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solo artists & chamber musicians 2009-2010

July 26th Mendelssohn’s Birthday Concert at Cape Cod Synagogue

Performers in the Bristol Chamber Orchestra Chamber Players
Harris Shilakowsky, violinist
Sargis Karapetyan, violinist
Dani Rimoni, violist
Nora Lee Walker, violist
Susanne Friedrich, cellist

About Harris Shilakowsky
Harris Shilakowsky, the music director of the Bristol Chamber Orchestra, has appeared as violin soloist with the New Orleans, Omaha and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, the New England Conservatory and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, and in live recitals on NPR Stations in Boston, Omaha and Nashville. He also performs with groups such as the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera Co., and the American Symphony. In 1994, Mr. Shilakowsky was a guest leader of the London Symphony Orchestra under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and conductors Sir George Solti, Sir Colin Davis and André Previn in performances with Jessye Norman, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Zimmerman, and Kiri Te Kanawa.

He is a former concertmaster of the Charleston, New Orleans, Omaha, Grand Rapids, and Las Palmas Symphony Orchestras, and the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has also performed with the Boston, Chautauqua and Nashville Symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston, the Opera Company of Boston, the Lyric Opera Company of Boston and the Boston Ballet, in Broadway productions in Boston, New York, Providence and Germany.

Shilakowsky is also the leader of the Shilakowsky String Quartet, former first violinist of the DeVos Quartet and the Omaha Symphony String Quartet. He was also first violinist of the Omaha Symphony Quartet, the College of Charleston String Quartet and the Nashville Symphony Quartet. He has formed and performed with many other chamber groups. He also coaches & conducts student and professional chamber music ensembles.

Shilakowsky conducts and performs as violin soloist of the Bristol Chamber Orchestra, a professional ensemble dedicated to performing music of all periods in diverse settings, educational concerts & special events including choral concerts. He will also be the director of the New Community Chamber Orchestra of Sharon, which will begin regular rehearsals in September of 2003.

In 2002, Shilakowsky was guest conductor of the Rocky Ridge Music Festival Orchestra (YAS program). He has conducted chamber orchestra concerts in Grand Rapids and Baroque readings in Germany with international musical colleagues. He has also directed rehearsals with youth orchestras in Burlington, VT and at New England Conservatory of Music.

In 1988, he founded & directed the Strauss Orchestra of Boston and conducted fund-raising concerts featuring Strauss Waltz Evenings for Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic.

As solo violinist, Shilakowsky has appeared with the New Orleans, Omaha and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, the New England Conservatory and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras performing Mozart, Bach and Dvorak Violin Concertos, Vaughan-Williams' "Lark Ascending" and Ravel's "Tzigane", the Brahms Concerto and Chausson "Poeme" and in live recitals on NPR Stations in Boston, Omaha and Nashville. He performed recitals in 1999 in Brockton, MA at Temple Beth Emunah, in 1998 at the Newton Free Public Library & Jewish Community Center in Newton, MA, and in Johannesburg & Pietersburg, South Africa.

Shilakowsky earned his Bachelor of Music cum laudé from New England Conservatory of Music and a Master's Degree from Yale University. His teachers include Joseph Silverstein, Koichiro Harada, Nancy Cirillo, and Leo Panasevich of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; David Cerone, Vali Bluttner, Yair Kless, Joseph Gingold, Louis Krasner, Rudolph Kolisch, Eugene Lehner, Oscar Shumsky and members of the Tokyo Quartet. He is a Tanglewood alumnus and an active composer. He has been listed in 'Who's Who in Musical America'. He has taught at New England Conservatory Preparatory School, the Thayer Conservatory, The South Shore Conservatory, where he was the head of the string department, and as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston. He teaches string instruments and coaches ensembles. He has served as adjudicator for competitions at NEC, Massachusetts Music Educators, and auditions for NEC Youth Chamber Orchestra, working with Benjamin Zander and Mark Churchill.

Later in our 2009-2010 Season: Alexia DelGiudice, Violist; Age 15, First Prize Winner of Division 4, Young Promise International Competition will perform Opus 45, Number 9, 1st Movement by Lars-Erik Larsson.

Violinist SARGIS KARAPETYAN
Sargis holds an artist diploma from Komitas State Conservatory in Armenia where he studied with Professor Edward Tatevosian. He graduated from the Masters Degree program with honors from Komitas State Conservatory.
Mr. Karapetyan is principal second violinist with the Cape, Nashua, New Hampshire, Bangor, and Central Massachusetts Symphony Orchestras. He performs solo recitals in New England, Virginia and Pennsylvania. He also has recorded for Yerevan Radio & TV, was Artistic Director of the Ancient Music Ensemble, the Children’s Opera Theater, assistant concertmaster of the “Gelikon” Opera theater in Moscow.
Sargis was first violinist with the Arno Babajanian String Quartet.
He is a lecturer at Clark University and Boston Conservatory and is a former Director Of Pedagogy / String Instrument Courses and String Department Komitas State Conservatory and Instructor / String Department, Romanos Melikian Music Institute.
Violist Dani Rimoni
Dani Rimoni graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music, part of Tel Aviv University, with an artist diploma in violin and viola performance. After performing with the Be’er Sheva Simfonietta for one season, he came to Boston to study at the New England Conservatory with Boston Symphony Orchestra principal violist Burton Fine. Mr. Rimoni is principal violist of the Nashua Symphony Orchestra (NH), a member of the Boston Classical Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. He also performs with Boston Ballet, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and Boston Lyric Opera. Mr. Rimoni is a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. He has also been on the faculties of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, the Walnut Hill Preparatory School, and the Brookline Music School. For the last six years, he has been the string teacher and string ensemble conductor at the Burncoat Middle and High Schools in Worcester, MA.
Noralee Walker, viola
Teaches violin and coaches chamber music at Winchester Community Music School
Noralee recently performed Paul Hindemith’s Trauermusik for the debut of the Paul Henry Smith's digital orchestra known as Fauxharmonic Orchestra.
She has a B.A. from Wellesley College; Performer's Certificate, Harid Conservatory; M.M., Yale School of Music. She performs with Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Vermont Symphony, Springfield Symphony, New England String Ensemble, and "String Fever", the official string quartet for Young Audiences of Massachusetts. Former faculty, Music On the Hill Festival, Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra Summer Camp.
Susanne Friedrich
Susanne was born in Vienna, Austria, and received her cello training at the Vienna Conservatory, studying with Victor Görlich and Josef Luitz. She received a Masters degree in cello performance as well as a cello pedagogy degree from the Vienna Conservatory. She participated in a master class with Misha Maisky.
She taught as Josef Luitz’s assistant at the International Chamber Music Festival Allegro Vivo for 9 years, as well as taking part in the Payerbacher Meisterkurse, directed by Eva Salmutter.
While already a freelance cellist and teacher at the Vienna Conservatory Preparatory School she spent one year studying baroque cello at the Innsbruck Conservatory (State of Tyrol) with Max Engel.
This brought her into period time performing, and established the contact with Paul Angerer’s group Concilium Musicum with whom she performed as their only cellist for many years, touring all of Austria and Europe as well as Southeast Asia.
During her years in Vienna she played regularly with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Wiener Kammeroper (Vienna Chamber Opera) where she also contracted the orchestra.
In 1997 she moved to the Boston area to establish herself as a freelance player with many of New England’s orchestras. She is assistant principal of the Nashua Symphony (NH) and plays regularly with Masterworks Chorale and many other ensembles.
She founded Trio Orione (piano trio) together with Katharina Radlberger and Roy Imperio, as well as the Vienna Waltz Ensemble, which performs Strauss’ waltzes and polkas, and is a member of Trio Con Brio, with Wendy Vignaux and Laura Wilkins.
Susanne teaches cello and chamber music at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Dana Hall School of Music, Rivers School Conservatory, and St. Mark’s School.

About Alexia DelGiudice
Alexia began her string studies at age 8. She started on violin and
moved her studies to her passion for the viola. She played with the
New England Conservatory Preparatory String Orchestra for 2 years,
moved to Boston Youth Symphony orchestra’s Junior Repertory
orchestra and currently plays in the Repertory Orchestra.
Her chamber experience includes 3 seasons with BYSO. Repertoire
includes Dvorak Bass Quintet, String Quartet Opus 18, No. 4 by
Beethoven, 3 Haydn String Quartets (which she played for the
Duchess of York), Mendelssohn Quartet and 3 chamber operas
including Britten's Noyes Fludde, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel,
Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and Portman’s “The Little Prince”.
Alexia was a finalist in the 2007 New England String Ensemble
competition.
Alexia was recently invited to play with the Orchestra of Rome and
Lazio at the July Tuscia Opera Festival in Viterbo, Italy. She was the only
student musician in this professional orchestra led by Maestro Stefano
Vignati. She was affectionately named by orchestra members and the press
“La Piccola” (The Little one). Symphonic Performances included
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite and Piano Concerto Op. 20, Mozart’s
Requiem, Symphony No. 41and Concerto in B for Clarinet. Operas
included Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Puccini’s La Boheme. Alexia
was also the featured violist in Tuscia Festival’s chamber ensemble
performances of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate and the Pergolesi Stabat
Mater in Montefiascone, Italy at the Famous Rocca di Papi.
Alexia will appear as the viola soloist at the Tuscia Opera festival in
July 2009.
Alexia is a viola student of Katherine Almquist and coaching student of
Patricia McCarty and Mai Motobuchi.

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Todd Brunel, is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist who leads a dual life as a cross-over classical and jazz musician. In the world premiere event, 'From Requiem to Renewal' at Boston College, "clarinetist Todd Brunel and pianist Synthia Sture played with Tremendous virtuosity and heart", The Boston Globe.

He has premiered numerous works by such composers as: Matthew D. Harder, Rick Sowash, Ara Sarkissian, The Alta Voz Composers Alliance, Vuk Kulenovic, Ludmilla Germain, Arnesto Klar, Pamela Watson, Vache Sharyfyan and composer/conductor Lawrence 'Butch' Morris.

He collaborated with saxophonist Bobby Watson (as principal clarinetist with the Opera Ebony of Harlem) and has performed with such groups as: ALEA III, the American Opera Musical Theater Company, the Andover Chamber Players, the Greenwich Village Orchestra and many New York and Boston area orchestras.

Brunel has made guest appearances at Carnegie Hall, Harvard University, the Boston and New England Conservatories, The Manhattan School, The SEAMUS Festival and The Winter Sun Music Festival, where he collaborated with legendary pianist, Daltin Baldwin. Brunel is the artistic director of The Black Dust Ensemble, a featured performance group with the 'Musica Eclectica' Series at Eastern Nazarene College.

As a jazz/improvisational musician and composer, He produced and performed in the critically acclaimed 'Vortex Series' for improvisational music, which was the jazz "pick of the week" in the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe.

He has been a featured artist at Rob Chalfen's Subconscious Cafe in collaboration with such groups as Andalusian Dream, the Circadian Rhythm Kings and such artists as pianist David Maxwell, violinist Katt Hernandez and cellist Daniel Levin. In New York, Brunel recorded the electro-acoustic work, 'She Stood Weeping' by composer George 'Skip' Brunner, which gained international recognition.

He has worked with saxophonists James Carter and Blaise Siwula, and continues his collaborations with singer/songwriter Lilli Lewis, with whom he has made numerous radio and television appearances across the United States. In a review of the recording, "the Blind Man" from the album, "The Coming of John", the gods of music.com, described his playing in the plural: "Sweeping solos blown in a diverse stream of study nothingness.........played by true cats, heavy pros."

Brunel has been a guest artist at ABC No Rio, Art Beat Festival, Smalls, CGBG's Gallery, the National Black Arts Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival.

He has premiered his own compositions at Dartmouth College, the Longy School of Music, Boston University and the Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival.

His website: www.clarinetconspiracy.com is dedicated to innovative music and challenges mainstream musical convention.

Brunel received an MM from the Brooklyn College Conservatory, where he was a teaching assistant to Paul Shelden and assistant director of the wind ensemble. He received a BM in Clarinet performance from the Boston Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Atilio Poto and Pasquale Cardillo. He has pursued graduate study at the Longy School of Music as a scholarship recipient, the University of North Texas and Boston University. He was a scholarship participant at the Aspen Music Festival, the International Clarinet Connection and has pursued clarinet studies with Thomas Martin and Jonathan Cohler, composition with Sam Headrick and jazz improvisation with Bob Mover and Peter Cassino.

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cellist, Yoni Etzion

Yoni Etzion was born in Israel, 1984. She started playing the cello at the age of 6 in the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv, studying with Ms. Maayan Matityahu and later on with Prof. Mikhail Khomitser. Yoni graduated from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music with a B.Mus, studying with Mr. Hillel Zori. Since September 2006 she studies with Mr. Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory in Boston, USA, towards a Masters degree.

Yoni took part in festivals and master classes in Israel, Europe and the USA and played in front of artists such as Uzi Wiezel, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Franz Helmerson, Wolfgang Betcher, Philip Muler, Natalia Gutman, Arto Noras, the Alban Berg Quartet, and many others.

Yoni won the first prize of the Israel Conservatory String Competition, the first prize of the Ben Haim Competition for Israeli Music, the second prize of the Buchman Mehta School of Music Chamber Music Competition, the third prize of the Buchman Mehta School of Music String Competition, and was a prizewinner of the Young Artist Competition in Jerusalem.

Yoni is a former participant of the Youth Unit of the Jerusalem Music Center, there she participated in courses, played in several chamber groups, played concerts and recorded for the Israel Radio.

Yoni is a very active musician in Israel as a chamber player, a soloist and an orchestra player, and performs all over Israel. She also gave solo and chamber recitals in Holland, Spain and Russia. As a former member of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded and conducted by Maestro Daniel Barenboim, she toured in Spain, France, Germany, and Morocco.

Yoni was the principal cellist of the MIAGI festival orchestra in South Africa, principal cellist at a special Gala Concert conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta in Israel, and now she is the principal cellist of the New England Conservatory Philharmonia Orchestra. She participated in the Holland Music Sessions festival, the Summit Music Festival, the Royal Proms festival, and others. Yoni was the soloist of the Thelma Yelin orchestra and the Israel Conservatory Orchestra.

Yoni Etzion has been supported by the America Israel Cultural Foundation from 1993 to 2006, and by the Ronen Foundation from 2002-2006.

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2003-4 Harris Shilakowsky & Samuil Kreynes, violin soloists

left to right; Harris Shilakowsky, Tanya Schwartzman, Samuil Kreynes photo by Sergey

The music director, violinistHarris Shilakowsky, has appeared as soloist with the New Orleans, Omaha and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, the New England Conservatory and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, and in live recitals on NPR Stations in Boston, Omaha and Nashville. He also performs with groups such as the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera Co., and the American Symphony. In 1994, Mr. Shilakowsky was a guest leader of the London Symphony Orchestra where he performed in recording sessions, tours and performances under music director Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir George Solti, Sir Colin Davis and André Previn in performances with Jessye Norman, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Zimmerman, and Kiri Te Kanawa, among others.

He is a former concertmaster of the Charleston, New Orleans, Omaha, Grand Rapids, Las Palmas Symphony Orchestras, and the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has also performed with the Boston, Chautauqua and Nashville Symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston, the Opera Company of Boston, the Lyric Opera Company of Boston and the Boston Ballet.

Shilakowsky earned his Bachelor of Music cum laudé from New England Conservatory of Music and a Master's Degree from Yale University. His teachers include Joseph Silverstein, Koichiro Harada, Nancy Cirillo, and Leo Panasevich of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; David Cerone, Vali Bluttner, Yair Kless, Joseph Gingold, Louis Krasner, Rudolph Kolisch, Eugene Lehner, Oscar Shumsky and members of the Tokyo Quartet. He is a Tanglewood alumnus and an active composer. He has been listed in 'Who's Who in Musical America', and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. He has taught at New England Conservatory Preparatory School, the Thayer Conservatory, The South Shore Conservatory, where he was the head of the string department, and was an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston. He performs on a violin made around 1725 by Dom Nicolas Amati.

Sean Wu, 14 year-old violinist has studied with Samuil Kreynes for 2 years.

Samuil Kreynes has performed numerous concerts with the BCO, and was concertmaster of orchestras in St. Petersburg in the former Soviet Union.

Ann Rosandich, oboe with Alan Weiss, flute

Ann has performed with the BCO on past concerts and this week performs on our CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT on January 20, 2008

Don Krishnaswami, violist & composer

Violist Don Krishnaswami has performed with numerous professional ensembles from Boston to New York City to Philadelphia, including the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Classical Orchestra, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He has toured domestically with the Boston Pops, including performances at the music festivals of Tanglewood, Ravinia, Wolf Trap, and Interlochen.

Internationally, Krishnaswami's career has taken him to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, and Brazil. In 1987 Krishnaswami toured China with The Juilliard Orchestra in the first visit to that country of an overseas conservatory orchestra since the Cultural Revolution. He has performed as back-up musician with such jazz and pop giants as Mel Torme, Cleo Lane, Natalie Cole, Sarah Brightman, The Moody Blues, Aerosmith, Barry Manilow, Joni Mitchell, The Irish Tenors, Donny Osmond, Smokey Robinson, and Linda Ronstadt.

An avid chamber musician, Krishnaswami is a core member of the Boston-based Art of Music Chamber Players, with whom he performs both as solo and ensemble artist. He is also a founding member of the South Coast Chamber Music Society of New Bedford, Mass. Other highlights among his chamber music engagements have included the Kennedy Center's American Composers Series in collaboration with violinist Paul Zukofsky; the Summergarden series at New York's Museum of Modern Art; and Lincoln Center's Focus! Festival. Radio appearances have included Classical Peformances with Richard Knisely on WGBH Radio, Boston; Paine Webber's Traditions on WNCN Radio, New York; and Listening Room with Bob Sherman on WQXR Radio, New York. Outside of the United States, he has been a guest artist at the Shanghai (China) International Arts Festival, and has performed by invitation at the 27th International Viola Congress in Toronto, Canada.

As a composer and arranger, Krishnaswami has written original music and arrangements that have appeared on two compact disc releases from The Christian Science Publishing Society. One of the recordings, Jubal-ation, was winner of the 2003 DeRose-Hinkhouse Award of Excellence. Among his compositional output are Dialogue for Violin and Cello, Duo for Two Violins, Four Sketches for Piano, Lyric for Two Clarinets, Psalm for Tenor and Organ, a string quartet, two string trios, and orchestral works. "Threnody", which receives its world premiere in our February 8th concert was entered in the William Lincer Foundation competition.

Krishnaswami holds a Master of Music degree in viola and a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from The Juilliard School. His teachers have included Lillian Fuchs, William Lincer, Samuel Rhodes, and Christine Dethier in viola and violin; Roger Sessions and Leon Kirchner in composition; and Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, and Samuel Sanders in chamber music. He plays a modern Italian viola made in Naples in 1916, attributed to Armando Altavilla.

cellist, Jan Pfeiffer

Cellist, Jan Pfeiffer went to school at the University Southern California and the New England Conservatory, studying with Gabor Rejto, Ronald Leonard, and Laurence Lesser, as well as Harvey Shapiro at Juilliard. She was the first holder of the Emanuel Feuermann Cello Chair with the National Orchestra of New York, as well as recipient of the Claus Adam Award. Ms. Pfeiffer was concerto soloist in Carnegie Hall, toured Italy with Musicisti Americani, and was featured on Charles Kuraltís television program. In the New England area, Ms. Pfeiffer plays with the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Ballet, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Her recital and solo appearances have taken her across the United States and Italy. She is the director of the Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College.

Violinist-Music Director, Harris Shilakowsky will lead the string trio

Young Artists

Coming Soon:

Christopher Chen, pianist

Sophie Pollefson, pianist

Angelique Scully, pianist, is 6 years old and has recently begun studying with Tanya Schwartzman. Her depth of talent is described as 'scary'. She has just won the opportunity to perform on-stage at Carnegie Hall at the American Fine Arts Festival. She'll be joined in this performance by Sophia Tollefson, a 'delightful talented' pianist & 3rd prize winner Massachusetts MusicTeachers State Contest 2003

Shin Lan Lee won 2nd prize in the Massachusetts MusicTeachers State Contest 2003 and recently won the opportunity to perform at Merkin Hall at Lincoln Center as part of the American Fine Arts Festival.

Grace Han finalist in Internationalist Young Artists Competition in Washington DC and was one of the duo pianists in Saint-Saens Carnivale of the Animals on the May 4, 2003 BCO Young Artists Concert.

Ari Kriegel, 13;Top Level Piano Soloist in recitals presented by the Sharon Music Academy throughout New England; Lead Alto Saxophonist; Solomon Schecter School Jazz Band. He has also performed the Haydn C Major Concerto with the BCO.

Brandon Bloch performed Haydn Piano Concerto in D with the BCO on the May 3, 2003 concert and has been a featured performer in many solo recitals.

November 22, 2003 7 pm String Orchestra & Soloists

February 8, 2004 3:30 String Trios

June 13, 2004 3:30 pm Third Annual Young Artists Concert

Zarina Irkaeva

As a member of the St. Petersburg "Classica" State Symphony Orchestra and chamber ensemble she has taken tours to Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Japan, and throughout the former Soviet Union. More about Zarina Irkaeva

Olga Kousnetsova

Violinist Olga Kousnetsova, a native of Moscow, Russia, studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov School of Music with Isabella Golovina. She emigrated to
the United States in 1992.

After continued studies on Violin with Peter Marsh in Seattle, Gelber entered the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Masuko Ushioda. She graduated from the Conservatory in 1996, and has performed regularly with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and various Broadway Shows including Titanic and Beauty And The Beast. Olga has recently appeared with renowned artists Barry Manilow, Sarah Brightman, and The Moody Blues, and was on the faculty of the Manchester Music School in New Hampshire. Ms. Gelber also performs with the Speakeasy String Quartet, a group that focuses on early jazz of the 20s and 30s. Her unique sound, passion for jazz, and fresh approach has contributed greatly to the success of the Speakeasy String Quartet.

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