Derek Bermel was featured as a composer and performer at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Allan Kozann, writing for the Portland Press Herald, “Bermel is one of Bowdoin’s success stories. Now a faculty member, he attended the festival as a…
Recently, Vance R. Koven of The Boston Intelligencer attended the Borromeo String Quartet’s concert at the Rockport Music Festival (MA), where he heard them perform Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier (as arranged by the ensemble’s own first violin Nicholas Kitchen), music…
As writer Mark Barber notes in his column for The Sunday Times (London), Utah’s Moab Music Festival’s “intimate concert experiences…take advantage of the natural setting — ‘sandstone makes for some impressive acoustics.’” Read more.
NPR Music’s “Morning Edition” profiled violist Cynthia Phelps as being “at the pinnacle of her career,” as she serves as principal violist of the New York Philharmonic. She talks about heading-up the viola section and how they play a key…
Known for her mastery of the viola, Cynthia Phelps — the New York Philharmonic’s principal violist — appeared in concert at the University of Buffalo’s Slee Hall. Commenting on her program which included Bach, Schubert, Enescu and Schumann, The Buffalo…