Lisa Liske-Doorandish
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Lisa is pursued by and promotes the art of cello playing, giving concerts and workshops widely, working with her Philadelphia-based trio New River Ensemble, and teaching cello to a wide array of students ages three through seventy-something. She won cello competitions and other honors as a teenager, then gained a degree in mathematics and philosophy from St. John's College (the Great Books Program) and a Master of Music in cello performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Lisa played with the Roanoke Symphony and Opera Roanoke for ten years before leaving to focus upon solo and chamber music playing. She has been on the faculty of Washington and Lee and Southern Virginia Universities, and currently teaches cello at Hollins University and Roanoke College. She happily propagates new cellists through her Blacksburg, Virginia studio, Community Cello Works, regularly performs with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra; and is offering a program of Baroque sonatas with continuo quartet (check out the theorbo!), as well as the complete Beethoven works for cello with fortepiano. She has two books in proto-form: The Ants Book: Beginning the Cello, and How To Fly Your Cello: An Adventure In 4-Wheel Drive Cello Playing With Grace and Beauty. She is a founding member of The Society For the Unfamous.
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Miriam Liske-Doorandish
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At the age of two Miriam politely demanded her first cello and began her musical studies with her mother, Lisa Liske-Doorandish. She has since studied with Jonathan C. Kramer, Hans Jensen, Bartholomew LaFollette, Thomas Carroll and Amir Eldan while continuing to collaborate with and learn from her mother. Miriam is motivated by a deep love of chamber music and a love of collaboration which has led her to traditional chamber music settings as well as traditional fiddling sessions. She has attended chamber festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove, Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Methow Valley Chamber Festival, Musique à Marsac and Soundfest Chamber Festival, has worked with members of the Emerson, Ying, Doric, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, Cavani, Calder, Carmina, and Colorado and Chiaroscuro Quartets. She frequently improvises in various genres of music, and has particularly enjoyed delving into both historical performance and contemporary music at Oberlin Conservatory. Alongside cello, Miriam maintains a keen interest in social justice work and community development. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Oberlin Conservatory with Amir Eldan.
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Joshua Dent |
Joshua Dent began playing cello at the age of fourteen in Kissimmee, Florida. At the age of sixteen he began learning how to improvise and exploring genres outside of the classical umbrella of music. Towards the end of his studies at Florida State University, he decided that it was best to pursue music by learning in the professional world in new ways. Since then, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he currently resides. His career is always changing; currently, his work ranges from playing in chamber music groups, vaudeville style bands, rock groups, and jazz ensembles, to playing with singer/songwriters and in recording studios for various genres of music, to teaching improvisation workshops to cello studios around the country. With an active and fruitful career, he travels around the United States, Canada, and various locations in Europe playing in various genres of music, spending much of the year away from his home."
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Malina Rauschenfels |
Malina Rauschenfels is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and occasional dancer. Fun times include that award she won for a debut in Carnegie Hall where she scandalized them all with a list of crazy premiers, including her own. Also around that time, she had fun playing Ligeti’s piece for cellist with two bows. A few years later she debuted as a dancing violinist in an international dance festival in Serbia. Skills gained include cartwheel or aikido roll with violin in hand. Her piece for upside-flute player worked pretty well at the Bang on a Can Festival, but the upside-down cello piece hasn’t yet been finished. For Toby Twining Music, Malina learned to play cello while yodeling and overtone singing in polyrhythms. She has recently finished recording a CD entitled “In D: Solo Cello Through the Ages” that will hopefully be out soon. For more info, visit her page, malinarauschenfels.com or her group’s page, burning-river-baroque.org.
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Sophie Applbaum |
Cellist Sophie Applbaum studies in the Harvard-New England Conservatory dual degree program with Paul Katz and Natasha Brofsky. An avid chamber musician, Sophie has performed chamber music in Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, in Iceland, and in Italy, and plays in a string quartet that was recognized as an Honors Ensemble at New England Conservatory, a semi-finalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the Apprentice String Quartet at Music in the Vineyards in Napa, CA. Sophie has toured as principal cellist of NEC’s Youth Philharmonic, and performed as concerto soloist with the New Philharmonia, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Newton Symphony, NEC Baroque Orchestra, and Longy Orchestra. Sophie began cello studies with Michael Bonner. Summer festivals include Banff’s Evolution of the String Quartet, Music@Menlo, Heifetz, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Quartet Program, Orford, and Bowdoin. At Harvard, Sophie studies Social Studies, and has served as the Artistic Director of the River Charles Ensemble and the Partnerships Director at Y2Y Harvard Square, a youth homeless shelter.
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Jennifer Pittman
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Jennifer Pittman is a performer, collaborator, and instructor based Lansing, Michigan. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in cello performance at Michigan State University and holds bachelor’s and master's degrees in cello performance from Vanderbilt and Florida State Universities.
Jennifer has been teaching in the Lansing area since she moved to Michigan in 2015 to pursue studies at Michigan State. Previously, she taught in Tallahassee while at Florida State, as well as in her hometown of Raleigh during the summers. As a graduate assistant at both Florida and Michigan State Universities, she has taught, coached, and assessed students at the collegiate level. She has experience teaching students of a wide range of ages and skill levels from beginner to college undergraduate. As a performer, Jennifer plays regular solo and chamber recitals and often as a section player with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra. She has played in masterclasses for artists such as Steven Isserlis, Amit Peled, Norman Fischer, Laurence Lesser, and Colin Carr, among others. |
Kirsten Jerome
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A recent addition to the musical community in Raleigh, cellist Kirsten Jermé leads an active life as a chamber musician, recitalist, educator, and arts administrator. Kirsten previously served four seasons as principal cellist of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and cellist of the Eykamp String Quartet, faculty Artists-in-Residence at the University of Evansville in Indiana. As cellist of the Larchmere String Quartet from 2014-2017, Kirsten performed for the Dame Myra Hess Series, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Sarnia Concert Association, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, at Indiana University with violist Atar Arad, and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and recorded works of Stephan Krehl with clarinetist Wonkak Kim for the Naxos label. An avid chamber musician, she has performed on stages internationally from Harlaxton College in Grantham, England to the Speed Museum in Louisville, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society in Ontario and the Joyce Dance Theatre in New York, and she co-founded the “Coffee and Classics” chamber music series at The Wired Venue in Evansville. As soloist, she has appeared with the University of Evansville Symphony Orchestra, the Metro Chamber Orchestra in Brooklyn, the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York, and Stony Brook University Orchestra. Formerly a freelancer in New York City, Kirsten has performed at Carnegie, Weill and Zankel Halls, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Strad for Lunch recital series, and frequently appeared with orchestras including the Harrisburg Symphony and New England Symphonic Ensemble. She is also a tenured member of the Britt Festival Orchestra cello section in southern Oregon.
Recently appointed Assistant Director and Honors Coordinator for the Lamar-Stringfield Music Camp in Raleigh, she also serves on faculty at the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, the North Raleigh School of Music, and the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop. A passionate educator, Kirsten helped develop and direct a chamber music program at the University of Evansville, as well as a quartet program for the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. While in New York, she taught at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Greenwich House Music School, the Larchmont Music Academy, and for the Harmony Program, modeled on El Sistema. Kirsten received her M.M. at Eastman School of Music as a student of Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliott, and a B.A. from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Colin Carr. She has also studied cello with Käthe Jarka, Thomas Carroll, Peter Howard, Kirsten Whitson and Scott Tisdel, and has participated in festivals including Norfolk and Banff. Her chamber music mentors include Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartett and members of the Emerson, Pacifica, and Tokyo String Quartets. |
Alongside our full-time participants, we are glad to be joined by cellists Julian Schwarz, Aaron Fried, El Szilard, Julia Weldon and Eleanore Liske-Doorandish as well as Yellow Springs cellists Shirley Mullens, Matt Minde, and Bob Brecha. We will also be welcoming the Columbus-based cello quartet: UCelli. Our non-cellist collaborators and administrators include Molly Tucker, Adam Work and Ally Brown. We look forward to the return of many of our 2018 collaborators for our festival in January 2019.