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Vento Chiaro

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


Program Biographies:

Since 1997, Vento Chiaro has excited audiences nationally and internationally with its unique and captivating performances. Founded at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, its members were immediately drawn to the creative potential and educational opportunities of the woodwind quintet. Vento Chiaro continually strives to produce an environment of high-caliber, entertaining performances to audiences, present sophisticated and inspiring masterclasses and collaborate with communities through outreach programs to expand their knowledge, enjoyment and appreciation of music as an art form. They are continually seeking new compositions and spend time reading newly composed repertoire as well as discovering forgotten works.

Vento Chiaro has earned the recognition of some of this country's most prestigious chamber music competitions including the silver medal from the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (South Bend, IN), the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition (Los Angeles, CA), and semifinalist in the Concert Artists Guild (New York, N|Y). As a professional ensemble, Vento Chiaro has also been the resident ensemble at several educational institutions. These include a long-term position as the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Longy School of music (Cambridge, MA 1999-2006), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 2007), and the Orange County School for the Arts (Orange County, CA 2004).

Vento Chiaro has also had the privilege of being the woodwind quintet in residence at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, one of the world's most renowned summer festivals for the most talented and ambitious high school students. They have held this position since 2002.


Individual Biographies:

Joanna Goldstein:

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. Joanna is flutist with the woodwind quintet, Vento Chiaro (the Ensemble in Residence at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute from 2002-present and the Longy School of Music from 1999-2006) and the flute and harp duo, Luminosity. She can be seen as a substitute flute and piccolo with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Portland Symphony, the Granite State Opera, and the Granite State Orchestra. 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. She is also is the director of the BU Music Organization flute ensemble and woodwind quintet. 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. 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.

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, New York, 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. Ellen is also the music events coordinator for the ArtsCanisius Concert Series at Canisius College. Ellen maintains an active private bassoon studio in Buffalo. 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, Massachusetts. All of Ellen's free time (and then some) has been taken over by her toddler son, Lucas, who thus far loves to watch her play the 'soon.

For the past nine years, Jason White has worked within the Department of Radiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School to develop a method to perform noninvasive brain surgery with focused ultrasound. Now in the first 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 computer-controlled in real-time. In 1994, he was named Schwarz Scholar by Florida State University for his contributions to science and the humanities.

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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