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Vento Chiaro

Joanna Goldstein, flute
Ana-Sofia Campesino, oboe
Michelle Doyle, clarinet
Ellen Barnum, bassoon
Jason White, horn


Program Biographies:


Long, local (Greater Boston):


As an award-winning ensemble, Vento Chiaro is captivating audiences across the country with their visionary artistry. After winning the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April of 2000, the LA Times declared, "the day of the woodwind quintet may be dawning." Vento Chiaro went on to receive the Silver Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and was a semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2001. Founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD, Vento Chiaro relocated to Boston in 1999 and is now the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA. In addition to their Longy appearances, the ensemble has performed several times on WGBH's radio program hosted by Richard Knisley and at Symphony Hall (including the 2000-01 Centennial Celebration). Vento Chiaro has been featured on many concert series including those at MIT, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Dover Library, and the Chromatic Club of Boston. Their varied repertoire ranges from the standards to arrangements of orchestral favorites and newly written works. They have premiered many works including those by Longy faculty composers Howard Frazin and Eric Sawyer. A part of the ensemble's mission involves working with musicians and students of all levels. Every spring, Vento Chiaro works with Longy's Preparatory Composition students, reading their works and offering suggestions, culminating in a performance of their music. The ensemble was the Quintet-in-Residence at the 2001 International Clarinet Connection, and has served on the faculty of Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Wind Ensemble program since 2002.


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As an award-winning ensemble, Vento Chiaro is captivating audiences across the country with their visionary artistry. After winning the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April of 2000, the LA Times declared, "the day of the woodwind quintet may be dawning." Vento Chiaro went on to receive the Silver Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and was a semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2001. Founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD, Vento Chiaro relocated to Boston in 1999 and is now the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA. In addition to their Longy appearances, the ensemble has performed several times on WGBH's radio program hosted by Richard Knisley and at Symphony Hall (including the 2000-01 Centennial Celebration) and across the Eastern Seaboard at such venues as The Settlement School in Philadelphia, PA and ArtScape in Baltimore, MD. Their varied repertoire ranges from the standards to arrangements of orchestral favorites and newly written works. A part of the ensemble's mission involves working with musicians and students of all levels. Every spring, Vento Chiaro works with Longy's Preparatory Composition students, reading their works, offering suggestions, and ultimately performing their music. The ensemble was the Quintet-in-Residence at the 2001 International Clarinet Connection, and has served on the faculty of Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Wind Ensemble program since 2002.


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As an award-winning ensemble, Vento Chiaro is captivating audiences across the country with their visionary artistry. After winning the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April of 2000, the LA Times declared, "the day of the woodwind quintet may be dawning." Vento Chiaro went on to receive the Silver Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and was a semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2001. Founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD, Vento Chiaro relocated to Boston in 1999 and is now the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA. Vento Chiaro has performed throughout the Boston area, across the Eastern Seaboard and is preparing for a European tour in the 2002-03 season. In addition to performing, Vento Chiaro can be found collaborating with students, coaching student performances or performing student compositions. The ensemble was the Quintet-in-Residence at the 2001 International Clarinet Connection, and has served on the faculty of Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Wind Ensemble program since 2002.


Miniature:


The award-winning ensemble, Vento Chiaro is captivating audiences across the country with their visionary artistry. After winning the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April of 2000, the LA Times declared, "the day of the woodwind quintet may be dawning." Vento Chiaro went on to receive the Silver Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and was a semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2001. Founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD, Vento Chiaro relocated to Boston in 1999 and is now the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA. The ensemble was the Quintet-in-Residence at the 2001 International Clarinet Connection, and has served on the faculty of Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Wind Ensemble program since 2002.


Super-mini:


The award-winning ensemble Vento Chiaro is captivating audiences across the country with its visionary artistry. As the winner of the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Competition in 2000, the LA Times declared, "the day of the woodwind quintet may be dawning." Vento Chiaro received the Silver Medal at Fischoff in 2000 and was a semi-finalist at Concert Artists Guild in 2001. Founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory, Vento Chiaro is now in residence at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA. Vento Chiaro was the Quintet-in-Residence at the 2001 International Clarinet Connection, and has served on the faculty of Boston University's Tanglewood Institute since 2002.



Individual Biographies:

Flutist Joanna Goldstein is active both as a performer and music educator. She can be found in a variety of venues, from chamber to orchestral performances as well as solo appearances. Along with her position as flutist with Vento Chiaro (the Ensemble in Residence at the Longy School of Music and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute), she has performed as soloist with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra in Salisbury, MD, performed solo recitals at Columbia University in New York, NY and plays substitute flute and piccolo with the Rhode Island Philharmonic in Providence, RI.  Joanna is the Director of Chamber Music at The Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, MA where she has assisted both the Varsity and Junior Varsity Girl’s soccer teams. As the recipient of three degrees, a Bachelor of Music from Boston University, a Master of Music from the Peabody Conservatory, and an Artist Diploma from the Longy School, Joanna has had the privilege of working with some of this country’s finest flutists including Alice Weinreb, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Mark Sparks, Robert Willoughby, and Geralyn Coticone. She has attended several summer festivals including the Bowdoin Chamber Festival and Music Academy of the West where she studied with Jeanne Baxtresser and Tim Day.  Joanna currently spends her summers on faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute as part of Vento Chiaro.  Aside from her interest in music, Joanna is an avid soccer player, having played with the Division I Boston University Women’s Soccer team while in college and currently as part of the Eastern Massachusetts Women’s League.  She is also working towards her black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

An active performer in the Boston area, Ana-Sofia Campesino has appeared with Emmanuel Music, Boston Musica Viva, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Symphony by the Sea, among other ensembles. She was awarded fellowships at Tanglewood and the European Mozart Academy and earned degrees from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Peabody Conservatory. A former faculty member of the Cincinnati Preparatory Department, she is currently the Assistant director and an oboe instructor at the Dana Hall School of Music. Her principal teachers are Sara Lambert Bloom, Richard Woodhams and Robert Sheena.

Michelle Doyle, clarinet, moved back to her native Boston in 2001 to play with Vento Chiaro.  Since returning, she has become a busy freelance soloist, chamber and orchestral musician.  She has been a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, the Iris Chamber Orchestra and the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra.  Michelle is a highly sought after teacher in the Boston area and has been on the faculty of the University of Mississippi and Arkansas State University.  As an active chamber musician and soloist, she has premiered works by Robert Patterson, Keith Carpenter, Michael Edgerton and John Hiltgen.  Michelle freelances extensively and has performed and toured as a soloist and with ensembles throughout the United States and abroad including the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Milwaukee Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna.

When not playing the clarinet, Michelle can be found teaching and doing yoga – she is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher.  She is also an avid downhill skier and chaperones ski trips and hits the slopes as often as her busy performance schedule allows.

Ms. Doyle graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. She received an Artist Diploma from the St. Louis Conservatory and School for the Arts where she was the clarinetist of the Wells Ensemble Woodwind Quintet. Ms. Doyle completed a Masters Degree in Clarinet Performance at Northwestern University where she studied with J. Lawrie Bloom. Her teachers have included George Silfies, Fred Ormand, John Mohler, Peter Schmidl, Larry Combs, Paulette Bowes and William Wrzesien.

Ellen Barnum:

In addition to her work with Vento Chiaro, bassoonist Ellen Barnum maintains an active freelance career in Buffalo, NY, performing with many local ensembles including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.  Ellen is an Adjunct Professor at Canisius College and Artist-Lecturer at Buffalo State College, teaching bassoon, chamber music and music literature.  In the Boston area, Ellen teaches bassoon at the Dana Hall School of Music and maintains an active private bassoon studio in Buffalo, NY.  Ellen received her Bachelor of Music and Graduate Performance Diploma in Bassoon Performance from the Peabody Conservatory, and an Artist Diploma in Chamber Music from the Longy School in Cambridge, MA.   In her spare time, Ellen and her husband, violist Janz Castelo, are slowly restoring their turn-of-the-century Victorian home in Buffalo.

For the past eight years, Jason White has worked with a team of scientists and engineers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School to develop a method to perform noninvasive brain surgery with focused ultrasound. Now approaching the final phase of clinical trials, this project has gained significant media attention and was recently profiled by CNN, NBC Nightly News, and the BBC. Previously, while at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, Jason was instrumental in the development of a virtual performance environment in which the acoustical characteristics of a space would be accurately controlled in real-time by computers. In 1994, he was named Schwarz Scholar by Florida State University for his contributions to science and the humanities. The award was presented by Nobel Laureate Robert Schrieffer.

Sometimes, Jason plays the French horn.

Sample Programs:

Standard works:

Danzi, Quintet Opus 56, No. 1
Barber, Summer Music
Nielsen, Quintet, Op. 43
Mendelssohn, Scherzo from A Midsummer's Night Dream


20th Century/Contemporary:

Frazin, Blue Circles
Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik
Harbison, Quintet
Arnold, Three Shanties


Opera theme:

Mozart, Overture to the Magic Flute
Rossini, Quartet No. 1 or 6
Beethoven, Variations on Theme by Mozart
Mendelssohn, Scherzo from A Midsummer's Night Dream


French Influence:

Bozza, Scherzo
Ibert, Cinq Pieces en Trio
Francaix, Quintet in E
Poulenc, Sextet (with guest pianist)
or
Milhaud, La Cheminee du Roi Rene (if no pianist)


American Composers/Jazz Influence:

Harbison, Quintet
Schuller, Suite for Wind Quintet
Schiffrin, Woodwind Quintet "La Nouvelle Orleans"
Gershwin, Preludes


Latin Influence to combine with American Composers:

D'Rivera, Aires Tropicales
Villa Lobos, Quintette en Forme de Choros
Del Aguila, Wind Quintet



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