2010 YELLOW BARN FACULTY & GUEST ARTISTS
* denotes guest artist


Violin
Curtis Macomber
Member: Apollo Trio, Da Capo Chamber Players; Former Member: New World String Quartet; Faculty: The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music.


Anthony Marwood
Active as soloist; Member: Florestan Trio; Artistic Director: Irish Chamber Orchestra.


Violaine Melançon
Founding Member: Peabody Trio, Knopp-Melançon Duo; Faculty: Peabody Conservatory.


Nicholas Mann
Founding Member: Mendelssohn String Quartet: String Department Chair: Manhattan School of Music; Faculty: The Juilliard School.


Donald Weilerstein
Founding Member: Cleveland String Quartet; Faculty: New England Conservatory, The Juilliard School.


Viola
Kim Kashkashian*
Active as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist; Faculty: New England Conservatory.


Maria Lambros
Former Member: Mendelssohn, Meliora, Ridge Quartets; Member: La Fenice; Faculty: Peabody Conservatory.


Katherine Murdock
Member: Los Angeles Piano Quartet; Co-Director: chamber music program of National Orchestra Institute; Faculty: University of Maryland, SUNY Stony Brook.


Roger Tapping
Former Member: Takács Quartet; Faculty: New England Conservatory.


Cello

Natasha Brofsky
Member: Peabody Trio; Faculty: New England Conservatory.


Jean-Michel Fonteneau
Founding Member: Ravel String Quartet; Faculty: San Francisco Conservatory.


Bonnie Hampton
Former Member: Francesco Trio, Hampton-Schwartz Duo; Faculty: The Juilliard School; Former faculty: San Francisco Conservatory.


Michael Kannen
Member: Apollo Trio; Faculty and Chamber Music Department Chair: Peabody Conservatory.


Piano
Boris Berman
Active soloist, chamber musician and recording artist; Faculty and Piano Department Chair: Yale School of Music


Peter Frankl
Internationally famous soloist and chamber musician; Professor of Piano: Yale School of Music.


Gilbert Kalish
Active as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist; Former Chamber Music and Keyboard Director: Tanglewood; Head of Performance Activities: SUNY Stony Brook.


Seth Knopp
Artistic Director: Yellow Barn Music School & Festival; Founder: Yellow Barn Young Artists Program; Founding Member: Peabody Trio; Piano and Chamber Music Faculty: Peabody Conservatory.


Vivian Hornik Weilerstein
Member: Weilerstein Duo, Weilerstein Trio: Piano and Chamber Music Faculty and Trio Training Program: New England Conservatory; Chamber Music Faculty: The Juilliard School.


Winds
Mark Hill, oboe
Principal: National Philharmonic; Member: Left Bank Concert Society, Regular Guest: with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Faculty: University of Maryland.


Alan Kay, clarinet
Member and Personnel Coordinator: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Member: Windscape,; Principal Clarinet: Little Orchestra Society, Riverside Symphony; Artistic Director: New York Chamber Ensemble; Faculty: The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook.


Percussion
Eduardo Leandro
Active as an ensemble musician; Artistic Director: Contemporary Chamber; Faculty: SUNY Stony Brook


Voice

Susan Narucki, soprano
Active as recitalist, soloist, chamber musician; Winner: Grammy and Cannes Awards; Faculty: University of San Diego.


William Sharp, baritone
Active soloist, recitalist and recording artist; Faculty: Peabody Conservatory.


Composers
Melissa Hui, Composer-in-Residence
Recipient: Guggenheim fellowship, Fromm Foundation commission, CBC and du Maurier/WSO Young Composers Competitions grand prize.


Stephen Coxe
Recipient: ASCAP and Aaron Copland Awards, BAEF Fellowship.


Ensemble in Residence
The Peabody Trio
1989 Naumburg Chamber Music Award; Tours Internationally; Ensemble-In-Residence: Peabody Conservatory.


Feldenkrais

Aliza Stewart
Works with musicians to embody their musical ideas in a way that prevents injuries, eliminates existing ones, and helps with increased freedom of expression and better sound.