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2013 Chamber Music Series

Early spring and late fall provide a delightful backdrop for the intimate nature of chamber music.

Often described as “the music of friends”, chamber music — like the very venue where you will enjoy it — is close and enveloping, featuring small ensembles of performers.

The Event Gallery is a breathtaking nine-sided room that seats 440 guests.

It is adorned with hard wood floors. Its large stone fireplace exudes warmth, while its high timbered ceiling affords you an outstanding acoustical performance you won’t soon forget.

Generous support of these performances is made possible by a gift of Robyn Gerry and Children in loving memory of Catherine Gerry.

About the Performances Zarin Mehta spearheads the Bethel Woods Chamber Music Series, Sundays with Friends.

Each performance features five eclectic recital and small ensemble performances presented by curator Eileen Moon, Associate Principal Cello of the New York Philharmonic.

Ms. Moon is dedicated to the formation of this exciting new series in Sullivan County.

Bethel Woods is a non-profit cultural center committed to expanding artistic offerings and broadening our regional audience. These culturally-rich performances offer affordable access to the highest-quality programs by world-renown artists.

Tickets are on sale now: • $170 Full Series Subscription • $127.50 for Pick 3 Series • Individual Tickets $42.50 • $15 Student Tickets (17 & under or valid college ID at the box office)

Join us after each performance to meet the artists.

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EILEEN MOON The Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Guenther Chair

Eileen Moon joined the cello section of the New York Philharmonic in 1998 and was named Associate Principal Cello in 2007. A native of California, she began her studies with Irene Sharp at the San Francisco Conservatory and subsequently received a bachelor’s of music degree from The Juilliard School and a performance diploma from the Hochschule fßr Musik in Vienna, Austria.

Ms. Moon won fourth prize at the Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition in Moscow in 1994 and second prize at the Geneva International Cello Competition in 1991, resulting in performances in France and a radio recording in Switzerland. She has performed chamber music at numerous venues in and around New York City and appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall.

As both performer and presenter, Ms. Moon currently supports a number of charitable causes. Her passion for animals led to the establishment of Friends of Warwick Valley Humane Society, an auxiliary group devoted to fundraising through educational seminars and performances. In addition, Ms. Moon is involved with The Artemis Project, a non-profit animal rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption organization in New York City, which she co-founded in 2000 with Philharmonic violist Dorian Rence. Eileen Moon is a strong advocate for Celebrate Life Half Marathon in Sullivan County, New York, which assists cancer patients through treatment and associated care.

Curator and presenter of Sundays with Friends, the Bethel Woods Chamber Music Series in Sullivan County, New York, Ms. Moon is on the faculty of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University and resides in Warwick, New York.

Jennifer Koh, violin Sunday, April 7 at 3:00pm Violinist Jennifer Koh is recognized for her intense, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance.

With an impassioned musical curiosity, she is forging an artistic path, choosing works that both inspire and challenge her. She is dedicated to performing the violin repertoire of all eras from traditional to contemporary, believing that the past and present forms a continuum. In 2009 Ms. Koh debuted “Bach and Beyond,” a series of three recitals that explore the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas to modern day composers including newly commissioned works. The first recital in the series, “Bach and Beyond Part I,” connects Bach’s Partitas Nos. 2 and 3 to works by Ysaÿe, Saariaho, Carter, and Salonen with a video commission by Tal Rosner. Since the launch of the series, Ms. Koh has performed “Bach

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and Beyond Part I” at the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, Oberlin College, Amherst College, UNC Chapel Hill, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

& BenJAMIN Hochman, piano Winner of 2011’s prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist Benjamin Hochman has been described by the New York Times as a “gifted, fast-rising artist”. His eloquent and virtuosic performances have earned him critical acclaim and his rare combination of bravura and poetry has excited audiences and critics alike. His engagements have brought him to major cities as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator with celebrated conductors and colleagues.

A passionate interpreter of diverse composers from Bach and Mozart to Berg and Kurtag with a penchant for juxtaposing familiar works with the unfamiliar, Mr. Hochman has proven to be adept in expressing the essential heart of each composer.

After his successful recital debut in 2006 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became a strong musical presence in New York through his concerts with the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra, his Carnegie Hall debut with the Israel Philharmonic and his continuous presence at 92nd Street Y. Born in Jerusalem, Benjamin Hochman began his studies with Esther Narkiss at the Conservatory of the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem and Emanuel Krasovsky in Tel Aviv. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music where his principal teachers were Claude Frank and Richard Goode.

His studies were supported by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

He is currently on the piano faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Benjamin Hochman is a Steinway Artist and lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Jennifer Koh.

Karen Gomyo, violin & Dina Vainshtein, piano Sunday, May 5 at 3:00pm Bach Sonata Debussy Sonata Gubaidulina/Piazzolla Le Grand Tango Brahms Sonata no. 1 in G major 3 short pieces TBA

Born in Tokyo, violinist Karen Gomyo grew up in Montreal and New York. Recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008, she has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “A first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity.” Gomyo’s engagements as soloist have included those with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco, Sydney, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Tokyo symphony orchestras, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the National Symphony of Washington D.C. In Europe she has performed with City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Norwegian Opera Orchestra, Salzburg Camerata, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and Den Haag Residentie Orkest, among others.

Russian-born pianist DINA VAINSHTEIN has degrees from the Gnesins’ Institute of Music in Moscow, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Ms. Vainshtein received a Special Prize for Best Collaboration at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Ms. Vainshtein has performed at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, Jordan Hall in Boston and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Other performances include the Ravinia Festival, Caramoor Festival, Music Academy of the West, Meadowmount and Heifitz International Music Institute.

She has given live performances on WGBH (Boston) and for NPR’s Performance Today series. Her recording for the Naxos label with violinist Frank Huang received critical acclaim. At present, Ms. Vainshtein is a collaborative pianist for the Walnut Hill School and the New England Conservatory.

Glenn Dicterow Farewell Concert Sunday, September 29 at 3:00pm Glenn Dicterow Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic Cynthia Phelps Principal Viola, New York Philharmonic Rebecca Young Associate Principal Viola, New York Philharmonic Carter Brey Principal Cello, New York Philharmonic Philip Myers Principal French Horn, New York Philharmonic

Beethoven D Major Serenade for String Trio Beethoven “Eyeglasses� Duo Mozart Horn Quintet

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Glenn Dicterow Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic

S u n d ay, S e p t e m b e r 2 9 at 3 : 0 0 p m New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. His extraordinary musical gifts became apparent when, at age 11, he made his solo debut in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where his father, Harold Dicterow, served as principal of the second violin section for 52 years). In the following years, Mr. Dicterow became one of the most sought-after young artists, appearing as soloist from coast to coast.

Mr. Dicterow went on to win numerous awards and competitions, including the Young Musicians Foundation Award and Coleman Award (Los Angeles), The Julia Klumpke Award (San Francisco), and the Bronze Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1970). He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Ivan Galamian. Other teachers have included Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Naoum Blinder, Manuel Compinsky, Jascha Heifetz, and Henryk Szeryng.

In 1967 he appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Andre Kostelanetz in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. He was then 18 years old. In 1980 he joined the Orchestra as Concertmaster and has since performed as soloist every year. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Dicterow served as Associate Concertmaster and Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During a New York Philharmonic tour of major American cities in 1986, Mr. Dicterow was featured in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade with the composer conducting, and in 1990 played The Carmen Fantasy under the direction of Zubin Mehta in a Live From Lincoln Center concert telecast. In addition, he was a soloist in the Orchestra’s 1982 concert at the White House.

Over the past few seasons Mr. Dicterow has been the featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic in concertos by Prokofiev, Menotti, Rozsa, Korngold, Barber, Mozart, Brahms, Bruch, Aaron Kernis, Szymanowski, Bartok and Karel Husa under the batons of conductors Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Masur, Andre Previn, Christian Thielemann, Colin Davis, David Robertson Lorin Maazel and Alan Gilbert. During the Philharmonic’s 1998 Asian Tour, he was soloist in the Barber Violin Concerto in Manila, Korea, and in Beijing, China, where he performed in The Great Hall of the People to an audience of more than 10,000 people. Mr. Dicterow has also been a guest soloist with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Birmingham, Chautauqua, Grant Park, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, continued...

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In season 11/12 Mr. Dicterow soloed with the New York Philharmonic in New York and on tour in San Francisco performing Bartok’s First Violin Concerto.

In season 12/13 he will perform the Brahms Double with the Philharmonic and Kurt Masur.

Mr. Dicterow’s discography includes Copland’s Violin Sonata, Largo, and Piano Trio; Ives’s Sonatas Nos. 2 and 4 and Piano Trio; and Korngold’s Piano Trio and Violin Sonata, all for EMI. He is also featured in the violin solos in Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra with Zubin Mehta for CBS. Other compositions committed to disc are works of Wieniawski with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lee Holdridge’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Holdridge conducting; Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maxim Shostakovich on a Radiothon recording; and the Philharmonic’s recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov on the BMG label. Mr. Dicterow’s most recent CD is a solo recital for Cala Records entitled New York Legends, featuring John Corigliano’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing, the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Martinu’s Three Madrigals for violin and viola, in collaboration with violist Karen Dreyfus and pianist Gerald Robbins. His latest CD releases include the Dvorak Piano Trio and the Dvorak Piano Quartet in E Flat Major on Bridge Records and the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with violist Karen Dreyfus and the Warsaw Philharmonic, available Navona Records.

Mr. Dicterow can also be heard in the violin solos of the film scores for The Turning Point, The Untouchables, Altered States, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Interview with the Vampire, among others.

Mr. Dicterow enjoys an active teaching career. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. He and his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, are founding members of The Lyric Piano Quartet and The Amerigo Trio.

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Cynthia Phelps Viola Cynthia Phelps is the New York Philharmonic’s Principal Viola (The Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Rose Chair). Her solo appearances with the Orchestra have included performances on the 2006 Tour of Italy, sponsored by Generali, and the 1999 premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s which the

Orchestra commissioned for her and Philharmonic Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young. Other solo engagements have included the Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao. Ms. Phelps performs with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Boston Chamber Music Society, and Bargemusic. She has toured internationally with the Zukerman and Friends Ensemble; appeared with The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Guarneri, American, Brentano, and Prague string quartets; and has given recitals in the music capitals of Europe and the U.S. Her honors include the Pro Musicis International Award and first prize in the Lionel Tertis International Viola and Washington International String competitions. Her most recent album, for flute, viola, and harp, on Telarc, was nominated for a Grammy Award. She has released a solo CD on Cala Records.

Ms. Phelps has performed on PBS’s NPR, Radio France, and RAI in Italy.

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Rebecca Young Viola Rebecca Young joined the New York Philharmonic in 1986 as its youngest member. In 1991 she ©SUSAN JOHANN

won the position of Associate Principal Viola.

Two months later she was named principal viola of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

After spending the 1992–93 season in Boston

and two summers at Tanglewood, she ultimately decided to return to her family in New York, resuming her Associate Principal position with the Philharmonic in September 1994. As a chamber musician, Ms. Young has performed with many renowned groups, including the Boston Chamber Music Society, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, New York Philharmonic Ensembles, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She can be heard in a recording of Schubert’s Trout Quintet with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Pamela Frank, and bass player Edgar Meyer on the Sony Classical label.

In the spring of 1999 Ms. Young joined Philharmonic Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps in the World Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Two Paths: Music for Two Solo Violas and Symphony Orchestra with the Philharmonic. The work was commissioned for them

by Tomoko Masur, wife of Philharmonic Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur and herself a former violist. The two performed it at Avery Fisher Hall, in Washington, D.C., and again during the Orchestra’s subsequent tour of the Canary Islands, Spain, and Portugal, as well as the Europe 2000 Tour, and again in April 2011, at Avery Fisher Hall.

Ms. Young is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

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Carter Brey Cello Carter Brey was appointed Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996, and ©Chris Lee

made his subscription debut as soloist with the Orchestra in May 1997, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations led by then-Music Director Kurt Masur. He has performed as soloist in the

Elgar Cello Concerto with André Previn conducting; in William Schuman’s A Song of Orpheus with Christian Thielemann; in Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote with Music Director Lorin Maazel and with former Music Director Zubin Mehta; and in the Brahms Double Concerto with Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and conductor Christoph Eschenbach. The Brahms was repeated at the Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2002 as part of Kurt Masur’s final concerts as Philharmonic Music Director.

Brey rose to international attention in 1981 as a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition. He also appeared with Mstislav Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra. The winner of the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award, and other honors, he was the first musician to win the Arts Council of America’s Performing Arts Prize, and has performed as soloist with many of America’s major symphony orchestras. His chamber music career is equally distinguished. He has made regular appearances with the Tokyo and Emerson string quartets as well as The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Spoleto Festival in the U.S. and Italy, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music and La Jolla Chamber Music festivals, among others. He presents an ongoing series of duo recitals with pianist Christopher O’Riley; together they have recorded The Latin American Album, a disc of compositions from South America and Mexico (Helicon Records). His recording with Garrick Ohlsson of the complete works of Chopin for cello and piano was released by Arabesque in the fall of 2002 to great acclaim.

Mr. Brey was educated at the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Kates, and at Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot, and where he was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ilaria Dagnini Brey, and their two children, Ottavia and Lucas.

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Philip Myers French Horn Philip Myers joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal French Horn in January 1980. A frequent soloist with the Philharmonic, he made his solo debut during his first month with the Orchestra in the premiere of William Schuman’s Three Colloquies for French Horn and Orchestra.

He has appeared as a Philharmonic soloist every year that he has been in the orchestra.

Mr. Myers began his orchestral career in 1971 with a three-year term as principal horn of the Atlantic Symphony in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was third horn with the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1974 until 1977. As principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra for a season and a half, he made six appearances as soloist with that group.

A native of Elkhart, Indiana, Mr. Myers holds two degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Mr. Myers plays Engelbert Schmid French horns.

Jeremy Denk, Piano Sunday, October 6 at 3:00pm American pianist Jeremy Denk has steadily built a reputation as one of today’s most compelling and persuasive artists with an unusually broad repertoire. He has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras, including the Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, New World, St. Louis, and San Francisco Symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and London Philharmonia. Last season he played concertos by Beethoven, Copland, Mozart, Schumann, and Stravinsky, whose Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments he performed under the direction of John Adams, first with the London Symphony Orchestra in London and Paris, and then as part of Carnegie Hall’s City Noir. He appears often in recital in New York, Washington, Boston,

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and Philadelphia.

“Lincoln Center Family” Holiday Concert Sunday, December 8 at 3:00pm Todd Phillips Violin Carmit Zori Violin Catherine Cho Viola Robert Rinehart Viola Ronald Thomas Cello

Mozart G Major Duo Dohnanyi Serenade for String Trio Dvorak Viola (“American”) Quintet

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Todd Phillips Violin Todd Phillips has performed as guest soloist with leading orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Japan including the Pittsburgh Symphony, New York String Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he made a critically acclaimed recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Deutsche Grammophon.

Mr. Phillips has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Marlboro and Spoleto Festivals, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music at the 92nd St. Y and New York Philomusica. He has collaborated with such renowned artists as Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Richard Stoltzman, Peter Serkin and Pinchas Zukerman and has participated in eighteen “Musicians from Marlboro” tours. He serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of New York’s Mannes College of Music and Rutgers University.

He has recorded for the Arabesque, Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Marlboro Recording Society, New York Philomusica, RCA Red Seal and Sony Classical labels. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, violinist Catherine Cho, and is the father of four children: Lia, Eliza, Jason, and Brandon.

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CARMIT ZORI Violin

At the recommendation of Isaac Stern and Alexander Schneider, violinist Carmit Zori came to the United States from her native Israel at the age of fifteen to study with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Arnold Steinhardt at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Ms. Zori is the recipient of a Levintritt Foundation Award, a Pro Musicis International Award and a top prize in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. Carmit Zori has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in recital at Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston and the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. Her engagements abroad have included performances throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as in Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, where she premiered the Violin Concerto by Marc Neikrug.

In addition to her appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ms. Zori has been a guest at chamber music festivals and concert series around the world, including the Chamber Music at the “Y� series in New York City, the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, Chamber Music Northwest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the Marlboro Festival in Vermont.

Ms. Zori was an artistic director and frequent performer at Bargemusic in New York, and is now the artistic director of the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, which she founded in 2002. She has recorded on the Arabesque, Koch International, and Elektra-Nonesuch labels. Ms. Zori is also a professor of violin and Chamber music at SUNY Purchase.

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Catherine Cho Viola Catherine Cho ‘s orchestral engagements have included performances with the Detroit and National Symphony orchestras, the Virginia Symphony, the Montreal, Edmonton, and National Arts Centre Orchestras in Canada, the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Daejon Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic in Korea, the Barcelona Symphony, the Orchestra of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. She has toured Israel with the Haifa Symphony, and was the soloist on a concert tour in Japan and Korea with the Juilliard Orchestra and Hugh Wolff conducting. Her collaborations with distinguished conductors include Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Spano, Sixten Ehrling, and Franz-Paul Decker.

As a recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Cho has performed at Alice Tully Hall, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Casals Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 92nd St. “Y”, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, and on Ravinia’s “Rising Stars” series in Chicago. She has collaborated with pianist, Mia Chung in the complete cycle of Beethoven’s violin sonatas in the U. S. and Asia.

Ms. Cho participated in the Marlboro Music Festival from 1993 - 2001, and has taken part in eleven “Musicians from Marlboro” national tours. She has performed at festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton, Eastern Shore, Rockport, Santa Fe, and Skaneateles, and has performed with the Boston Chamber Players. She is a founding member of La Fenice, and was a member of the Johannes String Quartet from 2003-6.

A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Cho won top prizes at the Montreal, Hanover, and Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competitions.

Ms. Cho is a member of the violin and chamber music faculty at the Juilliard School, and has taught at the Starling-DeLay Symposium, New York String Seminar, Killington Music Festival, Seoul Music Festival and Academy, Heifetz Institute, and the Perlman Music Program. Catherine is VP of the Board of Musicians For Harmony. She resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Todd Phillips, and their son, Brandon.

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Robert Rinehart Viola Robert Rinehart is a member of the New York Philharmonic. A founding member of the Ridge String Quartet, Mr. Rinehart has performed in every major music center in the United States, Europe, South America, Canada, Australia and Asia, and has collaborated with Benny Goodman, Rudolf Firkusny, and the Guarneri String Quartet, among many others. He has appeared at the Spoleto Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Festival, Chamber Music/West, Chamber Music Northwest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His recordings include albums which have received a Grammy Award, two Grammy nominations and the Diapason d’Or. A native of San Francisco, Mr. Rinehart studied violin there with Isadore Tinkleman, and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jaime Laredo, David Cerone and Ivan Galamian.

He is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.

Ronald Thomas Cello Ronald Thomas has most recently been the Principal Cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has been a Co-Director and on the founding Board of Overseers of Bargemusic in New York City, and is the Artistic Director of Chestnut Hill Concerts in Old Saybrook, CT. Mr. Thomas has performed extensively with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and made many appearances at festivals including the Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, Spoleto Festival and many others. He has appeared in chamber music concerts with Yo-Yo- Ma, P. Zuckermann, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, JoshuaS Bell, and others. Mr. Thomas has taught and given master classes at the Peabody Institute, Curtis Institute, M.I.T., Brown University, Boston Conservatory, and Wellesley College. While a member of the Boston Musica Viva and the Aeolian Chamber Players, he performed and recorded world premiers and new works. He won the Young Concert Artists Auditions at 19, and attended the New England Conservatory and the Curtis Institute.

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