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CORNELIA HEARD | DENISE BAKER | WEI TSUN CHANG | KAREN CLARKE | GERALD GREER | ERIN HALL | CAROLYN HUEBL | JOHN KOCHANOWSKI | BRADLEY MANSELL | EDGAR MEYER | KATHRYN PLUMMER | JOEL REIST | CHRISTOPHER STENSTROM | CHRISTIAN TEAL | MARY KATHRYN VANOSDALE | FELIX WANG | SEAN Y. WANG | GLEN WANNER
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CORNELIA HEARD Professor of Violin; Studied with Dorothy DeLay; chamber music studies with Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, Ruth Laredo, Jan DeGaetani and members of the Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets. Chamber music performances include New York's 92nd St. Y., Merkin Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall; Washington's Library of Congress and Kennedy Center. Summer festivals include Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, Killington, Sewanee, Skaneateles, Sedona, Kapalua, and Roycroft Music Festivals as well as Music Mountain and Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, N.Y. Recordings on Warner Bros., New World, Naxos and Pantheon Records. Appearances on Public Television and National Public Radio. Soloist with the North Carolina Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Vanderbilt Orchestra, Municipal Chamber Orchestra, N.Y.C., and Aspen Brandenburg Ensemble. Member, Board of Directors, Chamber Music America, 1992-99; Vice-President, 1995-99. Adjudicator for regional and national competitions. Students have won and been prize winners in such competitions as MTNA National Competition, Corpus Christi International Competition, Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, Montgomery and LaGrange Symphony Concerto Competitions, Curb Records/Nashville Symphony Competition, as well as local and summer festival concerto competitions. Member, Blair String Quartet. Biographical citation in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Member of performance faculty at Sewanee Festival, 1985-99; Killington Music Fesival 2002-04; Aspen Music Festival 2005-07. Blair School since 1982.
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DENISE BAKER Adjunct Artist Teacher of Violin Additional studies: Florida State University.Student of Esther Glazer, Sally Peck (viola), and Elaine Richey. Master classes with the Alexander String Quartet and Arnold Steinhardt. Member, Tallahassee Symphony, 1988-89; Greensboro (North Carolina) Symphony, 1990-92; Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Symphony, 1990-96; Carolina Chamber Symphony, 1993-96; Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Symphony, 1990-96; concertmaster, Western Piedmont Symphony, 1994-96; Western Piedmont String Quartet, 1994-96; Great Music West, 1995; Nashville Symphony since 1996. Member of faculty: Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, 1995. Blair School since 1997.
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WEI TSUN CHANG Adjunct Associate Professor of Violin Student of Joseph Gingold, James Buswell and Walter Verdehr, chamber music coaching with Rostislav Dubinsky and Felix Galimir. Wei Tsun is sought after soloist, concertmaster recitalist and teacher. He is an active chamber musician with recent performances in Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan and Massachusetts as well as recitals in Paris and Barcelona. As concertmaster, Wei Tsun has led and soloed with many orchestras in Michigan, and is currently concertmaster with the Bryan Symphony of Tennessee. He has also soloed and toured Europe with L'Orchestre de Chambre Française Albéric Magnard and the Cameratta Antonio Lucio of Netherlands. Blair since 2006.
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KAREN CLARKE Adjunct Professor of Violin Professor Emeritus, Florida State University. Student of Robert Gerle, Joseph Silverstein, and Donald Weilerstein. Active recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral player and period instrument violinist. Soloist with Buffalo Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Member, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and Belle Meade Baroque in Nashville. Founding member, Rogeri Trio, concerts throughout the United States, residency at Yale University. Students, finalists in solo and chamber music competitions and hold positions in universities and symphony orchestras in U.S. and abroad. Blair School since 2007.
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GERALD GREER Adjunct Artist Teacher of Violin Student of Elaine Lee Richey. Masterclasses with Eduord Melkus, Joseph Fuchs, Hamao Fujiwara, and Alexander Schneider. Chamber music studies with Paul Doktor, Robert Marsh, Sally Peck, Michael Tree, Orford String Quartet, and the Guarneri Quartet. Associate Concertmaster, Nashville Symphony, since 1993. Member, Resident string quartet at the College of Charleston, 1990/91; Charleston Symphony String Quartet, 1990/91; Savannah Symphony String Quartet, 1988-90; and GianniniString quartet, 1985-87. Principal Second Violin, Charleston Symphony, 1990/91; Principal Second Violin, Savannah Symphony, 1989/90; Acting Assistant Concertmaster, Savannah Symphony, 1988/89; Concertmaster, Solisti Carolina, 1985-88; Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster, 1985, 1986, Concertmaster, 1991. Blair School since 1997.
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ERIN HALL Adjunct Artist Teacher of Violin
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CAROLYN HUEBL Assistant Professor of Violin Student of Andres Cardenes, Paul Kantor, and Donald Weilerstein. Chamber coaching with members of Juilliard, Cleveland Quartets. Assistant Principal Second Violin, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1999-2001. Assistant Professor of Violin, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997-2001. Co-Concertmaster, Iris Chamber Orchestra. Founding member of the Blakemore Trio. Soloist with orchestras including Brampton, Detroit, Dearborn, Germantown, and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Recitals and Chamber music performances throughout the U.S. and in Cordoba, Argentina. Summer festivals include Aspen, Banff, Bach Aria, Killington, Strings in the Mountains (Steamboat Springs), and Tanglewood. Performances broadcast on NPR and the BBC Europe. Recorded for Naxos. Presented Master classes at Arizona State University, the Hartt School, Michigan State University, the University of South Florida, and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Convention (2000). Presented two-week seminar in Cordoba, Argentina, 1999. Summer Faculty member Interlochen Center for the Arts (2000) Killington Music Festival (2001) and the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory (1996-present). Blair School since 2001. Blakemore Trio Web site.
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JOHN KOCHANOWSKI Associate Professor of Viola ; Coordinator of University Student Chamber Music E-mail Studied at the Juilliard School with Walter Trampler, Robert Mann, and at the Academia Musicale Chigiana (Italy) with Bruno Giuranno. Founding member, Concord String Quartet, 1971-87. Performances throughout the United States and Europe. Appearances on public television and National Public Radio. Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award, 1972; Emmy Awards, 1976, 1986. Member of faculty: Dartmouth College, 1974-87; Western Michigan University, 1985-87; Crane School of Music, SUNY College at Potsdam, 1986/87. Numerous recordings on RCA-Red Seal, Nonesuch, Vox, Turnabout, CRI, and Warner Bros. Member of Blair String Quartet. Blair School since 1987.
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BRADLEY MANSELL Adjunct Artist Teacher of Cello Student of Lee Fiser, Zara Nelsova, Michael Gelfand. Master classes with Lynn Harrell, Nathaniel Rosen, Frank Miller. Biographical citation in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Youngstown Education Foundation Scholarship. Canton Symphony Orchestra, 1979-81; Nashville Symphony Orchestra since 1984; Blair School since 1990.
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EDGAR MEYER Adjunct Associate Professor of Double Bass Student of Edgar Meyer, Sr. and Stuart Sankey. Soloist with orchestras throughout the United States. Recipient, Avery Fisher Career Grant, 1994; MacArthur Award, 2002. Exclusive SONY Artist and Grammy winner; solo recordings of music by Bach, Bottesini, and his own Double Concerto for Bass & Cello and Double Bass Concerto No. 1; recording/composing collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Emerson String Quartet, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, and others. Guest composer and performer at Aspen, Caramoor, Chamber Music Northwest, Marlboro, and Tanglewood Music Festivals. Featured on albums by Vince Gill, Gary Morris, Hank Williams, Jr., Vassar Clements, Garth Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, James Taylor, Lyle Lovett, Reba McIntire, the Indigo Girls, Travis Tritt, the Chieftains. Member, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 1985-93; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, since 1994. Visiting Professor, Royal Academy of Music and the Curtis Institute. Blair School since 1984.
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KATHRYN PLUMMER Professor of Viola Additional studies: Juilliard School. Student of David Dawson, Walter Trampler, William Primrose. Chamber music with Janos Starker and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, and Berkshire Quartets. Master classes with Bruno Giuranna (Siena, Italy). Soloist with XIV International Viola Congress Orchestra, Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, American Music Festival (National Gallery of Art), Ernen Musikdorf (Switzerland), Wahlwieser Musikwochen (Germany). Assistant principal viola, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 1972-74; principal viola, Aspen Music Festival, 1972-76; Casals Festival Orchestra, 1980. Interim principal viola, Nashville Symphony 1995/96. Blair String Quartet, 1974-87. Ernen Musikdorf, 1980, 1981, 1983; Wahlwieser Musikwochen, Germany, 1983; Sedona Chamber Music Festival, 1986; Aspen Chamber Music Festival, 1986; Festival der Zukunft (Switzerland) since 1987; Saint Cere (France), 1988; Curs International de Musica de Vic (Spain), 1989; Seattle Chamber Music Festival, 1989; Richardson (Texas) Chamber Music Festival, 1991; Sitka (Alaska) Chamber Music Festival since 1989. Soloist, XXII International Viola Congress, 1995. Performance with Smithsonian Chamber Players (Washington), 1997. Member of faculty: Oberlin Conservatory, 1981-83. Recordings on Orpheus, Red Mark, Varese Sarabande, Pantheon, and Gasparo labels. Blair School since 1974. Kathryn Plummer's homepage
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JOEL REIST Adjunct Assistant Professor of Double Bass Student of Paul Ellison and Anthony Bianco. Additional studies with Eugene Levinson and Bruce Bransby. Nashville Symphony since 1998, Principal Bass since 2003. New World Symphony, Co-Principal Bass, 1996-98. Utah Festival Opera, solo bass, 1999-2000. Aspen Chamber Symphony and Aspen Festival Orchestra (Assistant Principal Bass), 1995-97. Spoleto USA Festival Orchestra, 1996. Soloist with Westmoreland Symphony (Koussevitzky Concerto), 2005. Frequent guest artist for Alias (chamber music ensemble). Belmont University, 2000-04. Blair School since 2004.
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CHRISTOPHER STENSTROM Adjunct Instructor of Viola da Gamba
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CHRISTIAN TEAL Joseph Joachim Professor of Violin Student of Josef Gingold and Dorothy DeLay; chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Hungarian, and Berkshire quartets, William Primrose; Janose Starker; and Gyorgy Sebok. As first violinist of the Blair String Quartet, performances throughout the United State including the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall, and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York; the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art In Washington, D.C. Other concerts: the Aspen Music Festival (1986), the Sedona Chamber Music Festival (1986-1989), Sewanee Music Festival (1990, 1994), Gilmore International Piano Festival (1991), Music Mountain, Connecticutt (1996/97, 2002-2002), American Pianists Association Competition (2000), Colorado Music Festival (1994). Featured on National Public Radio and Public Television. Recordings on Orpheus, Red mark, Varese Sarabande, Pantheon, Vox, New World, Warner Bros., and Naxos labels. Carnegie Hall recital debut, 1977; soloist with Colorado Philharmonic, Madeira Bach Festival Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, and the Vanderbilt University Orchestra. Member of faculty: Congress of Strings (University of Cincinnati), 1976/77); Rocky Ridge Music Center 1978-1980; Aspen Music Festival, 1986; Meadowmount School of Music, 1994-1999. Adjucator for regional and national competitions. Student prizewinners on national, regional, and local levels. First violinist, Blair String Quartet. Blair School since 1972.
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MARY KATHRYN VANOSDALE Adjunct Assistant Professor of Violin Additional studies: University of Cincinnati. Student of Pierre Menard, Zoltan Szekely, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas; chamber music with members of the Cleveland, Vermeer, Hungarian, and Blair quartets. Soloist; Calgary Philharmonic, University of Cincinnati Concert Orchestra, University of Northern Illinois Philharmonia. Performances throughout Midwest and Canada and on National Public Radio and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Nashville Symphony Orchestra, 1972/73; Aspen Festival Orchestra, 1977; Vermilion String Quartet, 1980; Aspen String Quartet, 1983. Nashville Symphony Orchestra since 1984, concertmaster since 1988. Downbeat award in chamber music, 1984. Chamber music concerts in Rome, Italy, 1985. Blair School since 1985.
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FELIX WANG Associate Professor of Cello Student of Erling Blondal Bengtsson, Laurence Lesser, Stephen Kates, Jeffery Solow, Louis Potter, Jr. Soloist: Phoenix Symphony. Winner: National Society of Arts and Letters Cello Competition, Richardson String Competition, ASTA String Award, Zeuronian String Competition, Beebe Grant for Study Abroad. Given master classes in the U.S. and Canada. Teaching posts have included Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory, Killington Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, Pittsburgh Music Academy, Baltimore School for the Arts. Co-Principal Cellist of the Iris Chamber Orchestra. Chamber music performances throughout the U.S. and Canada, including these festivals: Strings in the Mountains, Garth Newel, Roycroft, Music Mountain, Tucson Winter Chamber Music. Member of the Blair String Quartet and Blakemore Trio. Blair School since 1999. Blakemore Trio Web site.
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SEAN Y. WANG Lecturer, Violin and Music History Additional studies, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music. Dissertation: Concept of Tempo in the Music of Brahms. Performances as violinist, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center. Festivals attended as violinist, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), Evian (France), Thy (Denmark), OK Mozart International (Oklahoma), San Luis Obispo Mozart (California). Violinist, Brightmusic Chamber Music Ensemble (Oklahoma), Trio Solari. Violinist-in-residence, Guild of Composers, Inc. in New York City, 1996-98; premiered numerous works by established composers. Radio broadcasts, Boston, Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, Denmark; television broadcast, Taiwan. First Prize, National Violin Competition of Taiwan, 1988. Formal papers, regional and international conferences in the US. Member, American Musicological Society, College Music Society, American Brahms Society. Author, CD liner notes, Green House Music (Germany), Altus Music (Japan). Reviewer, San Francisco Classical Voice. Performances as conductor, Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Savoyards, Stanford Summer Orchestra, Juilliard Lab Orchestra. Scholarship recipient, Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship at Juilliard, Chi-Mei Culture Foundation in Taiwan. Violin student of Rafael Druian, Sylvia Rosenberg, Lynn Chang; conducting student of Otto-Werner Mueller; theory student of Jacques-Louis Monod. Blair School since 2007.
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GLEN WANNER Adjunct Assistant Professor of Double Bass Additional studies: Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, International Society of Bassists. Student of Dennis Trembly, Lawrence Wolf, and Jim Orleans. Studies with Edwin Barker, Bruce Bransby, and Francois Rabbath. New World Symphony, 1988/89. Assistant principal bass, Nashville Symphony, since 1989. Studio recording. Blair School since 1993.
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