Artist - Moab Music Festival

As one of Hot House West’s founding members, James has been providing the driving rhythm for the band since 2011. James began playing guitar when he was in high school and graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance in 2014. He has since performed all over the U.S. and parts of Europe with Hot House West and has performed alongside artists such as Gonzalo Bergara, Frank Vignola, Olli Soikkeli, and Tcha Limberger.

Upcoming Performances:

Jun 9 – Floating Concert: Water, Rocks, and Jazz

Jun 10 – Family Music Hike

Jun 10 – Garden Benefit Concert

Jun 11 – Community Concert

Hailed by The New York Times for her “inexhaustible virtuosity”, clarinetist Yoonah Kim is the winner of the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition – the first solo clarinetist to win CAG in nearly 30 years. That same year Yoonah became the first woman to win first prize both at the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition and the 2016 George Gershwin International Competition. In 2020, she won the Gold medal at the Vienna International Competition. Yoonah enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and educator. She believes in advocating for the clarinet by commissioning new works such as Eric Nathan’s Double Concerto for Violin and Clarinet, Texu Kim’s reimagination of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for solo clarinet and string orchestra, and Andrew Hsu’s Erebus for clarinet and piano and Three Pieces for solo clarinet.

Yoonah has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, and DC’s Washington Performing Arts series, among others. From 2016-2018, Yoonah was a member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, where she served as an education ambassador for New York City schools. Yoonah co-founded Chime for Children, bringing interactive performances to children with limited access to music. She has appeared at chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Bravo! Vail.

Born in Seoul and raised in British Columbia, Yoonah is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at The Juilliard School as the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 28 – A Movable, Musical Feast

Aug 31 – Music Hike I: Mozart in the Morning

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 5 – Red Earth: Mid-Century Modern America

Serene is a concert pianist from a most unexpected trajectory. Though she never attended conservatory, her solo performances have been described by The Paris Review as a “spectacle to match the New York Philharmonic”. Today, Serene has become one of the most talked about young talents in the classical music and beyond.

Beyond concertizing, Serene enjoys other collaborations such as her role as composer for Kayne West’s Opera, premiered at Lincoln Center and Art Basel, as well as pianist and technologist with Blue Man Group’s founder, bringing futuristic innovations at the intersection of music and technology while also highlighting her own audiovisual synesthesia.

Previously, Serene was a computer scientist, Google Engineer, and senior research fellow on various projects, before leaving to fully focus on the piano. In the brief years since, she has cultivated a disciplined, personal, and spiritual approach to her music. With her intersections of many disciplines, plus the “ability to enthrall audiences”, she has grown an international following.

Serene is one of very few self-taught pianists who’ve performed Rachmanioff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which was described as “unprecedented” by the Liszt Academy. Serene loves sharing the beauty and power of classical music with audiences everywhere in venues ranging from the Vienna Musikverein to a full orchestra in Golden Gate park, to a decommissioned Boeing 747. Serene is a Bösendorfer Artist.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 26 – Piano Marathon: One Day, Three Concerts

Aug 27 – Floating Concert

Praised by The Strad as an “utterly dazzling” artist, Danbi captivates audiences with her virtuosity, individual sound, and interpretive sensitivity. She is a Menuhin International Violin Competition Silver Medalist, a winner of the prestigious 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and a recent top prizewinner of the Naumburg International Violin Competition. Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and her Washington, DC, recital debut at the Phillips Collection. This season will also see her return to the Rockport, Moab, Saratoga Performing Arts (SPAC), Santa Fe, and North Shore Music Festivals, as well as her debuts at the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music San Francisco, and the Mostly Music, Newburyport, La Musica (Sarasota), and Chelsea Music Festivals. In addition, she embarks on a duo recital tour with guitarist Jiji. Her debut album, Much Ado: Romantic Violin Masterworks, will be released in fall 2023. Past concerto engagements include appearances with the Israel Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, and Dartmouth Symphony. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Um moved to the United States to study at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she earned a bachelor’s degree. She also holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, and Hagai Shaham. She plays a 1683 “ex-Petschek” Nicolo Amati violin, on loan from a private collection.

Upcoming Performances:

Sept 10 – Music Hike II: Free Voices of Eastern Europe

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According To Glass and Piazzolla

Sept 11 – Grotto III: German Masterpieces

Simone has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned energy, interpretive integrity, and vibrant communication. She has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician including debuts with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and with a number of renowned conductors, including Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, and Donald Runnicles. Born in 1996, Simone made her professional solo debut at age 10 with the Seattle Symphony and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at age 13. In March 2015, Simone was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

The 23/24 season included appearances at the Domaine-Forget and Moab Music Festivals, followed by orchestral performances in Shreveport, Burlington, Columbus, Hawaii, Greenville, Mobile and Rockford symphonies as well as a debut with Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia de la Fundacion Excelentia (Madrid). In recital, Simone was heard in Kentucky, California, and Aspen, CO.

Raised in Seattle, Washington, Simone studied with Margaret Pressley as a recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship and renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. She performs on a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi violin made in Cremona, Italy on generous loan from The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, California. simoneporterviolin.com

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 1 – Red Cliffs II: BAILEN

Rob Patterson is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Boston University’s School of Music, faculty at the Aria International Summer Academy, and Acting Principal Clarinet of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra.

Rob’s chamber music performances have taken him across North and South America, Europe and Asia. In Boston, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Musicians at the Boston Public Library, and has performed contemporary music as a member of the VERGE Ensemble in Washington, DC. Previously he was a member of the Philadelphia-based Ensemble 39, which was invited to serve in residence at the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar, Chile.

Rob has been the featured soloist in Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Charlottesville Symphony as well as the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Lyrique-En-Mer Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic, Middletown Symphony Orchestra, and the Howard County Concert Players. As a former Strathmore Music Center Artist in Residence, Rob presented a series of solo recitals, masterclasses, and a recital at the Kennedy Center.

Rob has served as Acting Principal Clarinet with the Baltimore and Louisville Orchestras as well as Principal Clarinet with the Charlottesville Symphony and Lyrique-en-Mer Festival Orchestra in France. Additionally, he has served as guest Principal Clarinet for the orchestras of Albany, Cincinnati, Richmond, Huntsville, Pasadena, Peoria, as well as the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

Recent masterclass invitations have included the Curtis Institute, San Francisco Conservatory, Peabody Institute, University of North Texas, University of Toronto, Grieg Academy, Sibelius Academy, and Royal College of Music (Sweden). www.robwpatterson.com

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 25 – American Minimalism: A Retrospective

Aug 27 – Floating Concert

Robert is a Grammy-nominated violinist who enjoys a dynamic and multifaceted career. In addition to appearing as soloist with the world’s foremost orchestras on five continents, he has shared the stage with high-profile musicians such as Rolling Stones pianist Chuck Leavell, the late Gregg Allman, and actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. Philip Glass dedicated his Second Violin Concerto, The American Four Seasons, to Robert and he has performed it more than 100 times around the world. Mike Mills of the rock band R.E.M. composed his Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and Orchestra for him. Robert has an extensive discography, including his recently released recording, Icons, with pianist Elizabeth Pridgen. Also this season, he will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on an east coast U.S. tour, which includes a performance at Carnegie Hall. Robert is the founder of the Rome Chamber Music Festival in Italy, where he was awarded the Premio Simpatia by the mayor of Rome and the Premio delle Muse in Florence. He is the founder of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. He plays a 1735 Guarneri del Gesù violin, the “Ladenburg,” which is owned by a limited partnership formed by Robert. www.robertmcduffie.com.

Upcoming Performances:

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According to Glass and Piazzolla

Sept 11 – Grotto III: German Masterpieces

ToniMarie has performed in Europe, South America, Asia, and throughout the US as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. For the 2017-18 season, she was the Acting Second Oboe for the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. ToniMarie has also been a featured artist at the Moab Music Festival (Utah), in Carnegie Hall’s collected stories festival curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, for the Stefan Wolpe Society, and at New York’s leading contemporary music venue Spectrum. A member of IRIS Orchestra and Decoda, and an alumni of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, she appears frequently as a guest musician with orchestras around the country, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Nashville Symphony, American Ballet Theater, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony. ToniMarie’s first commercial album, Légende: Concours for Oboe & Piano, was recently released on the Centaur Label. Currently the Associate Professor of Oboe at the University of Kentucky, she holds degrees from Harvard University (BA) and The Juilliard School (MM and DMA).

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 31 – Grotto I: Bach in the Grotto

Sept 1 – House Concert: There Will Always Be Paris

Sept 2 – Music Hike I: Winds in the Canyon

Sept 2 – 100 Years of Ragtime

Sept 4 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Sept 7 – Grotto II: Winds on the River

Alexis has been lauded in the press for her “gripping emotion” and “powerful artistry,” qualities which have led to a career striking for its wide range of collaborations and artistic expressions as a solo artist and chamber musician, with performances across the U.S. and in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America.

As the founding cellist of Trio Solisti, Alexis performed for 19 years at major American venues and series, recorded extensively, and gave the premieres of many new works, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tempest Fantasy by Paul Moravec. In addition, Alexis was a founding member of the sextet Concertante, with whom she toured for 15 years throughout the U.S., and recorded much of the string sextet repertoire.

A frequent collaborator with dancers, Alexis collaborated 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. She has performed at many chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Aspen, Caramoor, Bridgehampton, and La Musica di Asolo, and as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. With Musicians From Marlboro, she has toured both in the U.S. and internationally.

Alexis studied cello with Nancy Streetman at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, and Aldo Parisot at The Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School.

Upcoming Performances:

Sept 10 – Music Hike II: Free Voices of Eastern Europe

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According To Glass and Piazzolla

Sept 11 – Grotto III: German Masterpieces

Hayoung is an award-winning violinist from Daejeon, South Korea. She is 21 years old and will start her Master of Music next Fall at the New England Conservatory as a recipient of the Deans Scholarship under the tutelage of Donald Weilerstein. She recently completed her undergraduate studies at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings of Mercer University, as a student of Amy Schwartz Moretti, Robert McDuffie, and David Kim.

Most recently, Hayoung received the coveted 2023 Dorothy DeLay Fellowship from Aspen Music Festival. In 2022, she was awarded fourth prize at the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. She is a National winner of MTNA Young Artist Competition. And, in 2021, she took top prize for violin in the Hong Kong Generation Next Arts International String Competition.

Performing from an early age, Hayoung has appeared as soloist with Neo-Strings, Sangrok Orchestra, Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with Amy Schwartz Moretti, Hsin-Yun Huang, Julie Albers, and Elizabeth Pridgen in Fabian Concert Series. She has participated in Erato Ensemble Winter Music Festival in Jeju, QingDao Music Festival in China, Takayama Music Festival in Japan, Innsbrook Institute Summer Festival, Vivace Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. Hayoung will make her solo concerto debut with Aspen Festival Orchestra in 2023 as the 2023 Dorothy Delay Fellow.

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Sept 10 – Music Hike II: Free Voices of Eastern Europe

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According to Glass and Piazzolla

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