2019 FESTIVAL FACULTY BIOS Hassan Anderson, USA A multitalented artist, American oboist Hassan Anderson is a soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and teacher. Noted for his clarity of tone, range of colors and energetic stage presence. Mr. Anderson served as the oboist of the acclaimed innovative New York-based chamber music ensemble SHUFFLE Concert (Ensemble Melange). With the ensemble he has toured Israel, performed on series throughout the US and Canada, including the Duplex, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, New York’s Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society Series, Los Angeles’s L’Ermitage Concert Series, Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Performing Arts Center and Pepperdine University Center for the Arts in California, as well as at such distinguished summer festivals as Cooperstown Music Festival, Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, Canada’s Chamberfest Ottawa, to name a few. A popular collaborator, amongst his numerous guest appearances with distinguished ensembles, are performances with the American Ballet Theater, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (ECCE), Harlem Chamber Players and the Juilliard Orchestra. Hassan is equally adept in the classical and jazz genres, and dedicated to the next generation of musicians. Julie Bees, USA Celebrated American pianist, Dr. Julie Bees, is a Professor of Piano and Director of the Konrad Wolff-Ilse Bing Chamber Music Endowment Award at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. She is also a founding member of The Orfeo Trio, a traveling piano trio that has most recently given recitals and master classes across Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. As a collaborative pianist, Dr. Bees has performed with the Vermeer Quartet, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, bass-baritone Alan Held, the Viotti trio, American Chamber Players, and other ensembles and soloists. A native of Miami, Florida, Dr. Bees earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 1974. She then studied for two years at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, before earning a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 1982. Her mentors have included the acclaimed Leon Fleisher, Maria Curcio-Diamand, Dieter Weber, Noel Flores, Alexander Uninsky, Alfred Mouledous, Konrad Wolff, Peggy Neighbors Erwin, and Nelita True. Among her many accolades, Dr. Bees was awarded first place in the William S. Boyd National Piano Competition, Grand Prize at both the 1975 International Piano Recording Competition and the 1970 Dallas Symphonic Festival, and was a finalist in the 1968 New York Philharmonic Auditions for Leonard Bernstein’s televised “Young People’s Concerts.” She was also the national winner of the MTNA Collegiate Competition in Chicago in 1978, the recipient of the Olga Samaroff Prize at the University of Maryland William Kapell International Piano Competition and a finalist in the Beethoven Foundation Auditions. Victoria Rose Bishop, USA An avid orchestral musician, Victoria Rose Bishop currently serves as Principal Flute of the Southeast Iowa Symphony, American Gothic Performing Arts Festival Orchestra, and the Southeast Iowa Band to name a few. As an active chamber musician and collaborator, Ms. Bishop is the flutist of the Durward Contemporary Music Ensemble and the GRIT Collaborative New Music Ensemble. She also regularly performs with Orchestra Iowa, the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, and the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Bishop holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Iowa where she studied with Nicole Esposito and a Bachelor of Music degree from Georgia State University where she studied with Sarah Kruser Ambrose, and has engaged in post-graduate study with flutist Jim Walker and piccoloist Erica Peel. Ms. Bishop has also performed in Jim Walker’s Beyond the Master Class at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, California, the Flauti al Castello summer master class in Tuscany, Italy, and the Iowa Piccolo Intensive in Iowa City, Iowa. She has also performed in master classes with 2019 FESTIVAL FACULTY BIOS Kensho Watanabe, Kimberly Fisher, Michel Bellavance, Leone Buyse, Nicole Esposito, Carl Hall, Sarah Jackson, Angela Jones-Reus, Walfrid Kujala, Sergio Pallottelli, Christina Smith, and Jim Walker. Christina Bouey, Canada Canadian violinist Christina Bouey’s recent accolades include 1st Prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in the chamber division, Grand Prize at the Fischoff Competition, 1st place in the American Prize, and 2nd prize at the Osaka International Chamber Competition. Her other top awards include the Hugo Kortchak Award for outstanding achievement in chamber music, Heida Hermann International, Canadian National Music Festival, Queens Concerto Competition, and the Balsam Duo Competition. Christina graduated from Manhattan School of Music (2013) with a Professional Studies Certificate in Orchestral Performance, studying with Glenn Dicterow and Lisa Kim as a full scholarship student, (2012) with a Professional Studies Certificate, studying with Laurie Smukler, and in 2011 she received a Master of Music, while studying with Nicholas Mann. Her Bachelor of Music (Magnum cum laude) is from The Boston Conservatory, where she studied with Irina Muresanu as a full-scholarship student. In June 2014, as part of the 150 year celebrations on PEI, professional dancers from Ballet Jazz de Montreal performed a modern dance to her first compositional commission for solo violin, with Christina playing it on the violin. Christina is currently serving as concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, is a member/founder of the Ulysses String Quartet, and plays in a duo with pianist Tatiana Tessman. She plays an 1820 Pressenda on generous loan from the Canada Council Instrument Bank. Benjamin Doane, USA Benjamin Doane has been learning the cello since the age of 6. His teachers include Katie Fittipaldi, Steven Doane, Rosemary Elliott, and Guy Johnston. In the summer of 2017 Ben attended the Perlman Music Program. Ben previously studied cello at the Heifetz International Music Institute and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. From 2014 to 2017 Ben was a principal player in the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. During the same period he was a member of the Carriage String Quartet at the Eastman Community Music School. Ben has performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and Penfield Symphony Orchestra as winner of their Concerto Competitions. He was featured in 2016 on WXXI as a winner of the David Hochstein Recital competition. Last year Ben placed second in the National Classics Alive Auditions in California. In 2018 he won the Rochester Philharmonic League Aldridge-Tinker Scholarship for continued studies in music. He received the Lowry Award from the Rochester Music Hall of Fame, performing solo in Kodak hall during the induction ceremony. Ben is currently studying Cello Performance at the Eastman School of Music. Steven Doane, USA Internationally known soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, recording artist, and pedagogue Steven Doane appears at festivals and on concert series throughout the United States and overseas. Doane received his BM from Oberlin Conservatory and his MM from SUNY Stony Brook. He received a Watson Foundation Grant for overseas study in 1975, and had further studies with Richard Kapuscinski, Bernard Greenhouse, Jane Cowan, and Janos Starker. Steven Doane and Eastman pianist Barry Snyder have made a series of recordings for the Bridge label. The duo’s recording of the complete music of Gabriel Fauré for cello and piano was awarded the Diapason D’or in France, and has been broadcast throughout the United States and Canada, over the BBC in England, and throughout Europe. The second recording in the series, of works by Britten and Frank Bridge, was also released to critical acclaim. Steven Doane received Eastman’s Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993, and the Piatigorsky Prize in teaching at the New England Conservatory in 1986. As a member of the New 2019 FESTIVAL FACULTY BIOS Arts Trio, Doane was awarded the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1980. He made his Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center debuts in Don Quixote with David Zinman and the Rochester Philharmonic in 1983. His Tully Hall recital debut occurred in 1990, and has been followed by numerous recital appearances, including programs in London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Saunders Theater, and many other venues. Steven Doane currently holds the title of “visiting professor” at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he has done several residencies. Rosemary Elliott-Doane, Great Britain Rosemary Elliott-Doane, Assistant Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music, has an active performing schedule as chamber musician and recitalist. As principle cellist of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, New York she was nominated to the artistic advisory board of that organization, and is a core member of the orchestra’s chamber music ensemble. Prior to her appointment at Eastman, Ms. Elliott was a member of the cello staff at the Royal College of Music, in London, (1994-1998) and performed regularly with some of most notable chamber orchestras there, including the London Mozart Players, the City of London Sinfonia, and the Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square. Ms. Elliott has been for 10 years a member of the performing and teaching staff at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine. As