From 1995 - 98 he served as chamber music advisor to Carnegie Hall's Link-Up Educational Program. During that period he created, performed and narrated presentations for nearly 50,000 New York City school children. In recent years, Ronnie has also played a major role in the development the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's outreach program, including the development of seminars, concerts and residencies for New York public schools and colleges, and American and European universities, conservatories and corporate groups.

Since 1984, Mr. Bauch has served as the Artistic Director of the North Country Chamber Players, one of New England's foremost chamber groups. This ensemble of twelve world-class musicians presents a popular five-week summer festival and has been described as "one of the outstanding cultural resources in the state of New Hampshire."

In May 2000, Slate Magazine (www.slate.com) featured the multi-faceted Mr. Bauch in a weeklong series of articles chronicling the life of a touring orchestra. Ronnie attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School of Music as a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay. He currently resides in New York City with his wife Sandy and their two children, Ariel and Benjamin.

Ms. Caplin gave the world premiere of Susan Botti's Within Darkness. Performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, this work was commissioned by Orpheus and dedicated to Ms. Caplin by the composer.

Recognizing the importance of educating and teaching young people, Ms. Caplin participates in the Orpheus educational program. As part of the program she has given master classes in chamber music at UCLA and has worked with the chamber orchestras at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools. She was also invited to work with the young musicians of the New World Symphony.

Ms. Caplin offers her Creating Harmony workshops to the professional and amateur musical community. The workshops address strategies in practice, performance, and communication skills as well as in the art of chamber music playing.

Chamber music has been an essential focus in Ms. Caplin's career. She was a founding member and first violinist of the Primavera String Quartet which won the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. She was the violinist of the Amabile Piano Quartet and the concertmaster of the Atlantic Sinfonietta in New York. She recorded the premiere performance of Jongen's Concert a Cinq for Koch International Classics under the auspices of the Atlantic Sinfonietta.

Ms. Caplin received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Donald Weilerstein and David Cerone, and her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Joseph Fuchs.

With increasing interest over the years in helping others, Ms. Caplin has become a licensed social worker. In this recent endeavor Ms. Caplin is beginning her work with conservatory students, amateur musicians, and professionals in a supportive role both emotionally and musically. While performing music continues to be a passionate part of Ms. Caplin's life, integrating healing and growth has become an exciting and vital component in her work as a musician.

Violinist Laura Frautschi has established a reputation as a versatile musician with a strong commitment to contemporary as well as classical repertoire. She regularly performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Asia, and collaborates frequently with living composers. She has given world premieres of violin concerti by leading American composers Lee Hyla and Augusta Read Thomas.

Her recent chamber music activities include appearances at the Caramoor International Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wellseley Composer Conference, Moab and St. Bart's Music Festivals. In addition, she is a concertmaster of the New York City Opera Orchestra, and has toured internationally as a concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Frautschi's extensive discography ranges from Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Festival Strings Lucerne and Lee Hyla's Violin Concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, to twentieth-century chamber works by Bernard Rands, Chen Yi, and Margaret Brouwer.

Laura Frautschi studied applied mathematics at Harvard College, and violin performance with Robert Mann atThe Juilliard School.

Mr. How has often appeared as soloist and has recorded with Orpheus for Deutsche Grammophon. Mr. How made his solo debut with the National Youth Orchestra of Taiwan at the age of seven and has appeared with numerous orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and Asia since then. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1974 with the New York String Orchestra and Alexander Schneider.

Mr. How's chamber music activities have included performances at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Spoleto, the Met Museum of New York, Caramoor Music Festiva and the Lockenhaus Festival. He also appeared with the New York Philomusica at the International Music Festival of Sofia in Bulgaria and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and as the Concerto soloist in Philadelphia. Mr.How began studying violin at the age of four and later studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Curtis Institute of Music with Jamie Laredo. He currently resides in Santa Fe New Mexico and is a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.

Interested in expanding the scope of the violin in concert, she has commissioned "performance art" works from Jon Deak, Larry Bell, and Elizabeth Brown and introduced them to audiences from New York to Alaska. She appears in solo works by Allen Shawn on two Opus One recordings.

She has taught at Bennington College, the University of Northern Iowa, the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and has served as artist-in-residence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. She has given master classes at the Seattle Music Festival and at SUNY Purchase in violin and chamber music.

As a native of Seattle, she attended the University of Washington as an honors student of Emanuel Zetlin, received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian and Oscar Shumsky, and received her master in music degree from the Mannes College of Music as a student of Felix Galimir.

Besides Orpheus, Ms. Jolles is a member of The Jolles Duo, Continuum, The Roerich Quartet, and The New York Chamber Ensemble. She has performed at festivals such as Marlboro, Cape May, Rockport (Mass.), Norfolk, Taos, Riverrun, and The Chamber Music and Composers' Forum of the East. Committed to recording new music, she has recorded as a chamber artist for the Cambria, CRI, North/South Recordings, Albany Records, and New World Records labels. She can also be heard on three new albums appearing in the spring of 2009 which showcase the music of composers Oleg Felzer, Ushio Torikai, and Victoria Bond. Ms. Jolles is on the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division, The Mannes School of Music Preparatory Division and the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

Ms. Jolles received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard where, upon graduation, she was presented with the school's highest award, the William Schumann prize. While at Juilliard, she held teaching fellowships in chamber music (as an assistant to The Juilliard Quartet) and in ear-training. Her teachers have included Lewis Kaplan, Felix Galimir, and members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, and American String Quartets.

Todd Phillips began violin studies at age four with his father, Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and later with Sally Thomas at the Juilliard School and Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Mannes College of Music and has been a teacher at the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall. He has recorded for the Arabesque, Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Marlboro Recording Society, NY Philomusica, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical labels. Todd Phillips lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, violinist Catherine Cho, and is the father of Lia, Eliza, and Jason.

The New York Times praised him as "an especially fine young violinist", and the Newark Star-Ledger similarly raved that "he is worth his weight in gold". His recordings of concerti of Bach and Vivaldi have been critically acclaimed, as well as chamber recordings of Copland and Dvorak.

Highlights of his career include his first solo TV appearance at the age of 12, solo Bach appearances in Geneva, Switzerland as a Swiss violin competition 1st prize winner at the age of 18, and performances as soloist in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante at the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival.

Mr. Rood has held 1st violin positions with Steve Reich and musicians, and the Music Today ensembles, performing over 100 premiers. He has also held positions in An Die Musik and the Omega ensembles performing residencies and tours throughout the United States. In addition he is a former principal player with Solisti New York, Philharmonia Virtuosi, and the New York Chamber Symphony (20 years). Having performed in over 20 countries he has been frequently sought after as a guest artist with Speculum Musicae, Eos, Da Capo, Harmonie, North Country, Houston Da Camera, and the American chamber ensembles. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music. His principal teachers have included Margaret Randall, Charles Castleman, and Raphael Bronstein.

Mr. Rood resides in the village of Pelham Manor, NY, with his wife Denise and two children, Michael (14) and Nicole (11).

As a concertmaster of Orpheus, she has recorded for Deutsche Grammaphon and Sony Classics, and on Nonesuch, Telarc, Arabesque, and MusicMasters with the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. She has also recorded for Vanguard, Delos and Grenadilla labels and has been featured on CBS News Sunday Morning. Ms. Sato has taught at Queens College and the Aspen Music Festival and is currently a faculty member at Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum Of the East, Hoff-Barthelson Music School and the Mannes College Of Music Preparatory Division, where she teaches violin and chamber music. She lives in New York City with her husband, pianist David Oei and their pit bull mix, Jazz.

Mr. Wyrick has lead an eclectic career which has included among his credits: Artistic Personnel Coordinator and frequent leader of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Concertmaster of the American Symphony Orchestra, the Bard Festival Orchestra, L'Opera Francais New York, and EOS Orchestra; Assistant Concertmaster of the New York City Opera Orchestra.

An active chamber musician, Mr. Wyrick had been a member of the DaCapo Chamber Players, The Chelsea Chamber Players and Perspectives NY. He can now be heard frequently with the NJSO Chamber Players.

Mr. Wyrick has made solo television appearances in the American Playhouse production of Andre's Mother, the Dance in America presentation of Chausson's Poeme for American Ballet Theater, and has appeared as a featured Orpheus soloist, playing Mozart Concerto K.219 in the BBC's Great Composers Series on PBS.

In addition to his annual NJSO solo appearances, Mr. Wyrick has performed as soloist with the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre de Toulouse, EOS Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra. In November of 1998, in a performance of Saint-Saens Rondo Cappricioso with Orpheus, Mr. Wyrick was one the first Americans to perform in the Hanoi Opera House in over 30 years. He has recorded for Bridge Records, Vanguard, and, with Orpheus, has made numerous CDs for Deutsche Grammophon.

Mr. Wyrick is currently the Concertmaster of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and will be performing the Phillip Glass Violin Concerto with the Symphony in the 03-04 season.

Mr. Huebner was born in Vienna, where he attended the Vienna Conservatory and subsequently the Wiener Musikhochschule. Mr. Huebner studied with Hatto Beyerle, violist of the Alban Berg Quartet, and was the recipient of a grant by the Alban Berg Foundation. Continuing his studies with Michael Tree at the Saint Louis Conservatory as a Fulbright Scholar, he received his artist diploma.

Before coming to the US, he played with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Christof is a frequent performer at music festivals including the Marlboro Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Salzburg Festival, Wiener Festwochen and he is on the faculty of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. Mr. Huebner has performed with members of the Guarneri Quartet, Alban Berg Quartet and the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has appeared as a guest artist with the American String Quartet and the New World String Quartet and frequently tours with Musicians from Marlboro. He has recorded for BMG/Harmonia Mundi, EMI Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Koch International and Nonesuch.

Recognized as a leading performer of contemporary music, Mr. Bartlett has participated in over ninety premieres with ensembles such as Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music and the Columbia String Quartet, and he has commissioned new works for the cello from American composers. During the summer of 2000 Mr. Bartlett was invited by Marin Alsop to be a featured soloist in the North American premiere of James McMillan's Triduum, the midle third of which is a cello concerto. He has served as either Artist-President or Vice-President of Speculum Musicae since 1990. Bartlett has performed at the Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Aspen Adirondack, Grand Teton and Waterloo Music festivals, and has been a regular participant at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. Since 1996 Mr. Bartlett served as the principal cellist of the Mostly Mozart Festial Orchestra and co-principal of Orpheus from 1984 until 1997.

A native of Marlboro, Vermont, Mr. Bartlett's early teachers included George Finckel and Blanche Honegger Moyse. From 1973 to 1975, he was a student of Leopold Teraspulsky at the University of Massachusetts. He was awarded full scholarships to both the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School and received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard where he was a student of Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins.

Eric Bartlett recently recorded the cello music of Larry Bell for North-South Records on a disk entitled River of Ponds (which includes an interesting collaboration with narrator Robert J. Lurtsema) and has also recorded for CRI, Opus One, Bridge, Delos, and Deutsche Grammophon. He has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts and is currently on the faculty of Columbia University. He lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with his wife, Orpheus violist Sarah Clarke and their son, Cory.

An active chamber musician, Mr. Spitz is a founding member of the Leonardo Trio and has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe with that ensemble since 1985. He performed for three summers at the Marlboro Festival and has played concerts with Rudolf Serkin, Oscar Shumsky, Benita Valente, Bargemusic, the Boston Symphony Players and Parnassus.

Mr. Spitz was recently appointed solo cellist of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra. He is a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and performs with them on their international tours, Carnegie Hall series and numerous recordings. He is also principal cellist of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Bard Festival Orchestra.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Mr. Spitz has studied with David Soyer, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle, Mischa Schneider and Robert Gardner. He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Telarc, Nonesuch, Delos, CRI, XLNT and New World.

A frequent chamber musician, Mr. Frazier has performed as a guest with Bargemusic, Helicon Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, The Los Angeles Piano Quartet, The Corigliano Quartet, and the Perspectives Ensemble. Recording Credits include Sony Classical, Nonesuch, London, Decca/Argo, EMI, Koch, Musical Heritage Society, and Deutsche Grammophon.

A native of Cleveland, Mr. Frazier received his musical training at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Manhattan School of Music, and former teachers have included Scott Haigh, Timothy Cobb, and Donald Palma. He is currently on the Faculty of the Mannes College of Music. Jordan lives in Manhattan with his wife, bassoonist Laura Koepke, and their two sons, Nicholas and Calvin.

With Speculum Musicae, the contemporary music group, he serves a double function as bassist and conductor and has appeared in both capacities at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Geneva Festival, the Miami Festival, the New York Philharmonic Horizons Festival, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center and the Fromm Concerts at Harvard. Mr. Palma has participated in the premieres of scores of compositions and has over twenty-five recordings of new works to his credit. He is currently the music director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the New England Conservatory - where he conducts the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra - and Yale University.

Miss Mann is the principal flutist of the Santa Fe Opera Company during her summers. In past seasons she has been a featured performer at various festivals including the Caramoor International Music Festival, the Lochenhaus Festival in Austria, the Santa Fe Chamber Festival, and the Moab Music Festival.

She has been the flutist of the Dorian Wind Quintet, played principal flute with the Minnesota Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and performed with the Boston Symphony. Appearing in numerous recitals throughout, she has been heard at the Aldeborough music festival in London, the Library of Congress and Carnegie Hall in New York.

Miss Mann attended the Juilliard School as a student of Julius Baker. After winning the Boston Young Artist Concerto Competition at the age of 12, her career began with a solo performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Miss Mann was also winner of the 1981 New York Flute Competition.

She can be heard on over 100 recordings. Her most recent include those with Garrick Ohlsson playing Chopin Variations, with Andre Previn in his own work, and a CD of Chopin transcriptions for flute and harp.

Ms. Palma-Nidel is the principal flutist of the American Composers Orchestra and Naumberg award-winning Speculum Musicae with whom she has premiered countless works including compositions of Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Peter Maxwell Davies and Milton Babbitt. She has performed as principal flutist and soloist with the Paul Taylor and Martha Graham Dance Companies, the Stuttgart and Royal Ballets, the Bach Chamber Soloists, the Santa Fe Opera and Madeira and Oregon Bach Festivals. Since 1973 Susan Palma-Nidel has been the flutist of the North Country Chamber Players performing chamber music and participating in educational projects in New Hampshire. For the last two seasons Ms. Palma-Nidel has collaborated with the Borromeo String Quartet in concerts featuring works written for her and the quartet by Pablo Ziegler and Fred Cohen.

Susan can be heard on more than 50 recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Columbia, Nonesuch, NewWorld, CRI, London and Bridge Records. Her recording of the Mozart Flute Concerto and Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto with harpist Nancy Allen and Orpheus received wide acclaim and has been termed the finest recording of these works to date by Gramophone Magazine.

A native of Midland, Michigan, Ms. Palma-Nidel received her musical training at the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School. She is presently on the faculty of Columbia University and Montclair State University, New Jersey. Susan is also a painter and lives in Manhattan with her husband, attorney and writer Richard Nidel.

He has served as Principal Oboe with American Ballet Theatre since 1988, as well as Co-Principal Oboe and Solo English Horn with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1986. He has toured with Orpheus internationally for over 25 years, and has over 50 recordings to his credit with them alone. He has held principal chairs with the San Francisco Ballet, American Symphony, The Santa Fe Opera, and has participated at the Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Colorado College and Aspen music Festivals.

Also a serious photographer, Dine began photographing musicians early this year for promotional purposes, which led to a freelance position with the New York Times as Culture photographer. He continues now to photograph what he has been doing with the oboe his whole Professional life. His work can be viewed at www.mattdinephotography.com.

Mr. Taylor was born in 1949. He is currently solo oboist with two internationally renowned contemporary music ensembles: Speculum Musicae and the American Composers Orchestra. Mr. Taylor is closely involved with contemporary music and has regularly premiered the works of its most exciting composers, most notably, André Previn's song cycle Honey and Rue in its 1992 world premiere, and Elliott Carter's Trilogy for Oboe and Harp in its 1993 U.S. premiere.

A 1974 graduate of the Juilliard School, Mr. Taylor studied with Lois Wann and Robert Bloom. His academic life has included positions on the faculties of the State University of New York at Purchase and Brooklyn College. Mr. Taylor currently holds artist-in-residence status at Columbia University as a member of Speculum Musicae and serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and SUNY Stony Brook. The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University awarded him a performer's grant in 1981.

Stephen Taylor can be heard on over 200 recordings, with such diverse labels as R.C.A., Columbia, Nonesuch, Vox, C.R.I., New World, Musical Heritage and Deutsche Grammophon records. In addition J.S. Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin and Concerto for Oboe d'amore on the Music Masters label, his solo recordings include a set of Handel arias, Bach Sinfonias and the Marcello Oboe Concerto for Columbia Records. Mr. Taylor's other recent recorded performances include Aaron Copland's Quiet City for both Musical Heritage and Deutsche Grammophon.

In the 2004-2005 David Singer premiered "Concerto for Clarinet" which was written for him by Guggenheim Award-winning composer Robert Aldridge. Mr. Singer has been featured on many Deutsche Grammophon, Columbia, Nonesuch, and "Music From Marlboro" recordings including the Sinfonia Concertante and Serenades of Mozart, Strauss, and Dvorak. As a member of the Aulos Wind Quintet, he commissioned and recorded John Harbison's "Quintet For Winds," which is now a standard repertoire piece internationally. In addition, Mr. Singer participated in the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen's quartet "Fortune" in Bonn, Germany with the composer as pianist.

Other appearances have included co-starring with Stockard Channing in "The Lady and the Clarinet," a performance with Yehudi Menuhin in Carnegie Hall and two performances at the White House for Presidents Clinton and Carter. Music festivals where David Singer has performed include Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Spoleto, Bath, Edinburgh, and Salzburg.

Mr. Singer has appeared many times with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. In January/February 2004 he was a featured guest artist in four concerts the Society presented at Alice Tully Hall in New York, as part of their "Sound Investment/35 Years of Premieres" series. In February of 2005 Mr. Singer was a featured performer in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner's composition "Four Settings".

David Singer's recording of the Aldridge and Copland Concerti has been released internationally by Naxos/American Classics. From England, Gramophone wrote "Singer's Copland performance is one of the finest accounts around. His playing is exceptional...sensitive and expressive...technically brilliant." He is Coordinator of Chamber Music and Woodwinds, Professor of Clarinet at Montclair State University.

His musical path has taken a rather unique journey through the world of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical period instruments as well as the modern bassoon he performs on this evening. When Mr. Godburn was first involved with early music he played the bagpipe, schawm recorder, dulcian, krumhoen, and rankette. As early music moved to latter repertoire, he started to play Baroque bassoon and still later the Classical bassoon all the while playing the modern bassoon. Some days he would rehearse music spanning seven centuries. Now he limits himself to three bassoons: Baroque, Classical, and Modern.

His musical talents have taken him to Australia, Europe, South America, and Japan. He has performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New England Bach Festival, Philharmonia Baroque, and the Classical Band, among many others. He has appeared as soloist on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center, the Mostly Mozart Festival, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Ravinia Festival, Kennedy Center, and the Boston Early Music Festival.

Mr. Godburn can be heard in recordings spanning medieval to contemporary repertoire on RCA Records, Angel, Sony Classical, L'Oiseau Lyre, Telarc, Columbia Masterworks, Harmonia Mundi, EMI, and Deutsche Grammophon. He studied at the Hartt College of Music with Joseph Iadone, a student of Hindemith. Mr. Godburn has served on the faculties of SUNY-Stony Brook and Manhattan School of Music.

This season (December, 2004) Frank Morelli will be making his ninth appearance as soloist in Carnegie Hall. The Miami Herald has hailed his "breathtaking virtuosity" and the Toronto Globe and Mail proclaimed his performance: "the kind of Mozart even the most tireless concert goer is lucky to hear once a year."

Frank Morelli recently released two solo CDs on MSR Classics: Bassoon Brasileiro, which includes performances with Orpheus and Baroque Fireworks. Of his recording of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with Orpheus on the DG record label, Gramophone Magazine noted the "delicacy of articulation and colouring, [and] the lyrical warmth of the Andante." Fanfare Magazine added that this recording "reset a reviewer's standards at too high a level for comfort in a world more productive of ordinary music making." The Orpheus CD "Shadow Dances," which features Frank Morelli, won a 2001 Grammy Award.

A prolific chamber musician, Frank Morelli has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on numerous occasions, including at the Whitehouse for the final State Dinner of the Clinton Presidency. He is a member of the Festival Chamber Music Society and Windscape, an ensemble in residence at the Manhattan School of Music.

Chosen to succeed his teacher, Stephen Maxym, Mr. Morelli serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School, the Yale and Manhattan Schools of Music, and recently joined the SUNY Stony Brook faculty. He is editor of Stravinsky: Difficult Passages for Bassoon, published by Boosey and Hawkes, and has published several transcriptions for bassoon and woodwind quintet. Frank lives in Closter, New Jersey with his wife Bethany and son Anthony. Visit his website at www.MorelliBassoon.com.

Mr. Rose has made over 100 recordings of the chamber music and orchestral literature for BMG, Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Music Masters. Recent releases include his appearance as first horn on the New York Philharmonic's DG release of "Harold in Italy" with Lorin Maazel; Renee Fleming sings "Bel Canto" with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and in works for wind ensemble by Beethoven, Mozart, Pleyel, and Rossini with Mozzafiato on Sony Classical. Other recordings include Paul Simon's recent releases "You're the One" and "Songs From the Capeman," solo horn on Pat Metheny's soundtrack for "A Map of the World," and soundtracks for "Beauty and the Beast" and "Cape Fear." He has appeared on numerous "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcasts with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the New York City Opera, and is a frequent guest with the "CBS Late Show Orchestra."

The New York Times critic John Rockwell has noted Stewart Rose for his "remarkable virtuosity, agility and fluency, and his ability to retain the horn's cheery rusticity."

Buffalo Globe critic Herman Trotter said of "From the Forest": "This is a recording to be treasured, not only by horn players but by average music lovers searching for new frontiers of musical excellence."

"Stewart Rose's horn solos were eloquent and sure. The instrument can play dirty tricks on the best of performers but was on its best behavior here."- The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2007

"forceful yet elegant playing" - The New Yorker, Feb. 2007

Over the last several years Mr. Albach has performed as a soloist with Orpheus in Europe, Japan and in the United States. He has performed the Handel "Suite for Trumpet in D", the Shostakovich "Piano Concerto No. 1", Copland's " Quiet City" and Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2." He has also recorded a sonata by Giuseppi Torelli on the natural trumpet with The American Classical Orchestra.

Carl lives in New Jersey with his wife Maureen Strenge, a bassoonist, and their three sons.

As an educator, Hanzlik promotes the inclusion of chamber music, in concept and practice, within a student's curriculum and subsequent professional life. In addition to coordinating the brass chamber music program at the University of Connecticut, he administers and teaches at the Atlantic Brass Quintet International Seminar at Boston University and Sonoma State University. The seminars, for brass students and professionals, are designed to foster musicality, ensemble skills, and democratic collaboration.

March 2008 marked Hanzlik's solo debut at Carnegie Hall, performing Arutiunian's Concerto for Trumpet, with the University of Iowa Symphony Band. Anthony Aibel, reviewer for the New York Concert Review, wrote, "Hanzlik is an excellent musician.... He has exceptional tone and sense of pitch, and he is one with his instrument, handling virtuosity with ease."

Performances for 2008-2009 include regular appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Riverside Symphony, and Orpheus at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Caramoor. Hanzlik will perform Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Moravec's Brandenburg Gate with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and is scheduled for performances throughout the country with the Atlantic Brass Quintet.

Hanzlik records with the Atlantic Brass Quintet for Summit Records. He can also be heard on the Naxos, Decca, Chandos, Arabesque, Bridge, New World, and Vanguard Classics labels. Hanzlik has recorded frequently for commercial radio and television and for numerous public radio and television features, such as "Live from Lincoln Center" and National Public Radio's "Performance Today."

Originally from Iowa, Hanzlik is a graduate of the University of Iowa and the Juilliard School.