Matt is a cellist who performs regularly as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. He was awarded first prize in the Washington International Competition, as well as top prizes in the Beijing International Cello Competition and the Isang Yun Competition. Matt has performed concerti with the Utah Symphony, Moscow Chamber Players, Albany Symphony, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and numerous North American orchestras. He has given solo recitals at the Kennedy Center, Phillips Collection, Tongyeong Arts Center, Moscow Conservatory, and Beijing Concert Hall, among others. Matt’s recently released solo album for Avie Records received critical acclaim from Gramophone, BBC, and other publications. He performs regularly at many chamber music festivals, including Marlboro Music Festival and Musicians from Marlboro tours. With his wife Alice Yoo, Matt is the Co-Artistic Director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival, a destination for world class chamber music in Colorado. He toured extensively with the Harlem Quartet and jazz legends Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Gary Burton. Matt is the Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and his students have established themselves on national and international concert stages. 

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 28 – A Movable, Musical Feast

Aug 29 – Grotto I: 19th Century Classics

Aug 31 – Music Hike I: Mozart in the Morning

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern America

Sep 7 – Music Hike III: Unusual Quartets–Sacred and Profane

Sep 11 – Grotto III: Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries

Jessica, described by the New York Times as a “soulful soloist”, is the violist of the Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet. She began her musical studies on the violin at the age of two, then switched to the viola at the age of twelve because of her love of the deeper sonority. 

Jessica has recently appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y, Library of Congress, Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Musikverein, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and Seoul Arts Center, and has appeared at festivals including Edinburgh International Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Chamberfest Cleveland, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn, Perigord Noir in France, Monte Carlo Spring Arts Festival, San Miguel de Allende, Istanbul’s Cemal Recit Rey, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hitzacker, and Heidelberg String Quartet Festival. As a member of the Parker Quartet, she has recorded for ECM Records, Zig-Zag Territoires, Nimbus, and Naxos. 

Jessica is a faculty member of Harvard University’s Department of Music as Professor of the Practice in conjunction with the Parker Quartet’s appointment as Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence. She has held visiting faculty positions at the New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music, served as faculty at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Yellow Barn Festival, and has given masterclasses at institutions such as Eastman School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Amherst College, University of Minnesota, and at the El Sistema program in Venezuela. 

Outside of music, Jessica enjoys cooking, running, practicing yoga, and hiking with her husband, violinist Daniel Chong, their son, Cole, and their vizsla, Bodie. 

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 28 – A Movable, Musical Feast

Aug 31 – Music Hike I: Mozart in the Morning

Sep 6 – Grotto II: J.S. Bach and Sons

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line

Sep 11 – Grotto III: Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries

Julia combines her American and Hungarian roots with an adventurous spirit to explore the essence of repertoire ranging from Bach to composers living today. Instinctive artistic expression, a forward-thinking attitude, a joyful physical flexibility at the instrument, and an unyielding fascination with the music she plays makes her an artist to watch. 

 A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton and the Mannes College of Music in New York with Richard Goode, Julia studied with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and studied at the Kronberg Academy where her studies were generously supported by the Henle Foundation. In 2021 she worked with Daniel Barenboim in a series of filmed masterclasses on Beethoven solo piano and string sonatas. She also delved into György Kurtág’s 8 Pieces, Op. 3 together with the composer at the Budapest Music Center.  

At the invitation of Sir András Schiff, she appeared in the Building Bridges series of concerts throughout Europe in the 2022/23 season. Notable recital appearances and concerto appearances include performances with the NOSPR in Katowice, Poland, at Wigmore Hall, Beethoven Haus Bonn, Konzerthaus Berlin, at the Magyar Zene Hàz in Budapest and the Luxembourg Philharmonie. She played the Ligeti Piano Concerto in Berlin’s Boulez Saal this season with the Boulez Ensemble and Matthias Pintscher chamber music with members of Kronberg Academy including Tabea Zimmermann Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. She recently completed a recording of the Mozart Concerti with Howard Griffiths and the Camerata Schweiz for Alpha Classics. Julia signed with record label naïve Records in 2024 to produce a series of solo recordings within the next five years. She is to debut at the Pierre Boulez Saal in 2025 and at the Casals Forum of the Kronberg Academy, in recital and four-hands collaboration with Sir András Schiff. Julia also currently serves as the assistant to the musicology program at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. 

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern

Sep 6 – Grotto II: J.S. Bach and Sons

Sep 8 – Floating Concert II: Red, White and Blues

Sep 11 – Grotto III: Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries

According to the Los Angeles Times, Eve “is a humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” Her current projects include a solo piano piece about Emily Dickinson responding to Ives’ Concord Sonata for the pianist Donald Berman, a piece about water issues on the Colorado River for the Moab Music Festival, a queer exploration of 14th century composer Guillaume de Machaut’s multimedia love story, Le Voir Dit, with singer/performer Lukas Papenfusscline, a performance project around poetry by James Tate called What Are the Chances, and a piece for 24 basses in a grove of trees, composed for Robert Black and friends. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days: “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” (Los Angeles Times) 

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line
featuring the world premiere of Eve’s MMF commissioned work

After early music studies while growing up in the Midwest, David studied composition with James Sellars at the University of North Texas and Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. In the early 1980s he moved to Paris, where he now pursues a parallel career as a humorist. His “Elastic Tango” has been recorded by Ursula Oppens and Yvar Mikhashoff and choreographed by Tere O’Connor for Mikhail Baryshnikov. His electronic/spoken word piece “Mary and Ann,” based on a text by Samuel Beckett, is included in the Innova Recordings anthology Sonic Circuits VIII. His satire pieces have been published by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, MacQueen’s Quinterly, thebigjewel.com and parisupdate.com, and in the book Quorum of One (Drake Mabry Publishing). 

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 7 – Robert Black: A Joyful Musical Life from the Bass Line

Jamie is an author, narrator, director, broadcaster, and filmmaker. Her 2018 memoir, Famous Father Girl, is about growing up with composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, and pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre and literature. Jamie has written and narrated concerts about Mozart, Aaron Copland, and Stravinsky, as well as “The Bernstein Beat,” a family concert about her father modeled after his groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts. She appears worldwide performing her own scripted narrations as well as standard concert narrations, such as Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait” and her father’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish.” Jamie has produced and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as many summer broadcasts from Tanglewood. She recently narrated the podcast “The NY Phil Story: Made in New York.” Jamie is the co-director of Crescendo: the Power of Music, an award-winning documentary film focusing on children in struggling urban communities, who participate in youth orchestra programs for social transformation. Jamie’s articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as Symphony, Town & Country, and Opera News. She also edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter pertaining to her father’s legacy. 

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 3 – Film Screening: Maestro

Sep 4 – House Benefit Concert: Bernstein, An Intimate Portrait

Howard lives in Arizona at Second Mesa on the ancestral homelands of the Hopi Tribe. His birth name is Bahoyouma, which means “water running on Mother Earth.” Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of Mishognonvi. The Hopi are the original caretakers and first users of the Colorado River. Howard also represents an emergent organization called Native Waters Rising, which seeks to protect the aquifers and watersheds of the Little Colorado River. Howard is also a board member of Black Mesa Trust and an advisor to the Waterkeeper Alliance. 

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 30 – The Hopi Tradition

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 2 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Roydon is a composer and educator who seeks to communicate to audiences from all backgrounds, drawing inspiration from the urgent challenges posed by climate change, the complexities of grief, and the ever-evolving cultural tapestry of our dynamic world.  

Roydon’s music—spanning orchestral, chamber, operatic, and electronic mediums—has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Hamilton Philharmonic, Atlanta Opera, Esprit Orchestra, Verona Quartet, and members of the Paris Opera and La Scala Orchestras. His music has been recognized with seven SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, the Washington International Composition Prize (2015), Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Emerging Artist Award (2018), Johanna Metcalf Protégé Prize (2019), and the iSing! International Composition Prize (2020).  

From Hong Kong, Roydon graduated from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto in music composition. He was subsequently one of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2021/22 NextGen composers and the 2023/24 Artist-in-Residence for the Colorado Wind Ensemble. Passionate about reaching the next generation of artists, he serves on the teaching faculties of the Lunenburg Academy of Muisc Performance’s Composition Academy, Community Music Schools of Toronto, and the Canadian Opera Company.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents
featuring the world premiere of Roydon’s MMF commissioned work

Maya is a composer and interdisciplinary artist grappling with alienation and viscerality in the human body, media cyborgization, exorcism of hereditary ghosts, complexities of trauma, and radical vulnerability. 

Notable work has included: commissions for loadbang, SPCO, Sarasota Festival, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Baltic Sea Festival; contributions to albums by Johnny Gandelsman, HOCKET (both with 2023 Grammy nods); awards from Beth Morrison Projects (NextGen 2021), BMI (both Schuman and Surinach Prizes 2020); cover conducting for the Minnesota Orchestra, including a BIS recording of Mahler 8; an installation at the Barnes Foundation with celebrated artists John Dowell and Zane Booker; and Patience, an opera with Christina Herresthal concerning the genius of artists suffering in AFAB bodies. 

Summer studies have included Copland House CULTIVATE, NYO-USA, BUTI, soundSCAPE, Cabrillo, Fresh Inc., Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Conducting Institute, Bergen International Festival, & Aspen. 

Maya is currently a 5th year undergraduate at the Curtis Institute of Music, where her primary teachers have been Nick DiBerardino, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Amy Beth Kirsten, David Serkin Ludwig, & Steve Mackey. She has also studied privately with Chaya Czernowin at Harvard. 

She is published in BabelScores and has formed the performance art duo ~ [pronounced two] with Sarrah Bushara since 2020.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents
featuring the world premiere of Maya’s MMF commissioned work

Mary Rice is a “striking” (Operawire) mezzo-soprano known for her “elegant interpretation” (BroadwayWorld) and “polished vocalism” (Voce di Meche) rapidly establishing herself as a vibrant interpreter of song and opera.  

Her 2023/24 season includes debuts with Marshall Opera in New York City as Victoria Woodhull in Victoria Bond’s Mrs. President, alto soloist in The Messiah with Canterbury Choral Society and Ars Musica in collaboration with the Adelphi Orchestra, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, and Mozart Requiem with Orchestra Amadeus.  

She has performed with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Marshall Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Fayetteville, City Lyric Opera, Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society, Teatro Nuovo, Music at Co-Cath, Orchestra Amadeus, Adelphi Orchestra, Canterbury Choral Society, Ars Musica, Lune di Fiori, New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the Rome Chamber Music Festival. She was winner of the 2023 Stagetime Arts Career Advancement Award, runner-up in the Lyra New York Mozart Competition, and a finalist in the Art Song Preservation Society Vocal Competition. She can be found offering adventures, insight, and Q&A’s about classical music to her audience of 85,000 followers on TikTok @coloratura_runs​ www.mary-rice.com  

Upcoming Performances

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 2 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Sep 4 – House Benefit Concert: Bernstein, An Intimate Portrait

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern America