TWENTIETH ANNUAL DEPAUL CONCERTO FESTIVAL FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS JANUARY 7-8, 2023

Twentieth Annual DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers
                        January 7-8, 2023

Mark Brandfonbrenner, cello
Mark Brandfonbrener is a member of the orchestras of Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Santa Fe Opera. A
graduate of the Juilliard School and the University of Michigan, he is an active chamber musician,
performing as a member of Music of the Baroque, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, and the Pintele
Piano trio. A former member of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, he performs frequently with the
Chicago Symphony, Chicago Chamber Musicians and Bach Week in Evanston. He has been a guest at
many music festivals including Aspen, Montepulciano, and Gstaad. His cello is a 1710 Paolo Testore.

Paula Kosower, cello
Paula Kosower is an active performer and teacher currently residing in Chicago. She frequently
performs for the Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, the University of Illinois Tuesdays-at-One
Series, North Park University Faculty Concerts, Bach Week Festival Concerts, for events at the Music
Institute of Chicago, and for live performances on WFMT 98.7. Other concert appearances include the
Chicago Symphony Chamber Music Series, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Rembrandt Chamber Players,
Rush Hour at St. James Cathedral, Art Institute of Chicago, Classical Mondays at Preston Bradley Hall,
Mostly Music, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Music of the Baroque, Dempster St. Pro Musica, Bach Aria
Society of Kansas City, Kansas City String Quartet Program and Wisconsin Public Radio FM 89.7. She has
appeared on faculty recitals performing with colleagues at Roosevelt University, Northwestern
University, University of Chicago, North Park University, University of Illinois-Chicago, Wheaton College,
Carthage College, and UW-Madison.

She enjoys contemporary music and has played consistently for the Fulcrum Point New Music
Project. For many years she played for the CUBE contemporary ensemble, with performances in many
Chicago venues. She has performed premieres of numerous compositions, with concerts at the Ravinia
Festival, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois-Chicago. In addition she has played for
recordings including the Brandenburg Project, featuring the music of Larry Axelrod, and for a recent
recording and premiere of the composition Music for Five by Marc Mellits.

In addition to recital and chamber music performances Ms. Kosower regularly performs as a cello
substitute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. For the past three seasons, 2012-2015, she has
served in the cello section for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She has also played with the Grant Park
Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Kosower is a faculty member at North Park University where she teaches applied undergraduate
lessons, cello class ensemble, and performs with the Ensemble Nouvelle Epoque. She is also on the
faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago, teaching applied lessons and performing as a member of the
faculty Circle Ensemble. She teaches cello pedagogy courses for undergraduate and graduate students
at Northwestern University and DePaul University. For the Northwestern University Music Academy she
maintains a full studio of pre-college students. She also coaches chamber music for the Chicago Youth
Symphony Orchestra program. For the past several years she has served as Vice-President of the
Chicago Cello Society, an organization promoting the art of cello playing with a variety of events in the
Chicago area each season.

She earned her B.M. and M.M. degrees at Indiana University where she was a scholarship student of
Janos Starker. She also served as Mr. Starker’s graduate teaching assistant. During numerous summers
she attended the Aspen Music Festival where she studied with Rafael Figueroa, Eric Kim, David Finckel,
Alan Harris, Michael Mermagen, and Zara Nelsova. She also attended the Steans Institute for Young
Artists, participating in both the piano and strings chamber music program and the collaborative vocal
chamber music program. Her studies at the Steans Institute included lessons with Gary Hoffmann,
Timothy Eddy, David Geringas, and Bernard Greenhouse. She has played for masterclasses of Yo-Yo-
Ma, Lynn Harrell, David Soyer, and Zara Nelsova. She completed her D.M. degree at Northwestern
University where she studied with Hans Jorgen-Jensen, and during this time also served as principal cello
of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

Walter Preucil, cello
Walter began his studies in his native Iowa at age 9. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and
did graduate studies at Indiana University. His teachers have included Paul Katz and Janos Starker. His
playing has been described as “beautifully expressive” and having “color, warmth, and freedom” in New
York Concert Review magazine.

Walter became a member of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra in 1988. He has played three seasons as
Acting Assistant principal cello and one season as Acting Principal. As a teacher, he maintains a private
teaching studio and has taught at Lawrence University and Interlochen Arts Camp. He has performed
chamber music extensively at festivals in the U.S. and Europe. As a soloist, he has appeared with many
orchestras including a performance at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, France. He and his wife
Stephanie (a violinist) have three sons, all string players.

Daniel Horn, piano
An active and versatile pianist, Daniel Paul Horn is Professor of Piano and Chair of Keyboard Studies at
the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, where he was honored with a 2009 Senior Academic
Achievement Award for sustained excellence in scholarship. As solo recitalist, he has appeared at
colleges and universities throughout North America, at the American Liszt Society Festival, and in live
broadcasts over WFMT-FM, on its Pianoforte Foundation Fazioli Salon Series and its 2010 Beethoven
Piano Sonata series. As concerto soloist, he has performed with various Midwestern orchestras,
including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; in 2015, he made his European orchestral debut with the
Sarajevo Philharmonic, performing Lumen by Wheaton alumnus Jacob Bancks.

An avid chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
With the MasterWorks Ensemble, he has played in Bermuda and at the 2010 Beijing Modern Music
Festival; in addition, he has performed with the Ying String Quartet, the Rembrandt Chamber Players,
cellists Leonardo Altino and Stephen Balderston; pianists Alexander Djordjevic and Caroline Hong; and
Guarneri Quartet violinist John Dalley. He also works with noted singers. Working with contemporary
composers, he has premiered music by George Arasimowicz, Jacob Bancks, Delvyn Case, David M.
Gordon, Neal Harnly, Patrick Kavanaugh, Daniel Kellogg, and Max Raimi. During the 2020-2021 season,
he will give the world premiere of Seven Mysteries for solo piano, composed for him by Richard
Danielpour through a commission made possible by a generous gift to Wheaton College.

As an early keyboardist, he was harpsichordist in performances of Handel’s Messiah under the baton of
John Nelson, and has twice performed on the Historical Piano Concert series at the Frederick Collection
in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. In 1997, he recorded the critically praised disc “Wanderings” for Titanic
Records on an 1829 Graf fortepiano, and in 2010 released Sehnsucht: Music of Robert Schumann; he
also recorded for the Centaur label with CSO cellist Donald Moline, for the Canadian Music Centre with
soprano Carolyn Hart, and for the Innova label with flutist Jennie Oh Brown.

A Detroit native, Horn studied at Peabody with Walter Hautzig, and at Juilliard, where he studied with
Martin Canin and Felix Galimir, and earned his doctorate. He has also coached with Jerome Lowenthal,
Ann Schein, Joseph Bloch, Roy Howat, and Menahem Pressler, for whom he twice served as guest
assistant at Indiana University. In addition to his duties at Wheaton, he has been a faculty artist at the
Sewanee, Adamant, Blue Mountain, and MasterWorks summer festivals, and has served on the jury of
the Chicago International Music Competition.

Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Commended for his “perceptive pianism” (Audiophile) and “playing that is sensitive and wonderfully
warm” (American Record Guide), Chicagoan Kuang-Hao Huang is a highly sought-after collaborative
pianist whose performances have taken him throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He has
performed in New York City’s Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Merkin Hall; in Washington,
D.C.’s Kennedy Center; and at every major venue in the Chicago area, including the Harris Theatre and
Symphony Center. He is often heard live on WFMT and has also performed on WQXR and on Medici.tv.
Mr. Huang has recorded for Aucourant, Cedille, Innova and Naxos, including a CD of flute fantasies with
flutist Mathieu Dufour and a premiere recording of early songs by Alban Berg with mezzo-soprano Julia
Bentley. His most recent recordings include Notorious RBG in Song with soprano Patrice Michaels
and Songs from Chicago with baritone Thomas Hampson.

A strong advocate of new music, Mr. Huang is a core member of Fulcrum Point New Music Project and
Picosa. He has premiered numerous works, including pieces by Mason Bates, Jacob Bancks, Kyong Mee
Choi, Stacy Garrop, John Harbison, Daniel Kellogg and Shulamit Ran. Mr. Huang gave the world
premiere performances of works by Louis Andriessen and Chen Yi at Weill Hall as part of Carnegie Hall’s
Millennium Piano Book Project. He has appeared on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW
series.

Mr. Huang is Associate Artistic Director for the International Music Foundation and is the driving force
behind Make Music Chicago (makemusicchicago.org), a citywide celebration of music every June 21st.
He also founded IMF’s Pianos in the Parks program, which partners with the Chicago Park District to give
all Chicagoans access to outdoor pianos as well as free lessons.

Mr. Huang has degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Northwestern
University. His principal teachers include Leonard Hokanson, Joseph Kalichstein, Howard Karp, Rita Sloan
and Sylvia Wang. During his graduate studies, Mr. Huang was a recipient of the U.S. Department of
Education's Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. He was also a member of the New World Symphony, Michael
Tilson Thomas's orchestral academy.

Susan Tang, piano
Susan Tang is Associate Professor of Piano at Northeastern Illinois University and artistic director of the
Chicago Chamber Music Festival, an intensive summer workshop for young artists.

An active professional performer, Susan enjoyed a successful New York solo piano debut at Carnegie-
Weill Hall as a Winner of Artist International Management Special Presentation Winners Series. Reviews
by the New York Concert Review, described her playing as having “well-grounded technique…fluid,
elegant readings…highly effective interpretations.” She has also been called a pianist “with an assured
playing that sparkled" by the Baltimore Sun and a “fluent pianist” by the Chicago Tribune.

Susan Tang has performed and toured with Mabou Mine’s Dollhouse, a theater company based in New
York City as a pianist/actor, has been featured live on New York City’s WQXR and Chicago’s WFMT,
performed with the Eastman Symphony Orchestra along with receiving the coveted Performer’s
Certificate. Invitations to perform and teach have taken her throughout Canada, United States,
Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Colombia. She was a top prize winner at the Canadian Federation of
Music Teachers' Associations National Piano Competition in Montreal and received the special jury prize
at the Thousand Island International Piano Competition. She has studied at the Banff International
Keyboard Festival, Van Cliburn Piano Institute and the Leipzig Summer Academy of Music. She is also the
co-editor with Marc Ponthus of Elliot Carter: A Centennial Celebration, and has published articles in
Clavier Magazine. She has been invited to perform at the Ravinia Festival, Jewel Box Series, Dame Myra
Hess, Savannah Music Festival, University of Minnesota-Duluth, McNeese University, Dominican
University, Blue Ridge Concert Series, Loyola University, Quest University, and Shriver Hall Concert
Series. As an active clinician and adjudicator, Susan was the guest artist for the North Dakota Music
Teachers Association state conference and is often invited to present for the local MTNA chapters. She
has also presented at both the MTNA and College Music Society’s national conferences and is a member
of the Royal Conservatory Of Music's college of adjudicators.

Susan Tang received her BM and MM from the Eastman School of Music and DMA from Manhattan
School of Music. Her principle teachers include Nelita True, Nina Svetlanova, Robin Wood, and Susan
Magnusson.

Jasmine Lin, violín
Jasmine Lin began violin studies at age four. Since then she has appeared as soloist with orchestras
including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony
Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay, Evergreen Symphony of
Taiwan, and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, and in recital in Chicago, New York, Nova Scotia,
Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Taipei. She was a prizewinner in the International Paganini Competition
and took second prize in the International Naumburg Competition. The New York Times describes her as
an “unusually individualistic player” with “electrifying assertiveness” and “virtuosic abandon”.

As a chamber musician Ms. Lin has been a participant of the Marlboro Music Festival and the Steans
Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia, and has toured extensively in the United States as part of the
Chicago String Quartet, in China as part of the Overseas Musicians, and in Taiwan as a member of
Taiwan Connection Music Festival. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University
and DePaul University and was a faculty member of the Taos School of Music in New Mexico.

Ms. Lin is a founding and current member of the Formosa Quartet, which won first prize in the 10th
Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. The Formosa Quartet’s recording of works by
Mozart, Debussy, Wolf and Schubert on the EMI Debut Series has won critical acclaim from
Gramophone and The Strad magazines. The quartet performs in major venues around the world
including the Chicago Cultural Center, the Library of Congress, Caramoor Festival, Cornell University,
Maui Classical Music Festival, Taipei’s Novel Hall, BBC In Tune, and Wigmore Hall.

Ms. Lin is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She gave her New York debut in Merkin Hall, where
the program included her poetry set to music. Her poem “The night of h’s” received Editor’s Choice
Award from the International Poetry Foundation, and her poetry/music presentations have been
featured in Chicago, at Cornell University in Ithaca, and on radio in Taipei, and have resulted in
collaborations with composers Dana Wilson, David Loeb, and Thomas Oboe Lee.

In the 1999-2000 season Ms. Lin was Second Assistant Concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra. In addition to her activities with the Formosa Quartet, she is a member of Trio Voce with
cellist Marina Hoover and pianist Patricia Tao; the Trio has released two albums on the Con Brio
label, Inscapes and In A New Light. Ms. Lin is also a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, whose
Composer Perspectives series won the ASCAP award for adventuresome programming. She received a
Grammy nomination as part of CCM’s Grammy-nominated CD of works for winds and strings by Mozart.
She is on the faculty at Roosevelt University and a proud native of Chicago.

Janet Sung, violín
Violinist Janet Sung enjoys an acclaimed international career as a virtuoso soloist, recognized for her
intense, exhilarating performances, and by her signature lustrous, burnished tone. Hailed by The
Washington Post for her “riveting” playing and “exquisite tone”, her playing possesses the rare blend of
fierce intelligence, subtlety and brilliant virtuosity.

Since her orchestral debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at age 9, she has performed with leading
orchestras and in recitals worldwide. Recent seasons has seen her as soloist with, among others, the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Aspen Festival Chamber Symphony and the Pro Arte Chamber
Orchestra of Boston, as well as the orchestras of Boise, Bozeman, Corpus Christi, Delaware, Dubuque,
Fargo-Moorhead, Hartford, Las Cruces, Springfield (Massachusetts and Ohio), Tacoma and
Wyoming. Abroad, she has been heard with South Korea’s Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra, Germany’s
Stelzen Festival Orchestra and Russia’s Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra and National Symphonic Orchestra
of Bashkortostan.

An artist of remarkable versatility, Ms. Sung is celebrated for her compelling performances of traditional
works from Bach to Berg, and is passionate about promoting works of the 20th and 21st centuries. In
recent years, she has performed repertoire as diverse as Henri Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto, L’Arbes des
Songes, to Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. In 2009, Ms. Sung presented the world premiere
of Kenneth Fuchs’ American Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra, and, in 2011, the world premiere of
Augusta Read Thomas’ Double Helix, which was recently released on Nimbus Records. Additionally, she
has toured throughout the United States with fiddler Mark O’Connor’s American String Celebration,
showcased in performances of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen, and original
compositions by O’Connor.

Her solo performances have frequently been aired on radio and television, nationally and

internationally, including multiple broadcasts of her performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto on NPR’s
“Performance Today,” and regular featured performances on Chicago’s WFMT. She is featured on
recordings of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, the latter with
members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra recorded at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany. Her latest
recording project will include the complete works by J.S. Bach for Violin and Keyboard with pianist and
Bach specialist, Sean Duggan.

In recital, Janet Sung has been presented in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, New York City and
Pittsburgh, as well as in Odense, Denmark, Lausanne, Switzerland and Queenstown, New Zealand. She is
frequently heard as concerto and recital soloist at distinguished festivals, including the Aspen Music
Festival, Bellingham Festival, Britt Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, Sewanee Summer Music Festival,
Germany’s Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival, and Switzerland's Lucerne Festival. She is
also a performing artist at numerous chamber music festivals, including the Bowdoin International
Music Festival, the Kreeger Chamber Music Festival in Washington, D.C., the Green Mountain Chamber
Music Festival, and the Newport Music Festival, and is a regular guest with the Finger Lakes Chamber
Ensemble and the American Chamber Players, which tour nationally.

Janet Sung was chosen by Leonard Slatkin as the recipient of the Passamaneck Award, for which she
performed at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall for the Y Music Society Concert Series.

Born in New York City, Janet Sung began her violin studies at age seven, making her public debut the
following year. At age nine, she began a decade of private studies with renowned violinist and
pedagogue, Josef Gingold, a period that overlapped with her attendance at Harvard University. She
graduated with honors earning a double degree in anthropology and music, a reflection of her
inquisitive passion and curiosity. Ms. Sung was subsequently invited to study on full scholarship with
Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School. Other influential teachers include Masao Kawasaki, David Cerone,
Eugene Phillips and the Juilliard String Quartet.

Currently Associate Professor of Violin and Strings Coordinator at the DePaul University School of Music
in Chicago, Ms. Sung is a highly sought after artist-teacher and regularly conducts master classes at
conservatories throughout the U.S. and abroad. She also serves as associate faculty at The Juilliard
School (initially as the Starling/DeLay Fellow). During the 2003-2004 season, she was invited as the
Clifton Visiting Artist at Harvard University for the "Learning from Performers" program, whose previous
guests included Isaac Stern, James Galway, Mark Morris and Quincy Jones.

Janet Sung plays a c.1600 Maggini violin crafted in Brescia, Italy.

Carla Trynchuk, violin
Violinist Carla Trynchuk has performed as soloist with orchestras across North America and Europe,
including the Calgary Philharmonic in Canada, and the Banatul and Iasi Philharmonic Orchestras.

Ms. Trynchuk, an advocate of contemporary composers, has recorded the premier recording of the
Tibor Serly Violin Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, gave the premiere recording of
Kittyhawk by U.S. composer Randall Davidson in April 2001, and has performed the Arizona premiere of
Robert McBride's Violin Concerto ("Variety Day"), and Hartmann's Concerto Funebre. As a recitalist, she
has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including New York City at Lincoln Center's
Alice Tully Hall.

A graduate of the Juilliard School, Ms. Trynchuk studied under Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. She is
Professor of Music and Director of the String Program at Andrews University where she was the
recipient of the 2000 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity. She has served as
Faculty-Artist at numerous summer festivals, given master classes worldwide, and served as adjudicator
for string and chamber music competitions and festivals throughout the United States and Canada.

So Young Bae, violín/viola
A native of Busan, South Korea, So Young Bae is an active soloist, chamber musician and orchestral
player in the United States and South Korea. Music Director Riccardo Muti appointed her to the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra in July 2012.

Bae began violin studies at the age of seven. At 18, she was honored with the rare distinction of early
admission to Seoul National University. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard
School, where she was a student of Stephen Clapp and Sylvia Rosenberg. Bae has won many awards,
including first prize in the Busan Music Festival Competition; second prize in the Korea-America
National, Nanpa and Taegu Broadcasting Corporation music competitions; and the gold medal in the
Sejong University Music Competition. She also is the recipient of the Joseph Fuchs Scholarship, Knafel
Askin Violin Scholarship and Samuel Gardner Grant.

As a chamber music performer, Bae has collaborated with such artists as Colin Carr, Christina Dahl and
members of the Emerson Quartet. She also has performed with the New York City Ballet Orchestra and
the New World Symphony Orchestra, and toured Europe with the Juilliard School Orchestra under the
baton of James DePreist in 2005 and China under Xian Zhang in 2008.

So Young Bae has participated in many festivals, including the Aspen, Verbier and Sarasota music
festivals; Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival; Juilliard ChamberFest; and the Music Academy of the
West, where she was a fellowship recipient.

Amy Hess, violin/viola
Amy Hess is a member of the viola sections of the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Grant Park Orchestra, and
is on the faculty of the Fulton Summer Music Academy. She was formerly principal viola of the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago and a member of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, and she has
performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, and Music of the Baroque.
Amy has been heard on the Dame Myra Hess and Rush Hour concert series in Chicago and regularly
performs as a member of the Fulton Chamber Players and the Chicago Ensemble. She has recently been
a soloist with Sinfonietta DuPage and collaborated in concert with bassist Edgar Meyer as part of the
Aspen Salida concert series in Colorado. She also was part of the Chicago premiere of Joel Puckett’s
string quartet concerto Short Stories with the Northwestern Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and performed
the solo viola role in Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote with cellist Joseph Johnson and the Northwestern
University Symphony Orchestra.

Amy received her Master of Music in viola from Northwestern University and is a Phi Beta Kappa alumna
of Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, where she earned degrees in French and violin. While at
Oberlin, she spent a semester in Paris, studying violin with David Rivière of the CNSM and musicology at
the Sorbonne. Her interest in French music continued with a collaboration with Ravel scholar Sigrun

Heinzelmann on a presentation at the Music Theory Midwest conference and several lectures at
Oberlin. Amy’s principal teachers and mentors have included Karen Ritscher, Roland Vamos, David
Bowlin, and Addison Teng, but it all began thanks to her mother, a Suzuki violin teacher in Lancaster, PA.

Matous Michal, violin/viola
Matous Michal was appointed to the second violin section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Music
Director Riccardo Muti in February 2016. He previously was a member of the first violin section of the
Grant Park Orchestra. Michal received praise from “The New York Times” for an appearance as
concertmaster of the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra in Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben.”

A native of the Czech Republic, Matous Michal began his violin studies at the age of four under his father
Ladislav Michal. At 14, he made his debut as soloist after winning the Dubai International Competition
for Young Virtuosos performing Paganini’s Violin Concerto no. 1 with the symphony orchestra of the
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Since then, he has won numerous other awards.

Also at 14, he began studies at the Prague Conservatory as a student of Jaroslav Foltýn. After graduating,
he joined the studio of Glenn Dicterow at the Juilliard School, where he completed his bachelor’s
degree. He earned a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music in the orchestral
performance program under Dicterow and Lisa Kim in May 2016, four months after joining the CSO.

Michal has served as a concertmaster of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, Music
Academy of the West Festival Orchestra and Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra. He
received coaching from Sylvia Rosenberg, Joseph Kalichstein and Earl Carlyss, and studied with Charles
Avsharian and Kathleen Winkler.

Anne Bach, oboe
Music of the Baroque’s principal oboe since 2017, Anne Bach has appeared as soloist on Bach's Concerto
for Oboe and Violin in C Minor in 2017, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in 2018, Albinoni's Double Oboe
Concerto and Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in 2019, and Albinoni's Oboe Concerto in 2021. She is assistant
principal oboe and English horn with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. She performs regularly with
Lyric Opera of Chicago and Joffrey Ballet, as well as with the Chicago Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic,
and Milwaukee Symphony orchestras.
Anne Bach studied with Richard Killmer at the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the
prestigious Performer's Certificate. She has served on faculty at Vandercook College of Music and
Sherwood Conservatory at Columbia College of Chicago. She lives on the north side and has two daughters,
one dog, and one cat.

Rachel Blumenthal, flute
Rachel Blumenthal was appointed Acting Flute/Piccolo of the Lyric Opera Orchestra in 2022. She joins
the Lyric Opera from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where she served as Acting Utility Flute during
the 2021-2022 season. Rachel spends her summers performing with the Santa Fe Opera, where she was
appointed Second Flute/Piccolo in 2019. Rachel was previously a member of the Sarasota Opera and Des
Moines Symphony Orchestras, and she spent many years performing with the Lyric Opera, Chicago
Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, and many other ensembles as a Chicago freelancer.

In addition to performing, Rachel served on the chamber music faculty at the University of Chicago from
2018-2020 and has taught students of all ages across the United States. She has been a fellow at
numerous summer music festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Center, the National Repertory
Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Brevard Music Center.

Born and raised in Chicago, Rachel began her musical studies when her grandmother surprised her with
a flute for her ninth birthday. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan
and her master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She is immensely grateful for the support and
guidance of all of her teachers, most especially Jeanne Baxtresser and Amy Porter.

Wagner Campos, clarinet
Mr. Wagner Campos serves in the clarinet faculty at DePaul University. Prior to coming to DePaul, he
taught at Merit School of Music, Sherwood Conservatory, Lake Forest Academy and the Colombian and
Costa Rican Youth Symphony programs. He has taught master classes in Chicago, Colombia, Costa
Rica and Puerto Rico. Mr. Campos had also coached the winds for the Chicago Protégé and Classical
Symphonies. Recently, he was invited to coach the clarinet section of NYO2, National Youth Symphony
2, at Sunny-Purchase, NY.

Mr. Campos is currently a member of Chicago Sinfonietta and Fulcrum Point New Music Project. He has
participated in concerts with the Milwaukee, Alabama, Charleston and New World Symphonies. He also
performs frequently with the Chicago and Philadelphia Orchestras, with whom he has toured and
recorded. He has also toured with the Galician Orchestra in Spain.

In 2008, he was invited for one season as principal clarinet for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. At
home in Chicago, he enjoys being part of “The Broadway in Chicago” family of musicians, performing
shows in the local theaters. Furthermore, he enjoys playing chamber music with groups such as Fulcrum
Point, The Avalon String Quartet and CSO MusicNow, among others.

Mr. Campos has worked under a vast number of renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel
Barenboim, Sir George Solti, Marris Jansons, Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Herberth Blomstedt,
Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zubin Metha, David Zinman, Yannick Nezet Seguin, Pierre Boulez,
Giancarlo Guerrero, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Kent Nagano and Edo de Waart, among many others.

His recording with pianist Roderick Ferguson, “Romantic Songs for Clarinet and Piano” received critical
acclaim from John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune, stating “…liquid phrasing, sensuous tone and
seamless line, ‘sings’ beautifully…”

“Wagner Campos is one of the bright lights of his generation of clarinet performers,” Larry Combs,
former principal clarinet of the Chicago Symphony.

A native of Heredia, Costa Rica, Wagner Campos received his musical education at Baylor
and DePaul Universities. His main clarinet teachers include Larry Combs, John Yeh, Richard Shanley and
Ricardo Morales. He participated in master classes given by the legendary clarinetist Robert Marcellus.

In addition, he received further education for two summers at the Kent/Blossom music festivals under

the teachings of Cleveland Orchestra musicians Frank Cohen, Ted Johnson, John Mack, David McGill and
Joshua Smith.