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Hassan Anderson, USAA multitalented artist, American oboist Hassan Anderson is a soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and teacher. Noted for his clarity of tone, range of colors and energetic stage presence. Mr. Anderson served as the oboist of the acclaimed innovative New York-based chamber music ensemble SHUFFLE Concert (Ensemble Melange). With the ensemble he has toured Israel, performed on series throughout the US and Canada, including the Duplex, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, New York’s Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society Series, Los Angeles’s L’Ermitage Concert Series,

Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Performing Arts Center and Pepperdine University Center for the Arts in California, as well as at such distinguished summer festivals as Cooperstown Music Festival, Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, Canada’s Chamberfest Ottawa, to name a few. A popular collaborator, amongst his numerous guest appearances with distinguished ensembles, are performances with the American Ballet Theater, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (ECCE), Harlem Chamber Players and the Juilliard Orchestra. Hassan is equally adept in the classical and jazz genres, and dedicated to the next generation of musicians.

Julie Bees, USACelebrated American pianist, Dr. Julie Bees, is a Professor of Piano and Director of the Konrad Wolff-Ilse Bing Chamber Music Endowment Award at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. She is also a founding member of The Orfeo Trio, a traveling piano trio that has most recently given recitals and master classes across Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. As a collaborative pianist, Dr. Bees has performed with the Vermeer Quartet, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, bass-baritone Alan Held, the Viotti trio, American Chamber Players, and other ensembles

and soloists. A native of Miami, Florida, Dr. Bees earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 1974. She then studied for two years at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, before earning a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 1982. Her mentors have included the acclaimed Leon Fleisher, Maria Curcio-Diamand, Dieter Weber, Noel Flores, Alexander Uninsky, Alfred Mouledous, Konrad Wolff, Peggy Neighbors Erwin, and Nelita True. Among her many accolades, Dr. Bees was awarded first place in the William S. Boyd National Piano Competition, Grand Prize at both the 1975 International Piano Recording Competition and the 1970 Dallas Symphonic Festival, and was a finalist in the 1968 New York Philharmonic Auditions for Leonard Bernstein’s televised “Young People’s Concerts.” She was also the national winner of the MTNA Collegiate Competition in Chicago in 1978, the recipient of the Olga Samaroff Prize at the University of Maryland William Kapell International Piano Competition and a finalist in the Beethoven Foundation Auditions.

Victoria Rose Bishop, USAAn avid orchestral musician, Victoria Rose Bishop currently serves as Principal Flute of the Southeast Iowa Symphony, American Gothic Performing Arts Festival Orchestra, and the Southeast Iowa Band to name a few. As an active chamber musician and collaborator, Ms. Bishop is the flutist of the Durward Contemporary Music Ensemble and the GRIT Collaborative New Music Ensemble. She also regularly performs with Orchestra Iowa, the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, and the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Bishop holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Iowa where

she studied with Nicole Esposito and a Bachelor of Music degree from Georgia State University where she studied with Sarah Kruser Ambrose, and has engaged in post-graduate study with flutist Jim Walker and piccoloist Erica Peel. Ms. Bishop has also performed in Jim Walker’s Beyond the Master Class at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, California, the Flauti al Castello summer master class in Tuscany, Italy, and the Iowa Piccolo Intensive in Iowa City, Iowa. She has also performed in master classes with

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Kensho Watanabe, Kimberly Fisher, Michel Bellavance, Leone Buyse, Nicole Esposito, Carl Hall, Sarah Jackson, Angela Jones-Reus, Walfrid Kujala, Sergio Pallottelli, Christina Smith, and Jim Walker.

Christina Bouey, CanadaCanadian violinist Christina Bouey’s recent accolades include 1st Prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in the chamber division, Grand Prize at the Fischoff Competition, 1st place in the American Prize, and 2nd prize at the Osaka International Chamber Competition. Her other top awards include the Hugo Kortchak Award for outstanding achievement in chamber music, Heida Hermann International, Canadian National Music Festival, Queens Concerto Competition, and the Balsam Duo Competition. Christina graduated from Manhattan School of Music (2013)

with a Professional Studies Certificate in Orchestral Performance, studying with Glenn Dicterow and Lisa Kim as a full scholarship student, (2012) with a Professional Studies Certificate, studying with Laurie Smukler, and in 2011 she received a Master of Music, while studying with Nicholas Mann. Her Bachelor of Music (Magnum cum laude) is from The Boston Conservatory, where she studied with Irina Muresanu as a full-scholarship student. In June 2014, as part of the 150 year celebrations on PEI, professional dancers from Ballet Jazz de Montreal performed a modern dance to her first compositional commission for solo violin, with Christina playing it on the violin. Christina is currently serving as concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, is a member/founder of the Ulysses String Quartet, and plays in a duo with pianist Tatiana Tessman. She plays an 1820 Pressenda on generous loan from the Canada Council Instrument Bank.

Benjamin Doane, USABenjamin Doane has been learning the cello since the age of 6. His teachers include Katie Fittipaldi, Steven Doane, Rosemary Elliott, and Guy Johnston. In the summer of 2017 Ben attended the Perlman Music Program. Ben previously studied cello at the Heifetz International Music Institute and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. From 2014 to 2017 Ben was a principal player in the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. During the same period he was a member of the Carriage String Quartet at the Eastman Community Music School. Ben has performed with the Cayuga Chamber

Orchestra and Penfield Symphony Orchestra as winner of their Concerto Competitions. He was featured in 2016 on WXXI as a winner of the David Hochstein Recital competition. Last year Ben placed second in the National Classics Alive Auditions in California. In 2018 he won the Rochester Philharmonic League Aldridge-Tinker Scholarship for continued studies in music. He received the Lowry Award from the Rochester Music Hall of Fame, performing solo in Kodak hall during the induction ceremony. Ben is currently studying Cello Performance at the Eastman School of Music.

Steven Doane, USAInternationally known soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, recording artist, and pedagogue Steven Doane appears at festivals and on concert series throughout the United States and overseas. Doane received his BM from Oberlin Conservatory and his MM from SUNY Stony Brook. He received a Watson Foundation Grant for overseas study in 1975, and had further studies with Richard Kapuscinski, Bernard Greenhouse, Jane Cowan, and Janos Starker. Steven Doane and Eastman pianist Barry Snyder have made a series of recordings for the Bridge label. The duo’s recording of the complete

music of Gabriel Fauré for cello and piano was awarded the Diapason D’or in France, and has been broadcast throughout the United States and Canada, over the BBC in England, and throughout Europe. The second recording in the series, of works by Britten and Frank Bridge, was also released to critical acclaim. Steven Doane received Eastman’s Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993, and the Piatigorsky Prize in teaching at the New England Conservatory in 1986. As a member of the New

Arts Trio, Doane was awarded the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1980. He made his Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center debuts in Don Quixote with David Zinman and the Rochester Philharmonic in 1983. His Tully Hall recital debut occurred in 1990, and has been followed by numerous recital appearances, including programs in London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Saunders Theater, and many other venues. Steven Doane currently holds the title of “visiting professor” at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he has done several residencies.

Rosemary Elliott-Doane, Great BritainRosemary Elliott-Doane, Assistant Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music, has an active performing schedule as chamber musician and recitalist. As principle cellist of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, New York she was nominated to the artistic advisory board of that organization, and is a core member of the orchestra’s chamber music ensemble. Prior to her appointment at Eastman, Ms. Elliott was a member of the cello staff at the Royal College of Music, in London, (1994-1998) and performed regularly with some of most notable chamber

orchestras there, including the London Mozart Players, the City of London Sinfonia, and the Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square. Ms. Elliott has been for 10 years a member of the performing and teaching staff at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine. As a guest chamber musician she has also participated in the Skaneatles and Icicle Creek Chamber Music festivals, the Heifetz Academy in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, the International Musician’s Seminar in Cornwall, England, and the Kerry Chamber Music Festival in Ireland. In 2006 she appeared as guest clinician and gave master classes at the European String Teacher’s Association summer workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ms. Elliott has performed with the Rochester Chamber Society, and is a founding member of the Rochester-based cello quartet, the Cello Divas.

Clive Greensmith, Great BritainClive Greensmith has a distinguished career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. From 1999 until 2013 he was a member of the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet, giving over one hundred performances each year in the most prestigious international venues, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, London’s South Bank, Paris Chatelet, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has collaborated with international artists such as Midori, Andras Schiff, Pinchas Zukerman, Leon Fleisher, Lynn Harrell, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alicia

de Larrocha and Emmanuel Ax. Mr. Greensmith has given guest performances at prominent festivals worldwide. In North America he has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the Ravinia Festival. Internationally he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, Pacific Music Festival in Japan and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. As a soloist, Clive Greensmith has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, and the RAI Orchestra of Rome among others. During a career spanning over twenty-five years, Mr. Greensmith has built up a catalogue of landmark recordings, most notably The Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle for Harmonia Mundi with the Tokyo String Quartet, Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets with the Tokyo String Quartet and Brahms Cello Sonatas with Boris Berman for Biddulph Recordings, and Clarinet Trios by Beethoven and Brahms with Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse for Harmonia Mundi. His recording of Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major with the Tokyo String Quartet was named an “Outstanding” recording by the International Record Review.

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Ken Hakoda, JapanKen Hakoda is the department chair of music and director of choirs at Kansas Wesleyan University. Under his leadership, the department has grown from two faculty with seven majors, to a comprehensive music program with six full-time faculty, plus 11 adjunct faculty, and educates over 35 music majors in the areas of music education, music performance and music theatre. He is founder of the KWU Chamber Orchestra, now the KWU Philharmonic Orchestra. Hakoda is also the music director and conductor of the Salina Symphony. During his tenure as music director,

the Symphony has increased the number of concerts from four to seven with tremendous growth in both ticket sales and financial support. The symphony enjoys an average concert attendance of 1,000 including annual D-Day Concert at Eisenhower Presidential Library bringing over 4000 people. In addition, the Youth Symphony Program has flourished under his leadership, growing from one orchestra into a comprehensive educational program with four orchestras and one choir, involving more than 200 students from grade school through high school. To honor his accomplishments, the Ken Hakoda Endowed Conductor Chair was established in May 2014.

Jesse Henkensiefken, USAA Kansas native, Jesse Henkensiefken performs regularly as both a cellist and conductor. He serves as the Kansas Wesleyan University International Music Festival Director, Director of Orchestras & String Studies, as well as the Assistant Conductor and Principal Cellist of the Salina Symphony. He concertizes throughout the U.S. and abroad having appeared at the Kansas City Lyric Opera House, NYC’s Kaufman Center, the Eastman School of Music, Lincoln Center and in Guadalupe and the Bahamas. In 2017 he was named finalist for the American Prize in Conducting: Ernst

Bacon Award for Performance of American Music. He is the recipient of the 2014 & 2017 Woodworth Career Development Grants for conducting, and in 2013 was awarded the Sorbel Award at the Mu Phi Epsilon International Music Competition; later that same year he received the Foncannon Conducting Scholarship Award. Henkensiefken has studied at both the Manhattan School of Music and at the University of Kansas where he received his Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree. In 2015, he had the privilege of traveling to the Tchaikovsky State Moscow Conservatory in Russia, where he had further training under the direction of Anatoly Levin. His other mentors include George Manahan, David Gilbert, Nikolai Uljanov, Paul Vermel, Leonard Slatkin, Kurt Masur, Martin Storey and Edward Laut.

Paul Neubauer, USAViolist Paul Neubauer’s exceptional musicality and effortless playing led the New York Times to call him “a master musician.” This season he will appear in recital and with orchestras in the U.S. and Asia including his Chicago Symphony subscription debut with Riccardo Muti performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Robert Chen. His recording of the Aaron Kernis Viola Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, a work he premiered with the St. Paul Chamber, Los Angeles Chamber, and Idyllwild Arts orchestras and the Chautauqua Symphony, will be released on Signum

Records. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version of Viola Concerto), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower and has been featured on CBS’ Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on numerous labels

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including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical, and in 2016 he released a solo album of music recorded at Music@Menlo. Mr. Neubauer was recently appointed artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College.

David Neubert, USADr. David Neubert was the former Professor of Double Bass at The University of Texas at Austin (1982-2011) and the Director of Instructional Technology (2011-2014). He was also the Principal Bass of the Austin Symphony, Ballet and Opera Orchestra for thirty years. As one of the first Past-Presidents of the ISB, he directed two conventions - Austin ‘’86 and Interlochen ’93 and hosted the “Making of the ISB” panel presentation at the Ithaca ’17 convention. An avid fan of integrating technology into both teaching and performance, this year’s panel presentation on Online Teaching

- Pros and Cons,” will do just that. His former students have made an impact is all areas of the bass world and the greatest compliment he ever had was “you not only helped me become a better player but also a better person.” Currently, David has begun a Community Arts Center in honor of his late wife, Terri, in rural north central Kansas. Online teaching is one of the ways he keeps up with his private studio aside from flying back to Austin in his own airplane.

Michael Sinicropi, ItalyTrumpeter, Michael Sinicropi, based in New York City is becoming well known for his versatile approach to classical and jazz. As a soloist, Michael performed with the Vietnam Connection Music Festival Orchestra in Saigon and Hanoi. He has soloed with the Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra. He recently performed the Saint- Saëns septet with the prize-winning Ulysses Quartet and members of the Hong Kong Philharmonic in a benefit concert for the Children’s Medical Foundation of Hong Kong. He currently holds the position of 1st trumpet with the Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra.

Michael has performed at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall (Avery Fisher Hall), Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium), Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Hall (Boston), Saigon Opera House, Vietnam National Academy of Music (Hanoi), among others. Dedicated to chamber music, Michael founded Affinity Brass Quintet. The chamber ensemble has performed recitals around the United States and has held a residency at The Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Brooklyn NY. They are dedicated to bringing music to the younger generation. He teaches trumpet and trombone at the Dwight School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Tatiana Tessman, RussiaTatiana Tessman is an International prize winning pianist who has performed as soloist with orchestras around the world, including the World Symphony in Cincinnati, Shreveport Symphony, Bach’s Festival Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia, Uruguay Philharmonic Symphony, Panama Philharmonic Symphony, Korea W. Philharmonic, the Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. On the competition front, Tessman has seen overwhelming success, claiming first prizes at the Glenn Gould International Piano Competition in Ostra (Italy),

Santorini International Piano Competition (Greece), 55th Wideman International Piano Competition, the Missouri International Piano Competition and the 50th Cincinnati World Piano Competition, in addition to multiple other awards won at the Panama International Piano Competition, the Florida International Piano competition and the Eisenberg-Fried Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition in New York. She has earned degrees from the Moscow Conservatory and Park University, and received her Doctoral of Music Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music in NYC. Currently Tessman serves as the Kansas Wesleyan University Artist-in-Residence and Director of Keyboard Studies.

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