Concert Program

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

Margaret Brouwer Viola Concerto

Johannes Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Eliesha Nelson joined the viola section of The Cleveland Orchestra at the beginning of the 2000-2001 season. She is the first former member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra to be appointed a member of The Cleveland Orchestra, having played violin in the Youth Orchestra for three seasons, from 1989 to 1992, and serving as concertmaster of the ensemble for the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons. Raised in North Pole, Alaska, Eliesha Nelson joined the Young Artists Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and began attending Hathaway Brown School at age 15. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CIM and an artist diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. After switching to viola, Ms. Nelson studied with Robert Vernon (principal viola of The Cleveland Orchestra) while pursuing her master’s degree at CIM. Her violin teachers included David Russell, György Pauk, and Linda Cerone.

Prior to her appointment with The Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Nelson served as acting principal viola of both the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Florida Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony and in Northern Ohio with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, and Ohio Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Nelson’s honors include the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin (CIM) and the Marjorie Haywood Violin Recital Prize from the Royal Academy of Music. In September 2009, Ms. Nelson released a recording of the complete viola music of Quincy Porter.

Concert Program

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

Margaret Brouwer Viola Concerto

Johannes Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Eliesha Nelson joined the viola section of The Cleveland Orchestra at the beginning of the 2000-2001 season. She is the first former member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra to be appointed a member of The Cleveland Orchestra, having played violin in the Youth Orchestra for three seasons, from 1989 to 1992, and serving as concertmaster of the ensemble for the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons. Raised in North Pole, Alaska, Eliesha Nelson joined the Young Artists Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and began attending Hathaway Brown School at age 15. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CIM and an artist diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. After switching to viola, Ms. Nelson studied with Robert Vernon (principal viola of The Cleveland Orchestra) while pursuing her master’s degree at CIM. Her violin teachers included David Russell, György Pauk, and Linda Cerone.

Prior to her appointment with The Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Nelson served as acting principal viola of both the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Florida Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony and in Northern Ohio with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, and Ohio Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Nelson’s honors include the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin (CIM) and the Marjorie Haywood Violin Recital Prize from the Royal Academy of Music. In September 2009, Ms. Nelson released a recording of the complete viola music of Quincy Porter.

Concert Program

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

Margaret Brouwer Viola Concerto

Johannes Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Eliesha Nelson joined the viola section of The Cleveland Orchestra at the beginning of the 2000-2001 season. She is the first former member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra to be appointed a member of The Cleveland Orchestra, having played violin in the Youth Orchestra for three seasons, from 1989 to 1992, and serving as concertmaster of the ensemble for the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons. Raised in North Pole, Alaska, Eliesha Nelson joined the Young Artists Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and began attending Hathaway Brown School at age 15. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CIM and an artist diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. After switching to viola, Ms. Nelson studied with Robert Vernon (principal viola of The Cleveland Orchestra) while pursuing her master’s degree at CIM. Her violin teachers included David Russell, György Pauk, and Linda Cerone.

Prior to her appointment with The Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Nelson served as acting principal viola of both the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Florida Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony and in Northern Ohio with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, and Ohio Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Nelson’s honors include the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin (CIM) and the Marjorie Haywood Violin Recital Prize from the Royal Academy of Music. In September 2009, Ms. Nelson released a recording of the complete viola music of Quincy Porter.

Concert Program

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

Margaret Brouwer Viola Concerto

Johannes Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Eliesha Nelson joined the viola section of The Cleveland Orchestra at the beginning of the 2000-2001 season. She is the first former member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra to be appointed a member of The Cleveland Orchestra, having played violin in the Youth Orchestra for three seasons, from 1989 to 1992, and serving as concertmaster of the ensemble for the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons. Raised in North Pole, Alaska, Eliesha Nelson joined the Young Artists Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and began attending Hathaway Brown School at age 15. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CIM and an artist diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. After switching to viola, Ms. Nelson studied with Robert Vernon (principal viola of The Cleveland Orchestra) while pursuing her master’s degree at CIM. Her violin teachers included David Russell, György Pauk, and Linda Cerone.

Prior to her appointment with The Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Nelson served as acting principal viola of both the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Florida Philharmonic and the San Antonio Symphony and in Northern Ohio with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, and Ohio Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Nelson’s honors include the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin (CIM) and the Marjorie Haywood Violin Recital Prize from the Royal Academy of Music. In September 2009, Ms. Nelson released a recording of the complete viola music of Quincy Porter.

Concert Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Idomeneo, K. 366

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (feat. Sibbi Bernhardsson)

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

About the Featured Musicians

Stefan Willich is the founder and conductor of the World Doctors Orchestra. He studied violin, chamber music, and conducting in Stuttgart and Berlin, and has participated in prestigious conducting workshops with Sergiu Celibidache (Munich), Leon Fleisher (Boston, Tanglewood) and Leon Barzin (Paris). Besides his performances with WDO, he regularly appears as guest conductor mainly in Germany and the USA where he is the principal guest conductor of the CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra.

His professional path, however, first led him into medicine, where he became a highly regarded internist and epidemiologist, focusing on cardiovascular disease, prevention, health economics, integrative medicine, and arts and medicine. For several years he worked at Harvard University in Boston, and in 1995 was appointed Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a post he continues to hold to this day. From 2012 to 2014, Stefan Willich was President of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. In 2021, he received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the highest award for former graduates of the institution.

As music director he led WDO to great success. Particular highlights include performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin in 2010 for the World Health Summit, and Mahler's Second Symphony (Resurrection) in Washington in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11. He has worked together with outstanding soloists including Peter Zazofsky, Sergey Khachatryan, Tanja Becker-Bender, Aida-Carmen Soanea, Tamaki Kawakubo, Wenzel Fuchs, Anja Kampe, Jeanine De Bique, Falk Struckmann, Jochen Kowalski, Alexei Lubimov, Xavier de Maistre, Delphine Haidan, Emily Bear, Cunmo Yin, Evelyn Glennie, Alexandru Tomescu and with the Vienna Boys’ Choir.

Icelandic violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2017 after performing for the previous 17 years with the Pacifica Quartet, with which he won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Musical America Ensemble of the Year honors, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, Bernhardsson appeared in more than 90 concerts worldwide each year, including engagements in Wigmore Hall (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall (New York), and other major venues. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, and the Reykjavík Arts Festival, and has collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma, Jörg Widmann, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher, the Emerson String Quartet, Johannes Moser, and members of the Guarneri and Cleveland quartets. His television appearances include The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and the MTV Europe Music Awards with Icelandic artist Björk. He appears on 16 recordings with the Pacifica Quartet and has recorded the violin music of Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and the sonatas for violin and piano by Franz Schubert.

Bernhardsson serves as director of the Cooper International Violin Competition at Oberlin and as artistic director of Iceland’s Harpa International Music Academy. He gives regular concerts and master classes in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, and other ensembles.

Bernhardsson is a 1995 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. His teachers include Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Almita and Roland Vamos, Mathias Tacke, and Shmuel Ashkenasi. He previously served on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Concert Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Idomeneo, K. 366

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (feat. Sibbi Bernhardsson)

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

About the Featured Musicians

Stefan Willich is the founder and conductor of the World Doctors Orchestra. He studied violin, chamber music, and conducting in Stuttgart and Berlin, and has participated in prestigious conducting workshops with Sergiu Celibidache (Munich), Leon Fleisher (Boston, Tanglewood) and Leon Barzin (Paris). Besides his performances with WDO, he regularly appears as guest conductor mainly in Germany and the USA where he is the principal guest conductor of the CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra.

His professional path, however, first led him into medicine, where he became a highly regarded internist and epidemiologist, focusing on cardiovascular disease, prevention, health economics, integrative medicine, and arts and medicine. For several years he worked at Harvard University in Boston, and in 1995 was appointed Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a post he continues to hold to this day. From 2012 to 2014, Stefan Willich was President of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. In 2021, he received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the highest award for former graduates of the institution.

As music director he led WDO to great success. Particular highlights include performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin in 2010 for the World Health Summit, and Mahler's Second Symphony (Resurrection) in Washington in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11. He has worked together with outstanding soloists including Peter Zazofsky, Sergey Khachatryan, Tanja Becker-Bender, Aida-Carmen Soanea, Tamaki Kawakubo, Wenzel Fuchs, Anja Kampe, Jeanine De Bique, Falk Struckmann, Jochen Kowalski, Alexei Lubimov, Xavier de Maistre, Delphine Haidan, Emily Bear, Cunmo Yin, Evelyn Glennie, Alexandru Tomescu and with the Vienna Boys’ Choir.

Icelandic violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2017 after performing for the previous 17 years with the Pacifica Quartet, with which he won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Musical America Ensemble of the Year honors, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, Bernhardsson appeared in more than 90 concerts worldwide each year, including engagements in Wigmore Hall (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall (New York), and other major venues. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, and the Reykjavík Arts Festival, and has collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma, Jörg Widmann, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher, the Emerson String Quartet, Johannes Moser, and members of the Guarneri and Cleveland quartets. His television appearances include The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and the MTV Europe Music Awards with Icelandic artist Björk. He appears on 16 recordings with the Pacifica Quartet and has recorded the violin music of Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and the sonatas for violin and piano by Franz Schubert.

Bernhardsson serves as director of the Cooper International Violin Competition at Oberlin and as artistic director of Iceland’s Harpa International Music Academy. He gives regular concerts and master classes in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, and other ensembles.

Bernhardsson is a 1995 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. His teachers include Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Almita and Roland Vamos, Mathias Tacke, and Shmuel Ashkenasi. He previously served on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Concert Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Idomeneo, K. 366

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (feat. Sibbi Bernhardsson)

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

About the Featured Musicians

Stefan Willich is the founder and conductor of the World Doctors Orchestra. He studied violin, chamber music, and conducting in Stuttgart and Berlin, and has participated in prestigious conducting workshops with Sergiu Celibidache (Munich), Leon Fleisher (Boston, Tanglewood) and Leon Barzin (Paris). Besides his performances with WDO, he regularly appears as guest conductor mainly in Germany and the USA where he is the principal guest conductor of the CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra.

His professional path, however, first led him into medicine, where he became a highly regarded internist and epidemiologist, focusing on cardiovascular disease, prevention, health economics, integrative medicine, and arts and medicine. For several years he worked at Harvard University in Boston, and in 1995 was appointed Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a post he continues to hold to this day. From 2012 to 2014, Stefan Willich was President of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. In 2021, he received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the highest award for former graduates of the institution.

As music director he led WDO to great success. Particular highlights include performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin in 2010 for the World Health Summit, and Mahler's Second Symphony (Resurrection) in Washington in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11. He has worked together with outstanding soloists including Peter Zazofsky, Sergey Khachatryan, Tanja Becker-Bender, Aida-Carmen Soanea, Tamaki Kawakubo, Wenzel Fuchs, Anja Kampe, Jeanine De Bique, Falk Struckmann, Jochen Kowalski, Alexei Lubimov, Xavier de Maistre, Delphine Haidan, Emily Bear, Cunmo Yin, Evelyn Glennie, Alexandru Tomescu and with the Vienna Boys’ Choir.

Icelandic violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2017 after performing for the previous 17 years with the Pacifica Quartet, with which he won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Musical America Ensemble of the Year honors, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, Bernhardsson appeared in more than 90 concerts worldwide each year, including engagements in Wigmore Hall (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall (New York), and other major venues. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, and the Reykjavík Arts Festival, and has collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma, Jörg Widmann, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher, the Emerson String Quartet, Johannes Moser, and members of the Guarneri and Cleveland quartets. His television appearances include The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and the MTV Europe Music Awards with Icelandic artist Björk. He appears on 16 recordings with the Pacifica Quartet and has recorded the violin music of Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and the sonatas for violin and piano by Franz Schubert.

Bernhardsson serves as director of the Cooper International Violin Competition at Oberlin and as artistic director of Iceland’s Harpa International Music Academy. He gives regular concerts and master classes in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, and other ensembles.

Bernhardsson is a 1995 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. His teachers include Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Almita and Roland Vamos, Mathias Tacke, and Shmuel Ashkenasi. He previously served on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Concert Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Idomeneo, K. 366

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (feat. Sibbi Bernhardsson)

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

About the Featured Musicians

Stefan Willich is the founder and conductor of the World Doctors Orchestra. He studied violin, chamber music, and conducting in Stuttgart and Berlin, and has participated in prestigious conducting workshops with Sergiu Celibidache (Munich), Leon Fleisher (Boston, Tanglewood) and Leon Barzin (Paris). Besides his performances with WDO, he regularly appears as guest conductor mainly in Germany and the USA where he is the principal guest conductor of the CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra.

His professional path, however, first led him into medicine, where he became a highly regarded internist and epidemiologist, focusing on cardiovascular disease, prevention, health economics, integrative medicine, and arts and medicine. For several years he worked at Harvard University in Boston, and in 1995 was appointed Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a post he continues to hold to this day. From 2012 to 2014, Stefan Willich was President of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. In 2021, he received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the highest award for former graduates of the institution.

As music director he led WDO to great success. Particular highlights include performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin in 2010 for the World Health Summit, and Mahler's Second Symphony (Resurrection) in Washington in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11. He has worked together with outstanding soloists including Peter Zazofsky, Sergey Khachatryan, Tanja Becker-Bender, Aida-Carmen Soanea, Tamaki Kawakubo, Wenzel Fuchs, Anja Kampe, Jeanine De Bique, Falk Struckmann, Jochen Kowalski, Alexei Lubimov, Xavier de Maistre, Delphine Haidan, Emily Bear, Cunmo Yin, Evelyn Glennie, Alexandru Tomescu and with the Vienna Boys’ Choir.

Icelandic violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2017 after performing for the previous 17 years with the Pacifica Quartet, with which he won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Musical America Ensemble of the Year honors, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, Bernhardsson appeared in more than 90 concerts worldwide each year, including engagements in Wigmore Hall (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall (New York), and other major venues. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, and the Reykjavík Arts Festival, and has collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma, Jörg Widmann, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher, the Emerson String Quartet, Johannes Moser, and members of the Guarneri and Cleveland quartets. His television appearances include The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and the MTV Europe Music Awards with Icelandic artist Björk. He appears on 16 recordings with the Pacifica Quartet and has recorded the violin music of Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and the sonatas for violin and piano by Franz Schubert.

Bernhardsson serves as director of the Cooper International Violin Competition at Oberlin and as artistic director of Iceland’s Harpa International Music Academy. He gives regular concerts and master classes in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, and other ensembles.

Bernhardsson is a 1995 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. His teachers include Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Almita and Roland Vamos, Mathias Tacke, and Shmuel Ashkenasi. He previously served on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Concert Program

Caroline Shaw Entr'acte

Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished”

About the Featured Musicians

Praised as a “rising light in the musical firmament” and a “brilliant young Maestra” Annunziata Tomaro is equally at home in symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire.

As founder and music director of The Phoenix Ensemble in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tomaro worked with distinguished artists such as William Bolcom and Peter Sparling. During her tenure as conductor and music director of the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, Ms. Tomaro led new productions of operas by Wolf-Ferrari and Puccini as well as notable concert and choral performances. In collaboration with renowned pianist James Tocco and opera director Robin Guarino, Tomaro conducted celebrated concert and opera performances at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Tomaro was music director and principal conductor of the CCM (College-Conservatory of Music) Concert Orchestra and the contemporary ensemble, Café MoMus in Cincinnati. Among her many podium appearances at CCM were acclaimed performances of Mahler and Shostakovich, as well as world and regional premieres of works by Kaija Saariaho, Cynthia Wong and Conrad Susa. During this time, she was appointed associate conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and was invited to cover conduct for Paavo Jarvi with the Cincinnati Symphony. Having served as music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony, Ms. Tomaro is a strong advocate of music education and an inspiring leader of younger musicians. She is highly sought after as a guest conductor of university and youth orchestras. Her award-winning live recording with The Phoenix Ensemble, “The Orchestra is Here to Play!” has become an instant classic with young audiences.

In addition to conducting a wide range of symphonic works and championing new and emerging composers, Tomaro's opera performances include La bohème, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rape of Lucretia, Werther, Carmen, Il signor Bruschino, The Telephone by Menotti, Stravinsky's Mavra, Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna, Mahagonny Songspiel (Weill/Brecht), Conrad Susa's Dangerous Liaisons, and the world premieres of Enid Sutherland's Daphne and Apollo Remade and City Opera Buenos Aires by Peter Ablinger.

As assistant conductor of the Orquesta Estable of the Teatro Colón and Head of Stage Music of the illustrious theater in Buenos Aires, Tomaro conducted staging rehearsals for many important titles during two artistic seasons. Throughout Argentina, Tomaro regularly guest conducts almost all the major orchestras.

Prize winner of the International “Antonio Pedrotti” Conducting Competition, Tomaro's honors include the Robinson Award, presented by the Conductor's Guild, the esteemed Presser Award which brought her to Lucerne, Switzerland to work with Claudio Abbado, and the "outstanding woman conductor" grant by the League of American Orchestras. Tomaro was chosen as a Fulbright scholar to Berlin, where she had the honor of being a guest in the rehearsals of Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper unter den Linden.

Since beginning her musical studies at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and culminating in a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music of Cincinnati, Ms. Tomaro has worked with some of the world’s most recognized conducting pedagogues and has become a sought-after teacher.

Praised by The New York Times for his ‘uncommon sensitivity and feeling’, the eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich is renowned for his multifaceted musical artistry, earning acclaim as a soloist, curator, and collaborator.

Winner of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, Rabinovich made his Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut, on a 24-hour notice with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with esteemed orchestras like the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Meininger Hofkapelle, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, KBS Symphony, Prague Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony, under the batons of conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Zubin Mehta, JoAnn Falletta, Kristjan Järvi, and Gerard Schwarz. As a recitalist, he has performed at Washington Performing Arts Society, Vancouver Recital Society, Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Liszt Academy in Budapest and participated in festivals including Marlboro, Lucerne and Prague Spring.

Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich's artistic reach extends beyond the piano. He is a composer and visual artist with a diverse repertoire spanning six centuries. He has won critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Joseph Haydn, encompassing Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals in UK, and curated a three-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall. The first two volumes of his complete Haydn Cycle on First Hand Records have been released to critical acclaim.

Having made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta at the age of 10, Rabinovich was among the first pianists championed by Sir András Schiff in his series 'Building Bridges'.

Alongside his wife, violinist Diana Cohen, Rabinovich co-directs ChamberFest Cleveland and the newly inaugurated ChamberFest West festival in Calgary.

Concert Program

Caroline Shaw Entr'acte

Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished”

About the Featured Musicians

Praised as a “rising light in the musical firmament” and a “brilliant young Maestra” Annunziata Tomaro is equally at home in symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire.

As founder and music director of The Phoenix Ensemble in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tomaro worked with distinguished artists such as William Bolcom and Peter Sparling. During her tenure as conductor and music director of the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, Ms. Tomaro led new productions of operas by Wolf-Ferrari and Puccini as well as notable concert and choral performances. In collaboration with renowned pianist James Tocco and opera director Robin Guarino, Tomaro conducted celebrated concert and opera performances at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Tomaro was music director and principal conductor of the CCM (College-Conservatory of Music) Concert Orchestra and the contemporary ensemble, Café MoMus in Cincinnati. Among her many podium appearances at CCM were acclaimed performances of Mahler and Shostakovich, as well as world and regional premieres of works by Kaija Saariaho, Cynthia Wong and Conrad Susa. During this time, she was appointed associate conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and was invited to cover conduct for Paavo Jarvi with the Cincinnati Symphony. Having served as music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony, Ms. Tomaro is a strong advocate of music education and an inspiring leader of younger musicians. She is highly sought after as a guest conductor of university and youth orchestras. Her award-winning live recording with The Phoenix Ensemble, “The Orchestra is Here to Play!” has become an instant classic with young audiences.

In addition to conducting a wide range of symphonic works and championing new and emerging composers, Tomaro's opera performances include La bohème, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rape of Lucretia, Werther, Carmen, Il signor Bruschino, The Telephone by Menotti, Stravinsky's Mavra, Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna, Mahagonny Songspiel (Weill/Brecht), Conrad Susa's Dangerous Liaisons, and the world premieres of Enid Sutherland's Daphne and Apollo Remade and City Opera Buenos Aires by Peter Ablinger.

As assistant conductor of the Orquesta Estable of the Teatro Colón and Head of Stage Music of the illustrious theater in Buenos Aires, Tomaro conducted staging rehearsals for many important titles during two artistic seasons. Throughout Argentina, Tomaro regularly guest conducts almost all the major orchestras.

Prize winner of the International “Antonio Pedrotti” Conducting Competition, Tomaro's honors include the Robinson Award, presented by the Conductor's Guild, the esteemed Presser Award which brought her to Lucerne, Switzerland to work with Claudio Abbado, and the "outstanding woman conductor" grant by the League of American Orchestras. Tomaro was chosen as a Fulbright scholar to Berlin, where she had the honor of being a guest in the rehearsals of Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper unter den Linden.

Since beginning her musical studies at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and culminating in a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music of Cincinnati, Ms. Tomaro has worked with some of the world’s most recognized conducting pedagogues and has become a sought-after teacher.

Praised by The New York Times for his ‘uncommon sensitivity and feeling’, the eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich is renowned for his multifaceted musical artistry, earning acclaim as a soloist, curator, and collaborator.

Winner of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, Rabinovich made his Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut, on a 24-hour notice with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with esteemed orchestras like the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Meininger Hofkapelle, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, KBS Symphony, Prague Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony, under the batons of conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Zubin Mehta, JoAnn Falletta, Kristjan Järvi, and Gerard Schwarz. As a recitalist, he has performed at Washington Performing Arts Society, Vancouver Recital Society, Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Liszt Academy in Budapest and participated in festivals including Marlboro, Lucerne and Prague Spring.

Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich's artistic reach extends beyond the piano. He is a composer and visual artist with a diverse repertoire spanning six centuries. He has won critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Joseph Haydn, encompassing Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals in UK, and curated a three-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall. The first two volumes of his complete Haydn Cycle on First Hand Records have been released to critical acclaim.

Having made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta at the age of 10, Rabinovich was among the first pianists championed by Sir András Schiff in his series 'Building Bridges'.

Alongside his wife, violinist Diana Cohen, Rabinovich co-directs ChamberFest Cleveland and the newly inaugurated ChamberFest West festival in Calgary.

Concert Program

Caroline Shaw Entr'acte

Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished”

About the Featured Musicians

Praised as a “rising light in the musical firmament” and a “brilliant young Maestra” Annunziata Tomaro is equally at home in symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire.

As founder and music director of The Phoenix Ensemble in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tomaro worked with distinguished artists such as William Bolcom and Peter Sparling. During her tenure as conductor and music director of the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, Ms. Tomaro led new productions of operas by Wolf-Ferrari and Puccini as well as notable concert and choral performances. In collaboration with renowned pianist James Tocco and opera director Robin Guarino, Tomaro conducted celebrated concert and opera performances at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Tomaro was music director and principal conductor of the CCM (College-Conservatory of Music) Concert Orchestra and the contemporary ensemble, Café MoMus in Cincinnati. Among her many podium appearances at CCM were acclaimed performances of Mahler and Shostakovich, as well as world and regional premieres of works by Kaija Saariaho, Cynthia Wong and Conrad Susa. During this time, she was appointed associate conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and was invited to cover conduct for Paavo Jarvi with the Cincinnati Symphony. Having served as music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony, Ms. Tomaro is a strong advocate of music education and an inspiring leader of younger musicians. She is highly sought after as a guest conductor of university and youth orchestras. Her award-winning live recording with The Phoenix Ensemble, “The Orchestra is Here to Play!” has become an instant classic with young audiences.

In addition to conducting a wide range of symphonic works and championing new and emerging composers, Tomaro's opera performances include La bohème, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rape of Lucretia, Werther, Carmen, Il signor Bruschino, The Telephone by Menotti, Stravinsky's Mavra, Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna, Mahagonny Songspiel (Weill/Brecht), Conrad Susa's Dangerous Liaisons, and the world premieres of Enid Sutherland's Daphne and Apollo Remade and City Opera Buenos Aires by Peter Ablinger.

As assistant conductor of the Orquesta Estable of the Teatro Colón and Head of Stage Music of the illustrious theater in Buenos Aires, Tomaro conducted staging rehearsals for many important titles during two artistic seasons. Throughout Argentina, Tomaro regularly guest conducts almost all the major orchestras.

Prize winner of the International “Antonio Pedrotti” Conducting Competition, Tomaro's honors include the Robinson Award, presented by the Conductor's Guild, the esteemed Presser Award which brought her to Lucerne, Switzerland to work with Claudio Abbado, and the "outstanding woman conductor" grant by the League of American Orchestras. Tomaro was chosen as a Fulbright scholar to Berlin, where she had the honor of being a guest in the rehearsals of Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper unter den Linden.

Since beginning her musical studies at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and culminating in a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music of Cincinnati, Ms. Tomaro has worked with some of the world’s most recognized conducting pedagogues and has become a sought-after teacher.

Praised by The New York Times for his ‘uncommon sensitivity and feeling’, the eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich is renowned for his multifaceted musical artistry, earning acclaim as a soloist, curator, and collaborator.

Winner of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, Rabinovich made his Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut, on a 24-hour notice with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with esteemed orchestras like the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Meininger Hofkapelle, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, KBS Symphony, Prague Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony, under the batons of conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Zubin Mehta, JoAnn Falletta, Kristjan Järvi, and Gerard Schwarz. As a recitalist, he has performed at Washington Performing Arts Society, Vancouver Recital Society, Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Liszt Academy in Budapest and participated in festivals including Marlboro, Lucerne and Prague Spring.

Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich's artistic reach extends beyond the piano. He is a composer and visual artist with a diverse repertoire spanning six centuries. He has won critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Joseph Haydn, encompassing Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals in UK, and curated a three-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall. The first two volumes of his complete Haydn Cycle on First Hand Records have been released to critical acclaim.

Having made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta at the age of 10, Rabinovich was among the first pianists championed by Sir András Schiff in his series 'Building Bridges'.

Alongside his wife, violinist Diana Cohen, Rabinovich co-directs ChamberFest Cleveland and the newly inaugurated ChamberFest West festival in Calgary.

Concert Program

Caroline Shaw Entr'acte

Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished”

About the Featured Musicians

Praised as a “rising light in the musical firmament” and a “brilliant young Maestra” Annunziata Tomaro is equally at home in symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire.

As founder and music director of The Phoenix Ensemble in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tomaro worked with distinguished artists such as William Bolcom and Peter Sparling. During her tenure as conductor and music director of the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, Ms. Tomaro led new productions of operas by Wolf-Ferrari and Puccini as well as notable concert and choral performances. In collaboration with renowned pianist James Tocco and opera director Robin Guarino, Tomaro conducted celebrated concert and opera performances at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Tomaro was music director and principal conductor of the CCM (College-Conservatory of Music) Concert Orchestra and the contemporary ensemble, Café MoMus in Cincinnati. Among her many podium appearances at CCM were acclaimed performances of Mahler and Shostakovich, as well as world and regional premieres of works by Kaija Saariaho, Cynthia Wong and Conrad Susa. During this time, she was appointed associate conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and was invited to cover conduct for Paavo Jarvi with the Cincinnati Symphony. Having served as music director of the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony, Ms. Tomaro is a strong advocate of music education and an inspiring leader of younger musicians. She is highly sought after as a guest conductor of university and youth orchestras. Her award-winning live recording with The Phoenix Ensemble, “The Orchestra is Here to Play!” has become an instant classic with young audiences.

In addition to conducting a wide range of symphonic works and championing new and emerging composers, Tomaro's opera performances include La bohème, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rape of Lucretia, Werther, Carmen, Il signor Bruschino, The Telephone by Menotti, Stravinsky's Mavra, Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna, Mahagonny Songspiel (Weill/Brecht), Conrad Susa's Dangerous Liaisons, and the world premieres of Enid Sutherland's Daphne and Apollo Remade and City Opera Buenos Aires by Peter Ablinger.

As assistant conductor of the Orquesta Estable of the Teatro Colón and Head of Stage Music of the illustrious theater in Buenos Aires, Tomaro conducted staging rehearsals for many important titles during two artistic seasons. Throughout Argentina, Tomaro regularly guest conducts almost all the major orchestras.

Prize winner of the International “Antonio Pedrotti” Conducting Competition, Tomaro's honors include the Robinson Award, presented by the Conductor's Guild, the esteemed Presser Award which brought her to Lucerne, Switzerland to work with Claudio Abbado, and the "outstanding woman conductor" grant by the League of American Orchestras. Tomaro was chosen as a Fulbright scholar to Berlin, where she had the honor of being a guest in the rehearsals of Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper unter den Linden.

Since beginning her musical studies at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and culminating in a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music of Cincinnati, Ms. Tomaro has worked with some of the world’s most recognized conducting pedagogues and has become a sought-after teacher.

Praised by The New York Times for his ‘uncommon sensitivity and feeling’, the eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich is renowned for his multifaceted musical artistry, earning acclaim as a soloist, curator, and collaborator.

Winner of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, Rabinovich made his Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut, on a 24-hour notice with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with esteemed orchestras like the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Meininger Hofkapelle, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, KBS Symphony, Prague Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony, under the batons of conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Zubin Mehta, JoAnn Falletta, Kristjan Järvi, and Gerard Schwarz. As a recitalist, he has performed at Washington Performing Arts Society, Vancouver Recital Society, Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Liszt Academy in Budapest and participated in festivals including Marlboro, Lucerne and Prague Spring.

Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich's artistic reach extends beyond the piano. He is a composer and visual artist with a diverse repertoire spanning six centuries. He has won critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Joseph Haydn, encompassing Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals in UK, and curated a three-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall. The first two volumes of his complete Haydn Cycle on First Hand Records have been released to critical acclaim.

Having made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta at the age of 10, Rabinovich was among the first pianists championed by Sir András Schiff in his series 'Building Bridges'.

Alongside his wife, violinist Diana Cohen, Rabinovich co-directs ChamberFest Cleveland and the newly inaugurated ChamberFest West festival in Calgary.

Concert Program

William Grant Still Danzas de Panama

Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walk-Around

Gabriel Faure Requiem

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Three-time district winner of the New York Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Soprano Chabrelle Williams is a dynamic presence on the stage and an accomplished teaching artist. Most recently, Chabrelle performed the role of Claudette Colvin in a new opera by Jasmine Barnes and Deborah Mouton with the American Lyric Theater. Currently, she is teaching opera to Philly’s finest 4th Graders for Opera Philadelphia. Looking to the Fall, Chabrelle is excited to make several debuts one of which includes the New Orleans Opera and their production of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue.

Chabrelle’s journey in the world of opera has brought her to several stages both in America and abroad. This season, she made several debuts: her Boston Lyric Opera debut as Milica in their film Svadba by Ana Sokolovic and directed by Shura Baryshnikov, her Opera in the Heights debut as Leonora in their production of Il Trovatore and most recently she made her Lincoln Center Theater Debut co-creating the leading role of Esther in the world premiere of the opera Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon directed by Bartlett Sher.

Throughout her journey, Chabrelle has not only premiered several works, but also been the pioneer for a couple training programs. She started the Artist Diploma program at Rice University and was the first to graduate of its program. Chabrelle also co-created the Holland Community Opera Fellowship at Opera Omaha where she used her experience as an artist and entrepreneur to creatively engage with various youth and adult organizations from diverse backgrounds.

In addition to opera, Chabrelle also enjoys the more intimate experience of performing oratorio and art song. Recently, she world premiered an orchestrated version of Songs of the Seasons by Margaret Bonds arr. Edward Hart with the Charleston Symphony. Before that, she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Nathaniel Dett’s oratorio The Ordering of Moses with her alma mater Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She looks forward to making another debut this season with the Louisiana Philharmonic singing these very same songs! Some other highlights in her concert repertoire include: Might Call You Art by Jasmine Barnes, Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Meyer, and the soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem.

Concert Program

William Grant Still Danzas de Panama

Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walk-Around

Gabriel Faure Requiem

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Three-time district winner of the New York Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Soprano Chabrelle Williams is a dynamic presence on the stage and an accomplished teaching artist. Most recently, Chabrelle performed the role of Claudette Colvin in a new opera by Jasmine Barnes and Deborah Mouton with the American Lyric Theater. Currently, she is teaching opera to Philly’s finest 4th Graders for Opera Philadelphia. Looking to the Fall, Chabrelle is excited to make several debuts one of which includes the New Orleans Opera and their production of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue.

Chabrelle’s journey in the world of opera has brought her to several stages both in America and abroad. This season, she made several debuts: her Boston Lyric Opera debut as Milica in their film Svadba by Ana Sokolovic and directed by Shura Baryshnikov, her Opera in the Heights debut as Leonora in their production of Il Trovatore and most recently she made her Lincoln Center Theater Debut co-creating the leading role of Esther in the world premiere of the opera Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon directed by Bartlett Sher.

Throughout her journey, Chabrelle has not only premiered several works, but also been the pioneer for a couple training programs. She started the Artist Diploma program at Rice University and was the first to graduate of its program. Chabrelle also co-created the Holland Community Opera Fellowship at Opera Omaha where she used her experience as an artist and entrepreneur to creatively engage with various youth and adult organizations from diverse backgrounds.

In addition to opera, Chabrelle also enjoys the more intimate experience of performing oratorio and art song. Recently, she world premiered an orchestrated version of Songs of the Seasons by Margaret Bonds arr. Edward Hart with the Charleston Symphony. Before that, she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Nathaniel Dett’s oratorio The Ordering of Moses with her alma mater Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She looks forward to making another debut this season with the Louisiana Philharmonic singing these very same songs! Some other highlights in her concert repertoire include: Might Call You Art by Jasmine Barnes, Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Meyer, and the soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem.

Concert Program

William Grant Still Danzas de Panama

Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walk-Around

Gabriel Faure Requiem

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Three-time district winner of the New York Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Soprano Chabrelle Williams is a dynamic presence on the stage and an accomplished teaching artist. Most recently, Chabrelle performed the role of Claudette Colvin in a new opera by Jasmine Barnes and Deborah Mouton with the American Lyric Theater. Currently, she is teaching opera to Philly’s finest 4th Graders for Opera Philadelphia. Looking to the Fall, Chabrelle is excited to make several debuts one of which includes the New Orleans Opera and their production of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue.

Chabrelle’s journey in the world of opera has brought her to several stages both in America and abroad. This season, she made several debuts: her Boston Lyric Opera debut as Milica in their film Svadba by Ana Sokolovic and directed by Shura Baryshnikov, her Opera in the Heights debut as Leonora in their production of Il Trovatore and most recently she made her Lincoln Center Theater Debut co-creating the leading role of Esther in the world premiere of the opera Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon directed by Bartlett Sher.

Throughout her journey, Chabrelle has not only premiered several works, but also been the pioneer for a couple training programs. She started the Artist Diploma program at Rice University and was the first to graduate of its program. Chabrelle also co-created the Holland Community Opera Fellowship at Opera Omaha where she used her experience as an artist and entrepreneur to creatively engage with various youth and adult organizations from diverse backgrounds.

In addition to opera, Chabrelle also enjoys the more intimate experience of performing oratorio and art song. Recently, she world premiered an orchestrated version of Songs of the Seasons by Margaret Bonds arr. Edward Hart with the Charleston Symphony. Before that, she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Nathaniel Dett’s oratorio The Ordering of Moses with her alma mater Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She looks forward to making another debut this season with the Louisiana Philharmonic singing these very same songs! Some other highlights in her concert repertoire include: Might Call You Art by Jasmine Barnes, Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Meyer, and the soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem.

Concert Program

William Grant Still Danzas de Panama

Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walk-Around

Gabriel Faure Requiem

About the Featured Musicians

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Lorenzo Lopez is an accomplished musician and conductor known for his dynamic leadership and passionate musicianship. He has served as a lecturer for Purdue University’s Symphonic and String Orchestras and as a Conducting Fellow for the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. Lopez has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Cristian Macelaru, Marin Alsop, and James Ross.

Lopez is a winner of The Respighi Prize with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, marking his Carnegie Hall debut, and was a National Finalist in the American Prize in Conducting. In addition to conducting, he is a pianist and tenor vocalist. Lopez strives to inspire his students and colleagues to discover the purity of sound and to connect deeply with music and the community. He is also dedicated to encouraging Latin and other historically marginalized communities to pursue classical music as a means to promote a more unified community.

Three-time district winner of the New York Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Soprano Chabrelle Williams is a dynamic presence on the stage and an accomplished teaching artist. Most recently, Chabrelle performed the role of Claudette Colvin in a new opera by Jasmine Barnes and Deborah Mouton with the American Lyric Theater. Currently, she is teaching opera to Philly’s finest 4th Graders for Opera Philadelphia. Looking to the Fall, Chabrelle is excited to make several debuts one of which includes the New Orleans Opera and their production of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue.

Chabrelle’s journey in the world of opera has brought her to several stages both in America and abroad. This season, she made several debuts: her Boston Lyric Opera debut as Milica in their film Svadba by Ana Sokolovic and directed by Shura Baryshnikov, her Opera in the Heights debut as Leonora in their production of Il Trovatore and most recently she made her Lincoln Center Theater Debut co-creating the leading role of Esther in the world premiere of the opera Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon directed by Bartlett Sher.

Throughout her journey, Chabrelle has not only premiered several works, but also been the pioneer for a couple training programs. She started the Artist Diploma program at Rice University and was the first to graduate of its program. Chabrelle also co-created the Holland Community Opera Fellowship at Opera Omaha where she used her experience as an artist and entrepreneur to creatively engage with various youth and adult organizations from diverse backgrounds.

In addition to opera, Chabrelle also enjoys the more intimate experience of performing oratorio and art song. Recently, she world premiered an orchestrated version of Songs of the Seasons by Margaret Bonds arr. Edward Hart with the Charleston Symphony. Before that, she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Nathaniel Dett’s oratorio The Ordering of Moses with her alma mater Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She looks forward to making another debut this season with the Louisiana Philharmonic singing these very same songs! Some other highlights in her concert repertoire include: Might Call You Art by Jasmine Barnes, Welcome to the Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Meyer, and the soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem.