Jonathan Aasgaard
Born in Oslo in 1974, Jonathan Aasgaard studied the cello at the Barratt Dues School of Music with Bjørn Solum in Oslo and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. A pupil of Professor Leonard Stehn, Jonathan won all the cello and chamber music prizes and was …
Charles Abramovic
Charles Abramovic has won critical acclaim for his international performances as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with leading instrumentalists and singers. He made his solo orchestral début at the age of fourteen with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Since then he has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, and has given …
Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers is recognized as one of today’s most inspiring and sought after violinists for her impassioned performances and mastery of a wide-ranging selection of music. Hailed by critics, media, conductors and audiences worldwide, she has continually sold out performances of classical standards and new music. Her passionate and …
Frank Almond
Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the MSO after holding positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. Other Guest Concertmaster appearances have included the …
Apollo’s Fire
In 1992, the young harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell gathered some of her generation’s finest period-instrument artists to create a new baroque orchestra in Cleveland. Sorrell envisioned an ensemble dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo’s Fire, named after …
