Chamber Music Festival in Canna, Italy. In 1993, Mr. Lindsey was the recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Teacher of the Year Award) for SUNY Potsdam and the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003. SANDI-JO MALMON Cello Sandi-Jo Malmon is a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble, the New Hampshire Symphony, the Boston Academy of Music/Opera Boston and the Lake George Opera Festival (NY). She is currently on the adjunct cello faculty of Northeastern University. She has served on the faculties of the International Composers' Conference at Wellesley College, the International String conference in Pennsylvania, Powers Music School and the Brookline Music School. A student of Richard Kapuscinski and Paul Tobias, Sandi-Jo received degrees in cello performance from Oberlin College/Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music and the Longy School of Music. She has recorded for Blue Hill Records, North Star Records, Lakewest Records and Pamet River Recordings. Sandi-Jo is the Librarian for Collection Development at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. She made her Lincoln Center debut in 1991 with the Boston Quartet. MOWRY PEARSON Violin Mowry Pearson grew up in the Boston area where he studied with Lucy Parker and George Zazofsky. He received his degree from Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Robert Soetens and Steven Staryk. Mr. Pearson's active chamber music career has included extensive periods as principal violinist with the Apple Hill Chamber Players and the Atlanta Chamber Players, with concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Phillips Collection (Wash., DC), as well as tours to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He has performed with many Boston area orchestras and ensembles including Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, Boston Musica Viva, Boston Lyric Opera, and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Mr. Pearson has been a soloist with the Concord Chorale and the Nashua Chamber Orchestra, and given many solo recitals including Jordan Hall, the Gardner Museum, and WGBH radio. In addition, Mr. Pearson has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Carnegie Hall and major concert halls throughout Europe. Recordings include the Deustche Grammaphon, Centaur, and Koch labels. For the past three seasons he has been assistant concertmaster of the Opera North orchestra, and recently established residence in Brattleboro, VT. His violin is by Bartomoleo Tassini, Venice 1752.   OLGA PINEDA VIolin Olga Pineda received her B. M. Magna Cum Laude in Music Education at the St. Scholastica College in 1995, after receiving a B.S. in Marketing at De La Salle Univeristy in the Philippines. She has been a member of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and was a violinist in the touring company production of Miss Saigon. As a pianist, she has been a piano soloist with the Pasaknungan Chamber Orchestra and has served as accompanist for Broadway musicals with the Philippine Artists International. Olga is a member of the Clarion Chamber Ensemble, Manila's premier chamber music organization. Olga is a freelance musician and teaches violin and piano at the Joy Of Music Program School in Worcester, Massachusetts.   REGINALD PINEDA Violin Reginald Pineda received a B.M. in Violin performance at University of Santo Thomas (UST), where he received a full scholarship granted by The Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines and UST Conservatory. He received a Graduate Performance Certificate in Violin performance at Boston Conservatory of Music. Regie has served as Concertmaster of Boston Conservatory Orchestra and the UST Conservatory Orchestra and as principal violinist of the second violin section of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. Regie is a member of the Clarion Chamber Ensemble, Manila's premier chamber music organization. In addition to being a freelance musician, Regie teaches violin, viola and chamber music at the Joy Of Music Program School in Worcester, Massachusetts.    SHELLY TRAMPOSH Viola Dr. Shelly Tramposh is the viola professor at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, where she performs in the Potsdam Piano Quartet and as principal violist with the Orchestra of Northern New York. As a member of the Ariel Chamber Players with Cullan Bryant and Adele O'Dwyer, Dr. Tramposh recently completed a music residency in Tullamore and Dublin, Ireland. She has performed recitals abroad in Europe and Central America, and in the United States in Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and New York. She will perform recitals this year in New York, California, Florida, and Costa Rica and is currently working with the art department at SUNY Potsdam to create an interpreted recital of contemporary works for viola and soprano that will debut in April, 2008. Her principal teachers include Martha Katz, Steven Tenenbom, Don Ehrlich, and Erika Eckert. She has been invited to perform in master classes and coachings with Michael Tree, the American String Quartet, Robert McDonald, Lawrence Dutton, and Burton Kaplan. Dr. Tramposh has participated in such internationally acclaimed festivals as the Taos School of Music, the Spoleto Festival, and the National Repertory Orchestra, and before joining the Crane School was a member of the Colorado Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Central City Opera Orchestra, and was Principal Viola with the Mercury Ensemble and Associate Principal Viola with the Colorado Springs Symphony. She is in demand as a clinician, and will return to Costa Rica this winter for a residency at the music school of the Sinfonica Nacional de Costa Rica. Dr. Tramposh teaches a practicing class at the Crane School based on the teaching of Burton Kaplan and is also an advocate for tension-free playing with good posture. Dr. Tramposh holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.  ANNE TROUT Bass Anne Trout is well known as a chamber music and period instrument performer throughout the Northeast. Residing in Boston since 1989, she has served as principal bass, toured, and recorded with the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Bach Ensemble, Boston Baroque, Boston Cecelia, and Emmanuel Music. She regularly appears with REBEL and the Musicians of Aston Magna. In recent seasons she has performed in a Haydn program at the Esterhazy Palace in Austria, at London's Albert Hall for the Proms under Sir Roger Norrington, a Russian program at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, Jonathan Miller's staged production of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at the inaugural Montreal Bach Festival. She can be heard on the just-released CD of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet with the Atlantis Ensemble, on the Musica Omnia label. Ms. Trout teaches at Boston College, the Groton School, the Longy School, and has served as a coach and consultant for the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (GBYSO) and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (HBCO). Recordings: Telarc, London L'Oiseau-Lyre, Sony Classical, Erato, Dorian, Centaur.    SCOTT WOOLWEAVER Viola Scott Woolweaver graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan School of Music before moving to Boston for graduate work with the violist Walter Trampler. He was a founding member of the Boston Composers String Quartet, which won the silver medal at the 1993 String Quartet and Chamber Music Festa in Osaka, Japan, and with the Quartet, performed across the United States and in Europe. He is violist of the award-winning New England Piano Quartette, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque, and spends his summers at the Rocky Ridge Music Center and the Telluride Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, and the Adult Chamber Music Seminar at the Interlochen, Michigan Arts Camp. Mr. Woolweaver formally joined the Ives Quartet in 1998 after performing with the other members for seven summers as quartet-in-residence at the Rocky Ridge Music Center and Telluride Chamber Music Festival. A champion of 20th century music, he has premiered numerous works for viola, many of which were written for him. He is a faculty member of the All Newton Music School, Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts, and has recorded for the Orion, Koch International, Teldec, Audiofon, Albany Records, Decca and Northeastern labels. Scott is the conductor of the popular Messiah sing-along in Woodstock, Vermont.  GUEST ARTISTS:  MERIDITH HARRISON Mezzo Soprano April 14, & 15, 2007 Concerts in Tulsa, Oklahoma  Meridith Harrison is originally from Fulton, MO where she grew up in a musical family. She currently resides in Tulsa, OK, and teaches choral and vocal classes at the 6th & 7th grade centers in Owasso, OK. She sang with the Tulsa Opera chorus for 11 years and performs with them as often as her schedule allows. She was selected as a guest vocalist for Tulsa Opera's 50th Anniversary Celebration in which she sang with many professional singers from around the world. Ms. Harrison earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree at Oral Roberts University where her emphases were on Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting. She is a member of the Vocal Arts Ensemble in Tulsa. She is also an active member of Northeast Choral Directors Association, Oklahoma Choral Directors Association, Oklahoma Educators Association, Music Educators National Chapter and the Fraternal Order of Police Auxiliary in which she holds a local position as Sergeant at Arms. She frequently performs at weddings and other events, including the local and state Fraternal Order of Police services.   DANIEL STIPE Piano April 14, & 15, 2007 Concerts in Tulsa, Oklahoma Daniel Stipe holds Bachelor's degrees from the University of North Texas (UNT) in both piano and organ performance. A native of Tulsa, OK, he started piano at age four with his mother Carol, then continued study with Elwyn Ratliff while coaching with Aldo Mancinelli (Millikin University) and Jura Margulis (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville). In his senior year he was featured on From the Top, the nationally syndicated radio program featuring distinguished young musicians, and performed Chopin's Piano Concerto in f-minor with the Oral Roberts University Orchestra. At UNT, he studied piano with Adam Wodnicki and organ with Jesse Eschbach, taking first prize in the 2005 AGO/Quimby Region VII Competition for Young Organists, second prize in the 2004 Fort Wayne National Organ Competition, and third prize in the 2004 Tulsa Crescendo Music Awards. His active career as a recitalist and accompanist takes him to Tennesse, Alabama, and Texas for solo recitals, and to England with the Tulsa Boy Singers in June 2007