BRANDT FREDRIKSEN (Piano) – Performing Sept 20, 2008.
Also performed March 1st
Splitting his time between education and touring, performing both as soloist and chamber musician, pianist Brandt Fredriksen enjoys a dynamic and versatile career. He’s performed as soloist and chamber musician at major venues and universities throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As educator, he’s held professorships at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. and Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He’s been a member of the piano ensemble coaching faculty of the New York Piano Competition, sponsored by the Stecher & Horowitz Foundation, and has been on the associate and pre-college faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. 

Sponsored by the U.S. and China Foundation, Fredriksen has performed in China at major venues and conservatories, including Beijing, Shenzhun, Shanghai and Shenyang. He performs regularly in Greece, and has been featured as guest artist with the New Hellenic String Quartet. 

An active chamber musician, Fredriksen has been heard frequently on radio and TV in the U.S., Greece, and China, including live appearances on NPR, WQXR-FM with Robert Sherman, Greek National TV and Radio, and Beijing TV. He’s a performing member of the Madrid Chamber Players in Spain and the American Virtuosi Chamber Players. Recently, he has recorded the solo piano music for the documentary film Sonia, produced by Lucy Kostelanetz. 

A Munz Award recipient from The Juilliard School, Fredriksen holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University. He’s also studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.

CHARAE KRUEGER (Cello)–Performing Sept 20, 2008.
Also Performed Sept. 22, 2007
Charae Krueger received her training in cello studies at the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Laurence Lesser and Colin Carr and received a Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass. Charae received her chamber music training with Eugene Lehner of the Kolisch Quartet, as well as with Robert Mann and Samuel Rhodes of the Juilliard String Quartet. She has also coached with such artists as Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio, Louis Krasner, Felix Galimir and Leon Kirchner.  She has played in master classes with Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the Banff School for the Arts. During this time, she was a participant in the Alexander Schneider’s New York String Orchestra Seminar, performing concerts at Carnegie Hall.

Since moving to Atlanta seven years ago, Charae has been appointed principal cellist of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra. She also performs frequently with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. This season she will be performing at the Highlands–Cashiers Summer Festival and Birmingham’s Magic City Chamber Music Festival. This season’s concerto performances include appearances with the Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee and the Kennesaw State Orchestra. She will also participate in the 2007 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tour of Florida. Charae enjoys playing chamber music with various ensembles throughout the city, performing with the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, the Atlanta Chamber Players, Amadeus String Ensemble, the Musica Da Camera and the Lyra String Quartet. Charae was recently appointed as cello artist-in-residence at Kennesaw State University and is a member of the faculty string quartet in residence there as well.

While living in Boston, Charae was principal cellist for ten years with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra and also performed with the Vermont Symphony, Nashua N.H. Symphony and the New England Chamber Orchestra. She was a founding member of the Arden String Quartet, a nationally managed group which, in 1996, succeeded the Borromeo and Ying Quartets by receiving the Arthur W. Foote Emerging Artist award.  The Quartet was formed under the sponsorship of the Longy School of Music, where they were in residence from 1993-1996. As a member of the Arden Quartet, Charae performed throughout the eastern U.S., playing in such venues as Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Rockefeller University, Brown University, the Seaside Institute, MIT, Harvard Musical Association, Tufts University and NEC’s Jordan Hall.  She has given U.S. premieres of works by Elliot Carter, Gunther Schuller, Herschel Garfein, Victor Ullman and Alexander Mnatsekanyan. She has also enjoyed playing chamber music in such groups as the Boccherini Ensemble, Trillium (a flute/oboe/cello trio) and the Speakeasy String Quartet (a jazz string quartet).

Charae plays on a cello made by Abraham Prescott in Concord, N.H. in 1830.

FIA DURRETT (Violin)– Performing Sept 20.
Also Performed Sept. 22 and Dec. 1, 2007, March 1, and May 17, 2008
Violinist Fia Mancini Durrett, also music director of Fringe, is originally from Houston, Tex. where she made her debut (at 18) with the Houston Symphony, playing the Brahms Violin Concerto.

Fia holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where she served as concertmaster of both orchestras. An avid chamber musician, she was first violinist of the Basmati Quartet, 1998 winner of the Coleman National Chamber Music Competition, and second prize winner in the 1998 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. While at Juilliard, she founded the Andros String Quartet, finalists in the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and performed in many venues around New York City, including Brooklyn?s world-renowned Bargemusic, Columbia University and Alice Tully Hall. She is currently violinist of the Atlanta-based Phoenix String Trio, who made their May 2006 debut in Spivey Hall.

In addition, Fia is committed to new music and has given performances in the Composer Portrait Series at Colombia, and the Stephan Wolpe Festival in Merkin Hall, as a member of both the New Juilliard Ensemble and the International Contemporary Ensemble. She spent her summers studying at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and served as concertmaster for the Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy.

Her primary teachers were Kenneth Goldsmith, Masao Kawasaki, Paul Katz and Fred Sherry. Fia has lived in Atlanta with her husband since 2004 and has served as visiting professor of violin at Georgia State University and is a member of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra.

JEN MITCHELL – FRINGE DJ– Performing Sept 20.
Also Performed Sept. 22 and Dec. 1, 2007, March 1, and May 17, 2008
Jennifer Mitchell graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance at Georgia State University. She completed her Masters in Music Composition at GSU in 2007.

Jennifer, aka “Little Jen,” also has been a DJ for 13 years, performing throughout the East Coast with the biggest acts in electronic music. “Lullabye,” her first electronic music endeavor, was released by Sonic Soul Recordings in 1997 on Cloudwatch: a Freeform Gathering. She was voted DJ of the year in 1998 on the Sonic Soul website and Reader’s Choice: Atlanta’s Best DJ for 2006 in Atlanta’s Creative Loafing. She has been reviewed in such magazines as Urb, Elemental, and the Jive magazine website. She can currently be heard locally in numerous lounges, clubs, and bistros in the Atlanta area.

Jennifer has written for the Georgia Youth Brass Band, the GSU Percussion Ensemble, the GSU Brass Ensemble, and was commissioned by the 2006 International Euphonium Institute for her Celebration Fanfare, for antiphonal brass quintet and euphonium quartet. She received a commission from Colin Williams, principal trombone with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, for Pneuma (2006), written for trombone, double bass, and marimba. In addition to her composition studies, Jennifer currently performs with the Georgia Brass Band and the Cobb Symphony Orchestra.

HELEN KIM (Violin)– Performed May 17, 2008
Helen Kim joined the music faculty of Kennesaw State University as assistant professor of violin in 2006, with a stellar performance background. A native of Canada, she made her orchestral debut with the Calgary Philharmonic at the age of six, and has gone on to become a respected and sought-after artist. She appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Kim has also been engaged as soloist with the National Arts Center Orchestra, Vancouver, Edmonton, Victoria, Greenbay, Cedar Rapids, Montreal Metropolitan, McGill Chamber, Regina and New Orleans Orchestras.

Ms. Kim earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Cho-Liang Lin and Dorothy DeLay. While at Juilliard, she was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, with which she also appeared as a soloist.

She is the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. In 1992, she won the prestigious Artists International Competition in New York and, as a result, gave debut recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall and the Aspen Summer Music Festival.

Ms. Kim has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States. She has performed with Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman, Andre Previn, Hilary Hahn, and the Orion String Quartet.

Ms. Kim has been profiled on national and international television and has appeared on CBC, PBS and CBS networks. Her performances have been aired on NPR and CBC radio networks. Ms. Kim served as assistant and associate concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony for three seasons. She is currently the assistant concertmaster of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra. Ms. Kim performs with local new music ensembles, Bent Frequency, Sonic Generator and Thamyris and is a founding member of the Riverside Chamber Players.

Tanya Maxwell Clements (Viola)– Performed May 17, 2008
Tania Maxwell Clements is one of the most sought after musicians in the South-East, having come to Atlanta from Europe where her first major studies were at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) where she studied viola with James Durrant. During her studies at the RSAMD she won the prestigious Watson Forbes Prize for Viola Playing and the Viola Challenge Prize. Her studies continued in Switzerland at the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA) for two consecutive years, working intensively with Alberto Lysy and Johannes Eskar. During this time she performed regularly in master classes given by Sir Yehudi Menuhin and artists such as Igor Oistrakh and Donald McInnes. She was principal viola and soloist with the Camerata Lysy, Gstaad and performed as a soloist at the Menuhin Festival, Gstaad and at festivals in France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Wales.

Tania has a prolific recording career and appears on over one hundred CD’s covering orchestral, solo and chamber repertoire.

Tania Maxwell Clements is also a master teacher. Before moving to Atlanta she taught orchestral techniques at Chethams School of Music (a Yehudi Menuhin School) and the Royal Northern College of Music and has also taught at the Junior Department of the RSAMD. In Atlanta, Tania is Lecturer in Viola and Violin and Chamber Music at Georgia State University.

Ginny Respess (Viola)– Performed May 17, 2008
Virginia (Ginny) Respess, is a native of Atlanta and currently a member of the Atlanta Opera. Having begun her studies at the age of three, she received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University, where she studied with Paul Biss and Henryk Kowalski. While at Indiana she was also a member of the university quartet in residence, the Kuttner Quartet. In 2000 Ginny she joined the violin section of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago as well as the administration of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, after having earned a Performer Diploma, she began her graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Steve Rose and William Preucil. Three years ago Ginny moved back to Atlanta, where she has been a faculty member at Agnes Scott College, Mercer Universtiy, the Georgia Academy of Music, and The Westminster Schools. She also maintains a private violin studio.

Over the last decade Ginny has played at many music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival where she was an orchestral fellow, the Spoleto Festival where she served as concertmaster, the National Orchestral Institute, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival where she had the great fortune to work with such outstanding chamber musicians as Lynn Harrell, James Dunham, the Guarneri Quartet, and the Takacs Quartet. This July Ginny is looking forward to returning to Colorado to join the Crested Butte Music Festival.

When she is not performing or teaching, Ginny works behind the scenes with Franklin Pond Chamber Music, an Atlanta-based summer music program for teens founded by her mother, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra violinist Ronda Respess. In its eighth year, Franklin Pond’s aim is to provide young musicians with the opportunity to intensively study the string quartet repertoire while coaching with the city’s most respected professionals.

Jeremy Cowart — MAY 2008 GALLERY ARTIST
http://www.jeremycowart.com/
Nurturing his artful skills in the creative environment of Music City has brought Nashville native Jeremy Cowart and his photography to levels few achieve. A down-to-earth guy armed with a design degree, a camera, and a creative eye, Jeremy has captured some of the most influential people in the entertainment world. But just as important to Jeremy are anonymous faces he has photographed on recent trips to Africa. Whether he’s capturing a celebrity for a cover shot, or an unknown person who somehow represents an entire suffering continent, you can feel in the shot that Jeremy is aware of the importance of the soul behind the eyes.

CAROLYN LANDIS (French Horn)– Performed March 1
Carolyn Landis is a native of Pennsylvania. She was accepted into the Juilliard School when she was sixteen. During her education she performed concerts in Alice Tully Hall and at the Aspen Music Festival. She has performed with orchestras around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, the Florida Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Recently she has been a member of the Saint Louis Symphony and the Colorado Symphony. Carolyn has been a part of the modern music scene at the Cabrillo Modern Music Festival in Santa Cruz and Saint Louis’ Pulitzer Foundation series.

DAVID ODOM (Clarinet)– Performed March 1
David Odom is an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician having performed throughout the US and Japan. He has collaborated with members of renowned ensembles, including the Manhattan String Quartet, the Takacs Quartet, and the Budapest Quartet on a wide range of music, from Beethoven to Bartok. He performed for the inaugural festivities celebrating the opening of Act City, a multipurpose arts and entertainment complex in Hamamatsu, Japan.

An advocate of new music, he has researched and performed solo and chamber music of leading contemporary composers such as John Harbison, Gunther Schuller, and Shulamit Ran, including a performance of Joseph Schwantner’s Sparrows with soprano Lucy Shelton.

David has an extensive orchestral background having performed with orchestras across the US and is currently Principal Clarinet of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and with the Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra. He is also a substitute and extra musician with many orchestras in the southeast region. David received the Doctor of Music degree from the Florida State University where he studied with Frank Kowalsky. A dedicated teacher and mentor, he was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Auburn University and performed the Finzi Clarinet Concerto with the Auburn Community Orchestra.

GASTON CARRIO – MARCH GALLERY ARTIST
http://www.gastoncarrio.com/
Gaston Carrio was born on December 20, 1975 in the vibrant city of Buenos Aires, Argentina; a city with profound European influences in art, music, and architecture.

At an early age, he recognized a soothing passion for drawing and sketching. The creative process was challenging, yet rewarding in a way as it allowed him to express his ideas without any boundaries. It allowed him to reach a level of satisfaction and fulfillment that he had never acquired before. At this point, he decided to become an architect.

He obtained his Bachelor degree in Architecture while living in Argentina from Universidad de Belgrano. Following graduation in 2001, he received both a scholarship to continue his Post Graduate Studies and the opportunity to work as an Assistant at the Faculty of Architecture at Ball State University in Indiana. After approximately two years of involvement within the program, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to begin working for an AIA Award Winning Architecture Company where his design focus has been on international projects.

As he has continued to be inspired through architecture, a new avenue for expression has emerged, painting. He is a self taught, self-representing artist.

Gaston Carrio currently lives and works in Atlanta.

BRIDGET KIBBEY (Harp)– Performed December 1
http://www.bridgetkibbey.com
As described by The New York Times, harpist Bridget Kibbey “made it seem as though her instrument had been waiting all its life to explode with the gorgeous colors and energetic figures she was getting from it.” Symphony, MUSO, and Harp Column magazines all featured the 2004 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner in their recent issues; she is only the second harpist to be awarded the grant since its inception in 1974. She joined the roster of Astral Artistic Services as a winner of its 2003 National Auditions; Astral recently presented her Philadelphia recital debut, and in a concerto performance with the Haddonfield Symphony Chamber Orchestra at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Bridget has received such honors as the Premier Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition of Arles, France (in collaboration with flutist Julietta Curenton), the Juilliard School Peter Mennin Prize for musical leadership and excellence, Second Prize in the Valentino Bucchi International Competition for Harp, an American Harp Society Anne Adams Award, and a Mustard Seed Foundation Harvey Fellowship. She appeared as featured soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, the Israel Youth Philharmonic, the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, America’s Dream Chamber Artists and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestral harpist she also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has been featured on New York’s WQXR as well as on A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts.”

Possessing a special interest in new music, Bridget premiered new works by many of today’s living composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Kaija Sarriaho, Augusta Read Thomas and Charles Wourenin. She recently joined soprano Dawn Upshaw in recording Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs and “Ayre” by Osvaldo Golijov for Deutsche Grammophon, and performed Britten’s Canticles in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with tenor Ian Bostridge. At Carnegie Hall she was a soloist in Weill Recital Hall’s Elliot Carter/Oliver Knussen workshop, and joined a hand-selected group of young musicians in presenting the first concert in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, under the direction of John Adams. She is also a member of Trio Morisot (flute, harp, and viola, with Astral’s Jasmine Choi and Teng Li).

This season’s highlights include solo and chamber appearances at the St. Denis Festival in Paris, 2008 American Harp Society Conference, New York's Miller Theater, University of Oregon's Chamber Music Series, a tour of the U.S. with Dawn Upshaw and Eighth Blackbird, and concerto appearances with the Haddonfield, Vermont Mozart Festival, and Westmoreland Symphonies. She recently joined the harp faculties of New York University and The Juilliard School Pre-College program. Bridget holds both Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she completed studies with Nancy Allen.

JULIETTA MARIE CURENTON (Flute)– Performed December 1
Julietta Curenton made her debut, at the age of 17, with the National Symphony under the baton of Marvin Hamlisch. In addition, she has appeared as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Kennedy Center Institute Orchestra, and the U.S. Army Orchestra. She has been heard on Washington D.C.’s WGMS and Boston’s WGBH radio stations. Julietta has participated in various summer festivals including the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra held in Breckenridge, Colo., and the Spoleto Music Festival in Spoleto, Italy. Her awards and honors as a soloist include first prizes in the young artist competitions sponsored by the National Symphony Orchestra, and the National Flute Association. Most recently, Julietta performed with world-renowned soprano Frederica von Stade at The Kennedy Center’s terrace theater. The Washington Post deemed her “a worthy support” to the opera diva.

JENNIFER JENKINS – DECEMBER GALLERY ARTIST
http://www.jenniferjenkins.org/
Jennifer was born on January 23rd 1977 in Concord, California into a military family and so began her travels. But if pressed to choose a place of origin, she would adopt central Pennsylvania where she completed her high school and undergraduate educations. In 1999 Jennifer graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. degree in Life Science, filling the next several years with work in the biotech industry in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2003, she relocated to Savannah, Georgia where she received her MFA in Fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her current drawings and mixed-media works are emblematic of her interests in repetition, frequency and odd bodies. Jennifer currently works as an adjunct professor in the printmaking department at the Savannah College of Art & Design.

Jennifer received two artist grants to attend the residency program at the Vermont Studio Center in January 2006 and December 2007. She is a recipient of the Combined Merit Fellowship (2003) and the Nancy N. Lewis Endowed Scholarship (2005) awarded by the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her artwork is held in private collections in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in addition to the permanent collection of the Savannah College of Art & Design.

MICHAEL HEALD (Violin)– Performed Sept. 22
Michael Heald is currently associate professor of violin at the University of Georgia. While in England he studied with Angus Watson at Winchester College, privately with Emanuel Hurwitz, then at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Richard Deakin. He received his masters and doctorate in violin performance at Michigan State University, studying with Walter Verdehr. From 1991-1994 Michael was a member of the English String Orchestra and he played regularly with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, as well as the BBC Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Philharmonia Orchestras. In Michigan he was concertmaster of the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra and principal second violin of the Michigan Chamber Orchestra. He toured many times throughout Europe as a member of the American Sinfonietta, and recently completed five years as concertmaster of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. He has performed many solo and chamber concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe. The venues he’s graced include the Bellingham Festival, the Wintergreen Festival, the Methow Festival, Vanderbilt University, Michigan State University, the College of Charleston, the Wagner Hall in Riga, Latvia, and in England at the Elgar Birthplace Museum and St. George’s, Brandon Hill in Bristol. He has also appeared on BBC Radio. Various concerto performances include those by Bach, Bruch, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto and Brahms’ “Double” Concerto.

In 2002 he recorded a compact disc of sonatas by Elgar and Beethoven with Liana Embovica-Rivkin. 

Michael has given master classes across the United States—and, apart from his own violin studio at the university—he continues to involve himself in all areas of musical education within Georgia.  In 2005 he became director of the UGA String Project, which aims to enhance the opportunities for beginning string players in Northeast Georgia.

JOLI WU (Viola)– Performed Sept. 22
Joli Wu, a native of Los Angeles, California, began her viola studies at thirteen years of age, under the tutelage of Louis Kievman. She received a bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School in viola performance, where she studied with William Lincer, and a master’s degree from Yale University, where she was a member of the Quartet-in-Residence, studying with the Tokyo Quartet. During her tenure at Yale, she was also a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Upon graduation, she moved to Cambridge, Mass., where she served as a resident tutor in Currier House at Harvard University for five years and performed frequently with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Joli is the principal violist of the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, as well as a section member of the Atlanta Opera.

Joli has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony, the Marina Del-Rey - Westchester Symphony, and the Palisades Symphony Orchestra. She has also been the recipient of myriad prizes and fellowships, which include the Aspen fellowship and the Tanglewood Music Center fellowship, as well as the performing associate position at the Bowdoin Music Festival. An active chamber musician, Joli has given performances in the Far East, Europe, and the U.S. She has collaborated with artists, such as Claude Frank, James Buswell, and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. As a teacher, she has taught at Gordon College, the Longy School of Music, the Brooks School and the Woodward Academy. She currently teaches violin and viola at the Georgia Academy of Music and chamber music at the Westminster Schools.

ROY HARRAN (Cello)– Performed Sept. 22, 2007 and May 17, 2008.
Born in Israel, Roy Harran began playing cello at the age of seven with Dr. David Sella and later with Professor Uzi Wiesel. After three years of military service, (during which, as “Outstanding Musician,” he played in the Israel Defense Forces Quartet) Roy earned his Bachelor of Music degree  (magna cum laude) at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. He earned his Master of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Paul Katz and Steven Doane. Roy has played several solo recitals and appeared as soloist with various ensembles in Israel and the U.S. He has received grants from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Israel Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, participated—in Israel, Europe, the USA and Canada—in several chamber ensembles and orchestras, including, among the latter, the Israel Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Army Chamber Orchestra and, as principal cellist, the Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales. Roy has played in ensembles at Tanglewood Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, Rochester Piano Quartet, Pacific Music Festival and others. After several years as principal cellist in the New World Symphony, he became a member of the Savannah Symphony before joining the Faculty of Radford University and the Renaissance Music Academy in Virginia where he was a member of the Avanti Trio. Currently, Roy is freelancing in Atlanta and playing regularly with the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Opera and is a faculty member at Agnes Scott College.