The performances of violinist/violist William Fedkenheuer have been described by the Boston Globe as matching "elegance and refinement with a fire in the belly," and "passionately intelligent and intelligently passionate." Winner of the Lincoln Center Martin E. Segal Award, the Canadian native has distinguished himself as a versatile artist in solo, chamber, and orchestral performances. Mr. Fedkenheuer's US performances include those with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall Presents, and the National Gallery. Abroad he has performed at the American Academy in Rome, Fountainbleu, Spoletto Festival of Two Worlds, the Taipei National University of the Arts, and the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria.

At age seven he was the youngest member of the world-renowned Calgary Fiddlers and, in his teens, was the Fiddling Champion of Canada. Previously a member of the Borromeo String Quartet and on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, Mr. Fedkenheuer is currently a faculty member of the Caine School of the Arts at Utah State University and first violinist of the Fry Street Quartet. An active hiker and fly-fisherman, he resides in Logan, Utah.

Alexander Fiterstein, Professor of Clarinet at The University of Minnesota, is one of the world’s exceptional young clarinet virtuosos.  A winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, first-prize winner of the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition, and the Young Concert Artist International Auditions, he has appeared with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Polish Kammerphilharmonie, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, and the China National Symphony.

In recital, Mr. Fiterstein has appeared on the “Music at the Supreme Court” Series, at the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Louvre, Suntory Hall, and the Tel-Aviv Museum.

Mr. Fiterstein was a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center, the Marlboro Music Festival, and toured with Musicians from Marlboro.  He also appeared at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Germany and at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.  He has performed chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Elena Bashkirova, and the American, Borrometo, Daedalus, Fine Arts, Jerusalem, Mendelssohn, and Muir String Quartets, and Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

Mr. Fiterstein has worked with composers such as John Corigliano and Osvaldo Golijov, and has had compositions written for him by several composers, including Samuel Adler and Mason Bates.  He performed the American premieres of Henrik Strindberg’s Clarinet Concerto “Minne,” Pulse Shadows by Harrison Birtwistle, and Paul Schoenfield’s Clarinet Trio.

Born in South Africa, Ilse-Mari  Lee's teachers include Barbara van Wyk, Adolph Hallis, Stephanus Zondagh, Betty Pack, Raya Garbousova, Gordon Epperson, Robert Muczynski, and Irene Sharp.

Active  as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, Ilse-Mari has served as principal cellist of the Intermountain Opera Company since 1990 and performs regularly with the Grand Teton Music Festival.

In 1991, she was awarded the Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship Award, and was selected to perform at the American Cello Congress in Phoenix.  She has collaborated in performances with the Moscow and Muir String Quartets.  CD releases include The Duet Album with classical guitarist Stuart Weber.

Ms. Lee founded the MSU Cello Ensemble in 1998 which has toured throughout the Northwest, Italy, Europe, and China with the ensemble.  Her compositions have been performed in South Africa, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, and in China. In 2002, she premiered her Cello Concerto "Mandela" with the Billings Symphony. Her film scores for Certain Green  and Forced into Comfort, Fighting for Apology were awarded gold medals and Director’s Choice Awards at the Park City Film Music Festival.

A dedicated teacher, MSU awarded her the “Mortar Board Professor of the Month,” the Wiley Award for Meritorious Research (2008), and the prestigious President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2006).  In 2000, 2008, and 2009 the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce honored her with the “Excellence in Teaching” Award.  She currently serves as the Director of the University Honors Program.

Audiences and critics have acclaimed Michele Levin, pianist and composer, as a multi-faceted musician of extraordinary sensitivity, virtuosity, and dedication to the art of making music.  Ms. Levin is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music with a double major in piano and composition.  She began her studies there at the age of eleven and is the first woman to receive their Master’s degree in Composition. 

The Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition in Washington DC awarded her First Prize in competition with pianists from fourteen countries.  Ms. Levin has performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Florida Philharmonic, Miami Chamber Symphony, Sinfonia Virtuosi, New World Symphony, Albany Symphony, and Virginia Symphony.  She has also given solo and chamber music recitals in major cities throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. 

Ms. Levin is very much in demand as a chamber musician, touring the world with violinists Peter Zazofsky, Joseph Silverstein, Ruggerio Ricci, Nina Beilina, Daniel Phillips, Mark Kaplan, Donald Weilerstein, Sydney Harth, Ik-Hwan Bae, Ida Levin, Maria Bachman, Arve Tellefson, Andrew Dawes, Lin Chang, and Yehonaton Berick; with violists Rivka Golani, Paul Neubauer, Atar Arad, Kirsten Johnson, Rainer Moog, and Jessie Levine; and with cellists Yehuda Hanani, Simca Heled, Ronald Thomas, and Wolfgang Boettcher.  She has performed with clarinetists Mitchell Lurie, Alexander Fiterstein, Eli Eban, and Charles Neidich; with harpist Heidi Lehwalder; and with flutists Thomas Wolf, Carol Wincenc, and Eugenia Zuckerman.

Ms. Levin tours regularly with the Muir String Quartet and as a guest artist with the Miami String Quartet.  In 2007, the Muir Quartet premiered her String Quartet No. 1, which she dedicated to the quartet.  Her vast repertoire extends into the realm of vocal music, having given recitals with Metropolitan Opera vocalists Gwendolyn Bradley, Marvis Martin, Martina Arroyo, D’Anna Fortunato, Carol Farley, Lucy Shelton, and William Sharp.  Ms. Levin records for Koch International, EcoClassics, Altarus, and the Canadian Broadcasting Companies.  NPR regularly broadcasts her performances nationwide.

Kathleen Reynolds joined the College of Music at the University of North Texas as Professor of Bassoon and Woodwind Chamber Music Coordinator in the fall of 1995.  In 2011 she became Coordinator of the Woodwind Area.  She is principal bassoon of the Dallas Opera Orchestra and performs regularly with the Dallas Symphony, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, and Fort Worth Symphony.  She has performed with the Peter Britt Music Festival, the Fredericksburg Festival, and Montana Chamber Music Festival with members of the Muir String Quartet. 

Prior to her appointment at UNT, Ms. Reynolds was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic for twenty-two years and taught at SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth College, and the Hochstein School of Music.  EcoClassics recorded her solo bassoon CD with pianist Michele Levin and clarinetist Mitchell Lurie.  She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and studies with K. David Van Hoesen, Norman Herzberg, and Bernard Garfield.

Michael Reynolds has been the cellist of the world-renowned Muir String Quartet, in residence at Boston University, since its inception in 1979. Accolades he has won with the Muir Quartet include first prize at the Evian Competition, the 1981 Naumburg Award, two Grand Prix du Disques, the Gramophone Award, a Grammy nomination, and a Grammy on the EcoClassics label he created.  The quartet was also featured in an internationally acclaimed PBS broadcast, “In Performance at The White House” for President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.  As a member of the Muir Quartet, Mr. Reynolds has performed nearly 2,000 concerts throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed with such diverse artists as Benny Goodman, Leon Fleisher, Menachem Pressler, Gil Shaham, and Phyllis Curtin.

A native of Bozeman, he received his professional training at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student of David Soyer and Martita Casals, continuing with Karen Tuttle and George Neikrug and studies at Yale University.  Mr. Reynolds has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the US and his recording of the complete Bach Suites for solo cello has received much critical acclaim. He is co-founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Classics for Kids Foundation, which offers matching grants for excellent student instruments to string programs around America, and directs the Muir Quartet’s Emerging Quartets and Composers program, in partnership with the Utah Symphony/Opera’s Deer Valley Festival.  He also is Artistic Director of Bay Chamber Concerts’ Fall Foliage adult musician program and the Fredericksburg Festival of the Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

In addition to teaching at Boston University, Mr. Reynolds has served on the faculties of New England Conservatory, Rutgers University, the University of Utah, and UC-Santa Cruz.  He received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhode Island College in 1995.  His latest musical endeavor is development of the Montana Chamber Music Society, which offers great chamber music performances in communities around Montana.  In his spare time he is an avid fly-fisherman and outdoorsman.  He plays a cello by Giuseppi Grancino, circa 1690.

Peter Zazofsky has performed as a solo violinist and chamber musician throughout the US, Canada, and twenty-one countries in South American and Europe, including solo appearances with the Boston Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Brussels Symphony, Symphony of Buenos Aires, Montreal Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

He was raised in Boston where he studied with Joseph Silverstein, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony.  Following studies at the Juilliard School with Dorothy Delay and Ivan Galamian, he attended the Curtis Institute, and spent five summers at the Marlboro Music Festival.

After graduating from the Curtis Institute in 1976, he toured several seasons with “Music from Marlboro.”  He won the Grand Prize of the 1979 Montreal International Competition, Second Prize of the 1980 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, and was the winner of the 1985 Avery Fisher Career Grant. 

In addition to concerts worldwide with the Muir Quartet, which he joined in 1987, he has been engaged to perform solo recitals in Paris, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Vienna, and Israel.  Mr. Zazofsky plays a violin made by Carlo Bergonzi in 1744.