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The Ensemble

FLORENCE ROSENSWEIG, 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 Rosenweig appeared in nationwide television and radio broadcasts and has concertized throughout United States, Canada and Latin America.  She has been a member of the American Society of Ancient Instruments since 1939.

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 Reading Symphony.  Since 1986, he has performed as Assistant Concertmaster of the Trenton Symphony Orchestra.  He concertizes in the Delaware Valley area and is a member of the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre Orchestra and  the Pennsylvania Ballet Company Orchestra.

PAUL MILLER, pardessus de viole, is both a music theorist and a performer of baroque and contemporary string music. His PhD dissertation focuses on the spatialized music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and will be submitted to the Eastman School of Music in the fall of 2008. He teaches both music history and music theory at Temple University. While maintaining violin and viola studios at five branches of the Settlement Music School, he is a music theory instructor and ensemble coach there as well. Paul keeps a busy schedule, appearing in various baroque ensembles in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC and Rochester, NY, and recently performed on the viola d’amore collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This summer he will attend the International Vacation Courses in New Music in Darmstadt, Germany for the third time, where he will perform contemporary works for viola and viola d’amore.

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.

MICHAEL SHAHAN, viola da gamba and contrabass, 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, D.C. 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, viola da gamba and violoncello, studied violoncello with Deborah Reeder and David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music.   She has concertized with the Brandenburg Ensemble throughout the Eastern part of the United States and with the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble in South America and Europe.  She participated in the Marlboro Festival Concerts in Vermont.  In 1979 she won the Hudson Valley International Competition for strings.

MARCIA KRAVIS, harpsichord, is the music and drama specialist at The Philadelphia School, where she has taught since 1983. She has played baroque chamber orchestra music recitals with the Tabor Camerata, Trio Leclair, and the Hildegard Chamber Players, and has performed solo harpsichord recitals in the Philadelphia area. Ms. Kravis holds a Master's degree from New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied harpsichord with John Gibbons, and a Professional Studies diploma from Temple University, where she studied fortepiano with Lambert Orkis.

Guest Artists at the 79^th Festival

ELIN FRAZIER, trumpet, is a native of the Greater Boston area where she was a protégé of trumpet virtuoso Roger Louis Voisin during her childhood years. She studied at the Aspen School of Music in Colorado prior to her acceptance at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia; there, she was only the second woman ever admitted for training on her instrument. A pupil of Samuel Krauss while at Curtis, she then continued her studies with William Vacchiano and Carmine Caruso in New York City. A resident of Philadelphia since graduating from Curtis, Ms. Frazier is in great demand for virtually every aspect of musical performance including opera, symphony, ballet, theater, radio, television, Baroque and chamber music. As first trumpeter for fifteen years with the Contemporary Brass Quintet of Young Audiences, Inc., she participated in more than 4,000 youth concerts throughout the East Coast and in many other ensembles. Ms. Frazier is currently trumpet soloist at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia and is principal trumpet of the Vox Ama Deus Ensemble. She is also the Brass Instruments Instructor at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, the Chestnut Hill Academy and Rutgers University, Camden. She has composed several books of etudes and songs for her students.

EVELYN JACOBS LUISE, viola d’amore, is a graduate of Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music. Her teachers have been Max Aronoff and Karen Tuttle. She has been guest artist with The Curtis Quartet, the Sokoloff-Brodsky-Cole Trio, the Temple Trio and the Philadelphia Trio. She is principal violist with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra and was a long-time member of the American Society of Ancient Instruments and the Amado String Quartet. She is also on the faculty of Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music.

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, 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." His unique collaboration with Janet Eilber, principal dancer of the Martha Graham Company, has resulted in three works for chamber ensemble featuring dancer/narrator and guitar, based on American poetry 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 "Song of Spring with Little Variations and Fantasies" and "Nocturne for Viola and Guitar" are published by the Theodore Presser Co. His solo and chamber music arrangements for the guitar are published by 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. "The Philadelphia Connection" features his "Sonata for Violin and Guitar."

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