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Florida Orchestra players head to festivals
The Florida Orchestra's season concluded this past weekend, but that doesn't mean its members stop making music. Many play in summer festivals around the country in delightful locations like the Colorado mountains, Santa Fe, the Grand Tetons and North Carolina. Here's a list of musicians and the festivals they'll be playing in, supplied by the orchestra.
Stefan Sanderling (left), music director
Chautauqua Music Festival, New York
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Jeffrey Multer, concertmaster
Anna Kate Mackle, principal harp
John Shaw, principal percussion
Eastern Music Festival, North Carolina
http://www.easternmusicfestival.org
Ella M. Fredrickson, principal librarian
Sarah Shellman, principal second violin
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, California
http://www.cabrillomusic.org
Erika Shrauger, assistant principal clarinet and E-flat clarinet
Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico
http://www.santafeopera.org
Mary Corbett, violin
Grand Teton Festival, Wyoming
http://www.gtmf.org
David Coash, percussion
Lowell Adams, assistant principal cello
Lake George Opera, New York
http://www.lakegeorgeopera.org
Carolyn Wahl, French horn
Kenneth Kwo, viola
Kinhaven Music School, Vermont
http://www.kinhaven.org
John Bannon, principal timpanist
Colorado Music Festival, Colorado
http://www.coloradomusicfest.org/custom/SplashPage.asp
Robert Smith, principal trumpet
Virginia Respess, violin
Brian Moorhead, principal clarinet
Lane Lederer, assistant principal oboe
Crested Butte Music Festival, Colorado
http://www.crestedbuttemusicfestival.com
Alfred Gratta, cello
Bellingham Festival of Music, Washington
http://www.bellinghamfestival.org
MacPhail Center for Music, Minnesota
http://www.macphail.org/index_flash.html
Rachel Smoliar, acting assistant principal second violin
Breckenridge Music Festival, Colorado
http://www.breckenridgemusicfestival.com
Among the summer's highlights: the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina is featuring composer Bright Sheng, and Multer and Sheng will perform A Night at the Chinese Opera and Four Movements for Piano Trio on July 13 and 14 respectively. At the Chautauqua Festival in New York, Sanderling will conduct Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) on Aug. 1.
In other Florida Orchestra-related news, Jeff Bram, who used to be artistic administrator of the orchestra, has been named to the same post with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It's a high-profile job since Baltimore's music director is Marin Alsop, who has drawn a lot of attention as the first woman to lead a major U.S. orchestra. Bram, a French horn player who graduated from the University of South Florida, has been vice president of artistic operations for the Utah Symphony and Opera since 2004. Incidentally, he and his brother, Chris, and their families are changing their last name to Counts, to honor the stepfather who raised them.
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