Deborah Boldin, flute
Praised by the Boston Globe for her “dynamic performances,” flutist Deborah Boldin enjoys an active and diverse career as a recitalist and chamber musician. Recent engagements include the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Alea III, the Saco River Chamber Music Festival, First Monday at Jordan Hall Boston, and the Wellesley Composers Conference. She has collaborated with such noted artists as Robert Spano, Paula Robison, Kenneth Cooper, and the Borromeo String Quartet. She has also appeared with the New World Symphony, Opera Boston, the Boston Philharmonic, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the Vermont and Portland Symphonies, among others. Ms. Boldin has been a featured soloist on radio programs on WJHU, Baltimore, and WQXR, New York, and has made numerous live appearances on WGBH, Boston’s Classical Performances. As founder and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, Ms. Boldin’s innovative programming and sensibility have elicited unanimous acclaimed from press and audiences alike, and won the Ensemble 2007 and 2009 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards. The Boston Globe praised her for “discerning ears and cosmopolitan tastes” and hailed, "planning a good chamber music program is an art unto itself, and few in town have mastered it as persuasively as the Chameleon Arts Ensemble." Ms. Boldin holds a BM from the Peabody Conservatory, where she received the Alice & Leary Taylor Prize in Performance, and a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Paula Robison. She is the flute instructor and chamber music coach at the Reveille! Music Festival for the Vermont Youth Orchestra. Ms. Boldin can be heard on Argo and Albany Records.

Widely recognized for her remarkable musicianship, Ms. Keusch is an avid champion of chamber music and new music. In 2006 she toured Portugal with Ensemble Contrapunctus performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Shostokovich’s Seven Block Songs. Ms. Keusch has had successive collaborations on Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series and with Boston Musica Viva, Collage New Music (Boston), the Seattle Chamber Players and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin. In 2005 Ms. Keusch has toured the northeast with both the Borromeo and Brentano String Quartets performing Schoenberg’s 2nd String Quartet, and she debuted at the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in Alice Tully Hall with the Pacifica Quartet in Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebre and How Slow the Wind.

Also in demand for opera productions worldwide, Ms. Keusch gave the 2005 world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s L’espace dernier conducted by Kwame Ryan in her debut with Opéra National de Paris, and premiered the role of Medea in Paul-Heinz Dittrich’s opera Zerbrochene Bilder with the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Musikakademie Rheinsberg. She performed the leading role of First Soprano in Helmut Lachenmann’s Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern with the Stuttgart Staatsoper in Stuttgart and Paris with director Peter Mussbach and conductor Lothar Zagrosek. She repeated the work in a production directed by Alfred Kirchner with Neue Oper Wien in the 2003 Wiener Festwochen. With Encompass New Opera Theatre (NYC) Keusch was seen as Yvonne in Antheil’s Venus in Africa, Phaedra in Britten’s dramatic oratorio of the same name and the title role in Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night.

Ms. Keusch holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas, a Master’s of Music Degree and an Artist Diploma from New England Conservatory. While at New England Conservatory she was named the 2001 Presidential Scholar for the Conservatory.  The soprano was a Tanglewood Fellow in summers 1997 and 1999. Elizabeth Keusch resides in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A champion of the music of our time, Scott has premiered many new works, including pieces written especially for him.  Since 1980 he has been a member of Alea III, a contemporary music ensemble in residence at Boston University. Current affiliations also include the Grammy-nominated period chamber orchestra Boston Baroque, with whom he made his debut as viola d’amor soloist on New Year’s Eve, 1999. He has been soloist or guest artist with numerous organizations across the United States, including the Boston Chamber Music Society, Bay Chamber Concerts, the Cape & Islands Festival, Chamber Artists of Washington DC, Collage New Music, the Bangor (ME) Symphony, Les Violons du Roy (Quebec), the Handel & Haydn Society, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. In 1985 he was a founding member of Chamber Music East (faculty, alumni and friends of the New England Conservatory) and the First Monday Series at Jordan Hall. Scott has recorded for Orion, Koch International, TelDec, Audiofon, Albany Records, Decca, and Northeastern Records

Mr. Woolweaver is Artist Associate at the prestigious Williams College in Williamstown, MA, and Lecturer in Viola and Chamber Music at Tufts University in Medford, MA. He is a regular guest of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society and is Director of the Adult Chamber Music Institute at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, ME. Scott plays a Johan Georg Thir viola made in Vienna, 1737.