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Stephen Redfield
Violinist Stephen Redfield has been teaching violin and chamber music at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music since 1996. He spent 2011-12 on leave as Chair of the Music Department at the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, where he is also concertmaster of the Santa Fe Pro Musica. Each summer since 1992, Stephen has performed with the Victoria Bach Festival, where his performances as concertmaster and soloist have been produced on discs and broadcast nationally. He is a long-standing participant in the Oregon Bach Festival, often featured as concertmaster and in chamber music, and where he has participated in numerous recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning disc “Credo.”
Stephen plays with his faculty colleagues in the Impromptu Piano Quartet. As a chamber musician and a soloist, he has performed throughout the United States and internationally. Stephen performs regularly as a Baroque violinist with the Albuquerque Baroque Players and with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Stephen’s Baroque chamber music credits include concerts with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Newberry Consort, with such artists as with Marion Verbruggen, Mary Springfels, Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kenneth Slowik. As a member of the Sebastian Ensemble with harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh, he has performed throughout the US, and in Spain, Cuba and Peru.
George Caird
George Caird is one of England’s most eminent oboe performers and educators. Following study in London and Cambridge, he pursued a freelance career which included orchestral playing, chamber music and solo engagements. He has worked with many of London’s major orchestras including the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and City of London Sinfonia and particularly as a member of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields from 1984 to 1991. He has also been a member of a number of leading ensembles, notably as a founder-member of the Albion Ensemble and the George Caird Oboe Quartet.
George has toured for the British Council in China, the Far East, India, Egypt, Tunisia and Canada as well as performing in concerts and broadcasts in most European countries. He has recorded for Chandos, Nimbus, Hyperion, Meridian and Proudsound labels with solo and chamber music repertoire. He has been involved in many areas of music education: teaching, devising educational programmes, coaching chamber ensembles, conducting and coaching youth orchestras and teaching. He was appointed a professor of oboe at the Royal Academy of Music in 1984 where he became Head of Woodwind in 1987 and Head of Orchestral Studies in 1991. From 1993 to 2011, George was Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire, UK from 1993 to 2010, and Artistic Director of Classical Music at Codarts Rotterdam from 2011 to 2016. George is currently performing, teaching and researching and is Chair of the jury for the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition 2017.
Jane Salmon
Jane Salmon’s work as a chamber musician and as a recital soloist has taken her to more than 40 countries across the world and has involved her in more than 60 CD recordings, broadcasts for radio and television, festivals and performances in many leading venues. As the cellist of the Schubert Ensemble, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Prize for Chamber Music, Jane will be returning to the US in October 2017 and March 2018 for concerts in Oregon, California and Minnesota.
As a recitalist she has premiered solo works on BBC Radio 3 and in concerts on London’s South Bank and Wigmore Hall. Recital tours have included two visits to India where solo performances to large audiences were juxtaposed with educational work in Madras, Bangalore and Calcutta.
A Cambridge graduate, Jane studied the cello with Amaryllis Fleming, Pierre Fournier and Johannes Goritzki. She won numerous prizes and awards and was selected for promotion by Young Concert Artists Trust which launched her solo career. Although the Schubert Ensemble has been her principal commitment for over thirty years, Jane has been a member of the Endymion Ensemble and Lontano as well as working with the London Sinfonietta, the Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields and the English Chamber Orchestra. She is a tutor of cello and chamber music at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Lori Lovato
Lori Lovato is clarinetist for the Santa Fe Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Sphinx Symphony in Detroit, Performance Santa Fe Orchestra, San Juan Symphony, Opera SW Orchestra, Alter Ego Jazz Trio, and founding member of the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet. She has also appeared with the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Music at Angel Fire, Chamber Music Albuquerque, Chatter New Music, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Santa Fe New Music, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Monterrey, Mexico, and toured with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players.
Ms. Lovato is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico. Prior to her performing career, Ms. Lovato was the band and orchestra director at West Mesa and Cibola High Schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Currently she maintains a private clarinet studio and performs musical outreach programs throughout the community.
Crawford Best
Crawford Best has played bassoon in the New Orleans Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He taught and performed as the faculty bassoonist of the Dartmouth College Congregation of the Arts and was the bassoon instructor at Loyola University College of Music in New Orleans, where he was also the Coordinator of Adjunct Faculty. He is currently Principal Bassoonist of the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra.
Mr. Best was Principal Bassoonist of the New Orleans Symphony for 28 winter seasons and bassoonist with the Minnesota Orchestra for 7 winter seasons. He was for 36 summers the Principal Bassoonist of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and was its Orchestra Personnel Manager for 28 years. Prior to that he was the faculty bassoonist of the Dartmouth College Congregation of the Arts for 6 summers, where his colleagues on the faculty included Bob Willoughby, Al Genovese, Robert Genovese, Barry Tuckwell, and others. In December of 1985 he performed with the first World Philharmonic in Stockholm for the opening ceremonies of the Nobel Prize Awards, with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8.
Crawford was educated in the public schools of Spartanburg, SC, received the A. B. degree from Duke University, where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar, and the M. M. degree from New England Conservatory of Music, where he received the Pi Kappa Lambda Performance Award.
Denise Reig Turner
Denise Reig Turner is the Lecturer of Bassoon at the University of New Mexico, Assistant Principal/2nd Bassoon of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Principal Bassoon of the San Juan Symphony and was also Principal Bassoon and frequent soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. In addition to being bassoonist with the New Mexico Winds, Ms. Turner performs regularly as a member of the Bosque Chamber Music Society, and the Animas Music Festival in Colorado. Ms. Turner has performed orchestral, opera and chamber music throughout the Southwest, Italy, and Mexico, including the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Festival Ballet, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Musica de Camera Orchestra, Albuquerque Baroque Players and the baroque Orchestra of the Duke. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Turner studied with Artemus Edwards, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, Betty Johnson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, Wilbur Simpson, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Adelle Brown, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and with Michael McCraw on baroque bassoon. Her chamber music coaches include Sol Schoenbach, Marcel Moyse, and Jane Taylor. Her recordings are on the Centaur and AlbuZerkque labels with the New Mexico Winds, UNM and New Mexico Symphony labels.
Carol Redman
Carol Redman, flutist, has much experience in chamber music roles, with large symphonic orchestras, opera orchestras and chamber orchestras, as solo flutist, principal flutist, second flutist, and piccolo player. She performs on the modern flute, the one-key baroque flute and recorder. She has made recordings on Koch and Dorian labels (including a Grammy nominated disc of the chamber music version of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde) for Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Her professional experience includes flutist with Santa Fe Pro Musica, Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 20th Century Unlimited, Oregon Festival of American Music, Ernest Bloch Music Festival (Oregon), New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet, Le Domaine Forget Music Festival (Canada), and appearances with the Oregon Bach Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival (California), Maryland Handel Festival, Colorado Opera Troupe, Colorado Chamber Players, Eugene Symphony (Oregon) and festivals in Germany and Japan. Ms Redman has coached variously Flute, Ensembles and Baroque Workshops in Kammermusik Workshops since 2005.
Keith Bowen
Keith Bowen, clarinet, has qualified in musicology since retiring from his scientific career, obtaining an MA in Music (with Distinction) at the Open University (UK). He specialized in classical-period performance practice and in the history of the bass clarinet in A, winning a University prize and two international awards for his thesis. He is an active chamber music and orchestral performer on clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinet, currently with the Spires Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble in Coventry, UK (a regional professional-amateur orchestra), and plays bass clarinet in the eminent British Clarinet Ensemble.
He has coached woodwind and chamber ensembles with the Ischia chamber Music Festival since 2009. He has studied clarinet with Lesley Schatzberger (UK), Lori Lovato (New Mexico Symphony), Forest Aten (Dallas Opera), classical clarinet with Colin Lawson (Royal College of Music, London) and bass clarinet with Sarah Watts (UK) and Michael Harris (ex-Philharmonia Orchestra, London). He is also studying for a doctorate at the Royal College of Music on the early history of the bass clarinet. Keith is also Vice-President of Kammermusik Workshops.
Peter Erb
New Orleans native Peter Erb, French Horn, joined the New Mexico Philharmonic as Principal Horn in 2013. He has held positions with The Phoenix Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and continues to perform as Principal Horn in the Arizona Opera Orchestra. As a member of the “Star Wars in Concert” orchestra in 2010, Peter toured the United States and Mexico, performing John Williams’s movie scores. An avid chamber musician, Peter has participated in the Phoenix Chamber Music Society’s annual festival, Albuquerque’s own Church of Beethoven (now Chatter Chamber) series, and The University of Chicago’s Noontime Recital Series. Peter earned his Bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University, where he studied with Gail Williams and Bill Barnewitz. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Akron as a student of Bill Hoyt. After leaving school, he was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for two seasons, and attended the Banff Centre Chamber Music program with his woodwind quintet, Hara Quintet. Peter lives in Albuquerque with his wife Emily, a clarinetist with the Santa Fe Symphony, their polydactyl Maine Coon Cat, Bigfoot, and the newest addition to the family, Sandy, a German Shepherd mix.
Richard Snider
Richard Snider, double bass, has taught instrumental and vocal music in Santa Fe from elementary to college levels, as well as musical theatre and art history. He began teaching in Santa Fe Public Schools in 1972 and taught at both Santa Fe and Capital High Schools where his bands and choirs received numerous First Division awards at district and state competitions. He retired from St. Michael’s High School in 2009, where is band won the State AAA Concert Band trophy. He taught music theory, double bass and instrumental ensemble at New Mexico School for the Arts from 2010-2013. Richard served in several positions: string orchestra, concert band and jazz band with the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association from 2002-2017. Richard received the Santa Fe Partners in Education “Teachers Who Inspire” Award in 1994, was inducted into New Mexico Music Educators Association Hall of Fame in 2001 and received the Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2015. He received his B. Music Ed. and M. Music Ed. degrees from Texas Tech University. Currently Richard is a freelance jazz and classical bassist, MPA adjudicator and clinician for bands, jazz bands and orchestras statewide and serves as a mentor to new music teachers in the SFPS. Richard has performed with the San Juan Symphony, Taos Chamber Music, Santa Fe Community Orchestra. He serves frequently as a guest conductor with the Santa Fe Concert Band and performs with Santa Fe’s eSSO String Orchestra.