Demarre is an internationally recognized soloist, recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego, Chicago, and Baltimore symphony orchestras. He is the principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, serving previously as principal of the Dallas, San Diego, Florida, and Santa Fe Opera orchestras and acting principal of the Metropolitan Opera and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras.

Demarre has performed and taught in South Africa, Korea, Japan, Quebec, and throughout the United States. He served on the faculties of the National Youth Orchestra (US,) the National Orchestral Institute, Orford Music Festival, and the Curtis Institute’s Summerfests. He is an Associate Professor of Flute at Cincinnati College-Conservatory and is an artist-faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival.

Demarre is a founding member of The Myriad and McGill/McHale Trios and a co-founder of The Art of Élan. He is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center and has participated in the Santa Fe, Marlboro, Seattle, and Stellenbosch chamber music festivals. His CDs include “Portraits,” and “Winged Creatures”. Media credits include Live from Lincoln Center (PBS), The Gifted Ones (A&E) Today Show and Nightly News (NBC)) and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood with brother Anthony when they were teenagers. A native of Chicago, Demarre began studying the flute at age 7 and attended the Merit School of Music. He received his bachelor’s degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and a master’s degree at The Juilliard School.

Upcoming Performances:

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

Tessa is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. She is in demand as a classical violinist and is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky.

Highlights of Tessa’s 2024-25 season include returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Barber concerto) and the Rochester Philharmonic (Bernstein Serenade).  In recital, she will debut with San Francisco Symphony, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Artist Series of Sarasota. Tessa reprises Michael Torke’s violin concerto (for which she received a Grammy nomination), Sky with the Boulder and Colorado Springs Philharmonics, as well as the West Michigan, Williamsburg, Shreveport, and Tallahassee Symphony Orchestras. As a chamber musician, she will tour across the U.S. with her string trio project with composer-bassist Edgar Meyer and cellist Joshua Roman. Tessa has an extensive discography including her latest album, The Stradgrass Sessions (2023), with an all-star roster of collaborators including Edgar Meyer, Jon Batiste, Sierra Hull, and Michael Cleveland.

In addition to her performance schedule, Tessa is the newly minted Artistic Director of the Moab Music Festival and continues her work as Artistic Director of Musical Masterworks, a chamber music  series  in Old Lyme, CT. She also champions young aspiring artists through her work as Co-host/Creative of NPR’s From the Top. Tessa plays a ca. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Upcoming Performances:

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

Aug 29 – Next Week’s Trees

Aug 31 – Music Hike II: Catharsis Canyon

Sep 2 – Sips & Sounds: Conversations with Tessa

Sep 5 – Ranch Benefit Concert: Edgar Meyer—Then & Now

Sep 7 – Floating Concert II: Ala Django

Grotto III: Manouche!

Nick lights up concert halls across the U.S. three continents as a solo performer and a member of the Emmy Award-winning Time For Three (TF3) and the artist collective East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO).

As a soloist and with TF3 and ECCO, Nick has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York City’s  Lincoln Center, on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center,  Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Schleswig Holstein Festival outside Hamburg, the Hollywood Bowl, BBC Proms, Ravinia Festival, Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Marlboro Music Festival, Sydney Opera House, Hyogo Performing Arts Center outside Osaka, Dvořák Hall at Prague’s Rudolfinum, Hong Kong Cultural Center, and at an array of sports arenas across Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Luxembourg as one of the featured artists on the touring super-show “Night of the Proms.”

He has shared the stage with Joshua Bell, Branford Marsalis, Christoph Eschenbach, Joshua Radin, Keith Lockhart, Alisa Weilerstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jake Shimabukuro, Aoife O’Donovan, Marin Alsop, Chris Thile, James Gaffigan, Krzysztof Urbański, Chris Brubeck – who composed a jazz-inspired improvised violin concerto for Nick, Swiss pop/soul star Stefanie Heinzmann, and the legendary Irish rock band Simple Minds.

Nick’s special projects include original film scoring, recording new music by living composers,  co-writing, producing, and performing on pop albums. Besides the Land soundtrack and recording sessions with the Philadelphia Orchestra of new compositions by Jennifer Hidgon and Kevin Puts, Nick also plays on the latest release of R&B superstar Summer Walker’s hit record, “Still Over It” (Interscope, 2021).

Joshua is a music educator and performer based out of Moab, Utah. An alumnus of Snow College’s Horne School of Music, he holds a Bachelor of Music with an emphasis in Commercial Music. His journey as a performer began in northern Utah as a percussionist in grade school. Since then he has performed in various collegiate and independent ensembles on Percussion, Tuba, and Trombone. Joshua is the current band director for Grand County High School and Margaret L. Hopkin Middle school in Moab, Utah. In his spare time, he serves as the visual caption head for The Battalion Drum and Bugle Corps.

Susan came to Moab 37 years ago with her husband and dogs, and remains in love with the
land, river and light. She worked and played with Moab Community Theatre for many years
directing, acting, laughing and doing whatever else was needed. She participated in the first
group dedicated to preserving Star Hall as a public space.


Susan holds a MFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. As a dancer she studied,
performed, taught and choreographed primarily in New York and the Washington, D.C. area.

Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; Jay Campbell, cello

Hailed by The New York Times as “our leading new-music foursome”, the JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today. JACK has maintained an unwavering commitment to their mission of performing and commissioning new works, giving voice to underheard composers, and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music. The quartet was selected as Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year”, nominated for GRAMMY Awards for recordings in 2018 & 2022, named to WQXR’s “19 for 19 Artists to Watch”, and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Through intimate relationships with today’s most creative voices, JACK embraces close collaboration with the composers they perform, leading to a radical embodiment of the technical, musical, and emotional aspects of their work. The quartet has worked with artists such as Julia Wolfe, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, Caroline Shaw, and Simon Steen-Andersen. JACK’s all-access initiative, JACK Studio, commissions a selection of artists each year, who will receive money, workshop time, mentorship, and resources to develop new work to be performed and recorded by the quartet. JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and appreciation of new string quartet music. jackquartet.com

Since 1980 Liang-Ping has been a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra touring extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and appearing frequently as soloist and concertmaster of the conductor-less group. An active soloist and chamber music musician, LP’s performances include the Caramoor, Spoleto, Lochenhaus, and Moab Music Festivals, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York Philomusica at the International Music Festival of Sophia, and as guest soloist for the New Mexico Symphony. In addition, he has served as the concertmaster for the Sarasota Opera since 2005 and is regularly engaged as concertmaster to the Monterey Symphony. LP made his solo debut with the National Youth Orchestra of Taiwan at age seven and went on to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Curtis Institute of Music with Jamie Laredo. He can be heard on numerous recordings with Orpheus on the Deutsche Grammaphon label. A member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, LP lives in Santa Fe and plays an 1863 J.B. Vuillaume.

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 4 – Grotto II: Classics Reimagined

Sep 6 – Music Hike III: Living Legends

Sep 7 – The Promise of Peace

Sep 9 – Grotto III: Manouche!

Theo’s operatic highlights include Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at Los Angeles Opera and Israeli Opera, Count in Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Israeli Opera, Schaunard in La Bohème at Seattle Opera and Atlanta Opera, Escamillo in Carmen at Atlanta Opera, the world premiere of Denis & Katya at Opera Philadelphia, Flight at Des Moines Metro Opera, Candide at LA Opera, Carmen at LA Opera, and Lakmé with Washington Concert Opera. A frequent performer of Philip Glass, he performed in Satyagraha at LA Opera, Les Enfants Terribles at Opera Omaha, and the US premiere of The Trial at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Theo has concertized with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vocal Arts DC, Castleton Festival, Salzburg Mozartwoche, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, Israel Philharmonic, Marlboro Music, Bard Music Festival, Portland Symphony, and New York Festival of Song. He was a 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finalist and a recipient of a 2018 Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Future seasons see him at Hamburgische Staatsoper as Prosdocimo in Il Turco in Italia, and at Opernhaus Zürich.

Regarded as one of the finest guitarists of his generation, Rupert has been described as “a very fine musician” by Gramophone, “truly evocative” by The Washington Post and “a player who deserves to be heard” by Classical Guitar Magazine. He has performed across four continents, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to festivals in Europe, China, India, Nepal, the Philippines, New Zealand, and his native Australia.

Active as both a soloist and chamber musician, Rupert regularly performs internationally in Boyd Meets Girl with cellist Laura Metcalf and The Australian Guitar Duo with guitarist Jacob Cordover. Boyd Meets Girl’s 2022 release, Songs of Love & Desire, was praised by Gramophone as “beguiling…fascinating…enchanting”. Classical Guitar Magazine described The Australian Guitar Duo’s debut album Songs from the Forest as “wonderfully entertaining”. Rupert’s most recent solo album, The Guitar, was called “a must-have album of 2019” by This Is Classical Guitar, 

Recent concert highlights include performances for the Moab Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Caramoor, Strathmore, Festival Napa Valley, the Austin and Cleveland Classical Guitar Societies, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rupert exclusively plays D’Addario Strings and lives in New York City, where he is co-artistic director of GatherNYC, a revolutionary Sunday morning concert series at the Museum of Arts and Design. www.rupertboyd.com 

Upcoming Performances:

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

Sept 12-15 – San Juan River Musical Raft Trip

Praised in Opera News as “a gentle actor and elegant musician” and The Wall Street Journal  for his “mellifluous baritone,” Justin has been performing professionally since age 4. Born in Stuttgart, Germany to professional opera singer parents, he began his singing career as a boy soprano. Justin has most recently performed with the Metropolitan Opera, debuting as Marcellus in “Hamlet” by Brett Dean, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Lincoln Center Theater, the New York Festival of Song, and Carnegie Hall. He performs a wide range of repertoire from Jazz, R&B, and Musical Theatre, to Opera and Oratorio and collaborated with artists such as Aretha Franklin, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Mary J. Blige, Elton John, Lauryn Hill, The Roots, 30 Seconds to Mars, John Cale, Ricky Ian

Possessing a “mighty lyric voice” (New York Times) “with a burly, burnished tone capable of striking nuance and color” (Washington Post), Justin is a Drama Desk Award-nominated baritone named Rising Star of the Year at the 2024 International Opera Awards and is a recipient of the 2024 Marian Anderson Vocal Award. 

This season, Justin joins LA Opera for Roméo et Juliette and Così fan tutte (house debut), Opera Theatre of St. Louis for Ricky Ian Gordon’s This House (world premiere), La Jolla Music Society, The Soraya, Seattle Theatre Group, and the Charleston Gaillard Center for selections of Terence Blanchard’s Champion and Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Stuttgart Philharmonic and Opera for Peace in Stuttgart, Germany, Cecelia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall, New York Festival of Song at Kaufman Music Center, Sag Harbor Song Festival, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and Emory & Henry University. 

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Justin is an alumnus of the Choir Academy of Harlem, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Heidelberg Lied Akademie, and Manhattan School of Music (M.M. and B.M.). justin-austin.com 

Upcoming Performances:

Grotto II: Classics Reimagined

Sep 7 – The Promise of Peace