Soloists


		Ginger Anders, violin soloist, a second-year student at Columbia Law School, is a 1995 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Young Artist Program. She also studied at the International String Workshops in Graz, Austria. Ginger graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1999, with a B.A. in East Asian studies. At Yale, Ginger studied with Syoko Aki in the School of Music. She has won numerous local and regional competitions and has frequently performed in recital and with orchestra, including the Yale Symphony Orchestra.
		Ronit Azoulay, flute soloist, is a music therapist at The Louis ArmstrongCenter for Music & Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Sheworks with adults who have heart and/or lung disease, using wind instrument playing, singing and music-assisted relaxation to promote optimal breathing andenhance quality of life. She also plays flutewith an Argentine Tango Trio.
		Ed Bridge, violin, regularly plays chamber music and was concertmaster and soloist with his college orchestra. Ed works as a Systems Programmer/Architect for Global Investment Systems in Hackensack, NJ. He lives in Fair Lawn NJ, where he and his wife, Joyce, host frequent chamber music evenings.
		Eugene Carr, violoncello, is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Richard Kapuscinski. While at Oberlin he toured extensively in the United States as member of the Oberlin Trio, performing in 25 states and in Europe. Eugene is from New York and studied at the Juilliard School with Ardyth Alton and Channing Robbins.
		Jon Darnell, oboe soloist, studied with Lois Wann at Juilliard and was the principal oboist in the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, playing under the renowned conductor Myung Whun-Chung. He served as principal oboist of the Princeton University Symphony Orchestra while earning his degree in philosophy. Jon lives in New York and works as the business manager for the Forward, the national Jewish newspaper.
		Guy Eddon, violoncello, has studied with Eva Ell, Paul Clement, David Soyer, and Paul Tobias at Mannes.
		Peter Nathan Foltz, tenor soloist, is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Music. At this year's Palm Beach Opera Competition, he was awarded the Hilda Bell Prize in the junior division. This summer he appeared as Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the California Music Festival. Other recent performances include an appearance with the Pro Art Symphony Orchestra of Walnut Creek, California, under James Arthur Gardener, and a solo engagement with the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, under Raymond Beegle. Peter's teachers include Mignon Dunn of the Metropolitan Opera and Sunny Joy Langton of the Chicago Lyric Opera. Peter lives in Manhattan and is a second-year Masters Degree student at Manhattan School of Music.
		Paul Goldberg, violoncello, has performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, Spoleto Festival, among others. A fundraising professional, Mr. Goldberg is the Director of Development for the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and previously held the post of Director of Institutional Advancement for Meet the Composer.
		Keiko Kobayashi, clarinet soloist, a graduate of the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and DePaul University in Chicago, won fifth place in the Japan Clarinet Competition and placed in the Fishoff Chamber Music Competition. She has performed at Aspen, the Pacific Music Festival, and the Winter Music Festival in Jerusalem. Her teachers include Larry Combs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lawrence McDonald. Keiko resides in New Jersey and is Director of the Japanese American Society of New Jersey.
		Kate Lauer, cello soloist, began cello studies at the age of 10 with Gretchen Belknap, principal cellist of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra. Kate attended Dartmouth College, where she was a pupil of Norman Fischer, cellist of the Concord String Quartet. In New York, she plays in chamber groups and participates in the Lawyers' Orchestra. She is a lawyer with an international practice focused on finance and development.
		Claudia Mertens studied flute in Germany. She has been playing with numerous chamber music groups and orchestras in Cologne and Heidelberg. Claudia is a research scientist in Bob Roeders laboratory at Rockefeller University. She did her graduate research at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1999.
		Lucie Onderwyzer began her musical studies at age 5 with piano lessons from her mother. She was soloist and concert master of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and the all New England Festival Orchestra. She won a scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music, and completed a degree in violin in 1988. Lucie plays a 2003 Charles Rufino violin.
		Vivianne Potter, violin, a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA, has performed as a principal player in a variety of community and professional orchestras on the West Coast over the last 20 years. In 1998, she relocated to the New York Area and serves as the Director of Direct Response and Major Gift Fundraising for Amnesty International USA.
		Dan J. Schulman, oboe soloist, studied with Jerome Roth, second oboist with the New York Philharmonic. Dan received a B.A. from Swarthmore College, and a juris doctor from Vanderbilt University. He has been principal oboist with many orchestras, and has been playing regularly with various orchestras and chamber music groups in Manhattan. He is a litigator with The Bank of New York, and teaches for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
		Loren Stewart, bassoon, studied with Frank Morelli at Yale University and Stephen Paulson at the San Francisco Conservatory. Loren was the principal bassoonist of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (1992-1995) and the Yale Symphony Orchestra (1995-1999). Loren will attend law school next fall.
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