Upcoming Concerts

David Kreider's performances have frequently graced Chamber Music on the Hill. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from The Catholic University of America, studied piano in Vienna, and presented debut recitals in London, Vienna, and Carnegie Recital Hall. He teaches at McDaniel College, where he is a senior lecturer in piano.
Nicholas Currie is Principal Second of Concert Artists of Baltimore, and Concertmaster of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony. Soloist, chamber musician, and a member of the Azimuth Quartet, he is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and has studied at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France.
They will perform César Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Claude Debussy's last work, his Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Phanos Dymiotis' Elegie for Violin and Piano.
Born in Cyprus in 1965 and an honor graduate of Cambridge University, Dymiotis was Principal Violinist and Composer in Residence for the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. A member of the Mariner String Quartet, and adjunct Music Professor at McDaniel College, his life and brilliant career tragically ended in 2007. This concert carries the fond memories of all who knew this talented, creative and gentle man and his beautiful Elegie honors him beyond words.

Chamber Music on the Hill presents Andrea Casarrubios, cello and Andrei Licaret, piano in a program featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and others
Recently announced winner of the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition 2009, Andrea Casarrubios has been awared in several competitions like the First Prize "SOR Solo String Competition" (USA, 2009), First Prize "Baltimore Music Club String Competition" (USA, 2008), First Prize "Castilla y León Piano Competition Rio Orbigo"(Spain, 2004), First Prize National Piano Competition "Rio del Oro" (Spain, 2005). She has won the cello scholarship of Juventudes Musicales of Spain 2009 and since 2007 she is a recipient of the "Beatrice Feldman Kahn and Raymond S. Kahn Endowed Cello Scholarship" to study for a Bachelor's degree in cello performance at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) with Professor Amit Peled.
Andrea was born in Spain, in 1988. She began her piano studies at the age of two with composer and pianist María Escribano and studied with her untill 2001. From 2001- 2007 she studied with Bulgarian pianist Ludmil Angelov in Toledo (Spain). When she was six Andrea started to take cello lessons and from 2000 until 2007 she was a student of Maria de Macedo in Madrid (Spain). During the year 2007 she also studied with cellist Lluis Claret in Barcelona (Spain). Andrea is currently on a full scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University studying cello with Prof. Amit Peled and piano with Prof. Seth Knopp.
Andrea has performed in many summer festivals and played in masterclasess for acclaimed piano and cello teachers like Leon Fleisher (Peabody Conservatory), Frans Helmerson ("Sion Academy Tibor Varga", Switzerland, 2007 and "Pablo Casals Festival" , France, 2008), Ralph Kirshbaum, Steven Doane, Paul Katz (Heifetz Festival 2009), Lluís Claret, Amit Peled, Asier Polo, Christope Coin, Paulo Gaio Lima, Daniel Grosgurin ("Spain Violoncello Forum", summers 2000-08). As a winner of the "SOR Solo Competition" she has been the guest artist invited to perform Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata (arrangement for cello and orchestra) with the String Orchestra of the Rockies in Montana in May 2009 and during this past summer she was on a full scholarship at the Heifetz Institute 2009. Born on 11th September in Bucharest, Andrei Licaret was five years old when he started to learn the piano with his father. He made his orchestral debut when aged eleven, playing a Mozart concerto and since then, he has given concerts throughout Europe (Paris, Enghien, Santander, Alicante, Berlin, Wurzburg ,Rome, Thessaloniki, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Prague, St.Gallen, Tel-Aviv) and the USA (New York, Washington, Boston, Houston, Iowa, New Jersey, Northhampton).
Andrei Licaret has been invited by all the important romanian orchestras and played under the baton of conductors such as Cristian Mandeal, Horia Andreescu, Jin Wang, Arnold Ostman, Arie Vardi, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati , Florentin Mihaescu. He is a prize winner of several competitions, among them Jeuness Musicales 1st Prize (1996), Bucharest Yamaha 1st Prize (2002), Lorry Wallfish Prize (2003), 2nd Prize in Tel-Hai Competition (2007) and 2nd Prize in Shreveport Concerto Competition (2008).
His teachers have included Gabriela Enasescu at the George Enescu Music High-school in Bucharest, Viniciu Moroianu, Dana Borsan, Dan Dediu(with whom he studied composition) at Bucharest Conservatory and Jacques Rouvier(in Paris). He has also been a regular student of Dmitri Baskirov's Mozarteum master-classes in Salzburg.
Andrei Licaret is a member of the "Henri Coanda" Foundation and has recorded for the Romanian Radio and the National Romanian Television.
He is currently studying with Leon Fleisher in Peabody Conservatory

A mainstay of Chamber Music on the Hill, the Westminster Trio performs extensively in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Violinist Melissa Zaraya, long-time member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is well-known to the Baltimore-Washington area. She also has performed chamber music extensively in South America, Spain, and the Far East. Cellist Esther Mellon joined the Buffalo Philharmonic before coming to the Baltimore Symphony. She has performed at the Spoleto and Eastern Music Festivals and was recipient of a grant from the Kennedy Center Committee for Cultural Diversity in the Arts. David Kreider is the third member of the trio.
Pianist Donald Horneff is a member of the McDaniel College music faculty teaching piano lab, harpsichord and electronic music and serves as piano technician. He has performed extensively throughout the mid-Atlantic region and is organist at Westminster United Methodist Church.
Renate Falkner has performed extensively as a chamber and orchestral musician throughout the US and Europe. She is a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, and the Handel & Haydn Society. On faculty at the Connecticut School of Music, she also teaches and performs internationally during the summer at music festivals, most recently in Brazil.
Steven Thomas, internationally known as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, was the winner of many national competitions in the US and his native England. Mr. Thomas has performed throughout Europe and North and South America and returns to Chamber Music on the Hill after a brilliant performance last season.
Lynn Griffith has performed with the Singapore Symphony, the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Irving (Texas) Symphony, and the American Wind Symphony's Winds on the Moon Quintet. She has been a featured recitalist at Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA.
Tenor Evan Walker's performances include Vaughan Williams' Hodie, solo recitals, and performances for the Friday Morning Music Club in Washington, D.C. His studies include the Vienna-based 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities "Mozart's Worlds" Institute. He is Chair of the Music Department and full-time singing teacher at Carver Center in Towson.
This commemoration of Robert Schumann will include his Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op. 47; Andante and Variations for Two Pianos, Two Cellos, and French Horn, Op. 46; Adagio and Allegro for Piano and French Horn, Op. 70; and excerpts from Dichter Liebe, Op.48.

The Azimuth Quartet recently joined Carroll Community College as quartet in residence. The ensemble's vibrant style and musical precision emergeno matter the genre.
James Tung is the concertmaster for both the Frederick and the Westminster Symphony Orchestras and is on the music faculty of Carroll and Frederick Community Colleges.
Alice Tung performs with the Maryland and Frederick Symphony Orchestras and is Principal Violist of the Westminster Symphony. She is a member of the music faculty at McDaniel College.
Adam Gonzalez is Principal Cellist of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony. He has taught at Georgetown University and Montgomery College and was Director of Instrumental Music at the Waldorf School in Baltimore.
Included in this concert will be Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 59; Mozart's String Quartet, K. 465 ("Dissonant"); and Puccini's Chrysanthemum.