Artistic Directors
Amy Sue Barston
Edward Klorman
Executive Director
Aimee Ward
Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame
info@lakemusicfestival.org - phone: 585-690-1220
Board of Directors
President
Heather Ward
Community Volunteer
Vice President
Ann Hanley
Community Volunteer
Treasurer
Edward Grissing
Monroe Community College
Anne Kennedy
Community Volunteer
Susanne Kennedy
Community Volunteer
Claire Eiselen Naples
RIT and Brighton Schools
(retired)
H. David Norton
Norton Consulting
Lawrence Schenck
Investment Banker
(retired)
Ines Draskovic
Assistant professor of music at FLCC
Advisory Board
Cricket Luellen
Community Volunteer
Ellen Polimeni
Canandaigua Mayor
Artistic Advisors
DANIEL PHILLIPS
Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist and teacher. He was a winner of the Young Concert Artists Auditions in 1976, and has performed as soloist with many leading orchestras in the US. Mr. Phillips is a co-founder of the 20-year-old Orion String Quartet (visit their acclaimed website: www.orionquartet.com), which serves as the resident quartet of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. They presented the complete Bartok Quartets there in 2004, and have been touring internationally in a unique collaboration with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He studied at Juilliard with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas, and later worked with Sandor Vegh. Daniel Phillips is professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, in Manhattan.
PHILLIP YING
Phillip Ying, as violist of the Ying Quartet, performs regularly across the United States, Europe and Asia. During summers, he has performed at the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Caramoor, Norfolk, Aspen, Colorado, Bowdoin and Montana summer music festivals. He is a recipient of the Naumburg Award for chamber music. With the Ying Quartet, Mr. Ying maintains a vital interest in new music, with recent and planned premieres of works by Chen Yi, Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Torke, Bernard Rands, and Ned Rorem. In addition to enjoying a highly successful performing career, Mr. Ying is committed to presenting the arts in creative, unexpected and diverse ways. Recent projects include partnerships with the La Jolla Music Society and Tod Machover using hyperscore technology, a performing residency at Symphony Space in New York City featuring multidisciplinary presentations, and tours and recordings with the Turtle Island String Quartet. Mr. Ying currently serves as President of Chamber Music America, a national service organization for chamber music ensembles, presenters and artist managers. He received his education at Harvard University, the New England Conservatory, and the Eastman School of Music, and has studied principally with Martha Katz, Walter Trampler, and Roland Vamos.
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