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Violinist Paul Primus grew up in the Chicago and Cleveland areas, before attending Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in music from UWM. Paul won an audition with the Denver Symphony in 1984, and was promoted to Principal Second Violinist in 1985, the position he still holds. He coordinated the chamber music program at Denver School of the Arts from 2013-2018. Paul is a founding member of the Colorado Chamber Players, which he and his wife Barbara Hamilton began in 1993. He performs approximately 30 concerts a year with the CCP, and can be heard frequently on Colorado Public Radio. Mr. Primus has performed numerous unaccompanied violin recitals over the years, most memorably one of the complete Paganini Caprices in 1986. Paul is an active teacher in the Denver area and has also taught and performed at Eastern Music Festival, Rocky Ridge, and the Lamont Pre-College Academy at DU. He is a frequent coach for the DYAO

The new principal harp of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Bronze Medal winner of the 9th USA International Harp Competition, Emily Levin has been praised for her “technical wizardry and artistic intuition” (Herald Times). From Denver, Colorado, she has been soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, World Harp Congress, and the Jerusalem and Colorado symphony orchestras. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Indiana University.

Gwenyth Aggeler is an 18-year-old guitarist from Denver, CO. She began studying the guitar at age 6 with Aaron Medina and continued her studies in middle and high-school with Alex Komodore. Gwenyth was featured on NPR’s radio program From the Top in February of 2019 and recently performed on From the Top’s live-stream concert series. She has been awarded prizes in several competitions including a prize in the New York Guitar Competition, first prize in the Eastern Music Festival High School Guitar Competition, and second prize in the junior and senior divisions of the Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition. Gwenyth has performed in master classes with Manuel Barrueco, Martha Masters, Judicaël Perroy, Los Romeros, Jason Vieaux, and Thomas Viloteau. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at Peabody Conservatory in the studio of Maestro Manuel Barrueco.

Lily Primus is an 18-year-old harpist from Denver, Colorado. In 2019, she was one of four members of the Young Artists Harp Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She was a prizewinner of the American Harp Society National Competitions in 2015, 2017 & 2019. Lily was the inaugural recipient of the Siochi Scholarship at Young Artists Harp Seminar (YAHS) in 2018. She was the first prize winner of the Concerto Competition at YAHS in 2018. Lily was on the Young Musicians Foundation roster from 2016-18. She was the winner of the Concerto Competition of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra in 2020. She been a frequent performer with the Colorado Chamber Players and at Colorado Public Radio. She is a freshman at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, pursuing her degree in Harp Performance with harpist Paula Page, and is the recipient of the Hudspeth Scholarship in Music. She was a student of Mary Kay Waddington, founder of the Suzuki Harp School, for thirteen years.

Barbara Hamilton is Artistic Director and Violist/Violist d’Amore with the Colorado Chamber Players, a position she has held for 27 years. She performed the complete Brandenberg Concerti with BCOC on baroque viola. She served as principal violist with Eastern Music Festival 1990-2005. Barbara played as principal violist/soloist with Colorado Symphony, Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona & Orquesta de Valencia (Spain). She was in the New York Philharmonic for one season. Dr. Hamilton received a DMA from Yale School of Music in 1992, where she studied with Jesse Levine and taught in 1998. She was a prize winner in the Fischoff, Aspen Festival and Woolsey Hall Competitions, as well as the Young Artists of YM-YWHA (New Jersey). In the 1990’s, she toured Europe with the Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, the NY Virtuosi and the American Sinfonietta, concerts in the Grosse Saal/Vienna, the Concertgebauw, Leipzig Gewandhaus.

John Fadial has appeared on four continents as chamber musician, soloist and pedagogue. His performances have been praised by the critics. “Sparkling Technique,” L’Est Republicain “Wow! Great Stuff,” The Washington Post. He has toured internationally as a US State Department Artistic Ambassador, and has served as Concertmaster of the North Carolina Opera, the Colorado Festival, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, the Menuhin Festival Orchestra of Saumur (France), the Heidelberg Schloss-Spiele (Germany), and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (eighteen seasons). He has been Professor of Violin at the University of Wyoming since 2008, and in 2016 served as Visiting Guest Artist at the Conservatoire National de Nancy (France). In 2007, he was a Grammy semifinalist for best Chamber Music Performance for the CD Where Does Love Go: Chamber Music of Mark Engebretson (Innova). American Record Guide deemed his disc Chamber Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, with English pianist Andrew Harley,

Praised by The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) for her “masterful solo performances” and “brilliant” playing, harpsichordist Alice M. Chuaqui Baldwin has performed as a soloist and continuo artist throughout North America and abroad, and holds a doctorate in harpsichord from Indiana University. From 2014–2016 she served as a continuo artist at the Oregon Bach Festival, performing with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Masaaki Suzuki, Rachel Podger, Matthew Halls, Monica Huggett, Craig Hella Johnson, and Helmuth Rilling. Alice was the featured young artist in the January 2019 issue of Early Music America. She was on the continuo team at 2018 Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and she has participated in the Juilliard at the Piccola Accademia program, the American Bach Soloists Academy, and the Tafelmusik Winter Institute. An active performer of new music, Alice has premiered several works, most recently a piece for solo harpsichord—Triptych of Life—by her husband Nicolas Chuaqui.

Opus Two has been internationally recognized for its “divine phrases, impelling rhythm, elastic ensemble and stunning sounds,” as well as its commitment to expanding the violin-piano duo repertoire. Winners of the U. S. Information Agency’s Artistic Ambassador Auditions, violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock have performed across six continents, including engagements at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, St. John’s Smith Square (London), Wagner Hall (Riga), American Church in Paris, U.S. Embassy Canberra, and on Hong Kong’s Hell Hot! New Music Series, as well as on NPR, Radio France, and the BBC. The duo has also presented master classes worldwide from Juilliard to the China Central Conservatory, and they have served on the faculties of the Saarburg (Germany) International Music Festival and School and the International Concerto Festival (Czech Republic). Champions of American music, Opus Two has recorded a critically acclaimed series of single-composer discs dedi

Cellist Beth Vanderborgh serves as Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Wyoming, as principal cellist of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and on the Artist-Faculty of the Eastern Music Festival. She is a founding member of the acclaimed Stanislas Sextet, based in Nancy, France, and tours regularly with Musica Harmonia and the Helios Trio. She has recorded two CDs for Albany Records, both released in 2013: Chamber Music of Jennifer Higdon (“Highly recommended!” Fanfare Magazine) and Salon Music of August Nölck for Cello and Piano. Strad Magazine described her Nölck recording as “lyrical and technically accomplished, eloquent and persuasive.” She holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, the Eastman School of Music and the University of Maryland.

Noted as a "very expressive soprano" (Opus Colorado), Kathryn Radakovich enjoys a varied career performing works from the modern, classical, baroque, and jazz idioms. A recent transplant to Philadelphia, Kathryn makes her debut with The Crossing, returns to Helena's Musikanten Montana as a soloist in Viva Vivaldi!, Kathryn also makes her debut with Philadelphia-based vocal sextet Variant 6 in the world premiere of Wally Gunn’s Moonlite, followed by a USA tour. Kathryn's solo engagements include appearances with; Musikanten Montana in Bach's St. John Passion, as Musica and Ninfa in Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Baroque Chamber Orchestra (Stephen Stubbs), with the CCP under the direction of Matthieu Lussier in Messiah, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic in Bernstein: On Stage and Screen, the Victoria Bach Festival in Bach's Magnificat, the Ars Nova Singers in “Mass in Blue”, and in Padworski's Reflections on a Mexican Garden with Colorado Chorale. Her jazz Quintet returns for Part II of “Tribut

DANIEL URBANOWICZ is currently a violist in the Sarasota Orchestra, and performs regularly with the Jacksonville Symphony, Southwest Florida Symphony. Dan has played with the New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Atlantic Symphony, Gulfshore Opera, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Firelands Orchestra, and Plymouth Philharmonic. Urbanowicz has served as principal violist of the Augusta Symphony, Charlottesville Opera, Gulfshore Opera, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra. Dan also enjoys playing the viola d’amore, and has been featured with the Colorado Chamber Players, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Charleston’s Second Monday Series, and Augusta University as a guest lecturer and recitalist. His principal teachers include Martha Katz and Jeffrey Irvine. Mr Urbanowicz plays on a 2017 Robert Clemens Viola. Urbanowicz holds a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music

Josh Baker joined The Florida Orchestra as the principal bassoonist in December 2018. He previously held the principal bassoon position with the Charleston (SC) Symphony. During the summer months, Josh plays associated principal bassoon with the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, CO. In 2014, Mr. Baker studied in the Master of Music program from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas under the tutelage of Benjamin Kamins. Prior to Rice University, Josh received his Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts studying with Richard Ranti and Richard Svoboda. In addition to music, Josh enjoys running, reading, cooking Asian food, and eating many macaroons.

Sarah Biber has played viola da gamba and cello across the United States, Australia and China. In recent collaborations with dance, she has been featured with the Paul Taylor Dance Company performing solo Bach for the company’s first performance with period instruments. Ms. Biber earned her doctorate from Stony Brook University after double-degree studies at Oberlin Conservatory and College and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She recently relocated to Golden, Colorado where she teaches and plays with the Baroque Orchestra of Colorado and Byrd on a Wire, her viol consort. Sarah plays an 1815 Lockey Hill cello and and 2015 gamba by François Danger. She enjoys playing both Baroque and Modern styles. A Colorado native, she has been delighted to be a part of the growth of Early Music in this beautiful state.