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2022 Festival Musicians

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Raphael Bell, cello
Co-Artistic Director, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival  •  Principal cellist, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra  •  Co-Artistic Director, La Loingtaine in Montigny-sur-Loing, France  •  Chamber musician with Seattle Chamber Music Society, Ferrara Musica and Elba Festival (Italy)

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Timothy Summers, violin & viola
Co-Artistic Director, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival  •  Violinist, Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO)  •  Co-Artistic Director of MCO’s ‘Future Presence’ VR project  ​•  Former second violinist, Orpheus String Quartet  •  Violin faculty, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Photo by Geoffroy Schied
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Andrew Armstrong, piano 
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Artistic Director, Chamber Music on Main at the Columbia Museum of Art (SC)  •  Member of Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players​
Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

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Ayn Balija, viola
Principal violist, Charlottesville Symphony at UVA  •  Associate professor of viola, UVA  •  Founding member of Piedmont Duo with I-Jen Fang  •  Former member of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus
Photo by Jen Fariello

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Gregory Beyer, percussion
Director of Percussion Studies, Northern Illinois University  •  Artistic Director, Arcomusical  •  Member of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble  •  Fulbright Scholar
Photo by Miranda Longoria Photography

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James Ehnes, violin 
Soloist with the New York Philharmonic, MET Orchestra and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig  •  Artistic Director, Seattle Chamber Music Society  •  Co-Founder, Ehnes Quartet  •  Two Grammy awards and 11 Junos  •  Released complete Beethoven sonatas with Andrew Armstrong  •  Artist of the Year, Gramophone Awards 2021​
Photo by B. Ealovega

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I-Jen Fang, percussion
International marimba artist  •  Percussion faculty, McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia  •  Principal timpanist and percussionist, Charlottesville Symphony  •  Innovative Percussion and Marimba One artist
Photo by Jen Fariello

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Alex Fortes, violin
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Member and frequent principal player with A Far Cry, the Knights, Quodlibet Ensemble, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s/St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble  •  Guest with Henschell, Attacca, Dalí, Momenta quartets  •  Performed on A Far Cry’s 2014 and 2018 Grammy-nominated albums  •  ​Arranged Bach, Dvorak and early music for Simone Dinnerstein, the Prague Philharmonia and the Aizuri Quartet

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Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Soloist with the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra  •  Chamber musician with the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center  •  Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient  •  Two-time Grammy nominee
Photo by Dario Acosta

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Johnny Gandelsman, violin
Grammy award winning violinist and producer  •  Founding member of Brooklyn Rider  •  Curator of “This is America”  •  Former member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble for 18 years
Photo by Marco Giannavola

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Eric Lamb, flute
Performed with the Boulez Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra  •  Former core member of International Contemporary Ensemble  •  Premiered more than 200 works in the last decade  •  Teaches flute and chamber music at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music, Vienna
Photo by Maria Frodl

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Raman Ramakrishnan, cello 
Founding member of the Daedalus Quartet and Horszowski Trio  •  Artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society  ​•  Faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music  •  Guest member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble

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Jessica Thompson, viola 
Longtime member of the award-winning Daedalus Quartet  •  Member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra  •  Soloist with Minnesota Orchestra  •  Performer at Aspen, Taos, Marlboro, Verbier festivals; Bard Summerscapes  •  Teacher at Princeton and Columbia universities
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