BEDFORD CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Anthony Newman: director and
harpsichord
Anthony Newman: director and
harpsichord
FRIDAY, Decemberr 15, 2017 at NOON
Anthony Newman
director and harpsichord

As keyboardist, he has performed more than sixty times at Lincoln Center, and has collaborated with many of the greats of music: Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, Jean–Pierre Rampal, Lorin Mazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Seji Osawa, and Leonard Bernstein.
No less prodigious as a composer, his works have been heard in New York and cities throughout Europe. His output includes four symphonies, four concerti, three large choral works, two operas, considerable piano music, and a large assortment of chamber, organ and guitar works. Newman has received 30 consecutive composer′s awards from ASCAP.
Cyrus Beroukhim
violin

Mr. Beroukhim has served as principal second violin with the New York City Ballet Orchestra since 2009, and as guest concertmaster with a number of local orchestras. In 2007, he founded the Zukovsky Quartet, tackling challenging music by contemporary composers.
Renée Jolles
violin

Ms. Jolles is a member of the Jolles Duo (harp and violin), Continuum, Intimate Voices, and The New York Chamber Ensemble, and is a concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed at many festivals throughout the U.S. Ms. Jolles received her BM and MM degrees from Juilliard, where, she was presented with the school′s highest award, the William Schuman Prize.
She is currently Associate Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music.
Jesse Mills
violin

as well as composing and improvising music of his own invention.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Mills earned two Grammy nominations for his work on several discs of Arnold Schoenberg′s music, Mr. Mills can also be heard on recordings of compositions by Webern, Schoenberg, Zorn, and Wuorinen.
He is co–founder of the prize winning Duo Prism and of the Horszowski Trio, as well as co–artistic director of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Silverthorne, CO.
Danielle Farina
viola

of Music, and enjoys a varied career as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, teacher, and recording artist in both the classical and pop genres. As a soloist, Ms. Farina has recorded Jon Bauman′s Viola Concerto with the Moravian Philharmonic, Andy Teirstein′s Viola Concerto with the Kiev Philharmonic, and the premiere of Peter Schickele′s Viola Concerto with the Pasadena Symphony. As a member of the Lark and Elements Quartets, she has toured extensively in North America, Europe, and Scandinavia.
She also performs with a number of ensembles in the New York area, among them the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke′s, and has served as principal violist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Ms. Farina is on the faculties of SUNY Purchase, Vassar College, and the Juilliard School Pre-College division.
William Hakim
viola

Melissa Reardon
viola

Stevens Center, Kennedy Center, Symphony Hall, and
Jordan Hall.
Ms. Reardon has performed as a soloist with Camerata Notturna and the Boston Symphony, and with the Miami, Miro, Daedalus, and Borromeo Quartets, and Beaux Arts Trio. She has appeared in numerous festivals around the world, and has toured with Yo–Yo Ma′s Silk Road Ensemble.
Arash Amini
cello

He is a co–founder, the Artistic Director, and an Artist Member of America′s Dream Chamber Artists, and performs frequently in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Arash Amini is a Daniel Pearl World Music Days Artist and the Artistic Director, Concert Coordinator, and an Artist of Musicians Emergency Fund.
Alexis Pia Gerlach
cello

She has performed at Marlboro, Aspen, La Musica di Asolo and Caramoor festivals, as guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and as solo cellist with the Paul Taylor Dance Company on tour in India and at New York′s City Center, and in a duo with New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel.
Active in commissioning and premiering new works from preeminent composers, including Kevin Puts, Lowell Liebermann, Shulamit Ran, Richard Danielpour, Tigran Mansurian and Paul Moravec, she has worked with others, including Philip Glass, Thomas Ades, Osvaldo Golijov and Bright Sheng.
Alberto Parrini
cello

Mr. Parrini has toured extensively with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project and performed with Continuum, Proteus Ensemble, Mirror Visions Ensemble, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Stephen Sas
double bass

Soloists.
Stephen Sas has toured extensively in Europe, Asia and South America, and throughout the United States, and has performed at historic concerts at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, and in major venues across the globe. A native of New York City, he received his Doctorate of Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Eugene Levinson. His doctoral dissertation, ″A History of Double Bass Performance Practice″ was the first of its kind written in the English language.
Alex Sopp
flute

Comfortable in many genres, she has commissioned, premiered, and recorded with some of the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time, including Philip Glass. In addition to playing the flute, she is a singer and a visual artist.
A sought–after soloist, Ms. Sopp made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony, and has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic. She also plays frequently with the International Comtemporary Ensemble (ICE), and has made regular appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, among others.
Andrew Rehrig
flute

Open to The Rockefeller University / WCMC / NYPH / HSS / MSKCC Community - and Guests
Presented by
Hospital for Special Surgery
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The Rockefeller University
Alexander Mauro, Founder (1986) • John L. Gerlach, Director
Presented by
Hospital for Special Surgery
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
The Rockefeller University
Alexander Mauro, Founder (1986) • John L. Gerlach, Director