New York based flutist, Lauren Zavlunov, is a soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. Active throughout North and South America, she has given performances in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Lefrak Concert Hall, Colden Center, Teatro Sucre, and Avery Fisher Hall, among others. Lauren frequently appears with the Monadnock Orchestra, New York Wind Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Princeton University Chapel Choir. She has been a participant of the Sunflower Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, The Bach Festival at Westminster Choir College, and The Legacy of Bach Concert Series at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. She is also a founding member of Quintet Tabor, artists-in-residence at the Upper Valley Music Center, New Hampshire.
In addition to her performing endeavors, Lauren is a highly sought after teacher and chamber music coach with a studio of nearly thirty pupils in New York and New Jersey. She is on the flute faculty of Zen Music Center, New Jersey and a substitute teacher and coach at St. Ann’s School, New York. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College where she has been awarded numerous accolades including Departmental Honors and Outstanding Woodwind Performance Awards, and a Masters Degree from Mannes College of Music. Her principal teachers have included Samuel Baron, Laura Gilbert, and Judith Mendenhall.
Oboist Karisa Werdon maintains an active schedule as a soloist, chamber musician and educator. She has been featured as a soloist in collaboration with Jens Lindeman and the Banff Centre Orchestra, the Grand Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Festival Orchestra in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has received awards at the Fischoff, Coleman, Chamber Music Yellow Springs and the Chesapeake national chamber music competitions as the oboist for the Intrada Winds. Karisa is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts with Stephen Taylor at Stony Brook University, where she is an instructor for music appreciation. An avid teacher, she has presented master classes at institutions such as Davidson College, Grand Valley State University and Furman University. She received her Masters of Music degree from Yale University, where she was awarded the Keith Wilson scholarship. While at Yale, she studied with the renowned oboe pedagogue Richard Killmer. In addition, she has studied with oboists Ellen Sherman, Michael Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, and Basil Reeve. Karisa earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Grand Valley State University, graduating magna cum laude and honored as the Outstanding Music Graduate of the year. She has participated in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Festival Institute at Round Top and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Brooklyn born, multi-instrumentalist Donald Moy has performed extensively across the United States and his international performing has brought him to the far reaches of South America, Europe and the Far East. While a clarinet student at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Donald studied with Charles Neidich and prior to that, he was a student of David Glazer.
Hornist Joshua Cheuvront, originally from Ohio, has come to New York with great diversity in his musical experience. While spending time in Kansas City, he performed with the Kansas City Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony Brass, the Kansas Symphony Lyric Opera and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Josh was a member of the Grand Lake Brass Quintet and the Nuages Woodwind Quintet, both in Ohio, and he as appeared as a soloist with the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra and Firelands Symphony Orchestra. Josh holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Youngstown State University, where he studied with William Slocum, and is currently in the studio of William Purvis at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he recently recieved his Masters Degree and is now pursuing his Doctoral Degree.
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