Martha Mooke
Martha Mooke is a pioneer in the field of the electric five string viola/violin. She has developed a unique musical voice by synthesizing her classical music training with extended techniques, digital effects processing and improvisation, while retaining the depth and soul of the instrument. A Yamaha Performing Artist, she is a leading clinician on electric strings and alternative approaches to playing including the use of electronics, extended techniques and improvisation.

She has received awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer and Arts International among others. Besides her catalog of works for solo and ensemble electric strings, she has composed music for theater and ballet and served as Music Director for national and international events. Ms. Mooke's diverse schedule includes touring, clinics and lecture demonstrations. She has toured internationally as a member of Barbra Streisand's acclaimed orchestra during the North American 2006 and European 2007 tours and has been traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada playing major arenas with "Star Wars: In Concert". Ms. Mooke's genre-defying recordings, Enharmonic Vision, her solo debut CD, and Cafe Mars with guitarist Randolph Hudson, III, as the duo "Bowing", have attracted wide critical acclaim.

Since 2001, Ms. Mooke and her avant-garde string quartet, the Scorchio Quartet have performed at the Tibet House Benefit Concerts at Carnegie Hall with David Bowie, Philip Glass, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, David Byrne, Moby, Lou Reed, Trey Anastasio, Ziggy Marley, Rufus Wainwright, and the Kronos Quartet. Scorchio appears on David Bowie's 2002 release Heathe. Ms. Mooke played in the U.S. premiere of Paul McCartney's "Standing Stone" at Carnegie Hall and on numerous film scores by Philip Glass. She has also performed with Bon Jovi on "MTV Unplugged", Enya, Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Marc Anthony Thompson, Al DiMeola, John Cale, Anthony Braxton, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the Soldier String Quartet. She has performed on Regis Live!, the David Letterman, The View, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Rosie O'Donnell shows and currently plays in the Broadway pit orchestras of Wicked and South Pacific.

Ms. Mooke received an ASCAP 2001 Concert Music Award for creating and producing ASCAP's new music showcase THRU THE WALLS featuring composer/performers whose work defies categorization.

Karen Becker
Dr. Becker teaches piano, music theory, and aural skills at SUNY Plattsburgh. In addition, she is also the artistic director for her concert series "Karen Becker and Friends" as well as the Champlain Valley Oratorio Society. A multi-faceted musician, Dr. Karen Becker has appeared in major concert halls across the country as soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and assistant conductor. Though classically trained, Dr. Becker enjoys performing and studying all musical genres and styles.

At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, she appeared on the Union Theater concert series with Joyce Castle and Kurt Ollmann, and was featured as piano soloist in Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds with the University Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a group which she helped to found. Dr. Becker also performed several solo piano recitals in the Madison area.

While living in Colorado, she was orchestral pianist for the Colorado Symphony, an assistant conductor for the Colorado Children's Chorale, accompanist for the Colorado Symphony Chorus and pianist/coach for Central City Opera. She also founded the Larimer Chamber Ensemble, and was co-founder of Colorado Opera Troupe. Dr. Becker taught at the Aspen Music Festival for three summers and also served on the faculty at Regis University. Equally at home in popular music, Becker was a principal keyboard player for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, playing in the pit for Broadway touring companies of Phantom of the Opera, The Will Rogers Follies, Grease, Evita, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, and Les Miserables. She also served as Music Director at the Garner Galleria Theater for World Goes 'Round, at the Country Dinner Playhouse, and at the Adam's Mark Hotel, arranging music and musicians for corporate functions, and hiring and training singing servers in the hotel's signature restaurant Bravo!

In New York City, Dr. Becker was adjunct faculty at Brooklyn College, worked as pianist for the American Opera Project at New York City Opera, appeared as piano soloist on the Summergarden series at the Museum of Modern Art, and as a keyboard player in the Phillip Glass Ensemble. She also was featured on the Music from Japan series at Columbia University's Miller Theater, and is a champion of contemporary music, having played premieres by John Cage, and rarely heard music by Charles Koechlin, and Erik Satie. This exposure to the music of Koechlin led Becker to her research on surrealism in the music of Vladimir Dukelsky and the surrealist theater of Alberto Savinio, resulting in her dissertation Surrealism in Music: The Surrealist Suite and Les Chants de la mi-mort.

Dr. Becker holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, and the University of Wisconsin. Her primary teachers include: Van Cliburn medallist Christopher Taylor, Robert Spillman, Margo Garrett, Samuel Sanders, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, and Ellsworth Snyder.

Jonathan Brin
Jonathan Brin earned his Bachelor of Music at the Eastman School of Music where he was a founding member of the Hyperion String Quartet. Mr. Brin was the recipient of the Arden J. Yockey Scholarship for Strings at the Akron Tuesday Musical Club Competition in 2003. He also won the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition as well as the top prize in the Kent State University Orchestra Concerto Competition, performing as a soloist with the Kent State University Orchestra. Other solo appearances include performances with the Onondaga Civic Orchestra and the Syracuse University Summer Festival Orchestra. In addition, he has served as guest cellist with the Miro Quartet and as guest principal cello with Orchestra New England. Mr. Brin has attended the Ithaca Chamber Music Institute and the National Orchestral Institute and served on faculty at the NSOA-ASTA Summer Conference held at the State University of New York at Fredonia, as well as the Hartt School Community Division. He earned his Masters Degree at Kent State University where he served as a teaching assistant to Joshua Gindele and Keith Robinson. Mr. Brin's other primary teachers include Einar Holm and Steven Doane. As a member of the Quartet, Mr. Brin participated in the graduate quartet residency at the Hartt School of Music. Recently, after holding a residency at San Diego State University with the La Jolla Music Society, Mr. Brin has been named Co-Director of the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Program and Instructor of Cello at the Adirondack Community College in New York.

Trio Montecino
A native of Antofagasta, Chile, pianist Paulina Zamora was educated at the University of Chile, the Eastman School of Music, and Indiana University. Her main teachers have included Mercedes Veglia, Rebecca Penneys, Gyoergy Sebok and Janos Starker. Her solo, concerto and chamber music appearances have taken her throughout the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. A recipient of the first prize in the Primer Concurso Latinoamericano in Chile, the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale and the Chautauqua Piano Competition, Paulina was also awarded the Performer's Certificate by the Eastman School of Music. She has appeared in such festivals as the Ernen Musikdorf and Lausanne Music Festival in Switzerland, the Banff Music Festival in Canada and the Chautauqua Music Festival in New York, in addition to having performed live on National Public Radio and the Swiss-French Radio. She is a sought after collaborative pianist and has concertized with distinguished cellist Janos Starker, violinists Corey Cerovsek and Annette-Barbara Vogel, violist Atar Arad, pianists Rebecca Penneys and John Milbauer, tenor Alan Bennett and flutist Jacques Zoon, among many others. Paulina's recordings include two CDs of chamber works with the Felici PianoTrio, a Indiana University-sponsored CD of solo works by Twentieth-Century Latin American Composers, and two CDs with Trio Montecino released by Eroica Classical Recordings. Other recording projects include "Richter 6.2," an album with pianist John Milbauer and "Beethoven Plus" with violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel. Ms. Zamora taught at the Valencia Conservatory in Spain before becoming an Associate Professor of Piano and Theory at EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia. From 1999 to 2001 she was a member of the Felici Piano Trio in residence at Mammoth Lakes, California. Currently she is professor of Piano and Theory and Coordinator of the Theory Department at the Instituto Profesional Escuela Moderna de Musica in Santiago, Chile.

David Shea serves as Associate Professor of Clarinet at Texas Tech University and as Principal Clarinetist for the Lubbock Symphony and Abilene Philharmonic Orchestras. He is also on the music faculty at Rocky Ridge Summer Music in Estes Park, Colorado, and has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Brazil and Chile. As a member of Trio Montecino, he has given performances in Europe and the United States, and has recorded two CDs for Eroica Classical Recordings. He has also performed at ICA Clarinetfests in Chicago, Columbus, Salt Lake City, Atlanta and Kansas City, as well as the OU Clarinet Symposium and Klarinetstage, Belgium. As a teacher, Shea has been invited to do master classes throughout the United States and South America, and has been invited twice to teach as a sabbatical replacement at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He is a member of the Texas Tech Teaching Academy and a recipient of the Texas Tech University President's Excellence in Teaching Award. David Shea has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (BM), Oberlin College (BA-Mathematics), the University of Illinois (MM) and Indiana University (DM). His teachers include Howard Klug, Lawrence McDonald, Eli Eban, James Campbell and the late Ronald Phillips. Dr. Shea is a Buffet Crampon USA Performing Artist and is Texas State Chair for the International Clarinet Association.

Cellist Pablo Mahave-Veglia resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University. Mr. Mahave-Veglia is a cellist and teacher of broad interests whose repertoire ranges from the early baroque, performed on period instruments, to his ongoing interest in researching, performing and recording the work of contemporary Latin-American composers. An alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy, Dr. Mahave-Veglia holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music. Additionally, he has attended such music festivals as Banff (Canada), NOI (Maryland), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Jerusalem International Festival (Israel) and the Schleswig-Holstein and Heidelberg Music Festivals (Germany). Mr. Mahave-Veglia is a former faculty member at the University of Evansville (Indiana), Ripon College (Wisconsin), St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Madison Summer Cello Institute, the International Music Academy in Pilsen (Czech Republic), and the Eastern and Brevard Music Festivals (North Carolina). In addition, he has appeared as soloist or chamber musician in his native Chile, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Europe and Malaysia. In the United States he has performed at such venues as the Mammoth Lakes Chamber Music Festival (California), the Saugatuck Music Festival (Michigan), the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago, the Elvehem Museum in Madison, Wisconsin, and in New York City at the Renee Weiler Hall, Bang on a Can Marathon and le poisson rouge. Professor Mahave-Veglia performs 1790 William Forster cello on loan to him by an anonymous private collector.

Katherine Winterstein
Violinist Katherine Winterstein enjoys a wide range of musical endeavors, as a chamber musician, orchestral musician, soloist, and teacher. She has often performed in such series as Washington DC's Embassy Series, Boston's Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Series, and the McIntire Chamber Music Series at the University of Virginia and regularly appears with Boston-based Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Firebird Ensemble, the Art of Music Chamber Players, and the Chamber Music Foundation of New England. She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the Charlottesville and University Symphony, the Blue Ridge Chamber Orchestra, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, the Boston Virtuosi, and the Vermont Symphony. Ms. Winterstein is the concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony, the assistant concertmaster of the Portland Symphony, and she performs regularly with the Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque. Currently she is on the performance faculty of Middlebury College in Vermont.

Volkan Orhon
Acclaimed for his musicality and virtuosity, Volkan Orhon has established himself as one of the top double bassists in the world today. He was a finalist and prizewinner in the Concert Artists Guild Solo Competition in New York City, and was the co-first place winner of the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition. Additionally, he distinguished himself as the first double bass player ever to win the grand prize overall and first prize for double bass at the American String Teacher's Association Solo Competition.

Mr. Orhon has performed with internationally recognized musicians including Gary Karr, Fazil Say, and the Emerson String Quartet, and has been a soloist with the Adana, Antalya and Bursa State Symphony Orchestras (Turkey), the El Paso, Cedar Rapids, and Hartford Symphony Orchestras, The Connecticut Orchestra, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and New Britain Symphony. He was one of the performers for the international consortium of Pulitzer Winner composer John Harbison's Concerto for Bass Viol and Orchestra. He was recently a featured soloist at the Polish World Bass Festival, performing the Bottesini Concerto No. 2 with the Academy Orchestra under the direction of Franco Petracchi. An avid chamber musician, Orhon recently has been a guest with the Ouro Branco Festival in Brazil, Roycroft Chamber Music Festival (NY), the Saint Vincent College Chamber Music Series (PA), and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. He has also performed at prestigious festivals including the Montreux, Saint Denis-Paris, Antibes, Montpellier, Istanbul, and Izmir jazz festivals. As an orchestra musician, performed with the Detroit Symphony, Hartford Symphony and Connecticut Opera Orchestra.

As a pedagogue, Mr. Orhon has been an invited clinician to workshops across the U.S. and abroad, including Ouro Branco Festival in Brazil, World Bass Festival in Paris - France, Suzuki Association of the Americas and the International Society of Bassists. He has given recitals and master classes at institutions including the Bursa State Conservatory and Eskisehir Anatolian University (Turkey), Arizona State University, University of Michigan, Butler University, Northwestern University and North Carolina School of the Arts. He has served on the faculties of the University of Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Hartt School Community Division of the University of Hartford, Kinhaven Music School (VT) and Summer Strings Music Festival in Pocatello, Idaho.

Born and raised in Turkey, Mr. Orhon began playing the double bass at the age of 12, and spent much of his youth touring Europe with the Mediterranean Youth Soloists. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the Ankara State Conservatory under the tutelage of Tahir Sumer, he became a member of the Ankara Presidential Symphony Orchestra. In 1991, Mr. Orhon came to the United States to continue his studies with Gary Karr at The Hartt School of Music, where he earned an Artist Diploma and Master of Music.

Mr. Orhon is currently the associate professor of double bass at The University of Iowa and principal double bass in the Orchestra Iowa. He is a D'Addario Diamond Performing Artist.

Rose Chancler
Rose Chancler Feinbloom is a frequent performer throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, making appearances equally as soloist, collaborative artist, and teacher. She has played concertos and solo recitals in Alaska, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Oklahoma, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Recent concerts have included solo piano recitals in Port Henry, Elizabethtown and Essex, New York, and several concerts on harpsichord with the Summer Baroque Ensemble. Recent recitals with Volkan Orhon include the Friends of Chamber music series in Tucson, in Pittsburgh, and the International String Bass convention in Oklahoma City. She thoroughly enjoys collaborating with other musicians, and has played chamber music performances with notable artists including Paul Rosenthal, Jeffrey Solow, Harvey Pittel, Carol Wincenc, Joseph Wytko, and others. She has been an invited guest artist and teacher at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and at Magisterra- the University of Iowa International Chamber Music Festival and Academy. Rose's collaboration with double-bassist Volkan Orhon has resulted in a highly-acclaimed release of a CD of violin and cello masterworks on the Centaur label.

Rose has held teaching positions at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Baylor University School of Music, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and the University of Iowa School of Music. She has been a faculty accompanist and coach at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, and the Meadowmount School of Music in Lewis, New York. She was most recently a faculty member at Plattsburgh State University of New York, and currently runs a private studio in her home in Wadhams.

Rose holds a bachelor's degree in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin, and master's and doctoral degrees in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School in Rochester, N.Y.