Featured Artists on Festival Harvest

Basia Danilow, violin, enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances. Ms. Danilow has appeared in recital at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and the Kosciuszko Foundation as well as in Yugoslavia and Russia. She is the concertmaster for the New Philharmonic of New Jersey and the Princeton Symphony often appearing as soloist. An active chamber musician, Ms. Danilow was a winner of the Artists International award as a member of the Hollaender Ensemble and also maintains a busy concert schedule with the Danilow-Keremedjiev violin and guitar duo, which presents concerts of classical, ethnic and Russian-gypsy music. In addition she is a member of the Ariadne Trio and performs and records as guest artist with the Perspectives Ensemble and the Harmonie Ensemble of New York. Ms. Danilow performs regularly in the United States and abroad with L'Opéra Français de New York, the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has participated in numerous festivals such as Caramoor, the Amadeus and Summit Music Festivals, Summerfest at Rutgers University, the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, the International Summer Institute at the Moscow Conservatory and the Windham Chamber Music Festival. Radio and television broadcasts include performances on PBS, WQXR, National Public Radio and Vermont Public Radio. Ms. Danilow has recorded for Sony, Atlantic and RCA Victor - Red Seal.

Arturo Delmoni's (violin / viola) remarkably distinctive violin playing embodies the romantic warmth that was the special genius of the great virtuosi of the golden age of violin playing. Audiences everywhere have fallen under the spell of his technical mastery and immediate emotional communication. His stylish, elegant interpretations of classical masterpieces have earned him critical acclaim in the United States and abroad. During the 2002-2003 concert season, Delmoni celebrated the 40th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall debut (at age 14), where he played Tchaikovsky's Concerto with the Little Orchestra Society of New York. Delmoni has appeared with the St. Louis, Dallas, Spokane, Jupiter, El Paso, Glendale, and Tucson Symphonies; the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; the California Chamber Symphony; the Rhode Island, Brooklyn, Boston, Omaha, and Kansas City Philharmonics; and the Boston Pops. He has appeared as a recitalist throughout the United States and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and Hong Kong. As a chamber musician, he has performed with illustrious colleagues such as Pinchas Zukerman, Elmar Oliveira, Emanuel Ax, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura Parker, Jeffrey Kahane, and Dudley Moore. He regularly appears at the Seattle, Steamboat Springs (Colorado), Deer Valley (Utah), and Sitka (Alaska) festivals. He also served on the jury for the first Henryk Szeryng Competition in Mexico City. He took honors in the Dealey, Flagler, Viña del Mar, Kennedy-Rockefeller, and Leventritt competitions. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Delmoni's recording of romantic miniatures and encore pieces, received extraordinary reviews from prominent critics. Audiophiles and audio critics generally regard his recording of unaccompanied violin music of Ysaÿe, Kreisler, and Bach as a reference for the sound of a solo violin. Delmoni's duo recital with cellist Nathaniel Rosen, entitled Music for a Glass Bead Game, was nominated for a 1998 AFIM Indie Award, received a Golden Ear award, and was on Fanfare's "Best of 1998" list. Delmoni's most recently released recording is Rejoice! Volume Three.

Violinist Erica Kiesewetter has been a participant in the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival since 2001. She is the concertmaster of the American Symphony Orchestra, Stamford Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York,Long Island Philharmonic, and most recently was appointed to this position with the New York Pops with Skitch Henderson. An avid chamber musician, she is the former first violinist of the Colorado and Dakota Quartets and for fourteen years was the violinist of the Leonardo Trio. Her summers are spent at the OK Mozart Festival and the Bard Music Festival. Ms. Kiesewetter was educated at the Juilliard School and now teaches at Columbia University, where she is the violinist of the newly-formed Columbia Synfonietta.

Violinist Jeffrey Multer currently lives in New York City where he serves as first violinist of the critically acclaimed Elements Quartet. This last season, Elements' New York series was named "Best classical music event of 2003" by the Washington Post. Jeff has appeared as soloist and recitalist in concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America, including: Lincoln Center in New York, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Rudolphinium in Prague, the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. As a chamber musician, he frequently appears with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, has served as first violinist of the Oxford String Quartet, as a member of Leon Fleisher's Kennedy Center Theater Chamber Players and has been a core member of the Great Lakes Chamber Festival in Detroit, Michigan. Concertmaster appointments include the Colorado Symphony, the Breckenridge Music Institute in Colorado, the Washington Concert Opera and the Echternacht Festival in Luxembourg. Jeff is currently concertmaster and head of violin faculty at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Recently, The Detroit Free Press praised Jeff for his "Extraordinary precision and poise" and the Cleveland Plain Dealer called him "a prodigious and aristocratic violinist" while the Washington Post lauded his recent solo recital at the National Gallery as "a dazzling performance".

Jeff teaches at the Juilliard School in the pre-college division. He has recorded for Albany Records.

Violist Katherine Anderson performs throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals, chamber ensembles, and in major orchestras. A frequent performer with the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, Houston DaCamera Society, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Boston Musica Viva, Griffin Music Ensemble, Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Series, Music from Eden's Edge, and the Lawrence Chamber Players, Ms. Anderson has also collaborated with the Cleveland, Meliora, Brentano and Ridge Quartets, and with such distinguished artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Steven Doane, Peter Salaff, and Sergiu Luca. Ms. Anderson began her musical studies on the violin at the age of six in Sacramento, California. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in violin and her Master of Music degree in viola from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with members of the Cleveland Quartet. She has also studied with Nobuko Imai, Joyce Robbins, and Jeffrey Irvine. A fine teacher as well as a performer, Ms. Anderson has served on the faculties of the Longy School of Music, the New England Conservatory Extension Division, the Vancouver Academy of Music, and the Greenwood Summer Chamber Music Camp. A member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1992, Ms. Anderson also served as Associate Principal Viola in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Anderson currently lives in Dobbs Ferry, NY with her husband, violinist Calvin Wiersma, and their two children.

David Cerutti, viola, performs internationally as violist and violist d'amore. A resident of New York, he enjoys a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances. He appears regularly in the US and abroad with groups such as Orpheus, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. A former member of the Smithson String Quartet, one the most renowned Classical chamber music ensembles, Mr. Cerutti toured Europe extensively, taught and coached in Spain, and recorded numerous rare works. He is a founding member of Trigon, and has been a guest artist with the Brentano String Quartet, the Cygnus Ensemble, and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. Performing on Stradivarius instruments, he collaborated with cellist Anner Bylsma on a recording of the Mendelssohn and Gade string octets, for the Sony Classical label. His unedited performance of Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto was chosen by National Public Radio as one of seven best live recordings of Bach from "Performance Today", and was subsequently released as a CD. He earned his Master's Degree at the Mannes College of Music, where he was a student of Karen Tuttle, Claus Adam, and Felix Galimir. Mr. Cerutti plays on a rare Brescian viola made by Zanetto (father and son), ca. 1560.

Calvin Wiersma, violinist and violist, has appeared throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed numerous solo recitals, including appearances in Boston, New York, and Chicago, and has appeared with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, The Concerto Company of Boston, and the Lawrence Symphony, among others. He was a founding member of the Meliora Quartet, winner of the Naumberg, Fischoff, Coleman, and Cleveland Quartet competitions, and the Quartet-in- Residence at the Spoleto Festivals of the U.S., Italy, and Australia. Mr. Wiersma was also a founding member of the Figaro Trio and is currently a member of the Manhattan String Quartet. In addition to his worldwide touring with the Quartet and Trio, Mr. Wiersma has been heard at the summer Chamber Music Festivals in Vancouver, Rockport, Portland, Crested Butte, Bard, Interlochen, Caramoor, An Appalachian Summer, June in Buffalo, and at Music Mountain, as well as the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Wiersma's wide range of musical activities have recently involved an international tour soloing with Kathleen Battle, performances at Bargemusic and with New York Philomusica, international tours with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the American Chamber Players, concerts and recordings with Anthony Newman, appearances at the Berkshire Bach Festival performing the complete Brandenburg concertos, and concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with flutist Paula Robison. His recently completed recordings include Jacob Druckman's Third String Quartet for Philomusica, a recording of Elliott Carter's Syringa, , Swan Song by Milton Babbitt and an album of Chamber Music of Stephen Foster with Ms. Robison for Telarc.

A noted performer of contemporary music, Mr. Wiersma is a member of Cygnus, the Lochrian Chamber Ensemble and the Ensemble Sospeso and has appeared with Speculum Musicae, Ensemble 21, Parnassus, and the New York New Music Ensemble He has recently completed an European tour with Steve Reich, and has been featured in solo performances for the International League of Composers of Music. Mr. Wiersma is the artistic administrator of the American Russian Young Artists Ensemble, an international chamber music group of young professionals from Russia and the United States, is the Music Department chair at the Bard High School Early College, an innovative new New York City Public School for gifted students, and is music education coordinator for the American Symphony Orchestra. An active teacher as well as performer, Mr. Wiersma has been on the faculty of the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Florida State University, Brandeis University, the New England Conservatory, and the Longy School of Music. He has conducted clinics and master classes throughout the world, and has been an artist in residence at Middlebury College, the California Summer Arts Program, and the Institute for Chamber Music in Khiryat Shemona, Israel.

Peter Sanders, cello, is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Sanders is a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra (for which he has served as Acting Principal), principal cello for the New Philharmonic of New Jersey and performs with the Riverside Symphony, the Stamford Symphony and has performed and recorded as a guest artist with the Perspectives Ensemble. He has toured Southeast Asia twice with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and as concerto soloist with the group performed in concerts in Taipei and Singapore. He is Artistic Director of the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival (www.centralvtchambermusicfest.org), which had its inaugural season in 1993. Mr. Sanders was a winner of the 1998 Artists International award as a member of the Hollaender Ensemble and is currently a member of the Ariadne Trio. He has participated in many summer festivals including the Colorado Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival (faculty position), Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, the Lancaster Festival, Ohio, where he was principal cello from 1992-98 and the Windham Chamber Music Festival. As a studio musician Mr. Sanders has recorded for a variety of popular artists including Pat Metheny, Jewel, Kathie Lee Gifford and Carlinhos Brown. He can be heard on the Delos, Muse, Bridge, RCA Victor-Red Seal, New World and On the Lamb labels.

Cellist Roger Shell is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he was a scholarship student of Harvey Shapiro, earning both his Bachelor and Master Degrees. Since leaving Juilliard he has served as principal cellist with such groups as, the American Symphony Orchestra, Solisti New York, New York Pops and The American Theater Orchestra. Mr. Shell has performed concertos with the American Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Solisti New York. He has also performed as soloist accompanying Mikhail Baryshnikov. He has appeared numerous times on National Public Television and Radio, Live From Lincoln Center, Great Performances, and Performance Today on NPR, A&E Network, MTV and various New York area classical Radio Stations. He has recorded for RCA Victor, including the Vivaldi double cello concerto, BMG, Angel, Sine Qua Non, Camden, and several chamber music recordings for the ESSA.Y. label.

Michael Boriskin, piano, is widely acclaimed as one of the most accomplished and versatile musical figures of his generation. A native New Yorker, he has performed throughout the United States and in over 30 countries. He appears regularly as soloist with leading international orchestras and at many of the world's foremost concert venues, including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BBC in London, Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Vienna's Arnold Schoenberg Center, Athens Festival of Music and Dance, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Istanbul International Festival, and the Bavarian Radio in Munich. A prolific recording artist, his discography ranges widely from Brahms and Tchaikovsky to the present on BMG/Conifer, Harmonia Mundi, New World, Koch, and many other labels. He is a much-sought-after chamber music collaborator, and has performed with the Borromeo, Lark, St. Lawrence, St. Petersburg, and Penderecki String Quartets, Dorian and Arioso Wind Quintets, and the New York Philharmonic Ensembles. His innovative NPR series, CENTURYVIEW, was heard regularly for three years on over 200 stations coast-to-coast, and he was Music Director for three seasons of Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. His writing has appeared in many musical publications, and he has served as an artistic advisor or program consultant for the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the U. S. State Department. He is Artistic and Executive Director of Copland House, a unique creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland's restored, longtime New York home.

CD COVER ART BY:

ALISA DWORSKY

Alisa Dworsky works as an artist, architectural designer, builder and educator. Her work spans a broad range of scales from the design of buildings to the development of a series of 9" X 4.5" aquatint prints. As an artist, Alisa works in a variety of media; her recent work includes a series of sculptures of crocheted nylon rope, a series of intaglio prints, graphite and charcoal drawing and large-scale public installations.

In the fall of 2001 she completed the installation, "Luminous Fields: Longitude in Time", a mile long sculpture made of 1000 blue and green reflectors sited along Route 4 near Castleton. Alisa developed this installation with The Vermont Agency of Transportation. She received two Vermont Arts Council grants and a Vermont Community Foundation grant in support of this project. " It is also brilliant, in both senses of the word. With rows of green and blue reflectors that look like the handiwork of a road crew gone berserk, Dworsky uses the light and movement of a highway to reexamine our relationship with the rural landscape in a powerfully novel way" - Marc Awodey Seven Days. In 1992, Alisa co-founded with Daniel Sagan, Terra Firma Inc, an award winning design-build company that provides planning and design services with a focus on ecological design and energy efficiency. Alisa has taught architecture and art at Stanford University, The Yale Graduate School of Architecture, Ball State University and the Yestermorrow Design-Build School. She is currently an assistant professor at Norwich University. She received a B.A. from Stanford University and Masters degree in Architecture from Yale University. At Stanford, Alisa studied montotype and painting with Nathan Oliviera and Frank Lobdell. At Yale in addition to studying architecture she studied intaglio printmaking with Richard Ryan and Sculpture with Alice Aycock. She has exhibited and lectured on her work widely. Her architecture has been published in two recent books, Green By Design by Angela Dean and The House You Build by Duo Dickenson.

Alisa lives in central Vermont with her husband and two daughters. Occasionally, she dances around her living room with her family making up songs.

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