GUEST CONDUCTOR GRANT LLEWELLYN
January 20 & 21, 2007
http://www.handelandhaydn.org/learn/performers/staff/llewellyn_more.htm

COMPOSER PETER MADLEM

Musical Guest Artist Biographies

October 2006: Jennifer Frautschi, violin
November 2006: Orion Weiss, piano
January 2007: Daniel Mueller-Schott, Cello
February 2007: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
March 2007: Natasha Paremski,piano
April 2007: Santa Barbara Choral Society
May 2007: Martin Chalifour, violin

Jennifer Frautschi
www.jenniferfrautschi.com

     Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient violinist JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI is rapidly gaining acclaim as an adventurous performer with a wide-ranging repertoire. The Chicago Tribune writes, “The young violinist Jennifer Frautschi is molding a career with smart interpretations of both warhorses and rarities”. Equally at home in the classic repertoire as well as twentieth and twenty-first century works, in the past few years alone she has performed the Britten Concerto, Poul Ruders’ Concerto No. 1, Steven Mackey’s Violin Sonata, and Mendelssohn’s rarely played d minor Concerto, along with standards such as the Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Berg Concerti.

Highlights of the 05-06 season include her return to the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia with Ignat Solzhenitsyn conducting the Schumann Concerto at the Kimmel Performing Arts Center, and performances of the Stravinsky Concerto with the Louisville Orchestra and Bernstein Serenade with the San Diego Symphony. In the summer of 2005, she made her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony at Riverbend, performed with Andre Watts at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, and appeared at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and Caramoor.

Ms. Frautschi's recent seasons have included performances with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, and Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival. She has also performed during opening nights at the Caramoor International Festival, with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra.

Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she made her New York recital debut in April 2004. As part of the European Concert Hall Organization's Rising Stars series, Ms. Frautschi made debuts at ten of Europe's most celebrated concert venues, including London's Wigmore Hall, Salzburg Mozarteum, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, and La Cité de la Musique in Paris. She has also been heard in recital at the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Washington's Phillips Collection, Boston’s Gardner Museum, Beijing's Imperial Garden, Monnaie Opera in Brussels, La Chaux des Fonds in Switzerland, and San Miguel de Allende Festival in Mexico.

Formerly a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two, Ms. Frautschi returns this season as chamber artist to the Chamber Music Society, Miller Theater and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival in Virginia, La Musica in Sarasota, (Florida), and the Caramoor International Music Festival, where she has performed annually since André Previn first invited her there as a "Rising Star" in 1992. She has also appeared at such chamber music festivals as Seattle, Moab (Utah), Spoleto (Italy), Piccolo Spoleto (South Carolina), Summerfest La Jolla, Santa Fe, Tucson Winter, and St. Barth's (French West Indies). She has premiered important new works by Oliver Knussen, Krzystof Penderecki, Michael Hersch, and others, and has appeared at New York's George Crumb Festival and Stefan Wolpe Centenary Concerts.

Her growing discography includes three widely praised CDs for Artek -- her debut in works by Stravinsky and Ravel, a 20th century recital of solo works by Ysaÿe, Bartok, Davidovsky, and Harbison, and her first orchestral album featuring both Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony. She can also be heard on the recent release of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra and works of Webern conducted by the legendary Robert Craft on the Naxos label.

Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi began the violin at age three. She was a student of Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles and the University of Southern California School of Music. She also attended Harvard, the New England Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," on generous loan to her from a private American foundation.  

Orion Weiss
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   Twenty-four year old American pianist Orion Weiss has
already established himself as an extraordinary young talent who exhibits great maturity and depth bolstered by remarkable technical skills.  He won the 2005 Juilliard William Petschek Award and made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in April 2005.  He was awarded a 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant and is a winner of both the Gina Bachauer Scholarship (2002, 2003) at the Juilliard School and the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship competitions.  In 1999, he received the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award, an honor granted by the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival to promising young American pianists. 

During the 2005-06 season, Mr. Weiss’ engagements include his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl (with pianist Shai Wosner), as well as performances with the symphony orchestras of Phoenix, Rochester, Memphis, Annapolis, Louisville, and Omaha.  He will appear in recital in Albuquerque, Myrtle Beach, and Carefree, AZ, among others.

Highlights of Mr. Weiss’ 2004-05 season included performances with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Charleston, SC, as well as the Minnesota Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony.  He also performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on a tour of Israel conducted by Itzhak Perlman and made his European debut in a recital at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Mr. Weiss has performed recitals in all parts of the United States in recent years including the Ravinia Rising Star Series, the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, the Interlochen Music Festival, the Sanibel Music Festival, and the Xavier University Music Series, as well as Torrance, Malibu and San Luis Obispo, CA; El Paso, TX; Athens, GA; and many others.  He has been heard with an ever-growing list of symphony orchestras including those of Phoenix, Santa Rosa (in the inaugural concert of the Festival on the Green), Knoxville, Canton, OH, the National Symphony Orchestra, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra.  In February of 1999, Mr. Weiss made his Cleveland Orchestra debut performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.  In March 1999, with less than 24 hours’ notice, Mr. Weiss stepped in to replace André Watts for a performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  He was immediately invited to return to the Orchestra for a performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in October 1999. 

In addition to his solo work, Mr. Weiss has a keen interest in chamber music.  He was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 2002-2004, which included his appearance in the opening concert of the Society’s 2002-03 season at Alice Tully Hall performing Ravel’s La Valse with pianist Shai Wosner.  He has also performed at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival with cellists Lynn Harrell, Alisa Weilerstein, and Christopher Rex; clarinetist David Shifrin; and the Georgian Chamber Players alongside members of the Atlanta Symphony at Spivey Hall.  In March 2001, he performed with Itzhak Perlman at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in a benefit for the Perlman Music Program.

Mr. Weiss was featured in both the 2004 Musical America and the March 2004 Symphony Magazine as part of the next generation of great artists in classical music.  He has received first prize honors at the Akron Youth Symphony, Cleveland Philharmonic, Music Academy of the West, Venitia Hall, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto competitions.  He was also awarded a scholarship at the Interlochen Arts Camp for four consecutive years and has participated in the Sergei Babayan International Piano Academy and the Perlman Music Program (founded and run by Itzhak and Toby Perlman). He is a regular attendee of Paul Schenly’s summer festival, Pianofest, in the Hamptons.

A native of Lyndhurst, Ohio, Mr. Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Paul Schenly.  Other teachers include Daniel Shapiro, Sergei Babayan, Kathryn Brown, and Edith Reed.  Mr. Weiss recently graduated from the Juilliard School and continues to study with Emanuel Ax.

Daniel Mueller-Schott
http://www.daniel-mueller-schott.com/english/vita_e/

   In only a few years, Daniel Müller-Schott has succeeded in establishing himself throughout the world as one of the supreme cellists. With his sure sense of style and enormous musical maturity, he opens up new paths for his audiences, including ones leading to works already thought to be well-known. He is constantly searching for both new and rare old works with which he can extend his repertoire on the cello, including with his own adaptations, and in particular performances of the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

As a soloist, Daniel Müller-Schott works with such renowned conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Alan Gilbert, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Armin Jordan, James Judd, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and Sir André Previn. His concerts are with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the Warsaw National Philharmonia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra London.

In 2006 Daniel Müller-Schott will be making guest appearances as a soloist in many European countries as well as in the United States, Canada and South-East Asia. Special highlights in this year will be premieres which are devoted to Daniel Müller-Schott: the Matthias Pintscher Trio (with Julia Fischer and Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Frankfurt), Olli Mustonen's Sonata for cello and piano (with Olli Mustonen in Hamburg), Sebastian Currier Sonata for cello and piano (with Robert Kulek) as well as concerts with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago, the New Japan Philharmonic under Werner Andreas Albert,the Sevilla Symphony Orchestra under Pedro Halffte and also with the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach. In addition, Daniel Müller-Schott will be touring with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie under Daniel Raiskin and with the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda and Vassily Sinaisky.

At the start of 2006, the main event in the course of the “Mozart Year” for Daniel Müller-Schott will be the CD release of the Mozart Trios together with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Sir André Previn for Deutsche Grammophon.

In August 2006, Daniel Müller-Schott will be making his first appearance at the Salzburger Festspiele with an evening of chamber music.

Recitals, solo evenings and trio concerts will also be taking him to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Philharmonie München, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Tonhalle Zürich. In addition to Anne-Sophie Mutter und Sir André Previn, his chamber music partners include Vadim Repin, Lars Vogt, Steven Isserlis, Robert Kulek, Julia Fischer, Olli Mustonen, Christian Tetzlaff and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Daniel Müller-Schott appears regularly at international music festivals, including those in Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Schwetzingen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Festival Lucerne, the Ravinia Festival Chicago, the Saratoga Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival and the City of London Festival.

Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He benefited from the personal sponsorship and support of Anne-Sophie Mutter as the holder of a scholarship from her Foundation. At the age of 15 he won international acclaiming by taking first prize at Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians.

Since his childhood, Daniel Müller-Schott has felt a great love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Consequently, it is hardly surprising that when he came to record his first CD, he chose the Six Suites for Cello Solo (Glissando Records). It was his interpretation of these masterpieces which had delighted audiences in the Louvre, the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, the Louisiana Museum Copenhagen and the Kennedy Center in Washington. His recording attracted a great amount of attention in the international music press.

In the meantime, Daniel Müller-Schott has made recordings for several well-known labels. His recordings delighted both the public and the press, and were also awarded several prizes. There will be more CD’s this year: Shostakovich Concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Yakov Kreizberg (Orfeo), Schubert’s String Quintet together with the Vogler Quartet (Hänssler), Elgar’s and Walton’s Cello Concertos together with the Oslo Philharmonic under Sir André Previn (Orfeo), Mendelssohn-Trios with Julia Fischer and Jonathan Gilad (Pentatone) and a DVD recording of the Mozart Trios with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Sir André Previn (Deutsche Grammophon).

Daniel Müller-Schott plays a Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1700. The 29-year-old musician lives in Munich, his home-town. In his spare time he is an enthusiastic jogger and badminton player. He is very interested in art, and feels a strong affinity with 19th century French painters; it is the way they treat colours and light which constantly fascinates and inspires him.

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
http://www.lagq.com

Recognized as one of America's premier instrumental ensembles and winner of a 2005 Grammy Award, the L.A. Guitar Quartet is one of the most charismatic and versatile groups performing today. Popularly known as the LAGQ, these four virtuosi bring a new energy to the concert stage with their eclectic programs and dynamic musical interplay. Their inventive, critically-acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground. The Quartet currently records for Telarc and their most recent release "LAGQ-Latin" received a Grammy nomination in the Best Classical Crossover Album category. The above and their two records for Sony Classical have appeared on the Billboard charts. The LAGQ continues to set new standards for the guitar quartet medium.  

Natasha Paremski
http://www.natashaparemski.com/

  Natasha Paremski was recently announced as a winner of the Gilmore Young Artist Award for 2006.  This prestigious award is the most recent of a long list of accolades awarded to this young virtuoso pianist, who was described by BBC Music Magazine as having "flawless technique and unstoppable energy". 

Only 18 years old, Natasha has already charmed many audiences throughout both Europe and the U.S.  Past engagements have included performances with the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, San Diego Symphony,  the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists (with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and recitals in Seattle, at the Schloss Elmau and Verbier festivals, and on the Gilmore Rising Stars Series.

Highlights of Natasha’s 2005/2006 season include a return to the Tonhalle Orchestra, her debut recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium of the Louvre in Paris and on Ravinia’s Rising Stars series, as well as debut concerto engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Residentie Orchestra (in The Hague). 

Born in Moscow in May, 1987, Natasha began her piano studies at the age of 4 with Nina Malikova at the Andreyev School of Music in Moscow. In 1995 she emigrated with her family to the United States, and became a U.S. citizen in 2001. Since then she has studied both privately and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Natasha currently holds a full scholarship as a student of Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, New York.

Natasha made her professional debut aged nine with the El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At the age of fifteen she debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs on the Bel Air Music Label with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky, the first featuring Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4 coupled with Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody and the second featuring all of Chopin's shorter works for piano and orchestra.  

Natasha won top prizes in the 2002 Bronislaw Kaper Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Young Artists in Carnegie Hall - 2000 International Piano Festival; 2000 Shenson Young Artist Concerto Competition in San Francisco; Pinault Musical Society 1999 International Piano Competition in New York; and many others.

Santa Barbara Choral Society
www.sbchoral.org

   The oldest of Santa Barbara's performing arts organizations, the Santa Barbara Choral Society is a semi-professional community chorus comprised of 100 member singers, drawn primarily from the Santa Barbara area with an overall range from Los Angeles to Santa Maria. The Choral Society is open, by audition, to qualified singers of all ages and backgrounds.

Since its inception in 1948, the Choral Society has been a service and educational organization, promoting artistic development and providing opportunities for individual community members to study and perform great works of choral music. The Choral Society offers the community at large an opportunity to discover and enjoy a diverse repertoire of choral music. It also assists other musical organizations and schools through outreach programs and cooperative events.
As part of its commitment to sustaining professional choral musicians in the area, the Choral Society employs a small core group of paid singers to lead and mentor their sections. The Santa Barbara Choral Society has operated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization since 1987.

The Choral Society offers four concerts per year and participates in several collaborative ventures with other arts organizations.

Jo Anne Wasserman
Director

Jo Anne Wasserman is beginning her eleventh season as music director of the Santa Barbara Choral Society. She has worked with an impressive list of outstanding choral and orchestral conductors, including John Alexander and Lawrence Christensen and has participated in master classes with Paul Salamunovich, the late Robert Shaw and Roger Wagner. In 1993 she was a masterclass conductor of the Oregon Bach Festival. She has served on the faculty of California State University, Northridge, and from 2000-2002 was Chorus Master of Opera Santa Barbara.

Jo Anne Wasserman's dedication to music education and her philosophy of increasing cultural awareness has enlivened the Santa Barbara Choral Society's commitment to sharing excellence in choral music with all the community.

In their frequent collaboration, Wasserman has prepared several choral works for the Santa Barbara Symphony including Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, Verdi's Requiem and Bloch's Sacred Service.

Martin Chalifour

     MARTIN CHALIFOUR began his tenure as Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1995. This concert honors his tenth year in that post. The recipient of various grants and awards in his native Canada, he graduated with honors from the Montreal Conservatory at the age of 18 and then moved to Philadelphia to pursue studies at the Curtis Institute of Music.

In 1986 Chalifour received a Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow; he was a laureate of the Montreal International Competition the following year. Since then he has concertized extensively, playing hundreds of concerto performances from a repertoire of more than 50 works. He has appeared as soloist with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Outside the U.S., he has appeared as a guest soloist with the Auckland Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Queensland Symphony (Brisbane, Australia), and the Malaysian Philharmonic, among others.

Chalifour began his orchestral career in 1984 with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, playing as Associate Concertmaster for six years. Subsequently he occupied the same position for five years in the Cleveland Orchestra, where he also served as Acting Concertmaster under Christoph von Dohnányi. While in Cleveland, Chalifour taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a founding member of two chamber ensembles, Myriad and the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio.

Chalifour is a frequent guest at several summer music festivals, including the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Ottawa International Music Festival. Maintaining close ties with his native Quebec, he returned there this past summer to teach and appear as soloist with the Quebec Symphony, with Yoav Talmi conducting. He also performed several chamber music concerts in June with cellist Lynn Harrell at the Amelia Island Festival in Florida and at the Madison Chamber Music Festival in Georgia. Chalifour and two of his Philharmonic colleagues, Joanne Pearce Martin and Peter Stumpf, recently joined forces and formed the Los Angeles Philharmonic Piano Trio to explore the wonderful repertoire written for this combination. All three artists met in 1981 while studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The trio performed Beethoven's Triple Concerto this past September at the Hollywood Bowl.

PETER MADLEM - COMPOSER

     I was born shortly after the end of World War II at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California to an admiral’s daughter and a naval doctor recently graduated from Stanford Medical School. A musical family, my mother had been a concert pianist, but like many women of her era, had abandoned her career to marry. My father played the violin.

Shortly after my birth we were transferred to Hawaii. My mother had lived there for many years as a child and was a master hula dancer. I was quickly immersed in the hula, Hilo Harry and his Royal Hawaiians, Tahitian war dances, slack key guitar, and hurricanes.

My first music lessons began with piano at age three. I always enjoyed changing the melodies of my lessons, and would constantly badger my mom to write out my musical ideas. Eventually, by age six, I had my own composition teacher, Robert Graham. Now I had to write my own melodies, with proper voice leading. Together we composed several orchestral works. My favorite of these early efforts was a song for small ensemble and voice entitled, “The Cricket Dance.” I wrote the text for that work as well and though I’ve lost the score, I still recall the refrain:

The cricket sat upon a stone, and called his friends around.

It’s time to sing and dance he said, so put away your frowns.

He fiddled long he fiddled loud, the tempo did not lag.

The cricket sat upon a stone, and fiddled on his leg.

As a teenager, I was swept up in the American Folk music revival. While ill one entire summer in the hospital I devoured Pete Seeger’s “How to Play the Five String Banjo” driving fellow patients from the medical ward to the psycho ward. After recovery, I ventured out and won the Topanga Canyon Banjo and Fiddle Contest and then the Great Western Banjo and Fiddle Contest, both in the professional division for traditional and bluegrass styles. I then joined a hot local bluegrass band consisting of David Lindley, Richard Green, Chris Darrow, and Steve Cahill. All of these talented fellows went on to stellar careers of their own. Our ensemble, The Dry City Scat Band played all over the Southland, and served for a couple of years as the house band at the iconic Ash Grove on Melrose Avenue. We toured with many greats of the time but my favorite artist of all was the gentle Mississippi John Hurt. He would sit back in the dressing room, recall a spellbinding episode from his life, then pull out a small flask, unscrew the cap, take a swig and hum, “Just sit back and take it easy.”

By this time, I had migrated away from piano and now played in bands and studios on a variety of fretted instruments including dobro, banjo, guitar, and mandolin. Between traveling, practicing, and rehearsing, I didn’t have much time for academics and as a result, having just made it through high school, I dropped out of college.

Then came the great British Invasion of Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Cream. After the initial shockwave things changed quickly. Hollywood record labels chased down and signed up the hottest bluegrass bands, supplying money, equipment, housing, and, well, whatever else was required for inspiration.

I did quite well during this era, with lots of studio work, song writing, composing, arranging, rehearsing my own band and cradling a newly signed major label recording contract of my own. Just as we were preparing for our first recordings a detonation arrived in the mail, my draft notice. Long story short, I ended up on the ground in the delta of Viet Nam, got seriously injured in an ambush and was sent home to a terribly discouraged nation. Doctors described my injury as career ending. However, I knew with the right teacher I could regain the use of a large portion of my hand and so started looking. I eventually found the great Argentine master guitarist, Manuel Lopez Ramos with whom I studied for six years. At the same time I studied composition with the last surviving Schillinger student, Richard Benda, hung out with jazz greats Joe Pass and Jack Cecchini, studied jazz arranging and composition with Dick Grove, and went back to school.

I finally did get that college degree, a BA in music theory and composition, and an MA in the same, both from UCSB. I encountered a number of wonderful talent there, and was fortunate to study with Roger Chapman, Peter Racine Fricker, Dolores Hsu, Maurice Faulkner, Jeff Rutkowski, Carl Zytowski, and Stefan Krayk. Several years later I returned to the campus to found the undergraduate and graduate programs in classical I taught there for six years.

I also returned to Hollywood, scoring numerous TV and film projects for a number of production companies. After marriage and our first child, I tired of the schedules, the traveling, the mostly insipid music, and decided to try earning a living separate from music that would allow me to compose when and what I wanted. I became an investment advisor, software developer, 3-D animator, and publisher. I also wrote and had six investment books published. In the not too distant past I had two books and three CDs in the bins at the local Borders.

Surprising to many, including myself, I have ended up as the senior investment officer and senior vice president with the eighth largest asset manager in the world, Northern Trust. Over the years following my decision to seek a livelihood outside of the industry, I have written music for Andres Segovia, John Williams, Timothy Kane, Joe Pass, Manuel Lopez-Ramos, William Feasley, and other great artists. I have been recorded on several labels including Sony Classical, and have had music performed in major concert halls around the world. However, having the inimitable LAGQ perform one of my compositions with the local SB Symphony has to be just about the biggest musical thrill I have had in a long, long time.

I live with my wife of 25 years, Katherine, and have two marvelous young adult children, the aspiring attorney Elizabeth, and the football fanatic, Sean.