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MUSICIANS: Mikko Luoma, Accordion Veronica Salas, Viola Madeleine Shapiro, Cello Denise Stillwell, Violin Wolfgang Tsoutsouris, Violin Peter Zummo, Dijeridoo
Mikko Luoma, Accordion	Mikko Luoma was born in 1967, in Turku, Finland. He studied at the Sibelius-Academy from 1987-1990 and again form 1992-1995, earning a Masters degree in 1995. He completed a final solo recital earning the highest possible grade: 25 of 25 points. Luoma also studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Trossingen 1990-1992, receiving the Diplom Musikiehrer- degree 1992 under Professor Hugo Noth. Luoma was a Fulbright student at The City University of New York 1997-1998, studying music analysis and performance practice of contemporary music. Luoma currently teaches at the Sibelius-Academy, Tampere and Helsinki Conservatories. In addition, he holds lecturer position at the Conservatory in Finland where he teaches chamber music and classical accordion. As an active performer of the contemporary repertoire for accordion, Luoma has appeared in concerts (solo and chamber music) in Finland, Poland, Germany, Bela Russia, France, USA, and Albania. In January of 1998 he performed as soloist with The New Juilliard Ensemble in Lincoln Center (Joel Sachs, conductor) , performing Veli-Matti Pliumala's Soira for accordion solo and a chamber ensemble. He has given premiere performances for pieces composed by Jukka Tiensuu, Jyrki Linjama, Jukka Koskinen, Juhani Nuorvala, Seppo Pohjola, Daniel Sonenberg, and Oliver Schneller. Additionally, he has participated in first performances in Finland for pieces written by Adriana Holzky, Steve Montaque, Alvin Lucier, and has performed for radio productions for the national broadcasting company (YLE) since 1990. In the near future he will premiere a solo piece by Juhani Nuorvala, in addition to a new concerto by Jukka Tiensuu commissioned by the Tapiola Sinfonietta. Luoma currently performs regularly with an ensemble comprised by Gregory Barrett (clarinet), and Jukka Rautasalo (cello), and Ham Sippel (viola).
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Veronica Salas, Viola	Veronica Salas, viola, a native of Chile, receied her B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Lillian Fuchs. She has appeared as soloist with the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, the Southern California Symphony, and the Great Lakes Music Festival. In addition, she has traveled to Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taipei where she has given recitals and master classes on State Department tours. An active performer of contemporary music, she has premiered chamber works with the Group for Contemporary Music and the New Music Consort. The principal violist of Opera Orchestra of New York and the Colonial Symphony, she is also a member of the Pierrot Consort Chamber Ensemble, and Lyrica Chamber Players. She is currently on the faculty of LI University.
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Madeleine Shapiro, Cello	Click for more information about Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
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Denise Stillwell, Violin	Denise Stillwell, violinist and violist, received both her bachelor and master of music degrees from The Juilliard School where she held principal chairs, performed as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, and was a founding member of the New Juilliard Ensemble. As an active free-lance musician, Ms. Stillwell has played with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In Manhattan she has appeared in the Summergarden Series at the Museum of Modern Art and in concert in Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Carnegie Halls. Ms. Stillwell has performed with Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Goliard Ensemble, the Bard Festival Orchestra, Concerto Soloists the California E.A.R. Unit, Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey and the New Jersey Pops Orchestra. She has participated in the "Daltry Sings Townshend" concerts, the New York debut of the pop group "Massive Attack", the back-up orchestra for James Taylor, and the "Bang on a Can" marathon concerts. She is an active member of several orchestras and new music ensembles including the SEM Ensemble and the Westfield Symphony. Currently Ms. Stillwell substitutes in the off-Broadway show "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change", and in the Broadway hits "The Lion King" and "Annie Get Your Gun."
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Wolfgang Tsoutsouris, Violin	An active free-lance violinist in the New York City area, Wolfgang's schedule includes Broadway, orchestral, chamber, studio, and solo playing. He has appeared as soloist with the Northwest Indiana Symphony and the Northshore Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, at Northwestern University, and the Park City International Music Festival where he has collaborated with such artists as Oleh Krysa, Arturo Delmoni, Jeff Solow, and Jeff Irvine. In addition, he has given several benefit concerts for the American Cancer Society in Northwest Indiana, in addition to the standard repertoire, Wolfgang also enjoys performing contemporary works, and has given several world, United States, and New York premiers. For the past two seasons, he has been involved with Modernwork!, directed by Madeleine Shapiro, and recently collaborated with the composer Ronn Yedidia on his works for violin and piano. His teachers include Myron Kartman, Joseph Fuchs, Nell Gotkovsky, and Charles Libove.
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Pter Zummo, Dijeridoo	Peter Zurnmo has been composing since 1967 and has performed his works for solo trombone and ensemble worldwide. His work has been associated with the contemporary classical tradition, in combination with or juxtaposition to the minimal, jazz, world music, and so-called art-rock styles. He has pioneered new approaches to, and uses for, extended instrumental technique on the trombone and also uses the valve trombone, dijeridoo, euphonium, synthesizers and other electronics and his voice in performance. His many compositions for ensemble build on original melody and melodic fragments, and generate interactive situations in which musicians explore the boundaries of common and extended practice, without, however, having to act arbitrarily. Venues for performances of Zummo's pieces have included the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival (Radical Filtering); City Center, Dance Theater Workshop; Interpretations Series/Merkin Hall (The Time Land Forgot), Lincoln Center Out Of Doors; Lotus Fine Aits (Semiotic Handgun); New Arts Program/Kutztown; Walker Art Center; Danspace; The Joyce Theatre; LaMama (Experimenting With Household Chemicals); New Music America; Experimental Intermedia Foundation (The Trombone That Devoured Cleveland); Boston Opera House (Fast Dream); Jacob's Pillow; Roulette (Subway Dream Music); Snug Harbor Cultural Center (music for The Passage II); The Jacques Marchais Center for Tibetan Art (Drone World and Apache Fog); St. Peters Church at Citicorp and Deep Listening Space (Default Mode), the American Center in Paris, Seibu in Tokyo, and Logos Foundation in Ghent. Zummo is a former Harvestworks Artist In Residence, with choreographer Stephanie Skura. His work has been funded by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Jerome Foundation, the Helen W. Buckner Charitable Trust, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, The Phaedrus Foundation, The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, including a 1999 Original Work award, and the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship program. Choreographic commissions include Trisha Brown's Newark (with Donald Judd) and Lateral Pass, which won a Bessie award; David Doriman's Careful Aim, which was commissioned by the Meet The Composer's Composer/Choreographer program, and Out of Season; Risa Jaroslow's Shuffled Hearts and Great Escapes; Irene Hultman's Gruff; Randy Warshaw's Shutter, Jonathan Appels' Fields and Stars and Coco Grille, Debra Wanner's For Virginia; and numerous works with Stephanie Woodard. Zummo also performs and composes for the Downtown Ensemble and has developed and performed seminal works for many composers, including David Behrman, Jacques Bekaert, Barbara Benary, Earle Brown, Rhys Chatham, Anthony Coleman, Nicolas Collins, Philip Comer, Nick Didkovsky, Dan Froot, Jon Gibson, Daniel Goode, Peter Gordon, Tom Hamilton, William Hellemiann, Dick Higgins, Guy Klucevsek, Joan LaBarbara, Steve Lacy, Elodie Lauten, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Jon Lurie, Phill Niblock, Jean-Francois Pauvros, Johnny Reinhard, Arthur Russell, Bill Ruyie, Elizabeth Swados, Yasunao Tone and Yoshi Wada. Zummo's principal trombone training was with Carmine Caruso; additional studies were with Stuart Dempster, James Fulkerson, Dick Griffin, Makanda Ken Mcintyre, Sam Rivers, and continuing today with Ro swell Rudd. Zummo holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wesleyan University's world music program. Influential studies there included electronic music with Alvin Lucier, western classical choral and instrumental music; Ghanaian, South Indian, Javanese and other world musics; and introductions to and performances of the work of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi, Yasunao Tone, and Christian Wolff. Zummo, as a program associate with The New York Arts Program, is an assistant professor of music at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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MUSICIANS:
Mikko Luoma, Accordion
Veronica Salas, Viola
Madeleine Shapiro, Cello
Denise Stillwell, Violin
Wolfgang Tsoutsouris, Violin
Peter Zummo, Dijeridoo

Mikko Luoma, Accordion

Mikko Luoma was born in 1967, in Turku, Finland. He studied at the Sibelius-Academy from 1987-1990 and again form 1992-1995, earning a Masters degree in 1995. He completed a final solo recital earning the highest possible grade: 25 of 25 points. Luoma also studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Trossingen 1990-1992, receiving the Diplom Musikiehrer- degree 1992 under Professor Hugo Noth. Luoma was a Fulbright student at The City University of New York 1997-1998, studying music analysis and performance practice of contemporary music.

Luoma currently teaches at the Sibelius-Academy, Tampere and Helsinki Conservatories. In addition, he holds lecturer position at the Conservatory in Finland where he teaches chamber music and classical accordion.

As an active performer of the contemporary repertoire for accordion, Luoma has appeared in concerts (solo and chamber music) in Finland, Poland, Germany, Bela Russia, France, USA, and Albania. In January of 1998 he performed as soloist with The New Juilliard Ensemble in Lincoln Center (Joel Sachs, conductor) , performing Veli-Matti Pliumala's Soira for accordion solo and a chamber ensemble. He has given premiere performances for pieces composed by Jukka Tiensuu, Jyrki Linjama, Jukka Koskinen, Juhani Nuorvala, Seppo Pohjola, Daniel Sonenberg, and Oliver Schneller. Additionally, he has participated in first performances in Finland for pieces written by Adriana Holzky, Steve Montaque, Alvin Lucier, and has performed for radio productions for the national broadcasting company (YLE) since 1990. In the near future he will premiere a solo piece by Juhani Nuorvala, in addition to a new concerto by Jukka Tiensuu commissioned by the Tapiola Sinfonietta. Luoma currently performs regularly with an ensemble comprised by Gregory Barrett (clarinet), and Jukka Rautasalo (cello), and Ham Sippel (viola).

Veronica Salas, Viola

Veronica Salas, viola, a native of Chile, receied her B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Lillian Fuchs. She has appeared as soloist with the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, the Southern California Symphony, and the Great Lakes Music Festival. In addition, she has traveled to Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taipei where she has given recitals and master classes on State Department tours. An active performer of contemporary music, she has premiered chamber works with the Group for Contemporary Music and the New Music Consort. The principal violist of Opera Orchestra of New York and the Colonial Symphony, she is also a member of the Pierrot Consort Chamber Ensemble, and Lyrica Chamber Players. She is currently on the faculty of LI University.

Madeleine Shapiro, Cello

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Denise Stillwell, Violin

Denise Stillwell, violinist and violist, received both her bachelor and master of music degrees from The Juilliard School where she held principal chairs, performed as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, and was a founding member of the New Juilliard Ensemble. As an active free-lance musician, Ms. Stillwell has played with a wide variety of ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In Manhattan she has appeared in the Summergarden Series at the Museum of Modern Art and in concert in Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Carnegie Halls.

Ms. Stillwell has performed with Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Goliard Ensemble, the Bard Festival Orchestra, Concerto Soloists the California E.A.R. Unit, Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey and the New Jersey Pops Orchestra. She has participated in the "Daltry Sings Townshend" concerts, the New York debut of the pop group "Massive Attack", the back-up orchestra for James Taylor, and the "Bang on a Can" marathon concerts. She is an active member of several orchestras and new music ensembles including the SEM Ensemble and the Westfield Symphony.

Currently Ms. Stillwell substitutes in the off-Broadway show "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change", and in the Broadway hits "The Lion King" and "Annie Get Your Gun."

Wolfgang Tsoutsouris, Violin

An active free-lance violinist in the New York City area, Wolfgang's schedule includes Broadway, orchestral, chamber, studio, and solo playing. He has appeared as soloist with the Northwest Indiana Symphony and the Northshore Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, at Northwestern University, and the Park City International Music Festival where he has collaborated with such artists as Oleh Krysa, Arturo Delmoni, Jeff Solow, and Jeff Irvine. In addition, he has given several benefit concerts for the American Cancer Society in Northwest Indiana, in addition to the standard repertoire, Wolfgang also enjoys performing contemporary works, and has given several world, United States, and New York premiers. For the past two seasons, he has been involved with Modernwork!, directed by Madeleine Shapiro, and recently collaborated with the composer Ronn Yedidia on his works for violin and piano. His teachers include Myron Kartman, Joseph Fuchs, Nell Gotkovsky, and Charles Libove.

Pter Zummo, Dijeridoo

Peter Zurnmo has been composing since 1967 and has performed his works for solo trombone and ensemble worldwide. His work has been associated with the contemporary classical tradition, in combination with or juxtaposition to the minimal, jazz, world music, and so-called art-rock styles. He has pioneered new approaches to, and uses for, extended instrumental technique on the trombone and also uses the valve trombone, dijeridoo, euphonium, synthesizers and other electronics and his voice in performance. His many compositions for ensemble build on original melody and melodic fragments, and generate interactive situations in which musicians explore the boundaries of common and extended practice, without, however, having to act arbitrarily.

Venues for performances of Zummo's pieces have included the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival (Radical Filtering); City Center, Dance Theater Workshop; Interpretations Series/Merkin Hall (The Time Land Forgot), Lincoln Center Out Of Doors; Lotus Fine Aits (Semiotic Handgun); New Arts Program/Kutztown; Walker Art Center; Danspace; The Joyce Theatre; LaMama (Experimenting With Household Chemicals); New Music America; Experimental Intermedia Foundation (The Trombone That Devoured Cleveland); Boston Opera House (Fast Dream); Jacob's Pillow; Roulette (Subway Dream Music); Snug Harbor Cultural Center (music for The Passage II); The Jacques Marchais Center for Tibetan Art (Drone World and Apache Fog); St. Peters Church at Citicorp and Deep Listening Space (Default Mode), the American Center in Paris, Seibu in Tokyo, and Logos Foundation in Ghent. Zummo is a former Harvestworks Artist In Residence, with choreographer Stephanie Skura. His work has been funded by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Jerome Foundation, the Helen W. Buckner Charitable Trust, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, The Phaedrus Foundation, The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, including a 1999 Original Work award, and the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship program.

Choreographic commissions include Trisha Brown's Newark (with Donald Judd) and Lateral Pass, which won a Bessie award; David Doriman's Careful Aim, which was commissioned by the Meet The Composer's Composer/Choreographer program, and Out of Season; Risa Jaroslow's Shuffled Hearts and Great Escapes; Irene Hultman's Gruff; Randy Warshaw's Shutter, Jonathan Appels' Fields and Stars and Coco Grille, Debra Wanner's For Virginia; and numerous works with Stephanie Woodard. Zummo also performs and composes for the Downtown Ensemble and has developed and performed seminal works for many composers, including David Behrman, Jacques Bekaert, Barbara Benary, Earle Brown, Rhys Chatham, Anthony Coleman, Nicolas Collins, Philip Comer, Nick Didkovsky, Dan Froot, Jon Gibson, Daniel Goode, Peter Gordon, Tom Hamilton, William Hellemiann, Dick Higgins, Guy Klucevsek, Joan LaBarbara, Steve Lacy, Elodie Lauten, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Jon Lurie, Phill Niblock, Jean-Francois Pauvros, Johnny Reinhard, Arthur Russell, Bill Ruyie, Elizabeth Swados, Yasunao Tone and Yoshi Wada.

Zummo's principal trombone training was with Carmine Caruso; additional studies were with Stuart Dempster, James Fulkerson, Dick Griffin, Makanda Ken Mcintyre, Sam Rivers, and continuing today with Ro swell Rudd. Zummo holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wesleyan University's world music program. Influential studies there included electronic music with Alvin Lucier, western classical choral and instrumental music; Ghanaian, South Indian, Javanese and other world musics; and introductions to and performances of the work of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi, Yasunao Tone, and Christian Wolff. Zummo, as a program associate with The New York Arts Program, is an assistant professor of music at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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