Berkshire Chamber Players Concert

BERKSHIRE CHAMBER PLAYERS CONCERT

To reserve a seat, please either call or email us. info@stockbridge.org, or 413-298-5501.

Join us on Sunday, May 4 at 2:00 p.m. for another lovely afternoon with the Berkshire Chamber Players!

Joel Pitchon and Robyn Quinnett, violins
Marka Gustavsson, viola; Ronald Feldman, cello

  Joel Pitchon is active as a soloist, concertmaster and chamber music player. He has received acclaim for his performances with nationally and internationally renowned ensembles. Pitchon studied with Lewis Kaplan, Oscar Shumsky and Joseph Fuchs, and received his degrees from The Juilliard School. He has served as the concertmaster of numerous orchestras, including the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona (Spain), the New York Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony (guest), the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, Canada, guest) and the EOS Orchestra (NY). He has participated in many concerts in the United States and abroad with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
Mr. Pitchon also works extensively in chamber ensembles. He has been a
member of the Forster String Trio, the Walden Chamber Players and the
Kinor String Quartet, among other groups. Each summer he participates in a
series of concerts as leader of the New Baroque Soloists. Mr. Pitchon is
currently a member of the Sage Chamber Music Society.
As a soloist he has performed with the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona,
Philharmonia Virtuosi, and the EOS Orchestra among others. The New York
Times wrote of his playing in the EOS production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat “…superb playing by Joel Pitchon….”
He has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts including
WGBH, WNYC and PBS. Mr. Pitchon was featured on the TV3 Catalunya
program Cadencia, and has been interviewed about his work for The Strad
magazine. He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophone, CBS Masterworks
and Vox Cum Laude, among others. Recordings include a CD of four Sonatas
for violin and piano by Clifton J. Noble, with the composer at the piano for
the Gasparo label; New England Legacy, with pianist Jonathan Bass of works
by Quincy Porter, Walter Piston and Amy Beach, also recorded for the
Gasparo label; Sun Threads, a recording of the chamber music of Augusta
Read Thomas, made with the Walden Chamber Players, is available on the
ARTCD label; works of composer Donald Wheelock, also with the Walden
Chamber Players, is available on the Albany label, and a further edition of
works by Piston, Perera and Bernstein for piano trio, New England Trios has
been released on the Bridge Records label to positive critical review.

Robyn Quinnett was born on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean and
began playing violin at eight years old. She has won several competitions
including the National Mariam Hayes and Ruth Kern Competitions. Robyn
earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School
studying with Naoko Tanaka and the late Stephen Clapp. In 2019, Robyn
completed her DMA from Stony Brook University studying with Hagai
Shaham. She has attended the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music
Festival, Colorado College Music Festival, and Festival Internacional de
Inverno de Campos do Jordão in Brazil. She has performed with ensembles
such as the American Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, Hudson
Valley Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, American Ballet Theatre
Orchestra, and has recently joined Opera Philadelphia. Robyn is now the
violin professor at Smith College.

Marka Gustavsson is a dedicated chamber musician. Marka, a violist, spent 3 summers as a Tanglewood Fellow, 91-93. Since that time, Marka has pursued a rich and varied performance life both internationally and in the US. She has been a guest artist at the Bard Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, Vancouver’s Music in the Morning, the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, WQXR’s Showcase Concerts, Yale Faculty Artists’ Series, Eastman, and Banff.
Marka has premiered and recorded solo and chamber music of composers John Halle, Joan Tower, Kyle Gann, George Tsontakis, Martin Bresnick, Richard Wernick, Laura Kaminsky, Tania Leon, and Tan Dun. From 1999 through 2014, Marka served as violist of the Colorado Quartet, a group that toured extensively and founded the Soundfest Quartet Festival on Cape Cod. Their Complete Beethoven Quartets are available on Parnassus Records.

Ronald Feldman – Two-time winner of the League of American Orchestras’
ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music,
Ronald Feldman has achieved critical acclaim for his work as a conductor
and cellist. He has appeared as guest conductor with major orchestras,
including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic
Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, and the Quebec Symphony. He served
as assistant to Boston Pops Principal Conductor and composer John
Williams from 1989 to 1993. Seiji Ozawa, Conductor Laureate of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, called Feldman “an outstanding
conductor…with a deep musical mind, which is clearly conveyed through
his performances.” John Williams regarded Feldman as “a brilliant
conductor who displays the best leadership qualities…and an
outstandingly high level of musicianship that imbues his conducting style
with strength, taste, and imagination.”
Feldman joined the Boston Symphony at the age of 19. He has appeared as a soloist in concerto repertoire from Dvořák to Ligeti. Chamber music
affiliations have included performances with the Boston Symphony
ChamberPlayers, Collage New Music, and the Williams Chamber Players.
Other performances have included collaborations with violinist Gil
Shaham, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianists Emanuel Ax and Garrick Ohlsson.
In 2001, Feldman left the Boston Symphony Orchestra to pursue other
musical interests. He was appointed Music Director of Longwood
Symphony Orchestra in July 2012. He also serves as Music Director of the
Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, a regional orchestra in residence at
Williams College. He is Artist in Residence and Lecturer in Music at
Williams College.

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