RONALD COPES, a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Michigan, pursues an active career as a chamber musician and teacher. He has toured with Music From Marlboro ensembles and the Los Angeles Piano Quartet as violinist and violist, and performed as recitalist and concerto soloist in the USA and Europe. Other festival appearances include the Colorado Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival and San Luis Obispo MozartFestival. Mr. Copes has received prizes in several competitions, including the Merriweather Post and the Concours International d'Execution Musicale in Geneva, and has recorded for CRI, Orion and Klavier. He served on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1977-1997 and was a member of the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet. In 1997 he joined The Juilliard String Quartet and was appointed to the faculty of The Juilliard School. He will be on campus the last three weeks of the season.

LAURIE SMUKLER began her solo violin career at the age of fourteen, performing with the Cleveland Orchestra. As founding member and first violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, in eight years she performed over 350 concerts throughout the country, coached chamber music and gave many master classes. Her recordings with the Quartet include works by Dvorak, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schoenberg, Weber and Ran. Since leaving the Quartet in 1987, she has been in demand as a guest artist with such groups as the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Music From Marlboro and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. She is currently Professor of Violin and Head of the String Area at Purchase College, State University of New York, and will be at Kneisel Hall for the first four weeks of the season.

LUCY STOLTZMAN, violin, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet; her other principal teachers include Dorothy Delay and Marc Gottlieb. Ms. Stoltzman is also a graduate of Antioch New England where she received a Masters Degree in education. Her varied career has included solo and chamber music concerts throughout the USA, Europe and Japan; in addition, she served for a year as Acting Associate Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and two seasons as a member of the Muir String Quartet. From 1987-1991 Ms. Stoltzman, her husband clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Richard Goode toured as a trio; their recording of Bartok, Stravinsky and Ives won a Grammy nomination. More recently the Stoltzmans have toured with their son Peter and daughter Meggie, playing in such venues as the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, The Glenn Gould Studios in Toronto and Takemitsu Hall in Tokyo. Ms. Stoltzman is a former faculty member of the University of California/Santa Cruz, Boston and Harvard Universities and is presently the Chair of Strings and Chair of Chamber Music at the New England Conservatory of Music. She will be at Kneisel Hall the entire season.

ROMAN TOTENBERG was named Artist Teacher of the Year 1981 by the American String Teachers Association. Recipient of the Wieniawski and Ysaÿe medals of Poland and Belgium, and winner of the Mendelssohn Prize at the Academy of Music in Berlin, he has been soloist with most of the leading orchestras of the world. A member of the New Friends Of Music, a chamber music society in New York, which was founded by Artur Schnabel, he was also a founding member of both the Aspen Festival and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Mr. Totenberg has recorded most of the standard violin concertos as well as Ernest Bloch and Karol Szymanowski concertos. His recording with Sulima Stravinsky (the son of Igor) is recognized as a model for his music. Recently, Peters Editions have published cadenzas for all Mozart concertos composed jointly by Mr.Totenberg and Sulima Stravinsky. In addition to his performing activities, Mr. Totenberg is a faculty member and former Director of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge and Professor of Violin at Boston University. He served as Acting Director of Kneisel Hall for three years. He will be at Kneisel Hall for all seven weeks of the season.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Doris Lederer has performed with the Marlboro Music Festival and toured with Music From Marlboro. She has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Albuquerque Chamber Orchestra, among others.

Ms. Lederer has been honored to represent the United States as a jury member at the Eighth Banff International String Quartet Competition in Canada and to be a jury member of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in California.

Ms. Lederer is currently on the faculty at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA, Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in Idyllwild, California, and the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She has also served on the faculties of The International Festival at Round Top, Texas and The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, as well as the annual Audubon Quartet's Intensive String Quartet Seminars. She has given viola and chamber music Master Classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University, the Yale School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Kneisel Hall, the Chautauqua Institute, Idyllwild Arts, the Marrowstone Music Festival in Washington State and the Beijing and Shanghai Conservatories in China.

As a member of the Audubon Quartet since 1976, Ms. Lederer has performed extensively throughout the world and has recorded extensively on the RCA, Telarc, Centaur and Opus One labels.

Born in Istanbul to European parents, Ms. Lederer grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she began her study of the viola at age nine with Vilem Sokol. She studied with Georges Janzer at Indiana University and subsequently attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, Felix Galimir and Mischa Schneider.

Ms. Lederer's four solo CD albums, entitled An English Fantasy for Viola and Harp, Music of Arnold Bax and York Bowen, The Passion of Bliss, Bowen and Bridge and Music by York Bowen, which features the Bowen Viola Concerto have been released by Centaur Records. She joins the Kneisel Hall faculty for the first four weeks of the season.

JERRY GROSSMAN, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied cello with David Soyer and chamber music with other members of the Guarneri Quartet. He spent many summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and is a former member of the Orpheus Ensemble and Speculum Musicae. Principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera since 1986, he toured with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1994 as soloist and recorded Strauss' Don Quixote for Deutsche Grammophon. During a sabbatical from the Metropolitan Opera in 1995-96, Mr. Grossman was a founding member of the Chicago String Quartet, in residence at DePaul University. He is currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School where he coaches chamber music. He will be at Kneisel Hall for the final three weeks of the season.

JOEL KROSNICK, as cellist since 1974 of the renowned Juilliard String Quartet, has recorded most of the great quartet literature on the Sony label, and has performed it throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With his sonata partner of over twenty years, pianist Gilbert Kalish, Mr. Krosnick has recorded a great deal of the cello sonata literature on the Arabesque label, including the complete Sonatas and Variations of Beethoven and works of Poulenc, Prokofiev, Carter, Debussy, Janacek, Shapey, and Hindemith. His two Arabesque discs, In the Shadow of World War I and In the Shadow of World War II, won the Indie Awards for 1997 and 1999 for Best Classical Ensemble Disc. His principal teachers were William D'Amato, Luigi Silva, Jens Nygaard and Claus Adam. While a student at Columbia College he began a life-long involvement with composers and new music. Over the many years since, Krosnick has performed and premiered many new works including Donald Marinto's Cello Concerto and Ralph Shapey's Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra and Concerto for Cello, Piano and Double String Orchestra. In October 1999, he premiered Richard Wernick's Cello Concerto #2 with the Juilliard Orchestra. Krosnick was appointed to the faculty of The Juilliard School in 1974 and has been chair of the cello department since 1994. He has been associated with the Aspen and Marlboro Festivals, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Joel Krosnick has recorded for the Sony Classical, Nonesuch, Orion, CRI, New World, Koch International and Arabesque labels. A Kneisel Hall alumnus, he will be on the campus the final three weeks of the season.

BARBARA STEIN MALLOW is recognized as a distinguished chamber musician, recitalist and solist. A member of the renowned Fuchs family, daughter of the violist Lillian Fuchs, and niece of violinist Joseph Fuchs, hers is a heritage of musical excellence and the great tradition of chamber music. She shares this family tradition now with her daughter, violist Jeanne Mallow. From her early years she has been an accomplished pianist and was twice winner of the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Award. Her composition studies were with Bohuslav Martinu, Quincy Porter and Nadia Boulanger. She received her Bachelors and Master Degrees at the Yale School of Music where she studied with Luigi Silva; other teachers include Bernard Greenhouse and Zara Belsova.

She was a founding member of The Carnegie String Quartet in residence at Brooklyn College and a member of the Chamber Arts Trio with her twin sister violinist Carol Amado and pianist Albert Lotto. A respected teacher of cello and chamber music, she has been a professor at Bennington College and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. She is currently on the faculty of Mannes College of Music. She also teaches at the Perlman Music Program in Shelter Island, New York. She serves as Vice President of the New York Violoncello Society. Ms. Mallow's mother, Lillian Fuchs, was instrumental in re-establishing Kneisel Hall with Marianne Kneisel in 1953. This season Barbara is celebrating her golden anniversary at Kneisel Hall; she was a faculty child, a student and is now a much loved and respected faculty member. Mrs. Mallow will be at Kneisel Hall for the first four weeks of the season.

Cellist BONNIE HAMPTON leads an active music life as a chamber musician, soloist and teacher. A founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Francesco Trio, she also has performed as part of the Hampton-Schwartz Duo with her late husband, pianist Nathan Schwartz. Her solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was followed by appearances with orchestras nationally performing the entire standard repertoire and most of the 20th Century concertos written for the cello. She has been involved in performances of new music since the beginning of her career and has had the opportunity to work with many composers including Armer, Carter, Chaitikin,Copland, Dallapiccola,Davidovsky, Harbison, Impbrie, Kim, Kirchner, Kodaly, Mann, Milhaud, Powell, Shifrin, and Turok. Her chamber music guest artist appearances have included performances with the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cleveland, Mendelssohn, Alexander, Budapest and Griller String Quartets.

A student of Pablo Casals, she participated for many years in the Casals and Marlboro Festivals. She has also performed a the Chamber Music West, Seattle, Ravinia and Santa Fe chamber Music Festivals. Currently she is involved in the summer programs at the Tangelwood Music Center and the Yellow Barn Festival. Her early studies were with Margaret Rowell, the Griller String Quartet and Zara Nelsova.

Ms. Hampton has taught at Mills College, Grinnell College, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley and at the San Francisco Conservatory for thirty years. She is a past president of Chamber Music America. In September 2003 she joined the faculty at The Juilliard School.

Pianist JANE COOP, one of Canada's leading pianists, has appeared in some twenty countries as recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist. Among other prestigious concert venues, she has performed in Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Salle Gaveau, Paris, the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the Hong Kong Cultural Center, as well as all the major halls in her native country. Her extensive discography includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Brahms, as well as concerti by Bartok, Prokofiev and Britten. Her recent release of the complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Beethoven, with former Kneisel Hall faculty member Andrew Dawes, was nominated for a Juno Award - her fourth such honour. Recent concert activity includes solo appearances in California, Asia, Ireland and Canada, and participation in chamber festivals in Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Ms. Coop is currently professor of piano and chamber music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She will be on the Kneisel Hall campus the first four weeks of the season.

MARIAN HAHN's solo career was launched in 1976 when she became a winner in the International Leventritt Competition . She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner, and has subsequently appeared in New York recitals at the Metropolitan Museum and Merkin Concert Hall. She has also been a top prize winner in the Busoni, University of Maryland, and Kosciuszko competitions. Nationwide tours have included recitals in prestigious series in Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis, on college campuses and in community concerts. As a soloist with orchestra, she has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and five times with the Jacksonville Symphony. Critically acclaimed European tours have taken her to cities in England, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Germany. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Hahn has been a participant in the Marlboro, Sedona, Grand Canyon, and Newport Festivals, and tours extensively with the Amadeus Trio. She is a founding member of the Amabile Piano Quartet. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College, she received her MM degree from The Juilliard School; her teachers have included John Perry, Leon Fleisher, and Benjamin Kaplan. Ms. Hahn is a member of the piano and chamber music faculty at the Peabody Conservatory, and formerly taught at the North Carolina School of Arts. She has recorded with the Amabile Quartet on the Summit label and with the Amadeus Trio on the Helicon label. She will be at Kneisel Hall for the last three weeks of the season.

SEYMOUR LIPKIN, Artistic Director of Kneisel Hall, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and first prize winner of the 1948 Rachmaninoff Piano Competition. He has appeared as soloist with most major American orchestras, including those of Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland. He recorded the Stravinsky Piano Concerto with Leonard Bernstein, and performed with conductors such as Reiner, Munch, Steinberg and Ormandy. A conducting student of Koussevitzky at Tanglewood, Mr. Lipkin has served as an apprentice to George Szell in Cleveland, as Associate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic and Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet and the Long Island Symphony. As a chamber musician he has participated at the Marlboro, Norfolk and Spoleto Festivals, and collaborated with such distinguished artists as Ricci, Tortelier, Zimbalist, Primrose and Heifetz. He is currently on the piano and chamber music faculties of the Curtis Institute and The Juilliard School. He will be at Kneisel Hall for all seven weeks of the season. For more about Mr. Lipkin, please visit seymourlipkin.com.