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VIOLA SECTION
All Photographs by Katrin Talbot
Musician
profiles are in alphabetical order.
DIEDRE BUCKLEY
Noteworthy: Two recordings on Albany Records
with the Ad Hoc String Quartet; two Madison Music Collective albums; performed
live on the Internet; teach jazz appreciation at a prison. Funniest
concert moment: Trio hired to play at a party for a child...Amy Irving
answered the door; the party was for Steven Spielberg & their
son. What her colleagues don't know: In high school was thought of
as jazz sax player, so at my reunion, everyone was disappointed to hear that I
had become a professional musician as a violist!
CHRIS DOZORYST
Noteworthy: B.A. in Music Performance,
UW-Madison; M.M. in Music Performance, Carnegie-Mellon
University. Funniest concert experience At a performance of
Dialogues of the Carmelites, we had a technical issue at the moment where
the nuns are led to the guillotine; the recorded "whoosh" started chopping away
and we beheaded many additional nuns before someone finally pulled the
plug! What your colleagues don't know about you: I played guitar
in a high school band. Our only strategy at our first gig was to play so loudly
that perhaps nobody would notice how awful we were. We were paid $50, split
three ways. We thought we were going places.
CYNTHIA EDWARDS
Noteworthy: B.A. in piano from Oberlin; M.M. in
viola from Juilliard; B.S. in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University; performed
at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and Grand Teton Festivals and with the San Francisco
Symphony. Oddest practice quarters: Lecture hall at a medical
school. Funniest concert experience: Donkeys carried instruments
from boat to concert site on the Greek island of Santorini. What your
colleagues don't know about you: I'm balancing music with my job as an
oncology nurse and would love to own a bakery/café in the country.
ELISABETH ELLENWOOD
Noteworthy: Degrees from the Eastman School of
Music and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro; elementary orchestra
teacher in the New Berlin Public schools. Oddest practice
quarters: An old house in North Carolina where stairs creaked and doors
slammed when I was the only person there. Funniest concert
experience: Playing a holiday orchestra concert on an ice rink with the
hometown hockey team skating around us. What your colleagues don't
know about you: I am an avid sea kayaker, hiker and cook. I am also handy
with a belt sander. Recurrent musical fantasy: To wake up one
morning a virtuosic soprano.
MARIKA FISCHER HOYT
Noteworthy: B.A. Music, Smith College; M.M.
Viola Performance, Indiana University; two years at the Mannes College of Music
in NYC and one year at University of Hamburg, Germany; married for 16 years; two
lovely daughters who both study piano and violin; MSO member since
2003. Funniest concert experience: I played at a wedding where the
groom turned green, swayed, clutched the bride, and left the church. The first
violinist turned to us calmly and said, "Let's play some more prelude music,"
which we did for several long minutes while the congregation murmured. After a
while, the groom came back and completed his vows. What your
colleagues don't know about you: I was told at age 21 by a NYC modeling
scout that I could be a successful runway model if I gave up my viola and my
boyfriend Bill. Hardly! Decades later, I'm happily married to Bill, I have a
successful career playing my viola, and I got to model for the MSO violist and
award-winning photographer Katrin Talbot.
RENATA HORNIK
Noteworthy: B.A., Kent State University; M.M.,
Rice University; Founding member, Euclid Quartet; 2000 Grand Prize, Carmel
Chamber Music Competition; 1998 Third Prize, National Society of Arts and
Letters String Quartet Competition. Funniest concert experience:
The time I managed to get myself stuck in a backstage bathroom before a quartet
recital; an audience member came to my rescue. Recurrent musical
fantasy: I am living my musical fantasy. If I were John DeMain for
a day: I would take the viola section out for drinks and dessert at
Cocoliquot after their stellar performance of Brahms's Serenade No. 2 in which
the violins were conspicuously absent.
JENNIFER PAULSON
Noteworthy: B.A. Augustana College; M.M.
Northwestern University; Eckstein Fellowship (NU); Civic Orchestra of Chicago;
University Fellowship, UW-Madison; member of the MSO's Hunt
Quartet. Oddest practice quarters: I taught and practiced in a
high school bathroom for a year (during renovation). What your
colleagues don't know about you: I worked on an organic farm last
summer. If I were John DeMain for a day: I'd get the MSO to hire a
composer-in-residence and program Hovhaness's And God Created Great
Whales for humpbacked whale solo (on tape) and orchestra.
KATRIN TALBOT
Noteworthy: B.A., Reed College; M.S. in
Molecular Biology, UW-Madison. Guest artist with the Pro Arte and Monte Verde
Quartets; violist in Boulder Bach Festival and American Sinfonietta. Published
photographer (Schubert's Winterreise, published by UW Press); photography
has appeared in The New York Times, NYC galleries and in various MSO
publications/merchandise. Funniest concert experience: Locking
bows with a giggling stand partner who had played an opposite
bowing. What your colleagues don't know about you: I was born in
Australia. I swim across Lake Mendota on occasion, have run a marathon and
played rhythm guitar and violin in a science-nerd rock band in
college. Recurrent musical fantasy: To belt out a luscious
Wagnerian mezzo role, or play a Bach Suite to someone who's never heard a viola
or of Bach.
JANSE VINCENT
Noteworthy: B.A. Furman University; M.M.
Northwestern; D.M.A. in Viola Performance, University of Iowa. Member of the
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Con Vivo chamber ensemble and an instructor with
the Suzuki Strings of Madison. Oddest practice quarters: A room in
a German castle overlooking a rather beautiful cemetery. Funniest
concert experience: When the organist didn't show for a friend's wedding, in
addition to my planned solo, I had to come up with music for the entire
ceremony. The guests had a perfect view of my two big black eyes from being hit
in the nose by a softball days earlier. What your colleagues don't
know about you: I was the Florida State Junior Fiddling Champion for two
consecutive years.
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