Artistic Team

Thomas George – Executive Director and Founder of the Madeline Island Music Camp

Evelina Chao – Music Director of the Madeline Island Music Camp and Assistant Principal Viola of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Quartets in Residence

Pacifica String Quartet – Winner of 1996 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, 1997 Concert Artists Guild Competition, 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and awarded the 2002 Cleveland Quartet Award. Appointed member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two.

The Arianna String Quartet – Formed in 1992, the Arianna String Quartet was awarded grand prize in the 1994 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and first place in the Coleman and Carmel National Competitions. The Arianna have been appointed Faculty Artist Teachers and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Missouri - Saint Louis.

The Parker String Quartet – The Parker String Quartet was recently selected for the prestigious Professional String Quartet Training Program at the New England Conservatory of Music, where the group was founded and also where it was selected in 2002 and 2003 as the NEC’s Honors Ensemble.

The Fry Street Quartet – Since securing the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Fry Street Quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to the Balkans and the Middle East.  The Fry Street Quartet is the Faculty Quartet in Residence at the Caine School of the Arts at Utah State University.

Violin

Sibbi Bernhardsson – Violinist of the Pacifica String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana and the University of Chicago

Daniel Chong – Violinist of the Parker String Quartet

William Fedkenheuer – Violinist of the Fry Street Quartet and faculty member at Utah State University

Simin Ganatra – Violinist of the Pacifica String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Illinois at Champaign/ Urbana and the University of Chicago

John Gilbert – Artist-Performer and Professor of Violin at Texas Tech University and concertmaster of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

David Gillham – Violinist of the Arianna String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Missouri – Saint Louis

Ara Gregorian – Professor of Violin at East Carolina University and violinist of Concertante.

Paul Kantor – Professor of Violin at Cleveland Institute of Music

Karen Kim – Violinist of the Parker String Quartet

John McGrosso – Violinist of the Arianna String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Missouri – Saint Louis

Rebecca McFaul – Violinist of the Fry Street Quartet and faculty member at Utah State University

Lucie Robert – Professor of Violin at the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music

Viola

Jessica Bodner – Violist of the Parker String Quartet

Evelina Chao – Music Director of the Madeline Island Music Camp and Assistant Principal Viola of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Russell Fallstad – Violist of the Fry Street Quartet and faculty member at Utah State University

Robert Meyer – Violist of the Arianna String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Missouri – Saint Louis

Masumi Rostad – Violist of the Pacifica String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana and the University of Chicago

Julia Trahan – Professor of Viola, String Pedagogy, and Music Theory at the University of Northern Iowa.

Cello

Kurt Baldwin – Cellist of the Arianna String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Missouri – Saint Louis

Herine Coetzee – Cello faculty of the Merit School of Music and founding member of the Fifth House Ensemble in Chicago.

Amir Eldan – Professor of Cello at Oberlin College

Anne Francis – Cellist of the Fry Street Quartet and faculty member at Utah State University

Christopher French – Assistant Principal Cello of the Houston Symphony and faculty member at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Kee-Hyun Kim – Cellist of the Parker String Quartet

Brandon Vamos – Cellist of the Pacifica String Quartet and faculty member at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana and the University of Chicago

Piano

Jeffrey Cohen – Professor of piano and a member of the artist faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.

Christopher Taylor – Bronze Medalist 1993 Van Cliburn Piano Competition and Assistant Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Wisconsin, Madison