1Clarinetist NICHOLAS GALLAS 2 Flutist SATO MOUGHALIAN 3 Horn player : BARBARA OLDHAM 4 Oboist : MATT SULLIVAN 5 Bassoonist : MAUREEN STRENGE

Clarinetist NICHOLAS GALLAS is a devoted chamber musician, orchestral player and soloist residing in New York City. He has performed with a diverse range of artists and ensembles, including the Axiom Ensemble, Red (an Orchestra), the Quintet of the Americas, Duncan Sheik (U.S. Tour), the New York Woodwind Quintet, Cultures in Harmony, Café de Concert, the Washington Ballet Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the National Repertory Orchestra and as a substitute with the Cleveland Orchestra. Nicholas has performed in such venues as the MoMA, Avery Fisher Hall, Miller Theater, Carnegie Hall and City Winery in New York, Severance Hall in Cleveland and the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Festivals he has attended include the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Focus! Festival for Contemporary Music, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Sarasota, Hot Springs and Kent Blossom festivals. Nicholas received his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where his principal teachers included Charles Neidich and Franklin Cohen. 

Flutist SATO MOUGHALIAN appears as a recitalist, soloist, and orchestral musician in New York City, and has performed hundreds of chamber music concerts under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management. In the last few seasons her festival performances as a chamber musician and soloist have included Moussem Culturel d'Asilah (Morocco), the Festival de Prades -Pablo Casals, II Festival Internacional (Brazil), Next Wave Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Adirondack Festival of American Music, Bar Harbor Festival, Music from Salem, Simar Festival (Colombia) and Mohawk Trails Concerts.

An active orchestral player in the New York area, she serves as solo flute of L'Opéra Français de New York, New Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and as frequent guest principal with groups including American Ballet Theatre, Long Island Philharmonic, Westfield Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Queens Symphony and numerous others. Recently, she has appeared as concerto soloist with the National Symphony of Ecuador; the Orchestra of the San Pedro Theater in Porto Alegre, Brazil; the Naumberg Orchestra, Bachannalia, Long Island Philharmonic, Hudson Chamber Symphony, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recently recorded the Osvaldo Lacerda Piccolo Concerto for the Helicon label. She recorded a solo CD, The Operatic Flute with pianist Mikael Eliasen for the MHS label. She frequently appears with groups including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, L'Ensemble, Dorian Quintet, Essential Music, Amadeus Virtuosi, and the Sylvan Winds.

She is also Artistic Director of the Perspectives Ensemble, which was founded in 1993 at Columbia University, and has subsequently performed for Lincoln Center Great Performers series, at the 92nd Street Y, and made its Carnegie Hall debut in June, 2003 as a featured guest of the JVC Jazz Festival. The group's first CD, Goddess of the Moon Chamber Music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes, on the Newport Classic label, was released to wide critical acclaim, as was its most recently released CD--music of Richard Danielpour for Sony Classics. The Perspectives Ensemble appears in a guest collaboration with Quintet of the Americas on the upcoming release of music of Karel Husa on the New World Records label. Ms. Moughalian also currently serves as Music Director of the 12-year old chamber series "Sundays on the Island." For more see Sato's web page at www.satomoughalian.com.

Horn player BARBARA OLDHAM has presented recitals at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the American Landmark Festivals. In 1999 she received a Brooklyn Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for a series of recitals in Brooklyn. Ms. Oldham has appeared as a chamber recitalist with the Marlboro Music Festival, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Festival Brass, Composer's Brass Quintet, and as a soloist at the Westchester Chamber Music Festival and with the Contreras Chamber Ensemble. In 1976 she left New York to become the principal horn of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia. While in Bogota, she founded Quintet of the Americas with four other members of the National Symphony. She returned to New York the following year and shortly thereafter became a member of the Queens Symphony; West End Symphony, a group performing for children; and resumed her position as principal horn with Opera Northeast. Also active as a free-lance player, she has performed with Brooklyn Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic, Radio City Music Hall, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joffrey Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and on Broadway for West Side Story, Woman of the Year, Cats, and Aspects of Love. In the fall of 1996, she was invited to serve as guest principal horn with the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic.

As a member of Quintet of the Americas for two decades, Ms. Oldham has performed in hundreds of concerts in tours across the United States, South America, and the Caribbean. Her interests include researching repertoire from Latin America and in developing educational programs and workshops. She serves on the Music Advisory Board of the Americas Society in New York City, the Latin American Music Committee of Queens Symphony, and has served as a chamber music competition adjudicator and grant panelist. She is on the faculty at Brooklyn College and has taught beginning band to elementary school students in a public school in Brooklyn as part of Project Arts. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Miami University (Ohio) and a Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music.

Oboist MATT SULLIVAN has performed extensively on four continents and is recognized internationally as both a virtuoso performer and teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. The New York Times has praised his gorgeously lyrical playing and the New Yorker has called his inventive programming the cutting edge. As composer, his innovative works created for oboe, English horn and digital horn, along with his solo and chamber music performances and compact discs, have been featured on National Public Radio and on Voice of America. In addition to his active teaching and solo recital schedule, he is a member of Musicians Accord, the Richardson Chamber Players (Princeton University), the Westchester Chamber Orchestra, First Avenue, and Heliosphere. He serves on the faculties of Long Island University C. W. Post, the European Mozart Academy (Warsaw), the Manhattan School of Music Prep Division, Rutgers University and he teaches oboe at Princeton University where he has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor. Matt Sullivan is a Performing Artist for Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes. For more information, see Matt's web page at http://www.oboematt.com.

Bassoonist MAUREEN STRENGE is a freelance musician who performs with many different orchestras in the metropolitan area including the American Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, The Bard Festival, New York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony and the NewPaths in Music Festival. Maureen has performed in many of the Broadway pit orchestras including Beauty and the Beast, Miss Saigon, Nine, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, La Boheme, and West Side Story. Ms. Strenge is also the principal bassoonist with the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic and has an active teaching studio. She has recorded with Dennis Russell Davies on the Musicmasters label, on TelArc with Sir Charles Mackerras and with David Zinman on Elektra/Nonesuch. Ms. Strenge earned a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a Master's Degree from the Juilliard School.