Featuring
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Timothy Roberts
Cello
Timothy was founder, artistic director, and cellist of the Art of Music Chamber Players in Boston for 10 years. He was also a founding member and is a current performer in the South Coast Chamber Music society for the last 13 years. He recently purchased Copley Chamber Players Inc which is a performing organization as well as a company that provides musical ensembles for functions, events and weddings.
His freelance work includes work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Opera Company of Boston, Boston Ballet, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Classical Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra (Tampa) as well as just about every other type of freelance work available in Boston. He has also taught for many years in various towns and music schools since 1984, teaching both private cello and as a chamber music coach, and in his private studio in Needham.
Mr. Roberts holds degrees in Performance from New England Conservatory, and Northwestern University, and he pursued a doctorate at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He performs on a Gabriello cello made in Florence, Italy in 1751.
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Theresa Salomon
Violin
Violinist Theresa Salomon has had her interpretations praised by The New York Times as “sizzling,” The Washington Post as “virtuosic,”and The Frankfurter Allgemeine as “on the highest level.” She has performed with many of the finest early music ensembles and orchestras, as well as numerous festivals in North America. She has appeared with Ensemble Repast, Four Nations, Artek, Rebel, Trinity Wall Street, American Classical Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, Clarion, National Cathedral, Carmel Bach Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, among others.
Studying violin in The Netherlands in the early nineteen nineties, at the time a hot bed of early music and historic performance practice, Theresa was swayed by the earthy sound of gut strings. During and after studies in her native Germany, The Netherlands, and Austria, she traveled extensively and performed concerts in Norway, Brazil, Japan, Togo, Malawi, and South Africa. She is also an enthusiast of contemporary music and has premiered numerous works, including a violin concerto on live radio with the Janáček Philharmonic in Ostrava. She has performed at the Gulbenkian Festival in Lisbon, the Prague Spring Festival, and the Ostrava Days for New Music in the Czech Republic.
Theresa has recorded music from Rosenmueller to Xenakis, as well as sound tracks to movies. Theresa is a member of the Orchestra of St Luke’s, curates and programs for the chamber music series Friends of Mozart, and lives is New York City.
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Kevin Neuhoff
Percussion
Kevin Neuhoff, whose performances as a symphonic timpanist and percussionist have been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “virtuosic” and “remarkably sensitive” is a steady presence on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.
A concerto competition winner and graduate of the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, Kevin is the Principal Timpanist with the San Francisco Opera Center Orchestra, the Berkeley and Fremont symphonies, the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra, and Principal Percussionist with the Marin Symphony. Kevin also plays frequently with orchestras throughout Northern California including Oakland, Silicon Valley, California, Santa Rosa, Monterey, Sacramento, and San Francisco symphonies. He performs and has recorded with Philharmonia Baroque, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Opera Parallele, West Edge Opera, Castleton Opera with Lorin Maazel, Live Oak Baroque, the Albany Consort, Jubilant Baroque, Marin Baroque, and the California Bach Society. At the invitation of Music Director Kent Nagano, he played with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in the Canadian premiere of Messiaen’s challenging opera St. François d’Assise.
A versatile musician, Kevin also performs Broadway shows at Cinnabar Theater, contemporary chamber music with San Francisco’s Earplay Ensemble, and music on demand with the Skywalker Symphony where he has performed with numerous artists such as The Who, Placido Domingo, Andre Bocelli, Weird Al Yankovic, the symphonic concert presentation of Zelda: Symphony of a Goddess, Disney’s Finding Nemo, and a variety of video game scores. His recordings can be found on Harmonia Mundi, Koch, Triloca, Wide Hive, New Albion, and Nonesuch labels. Kevin has also performed with the festivals of Aspen, Cabrillo, Mendocino, Other Minds, and the Festival of the Americas in Montréal. Kevin’s Baroque timpani are recently made by Aehnelt Lefima of Cham Germany.
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Alissa Smith
Viola
Alissa Smith, violist, holds music degrees from the Australian National University and the Juilliard School, where she was a Teaching Fellow. Her chamber music experience has included recitals at Carnegie Hall; performances at the Park City, Aspen, Bravo! Colorado, Lincoln Center, and Verbier music festivals; and a residency with the Emerson String Quartet.
A versatile performer on modern and baroque violas, Alissa has appeared with The Knights at the Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, and toured Australia and North America with The Australian Chamber Orchestra. She has performed with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, New York City Ballet, American Composers Orchestra, Klangforum Wien and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. International festival appearances include the Sydney Festival alongside Lou Reed and at the Istanbul International Jazz Festival.
As a baroque violist Alissa has performed with New York Baroque Incorporated, The Sebastians, Opera Lafayette, NY Collegium, Tempesta di Mare, the American Classical Orchestra ; recorded with Clarion, the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Apollos Fire ; and appeared at the Staunton, Magnolia, Teatro Nuovo and Carmel Bach Festivals.
Alissa can be heard on numerous movie soundtracks including “Casanova”, “Julie and Julia”, “True Grit” and “Joker”; on period instrument recordings of Bach Motets (The Trinity Choir) and Mozart Symphonies (Apollos Fire); and on Maria Schneider’s multi Grammy award winning album “Winter Morning Walks”.
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