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 |  Clarinetist EDWARD R. GILMORE has established himself as a successful solo artist, orchestral player, and chamber music recitalist. The winner of numerous competitions, grants, and awards - including a National Endowment for the Arts grant - Mr. Gilmore studied clarinet with Leon Russianoff at both the Juilliard School and Queens College. He has been a featured artist with orchestras and chamber music ensembles around the world, and has performed locally with the New York Chamber Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society, and the New York Pops, among others. A long-standing member of the University of Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, Mr. Gilmore has appeared with several leading new music ensembles, including the Da Capo Chamber Players and Speculum Musicae. He has served on the faculty of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, and has recorded for the New World, Centaur, Newport Classics, and Opus One labels. Since 1988 Mr. Gilmore has headed his own company, Gilmore's Sound Advice, Inc.
 Flutist SATO MOUGHALIAN appears as a recitalist, soloist, and orchestral musician in New York City, and has performed hundreds of chamber music concerts under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management. In the last few seasons her festival performances as a chamber musician and soloist have included Moussem Culturel d'Asilah (Morocco), the Festival de Prades -Pablo Casals, II Festival Internacional (Brazil), Next Wave Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Adirondack Festival of American Music, Bar Harbor Festival, Music from Salem, Simar Festival (Colombia) and Mohawk Trails Concerts.
An active orchestral player in the New York area, she serves as solo flute of L'Opéra Français de New York, New Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and as frequent guest principal with groups including American Ballet Theatre, Long Island Philharmonic, Westfield Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Queens Symphony and numerous others. Recently, she has appeared as concerto soloist with the National Symphony of Ecuador; the Orchestra of the San Pedro Theater in Porto Alegre, Brazil; the Naumberg Orchestra, Bachannalia, Long Island Philharmonic, Hudson Chamber Symphony, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recently recorded the Osvaldo Lacerda Piccolo Concerto for the Helicon label. She recorded a solo CD, The Operatic Flute with pianist Mikael Eliasen for the MHS label. She frequently appears with groups including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, L'Ensemble, Dorian Quintet, Essential Music, Amadeus Virtuosi, and the Sylvan Winds. She is also Artistic Director of the Perspectives Ensemble, which was founded in 1993 at Columbia University, and has subsequently performed for Lincoln Center Great Performers series, at the 92nd Street Y, and made its Carnegie Hall debut in June, 2003 as a featured guest of the JVC Jazz Festival. The group's first CD, Goddess of the Moon Chamber Music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes, on the Newport Classic label, was released to wide critical acclaim, as was its most recently released CD--music of Richard Danielpour for Sony Classics. The Perspectives Ensemble appears in a guest collaboration with Quintet of the Americas on the upcoming release of music of Karel Husa on the New World Records label. Ms. Moughalian also currently serves as Music Director of the 12-year old chamber series "Sundays on the Island."  Horn player BARBARA OLDHAM has presented recitals at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the American Landmark Festivals. In 1999 she received a Brooklyn Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for a series of recitals in Brooklyn. Ms. Oldham has appeared as a chamber recitalist with the Marlboro Music Festival, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Festival Brass, Composer's Brass Quintet, and as a soloist at the Westchester Chamber Music Festival and with the Contreras Chamber Ensemble. In 1976 she left New York to become the principal horn of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia. While in Bogota, she founded Quintet of the Americas with four other members of the National Symphony. She returned to New York the following year and shortly thereafter became a member of the Queens Symphony; West End Symphony, a group performing for children; and resumed her position as principal horn with Opera Northeast. Also active as a free-lance player, she has performed with Brooklyn Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic, Radio City Music Hall, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joffrey Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and on Broadway for West Side Story, Woman of the Year, Cats, and Aspects of Love. In the fall of 1996, she was invited to serve as guest principal horn with the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic.
As a member of Quintet of the Americas for two decades, Ms. Oldham has performed in hundreds of concerts in tours across the United States, South America, and the Caribbean. Her interests include researching repertoire from Latin America and in developing educational programs and workshops. She serves on the Music Advisory Board of the Americas Society in New York City, the Latin American Music Committee of Queens Symphony, and has served as a chamber music competition adjudicator and grant panelist. She is on the faculty at Brooklyn College and has taught beginning band to elementary school students in a public school in Brooklyn as part of Project Arts. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Miami University (Ohio) and a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music.  Oboist MATT SULLIVAN has performed extensively on four continents and is recognized internationally as both a virtuoso performer and teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. The New York Times has praised his gorgeously lyrical playing and the New Yorker has called his inventive programming the cutting edge. As composer, his innovative works created for oboe, English horn and digital horn, along with his solo and chamber music performances and compact discs, have been featured on National Public Radio and on Voice of America. In addition to his active teaching and solo recital schedule, he is a member of Musicians Accord, the Richardson Chamber Players (Princeton University), the Westchester Chamber Orchestra, First Avenue, and Heliosphere. He serves on the faculties of Long Island University C. W. Post, the European Mozart Academy (Warsaw), the Manhattan School of Music Prep Division, Rutgers University and he teaches oboe at Princeton University where he has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor. Matt Sullivan is a Performing Artist for Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes.
 Laura Koepke, bassoonist, has performed with many of New York’s finest orchestras, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York City Opera Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Westchester Philharmonic. She is principal bassoonist of the New Philharmonic of New Jersey.
In addition to performing in symphony halls, Laura has appeared on MTV’s "Live from the 10 Spot," performed at the "Bang on a Can" Festival, and has performed original music to silent film with the chamber ensemble, The BQE Project. Summer festival appearances include the Sunriver Music Festival in Oregon, the Lincoln Center Festival, Festival of the Hamptons, "Weekend of Chamber Music" Festival, and the Lake Winnipesaukee Chamber Music Festival. Laura is on the faculty of New York University, Queens College, Manhattan School of Music (Preparatory Division), and Western Connecticut State University. Laura is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College and holds a Masters Degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University School of Music, where she studied with Stephen Maxym and Frank Morelli. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Laura now resides in New York City.
A Photo diary of some concerts and travels with Quintet of the Americas...
2003 |
Flushing Library in Queens |
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Sierra, councilman, and Quintet at Flushing Library |
Quintet at Flushing Library |
Flushing Library: Quintet and Sierra speaking | |
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September 2002 |
Tbilisi Republic of Georgia (28 photos!) |
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Quintet performs at the National Conservatoire |
Quintet performs at the US Ambassador's residence |
Exploring Tbilisi |
 Barbara's horn master class, National Conservatoire | |
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January 2002 CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA |
Quintet playing Judith Sainte Croix's composition |
"Visions III" |
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Matt and Laura playing Colombian gaitas during premiere of Vision III by Judith Sainte Croix at the Chamber Music America conference, 2003. | |
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