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BIOGRAPHIES Clare Nielsen received her Bachelor of Music in Flute performance from New England Conservatory of Music and Master of Arts in Music History from Tufts University. In addition to teaching and free-lancing in the Boston area, she is a member of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra in New London, Connecticut and the Ariel Wind Quintet. As a member of the quintet she received an Artist’s Diploma in Chamber Music from the Longy School of Music. An active chamber and orchestral musician, oboist Jennifer Slowik performs regularly throughout New England. As a founding member of the award winning quintet Southspoon Winds, she has been featured on the Dame Myra Hess Radio Series in Chicago, Washington D.C.'s Phillips Collection, and as a finalist in New York's Concert Artist Guild competition. In past years she has appeared with the Springfield Symphony, Sarasota Opera Orchestra, and as principal oboist on the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra's 2002 tour of Spain. She is currently a member of the Indian Hill Symphony, and appears regularly with the symphonies of Albany, Nashua and Vermont, Emmanuel Music, Cantata Singers and the Shaker Mountain Opera Festival. Rebecca
Leonard
received her Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance from the New England
Conservatory of Music. Active as a bass clarinetist as well as a clarinetist,
she has performed extensively throughout the New England area. She can
be heard regularly with the Nashua , Portland , Albany , New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, and Vermont Symphony Orchestras. She is also a frequent
theater musician. As a member of the Ariel Quintet she has performed in
school presentations, live radio broadcasts, and performing arts series. Rebecca
has taught at Brown University, and currently has a large private studio
in her home as well as being an adjunct professor at the University of
Massachusetts - Lowell. She is a frequent adjudicator of the Massachusetts
District Festival auditions and the Rhode Island All-State and Solo and
Ensemble Festivals. In Ukraine she conducted a woodwind masterclass at
the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Rebecca can be heard on the Koch International,
CRI, Pickwick, and Albany Labels. She lives with her husband, Michael,
their children, Mallory and Hunter, and their Rottweilers, Quincy and
Callie in Wayland. Rebecca and Michael began Leonards
Music in 2003 and now rent, sell, and repair all types of band instruments. Raised in Philadelphia, Donna Hensil Taub had a chance meeting with the bassoon at age twelve and immediately fell in love. Her musical education began at the Settlement Music School where she studied bassoon and chamber music with Shirley Curtiss. Ms. Hensil Taub earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University where she studied with Sidney Rosenberg and continued her studies with Richard Ranti at the New England Conservatory, earning both a Masters degree and Graduate Diploma. She was the second bassoonist with the New Bedford Symphony for 5 seasons and has performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Portland Symphony. She resides in Boston and is an active freelanc musician in the New England area. |
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