2023 Program Guide

2023 Summer Music Season

This music season at Tippet Rise features five weekends of classical and contemporary chamber concerts featuring new and returning artists, rising stars, established soloists, and ensembles. We hope you enjoy our summer season as much as we have enjoyed creating it.

Cathy and Peter Halstead have known each other since they were 16. Cathy is an abstract painter, whose work explores the similarities between the infinitesimal and the infinite, between the repetition of invisible but essential patterns in nature.

Peter is a pianist, photographer, novelist, and poet. He has published 11 volumes of poems, as well as the novel Bug the Great. He recently published A Winter Ride, which combines prose, photos, and poetry to create a sense of the anticipation of winter in Montana. Tippet Rise Beginnings captures through photos and text the explorations which led to Tippet Rise. His six-album piano series The Himalaya Sessions will be online this year. Four eBooks of his Himalayan photos are available on the Tippet Rise website, as is Brahms in the Mountains.

In addition to Tippet Rise, Cathy and Peter also founded the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, which gathers poems from across places, eras, and traditions for audiences worldwide. They are trustees of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, which makes grants in climate, education, and the arts. Cathy is on the board of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, of Storm King Art Center, and trustee emeritus of Brown University. They have two wonderful daughters and two adorable grandchildren.

Co-Founders, Cathy and Peter Halstead

Artistic Advisor, Pedja Mužijević

Pedja Mužijević is a pianist and curator who first came to Tippet Rise to perform in 2017 and has been the artistic advisor since 2018.

“We go to a concert to hear music, but the concert experience starts much before we hear a sound. There are very few places that could match Tippet Rise when it comes to that—as we approach our concert venues, we see big Montana skies, Beartooth mountains and sculptures. All of this heightens our senses and engages our imagination, whether we are aware of it or not.

“We are also excited about our new Wander concerts in which we invite the audience to walk with musicians and hear music in dialogue with nature and specific sculptures.

“Most important, we come to Tippet Rise to create that concert experience together—some of us to perform and some of us to listen. One doesn’t exist without the other.”

TIPPET RISE ART CENTER

2023 Concert Season Schedule

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Sir Stephen Hough, piano

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Gidon Kremer, violin

Madara Pētersone, violin

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Rebecca Anderson, violin

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

Jenny Chen, piano

Pedja Mužijević, piano

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Richard Goode, piano

SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 11:00 AM

The Domo

Imani Winds

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe

Mark Dover, clarinet

Kevin Newton, horn

Monica Ellis, bassoon

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 11:00 AM

Beethoven’s Quartet and Proverb

Sandbox Percussion

Jonny Allen

Victor Caccese

Ian Rosenbaum

Terry Sweeney

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Gidon Kremer, violin

Madara Pētersone, violin

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 11:00 AM

Will’s Shed

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Mark Dover, clarinet

Rebecca Anderson, violin

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

Jenny Chen, piano

Pedja Mužijević, piano

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Dior Quartet

Noa Sarid, violin

Tobias Elser, violin

Caleb Georges, viola

Joanne Yesol Choi, cello

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Anna Geniushene, piano

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 11:00 AM

Iron Tree, Daydreams, Cursive Takes a Holiday, and Xylem

The Westerlies

Riley Mulherkar, trumpet

Chloe Rowlands, trumpet

Andy Clausen, trombone

Willem de Koch, trombone

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 11:00 AM

The Domo

JIJI, guitar

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Brentano String Quartet

Mark Steinberg, violin

Serena Canin, violin

Misha Amory, viola

Nina Lee, cello

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Merz Trio

Brigid Coleridge, violin

Julia Yang, cello

Amy Yang, piano

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Clayton Stephenson, piano

*Artists and/or programs subject to change without notice.

WEEK ONE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Sir Stephen Hough, piano

FREDERIC MOMPOU: Cants Mágics

Energic

Obscur

Profond: Lent

Misteriós

Calma

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Estampes

Pagodes

La soirée dans Grenade

Jardins sous la pluie

SIR STEPHEN HOUGH: Partita

Overture

Capriccio

Cancion y Danza I

Cancion y Danza II

Toccata

FRANZ LISZT: Three Petrarch Sonnets

No. 47

No. 104

No. 123

LISZT: Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (“Dante Sonata”)

WEEK ONE

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Gidon Kremer, violin

Madara Pētersone, violin

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Hommage à J.S. Bach for Violin and Piano (quasi echo)

Andantino

Andantino

Allegro

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA: Chaconne for Solo Piano

SILVESTROV: Three Serenades for Violin and Piano (2019) -

Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere

Serenade (Largetto)

Serenade (Moderato)

Serenade (Moderato)

ALFRED SCHNITTKE: Moz-art à la Haydn for Two Violins

Kremer and Avdeeva

Avdeeva

Kremer and Avdeeva

Kremer and Pētersone

SILVESTROV: Five Bagatelles for Solo Piano, Op. 301 (2020) -

Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere

Moderato

Moderato, Animato

Allegretto

Adagio

Andante

Avdeeva

MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6, Op. 136

Moderato

Adagio

Moderato

Kremer and Pētersone

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Three Pieces for Two Violins and Piano

Prelude

Gavotte

Valse

Kremer, Pētersone, and Avdeeva

WEEK ONE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Gidon Kremer, violin

Madara Pētersone, violin

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 69

Allegro molto

Adagio – Andante

Allegro Kremer and Pētersone

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

Allegro maestoso

Scherzo: Molto vivace

Largo

Finale: Presto non tanto Avdeeva

WEINBERG: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4, Op. 39

Adagio

Allegro ma non troppo – Adagio primo

Adagio tenuto molto rubato – Adagio primo Kremer and Avdeeva

WEEK TWO

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Rebecca Anderson, violin

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

Jenny Chen, piano

Pedja Mužijević, piano

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Allegro from Sonata for Piano Duet in B-flat Major, K. 358 Chen and Mužijević

GEORGE CRUMB: Beta Cygni from Makrokosmos vol. IV, Celestial Mechanics Chen and Mužijević

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Molto presto from Sonata for Piano Duet in B-flat Major, K. 358 Chen and Mužijević

LILI BOULANGER: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano

Nocturne

Cortège Anderson and Chen

VERONIQUE VAKA: Neige etérnelle: 2. for Solo Cello Thorsteinsdóttir

FLORENCE PRICE: Adoration for Violin and Piano Anderson and Chen

CLARA SCHUMANN: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17

Allegro moderato

Scherzo

Andante

Allegretto Anderson, Thorsteinsdóttir, and Chen

WEEK TWO

SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 11:00 AM

The Domo

Imani Winds

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe

Mark Dover, clarinet

Kevin Newton, horn

Monica Ellis, bassoon

Black and Brown: A Program Celebrating Composers of Color

JEFF SCOTT: Titilayo

REENA ESMAIL: The Light is the Same for Wind Quintet

PAQUITO D’RIVERA: Movements from Aires Tropicales

Alborada

Son

Dizzyness

Contradanza

WAYNE SHORTER: Terra Incognita

JULIO MEDAGLIA: Belle Epoque en Sud-America

El Porsche Negro

Vals Paulista

Requinta Maluca

WEEK TWO

SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 11:00 AM

Will’s Shed

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Mark Dover, clarinet

Rebecca Anderson, violin

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

Jenny Chen, piano

Pedja Mužijević, piano

AMY BEACH: Summer Dreams for Piano Duet, Op. 47

The Brownies

Robin Redbreast

Twilight

Katy-dids

Elfin Tarantelle

Good Night Chen and Mužijević

GEORGE CRUMB: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Flute, Cello, and Piano

Vocalise (for the beginning of time)

Sea Theme

Archeozoic (Variation I)

Proterozoic (Variation II)

Paleozoic (Variation III)

Mesozoic (Variation IV)

Cenozoic (Variation V)

Sea-Nocturne (for the end of time) George, Thorsteinsdóttir, and Mužijević

VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Three Waltzes of the Moment for Violin and Piano (2019)-

Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere

Animato

Andante

Andantino Anderson and Mužijević

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Trio in B-flat Minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 11

Allegro con brio

Adagio

Tema con variazioni (“Pria ch’io l’impegno”: Allegretto)

Dover, Thorsteinsdóttir, and Mužijević

WEEK THREE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Richard Goode, piano

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310 / 300d

Allegro maestoso

Andante cantabile con espressione

Presto

GABRIEL FAURÉ: Barcarolle No. 3 in G-flat Major, Op. 42

FAURÉ: Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

Allegro maestoso

Scherzo: Molto vivace

Largo

Finale: Presto non tanto

WEEK THREE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 11:00 AM

Beethoven’s Quartet and Proverb

Sandbox Percussion

Jonny Allen

Victor Caccese

Ian Rosenbaum

Terry Sweeney

Wander Series Concert

AMY BETH KIRSTEN: holy sonnet (2023) – Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere

DOUGLAS J. CUOMO: Proverb (2023) – Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere

WEEK THREE

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Dior Quartet

Noa Sarid, violin

Tobias Elser, violin

Caleb Georges, viola

Joanne Yesol Choi, cello

KEVIN LAU: String Quartet No. 3

Gliding Winds of Change

SOO YEON LYUH: Yessori (Sounds of the Past)

DINUK WIJERATNE: The Disappearance of Lisa Gherardini

MAURICE RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major

Allegro moderato – Très doux

Assez vif – Très rythmé

Très lent

Vif et agité

WEEK FOUR

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Anna Geniushene, piano

MUZIO CLEMENTI: Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 1 No. 1

Allegro comodo

Tempo di Minuetto

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Two Pieces, Op. 1

Scherzo à la russe. Allegro moderato

Impromptu. Allegro furioso

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Op. 38

Allegro tranquillo

Andantino

Un poco allegretto

VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 302 (2020)Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere

Moderato

Waltz of the Moment

Serenade

Waltz of the Moment

PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29

Allegro molto sostenuto

Andante assai

Allegro con brio, ma non leggiero

WEEK FOUR

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 11:00 AM

Iron Tree, Daydreams and Cursive Takes a Holiday, and Xylem

The Westerlies

Riley Mulherkar, trumpet

Chloe Rowlands, trumpet

Andy Clausen, trombone

Willem de Koch, trombone

Wander Series Concert

ROBIN HOLCOMB: Wherein Lies the Good

CAROLINE SHAW: Entr’acte

ANDY CLAUSEN: This is Water

Carmel

Lopez

Harlem River

WEEK FOUR

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 11:00 AM

The Domo

JIJI, guitar

Counterpoint Dream

CLAUDIA SESSA: Occhi io vissi di voi

ISAAC ALBÉNIZ: Asturias (Leyenda)

BAROQUE SET (SLOW – FAST):

MARIN MARAIS: Les voix humaines

J.S. BACH: Allegro from BWV 998

ANTÓN GARCÍA-ABRIL:

Por la Primavera Blanca

Evocación No. 2

Evocación No. 3

FRANTZ CASSEUS:

Yanvalloux

Coumbite

NICCOLÒ PAGANINI: Caprice No. 24 in A Minor

STEVE REICH: Electric Counterpoint

Slow Fast

WEEK FIVE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 5:30 PM

The Olivier Music Barn

Brentano String Quartet

Mark Steinberg, violin

Serena Canin, violin

Misha Amory, viola

Nina Lee, cello

JAMES MACMILLAN: For Sonny

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Contrapunctus VII from Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080

MACMILLAN: Memento

HENRY PURCELL: Fantasia in G Major Z.742

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130

Adagio, ma non troppo – Allegro

Presto

Andante con moto, ma non troppo. Poco scherzoso

Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai

Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo

Finale: Allegro

WEEK FIVE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Merz Trio

Brigid Coleridge, violin

Julia Yang, cello

Amy Yang, piano

Humoreske

GEORGE ENESCU: Impressions d’enfance, Op. 28

Le ménétrier

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 1

Allegro non troppo, con espressione

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Sarcasms, Op. 17

Tempestuoso

GABRIEL FAURÉ: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120

Andantino

THELONIUS MONK: “Round Midnight,” arr. Merz Trio

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello, Op. 72

Canto primo: Sostenuto e largamente

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 8

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87

Allegro moderato

Andante con moto

Scherzo: Presto

Finale: Allegro giocoso

WEEK FIVE

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 11:00 AM

The Olivier Music Barn

Clayton Stephenson, piano

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH–MYRA HESS: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”

Allegro assai

Andante con moto

Allegro ma non troppo – Presto

JOHANN STRAUSS–LEOPOLD GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus

GEORGE GERSHWIN–FAZIL SAY: “Summertime” Variations

HIROMI UEHARA: The Tom and Jerry Show

2023 Artists

Rebecca Anderson, violin

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Brentano String Quartet

Jenny Chen, piano

Douglas J. Cuomo, composer

Dior Quartet

Mark Dover, clarinet

Anna Geniushene, piano

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Richard Goode, piano

Sir Stephen Hough, piano

Imani Winds

JIJI, guitar

Amy Beth Kirsten, composer

Gidon Kremer, violin

Merz Trio

Pedja Mužijević, piano

Madara Pētersone, violin

Sandbox Percussion

Valentyn Silvestrov, composer

Clayton Stephenson, piano

Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

The Westerlies

REBECCA ANDERSON

Rebecca Anderson has appeared worldwide as a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. Known for her “incisive musicality” (The Oregonian), recent appearances include performances at Carnegie Hall and tours across Europe, Asia, and South America.

Her passion for chamber music has led to festival appearances with Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the Savannah Music Festival, and Music from Angel Fire. She has performed in concerts presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, as well as appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Library of Congress.

As an educator and arts advocate, Anderson has held faculty positions as Interim Director of the Violin Program at Cornell University and at the Crane School of Music SUNY Potsdam. She is also a member of the assistant teaching faculty at the Juilliard School. In 2019 she co-founded the Anderson-Sasaki duo, a violin and piano duo that creates residencies focused on strengthening community through varied interactive performances and presented recitals.

Anderson was founding co-director of VOTESart, a nonpartisan organization that uses music to promote voter registration and civic engagement across the country. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she is an alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW).

VIOLIN

Yulianna Avdeeva gained worldwide recognition at the 2010 Chopin Competition, where she won First Prize. A pianist of fiery temperament and virtuosity, Avdeeva plays with power, conviction, and sensibility, winning over audiences all over the world.

YULIANNA AVDEEVA

A favorite artist in Europe with recurring concert engagements at the Warsaw Philharmonic or Prague’s Rudolfinum, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Elbphilharmonie

Hamburg, Avdeeva has also given concerts for Ukrainian Relief, including one with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Lucerne Festival. Her extensive orchestral collaborators include the Los Angeles

Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester

Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, London

Philharmonic, Finnish and Danish Radio Symphonies, Czech Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dresden

Philharmonic, and Kremerata Baltica.

A dedicated chamber musician, Avdeeva has toured regularly throughout Europe with violinists Julia Fischer and Gidon Kremer, including appearances at Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zurich, and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In addition to being a regular guest at Festival Chopin Warsaw and the Festival International de Piano La Roque d’Anthéron, recent seasons have seen her recital debut at Carnegie Hall, a tour of Japan, and in recital at the Salzburg Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Boulez Saal, Vienna

Konzerthaus, Palau de la Música Catalana, Musikfest

Bremen, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, and Shostakovich Festival Saxony.

PIANO

BRENTANO STRING QUARTET

The Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. Within a few years of its formation, in 1992, the Quartet garnered the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, and the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut. The Quartet has performed in Carnegie Hall in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Sydney Opera House, among other venues.

In addition to performing the standard quartet repertoire, the Brentano Quartet maintains a strong interest in contemporary music and has commissioned many new works. Its latest project, Dido Reimagined, a monodrama for quartet and voice, was composed by Pulitzer-winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann; the premiere took place in spring 2022 with soprano Dawn Upshaw. Other recent commissions include works by the composers Matthew Aucoin, Lei Liang, Vijay Iyer, James Macmillan, and Steven Mackey.

MARK STEINBERG, VIOLIN

SERENA CANIN, VIOLIN

MISHA AMORY, VIOLA

NINA LEE, CELLO

In 2012 the Brentano Quartet provided the central music (Beethoven Op. 131) for the acclaimed independent film A Late Quartet. Other recordings include works by Mozart and Schubert (Azica Records) and all of Beethoven’s late quartets (Aeon).

Since 2014 the Brentano Quartet has served as artists in residence at the Yale School of Music. The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” the intended recipient of his famous love confession.

Jenny Chen was the youngest student, at age 10, to be accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music. By 18 she had earned her Yale University Master’s degree. At 20 she became a doctoral candidate at Eastman School of Music. She has appeared in solo and chamber music performances throughout the world, including the Taiwan National Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Morgan Library and Museum, Alice Tully Hall, Solti Hall in Hungary, TivoliVredenburg in the Netherlands, and Tippet Rise Art Center. Selected performances were recorded and released as CDs by the Curtis Institute of Music and Tippet Rise (Opus 2016—Domo). Other highlights include a performance of the Mozart two-piano concerto with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.

Since her debut at age nine with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Chen has performed with many orchestras throughout the world, including the Rochester Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. She also recently performed in recital with the violinist Midori.

Formerly the director of the Dalian Music Festival in China, Chen currently holds positions at three colleges in Philadelphia: Temple University, Drexel University, and Curtis Institute of Music.

JENNY CHEN

DOUGLAS J. CUOMO

Douglas J. Cuomo has composed for the concert, operatic, and theatrical stages, as well as for television and film. His music— influenced by jazz, world music, classical, and popular sources, as well as by his Buddhist practice—is as personal, distinctive, and recognizable as it is wide-ranging His latest works include a raft, the sky, the wild sea, a concerto for the saxophonist Joe Lovano, and Seven Limbs, an evening-length piece written for the guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco) and the Aizuri String Quartet.

Upcoming commissions include works for the Romero Guitar Quartet and mezzosoprano (La Cita); cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (The Mystics: What is and What is Not); and Sandbox Percussion (The Jump Up). Recent works include The Five Objects of Desire, a concerto for electric guitar and string orchestra; A White Rose in the Blue Ground, a suite for the Balourdet String Quartet; a chamber opera adaptation of Doubt ; and an adaptation of Seven Limbs for Lovano and string quartet.

COMPOSER

Other career highlights include Savage Winter (BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Pittsburgh Opera); Doubt (Minnesota Opera); Arjuna’s Dilemma (BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Dallas Opera, Kathmandu); Black Diamond Express Train to Hell, a concerto for cellist Maya Beiser and electronic sampler (Carnegie Hall); and various choral and chamber works. Cuomo, who lectures widely, composed the theme for Sex and the City and scored seven seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street, as well as more than 20 feature films. He is published by Schott Music.

DIOR QUARTET

Joining members from Israel, Korea-Canada, Saint Lucia, and the United States, the Dior Quartet is the quartet in residence at the Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music, in Toronto, Canada. Formed in fall 2018 at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, under the Pacifica Quartet, they are silver prize winners of the 2021 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, quarter-finalists of the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition and 2021 Bartók Competition, and bronze medalists of the 2019 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

The Dior Quartet has performed and participated in various programs and concert series in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The repertoire and projects that they pursue intersect with their multicultural backgrounds and moral values, as they seek to explore the immigrant experience through art. The quartet takes its name from the French word d’or, which means gold. The Dior Quartet has been selected to participate in the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and 2023 Bad Tolz First International String Quartet Competition.

NOA SARID, VIOLIN

TOBIAS ELSER, VIOLIN

CALEB GEORGES, VIOLA

JOANNE YESOL CHOI, CELLO

MARK DOVER

The Grammy-nominated clarinetist Mark Dover maintains firm roots in classical music while expanding into the vast world of improvised music. Since 2016 he has served as the clarinetist of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies and the American Composers Orchestra. He is also the clarinetist of Manhattan Chamber Players and has performed with the Detroit Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, among other ensembles.

Dover joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2021 and also serves on the clarinet faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and at Queens College, CUNY. Active as a clinician, he has given masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music; the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance; the University of Texas at Austin; and other institutions. He received his master of music degree from Manhattan School of Music and his bachelor of music degree from the University of Michigan. He is a Buffet Crampon and Vandoren Artist.

Dover has an extensive background in improvised music. He frequently collaborates with Vulfpeck, an American funk band from his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. His original-music duo Port Mande, with pianist/producer Jeremy Jordan, released an EP, Is This Loss?, in 2020.

Anna Geniushene’s fresh, layered, and powerful interpretations defined her participation at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Compettion— and won her the silver medal and the adoration of fans around the globe. When she closed the Cliburn Competition with a momentous performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, Gramophone likened it to the contest’s revered namesake: “I couldn’t help but equate Anna Geniushene’s seasoned pianism to Cliburn at his best.”

Born in Moscow on New Year’s Day in 1991, Geniushene made her recital debut just seven years later in the small hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. She has since developed a diverse and versatile career as an artist: performances in major world venues such as the Town Hall in Leeds, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Museum of Arts in Tel Aviv, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and Sala Greppi in Bergamo; a dedication to chamber music, including duo piano repertoire with her husband, Lukas Geniušas, and close collaboration with Quartetto di Cremona; and the creation of her own festival of collaborative music making (NikoFest). She currently resides in Lithuania with her husband and their young son, Tomas.

ANNA GENIUSHENE

BRANDON PATRICK GEORGE

Brandon Patrick George is a leading flute soloist and Grammy-nominated chamber musician whose repertoire extends from the Baroque era to today. He is the flutist of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies; American Composers Orchestra; and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others. His debut album was released in September 2020 to wide acclaim.

George has performed at the Elbphilharmonie, the Kennedy Center, the Dresden Music Festival, and the Prague Spring Festival. In addition to his work with Imani Winds, he has appeared as a solo performer at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and 92nd Street Y. Current collaborations include touring projects with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, pianist Aaron Diehl, and harpist Parker Ramsay. In 2021 George was part of the inaugural class of WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab. He has collaborated with some of the foremost composers of our time, including John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Tania León, Steve Reich, and George Lewis.

Raised by a single mother in Dayton, Ohio, George is the proud product of a public arts education. He draws on his personal experiences in his commitment to educating the next generation, performing countless outreach concerts for schoolchildren every year and mentoring young conservatory musicians of color. He trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Conservatoire de Paris, and the Manhattan School of Music. He serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, masterclasses in person or online, and through his extensive and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following.

An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. Other recording highlights include numerous Mozart piano concertos with Orpheus and the Beethoven piano concertos with Ivan Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra.

A native of New York, Goode studied at the Mannes College of Music and the Curtis Institute. His numerous prizes over the years include the Young Concert Artists Award, first prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy award for the Brahms sonatas, recorded with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.

Goode served as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont from 1999 through 2013. In fall 2021 he joined the Peabody Conservatory as distinguished artist faculty. He is married to the violinist Marcia Weinfeld, and when the Goodes are not on tour, they and their collection of some 5,000 volumes live in New York City.

RICHARD GOODE

PIANO

Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career and a longstanding international following as a pianist, composer, and writer. The first classical pianist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014 and awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music in 2022.

SIR STEPHEN HOUGH

In the 2022–23 season, Hough performs more than 90 concerts on five continents, with return engagements across Europe and the United States. He is a regular guest at leading music festivals and performs recitals across the globe. His extensive discography of more than 60 CDs on the Hyperion label has garnered international awards, including the Diapason d’Or de l’Année; several Grammy nominations; and eight Gramophone Awards, including Record of the Year and the Gold Disc. His most recent recording, Mompou’s Musica callada, was released this spring.

Hough has composed for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble, and solo piano. Recent commissions include a work for the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, a piece that was performed by all 30 competitors, and his String Quartet No. 1, Les Six Recontres, commissioned by the Takacs Quartet.

Hough’s memoir Enough: Scenes from Childhood, will be published by Faber & Faber this spring. It follows Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More, a prize-winning collection of essays. His first novel, The Final Retreat, was published in 2018. He wrote more than 600 articles for his blog in The Telegraph.

Hough, who lives in London, is an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, as well as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and Oxford University’s Lady Margaret Hall. He holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School.

Celebrating more than 20 years of music making, Imani Winds inspires audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Although the ensemble embraces traditional chamber music repertoire, as a 21stcentury group, Imani Winds is committed to expanding the wind quintet repertoire by commissioning music from new voices, reflecting both historical and current events.

Imani Winds regularly performs in prominent international concert venues all over the world and appears at major chamber music series and festivals. Recent and upcoming performances include a Jessie Montgomery composition inspired by her great-grandfather’s migration from the American south to the north, as well as socially conscious music by Andy Akiho, designed to be performed both on the concert stage and in front of immigrant detention centers throughout the country.

The ensemble launched the annual Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival in 2010, bringing together young instrumentalists and composers from across North America and abroad.

In 2021 Imani Winds released Bruits on Bright Shiny Things Records, which led to their second Grammy Award nomination. They have six albums on Koch International Classics and E1 Music, including their first Grammy Award–nominated recording, The Classical Underground. They have also recorded for Naxos, Blue Note, and Warner Classics.

In 2016 Imani Winds received the greatest honor of their long career: a permanent presence in the classical music section of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington D.C.

IMANI WINDS

BRANDON PATRICK GEORGE, FLUTE

TOYIN SPELLMAN-DIAZ, OBOE

MARK DOVER, CLARINET

KEVIN NEWTON, HORN

MONICA ELLIS, BASSOON

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raised by the Calgary Herald as “…talented, sensitive …brilliant,” JIJI is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing music that ranges from traditional and contemporary classical music to free improvisation.  Her impeccable musicianship, combined with her compelling stage presence and fascinating repertoire, earned the Korean guitarist first prize at the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Career highlights include appearances at Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y, Mass MOCA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton Sound Kitchen, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A passionate advocate of new music, JIJI premiered and recorded the duo piece Talking Guitars by the renowned composer Paul Lansky, which was released on Bridge Records.  She has also premiered works by several emerging composers, including Nina C. Young, Gabriella Smith, Riho Maimets, Krists Auznieks, Gulli Björnsson, Andrew McIntosh, and Farnood HaghaniPour.  She also performs her own compositions, incorporating electronic media and acoustic music. Her music is influenced by her regular activities as a DJ, where she highlights the electronic dance styles of happy hardcore and Berlin experimental electronica. As a chamber musician, she has performed with members of eighth blackbird, Bang on a Can All-Stars, wild Up, and the Aizuri Quartet. Her performances have been featured on PBS, NPR’s From the Top, WHYY-TV, FOX 4-TV, Munchies, The Not So Late Show, and Hong Kong broadcast station RTHK’s The Works.

JIJI is currently based in Tempe, Arizona, where she serves as assistant professor of guitar at Arizona State University. She is sponsored by D’Addario Strings.

Named “…one of America’s most innovative and visionary composers” by BBC Music Magazine, Amy Beth Kirsten is known primarily for her for multiyear, multimedia theatrical collaborations.

She has cast herself in roles as varied as composer, poet, filmmaker, vocalist, and director. Her body of theatrical work spans the last 18 years, and often considers musicians’ instruments, bodies, and voices as equal vehicles of expression. Also a composer of nontheatrical concert works, she has been recognized with awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2020), the John S. Guggenheim Foundation (2010), and the Rockefeller Foundation (2009). Kirsten has created collaborative works for her own ensemble, HOWL, musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, Peak Performances, the multiple Grammy-winning eighth blackbird, and American Composers Orchestra, among many others.

She is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and Curtis Institute of Music. She has held previous teaching posts at Oberlin College and Conservatory, the Peabody Institute, and Longy School of Music. The Toulmin Foundation, Chamber Music America, the MAP Fund, and many other generous patrons, foundations, and institutions support her work. For more information, see amybethkirsten.com

AMY BETH KIRSTEN

GIDON KREMER

Driven by his strikingly uncompromising artistic philosophy, violinist Gidon Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of his generation’s most original and compelling artists. His repertoire encompasses standard classical scores and music by leading 20th- and 21st-century composers.

He has championed the works of Russian and Eastern European composers and performed many important new compositions, several of which have been dedicated to him. His name is closely associated with such composers as Schnittke, Pärt, Kancheli, Gubaidulina, Silvestrov, Nono, Denisov, Reimann, Vasks, Adams, Kissine, Nyman, Glass, Desyatnikov, and Piazzolla, whose works he performs in ways that respect tradition while being fully alive to their freshness and originality. No other soloist of comparable international stature has done more to promote the cause of contemporary composers and new music for violin. He has recently been committed to the “discovery” of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg, and Deutsche Grammophon, Accentus Music, and ECM released highly acclaimed albums recorded by and with Kremer featuring orchestral and chamber music works by Weinberg.

Kremer has recorded more than 200 albums, many of which have received major international awards in recognition of their exceptional interpretative insights. His long list of honors includes a Praemium Imperiale prize that is widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of music.

The Merz Trio has established itself at the forefront of the U.S. chamber music scene, with debuts in the 2022–23 season at Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Chamber Music Houston, Chamber Music Detroit, and Minnesota’s Schubert Club, among others. Winners of the Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff, and Chesapeake competitions, the members have been lauded for their “stunning virtuosity... fresh and surprising interpretations” (Reading Eagle) and “perfection of intonation and ensemble” (Hudson Review).

The Merz Trio is committed to reshaping the narrative of classical music through dynamic programming and wide-ranging interdisciplinary collaboration. The Trio is equally known for its immersive integration of music and text in performance. As prolific arrangers, the members uplift history’s overlooked voices, ranging from Hildegard von Bingen to Lili and Nadia Boulanger, from Joséphine Baker to Irish folk melodies.

From Merz Trio’s violinist Brigid Coleridge: “We understand what we do as a conversation between ourselves, the composer, our audience, and the changing world we step into each day. Our name, Merz, speaks to this: It’s the term coined by German artist and polymath Kurt Schwitters, who once floor-to-ceiling decorated his parents’ house in Hanover with found objects and insisted that art only occurred in shared spaces. So Merz refers to connection, to sharing, to possibility. And yes, we’re very glad Schwitters didn’t live with us.”

MERZ TRIO

BRIGID COLERIDGE, VIOLIN

JULIA YANG, CELL0

AMY YANG, PIANO

PEDJA MUŽIJEVIĆ

Pianist and curator Pedja Mužijević has defined his career with creative programming and lasting collaborations with artists and ensembles. He has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, 92Y, and The Frick Collection in New York City; Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, Phillips Collection, and National Gallery in Washington, DC; and Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo.

Mužijević’s interdisciplinary projects include touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia, and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, and Opera National de Paris, as well as the Holland, Lucerne and Melbourne festivals.

In addition to serving as the artistic advisor at Tippet Rise, where he curates concerts and film shoots for dozens of musicians, Mužijević is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. He also directs the Concert in the 21st Century residency at the Banff Centre, where he explores concert as a format and the ways it can be more relevant today.

The Latvian violinist Madara Pētersone graduated with highest honors from the Latvian Academy of Music and completed master studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Since 2011 she has been a member and co-leader of the chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica, led by violinist Gidon Kremer, with whom she has played in the most renowned concert halls of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. While living in Copenhagen, Pētersone has joined the Danish Chamber Orchestra, where together with its chief conductor, Adam Fischer, she has performed and recorded all the Beethoven symphonies. In her heart Pētersone is a chamber musician—searching for a dialogue in whatever she does.

Chamber music is her passion and occupation— from the Menuhin festival in Gstaad and the Weinberg festival in Vienna Musikverein alongside Gidon Kremer, to extraordinary outdoor concerts in the I Suoni delle Dolomiti Festival, or chamber concerts back in her home country. In addition to masterclasses with violinists Gerhard Schulz, Gunnar Larsen, Ernst Kovacic, and Roman Nodel, Pētersone has received musical guidance from violist Tim Frederiksen, clarinetist Mate Bekavac, and violinists Rainer Schmidt and Gidon Kremer. Pētersone currently plays a violin that was built by Nicolas Lupot in Paris in 1810; it is kindly on private loan.

MADARA PĒTERSONE

VIOLIN

SANDBOX PERCUSSION

Described as “exhilarating” by The New York Times and “utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, Sandbox Percussion brings out the best in composers through its unwavering dedication to artistry in contemporary chamber music. Brought together by their love of chamber music and the simple joy of playing together, the members captivate audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning.

Sandbox Percussion’s 2021 album Seven Pillars was nominated for two Grammy Awards in Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. The ensemble will perform Seven Pillars more than 15 times in the 2022–23 season, with sold-out stops throughout the United States and Europe. In October, Sandbox Percussion will perform the work live with the LA Dance Project and choreographer Benjamin Millepied at the Théatre du Châtelet in Paris.

JONNNY ALLEN

TERRY SWEENEY

VICTOR CACCESE

IAN ROSENBAUM

In addition to maintaining an international performance schedule, Sandbox Percussion is ensemble in residence and percussion faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and The New School’s College of Performing Arts, where they have created a curriculum with entrepreneurship and chamber music at its core. In 2016 Sandbox Percussion founded the annual NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar—a weeklong seminar that invites percussion students from around the globe to rehearse and perform today’s leading percussion chamber music repertoire.

Sandbox Percussion endorses Pearl/Adams musical instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Remo drumheads, and Black Swamp accessories.

Born in Kyiv, in 1937, Valentyn Silvestrov came to music relatively late, at age 15. Initially self-taught, he took music classes at night while studying to become a civil engineer. From 1958 to 1964, he studied composition and counterpoint at Kyiv Conservatory and then taught music for several years.

As a freelance composer, Silvestrov was based in Kyiv from 1970 until March 2022. He is considered one of the leading representatives of the “Kyiv avant-garde,” which came to public attention around 1960 and was aggressively suppressed by Soviet authorities. In the 1960s and 1970s, his music was scarcely played in his native city; premieres, if given at all, took place only in Russia, primarily in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), or in the West. After Russia’s aggressive invasion of Ukraine, the composer, at the request of his family and with the help of friends, fled with his daughter and granddaughter to Berlin, where he currently lives.

During the political unrest in Ukraine, Silvestrov has fought for his country by musical means, responding through numerous choral works, including Majdan Hymns and Prayers for the Ukraine. Although the world premiere of his Symphony No. 9 was postponed for two years on account of the global pandemic, the fivemovement work was debuted on July 19, 2022, in Yerevan, Armenia.

VALENTYN SILVESTROV

CLAYTON STEPHENSON

Hailed for “extraordinary narrative and poetic gifts” and interpretations that are “fresh, incisive and characterfully alive” (Gramophone), Clayton Stephenson is committed to making an impact on the world through music.

Stephenson, who grew up in New York City, started piano lessons at age 7 and was accepted into the Juilliard Outreach Music Advancement Program for underprivileged children the next year. At 10 he advanced to Juilliard’s Pre-College program with the help of his teacher, Beth Nam. At Juilliard he studied with Matti Raekallio, Hung-Kuang Chen, and Ernest Barretta. Stephenson practiced on a synthesizer at home until he found an old upright piano, discarded on the street, that would become his practice instrument for the next six years, until the Lang Lang Foundation donated a new piano to him when he was 17.

Recent and upcoming performance highlights include appearances with the Calgary Philharmonic; Chicago Sinfonietta; and the Fort Worth, Louisville, Lansing, and North Carolina symphony orchestras, as well as recitals and festivals all over the world.

Stephenson is currently enrolled in the Harvard-NEC Dual Degree Program, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in economics at Harvard and a master’s degree in piano performance at the New England Conservatory under Wha Kyung Byun. In addition to being the first Black finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022, he was named a 2022 Gilmore Young Artist, as well as a 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.

The Icelandic cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Iceland Symphony, among others, and her recital and chamber music performances have taken place in many of the world’s greatest venues, including Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Barbican Center, and Disney Hall. The Los Angeles Times praised her performances for their “emotional intensity.”

Thorsteinsdóttir’s recent releases on the Sono Luminus label include J.S. Bach’s complete suites for solo cello; a solo album of Icelandic music for cello, Vernacular ; and the award-winning cello concerto Quake, which was written for her by Páll Ragnar Pálsson, with the Iceland Symphony and Daníel Bjarnason. Quake was nominated for a 2021 Grammy.

An avid chamber musician, Thorsteinsdóttir has collaborated in performance with Itzhak Perlman; Mitsuko Uchida; Richard Goode; and members of the Emerson, Guarneri, and Cavani quartets. She has also participated in numerous chamber music festivals, including Prussia Cove and Marlboro, with whom she has toured. Formerly artist in residence at Green Music Center’s Weill Hall in Sonoma, California, she is cellist and founding member of Decoda, the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall.

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thorsteinsdóttir currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she serves on the cello faculty of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. For more information, please visit www. saeunn.com.

SÆUNN THORSTEINSDÓTTIR

THE WESTERLIES

The Westerlies, described by The New York Times as “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk,” are a New York–based brass quartet that comprises childhood friends from Seattle. From Carnegie Hall to Coachella, The Westerlies navigate a wide array of venues and projects with the precision of a string quartet, the audacity of a rock band, and the charm of a family sing-along.

Formed in 2011, the self-described “accidental brass quartet” takes its name from the prevailing winds that travel from the West to the East. Its members explore jazz, roots, and chamber music influences to create the rarest of hybrids: music that is, according to NPR Music, both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous.”

In 2022 The Westerlies released the EP Songbook Vol. 2 on Westerlies Records, the ensemble’s record label. Other recent recordings include Fireside Brass: A Westerlies Holiday ; Songbook Vol. 1; Bricolage, a collaborative album of improvisations with pianist and composer Conrad Tao; and This Land, a collaboration with Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann.

RILEY MULHERKAR, TRUMPET

CHLOE ROWLANDS, TRUMPET

ANDY CLAUSEN, TROMBONE

WILLEM DE KOCH, TROMBONE

Education and community engagement are core elements of The Westerlies’ mission. The mission of the quartet, as a 501(c)(3) organization, is to amplify unheard voices, paint new sonic landscapes, and cultivate a global community. The Westerlies are committed to dismantling racism, sexism, and economic inequality in their field, and aim to reflect their values of diversity and inclusion in the music they make and the spaces they occupy.

The Tippet Rise Team

Lindsey Hinmon, Co-Director

Pete Hinmon, Co-Director

Pedja Mužijević, Artistic Advisor

Ben Wynthein, Ranch Manager

Melissa Moore, Communication and Guest Experience Manager

Beth Korth, Art Education and Visitor Center Manager

Rhema Mangus, Artistic Programs and Production Manager

Whitney Hegeman, Editor and Publications Administrator

Brian Langeliers, Digital Experience Administrator

Monte Nickles, Audio and Technology Systems Manager

Carl Mayer, Facilities Operator

Dan Luttschwager, Maintenance and Operations Assistant

Jenny Van Ooyen, Visitor Experience Manager

Jim Ruberto, Assistant Audio Engineer and Technical Systems Engineer

Kevin Richey, Filmmaker

Jeanne Reid White, Special Projects Advisor

Craig M. White, Creative Consultant and Graphic Design

Photography: James Florio, Kevin Kinzley, Erik Petersen, Yevgeny Sudbin

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