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Musicians Performing at the Fall 2016 Concert

Magic Treats!
October 30, 2016
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director/Conductor

Guest soloists: Joseph Kromholz, violin, and Brian Keith Johnson, baritone
PictureBrian Keith Johnson
Brian Keith Johnson, baritone

    Brian Keith Johnson has performed many roles in opera from Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia to Ford in Falstaff. Favorite opera roles include Germont in Verdi's Traviata, Sharpless in Pucinni's Madame Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini's Barber of Seville, Almaviva in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème, Michele in Puccini's Il Tabarro, and the title role in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.

    As a member of Actors' Equity Association, he has also performed a variety of musical theater roles ranging from Jim in Big River to Father/God in Children of Eden. Favorite musical theater roles include Joe (Show Boat), Bill Sykes, Miles Gloriosus, Sweeney Todd and Audrey II. His concert repertoire includes most of the major baritone works such as Carmina Burana, Elijah, the Verdi Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Brahms Requiem and the Fauré Requiem.

    
He has performed operatic and musical theater roles across the United States, including performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Opera Theater, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Blossom Festival Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Opera Western Reserve, Carolina Master Chorale, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Porthouse Theatre.

    Born and raised in Warren, Ohio, Johnson received his bachelor's degree from the University of Akron and has also studied abroad at the New Opera Academy of Rome in Rome, Italy, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.


PictureJoseph Kromholz
Joseph Kromholz, violin

    Internationally acclaimed for his eloquent and expressive playing, violinist Joseph Kromholz is concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland and Opera Western Reserve. A founding member of the Linden String Quartet, he is a professor at Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, where he teaches violin, viola and chamber music. His students have attended the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music and Harvard University. He previously taught violin at Luther College.
 
    Hailing from Reston, Virginia, Kromholz studied violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and economics at Case Western Reserve University, followed by doctoral studies at New England Conservatory. He also taught college music theory for eight years. As a chamber music coach, he has taught at the Chamber Music Connection in Worthington, Ohio, at SUNY Stony Brook's summer chamber institute and at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine.
 
    Mr. Kromholz's mentors and teachers include Paul Kantor, Miriam Fried, Itzhak Perlman and members of the Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets.
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FLUTE
Kathryn Thomas Umble*
Victoria Francioni  

OBOE
Josiah Dyck*
Martin Neubert 

CLARINET
Alice Wang*
John Stumpff

BASSOON
Donald W. Byo*
Janice Pylinski 

HORN
Heather Johnson*
Rachel Vaduva
Debbie McDowell
Stan Matras
TRUMPET
Christopher Krummel*
Nicholas Samson

TROMBONE
John Olsson*
James Weltman
Mike Niro

TIMPANI /PERCUSSION
Don Yallech*
Scott Thomas* 

VIOLIN I
Barton Samuel Rotberg*
Abigail R McLaughlin
Katherine O’Neill
Caitlin Hedge
Gloria Slocum
Natalie Sahyoun**
Megan Benchwick​


*Principal player
**Concert Manager/Librarian

VIOLIN II
Brendan Considine*
Karen Considine
Wanda Sobieska
Melinda Perttu
Jeffrey Johns
Robert Pavalko
Brittany Battaglia 

VIOLA
Vincent Scacchetti*
Jerry Koziorynsky
Hillary Lenton
BeckyAnn Harker 

CELLO
Michael Gelfand*
Jackie Pitman
Scott Burns
Stephanie Zitkovich 

DOUBLE BASS
Jeffrey Bremer*
Shawn Marko
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