2024 Festival Musicians
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Raphael Bell enjoys a varied career as a principal cellist, chamber musician, teacher, and festival director. He is currently principal cello of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, co-Artistic Director of La Loingtaine in Montigny-sur-Loing, France, co-founder of the Camerata Fontainebleau, and co-founder and Artistic Director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival.
As a chamber musician he has performed at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Salle Gaveau, Berlin Philharmonie, Köln Philharmonie, Luzerner Theater, Tokyo Suntory Hall, and Kyoto Concert Hall, and at festivals including Seattle Chamber Music, Ferrara Musica, Wiener Festwochen, Elba Festival, Ravinia, Verbier and Resonance Festival Belgium. He was part of the IMS Prussia Cove tour that won the Chamber Music Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, and has collaborated with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, James Ehnes, Martha Argerich, Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis, and with quartets including Brooklyn Rider, Dante, Taurus, Orpheus, and Oxalys Ensemble.
Raphael gave the world premiere of Olli Mustonen's Triptych for three cellos with Steven Isserlis and Steven Doane. Solo performances include concertos with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Nagaokakyo Ensemble, Tokyo Luft Ensemble, and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under Edo de Waart and the Brahms Double Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe. As a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for many years, he played in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s celebrated Mahler Symphony Cycle with Claudio Abbado. He has been guest principal in Les Dissonances, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and worked with the Munich Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique.
Raphael studied at The Juilliard School with Harvey Shapiro, and later with Mario Brunello, Steven Isserlis and Ferenc Rados.
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Violinist Timothy Summers is a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and has performed on violin, viola, and occasionally mandolin with the orchestra across the world. He serves on the orchestra’s board and is artistic director of the MCO’s ‘Future Presence’ Virtual Reality project with sound artist Henrik Oppermann.
Co-founder and co-director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival since 2000, Timothy has performed as a chamber musician at festivals across the United States and Europe. He served as second violinist of the Orpheus String Quartet, and was for several years a participant in the Emmanuel Music cycle of Bach Cantatas in Boston, led by John Harbison and the late Craig Smith.
Timothy has performed extensively as an improviser with electronics. He spent the 2005-2006 year as artist-in-residence at the Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music in Århus, funded by a grant from the Fulbright Commission. He has collaborated with improvisation artist Steven Nachmanovitch on improvisation and digital music projects, and he continues to develop music learning and analysis tools for digital media, with a concentration on AR/VR and sonic interaction.
Timothy Summers currently teaches violin on the faculty of the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, and has taught violin, orchestral playing, improvisation, and chamber music worldwide. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University in English and American Literature and an M.M. in violin Performance from The Juilliard School. He was a student of Ronald Copes and Robert Mann at the Juilliard School, Mark Rush at the University of Virginia, James Buswell at New England Conservatory, and Robert Levin at Harvard University.
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Rebecca Albers is the Principal Violist of the Minnesota Orchestra. She has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, having made her New York debut at Lincoln Center performing the New York premiere of Samuel Adler’s Viola Concerto. As a chamber musician, she has been a frequent performer at such festivals as the Marlboro Music Festival, Strings Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Society‘s Summer and Winter Festivals, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, and the International Musicians Seminar and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove.
Rebecca is a member of Accordo, a Twin Cities-based chamber ensemble comprised of principal players from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra. She is on the viola faculties of Mercer University’s Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the University of Minnesota, and previously taught at the University of Michigan, in the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, and at such summer programs as the Perlman Music Program and the North American Viola Institute. Rebecca studied at the Juilliard School with Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. Her childhood teachers were James Maurer, and her mother, Ellie LeRoux.
Rebecca lives in St Paul, MN where the time she used to spend enjoying hobbies is now happily spent with her partner and their two young children.
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Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Prague’s Rudolfinum, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.
Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have encompassed a vast repertoire of more than 60 concertos with orchestra. He has performed with such conductors as Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and has appeared in solo recitals and in chamber music concerts with the Ehnes, Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.
Recent and upcoming seasons find Andrew continuing to perform as soloist and chamber musician around the globe, from London to Geneva and Tuscany, from Australia to Hong Kong and Singapore, across Canada and the United States, while continuing to build and grow the flourishing chamber music series he directs in New York City (Fabbri Chamber Concerts), Beaufort and Columbia, SC and in New Canaan, CT.
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With their gripping performance style and unquenchable appetite for musical adventure, Brooklyn Rider has carved a singular space in the world of string quartets over its fifteen-year history. The quartet finds equal inspiration in musical languages ranging from late Beethoven to Persian classical music to American roots music to the varied voices of living composers. It operates comfortably within the long arc of this tradition, illuminating works of the past with fresh insight, while creating thoughtful and relevant frames for commissioning projects.
During the 2024-25 season, the quartet presents the Brooklyn Rider Almanac II, a second installment of the genre-crossing commissioning project started 10 years ago, with new pieces by Gabriel Kahane, Clarice Assad, Tyshawn Sorey, and Giovanni Solllima. Also on the program: Arnold Schoenberg’s watershed String Quartet No. 2, and a setting of poems by Wassily Kandinsky called Chalk & Soot, composed by Colin Colin, and featuring soprano Ariadne Greif. Brooklyn Rider will present several cycles of the complete works for string quartet by Philip Glass. Brooklyn Rider’s 20-album discography has given rise to NPR Music’s observation that the quartet is “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.”
Shared during the global pandemic, the Grammy®-nominated recording Healing Modes (In A Circle Records) presented Beethoven’s towering Opus 132 — the composer’s late testament on healing and the restorative power of new creation — interwoven with five new commissions powerfully exploring topics as wide-ranging as the US-Mexico border conflict, the Syrian refugee crisis, the mental health epidemic, and physical well-being.
That season also saw the release of two projects from vastly different musical spheres—one with the master Irish fiddler Martin Hayes (In A Circle Records) and the other with saxophone great Joshua Redman (Nonesuch Records). In fall 2018, Brooklyn Rider released Dreamers with Mexican jazz vocalist Magos Herrera (Sony Music Masterworks).
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For more than two decades, omnivorous violist Nicholas Cords has been on the front line of a unique constellation of projects as performer, educator, and cultural advocate, with a signature passion for the cross-section between the long tradition of classical music and the expansive range of music being created today.
Nicholas served for twenty years as violist of the Silkroad Ensemble, a musical collective founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 with the belief that cross-cultural collaboration leads to a more hopeful world. This mission was poignantly explored by the Oscar-nominated documentary by Morgan Neville, The Music Of Strangers , which makes a case for why culture matters. In addition, Nicholas served from 2017-2020 as a Co-Artistic Director for Silkroad, and previously as Silkroad’s Programming Chair. He appears on all of the Silkroad Ensemble’s albums including Sing Me Home (Sony Music), which received a 2017 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.
Another key aspect of Nicholas’ musical life is as founding member of Brooklyn Rider, an intrepid group which NPR credits with "recreating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” Deeply committed to collaborative ventures, the group has worked with Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, ballerina Wendy Whelan, Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, Mexican singer Magos Herrera, and banjoist Béla Fleck, to name a few. Two recent Brooklyn Rider recordings garnered Grammy nominations: Healing Modes (2021), which paired Beethoven’s Opus 132 with five new commissions on healing, and Stranger (2022) with tenor Nicholas Phan, featuring the music of Nico Muhly.
His acclaimed 2020 solo recording Touch Harmonious (In a Circle Records) is a reflection on the arc of tradition spanning from the baroque to today, featuring multiple premieres. A dedicated teacher, Nicholas currently serves on the viola and chamber music faculty of New England Conservatory.
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Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with innumerable orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and St Paul Chamber Orchestra. As chamber musician she has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise Art Center, Toronto Summer Music, and the Bridgehampton, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto Music Festivals.
Her extensive discography includes several discs for Naxos: the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by the legendary Robert Craft, and two GRAMMY-nominated recordings with the Fred Sherry Quartet, of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, and the Schoenberg Third String Quartet. Her most recent releases are with pianist John Blacklow on Albany Records: the first devoted to the three sonatas of Robert Schumann; the second, American Duos, an exploration of recent additions to the violin and piano repertoire by contemporary American composers Barbara White, Steven Mackey, Elena Ruehr, Dan Coleman, and Stephen Hartke. She also recorded three widely praised CDs for Artek: an orchestral recording of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; the violin music of Ravel and Stravinsky; and 20th-century works for solo violin. Other recordings include a disc of Romantic Horn Trios, with hornist Eric Ruske and pianist Stephen Prutsman, and the Stravinsky Duo Concertant with pianist Jeremy Denk.
Born in Pasadena, California, Jennifer attended the Colburn School, Harvard, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous loan from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium. She currently teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.
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The musical voice of Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman reflects the artistic collaborations he has been a part of since moving to the United States in 1995. Richard Brody of The New Yorker has called him “revelatory” in concert, placing him in the company of “radically transformative” performers like Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin and Christian Zacharias.
Johnny integrates a wide range of creative sensibilities into a unique style among today's violinists, one that according to The Boston Globe, possesses "a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination." His recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, which reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, and made it onto New York Magazine and The New York Times Best of the Year lists, was described by The Boston Globe as "...sparklingly personal Bach, shorn of grandeur, lofted by a spirit of dance, and as predictable as the flight of a swallow."
Johnny Gandelsman is a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and was a member of the Silkroad Ensemble for 18 years.
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In all roles, from orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician to conductor, Benjamin Hochman regards music as vital and essential. Composers, fellow musicians, orchestras and audiences recognize his deep commitment to insightful programming and performances of quality.
Born in Jerusalem in 1980, Benjamin studied with Claude Frank at Curtis and Richard Goode at Mannes.
Since his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall conducted by Pinchas Zukerman, he has performed with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic and Prague Philharmonia under conductors including Gianandrea Noseda, Trevor Pinnock, and John Storgårds.
A winner of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant, Benjamin performs at venues around the world, including the Philharmonie in Berlin, Marlboro Music Festival, and the Louvre. His chamber music collaborations include the Emerson, Jerusalem, and Casals Quartets.
Following his conducting studies with Alan Gilbert at Juilliard, he recorded Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 17 and 24, playing and directing the English Chamber Orchestra (Avie Records). He has conducted the orchestras of Santa Fe Pro Musica, Orlando, Bridgeport, and The Orchestra Now.
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Violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen is “one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene.” –The Washington Post
Since the early 2000's, Colin has forged an intriguing path in the cultural landscape of our time, collaborating with an astonishingly wide range of artists across diverse traditions and disciplines while constantly looking for new ways to connect with audiences.
For his work as a founding member of two innovative and influential ensembles – the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and orchestra The Knights – Colin was selected from among the nation’s top visual, performing, media, and literary artists to receive a prestigious and substantial United States Artists Fellowship. He is also active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and has toured with Silkroad since its founding by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 at Tanglewood.
As a composer he has written pieces for an eclectic mix of artists including pianist Emanuel Ax, singers Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Jamie Barton, banjo player Bela Fleck, mandolinist Avi Avital, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, choreographers John Heginbotham and Brian Brooks, theater group Compagnia de' Colombari and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
Starting in the 2022/23 season, Colin assumed the position of Artistic Director of Santa Fe Pro Musica, an organization with which he has had a fruitful long term association as a guest soloist and leader.
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Anthony Manzo’s vibrantly interactive music-making has made him a ubiquitous figure in the upper echelons of classical music, performing regularly at venues including Lincoln Center and Boston’s Symphony Hall, and at festivals including Spoleto USA, Music@Menlo, Bowdoin International Festival, and La Jolla SummerFest.
He appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and with chamber music groups and chamber orchestras across the country. Anthony has also been guest principal with Camerata Salzburg during their summer residency at the Salzburg Festival, as well as two European tours as soloist alongside bass/baritone Thomas Quasthoff.
Anthony is also an active performer on period instruments with the Handel and Haydn Society and Philharmonia Baroque, and teaches at the University of Maryland.
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A “long-admired figure on the New York scene,” The New Yorker, cellist Michael Nicolas enjoys a diverse career as chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, improvisor, and teacher.
He is the cellist of the intrepid and genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider, which has drawn praise from classical, world music, and rock critics alike. As a member of the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), he has worked with countless composers from around the world, premiering and recording dozens of new works. Another group, Third Sound, of which Michael is a founding member, made its debut with an historic residency at the 2015 Havana Contemporary Music Festival in Cuba. Earlier in his career, he played with the wildly popular South Korean chamber group Ensemble Ditto, and also held a post as Associate Principal Cellist of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. His solo album Transitions is available on the Sono Luminus record label.
Of mixed French-Canadian and Taiwanese heritage, Michael was born in Canada, and currently resides in New York City, where he is on the cello faculty at The Mannes School of Music at The New School. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
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Violinist Simone Porter has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned energy, interpretive integrity, and vibrant communication. She has debuted with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle and Pittsburgh Symphonies and with a number of renowned conductors, including Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, Donald Runnicles, David Robertson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Louis Langrée and David Danzmayr. Simone made her professional solo debut at age 10 with the Seattle Symphony and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at age 13. In March 2015, she was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Recent seasons have included extensive tours and debuts across the US and internationally. In 2024-2025 Simone will perform with the Nashville and Baltimore Symphonies, as well as Santa Rosa, Monterey and Westchester Symphonies, and Johnson City Symphony, TN. She will debut with the Arkansas Symphony, performing Glass’ 1st violin concerto. An avid chamber musician, Simone can be heard at La Jolla Summerfest in August of 2024, followed by projects with Bay Chamber Music, Moab Music Festival and Charlottesville. Together with her colleagues violinist Blake Blake and pianist Hsin-I Huang, Simone will present a program at Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth, TX and Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA in spring of 2025.
Simone Porter performs on a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi violin made in Cremona, Italy on generous loan from The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, California.
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Violinist Blake Pouliot (pool-YACHT), described as “immaculate, at once refined and impassioned,” ArtsAtlanta, has established himself as “one of those special talents that comes along once in a lifetime,” Toronto Star. A tenacious young artist, Blake captivates audiences with his passionate performances.
In the upcoming 2024/25 season, Blake’s symphonic highlights include concerts with the London Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Kymi Sinfonietta, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Grand Rapids Symphony.
As a chamber musician, Blake will perform at Carnegie Hall and Cliburn Concerts. He recently returned to NAC’s Music for a Sunday Afternoon series, Aspen Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, and Festival Napa Valley at the San Francisco Conservatory.
In Europe, Blake debuted with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Spain at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, performing Tchaikovsky’s concerto with Rossen Milanov, and play-directing Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons in a chamber program.
During his ongoing tenure as Soloist-in-Residence of Orchestre Métropolitain, Blake and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons, leading to Blake’s 2022 debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing John Corigliano’s The Red Violin.
Blake’s debut album of 20th century French music on Analekta Records received critical acclaim, including a five-star rating from BBC Music Magazine and a 2019 Juno Award nomination. He performs on the 1729 Guarneri del Gesù, generously on loan from an anonymous donor.
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Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan enjoys performing chamber music, old and new, around the world. For two decades, as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, he toured extensively through North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and recorded for Bridge Records and Avie Records, including the complete piano trios of Robert Schumann and the complete string quartets of Fred Lerdahl. Raman is currently an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Raman has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has performed at Caramoor, at Bargemusic, with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and at the Aspen, Bard, Charlottesville, Four Seasons, Kingston, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta (India), Oklahoma Mozart, Portland, Skaneateles, and Vail Music Festivals. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed, as guest principal cellist, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a guest member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, he has performed in New Delhi and Agra, India and in Cairo, Egypt. He has served on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall, Norfolk, and Taconic Chamber Music Festivals, as well as in the Music Performance Program of Columbia University.
Raman was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in East Patchogue, New York. His father is a molecular biologist and his mother is the children's book author and illustrator Vera Rosenberry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a Master’s degree in music from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Andrés Díaz, and André Emelianoff. Raman lives in New York City with his wife, the violist Melissa Reardon, and their son. He plays a Neapolitan cello made by Vincenzo Jorio in 1837.
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Jennifer Stumm blazes a unique path as violist, artistic director and social entrepreneur. She is founder and director of Ilumina, the artist collective and social equity initiative, which began on a coffee farm in Brazil and has ascended to global prominence as a modern model for 21st century creativity. Ilumina unites leading artists and thinkers with top rising talent from Latin America, working together at the Ilumina Festival and performing around the world with the mission of ensuring that top talent has access to opportunity, no matter where it is born. Nearly 200 Ilumina fellows have gone on to study at the world’s greatest universities.
Winner of the William Primrose and Concert Artists Guild competitions (the first violist to ever win first prize,) Jennifer is a regular performer on the world’s great stages, with this season’s highlights including her Concertgebouw large hall return, a four-concert residency at the Edinburgh International Festival, and concert appearances on 5 continents.
She recently spoke and performed at NASA, and is in demand as a public speaker in the innovation sector on how artistic thinking can build a better world. Her viral TED talk about the blessings of being different led to a solo debut at the Berlin Philharmonie.
Born in Atlanta to a family of singers steeped in Appalachian tradition, Jennifer studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School. She is viola professor at the University of Music and Arts in Vienna and plays a Gasparo da Saló viola, c. 1589, generously on loan from a private collection.
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Dan Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents and based in New York City, is a highly acclaimed pianist-composer known for his innovative and boundary-defying work. He has performed globally with leading figures in jazz and classical music, from Lee Konitz to Renée Fleming, and has released twelve albums as leader in solo, duo, and trio formats. Dan gained international recognition with his 2011 release Goldberg Variations / Variations, where he performed and improvised on Bach’s masterpiece, to “elegant, thoughtful, and thrilling” effect, New York Magazine.
His 2019 video album Natural Machines showcased his exploration of the intersection between science and art, combining coding with improvisation. The New York Times described him as a “deeply rational improviser drawn to the unknown.” In 2023, he revisited Bach with Inventions / Reinventions, which topped the Billboard Classical Charts.
During the Covid pandemic, Dan embraced live-streaming, performing nearly two hundred online concerts and developing the ultra-low-latency audio app FarPlay to collaborate with musicians remotely. His compositions extend beyond jazz, including the piano quintet Solar Spiral and the suite Algorithmic Transform. Upcoming commissions for 2024-2025 include a choir and piano suite in memory of his mother, a song cycle for Cécile McLorin Salvant and string orchestra, and a symphonic work integrating algorithms and visuals.
Dan's accolades include first prizes at the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition (2006) and the American Pianists Awards (2007), as well as fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the MacDowell Colony, and the Foundation BNP-Paribas.
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Violist Jessica Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad as a member of the Daedalus Quartet. Praised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” Daedalus has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Abroad, the quartet has appeared in leading venues in Vienna, Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Daedalus has been
in residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006. Among other projects, the quartet performed the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets at Penn in 2017/18 and embarked on a 2-year exploration of the six Bartok string quartets beginning in fall 2023. The quartet has been recognized for its commitment to new music and has premiered works by composers such as Fred Lerdahl, Vivian Fung, Joan Tower, Richard Wernick, and Anna Weesner. Daedalus has recorded several highly acclaimed discs for Bridge Records. In addition to her appearances with the Daedalus Quartet, Jessica has performed at numerous festivals, including Aspen, Taos, Marlboro, the Portland, Charlottesville, and Skaneateles Chamber Music Festivals, and Chamber Music Northwest. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and performs regularly as a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, of which she serves as Co-Executive Director. Jessica has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and in recital in New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. A dedicated educator, she currently teaches at Princeton and Columbia Universities. Jessica is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Karen Tuttle.
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