Regular Faculty - Week One
PIANO
Jan Deats was a scholarship student at Oberlin Conservatory and received her Master’s Degree from Southern Methodist University. She has been a student of Gyorgy Sandor, Alexander Uninsky and Menahem Pressler. She has performed for 30 years in The McCall Deats Duo, cello and piano. She is Chair of the Piano Department st the Rockland Conservatory of Music.
Lily Friedman, Music Director, piano, was a founding member of The New York Piano Trio, winner of Artists International Competition and awarded a debut performance at Carnegie’s Weill Hall. She has been a participant in the Marlboro Festival, the Orono,Maine Festival and has performed in a large variety of chamer ensembles throughout the metropolitan are and New England, as well as in France and the former Soviet Union. Among the more notable performances have been the entire Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin with New York Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova, and the entire Beethoven oeuvre for piano and cello with Juilliard professor Andre Emelianoff.
She is co-founder and Music Director of Summertrios, a chamber music organization which offers four one week residential programs to adult amateur musicians. It has served thousands of amateur musicians as well as having provided intensive training in chamber music for dozens of young professionals. She holds a Masters Degree from The Juilliard School where she was a student of Beveridge Webster and an ABD in the Doctoral Program at Teachers College of Columbia University. Independently, she studied with Irma Wolpe, and chamber music with Menahem Pressler, Arthur Balsam, Isidore Cohen, Rudolf Serkin, and Joseph Fuchs. She has been a performing participant in the Menahem Pressler Master Classes for the past 14 years.
Denise Kahn, piano, studied at the Oberlin Conservatory and has a Master’s Degree from The Mannes College of Music. Her primary teachers include Bruce Hungerford, Murray Perahia, Edward Aldwell, and Sophia Rosoff. She maintains a very busy studio in Manhattan teaching mainly serious adult amateurs. She has a full program of activities for her students, including chamber music, performance workshops, Feldenkreis workshops and theme parties. A chapter in the book “Piano Lessons” by Noah Adams is devoted to Denise’s teaching. She was a founding member of the Cameo Trio and is a member of the faculty of The Mannes College of Music, Extension Division. Denise has enjoyed coaching at Summertrios for the last 16 years.
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VIOLIN
Angelia Cho, violin, has performed all over the United States, England, Spain Portugal, Germany Switzerland, Vienna, Israel and has been lauded by critics for her expressive and dynamic performances. She has appeared as soloist with many ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra. The Allegro Society, the NEC Symphony and has collaborated with conductors Mark Laycock, Daniel Meyer, Luis Biava, Shlomo Mintz and David Lobel. In 2007, she joined the Academy two-year fellowship program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and The Weill Music Institute. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from The Curtis Institute and her Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Arthur Dibble, violinist, violist, is active in New York’s Broadway Show scene and with the American Symphony Orchestra. He recently toured with Barbara Streisand throughout the United States and Europe. He was a former member of the St.Louis Symphony Orchestra and frequently performs with the Harrisburg, Long Island, and Riverside Symphony Orchestras. Currently he is Principal Violist of the Key West Symphony. His chamber music performances throughout the world include collaborations with Cho-Liang Lin, Lynn Harrell, and Gil Shaham. A dedicated educator, Mr. Dibble was professor of viola and chamber music at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville and Washington University in St. Louis. He is a teaching artist for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and holds degrees from Duquesne University and The Juilliard School.
Erin Keefe, violinist, who's honors include winning the 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 200th Schadt Competition, and the 2004 Corpus Christi International String competition, as well as winning as Silver Medalist in the Carl Nielsen and Gyeongnam (Korea) International Violin competitions. During the 2006-2007 season she performed the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poland, The Bartok Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Allentown Symphony, and led a performance of the Dvorak Viola Quintet in the opening night program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Ms. Keefe has appeared with the Emerson String Quartet, Roberto and Andres Diaz, Edgar Meyer, Wu Han, Richard Goode, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalish, William Preucil, and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has recorded Schoenberg's Second String Quartet with ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry and Jennifer Welch-Babidge for the Naxos Label; and the Bartok Contrasts and Dvorak Piano Quintet for Deutsche Grammophone. She has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival, Musica Menlo, Music from Angel Fire, Ravinia and other festivals. She was recently a member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two program. Ms. Keefe holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a B. M. degree from the Curtis Institute. Her teachers included Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Esther Noh, violin, won the Audience Prize at the 2006 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition, First Prize in the 2004 Julius Stulberg International String Competition, and Second Prize in the 2009 Ima Hogg International Concerto Competition. She has soloed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony and the Danish National Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, she won first prize in the junior division of the 1994 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and has had residencies in Banff, the Smithsonian Museum and the Musicord Summer Festival. She was a member of the resident quartet for the University of Michigan Contemporary Ensemble. An active champion of improvised and alternative music, she has worked with John Zorn, Mark O’Connor and Edgar Meyer and given concerts at the Tonic Club and CBGB’s in New York City. Ms. Noh holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at SUNY, Stony Brook.
Jill Schultz, violin, holds a Bachelor’s Degree from City College, a Masters of Music degree from Stony Brook University and an EdD from Teachers College of Columbia University. She has performed with the Goldovsky and Lake George Opera Companies, the New Jersey Symphony, the Stamford Symphony, the NYC Ballet. She has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College and the Lucy Moses School and has served as an educational consultant to the Lincoln Center Institute and the Little Orchestra Society. She is currently teaching in the Scarsdale (NY) school district which was named in 2009 by NAMM the Best Community for Music Education.
Yuval Waldman, violin, (also conductor) made his debut as a solo violinist at the age
of 8. He gave his Carnegie Hall Debut in 1969 as winner of Jeunesses Musicales – Carnegie Hall International Competition. A graduate of The Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and The Juilliard School, he has performed worldwide as a violinist, conductor and chamber player. He is founding Music Director of the Madeira Bach Festival in Portugal and the Jefferson Music Festival at Kennedy Center; and principal conductor the New American Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded for Sony, Omega, Newport Classic and Angel Records.
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VIOLA
William Frampton, viola, is rapidly emerging as an exciting and unique artist. In recent seasons, he has appeared in recital in Boston, New York, Cambridge, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Wellesley and he gave his Carnegie Hall Recital debut this year in Weill Hall. He has appeared as soloist in Boston’s Jordan Hall and has participated in performances of Hindemith’s “Der Schwanendreher Concerto” for Viola and Orchestra as well as in Berlioz’ “Harold In Italy” with Joseph Silverstein conducting. Last season he collaborated with conductor David Hoose and the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble for a unique recital featuring the premiere of a viola concerto by Peter Homans. As a chamber musician, his festival and workshop appearances have included Verbier Festival Academy, Kneisel Hall, Sarasota Music Festival, The Perlman Music Program.
An enthusiastic performer of new music, he has worked closely with composers such as Gyorgy Kurtag and Malcolm Peyton. He has studied with Kim Kashkashian, Samuel Rhodes, Choong-Jin Chang and Byrnina Socolfsky. William is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Music at Bunker Hill, a chamber music series in Southern New Jersey.
Andrew Knebel, viola, is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford where he was a student of Steve Larson. He holds a double Bachelor’s Degree in Viola performance and Music Education. He was a member of the Honors Chamber Program at the Hartt School, “Performance 20/20”, a tuition-free, invitation only program. He has participated in Master Classes with John Largess (Miro String Quartet), Chauncey Patterdon (Miami String Quartet) and Heidi Castleman. Andrew is also a coach for the Young People’s Institute for Chmaber Music in Stamford, CT.
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CELLO
James J. Cooper III, cellist, attended The Curtis Institute of Music as a student of David Soyer and Peter Wiley. He is Principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra as substitute cello. He also participates in the Philadelphia Chamber Music Series and the Post Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music cooncerts. He is principal cellist of The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra which has performed across Europe and in many South American countries. He has performed solo on the chamber music series at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Joseph Kimura, cello, is a past member of the Laurentian String Quartet, principal cellist of the Stamford Symphony, and a member of the Westfield (NJ) Symphony, Opera Orchestra of New York, and Amici of New York. He has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Stamford Symphony, Hoboken Chamber Orchestra, Garden State Chamber Orchestra, Korean Symphony, Gloria Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the State of Mexico. Joe appears on recordings for the EOS ensemble and Riverside Symphony, as well as numerous movie and TV soundtracks. He has performed live on National Public Radio and appeared on Broadway with The Will Rodgers Follies and Beauty and the Beast. Joe holds Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and an orchestral training certificate from the National Orchestral Association. He teaches at Summertrios and the Greenwood Junior Camp.
Brian Snow, cello, is a doctoral student in music at SUNY Stonybrook where he studies with Colin Carr. He has appeared as a soloist with the Crescent City Symphony (New Orleans), the Hartt Symphony and the Longy Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with Ricardo Morales, David Jolley, Christina Dahl and the Emerson String Quartet, and has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Taos Festival and others. He is first prize winner in the Paranov competition, the Denison Performing Arts Competition and the Emerson String Quartet Competition. He is a member of the New Haven Symphony, Orchestra New England, and principal cellist of the Waterbury Symphony.
Andrey Tchekmazov, cello, is a Grand Prize winner of the Vittoria Gui International Chamber Music Competition in Florence and Premio Trio de Trieste in Trieste, as well as Premio della Critica in Italy. Mr. Tchekmazov has performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Russia and Asia. His appearances include the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Osaka Symphony Hall in Japan, Brazil’s Sala San Palo, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall, etc.
Among his other prizes and awards are the Koussivitzky Competition, Stadt, and the Russian National Competition in Moscow.
As a frequent performer with the Jupiter Chamber Players and Lyric Chamber Music Society in New York, and at the Phillips Collection in Washington, Andrey Tchekmazov has “impressed his audiences with big, warm tone and…Russian brand of virtuosity”-Strad, London-New York.