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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Chiara Enderle
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Chiara Enderle was born in Zürich, Switzerland in 1992 and spent her early years tagging along with her parents’ string quartet on tours all around the world. Chiara herself joined in on the fun of chamber music right from the moment she started learning the cello at the age of four. Her most influential teachers were Thomas Grossenbacher in Zürich, Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin, and Steven Isserlis in England. Today, Chiara enjoys a varied career of chamber music and solo appearances across Europe with orchestras such as the Warsaw Philarmonic, the London Philharmonia and the Zürich Tonhalle. In the 2016/17 season, she will be playing concerts in France, England, Scotland, Germany, Poland, the USA and Korea. Chiara’s first CD for Sony was released in 2016. Her second disk, due for release in 2017, features works by the Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch. Chiara is the founder of the concert series “Musik im Morgental” in Zürich, which involves chamber music as well as community outreach. As a counterpoint to her musical life, she is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
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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 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 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, Cavani, Calder, Carmina, and Colorado and Chiaroscuro Quartets. She frequently improvises in various genres of music, and has particularly enjoyed delving into both historial performance and contemporary music at Oberlin Conservatory. Alongside cello, Miriam maintains a keen interest in social justice work and community development. She is currently completing her undergraduate degree at Oberlin Conservatory with Amir Eldan.
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Joshua Dent
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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
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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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David Skrill
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David Skrill began his musical studies on the piano at age six, and first picked up the cello at 11. He began cello lessons at age 13, and is in his fifth year at Oberlin Conservatory studying with Amir Eldan. He has played in master classes with Michel Strauss, Hans Jensen, Steven Doane, Brian Manker and Anthony Arnone, as well as the Borromeo and Henschel Quartets. In the past he has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Duxbury Music Festival, Orford Summer Academy and the Chautauqua Music Festival.
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David Smith
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David Smith, age 13, has played the cello under the tutelage of Lisa Liske Doorandish since the age of five. He has been a first place winner of the Music Academy of North Carolina's string competition, the University of Tennessee's cello competition in the under 15 division as well as a multiple scholarship winner in the Thursday Morning Music Club's solo competition. He has performed with the National Suzuki Orchestra of the Americas in Minneapolis in 2014 and the National Young Artist's String Ensemble in 2016. He has performed in masterclasses with esteemed cellists Zuill Bailey, Steve Doane from the Eastman School of Music and Amit Peled from the Peabody Conservatory. When not playing the cello, David enjoys attempting to learn to play golf, computer programming and composing music on his piano.
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In addition to our full-time participants, we are glad to have been joined by cellists Benjamin Fryxell, Alicia Randisi-Hooker, Carolyn Smith, Aaron Fried, Ela Robertson, Maria Caswell, Julia Weldon, and Charles Reed, as well as Yellow Springs cellists Shirley Mullens, Matt Minde, and Bob Brecha in 2017. Our non-cellist collaborators included Wendy Champney (viola), Matthias Enderle (violin), Suzanne Hodgkins (voice), and Jennifer Gilchrest, (voice). We look forward to the return of many of our 2017 collaborators for our festival in January 2018.
