Marc Moskovitz, founder and artistic director of the Trinity Park Salon Series, is principal cellist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Ohio. He has performed with the Boston Pops, toured with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and recorded with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. His solo recordings include music of cello virtuosi David Popper and Alfredo Piatti and has performed at the Library of Congress and the International Piatti Festival in Bergamo, Italy. Marc has contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, is author of Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony and co-author of Beethoven's Cello, due out in the fall of 2017.
Marjorie Bagley, UNC-G Professor of Violin and Concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony, made her Lincoln Center concerto debut in 1997 with the Little Orchestra Society after beginning her performing career at the age of nine in her home state of North Carolina. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in the first class of Pinchas Zukerman, she is active as a recitalist, chamber musician and teacher and a former principal of the ProMusica Columbus Chamber Orchestra.
As First Violinist of the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, Eric Pritchard performs regularly throughout the U.S. and abroad and can be heard on many commercial recordings. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Boston Pops and Indianapolis Philharmonic. Festival appearances include Mostly Mozart, Norfolk, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Monadnock Music, Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, and the Castle Hill Festival.
Violist Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Recent chamber music endeavors include performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Bill Preucil, Kurt Nikkanen, Zuill Bailey, and Sergey Antonov. His solo and chamber music recordings can be heard on the Centaur, CRI, Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. A strong proponent of new music, Rawls has toured extensively as a member of Steve Reich and Musicians since 1991. The ensemble has performed in every major music center around the world.
Professor of cello at UNC-Greensboro, Alex Ezerman is a prize winner at national and international competitions, and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across North America, South America, and Europe. An active advocate and performer of new music, he has been involved in numerous premiers, and has performed all twelve of the "Sacher" pieces for solo cello in a single recital. He has recorded on the New World, Centaur and Innova Labels. In the summer, he is on the faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont.
R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor of Music and former chair of the Music Department. Among his books are Mendelssohn: A Life in Music (Oxford), named best biography of 2003 by the Association of American Publishers, and described in the New York Review of Books as “likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come.” He is a former fellow of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Humanities Center.
