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A. Mozart Fest Musician Biographies

A. Mozart Fest’s 2006-07 Season

Malcolm Bilson, piano
Malcolm Bilson has been in the forefront of the period-instrument movement for over thirty years. A member of the Cornell Music Department since 1968, he began his pioneering activity in the early 1970s as a performer of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on late 18th- and early 19th-century pianos. Since then he has proven to be a key contributor to the restoration of the fortepiano to the concert stage and to fresh recordings of the "mainstream" repertory. In addition to an extensive career as a soloist and chamber player, Bilson has toured with the English Baroque Soloists with John Eliot Gardiner, the Academy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood, the Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan, Tafelmusik of Toronto, Concerto Köln and other early and modern instrument orchestras around the world. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bard College and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kristin Jensen, bassoon
Kristin Wolfe Jensen has been the bassoon professor at the University of Texas at Austin since 1995. The American Record Guide reviewer said of her solo CD Shadings, “...She has simply turned in the finest-played Bassoon recital I have ever heard... She obviously sees tone quality as the foundation for her fluent technique...It is a ravishing sound, siren-like in its attractive flair...Ms. Jensen could teach a lot about musicality to a number of famous violinists…”. Her other chamber music and solo recordings can be heard on the Cambria, Opus One, Klavier, and Centaur labels. Ms. Jensen has toured Europe with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, served as Acting Principal Bassoonist of the Houston Grand Opera, and performs frequently with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. She has performed solo recitals at several International Double Reed Society conferences, and was co-host of the 2005 conference in Austin. She has given guest recitals and master classes at a number of major American music schools and is a faculty member at the International Festival Institute at Round Top, and the Las Vegas Music Festival. Ms. Jensen is Co-director of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition for young bassoonists from the Americas. John Perry

John Perry, piano
John Perry earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Eastman School of Music and was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslav Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome.

Mary Robbins, piano
Mary Robbins founded A. Mozart Fest in 1991 after presenting a paper on Mozart's cadenzas at the International Bicentennial Mozart Congress in Salzburg, Austria. She attended the Converse College School of Music and The University of Texas, where she completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts. Her ongoing work concerning Mozart's style enables her to compose music where Mozart's own is missing, including for the six late piano concertos lacking his cadenzas. Paul Badura-Skoda, world-famous authority on Mozart, has agreed to collaborate with her in the publication of her original cadenzas. An advocate of many musical styles, she has toured France performing music of contemporary French composers. In addition to her performances as a soloist, Ms. Robbins enjoys frequent chamber music collaborations with other acclaimed artists.

Uli Speth, violin
A native of Germany, Mr. Speth completed his undergraduate work at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and received his Masters of Music from Mannes College of Music, where he was a student of Felix Galimir, from whom he received both private lessons and string quartet training. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player, Mr. Speth has performed throughout Europe and recorded for Austrian and Italian radio. Since 1996, he has also performed as first violinist in over 25 New York City Opera productions. Mr. Speth has been active as a soloist in 2002, performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with New York based chamber orchestra "Musica Bella," and joined recitals of Paul Coletti, Lara St. John, Lars Frandsen and Richard Savino. Recently he has been a guest artist with the Cavaliere Quartet of Salzburg, Austria and has performed in Appalachian Spring at the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival.




			A. Mozart Fest Musician Biographies A. Mozart Fest’s 2006-07 Season Malcolm Bilson, piano Malcolm Bilson has been in the forefront of the period-instrument movement for over thirty years. A member of the Cornell Music Department since 1968, he began his pioneering activity in the early 1970s as a performer of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on late 18th- and early 19th-century pianos. Since then he has proven to be a key contributor to the restoration of the fortepiano to the concert stage and to fresh recordings of the "mainstream" repertory. In addition to an extensive career as a soloist and chamber player, Bilson has toured with the English Baroque Soloists with John Eliot Gardiner, the Academy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood, the Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan, Tafelmusik of Toronto, Concerto Köln and other early and modern instrument orchestras around the world. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bard College and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kristin Jensen, bassoon Kristin Wolfe Jensen has been the bassoon professor at the University of Texas at Austin since 1995. The American Record Guide reviewer said of her solo CD Shadings, “...She has simply turned in the finest-played Bassoon recital I have ever heard... She obviously sees tone quality as the foundation for her fluent technique...It is a ravishing sound, siren-like in its attractive flair...Ms. Jensen could teach a lot about musicality to a number of famous violinists…”. Her other chamber music and solo recordings can be heard on the Cambria, Opus One, Klavier, and Centaur labels. Ms. Jensen has toured Europe with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, served as Acting Principal Bassoonist of the Houston Grand Opera, and performs frequently with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. She has performed solo recitals at several International Double Reed Society conferences, and was co-host of the 2005 conference in Austin. She has given guest recitals and master classes at a number of major American music schools and is a faculty member at the International Festival Institute at Round Top, and the Las Vegas Music Festival. Ms. Jensen is Co-director of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition for young bassoonists from the Americas. John Perry, piano John Perry earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Eastman School of Music and was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslav Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome. Mary Robbins, piano Mary Robbins founded A. Mozart Fest in 1991 after presenting a paper on Mozart's cadenzas at the International Bicentennial Mozart Congress in Salzburg, Austria. She attended the Converse College School of Music and The University of Texas, where she completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts. Her ongoing work concerning Mozart's style enables her to compose music where Mozart's own is missing, including for the six late piano concertos lacking his cadenzas. Paul Badura-Skoda, world-famous authority on Mozart, has agreed to collaborate with her in the publication of her original cadenzas. An advocate of many musical styles, she has toured France performing music of contemporary French composers. In addition to her performances as a soloist, Ms. Robbins enjoys frequent chamber music collaborations with other acclaimed artists. Uli Speth, violin A native of Germany, Mr. Speth completed his undergraduate work at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and received his Masters of Music from Mannes College of Music, where he was a student of Felix Galimir, from whom he received both private lessons and string quartet training. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player, Mr. Speth has performed throughout Europe and recorded for Austrian and Italian radio. Since 1996, he has also performed as first violinist in over 25 New York City Opera productions. Mr. Speth has been active as a soloist in 2002, performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with New York based chamber orchestra "Musica Bella," and joined recitals of Paul Coletti, Lara St. John, Lars Frandsen and Richard Savino. Recently he has been a guest artist with the Cavaliere Quartet of Salzburg, Austria and has performed in Appalachian Spring at the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival.

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