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Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

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Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

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Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

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Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of Toyin Spellman-Diaz

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Violist Melissa Reardon

Melissa Reardon

October 18, 2024

Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is an internationally renowned performer whose solo and chamber playing spans all musical genres. Melissa is the Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, ME, violist of the Borromeo String Quartet, viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Artist in Residence at Bard Co ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of Toyin Spellman-Diaz

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Violist Melissa Reardon

Melissa Reardon

October 18, 2024

Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is an internationally renowned performer whose solo and chamber playing spans all musical genres. Melissa is the Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, ME, violist of the Borromeo String Quartet, viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Artist in Residence at Bard Co ...

Violist Arad Atar

Atar Arad

October 18, 2024

Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon in Israel, Domaine Forget in Canada, the Heifetz Institute, and the Steans Music Institute, where he has served on faculty since 1991. A cum-laude first-prize winner at the G ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of Toyin Spellman-Diaz

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Violist Melissa Reardon

Melissa Reardon

October 18, 2024

Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is an internationally renowned performer whose solo and chamber playing spans all musical genres. Melissa is the Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, ME, violist of the Borromeo String Quartet, viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Artist in Residence at Bard Co ...

Violist Arad Atar

Atar Arad

October 18, 2024

Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon in Israel, Domaine Forget in Canada, the Heifetz Institute, and the Steans Music Institute, where he has served on faculty since 1991. A cum-laude first-prize winner at the G ...

Composer Amy Williams

Amy Williams

October 18, 2024

Amy Williams is a composer of music that is “simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating” (Buffalo News), “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare), “curious and playful” (The New York Times). Her works have been presented at renowned international contemporary music venues, including the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Time:Spans, Lincoln C ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of Toyin Spellman-Diaz

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Violist Melissa Reardon

Melissa Reardon

October 18, 2024

Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is an internationally renowned performer whose solo and chamber playing spans all musical genres. Melissa is the Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, ME, violist of the Borromeo String Quartet, viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Artist in Residence at Bard Co ...

Violist Arad Atar

Atar Arad

October 18, 2024

Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon in Israel, Domaine Forget in Canada, the Heifetz Institute, and the Steans Music Institute, where he has served on faculty since 1991. A cum-laude first-prize winner at the G ...

Composer Amy Williams

Amy Williams

October 18, 2024

Amy Williams is a composer of music that is “simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating” (Buffalo News), “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare), “curious and playful” (The New York Times). Her works have been presented at renowned international contemporary music venues, including the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Time:Spans, Lincoln C ...

Takacs Quartet

Takács Quartet

October 18, 2024

In recognition of its fiftieth anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently the subject of an in-depth profile by the New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács released two anniversary season albums in 2025 for Hyperion Records to glowing reviews. ‘Flow’ by Ngwenyama, composed for the ensemble, was followed b ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of Toyin Spellman-Diaz

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Violist Melissa Reardon

Melissa Reardon

October 18, 2024

Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is an internationally renowned performer whose solo and chamber playing spans all musical genres. Melissa is the Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, ME, violist of the Borromeo String Quartet, viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Artist in Residence at Bard Co ...

Violist Arad Atar

Atar Arad

October 18, 2024

Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon in Israel, Domaine Forget in Canada, the Heifetz Institute, and the Steans Music Institute, where he has served on faculty since 1991. A cum-laude first-prize winner at the G ...

Composer Amy Williams

Amy Williams

October 18, 2024

Amy Williams is a composer of music that is “simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating” (Buffalo News), “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare), “curious and playful” (The New York Times). Her works have been presented at renowned international contemporary music venues, including the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Time:Spans, Lincoln C ...

Takacs Quartet

Takács Quartet

October 18, 2024

In recognition of its fiftieth anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently the subject of an in-depth profile by the New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács released two anniversary season albums in 2025 for Hyperion Records to glowing reviews. ‘Flow’ by Ngwenyama, composed for the ensemble, was followed b ...

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Narae Joo Lee

May 24, 2024

Born in Seoul, Korea, Narae Joo is a Collaborative Pianist for Strings at University of Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Seoul National University under HaeSun Paik.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Music from the University of Michigan where she studied under Arthur Greene while being the recipient of the Beverly Franzau Baker Sch ...

Photo of the Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

October 31, 2024

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world's most innovative and respected en ...

Photo of Clarinetist Todd Palmer

Todd Palmer

October 28, 2024

Clarinetist Todd Palmer is a three-time Grammy nominee and has appeared as soloist, recitalist, collaborator, educator, and arranger 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 collaborated with some of the world's ...

Photo of Hub New Music

Hub New Music

October 25, 2024

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” ...

Photo of Toyin Spellman-Diaz

Toyin Spellman-Diaz

October 25, 2024

Oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz grew up surrounded by her parent’s enormous record collection in Washington, DC. It was there she absorbed the many layers of classical music’s beauty and the inspiring and uniting potential of the world’s diverse cultural landscape. Ms. Spellman-Diaz earned her Bachelors of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Mus ...

Violist Melissa Reardon

Melissa Reardon

October 18, 2024

Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is an internationally renowned performer whose solo and chamber playing spans all musical genres. Melissa is the Artistic Director of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Portland, ME, violist of the Borromeo String Quartet, viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Artist in Residence at Bard Co ...

Violist Arad Atar

Atar Arad

October 18, 2024

Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon in Israel, Domaine Forget in Canada, the Heifetz Institute, and the Steans Music Institute, where he has served on faculty since 1991. A cum-laude first-prize winner at the G ...

Composer Amy Williams

Amy Williams

October 18, 2024

Amy Williams is a composer of music that is “simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating” (Buffalo News), “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare), “curious and playful” (The New York Times). Her works have been presented at renowned international contemporary music venues, including the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Time:Spans, Lincoln C ...

Takacs Quartet

Takács Quartet

October 18, 2024

In recognition of its fiftieth anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently the subject of an in-depth profile by the New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács released two anniversary season albums in 2025 for Hyperion Records to glowing reviews. ‘Flow’ by Ngwenyama, composed for the ensemble, was followed b ...

Photo of Narae Joo

Narae Joo Lee

May 24, 2024

Born in Seoul, Korea, Narae Joo is a Collaborative Pianist for Strings at University of Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Seoul National University under HaeSun Paik.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Music from the University of Michigan where she studied under Arthur Greene while being the recipient of the Beverly Franzau Baker Sch ...

Conductor Peter Bay

Peter Bay

May 23, 2024

Peter Bay became Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra in 1998. He is also Conductor of the Bravo! Big Sky Classical Festival Orchestra (MT) and Arizona Philharmonic. Maestro Bay has appeared with over eighty different orchestras including the National, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, New Jersey, North Carolina, San A ...