Hailed by the New York Times as “deeply expressive” for his groundbreaking recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on solo marimba, Pius is widely known as one of the most important percussionists of his generation. He has presented solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, National Concert Hall in Taipei, Kyoto Arts Center (Japan), as well as music festivals around the globe such as the Usedom Music Festival (Germany), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Taiwan International Percussion Convention, Chiapas International Marimba Festival (Mexico), Drum Fest (Poland), Percussion Plus Festival (Denmark), Italy PAS International Percussion Festival, Osaka Percussion Festival and Shenyang International Percussion Festival (China).  

As one of the most sought-after composers for percussion today, Pius’ latest works include Allegro Brutale, commissioned by Dame Evelyn Glennie; Heaven and Earth, a 40-minute ballet for percussion ensemble and dancers; two percussion concerti, Princess Chang Ping and Heaven and Earth, for the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra; Theater, Resonance, and Zen, a percussion duo concerto for the Taiwan Chinese Orchestra; and Synced/UnSynced, a work designed for remote ensemble of free instrumentation. 

Pius endorses Yamaha, Zildjian, Remo, and Innovative Percussion, which produces his signature mallet series. He is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Percussion Area at the University of Oregon.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 24 – New Music at Red Earth

Aug 25 – American Minimalism: A Retrospective

Aug 27 – Floating Concert

Aug 31 – Grotto I: Bach in the Grotto

Sept 3 – Water World: Rivers, Bridges, Droughts, and Floods

Sept 4 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Ashley is an American cellist described as an “eloquent new music interpreter”(New York Times) and “a glorious cellist”(The Washington Post) who combines “bittersweet lyricism along with ferocious chops”(New York Magazine). Her “impish ferocity”, “rich tone” and “imaginative phrasing” (New York Times) have made her one of the most sought after performers of her time. The desire to create a dynamic energy exchange with her audience and build upon the ensuing chemistry is a pillar of Bathgate’s philosophy as a performer. Dynamism drives her to venture into previously uncharted areas of ground-breaking sounds and techniques, breaking the mold of a cello’s traditionally perceived voice. Bathgate was a member of the acclaimed sextet Bang on a Can All-Stars from 2009-2019. She is currently a member of the chamber music group Eighth Blackbird, TwoSense, a duo project with pianist Lisa Moore and the Anzu Quartet. As a soloist she has collaborated with, commissioned and recorded works by some of today’s leading voices in contemporary music, including Kate Moore, Michael Gordon, David Lang and the Sleeping Giant composer collective. In 2022 Bathgate was appointed as the Artistic and Executive Director of Avaloch Farm Music Institute, a creative arts residency program located in Boscawen, NH. (ashleybathgate.com)

Upcoming performances:

Aug 24 – New Music at Red Earth

Aug 25 – American Minimalism: A Retrospective

Aug 27 – Floating Concert

Hailed by The New Yorker as a “superb young soloist,” Nick has become one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, captivating audiences throughout the United States and abroad. In The New York Times his playing was praised as “impassioned … the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis’s rich, alluring tone.”

Nick’s recent highlights include concerto appearances with the Virginia, Albany, Delaware, Stamford, Lansing, and Bangor Symphonies, the Erie Philharmonic, The Orchestra Now, and the New Haven Symphony as Artist-in-Residence; Europe and Asia tours with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, including appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall, the Louvre in Paris, the Seoul Arts Center, and the Shanghai and Taipei National Concert Halls; and recitals throughout the United States with his long-time duo collaborator, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown. He made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut with the American Symphony Orchestra in 2015.

Nick is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and a regular guest artist at many of the world’s leading music festivals, including Santa Fe, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Bard, Bridgehampton, La Jolla, Hong Kong, Moab, Music in the Vineyards, and Saratoga Springs. He was recently named Artistic Director of Chamber Music Sedona, in Arizona.

 A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, his teachers have included Orlando Cole, Peter Wiley, Paul Katz, and Madeleine Golz at Manhattan School of Music Precollege. He was a member of the Bowers Program and has also been in residence at Carnegie Hall as a member of Ensemble Connect. nicholascanellakis.com

Upcoming Performances:

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According to Glass and Piazzolla

Sept 11 – Grotto III: German Masterpieces

Timo is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia premiered at the Barbican by Andres and David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a concerto for Jonathan Biss, which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

As a pianist, Timo has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, New World Symphony, and in many collaborations with Andrew Cyr and Metropolis Ensemble. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Phillips Collection, and (le) Poisson Rouge.

Collaborators include Becca Stevens, Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Nadia Sirota, the Kronos Quartet, John Adams, and Philip Glass, with whom he has performed the complete Glass Etudes around the world, and who selected Andres as the recipient of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. Timo also frequently works with Sufjan Stevens; his orchestral arrangements of Stevens’s ballet, Principia, were presented last season by the New York City Ballet, and his recording of Stevens’s solo piano album, The Decalogue, has received widespread acclaim.

A Nonesuch Records artist, Timo is featured as composer and pianist on the May 2020 release I Still Play, an album comprising a set of piano pieces written by himself and fellow Nonesuch artists for Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz. A Yale School of Music graduate, he is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 24 – New Music at Red Earth

Aug 25 – American Minimalism: A Retrospective

Acclaimed as “a musician of daring virtuosity with gripping access and noble elegance” (Die Welt), Miclen has established himself as one of the most exciting and versatile violinists of his generation and has earned global recognition as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher.  

Miclen has performed with numerous orchestras and has had solo recitals in halls such as Carnegie Hall, Vienna Musikverein, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Elbphlharmonie in Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, and many more.  

He appears frequently in festivals including Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Moab, Rheingau, Verbier, Ghent, Heidelberg Frühling, Salzburg, Rome Chamber Music Festival, and the Castleman Quartet Program. Miclen has performed in over 60 countries and has recorded numerous CD’s on both Sony RCA Red Seal, Naxos and more. He has had the privilege to work and collaborate with international artists such as Ivry Gitlis, Janos Starker, Peter Serkin, Torleif Thedéen, Marianna Shirinyan, Jens Peter Maintz, Lawrence Dutton, Gerhard Schulz, Robert McDuffie, Irvine Arditti, Nobuko Imai, and Christoph Richter. His primary mentors have included Ruggiero Ricci, Boris Kuschnir, Aaron Rosand, Charles Castleman, Ida Bieler, and Alice Schoenfeld.  

Currently, Miclen resides between Paris and Vienna where he keeps a busy schedule as a guest concertmaster, teaching, chamber music, and solo projects. He is the violinist of the internationally acclaimed Trio Zadig and is the Artistic Director of the Miesbach Kammermusikfestival. He teaches at the International Chamber Music Academy in Ochsenhausen, Germany and is a Thomastik-Infeld Artists and a Dolfinos Ambassador. 

He performs on the “ex-Grumiaux” by J.B. Vuillaume c.1850 and the “ex-Ysaye” D. Peccatte. 

Upcoming Performances:

Deanna is an American soprano lauded by The New York Times for her “sweet sound and floating high notes,” and for being a “vocal trapeze artist,” continues to enjoy a dynamic and diverse career. 

This season, she will perform Lisette in La Rondine at Opéra de Monte Carlo, Adele in Die Fledermaus at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and join the Utah Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, Oregon Symphony for Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, and the Allentown Symphony for Vaughan-Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. She will also give recitals with Florentine Opera and the Pacific Vocal Series. 

Recently, Deanna returned to The Dallas Opera for the world premiere of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. She performed in Dialogues of the Carmelites with San Francisco Opera, Die Fledermaus with Bayerische Staatsoper, L’incoronazione di Poppea with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Candide with The Atlanta Opera, and numerous roles with the Metropolitan Opera and Opernhaus Zürich. 

 She has sung concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and the Moab Music Festival.  

 Deanna is a native of Seattle and a new resident of Salt Lake City after meeting the love of her life backstage at the Moab Music Festival in 2023! 

Upcoming Performances:

Dec 6 – Holiday Concert

Dec 7 – Family Holiday Concert 

Winterlude Teaching Artist

Steve has been an active performing cellist and private cello teacher in Durango Colorado since 2011. Steve has taught with Be Frank, Beacon String Program, Kaizen’s Music, Stillwater Music, in addition to public school programs. The Four Corners area has offered unique opportunities including performances with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Durango Bach Festival, Durango Choral Society, San Juan Symphony, Telluride Chamber Music, Wasserman Music Festival, Nova Duo, and various chamber groups.

While attending Chicago Musical College, Steve’s primary cello teacher and musical influence was George Kim Scholes. During this time, he played with the Classical Symphony Orchestra and maintained a studio of private students. An orchestra musician since childhood, Steve has been fortunate to play in the Barbican Center, Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, & the Royal Albert Hall.

Outside of music Steve can be found enjoying many of the outdoor activities Colorado has to offer.

Steven White, cello

Winterlude Cello Teaching Artist Steve has been an active performing cellist and private cello teacher in Durango Colorado since 2011. Steve has taught with Be Frank, Beacon String Program, Kaizen’s Music, Stillwater Music, in addition to public school programs. The Four Corners area has offered unique opportunities including performances with the Colorado College Summer Music […]

Based in New York City, Marty Kenney is among his generation’s most versatile and in-demand upright and electric bassists. Originally born and raised in Palmer, Alaska, Marty received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Northern Colorado. He relocated to New York City in 2012, where he completed his Master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music, studying under bassist Jay Anderson. Marty has performed with musicians such as Art Lande, Billy Drummond, Rich Perry, Steve Slagle, Allan Harris, Rez Abbasi, Steve Wilson, Brian Krock’s Big Heart Machine, David Berkman, and the New York Standards Quartet featuring Tim Armacost and Gene Jackson. He has appeared on recordings by Steve Slagle, Allan Harris, Brian Krock’s liddle featuring Matt Mitchell, Olli Hirvonen featuring Water Smith III, and toured throughout the United States and Europe with Allan Harris, liddle, and New Helsinki, including performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, the Mosaic Festival in Romania, Umbria Winter Jazz Festival, Porretta Soul Festival, and many notable venues around the world including the Bimhuis, Shinjuku Pit Inn, Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Smalls Jazz Club, Mezzrow, Dazzle Jazz Club, Birdland, Red Rocks Amphitheater, and Blue Note NYC.

Called “fluid, melodic” by the Chicago Reader, Kevin is a Brooklyn-based keyboardist, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has lent his keyboard skills to a variety of singers, bands, producers, and comedians across many different genres and performed at venues such as Irving Plaza, Bowery Ballroom, the Bell House, and Brooklyn Bowl. He currently freelances as a keyboardist, but plays regularly in the Alison Shearer Band, Slow Riches, Big Stuff, as well as his own solo project, K-Magic. 

Kevin has performed and recorded with artists including Kirby, Zusha, Amaria, Maria Lynn, Jen Sanchez, Jonah Mutono, Akinyemi, Brasstracks, Rothstein, Redveil, Too Many Zooz, among others. Kevin has also shared the stage with comedians John Hodgeman, Jean Grae, Janeane Garofalo, Krystyna Hutchinson, Patrick Stewart, and Michael Che.

Hailing from Ventura, California, Kevin grew up in a musical family. In 2010, he moved to NYC to study jazz at the Manhattan School of Music. Since graduating, under the name K-Magic, Kevin has performed and released his EP “Sauce Factory” in 2019 as well as three new singles in 2021.