Christine Hoerning, director, teacher, and creator across a multitude of genres. She is currently serving as Clarinet Lecturer at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. An active freelancer, Christine has performed with the Orchestre Classique de Montreal, Kingston Symphony, Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Opera Bouffe de Quebec, Opera FOE, and the Orchestra of Northern New York.As founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary collective Verisimo, Christine has curated numerous performances throughout North America showcasing classical and contemporary chamber music performed in synchronicity with original films including a concert series entitled Filmprov which screens original and repurposed silent films accompanied by a live improvisatory soundtrack.Christine aims to bring the clarinet and activism together as seen through a series of benefit performances for those impacted by war in Ukraine, her work with the International Pride Orchestra, and her LGBTQ-history drag-king concert series. Her passion and enthusiasm for new music has led to collaboration with creative minds seeking out non-traditional performance spaces and opportunities.
Timothy Mount, pianist, singer, and choral conductor, is Professor Emeritus of conducting at Stony Brook University, one of the leading graduate music programs in the country. He conducted nine commercial CDs with professional choirs and orchestras in New York City and Moscow and two with the Stony Brook Camerata Singers. Tim guest conducted many choirs and for over ten years was conductor of the professional chorus and orchestra at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. He published five articles concerning choral music and a video, Refine Your Conducting Technique, available from Santa Barbara Music. In winter 2018, his article, “Preparing for the First Rehearsal: A Guide for Choral Conductors,” appeared in the online journal, Chorteach. A bass-baritone, Tim sang with virtually every professional choir in New York City. He now plays piano chamber music in the Adirondacks when he isn’t captaining tour boats on Lake Champlain or caretaking remote island lighthouses around the world.
Amy Nelson, singer, soloist, and director, has had a lifelong involvement in music. An accomplished soprano, she has performed in venues from Vienna, Austria to Carnegie Hall. She participated in both the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and the Bel Canto Competition, where she was a quarter-finalist. Amy has performed with the Madison Opera, Madison Savoyards, Hartford Players and the Festival Choir of Madison. As a soloist with the Festival Choir, Ms. Nelson performed in the prestigious Ost-West Musikfest in Austria, the first choral performance ever invited to the event. For the Hartford Players Amy has sung lead roles in musicals including Oklahoma and Guys and Dolls, and also directed Godspell. Amy has studied with Lois Fisher, Julia Faulkner, Kitt Reuter-Foss and Joseph Martorano. She now makes her home in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains, where she teaches music and is a familiar recitalist and performer.
Emily Dobmeier is an arts leader, clarinetist, and educator who became Executive Director of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta in 2025. Previously, she served as Vice President of Operations and Artistic Planning at Luzerne Music Center in the southern Adirondacks.
An active performer, Emily is Principal Clarinetist of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes and has appeared as a soloist and featured artist at institutions including Ithaca College, Wichita State University, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She performs regularly across New York as a freelance musician, and serves on the clarinet faculty of the Eastman Community Music School’s Virtual World Campus, teaching students online from beginners to adults.
She holds a DMA from the Eastman School of Music, an MM from DePaul University, and a BM from Ithaca College. She also enjoys being outdoors with her husband Tim, son Riley, and their dog Josie, making the most of the beautiful community they call home!
No stranger to Vermont and New York audiences, Robin Cameron-Phillips has performed with Toronto New Chamber Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Burlington Choral Arts Society orchestrasand the local Adirondack Wind Ensemble among others.
As a chamber musician, Robin is most active with Vermont Classic Consort Trio and has been a featured and frequent guest soloist for Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble.
She is a long-time member of the well-known Vermont Virtuosi Flute Ensemble and appeared on Live on Vermont Public Radiofeaturing “Pipe Dreams” concert series 1-6 as well as UVM, Middlebury College, Brattleboro and Montpelier. “Pipe Dreams 7” was performed this past summer for the Concerts on the Hill Series in Weston, UVM, Middlebury College, Brattleboro and Montpelier.
Recent performances include playing in Keene Valley for theEast Branch Friends of the Arts in “ADK Women in Music” asguest soloist with Trillium and with an all-Ukrainian (almost)orchestra presented by the Caspian, Vermont, Highland Center for the Arts in their “Monday Music Series”. She is heard regularly performing in the well-known Hand House concerts,most recently in “Singing Noise Colors” in celebration of renowned Vermont composer Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, this past October.
Originally a native of Westchester, NY, Robin earned her flute master’s in performance from Northwestern University and herbachelor’s in performance from Ithaca College.
Teachers include Walfred Kujala (Chicago Symphony), John Krell (Philadelphia Orchestra), and Timothy Hutchins (Montreal Symphony). Master class performances include those withGeoffrey Gilbert (teacher to James Galway, William Bennett andTrevor Wye) and Chicago Symphony’s Dale Clevenger, Arnold Jacobs, and Vince Cichowicz.
Robin lives on the beautiful Cumberland Head Peninsula, loves to dig in the dirt and spend quiet reading time with her chubby tuxedo cat, Snow Bottom.
Bass, Thomas Stork, was recruited by his first voice teacher in Cincinnati after a high school performance of South Pacific. After a decade-long hiatus from singing, he became a chorister with the Oratorio Society of Washington before making his professional solo debut with that group in 1998. He subsequently performed with numerous Washington, DC-area choruses in a range of solo repertoire, including Messiah at Kennedy Center and Washington National Cathedral; as well as Brahms, Duruflé, Fauré, Mozart, and Verdi Requiems; Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Haydn’s Creation. He was also a longtime chorus member and soloist with the Washington Bach Consort and a member of the professional men’s vocal group Brethren. Tom, his wife Jen, and their son Joseph moved to Lake Placid in 2021.
Canadian violinist Sarah Bleile Douglass moved to Saranac Lake in 2019 and currently plays with the Community String Orchestra of the Adirondacks as viola section leader. Specializing in Baroque violin, Sarah also performs concerts and records albums with Canadian baroque orchestras Rosa Barocca and Arion Orchestre Baroque, and alongside Shelby Yamin she recorded the first complete album of the violin duos by Baroque composer Maddalena Sirmen Lombardini. In addition, Sarah loves Celtic music and has been performing with her folk-baroque trio, the Berwick Fiddle Consort, since 2018.
PAST PERFORMERS
Marilyn Reynolds,
Janine Scherline,
Patricia McCarty,
Janice Kyle, oboe and co-founder
