Musician profiles are in alphabetical order.

Noteworthy: Pro Arte Quartet; Concertmaster: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra (USA), Bay Area Women's Orchestra; Wichita Symphony and Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice.
Oddest practice quarters: On the train from Chicago to Charleston.
Funniest concert experience: During my solo debut with an orchestra, the conductor, who had too much to drink, forgot to bring in the orchestra after the cadenza.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I once fell asleep - literally - while playing repeated whole notes in a slow contemporary piece.
Recurrent musical fantasy: Finding it necessary to take a leave from my job in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra to perform Berg's Lyric Suite with my quartet.

Noteworthy: BA in English-Secondary Education and Masters degree in Music Education from UW-Madison; orchestra teacher at Sherman Middle School in Madison.
Oddest practice quarters: A very small two-person canvas tent at Tower Hill State Park.
Funniest concert experience: A pianist played with the Madison Symphony Orchestra whose encore was unforgettable: as she played, the pins from two of the lid hinges came out and the lid came crashing down in the midst of the piece, but she didn't miss a beat and got a standing ovation for her efforts.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I play bass, tenor, alto, and soprano recorder which gives me an outlet for my love of Renaissance and Medieval music.
Recurrent musical fantasy: I dream for the day when each person in our society supports and values the music programs in our schools, and appreciates the contribution on music to the development of the whole personality and intellect of each child.

I began playing violin at age six after seeing Sarah Chang play on TV; I named my violin Amadeus. I'm also an actor and dancer. I studied with the amazing Vartan Manoogian during high school and received my B.M. in Violin Performance from Lawrence University, where I studied with Anton Miller.

I met my husband Xavier on the first day of school; we love playing together and have a violin duet business: freewebs.com/violinduets. We also re-hair and repair string instrument bows and are in the process of building our own home in Monroe, Wisconsin.

Noteworthy: B.M. in Violin Performance, Lawrence University. Awarded three "Premier Prix" (gold medals) with honors in Violin Performance, Chamber Music Performance and Music Theory from music conservatories in France.
Funniest concert experience: Playing in the orchestra for a symphony concert in France with American clown Buffo (Howard Buten) as guest artist.
What your colleagues don't know about you: My wife Deanndra and I repair and rehair violin, viola, cello and bass bows. We provide our services to orchestral musicians as well as teachers and students in music schools.
Recurrent musical fantasy: To assist at a performance of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, in which the guest soloists would be Gil Shaham, Hilary Hahn, Vadim Repin and Joshua Bell!
If I was John DeMain for a day: I would program Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite and Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 next season.

Noteworthy: Bachelor's and Master's degree in accounting. Currently work in financial reporting systems for the UW Medical School.
Oddest practice quarters: In a roomette aboard the San Francisco Zephyr (a passenger train).
Funniest concert experience: After running out of gas, I arrived at an MSO concert at 7:58, thinking I had made it. My colleagues, however, had stopped warming up. As I walked on stage, the audience started clapping, thinking I was the concertmaster.
Recurring musical fantasy: Composing wonderful sacred music like Bach, Handel, and Mozart.

Professor of violin at UW-Madison since 1979, Greive has performed widely as recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster. Besides earlier college teaching positions in South Dakota and Texas he has performed and taught at numerous summer music festivals and camps throughout the United States, such as Interlochen, Bear Lake Music Festival in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming and the Shreveport Summer Music Festival, where he is the long-time concertmaster. Among Greive’s over 70 publications devoted to string repertoire, history and pedagogy are two CD recordings of Polish violin-piano repertoire that were released by Albany records in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He holds music degrees from Morningside College, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Michigan, in addition to studies at the Meadowmount School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival.

Noteworthy: Performed in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra; participated in the Illinois All-State Honors Orchestra for three years; concerto winner with the York High School Symphony.
Oddest practice quarters: In the car en route to a cable TV taping.
Funniest concert experience: When I was three years old, I regularly performed for a community service organization's pancake breakfast in exchange for pancakes.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I was active in gymnastics from childhood through high school.
If I were John DeMain for a day: I would have a concert with the orchestra performing all Dave Matthews music.

Noteworthy: Studied with Roland and Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago, 1996-99; finalist in several competitions including the Milwaukee Symphony's Young Artist Auditions in 1996-98; currently pursuing a B.A. in violin performance at UW-Madison.

Noteworthy: Degrees from Florida State University and University of Wisconsin; played in New World Symphony from 1996-1999; currently teaching and performing locally.
Oddest practice quarters: The tiny, windowless basement practice rooms in music schools (including UW) strike me as very odd places to spend one's college years.
Funniest concert experience: Having a conductor knock my music stand over, right into my lap, during an outdoor concert. The music blew away, and we just kept playing while my stand partner ran to get the music, put the stand up, etc. I don't really think anyone was listening as much as laughing at the mishap.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I love early music, and enjoy playing the Baroque violin.

Originally from Spain, I have a B.M. from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, an Artist Certificate from the UW-Madison, an Artist Certificate with Vartan Manoogian and an M.M. in violin performance with David Perry. In addition to performing with the Madison Symphony, I teach at Ripon College, at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and during the summers, at the International Music Festival Martin Codax, Spain.

I absolutely love playing the violin. It is so much fun to be a part of an ensemble. Performance is difficult because of the dedication that is required, but when you perform and everything goes right, it makes you feel so alive. Music can make you cry and laugh. It is just the most wonderful feeling to be able to also share this with others.

Noteworthy: Gold medals at the high school, university and conservatory levels in the Russian/Soviet educational system.
Oddest practice quarters: A basement room at the Sverdlovsk Conservatory; it was also a favorite place for mosquitoes. I had only one choice to survive: kill them. Then I lined them up on the piano keys; I had one for each key!
What your colleagues don't know about you: I love the outdoors. I am an avid mushroom fanatic, and "fisherman," and I know many kinds of healing herbs.
Recurrent musical fantasy:To live in the time of Heifetz, Rubinstein, Oistrakh, Horowitz and Maria Callas.

Noteworthy: Bachelor of Music from University of Wyoming; Master's from Western Michigan U; currently MSO Music Librarian, member of con vivo!...music with life chamber music ensemble; teach violin with Suzuki Strings of Madison.
Funniest concert experience: While playing, my stand partner's bow went flying into the air. She caught it and barely missed a beat!
Recurrent musical fantasy: To play in the Berlin Philharmonic with Herbert von Karajan conducting and the Vienna Philharmonic with Seiji Ozawa conducting.

Noteworthy: B.M. in music education, UW-Madison. Teacher at Waunakee Intermediate School; nominated for Wisconsin Music Educator's Award, 2004.
Funniest concert experience: In spring 2005, during an intensely exciting ending of a Mahler symphony, I stabbed my stand partner in the temple with the tip of my bow. He wasn't hurt, but he nearly fell off his seat, and I was worried he would bleed to death!
What your colleagues don't know about you: I love to do arts and crafts--paint, draw, crochet, cross-stitch--and I make all my Christmas presents.
Recurrent musical fantasy: To play the solo part in the Bruch Scottish Fantasy with the MSO.

Noteworthy: Studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, received music degree from UW-Madison. Gunther Schuller recently brought me to Washington to play at the Jazz Violin Summit with Johnny Frigo, Matt Glaser and Johnny Gimble. Have recorded with Freedy Johnston, Willy Porter and Garbage.

Oddest practice quarters: The turret of an Austrian castle.
Funniest concert experience: I got to an out-of-town show and realized I had forgotten my violin, so I played the gig on a borrowed mandolin.
What your colleagues don't know about you: Most of the gigs I play are improvised and non-classical. This year I recorded with two punk bands, a country group, and a traditional Hmong singer.

Noteworthy: B.A. in English and Psychology from Indiana University; freelance music engraver.
Oddest practice quarters: Aboard the Washington Island ferry in rough waters.
Funniest concert experience: Playing in a Scandinavian fold band for a group of Lutheran clergy. I led off with the wrong tune, and the band quickly fell apart. "That's sinning boldly!" I remarked, and the audience and band erupted in laughter.What your colleagues don't know about you: My other instrument is a Hardanger fiddle.
Recurrent musical fantasy: Playing "second guitar" backing up Stephane Grapelli and Django Reinhart.