Artist - Moab Music Festival

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.

Upcoming Performances:

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

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According to Glass and Piazzolla

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

Miclen is quickly gaining recognition as one of the most captivating and versatile violinists of his generation, celebrated for his dynamic leadership and work as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster. Praised by The New York Times as “a force to be reckoned with” and described by Germany’s Die Welt as “a musician of daring virtuosity with noble elegance,” he has performed at leading venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and Berlin Philharmonie.

Miclen’s recordings with labels such as Sony RCA Red Seal and Naxos have been critically acclaimed. His arrangement of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata for violin and strings notably reached No. 1 on Apple Music Classical charts in over 40 countries. Recently signing with Delos, Miclen’s debut solo album is set for release in early 2026.

A passionate chamber musician, Miclen regularly collaborates with renowned international artists at festivals throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is the violinist of the internationally acclaimed Trio Zadig, Founder and Artistic Director of the innovative Paris-based chamber music initiative M Sphère, Founder and Director of Miesbach Kammermusikfestival, and director of multiple other international festivals and concert series in Spain, Germany, France, and the UK.

Based in Paris, Miclen performs on the 1707 Stradivari ‘Charles Castleman, ex-Marquis de Champeaux, generously loaned by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, and a c.1850 Dominique Peccatte bow known as the ‘ex-Eugène Ysaÿe.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 27 – Opening Night: Celebrating 33 Years of Moab Music Festival

Aug 29 – Next Week’s Trees

Aug 30 – Music Hike I: A Little Respite

Aug 31 – Music Hike II: Catharsis Canyon

Aug 31 – People of Earth: Latin Fusion Collective

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!

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Dec 6 – Holiday Concert

Dec 7 – Family Holiday Concert

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