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The Ensemble

FLORENCE ROSENSWEIG, Music Director Emerita, pardessus de viole and violin, studied with Ben Stad and Louis Persinger and was awarded a fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School of Music. She was Concertmaster of the York, Lancaster and Trenton symphony orchestras, Assistant Concertmaster of the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia and played with the Bach Festival Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Miss Rosensweig appeared in nationwide television and radio broadcasts and has concertized throughout United States, Canada and Latin America. She has been a member of the Ensemble since 1939, and served as the Society’s Music Director from 1981 through 2007.

GREGORY TEPERMAN, pardessus de viole and violin, was born in the USSR. He attended a special school and the Moldavian Conservatory where he studied the violin with Professors Veiner and Vasiliev. He then completed advanced courses at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory. After graduation, he became a member of the Moldavian Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Teperman emigrated to the United States in 1982. Soon after he arrived, he became a member of the Concerto Soloists and the Reading Symphony. He has been the Concertmaster at the Walnut Street Theater since 1992, and the Assistant Concertmaster of the Trenton Symphony Orchestra since1986. He teaches strings at the LaSalle College High School, and is Concertmaster at Broadway at the Academy. He concertizes in the Delaware Valley area and is a member of the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Ballet Company Orchestra.

SHALER MOSCOVITZ, viola d’amore and viola, studied viola with David Dawson, Lillian Fuchs and Karen Tuttle. He has performed with the Houston Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, and the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal. He has been principal violist with the National Ballet of Canada, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and currently the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra. Since 1977, he has played modern and baroque viola at the Monanock Music Festival in New Hampshire.

PAUL MILLER, pardessus de viole, viola d’amore and baroque violin, is a music theorist and a performer on modern and baroque instruments. As an adjunct professor of music at the Boyer college of Music at Temple University, he teaches courses in music theory and music history to majors and non-majors. A specialist in the viola d’amore, he has appeared in many venues in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, DC. Also active as a performer of contemporary music, Paul has been heard regularly since 2004 at the Darmstadt New Music festival in Germany. He recently successfully defended his PhD dissertation in music theory, entitled “Stockhausen and the Serial Shaping of Space”, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. This summer, Paul has been engaged to lead a concert of baroque and early classical music in Munich, and also was invited to give two lectures at the annual Stockhausen Festival in Kürten, Germany. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Vassar College, and a Master’s degree in viola performance from the Eastman School of Music.

MICHAEL SHAHAN, viola da gamba and baroque cello, studied with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music, graduating in 1962. Mr. Shahan has been a member of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC and is presently Assistant Principal bassist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, bassist of the Amerita Chamber Orchestra and the Philadelphia Jazz Quintet. Mr. Shahan teaches at the New School of Music in Philadelphia.

VIVIAN BARTON DOZOR, Music Director, viola da gamba, violoncello and baroque violoncello, has performed with such distinguished artists as Yehudi Menuhin, Alexander Schneider, and Felix Galimir, appearing in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Symphony Hall in Boston. A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, her teachers included David Soyer, Laurence Lesser, and Julius Levine. Winner of the top cello prize at the Hudson Valley Competition, she was invited to participate in the first Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists in Los Angeles. Her diverse musical activities have included concerts with the Brandenburg Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Marlboro Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, American Society of Ancient Instruments, Philomel Concerts, and Brandywine Baroque. She has also attended the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall, England. She has been a member of the Ensemble since 1985, and became the Society’s Music Director in 2007.

MARCIA KRAVIS, harpsichord, is a graduate of New England Conservatory (M.M., Harpsichord Performance) and of Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music (Certificate of Professional Studies in Fortepiano). In addition to playing with the American Society of Ancient Instruments and performing solo recitals, she is the harpsichordist with Ensemble La Bernardinia. Ms. Kravis was a music and drama specialist at The Philadelphia School from 1983-2006 and maintains her affiliation with the school as a drama consultant for special projects. She is a Certified Music Practitioner, trained with the Music for Healing and Transition Program; she plays the hammered dulcimer for patients in hospitals and hospices.

Guest Artists at the 80^th Festival

DANIEL BORING, theorbo, is a specialist in historical plucked instruments, is currently instructor of Historical Instruments, Classical Guitar, and is the director of the Muhlenberg College Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, he is also the Director of Classical Guitar Studies at Montgomery County Community College in the Philadelphia area. He is a native of western New York where he received performance degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Ithaca College School of Music. Early Music teachers and coaches include James Tyler, Oscar Ghiglia, the Assad duo, Anthony Rooley, Nigel North, Ronn McFarlane, and Patrick O’Brien. Mr. Boring made his European debut in Rome, Italy in 1995 where he participated as chamber artist with the Rome festival orchestra and ballet troupe. Return engagements throughout Italy include performances with the Opera Theatre of Lucca as chamber artist and orchestral member. Mr. Boring currently performs frequently as soloist and in chamber music as an active member of Due Colori, a soprano/guitar-lute duo that recently released their first recording “Irish Airs and Ballads.” The ensemble followed up the recording with performances in Ireland in the summer of 2003. Due Colori made their European debut performances in the summer of 1998, and continues to tour throughout the United States and Europe. A 2002-2003 faculty research grant was awarded to Daniel by the University of Louisville to pursue study and research of baroque guitar literature in Los Angeles with world renowned baroque scholar James Tyler. Performances throughout the United States include engagements with major opera companies such as Pittsburgh Opera and Blimmerglass Opera, as well as several recordings on the Lyrachord Early Music label with the Vox Amadeus Baroque Ensemble. Daniel Boring served as Director of Classical Guitar Studies at the University of Louisville School of Music from 1999-2005. Mr. Boring has held additional appointments on the string faculties of the Southern Baptist Seminary School of Music (Louisville, KY) and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, where he taught chamber music and applied lessons.

ALLEN KRANTZ, guitar, a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory and Stanford University, has received acclaim as a composer, solo guitarist, and chamber musician. His performances throughout the United States have included appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the Phillips Collection in Washington, with his diverse programs often featuring original compositions. Recent premieres have been “Under One Roof,” a trio in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and “James the Captain Cook Pig,” for narrator and septet, conducted by Charles Dutoit. Mr. Krantz is composer in residence for the Philadelphia based chamber ensemble, 1807 & Friends, which premiered his “Little Elegy,” “Quartet for Guitar and Strings,” and “In Five.” Mr. Krantz heads the guitar program at the New School Institute at Temple University. He performs in “Duo Paganini” with violinist Nancy Bean, associate concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and has performed and taught nationwide as an Affiliate Artist. Mr. Krantz’s works have been published by the Theodore Presser Company and International Music. Allen Krantz’s recordings for the DTR label include “Summer Music” with flutist Deborah Carter which features two of his compositions, and “The Romantic Guitar,” a recital of his guitar arrangements of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms.

RAINER BECKMANN, recorder, a native of Germany, joined Philadelphia’s early music community about two and a half years ago. Mr. Beckmann is a graduate from the Utrecht School of the Arts, Netherlands, where he studied recorder with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg, and Marion Verbruggen. As a founding member of Il Flauto Giocoso and the Landini Consort, Mr. Beckmann performed in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy and Israel. He won first prizes at the Holland Open Recorder Festival in 1986 and the Dutch Concert Agency’s Performance Contest in 1997. Living in Brazil after 1997, Mr. Beckmann taught recorder and music history at the State University of Ceara´ in Fortaleza and performed early music as well as Brazilian popular and folk music with Ad Libitum and Syntagma. Mr. Beckmann is the founding director of the Greater Philadelphia Area Recorder Academy, teaches recorder at Oak Lane Day School, and is a frequently requested workshop instructor throughout the Northeast. He has performed with the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare, the New Amsterdam Recorder Trio, and the Ritornello Baroque Ensemble. Mr. Beckmann is a Ph.D. candidate in historical musicology at the University of Athens, GA. His research interests focus on the Brazilian art music tradition between 1870 and 1930.

HEATHER GARDNER, soprano, received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied violin, viola and voice. She has sung with groups such as Alarm Will Sound, the John Zorn Ensemble and SF Sound as well as the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Currently, she sings as part of the core in the St. Mark’s Choir in Philadelphia and freelances around Pennsylvania and California, where she grew up. When she isn’t busy making music, Heather can be found helping organize unions with the Industrial Workers of the World or helping her partner run their vintage clothing business.

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