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Christian
Altenburger
(Violin) studied in his hometown
of Vienna at the Viennese Musikhochschule, graduating in 1974.
He then went to New York to continue his studies with Doro-thy
DeLay at the Juilliard School. He has been a professor at the
Musikhochschule Hannover in Germany. Altenburger has worked
with many conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt,
Christoph von Dohnányi, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Bernard
Haitink, Marek Janowski, Dimitri Kitaenko, James Levine, Lorin
Maazel, Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Vaclav Neumann, Roger
Norrington, Andre Previn, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin,
and Franz Welser-Most. He has worked with such famous orchestras
as the Bamberg Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra
of Europe, Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam,
London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic,
and Vienna Symphony. His repertoire is vast and reaches from
Bach to numerous world premieres. In 1980 he received the prestigious
Mozart-Interpretationspreis. Being a much sought-after chamber
musician, Altenburger regularly performs with distinguished
colleagues like Bruno Canino, Thomas Demenga, Heinz Holliger,
Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkasian, Truls Mørk, Thomas Riebl,
Wolfgang Schulz, Melvyn Tan, and Lars Vogt. Highlights of past
seasons include a tour with the Vienna Symphony, performing
the Hindemith concerto with the Viennese Konzerthaus, a debut
concert with the Oslo Philharmonic, and recitals at the Viennese
Musikverein and London’s Wigmore Hall. In summer 1999 he
performed at the Salzburg Festival with the Camerata Academica
Salzburg conducted by Franz Welser-Most as well as with the
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Altenburger has appeared at numerous
festivals including the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Kuhmo Festival,
Musikferstwochen Luzern, Marlboro Music Festival, Musiktage
Mondsee, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Festival Pablo Casals in Prades,
Ravinia Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Stavanger Festival,
and the Vienna Festival. Together with his wife, Austrian actress
Julia Stemberger, he has been the artistic director of the Austrian
chamber music festival, Mondsee Tage, since 1999. |
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Tadeu
Coelho
(Flute) joined the UI music faculty
in 1997. An international touring artist sponsored by the Miyazawa
Flute Company, he has appeared as soloist and chamber musician
throughout Europe and the Americas. He has performed as first
solo flutist with the Santa Fe Symphony, the Hofer Symphoniker
in Germany and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy. In the
summer of 1996 he was invited to play with the Boston Symphony
at Tanglewood under conductors Bernard Haitink, Robert Shaw
and Robert Spano. He has studied with many of the leading flute
teachers around the world. He holds a doctorate from the Manhattan
School of Music, where he studied with Julius Baker. He has
toured Italy, Germany, the United States, Mexico and Brazil,
performing concerts and giving master classes. Coelho performs
a wide range of repertoire, with special interest in the music
of Latin America. Several composers have written works for him,
including Ronald Roseman, Ruth Schonthal, Joaquín Gutiérrez
Heras, Eduardo Gamboa, Amaral Vieira, Michael Weinstein, Steven
Block, Richard Herman, Michael Eckert and Lawrence Fritts. Before
coming to the University of Iowa, Coelho taught at the University
of New Mexico, and more recently he served as visiting professor
at the Ino Mirkovich Music Academy in Croatia. |
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Diana
Gannett
(Bass) first studied the double
bass with Dr. Eldon Obrecht of the University of Iowa, where
she earned her bachelors degree. She also studied with Stuart
Sankey at the Aspen Music Festival and with virtuoso Gary Karr
at Yale. While at Yale, she earned both a master’s degree
and a doctorate in musical arts, the first Yale doctorate awarded
in double bass. She is currently president of the International
Society of Bassists (ISB) and hosted the 1999 international
convention at the University of Iowa. As a chamber musician
she has performed with the artists of the Guarneri, Emerson,
Laurentian, and Stanford Quartets, and the Borodin Trio. Her
frequent solo performances include many contemporary premieres
as well as traditional repertoire. She is recorded on Irida
records and has recently completed a solo CD, Ladybass. |
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David
Gompper’s
(Piano) teaching experience is
diverse, teaching at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka, the
University of Texas, Arlington, and currently at the University
of Iowa, where he has been since 1991. He is the director of
the Center for New Music, an independent unit within the School
of Music that fosters contemporary music-making. Founded in
1966 with two Rockefeller Foundation grants, it has been active
in promoting the music of living composers through commissions
and performances and has placed Iowa in a prominent position
within the field. He recently completed a film score to a documentary
on the Nazi Drawings by the artist Mauricio Lasansky, which
won best original score award at the Iowa Motion Pictures Association
in 2000. He is currently working on a commission from Arizona
State University and a work for solo piano to be premiered at
Wigmore Hall in London this October. David Gompper’s international
experience has been extensive, performing and lecturing in Kwangju,
South Korea, in New Zealand at Auckland University, at the Moscow
Conservatory of Music, and at a conference in Thessaloniki,
Greece. Gompper is president of the Society of Composers, Inc. |
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Mark
Gothóni
(Violin) was born in Finland in
1967. After attending the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki which
he entered at the age of six, he moved to Munich in 1984 to
continue his studies with Ana Chumachenko. His other teachers
and artistic advisors included Shmuel Ashkenasi in Chicago and
Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. A major prizewinner at international
competitions, including the Brahms Violin Competition in Hamburg
in 1998, he was chosen in 1991 as Debutant-of-the-Year at the
prestigious Jyvaskyla Arts Festival in Finland in 1991. Since
then, he has regularly performed with leading orchestras in
his native country. Gothóni has toured five continents
performing in the Berlin Philharmonic, Casals Hall Tokyo, Osaka
Symphony Hall and Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, among others. He
is a frequent guest at festivals across Europe including Kuhmo,
Pesaro, Biarritz, Aschau, Newbury, Ravello, Salzburg and St.
Gallen; in Israel and the Far East. As a chamber musician he
is especially known as the founder and first violinist of the
Gothóni Quartet. He has also served for a number of years
as guest leader of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche
Kammerakademie Neuss and the Kammer-philharmonie Amade. In addition
to his career as a violinist, Gothóni considers composing
an inseparable part of his musical work. His compositions are
increasingly being performed; the International Biennale for
Contemporary Music in Tampere, Finland has programmed his string
quartets in recitals, and several other festivals have commissioned
works. He is the artistic director of the Festival in Rauma
and the International Chamber Music Institute in Savonlinna,
both in Finland, and a frequent guest teacher in many European
countries, including the Summer Academy in Montpellier, France,
as well as in Japan and China. |
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Rachel
Joselson
(Soprano) recently joined the School
of Music Voice Area as an assistant professor. Before coming
to Iowa, she spent thirteen years performing throughout Europe.
Her many roles included guest appearances and operatic engagements
at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, the Hamburg State Opera,
the Theater and Philharmonie in Essen, and the Theater in Basel.
As a guest artist, she performed as soloist with opera companies
and orchestras in Aachen, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Bonn, Braunschweig,
Atlanta, Indianapolis, Essen, Brussels, Kiel, Gelsenkirchen,
St. Gallen, Trier, New Brunswick, Madison Opera, and the Johnson
City Symphony. For the 1995-96 season, she had her first engagement
at the Metropolitan Opera, and was engaged by London’s
Covent Garden for their 1992 Japan tour. In the summer of 1999,
she debuted as Leonore in Fidelio with the Gars Opera Festival
(Austria). |
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Terry
King
(Cello) is a protégé
of the legendary Gregor Piatigorsky and served as his assistant
in Piatigorsky’s masterclasses at the University of Southern
California. King was privileged to join his celebrated teacher
in a duo performance in one of the master’s last concerts.
King is also a musical scholar, chamber musician and conductor.
His repertoire features the classic works for cello, including
unknown masterworks he has found throughout the world. Many
prominent American composers have written works for King as
well as entrusted him with their premieres, among those being
Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Halsey Stevens, Paul Reale, Paul
Creston, Miklos Rozsa, Lou Harrison, Lukas Foss, Otto Luening,
and many others. King is a member of the Mirecourt Trio, and
has been on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory,
University of California at Berkeley, California State University
at Fullerton, Grinnell College, and the University of Iowa.
He is currently teaching at the Longy and the Hartt schools
of music. King is presently engaged in a recording project of
standard and American works for cello on the Music and Arts
label. His recording of the complete Mendelssohn works was acclaimed
in Fanfare Magazine and was also the preferred recording mentioned
on the nationally syndicated radio program, “First Hearing.”
His groundbreaking series “Cello America” has been
met with similar praise worldwide. Terry King records for MCA,
CRI, Innova, Genesis, Orion, A&M, Music and Arts, Bay Cities,
Gasparo, Erasmus, Albany, Troy, Varese Saraband, and TR Records. |
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Juhani
Lagerspetz
(Piano) was born in 1959 and began
his musical training at the age of six at the Turku Conservatory.
He subsequently continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy,
Helsinki and the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Eero Heinonen
and Matti Haapasalo. At 13 he made his performing debut with
the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra playing Shostakovich’s
Second Piano Concerto. Lagerspetz has won numerous competitions,
most notably the special prize of the jury at the Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow in 1982. His success has led to performances
as a recitalist and soloist with leading orchestras in Scandinavia,
Western Europe, Japan, Russia, the U.S., South Korea, and Chile.
The pianist is an active and a much sought-after chamber musician
and is a regular guest at chamber music festivals all over the
world. In addition to his chamber music and solo performances,
he is very much in demand as a Lied pianist. In spring 1993,
he received glowing reviews for his recital debut at Wigmore
Hall in London. A tenured piano professor at the Sibelius Academy,
Helsinki, since 1983, Lagerspetz has received the five-year
Artist’s Grant from the Finnish government in 1989 and
1996. He has performed dozens of piano concertos and extensive
series of concert programs, such as the four Rachmaninov concertos
on two consecutive evenings. A frequent guest on radio broadcasts,
he has issued a number of CDs. In 1994, Lagerspetz was awarded
the prestigious Alfred Kordelin Foundation Prize for his merits
as a performing artist. |
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Réne
Lecuona
(Piano) is an Associate Professor
of Piano at the University of Iowa, where she has maintained
an active performing and teaching schedule since joining the
faculty in 1990. She received her doctorate and Performer’s
Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and her master’s
and bachelor’s degrees from the Indiana University School
of Music. Lecuona has performed solo and chamber music recitals
throughout the U.S., South America, and the Caribbean. She made
her Carnegie Hall debut as a chamber musician in 1993 and has
appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras in New York and
Iowa. Most recently, she performed and presented masterclasses
in Mexico. As an Artistic Ambassador for the U.S., she gave
concerts in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, and Trinidad and Tobago,
also performing many solo recitals in Brazil. Lecuona is an
advocate of twentieth-century music; her twentieth-century repertoire
includes several premieres of works by living composers. Martin
Jenni has written two solo piano works for her, Canto (G) and
The Opalion, the former of which Lecuona included in solo concerts
in Texas and Brazil. |
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The
Maia Quartet
(Amy Kuhlmann Appold and Timothy Shiu,
violin; Elizabeth Oakes, viola; and Amos Yang, cello)
has established itself nationally as an ensemble of great innovation
and versatility since its formation in 1990. The quartet has
appeared in major concert halls throughout the U.S., including
New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy
Center Terrace Theatre, and the Aspen Music Festival’s
Harris Hall. Collaborations with leading chamber musicians of
our time have included performances with violist Michael Tree
of the Guarneri Quartet, pianist Ann Schein, and the late flutist
Samuel Baron. Committed to the work of living composers, they
have given world premieres of compositions by Pierre Jalbert,
Donald Grantham, Jeffrey Mumford, and Ingram Marshall (recorded
on the New Albion label). They have served as associate faculty
at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland
and as the resident quartet with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra
in Lafayette, Louisiana. They are currently the faculty quartet-in-residence
at the University of Iowa. The Maia Quartet was formed at the
Cleveland Institute of Music and subsequently received a fellowship
to attend the Peabody Conservatory and work with Earl Carlyss.
They were awarded the Arnhold String Quartet Fellowship at the
Juilliard School, where they studied with the world-acclaimed
Juilliard Quartet. In addition, they have held summer fellowships
at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and at the Aspen Center
for Advanced Quartet Studies, where they worked with the Tokyo,
Emerson, Cleveland, and American string quartets. |
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Maurita
Murphy Mead
(Clarinet) is an artist performer/teacher
of clarinet at the University of Iowa. In addition to her clarinet
duties, she is also Associate Director for Graduate Studies.
She has performed at the International Clarinet Association
conferences, the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposiums, the Southeastern
Clarinet Workshop, and the College Band Directors National Association
conference. Mead has been principal clarinet of several Midwestern
orchestras, the more recent being the Cedar Rapids Symphony.
As a chamber musician, she has appeared with many string quartets,
including the Cleveland Quartet. She has been the recipient
of the Collegiate Teaching Award at the University of Iowa with
a subsequent speaking invitation for the College of Liberal
Arts commencement exercises. Mead is a graduate of the Eastman
School of Music with the Performer’s Certificate, and Michigan
State University. A diverse performer, she programs both classical
and jazz repertoire. Mead is secretary of the International
Clarinet Association and appeared as a performer at the 1997,
1998, 1999, and 2000 ICA conventions. |
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Vladimir
Mendelssohn
(Viola) was born into a musical
family with rich traditions and from his youth has fulfilled
the expectations associated with his famous musical name. He
completed his viola and composition studies with major prizes
at the music academy in Bucharest before becoming a jury member
of major competitions himself. His solo, chamber music, and
composition activities reveal a constant search for new music,
discovery, and innovation. But he balances this with a devotion
to musical tradition by performing the most important work of
the classical and romantic repertoire. Mendelssohn regularly
tours Australia, Europe and the former Soviet Union, Japan,
South Korea, and the U.S. as soloist and chamber musician. His
recordings are available on the following labels: Denon, Forlane,
Electrcord, Ottavo, Ondine and CBS. His recording of Brahms’
Lieder with Jaard von Nes, issued on Ottavo, has recently been
awarded the Avro Public Prize. A professor at the Royal Conservatory
in The Hague, the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen and the Toscanini
Academy in Bologna, he has conducted masterclasses throughout
Europe. He is a regular guest at festivals such as Gidon Kremer’s
Lockenhaus Festival and the Kuhmo Festival Finland, among others.
He regularly collaborates on stage as well as in the recording
studio with artists such as Dmitri Sitkovetzky, Oleg Kagan,
Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich, Natalia Gutman, Aurele Nicolet,
Krystian Zymerman, Colin Carr, David Geringas, Vladimir Spivakov,
Aaron Rosand, Gidon Kremer, and the Hagen and Alban Berg quartets,
among others. Among his compositions are Nova (quintet), Hommage
à Vassarely (piano trio), Basso d’Albert (percussion
ensemble), Souvenir d’un arc en ciel (string ensemble and
percussion), Histoire veritable de l’execrable count Dracula,
Echo for barrock mirrors (viola and symphony orchestra) and
Traces du vent (viola). He has also written tape stage music
for the plays Ahalie by Racine and Les mouches by Sartre, ballet
music for Le petit prince, and film music for Le jour de violon. |
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William
Preucil
(Viola) has performed in 30 countries
in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and throughout
North America. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music,
former principal violist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
a founding member of the Stradivari Quartet, and is Professor
Emeritus at the University of Iowa, where he received its annual
award for Teaching Excellence in 1992. Preucil is the recording
artist for the method books of the Suzuki Viola School. Now
serving as vice-president of the American Viola Society and
as vice-president of the International Suzuki Association, he
is active as a teacher on the Preucil School of Music faculty
as well as being an invited guest teacher and performer throughout
the world. |
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Martti
Rousi
(Cello) began his studies in his
hometown of Turku in 1968 and studied with Timo Hanhinen and
Seppo Kimanen. Later he moved to Helsinki and studied with Arto
Noras at the Sibelius Academy. In 1982 he won the first prize
at the Turku National Cello Competition, which resulted in concert
engagements with leading Finnish orchestras and invitations
to festivals like Kuhmo, Korsholm and Naantali. During those
years he attended masterclasses with several teachers, including
Valter Deshpalj, Natalia Gutman, and William Pleeth. In 1985
he received a Fulbright Scholarship to Indiana University to
study with Janos Starker and he won the annual cello competition
there. In 1986 Rousi received international recognition by winning
the Silver Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Since
then he has performed with leading Scandinavian and European
orchestras in Helsinki, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagen,
London, Moscow, Budapest, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Okko
Kamu, Osmo Vänskä, Sakari Oramo, Leif Segerstam, Valeri
Georgiev, Emmanuel Krivine, Bernhard Klee and Joseph Swensen.
He has appeared with many chamber orchestras including those
of Moscow, Munich and Toulouse. The latest addition to his large
repertoire for cello and strings is Petite Suite by Olli Mustonen,
which he premiered at the Helsinki Festival in 1997 with Mustonen
himself as a conductor. They recently recorded the piece with
the Tapiola Sinfonietta. Chamber music has always been at the
center of Rousi´s musical activities. Since 1973, when
he was 12 years old, he has participated in the Kuhmo Chamber
Festival, first as a student and later as a performer. He now
plays at many chamber music festivals both in Europe and the
U.S. He regularly plays with Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos
and Hungarian pianist Peter Nagy. Rousi has been the artistic
director of the Turku Music Festival since 1992. In 1998 he
was appointed professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
His recordings include several solo and chamber recordings for
the Ondine label. |
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Christine
Rutledge
(Viola), currently Associate Professor
of Viola at the University of Iowa, has appeared as soloist,
chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout the United
States and abroad. Recent solo performances and master classes
include those at the International Viola Congresses in Bloomington
(IN), Marchneukirchen (Germany), and Linköping (Sweden);
Rhodes College, the Oberlin Conservatory, and the University
of Kansas. Rutledge’s repertoire spans major works from
the standard repertory to lesser-known and obscure works from
the viola. She also performs many of her original transcriptions
of baroque compositions, including the Bach cello suites and
gamba sonatas. Rutledge currently serves on the executive board
of the American Viola Society and is president of the Iowa Viola
Society. She has performed with the Louisville Orchestra, the
Ceruti Chamber Players, and the Kentucky Center Chamber Players.
She has also served on the faculty of the University of Notre
Dame Department of Music. Rutledge is a graduate of the Curtis
Institute of Music as a student of Karen Tuttle and Michael
Tree, and the University of Iowa with William Preucil, Sr. She
is also a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy. Among her
many honors are Prizewinner in the Aspen Festival Viola Competition,
an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Fellowship,
recipient of an Eli Lilly Foundation grant for undergraduate
teaching development, as well as several awards from the Institute
for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre
Dame. |
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Kristin
Thelander
(Horn), currently the director
of the School of Music, joined the faculty of the University
of Iowa in 1989. In addition to her administrative duties, she
performs with the Iowa Woodwind Quintet and teaches horn. During
the summer seasons, she has performed with the Four Corners
Opera Festival (CO), the Britt Festival Orchestra (OR), and
the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival (NY). Thelander holds degrees
from St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, and the
University of Wisconsin. She was the First Prize winner in the
1981 American Horn Competition, and she has performed throughout
the U.S., Europe, Mexico, South Korea, and China. She has been
a featured artist at many regional and international horn workshops
and has served as Advisory Council member and Vice-President
of the International Horn Society. She has recorded solo and
chamber music for Crystal Records, CRI, Vienna Modern Masters
and Centaur Records. |
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Uriel
Tsachor
(Piano) has appeared in recitals
in New York, Chicago, Tel-Aviv, Brussels, Vienna, Paris, London,
and other cities around the world. He has performed with the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the invitation of Maestro Zubin
Mehta and has played with such prestigious European orchestras
as the Teatro La Fenice Symphony in Venice and the RAI Orchestra
of Turin. He also performed with all of the major orchestras
in Israel. Since his Lincoln Center debut with the New York
City Symphony, Tsachor has performed throughout the United States
as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and chamber musician.
He has recorded many programs for radio and television stations
in the United States, Israel, and several countries in Europe.
Winner of the Bösendorfer-Empire Concours and the Concorso
Busoni, and a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in
Brussels, Tsachor is a graduate of the Tel-Aviv Rubin Academy
and the Juilliard School, where he earned his doctorate. Tsachor
has recorded works by Brahms, Beethoven, Bartók, and
Robert and Clara Schumann for the EMI, Musical Heritage Society,
Phonic, Divox and EMS labels. In December 1999 the Paris-based
label Calliope released a two-CD set of the complete violin-piano
sonatas and arrangements by Brahms performed with violinist
Andrew Hardy. This release received enthusiastic reviews in
the French press. A “Steinway Artist,” Uriel Tsachor
is a professor of piano at the University of Iowa. |
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Annette-Barbara
Vogel
(Violin)
has distinguished herself as one of the leading German violinist
of her generation since her solo debut at age 12 in the Tonhalle
in Düsseldorf (Germany). She has performed throughout Europe,
Canada, the U.S., and Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber
musician, playing in such renowned concert halls as the National
Concert Hall (Taipei), the Louvre (Paris), and the Concertgebouw
(Amsterdam). Her appearances at the Aspen, Chautauqua, Kuhmo,
Las Vegas, Menuhin, Noord-Holland, Pan Music, Ravinia, Scotia,
and Schleswig-Holstein music festivals have been received with
particular enthusiasm. She has also presented master classes
in Albania, Rumania, Germany, Taiwan and the United States.
Vogel studied at the University of Southern California at Los
Angeles, the Musikhochschule der Stadt Basel (Switzerland),
and the Sweelinck-Conservatory (Amsterdam). She received an
Artist Diploma from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati,
and violin and chamber music degrees with highest honors from
the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, where she taught from 1995-1998.
Among her teachers were Herman Krebbers, Dorothy DeLay, and
Walter Levin. In 1994 she was recommended by the Tokyo String
Quartet for a position as artist-in-residence with the Monticello
Trio at the University of Virginia/Charlottesville. She has
performed with Maria Kliegel, Ralf Gothóni, Michael Lewin,
Elsbeth Moser, and Dmitri Sitkovetsky, among others. Vogel has
recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, Cybele and Highland labels and
will have two CDs released in the spring of 2001 on the Cybele
label. Annette-Barbara Vogel regularly plays on a Lorenzo Storioni
violin, kindly loaned by the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. |
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