Philip Baruth, classical guitar
Barbara Beechey, violin, viola
Janet Bond Sutter, violin
Roza Borisova, cello
Caroline Brandenberger, violin
Kin Chau, viola and violin
Miyoko Grine-Fisher, cello
Laura Kenney, cello
Arden Lambert, violin
Yuliya Smead, violin
Susan Sullivan, string bass
Carrie Willer, cello
Barbara Beechey, violin and viola, has served as the Assistant Principal Violist of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra since the 2001-2002 season. In addition to her duties with the Green Bay Symphony, she also has been the Principal Violist of the Fox Valley Symphony since 1999.
Ms. Beechey did her undergraduate work at Miami University in Viola Performance, under the instruction of Mary Harris, her inspiration for choosing to pursue a career in music. Barbara then earned both a Masters Degree in Pedagogy/Viola Performance, as well as a Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her principal instructors at Peabody include Victoria Chiang, Roberto Diaz, Richard Field, and Violaine Melançon(violin). It was during her studies at Peabody that Barbara began to foster and develop a strong interest in teaching children. She entered the Doctoral Program at Indiana University directly following her completion of her degrees at Peabody, and spent one year studying with Mimi Zweig.
Ms. Beechey had the good fortune to play with several long-term string quartets throughout her college years. Her experience not only developed her passion for chamber music, but also took her to music festivals and performances in Austria, Luxembourg, Germany and the Czech Republic as well as to the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Pasadena, California.
Since September of 1999, Ms. Beechey has been a full time member of the viola/violin faculty at Lawrence Academy of Music. Barbara also teaches a string pedagogy class for Lawrence Conservatory.
Janet Bond Sutter, violin, is a native of Indiana and holds degrees from Indiana University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Memphis. Before moving to Appleton in 1990, she held professional positions as a memeber of the Symphonic Orchestra of West Berlin, Germany; the East Switzerland Chamber Orchestra; the Memphis Symphony and Opera Orchestras and the Fort Worth Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. She has toured with these orchestras in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Mexico and China. While in Texas for 11 years, she helped establish an ongoing chamber music society called "The Spectrum," based in Fort Worth.
Since moving to Appleton, Ms. Bond Sutter has been involved in various musical endeavors in the Fox Valley and the Door Peninsula. In addition to teaching violin at the Academy of Music, she is Concertmaster for the Fox Valley Syumphony and Prinicpal Second Violin of the Green Bay Symphony, as well as continuing to be a member of the Peninsula Music Festival every August since 1981. She participated in several educational outreach programs for all of theese organizations. Additionally, her teaching activities have included being Director of the "Chamber Music Week at The Clearing" for seven summers.
Roza Borisova, cello, a native of Ioshkar-Ola, Russia, has been teaching at the Academy of Music since 2003. Ms. Borisova began studies on the cello at the age of seven. After receiving her B.A. in Music Performance from the Ioshkar-Ola State Music College, she moved to Moscow where she earned a M.M. in Performance Pedagogy and a D.M.A. in String Quartet Performance from the Russian State Academy of Music (formerly Gnesin’s Institute) in Moscow.
In 1989 Ms. Borisova was selected to be cellist of the Veronika String Quartet (newly formed by Valentine Berlinsky, cellist of the Borodin String Quartet). The Quartet’s international tours resulted in numerous prizes including the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the Shostakovich String Quartet Competition, and the Russian National Competition. As an award of the Shostakovich Competition, in 1993 the Quartet was invited to study with the Fine Arts Quartet at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and relocated to the U.S. Ms. Borisova served as Artist-in-Residence and graduate teaching assistant at various institutions in Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado and earned a second M.M. in Music Performance.
As part of the Veronika String Quartet, Ms. Borisova performed regularly as cellist with various symphony orchestras and at many festivals and institutes around the world including the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Second Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters in Israel, the Britten-Pears School of Music in England, and the Lancaster Music Festival in Ohio. She currently performs with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, and the Woodstock Mozart Festival Orchestra, Woodstock, IL. She takes pleasure in teaching aspiring cellists and has taught at several major music institutions in the U.S.
Caroline Brandenberger, violin,
Kin Chau, viola and violin, has made numerous appearances in the United States, Canada and the far-east as an active soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and concertmaster. She has been heard on the Irish Public Radio, RTHK Classical Music Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and has appeared on Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Ltd. Hong Kong TVB Pearl Channel, QDTV National Television in Qing Dao, as well as Lanzhou National Television. Ms. Chau has collaborated with Stuart Canin, Stephen Kates, Donald McInnes, Milton Thomas, and the Vedehr Trio among others in various music festivals such as the International Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Her recent engagements include collaborations with Artists from Columbia Management Inc. in chamber music series in the cities of Boston, New Haven, and New York as well as a touring in the People's Republic of China.
Ms. Chau has been awarded prizes at numerous competitions including the Grand Prize in the Artist of Tomorrow Competition in Los Angeles, Grand Prize in the Hong Kong Music Festival Competition, the Jascha Heifetz Award, the Award for Distinguished Solo Performance at the Santa Barbara Music Festival, the University Fellowship Award at Yale University and the University of Southern California Concerto Competition.
A native of Beijing, China, Ms. Chau began studying violin at age six and gave her first public performance at age seven. She received her Bachelor of Music degree at USC and was awarded the prestigious faculty prize of Outstanding Student in Graduating Class in Recognition of Professional Service, Leadership and Performance, where she was a student of Alice Schoenfeld. She conpleted her Master of Music degree at Yale School of Music as a student of Erick Friedman. She has lectured and given masterclasses in Asia and the United States and was concertmaster of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2006. Ms. Chau joined the Lawrence Academy of Music in 1993 .
