Music by the legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and more for flute, violin, viola, and cello.
DETAILS
Tickets: $35 (plus tax and service fee)
7:30pm Performance
8:30pm Private reception with the artists
ARTISTS
Amy Taylor, flute
Evin Blomberg, violin
Christian Colberg, viola
Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello
PROGRAM
To be announced.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Amy Taylor has held flute and piccolo positions with several major U.S. orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony and the Honolulu Symphony. Amy was the Acting Piccoloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during the ’23-24 season, Guest Principal Flute with the Baltimore Symphony and Guest Piccolo with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as well. Ms. Taylor was recently the winner of the 2nd flute position with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Throughout her career she has played frequently with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and joined the CSO on tours to Asia and Carnegie Hall. She has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras on both flute and piccolo. Other notable accomplishments of this Yamaha Artist include her performance as a soloist with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble at Chicago’s Grant Park. She was also the first place winner of the National Flute Association’s Orchestral Excerpts Competition and the Oklahoma Young Artist Competition. She is a frequent guest artist with the Arizona Music Festival and has the privilege to perform during summer months with the Sitka Summer Music Festival, Sun Valley Music Festival and the Bellingham Music Festival.
In addition to her active performing career, Ms. Taylor is a devoted teacher. She currently holds Flute and Piccolo teaching positions at the University of North Texas and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, respectively. She is also on the Flute faculty at the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy.
Originally from the Dallas area, she received her BM from the University of North Texas and her MM from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include, Walfrid Kujala and Terri Sundberg.
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Violinist Evin Blomberg currently plays in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and is the Founder & CEO of the Soli Music Society. Evin studied with Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music in New York where she earned a Master of Music degree, and before that studied with Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles where she earned both a Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma. Recently, Evin won the Bronze Award at the 2022 Singapore International Music Competition, a Laureate at the 2021 Chicago Violin Competition, and was a "Next Up" Alumni Grant winner in 2021 and 2022 in a proposal competition held by The Colburn School.
In 2023, Evin was selected as a finalist for the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center Upstander Awards and also received a Gold President’s Volunteer Service Award for her arts advocacy and work around the community with the Soli Music Society. Evin is passionate about using her voice for positive change through leadership in the community, and is a recent graduate of the YWCA Rising Star Equity Leadership Program and The Wharton School Online Leadership and Management Certificate Program. In 2024, Evin was an award recipient at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Next Generation Leadership Awards in the Arts, Entertainment & Hospitality category.
Evin currently plays on a 1772 Joseph Gagliano violin from Naples, Italy.
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Christian Colberg is currently the Principal Viola of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Prior to joining the CSO, he was the Assistant Principal Viola of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Colberg is also an Artist-Faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School, a Valade Fellow at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and is Principal Viola at the Bellingham Festival of Music.
Colberg began his musical studies at the age of four in his native Puerto Rico. Recipient of numerous awards including the Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation Fine Arts grant, Colberg was honored by the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico in 1985, and again by the Senate in 1994 for his achievements in the classical music field. He is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of Music, His main teachers include Alexander Schneider, Saul Ovcharov, Charles Libov and Shirley Givens. Mr. Colberg has also been on the violin faculty of the Peabody Institute of Music and on the viola faculty of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
As an active chamber musician, Mr. Colberg has collaborated with such artists as, Marvin Hamlish, Gary Karr, Milton Katims, Augustin Hadelich, Samuel Sanders, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, the Muir, Cypress and Ariel String Quartets and with the Silk Road Festival in China.
In October 2018, Mr. Colberg performed his own Viola Concerto, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He has performed this work with numerous orchestras, including the Puerto Rico Conservatory Orchestra and Música de Cámara in New York City. The second movement of his concerto was used as the competition piece for the 2014 Primrose International Viola Competition and the third movement was used in the Sphinx competition of 2023. In June of 2018, The Rant - For Two Violas, was also premiered at the International Viola Congress in Los Angeles. His newest compositions for string quartet and drums was released in September of 2022 on a new album titled Talking to Myself in which he also played all the parts.
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Ilya Finkelshteyn is Principal Cello of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Pops, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Praised by the Washington Post as a "complete master of his instrument," he has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Ilya was previously Principal Cello of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and prior to that played in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for five seasons. Ilya started his education at the Special Music School at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the tutelage of Sergei Chernyadiev. After immigrating to the United States, Ilya studied with Tanya Remenikova at the University of Minnesota School of Music and then with Harvey Shapiro at The Juilliard School in New York City. Since 2004, Ilya has also been Principal Cello of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center in New York City (formerly known as the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra).
Prize-winner of such competitions as the Brahms International Competition, Concertino Praga, Russian Cello Competition, the WAMSO International Competition, the Aspen Concerto Competition and the Chautauqua Concerto Competition, Ilya Finkelshteyn has appeared as a soloist with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and many other world-class orchestras including the National Repertory Orchestra. Ilya frequently gives masterclasses and teaches and various schools and festivals across the country.
Ilya plays on a 1730 Domenico Montagnana cello courtesy of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.