Artists who have performed at the South Country Concerts

With internationally acclaimed resident artists and a wide range of guest musicians South Country Concerts has provided exquisite music for many to enjoy. Some of the performers at our concerts are listed below.

Resident and Guest Artists (Click entry for information)

Laurinel Owen
Click image for www site.		Laurinel Owen, cellist, enjoys an international career. She was a member of the Filarmónica de las Americas in Mexico City, Solo-Cellist of the Scottish Baroque Ensemble in Edinburgh and Principal Cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa in Johannesburg. As soloist and chamber musician, she has toured the Southern African Continent and South America and has recorded for the Dutch Radio, the South African Broadcasting Corp., Radio France, Cablevision TV, TCI Cable TV and German Television. She has performed at the Berlin Wall with M. Rostropovich, was a performer at the World Cello Congress III, and elected a National Honorary Member of Sigma Alpha Iota, America’s most prestigious music fraternity. She has been an Artistic Consultant for the D’Addario String Co. and the Tomastik-Infeld String Co. in Vienna, an organizer for the Kronberg Academy in Germany, and an instructor at the Oxford Cello School in England. November 2002 Ms. Owen was a judge for the Violin Society of America’s international violin making competition. As a writer she has published over 120 articles and has been on “assignment” in France, Germany, Russia, England, Italy, the Czech Republic, China and South Africa. Her first book, a biography of cellist Bernard Greenhouse, was published in 2001 to critical acclaim and she is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press. Back to Artists List
Deborah Birnbaum
		Deborah Birnbaum, soprano, is an internationally established singer and teacher. A gifted performer, Ms. Birnbaum enjoys a reputation as a versatile communicative soprano who readily establishes a deep rapport with her audience. Her signature blend of artistry and innovative programming has delighted audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, Puerto Rico, Mexico, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan and China. Ms. Birnbaum’s opera performances include the roles of Mimi (La Boheme), Marguerite (Faust), Micaela (Carmen), Suzel (L’Amico Fritz) and Tatiana (Eugene Onegin). Last summer Ms. Birnbaum joined a select group of Metropolitan Opera coaches, conductors and stage directors to present the first opera workshop in Shanghai, China. Other upcoming guest teaching and artist residencies include the Florida Grand Opera, Portland Opera, and Japan’s Nagano Opera Institute. She was selected to participate in former President Clinton’s Initiative for Arts Education with high school residencies throughout New York. Ms. Birnbaum is a member of the voice faculty of the International Vocal Arts Institute, one of the world’s foremost summer opera training programs, Brooklyn College and Barnard College (Columbia University). Back to Artists List
Richard Pearson Thomas
		Richard Pearson Thomas, composer and pianist, has had works performed by the Boston Pops, Covent Garden Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Banff Centre, Skylight Opera Theatre, and Riverside Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. His songs have been sung in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Joe's Pub, and before the U.S. Congress by artists such as Audra McDonald, Sanford Sylvan, Lauren Flanagan and Kurt Ollmann. He is a recipient of an American Composers' Forum Continental Harmony commission for the Alabama Tri-State Orchestra. His work Race for the Sky, which was commissioned as a commemoration of the events of 9/11, has been performed by the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra and in recitals nationwide. Mr. Thomas' musical Parallel Lives (directed by Evan Pappas) was produced Off-Off Broadway by the Riverside Opera Ensemble, as was Ladies in a Maze, produced by Encompass Music Theatre. His musical Golden Gate is winner of the Michael Stewart Foundation Award, and his original music for In Thinking of America: Songs of the Civil War has been heard in more than 140 cities. Mr. Thomas is currently on faculty at Teachers College/Columbia University and has taught at Yale. He is composer-in-residence of the Gold Opera Project, Young Audiences/New York. In that capacity, he has composed more than 80 operas with students in New York City public schools. His work with children was featured on CBS' "The Early Show," and singled out for praise by President Clinton when Young Audiences/New York was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Additionally, Mr. Thomas has concertized with singers and chamber musicians worldwide. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, and is a native of Montana. Play a musical sample      Back to Artists List
Naho Tsutsui
		Naho Tsutsui, violin, a native of Japan, is a member of Transfiguration Ensemble, the Contemporary Chamber Players, and the Brooklyn Chamber Players and has collaborated in performances with distinguished artists such as Colin Carr and members of the Emerson and Mendelssohn String Quartets. She has performed in such prestigious venues as New York’s Merkin Hall and the National Palace of Culture in Bulgaria and has been heard on WQXR and Bulgarian National Television. Ms. Tsutsui has given recitals throughout the United States and Japan and soloed with NCSA Symphony Orchestra. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts at SUNY at Stony Brook. Her principal teachers include Kevin Lawrence, Mitchell Stern, and Philip Setzer. She is a professor of violin at the Bloomingdale School of Music in Manhattan and the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. Back to Artists List
Laura Mole
		Laura Mole, viola, received both her Bachelor and Master's of Music degrees from Queen's College. She has played with the Long Island Philharmonic, the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, Queen's Symphony, the New Jersey State Opera, the New York Grand Opera, the National Grand Opera, the Masterworks Choral and the Long Island Choral Society Orchestras. As a former member of the East Bay Chamber Players Ms. Mole participated in the Summer Trios Festival, International Visiting Artist Concert Series at Hofstra University and many library concerts. Ms. Mole is currently the Orchestra Director of the William Floyd High School Symphonic Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble, groups that have received Superior Ratings at various music festivals and the NYSSMA Level 6 Gold with Distinction award for the last 15 years under her direction. She has also conducted the Suffolk All-County Orchestra, the Nassau Division II Orchestra, and the Long Island String Festival Elementary Orchestra. Recently she served as NYSSMA All-State Orchestra Chairperson. Back to Artists List
Naomi Drucker
Click image for www site.		Naomi Drucker, clarinet, co-director of the American Chamber Ensemble, has performed, recorded and toured with the New York Philharmonic. She has performed in Japan, Great Britain, Russia, Sweden, France, Canada and Argentina, and has appeared as soloist with the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, New York Virtuosi, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Massapequa Symphony, Long Island Baroque Ensemble. Long Island Symphony and West Islip Orchestra. She has given performances at the International Clarinet Convention in Paris, Toronto, Pittsburgh and Washington , DC. With her husband Stanley Drucker, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, she has performed on a tour of eleven cities in Japan, at the East Meets West Music Festival in Sweden, in 1996 at the International Clarinet Congress in Paris, in Singapore, at the Music Conservatorium in Sydney, Australia and at the Mykonos International Chamber Music Festival. Principal clarinetist of the New York Virtuosi, she began her career at age 21 as principal clarinetist of the North Carolina Symphony. A graduate of Hofstra University and an Adjunct Professor of Music at her alma mater, she received the 1994 George M. Estabrook Distinguished Alumni Award for career achievement. With the American Chamber Ensemble, she has recorded music of Zaimont, Hindemith and Weigl and has performed on New York Legends - Stanley Drucker for Cala Records and Naomi Drucker and Stanley Drucker Play Meyer Kupferman for Soundspells Records. A 1998 release, Music for Doubles, on Elysium Records, features Naomi and Stanley Drucker performing the Krommer Concerto, Op. 35, for Two Clarinets and Orchestra, Peter Tiboris conducting. Ms. Drucker enjoys a busy teaching schedule and is a strong supporter of her many friends who are Long Island composers. Back to Artists List
Irina Pustovoit
		Irina Pustovoit, violin, was born in the Ukraine and started her violin lessons at the age of six at the National School of Music for Gifted Children. She graduated from the Kiev Conservatory of Music and was a member of the Ukraine Academic Philharmonic Orchestra and toured extensively throughout Europe. She played in a series of chamber concerts in Germany and recently received her Doctorate from SUNY at Stony Brook, where she was a pupil of Lazar Grosman. She is currently the orchestra director at the Islip High School and is a member of the North Shore Pro Musica. Back to Artists List
Renée Jolles
		Renée Jolles, violin, hailed as a “real star” by The New York Times for her New York concerto debut, has enjoyed an eclectic career as a chamber musician and solo artist. Having performed on four continents she has premiered hundreds of works, including the American premiere of Schnittke's Violin Concerto No. 2. Her solo concerto engagements have included orchestras such as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, The Salisbury Symphony, and The Cape May Festival Orchestra. Ms. Jolles is a member of The Jolles Duo, Continuum, The Roerich Quartet, The New York Chamber Ensemble, and is a concertmaster of the world-renowned conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has performed at festivals such as Marlboro, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Rockport (Mass.), Norfolk, Taos, Riverrun, and The Chamber Music and Composers' Conference of the East. She has recorded as a chamber artist and soloist for the Cambria, CRI, North/South Recordings, Albany Records, and New World Labels and most recently with Continuum, featuring Ms. Jolles as soloist in Oleg Felzer's Sonata for Solo Violin and Sonata for Violin and Piano. Ms. Jolles is on the faculty of Juilliard, Pre-College Division, Mannes Preparatory Division, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Back to Artists List
Susan Jolles
		Susan Jolles, harp, is one of the foremost harpists in the United States. A Naumberg Award winner, she is presently solo and principal harpist with the American Composers’ Orchestra, the Little Orchestra Society, Musica Viva, and the Queens Symphony as well as an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has recorded three albums of French music with oboe and has performed on two recordings that received Grammy Awards, one with Dawn Upshaw. Her diversity as a musician is exemplified by her collaboration with Klezmer artist Giora Feidman. Together they performed such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Ms. Jolles is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music. Back to Artists List
James Hoback
		James Hoback, Tenor, was born in Bluefield, West Virginia and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He has attained international recognition for his portrayal of Albert, in the filmed version of Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring at the Opera Theater of St. Louis; as Pedrillio in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio at the famed Glyndebourne Festival in Great Britain; and as Anatol Kuriagan in the Seattle Opera production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace. His numerous other roles have spanned from the classical Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte to the modern compositions of Britten, Berg, and Tippett. Mr. Hoback made his Philharmonic debut singing the tenor solos in Messiah with with Richard Westinburg and the Musica Sacra. Some of his recent performances include: Don José in Carmen with the Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, NY; Cavaradossi in Tosca with the Minnesota Opera; Hoffmann in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann with the New Israel Opera; and as Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute with the Israel Philharmonic. Back to Artists List
Christopher Shaughnessy
		Christopher Shaughnessy, viola, has performed with the Toledo symphony and the Caracas Philharmonic. He is currently teaching in the string program in the William Floyd Public Schools and his compositions have been selected as repertoire for area youth orchestras. Mr. Shaughnessy is a graduate of the State college, Oswego, and Bowling Green. His solo performances at the Parrish art Museum and Southampton College and with the Peconic Orchestra have been enthusiastically received. He is also a member of the North Shore Pro Musica. Back to Artists List
Andrew Perea
Click image for www site.		Andrew Perea, violin, conductor, soloist, concertmaster, and teacher has also performed with rock ‘n’ roll bands. He has collaborated with Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Gunther Schuler, Yanni, and violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman. Dr. Perea currently conducts strings in the South Country Central School District, and is the Executive Musical Director of the Peconic Youth Orchestra program in Southampton. He received his Doctorate from the University of Texas. Back to Artists List
Steven Fayette
		Steven Fayette, double bass, received his Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College and did further studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Julliard School. He has performed with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He is now the orchestra director at the Shoreham-Wading River High School. Back to Artists List
Dylan Benson
		Dylan Benson, percussion, attended Brandon University, the University of Toronto, and is currently working towards a doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook. He has appeared as guest lecturer at the University of Toronto and was conductor of its Percussion Ensemble. As a participant in festivals and recitals across Canada and the United States, Dylan has collaborated with composers George Crumb, Phillip Glass, and Eric Salzman as well as Canadian composers, Gary Kulesha, Alexina Louie, and Michael Colgrass and has commissioned a works by Peter Hatch and French composer Francis Kayali. He is the recipient of the prestigious Chalmers Award. Back to Artists List
Doug Mendocha
		Doug Mendocha, Trumpet, has degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Potsdam: Crane School of Music. He is the Principal Cornetist with the Atlantic Wind Symphony and for many years has performed with the American Concert Band, the Nassau Symphony, the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Brass Band and the Long Island Brass Guild. Mr. Mendocha recently retired from the Three Village School District after thirty-eight years of teaching instrumental music. He continues to be involved in church music and enjoys boating and traveling in addition to keeping a busy schedule of performing. Back to Artists List
Linda Weatherill-Smith
		Linda Weatherill-Smith, Flute, has performed worldwide including principal flute positions with Paris IRACAM Ensemble Intercontemporain and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Winner of the East and West Artists NY Carnegie Hall debut, where she premiered Stockhausen’s Im Freudschaft she tours as soloist/cultural ambassador for USIS throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa collaborating with composers for numerous premiers. She was a professor in Turkey from 1987-91 and co-founded Istanbul and Ankara’s contemporary music festivals in 1990. In 2002 she gave her first concerto tour of China and performed works from her solo CD Sound and Repercussion for the National Flute Convention. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophone, Jecklin, and Furious Artisan records, as well as US, European and Asian radio and television. She is currently solo flutist of New York Philomusica and the Peconic Chamber Orchestra, and founded the Chamber music program at Adelphi University, where she is a professor of flute. January 1, 2006 Ms. Weterill-Smith was featured in the New York Times where she discussed her concert tour of South America. Back to Artists List
Bruce Rameker
		Bruce Rameker, voice, has the rare ability to perform as both counter tenor and baritone. He has appeared in New York City as alto soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms for Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series, for which he has also appeared as David in Saul, the title role in Solomon, and both alto and baritone soloist in Messiah. He essayed the countertenor role of Icarus in the world premiere of Roberto Scarcellas’s opera Backout at Tarry town Music Hall. As a baritone he sang Bach’s Coffee Cantata with the Bachanalia Festival Orchestra at Merkin Hall and appeared in two song recitals at the Elysium Festival Bernried in Germany. He employed both vocal ranges in Camina Burana with the New Jersey Youth Symphony and in Waverly Consort’s national tour. Rameker has sung at Lincoln Center, Spoleto, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, New York’s Town Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has starred with the Anchorage Opera, the San Francisco Ballet, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Opera Company of Philadelphia and New York City Opera, He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Back to Artists List
Phoenix Vocal Quartet
Clockwise from left, Debra Poulter (mezzo-soprano), David Orcutt (baritone), David Root (tenor), Richard Pearson Thomas (pianist),Erica Row (soprano). Click image for www site.		Phoenix Vocal Quartet Vocal music is an especially powerful form of communication that can encourage a better understanding of the struggles and achievements that define people and can develop values that sustain people in life’s experiences.  It has a unique power to create community.  Throughout its rich cultural history and directly because of its melding of poetry and music, vocal music has had a place in all celebrations of life - to herald new life, mourn the passing of life, mark holidays, and to explore the human condition. Erica Row, soprano, delights in exploring the diverse worlds of opera, chamber and concert repertoire. She made her 2003 East Coast concert debut in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and has performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica at Mannes College. She has also appeared at the Goethe Institute, the Liederkranz Society, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Her operatic roles include Pamina, Adele, Najade, Clorinda, Lauretta, and Belinda. A native of Puyallup, WA, Erica earned her MM in Vocal Performance from the Mannes College of Music and her BA at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA). She resides in New York City with her husband Shane Row, a professional drummer.Her website is http://www.soubrette.moonfruit.com/ Debra Poulter, mezzo soprano, is the founder and artistic director of The Phoenix Quartet. She began her musical career as a choral conductor and singer in Los Angeles. She has performed in operas and presented recitals in Los Angeles, New York City, Cincinnati, and at St. Martin in the Fields in London, England and performs regularly with the New York Choral Artists in concerts with the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. Debra teaches voice privately and at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. David Root, tenor, is an active opera, concert, and recital singer, having performed with opera companies and orchestras across the US, including One World Symphony, Nevada Opera, Bronx Opera Company, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Chautauqua Opera, and the Vertical Player Repertory. His wide repertoire encompasses everything from Bach, Mozart, and Haydn to works of 20th century composers such as Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has called his voice “fresh” and “mellifluous”. He recently made his debut with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Society playing Colonel Fairfax in TheYeomen of the Guard. David may also be heard as the angel Gabriel in the world premiere recording of Randall Thompson’s The NativityAccording to St. Luke, available from Koch International Classics. David Orcutt, baritone, has sung with many regional opera companies including Opera Carolina, Pittsburgh, Ft. Worth, Central City, Kentucky, and Santa Fe operas as well as locally with Dicapo Opera, Opera Northeast, Rockland Opera, The Center for Contemporary Opera, and the Liederkrantz Foundation. He has done extensive solo concert work and is a member of the Riverside Church Chancel Choir. Mr. Orcutt has performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and on tour to Tokyo. A longtime member of La Gran Scena Opera, he created the characters of Dame Ada Lotte Trifle, Jocasta Bundle, Boris Pistoff, and Sherrill Merrill in a variety of roles including Amneris, Ramfis, Alfio, Scarpia, Germont, and Jack Rance. Back to Artists List
Karie Brown
		Karie Brown, Mezzo-soprano Back to Artists List
Tatjana Rankovich
Click image for www site.		Tatjana Rankovich, Piano Back to Artists List
Michael Jones
		Michael Douglas Jones, bass, most recently appeared as Frère Laurent in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette with Anchorage Opera and John Williams new opera The Captivation of Eunice Williams at the Smithsonian's National Museum for the American Indian. With Le Chien Qui Chante, an arts collective in Montreal and the Taliesin Arts Centre in Wales he appeared as man's best friend, a dog, for a remounting of A Chair in Love at Espace Go Theater in Montreal in five cities in Wales and Ireland. He won the prestigious Jessie award for "outstanding performance by an actor in a leading role" for his creation of the Marquis in 120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade (Hannan) in the world premiere co-produced by Modern Baroque Opera and Vancouver New Music. He has sung lead roles in Sweden, the Banff Music Centre, the Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, Opera Festival of New Jersey, and Star Catalogues, Vancouver New Music, and the Goethe Institute. Other opera performances include New York City Opera, El Paso Opera, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne in Montreal, Sarasota and Anchorage Operas, the Florida Philharmonic, San Antonio Symphony; Florentine, El Paso, and Memphis, and Sarasota. He has recorded new music theater pieces in progress for Atlantic Records and new works of composers for BMI. Most recently, he recorded an all Jazz CD with Jazz legend, Fred Ho. Originally from Hawaii, he now resides in New York. Back to Artists List
Brasil Guitar Duo
		The Brasil Guitar Duo, winner of the prestigious Concert Artists Guild International Competition, come from São Paulo to thrill us with classical favorites and the traditional rhythms from their native Brazil. João Luiz and Douglas Lora have been performing together for over ten years, perfecting a sublime synchronicity and effortless performance style. The duo has concertized extensively across Brazil including concerto performances with the Orquestra Jovem Tom Jobim and the Orquestra Municipal de Braganca. Back to Artists List
Todd Palmer,Clarinet
		Todd Palmer, clarinetist, is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator, educator, arranger, and presenter in a variety of musical endeavors around the world. As a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and grand prize winner in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Auditions, he has appeared as soloist with many symphony and chamber orchestras including those of Houston, Atlanta, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Montréal, BBC Scotland; and has given recital performances that include Weill Hall and the 92nd St. Y in New York City, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Mr. Palmer has collaborated with some of the world's most renowned artists and ensembles such as the St. Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo, Jupiter, Chiara, Lark, and Pacifica string quartets; and sopranos Kathleen Battle, Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Heidi Grant Murphy and Dawn Upshaw. He has championed and recorded Osvaldo Golijov’s klezmer clarinet quintet, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind; commissioned Ricky Gordon’s theatre work, Orpheus and Euridice, presented by Great Performers at Lincoln Center; and also premiered David Bruce’s Gumboots at Carnegie Hall. His festival appearances include Spoleto USA, BRAVO!, Music@Menlo, La Jolla, Portland, Vancouver, Banff, Manchester, Marlboro and Tanglewood - where he received the Leonard Bernstein fellowship as a student. He has also worked directly with numerous composers including Osvaldo Golijov, Thomas Adès, David Bruce, Ricky Ian Gordon, Christopher Rouse, Mason Bates, Ned Rorem, and George Tsontakis. Moreover, Mr. Palmer appeared as soloist in director Robert La Page's staging of The Nightingale and Other Fables at BAM, and gave the world premiere of Crosswalk, a new work for clarinet and dance especially created for him by choreographer Mark Morris. His Broadway credits include South Pacific, Les Miz, The King & I, Sunset Boulevardstarring Glenn Close, and most recently Lincoln Center Theater's production of My Fair Lady. Back to Artists List
Arthur Moeller,Violin
		Arthur Moeller, violinist, enjoys an eclectic freelance career in New York City. He accompanied the band Vampire Weekend on Saturday Night Live, performed for years with the Pierrot ensemble Lunatics at Large, plays frequently with the Princeton Symphony and NOVUS NY, and tours with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. He has appeared as soloist with the Pittsburgh Youth, Westmoreland, and Johnstown Symphonies, has travelled the U.S., Europe, and China as a member of small and large musical groups, and has performed chamber music in Alice Tully Hall, the Sculpture Garden at MoMA, and Jordan Hall in Boston. In 2017 he held a Radio City Christmas Spectacular chair. Recently he has appeared with Talea Ensemble and The Knights. Arthur attended Juilliard, where he studied with Naoko Tanaka, Cho-Liang Lin, and Ronald Copes. In addition to his performing career, he maintains a professional portrait studio, and has photographed hundreds of New York Fashion Week runway shows. Back to Artists List
Aundry Mitchell, Viola
		Aundrey Mitchell, violist, has taught at Moravian College, Westminster Choir College, Pennsylvania Academy of the Music, Eastern Music Festival, Young Audiences, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Dr. Mitchell has performed throughout the United States and abroad at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Broadway, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, the Mariinsky Theater and Tchaikovsky Hall in Russia, with the New Brunswick Chamber and Harlem Symphonies, the Antara Ensemble, in Canada, France, and Italy, Taos and L'École d'Arts Americaines in France. As a member of the Philadelphia Virtuosi she toured South America, Mexico, Serbia, and Russia. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute and Manhattan School of Music, she earned a DMA from Rutgers University. Dr. Mitchell currently teaches at TCNJ and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at the (CUNY) - Borough of Manhattan Community College the Bloomingdale School of Music in NYC and the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont. Back to Artists List
Alberto Parrini, Cello
		ALBERTO PARRINI, cellist, is principal cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and a member of American Symphony and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He performs regularly with Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Richardson Chamber Players, New Jersey Symphony and New York Philharmonic. Alberto has toured widely with Mikhail Baryshnikov and White Oak Dance Project and performed with American Chamber Players, Concertante, Continuum, ECCO, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mirror Visions, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Proteus Ensemble, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Sinfonietta of Riverdale, St.Lawrence String Quartet and Zukofsky Quartet. His principal studies were with Timothy Eddy, Joel Krosnick, David Soyer, Colin Carr and Enrico Egano; he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School. Alberto teaches cello at Princeton University and The College of New Jersey and in the summer, at Kinhaven (Junior Session), where he is also co-director of the Adult Chamber Music Workshop. Back to Artists List

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