Janice Kyle, oboist, received her Bachelor of Music degree at California State University in Sacramento. She studied with Ben Glovinsky and Neil Tatman. She followed up her B.M. with graduate studies in oboe performance at Indiana University with Jerry Sirucek. She has taught elementary music at Westport Central School and oboe performance at Plattsburgh State University. She performs in various solo and ensemble venues in the Adirondacks with the Adirondack Wind Ensemble, Champlain Valley Voices Orchestra, the Key Winds Trio, and the Trillium Chamber Players of which she is a founding member. Janice often borrows from other instruments’ repertoire for performance on oboe. She enjoys cold, snowy winters skijoring (sometimes off piste) with her dogs. Janice and her husband, Hans, (and the dogs) live in New Russia, New York.
Janine Scherline is the principal clarinetist with the Adirondack Wind Ensemble and teaches applied lessons at SUNY Plattsburgh. Especially fond of performing in chamber settings, she loves playing regularly with Trillium, in unique musical settings and as a guest soloist and performer around the Adirondack Region. In her role as Director of Donor Engagement at Adirondack Foundation, Janine enjoys working with generous people who are making a positive difference through philanthropy. She also enjoys spending time outdoors—especially on snowshoes in the winter—with her husband Todd whom she met at Ithaca College while completing her masters in clarinet performance, and with their feline companions Ginsu and Peeka.
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.
An active proponent of the solo viola, Patricia McCarty has performed to consistent critical acclaim throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and Venezuela, appearing as soloist with orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Boston Pops, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Turiae Camerata of Valencia, and Kyoto and Shinsei Nihon Symphonies. Her recital appearances include New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Caracas, Valencia, Geneva, five International Viola Congresses, and a debut at London’s Wigmore Hall hailed by the Times to be “an outstanding exhibition of string playing of the highest American class.” Winner of the First Silver Medal and Radio Prize in the Geneva International Competition when she was eighteen, Ms. McCarty has also been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grants and the John Knowles Paine Award for performance of new American music. Her recordings for Ashmont, Equilibrium, ECM, and Northeastern labels, featuring viola works by Rebecca Clarke, Bach, Telemann, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, George Balch Wilson and Keith Jarrett, have received international accolades, including Gramophone’s “Critics Choice” and Strad “Selection CD”.
As chamber musician Ms. McCarty has performed at festivals including Aspen, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Sarasota, Bowdoin, Bay Chamber Concerts, Aria (Canada), Hokkaido (Japan) and the Australian String Academy in Sydney. Former member of the Lenox Quartet, she has also toured with Music from Marlboro, Boston Chamber Music Society, and Boston Symphony Chamber Players, with whom she has recorded works by Brahms and Dvorak. Other collaborations include musicians as diverse as composer Lou Harrison and his gamelan ensemble, Joseph Silverstein, Maureen Forrester, and jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose work Bridge of Light for viola and orchestra Ms. McCarty commissioned, premiered and has recorded for ECM.
Soloist in the New York premiere of the orchestral version of Britten’s Lachrymae, Ms. McCarty has performed numerous world premieres, including works by Daniel Pinkham, Tibor Serly, Jerome Rosen, Marjorie Merryman, Elizabeth Vercoe and Martin Amlin. Her research of viola repertoire has been published in Strad, Symphony Magazine, Strings, American Viola Society Journal and American String Teacher and she is a contributing author to the book Playing & Teaching Viola, published in 2005 by American String Teachers Association. She has given master classes throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, Venezuela, Australia and Spain, and her translated articles have appeared in Korean and Dutch string teaching publications. Former assistant principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ms. McCarty teaches viola and professional orchestral audition preparation online, and is a faculty member of the InterHarmony Music School. Her former students are employed in professional orchestras, chamber ensembles, university and pre-college faculties worldwide.
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.
Brian Donat is a full time freelance cellist who moved to Rochester after ~10 years of living and working in the Adirondack region of NY. An alum of Houghton College and the Meadowmount School, he keeps busy by teaching privately and performing with anybody who will have him – orchestras, musicals, weddings, ballets, chamber concerts, choirs, churches, etc. When he’s not playing cello, he can usually be found playing outside – hiking, running, xc skiing, or biking. He lives in Webster with his wife, Jolene, and their two four-legged “children.”
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.
PAST GUEST PERFORMERS
Marilyn Reynolds, violin
Jennifer Moore, pianist
Michael Lewandowski, percussion
Matthew Dunne, guitar, string bass
