FEATURED ARTISTS
Rachel Ellins, violin
Rachel Starr Ellins is a professional harpist, teacher and arranger. She is the first call substitute/second harpist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and principal harpist with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. Ellins was the instructor of harp at Colorado State Read more ... 
Hsing-ay Hsu, piano
Since making her stage debut at age 4, Chinese pianist Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing-I Shoo”) has performed as concerto soloist and chamber player at such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and abroad in Asia and Europe. She received recognition in Read more ... |
Wesley Ferreira, clarinet
Ferreira leads an active and diverse career performing worldwide as soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, and as an engaging adjudicator and clinician. Equally at ease performing the masterworks as well as contemporary pieces. He has been featured soloist with with numerous wind bands and Read more ... 
Catherine Peterson, flute
Catherine Peterson is Acting Principal Flute with the Colorado Symphony for the 2017-2018 season. A regular substitute flutist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2010-2015, she has also performed with the Detroit Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony. An active chamber musician and Read more ... |
Frank Oden, narrator
Oden's performance style is a long-seasoned blend of professional skills gained through a 40 year career as comic actor, musician, lyricist and entertainer. He has written and directed several award winning musical comedies for long running productions
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Oden's performance style is a long-seasoned blend of professional skills gained through a 40 year career as comic actor, musician, lyricist and entertainer. He has written and directed several award winning musical comedies for long running productions
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MUSICIANS
Erik Peterson, violin
As Artistic Director, Peterson brings a fresh approach to our mission and 31-year tradition of providing outstanding chamber music to Northern Colorado audiences as Front Range Chamber Players becomes more accessible to children and families, and increases our outreach to young
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As Artistic Director, Peterson brings a fresh approach to our mission and 31-year tradition of providing outstanding chamber music to Northern Colorado audiences as Front Range Chamber Players becomes more accessible to children and families, and increases our outreach to young
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Glêsse Collet, viola
Brazilian violist Glêsse Collet immigrated to the U. S. in 2016. Born in Rio de Janeiro, she moved to Brasilia as a child and spent most of her professional career there. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Brasília. Her MM degree in violin performance is from the Musik Hochschule Read more ... 
Michael W. Davis, violin
While only 26 years old, violinist Michael W. Davis was named Concertmaster of the prestigious Louisville Orchestra, thrilling audiences for 30 years until his retirement from that position in 2015. All the while, critics have hailed him as “the essence of musicality” and continue to praise him for Read more ... 
Forest Greenough, bass
Known as a very diverse performer, bassist Greenough has performed concerts and given clinics on four continents, and is a regular member of the Fort Collins Symphony, Principal Bass of the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Read more ... 
Hiroko Hellyer, percussion Hiroko Okada Hellyer received her Bachelor of Arts at the Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan and came to the U.S. in 1999 to study with Tim Adams at Carnegie Mellon University. Before coming to the U.S., Mrs. Hellyer was a gold medal winner of the All Japan Read more ... 
Theodor Lichtmann, piano
Born and educated in Switzerland, Lichtmann received his Gymnasium degree in Classical languages. For his formative training as a pianist, he studied with Irma Schaichet (a student of Busoni and Bartok) in Switzerland and later with Leonard Shure (an Artur Schnabel Read more ... 
Margaret Miller, viola
Miller is Special Assistant Professor of Viola and coordinator of the Graduate Quartet Program at CSU. She teaches viola, chamber music literature and coaches both undergraduate and graduate ensembles. Miller is also on the faculty of the LEAP Institute for the Arts at CSU, a multi- Read more ... 
Susan Paik, violin
Violinist Susan Paik joined the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in the 2016-2017 season. Prior to moving to Denver, she played with the Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. She served as co-concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for its 2013-2014 Read more ... 
Felix Petit, violin
Petit began his violin studies at the age of 9 at the Latin American Violin Academy of “El Sistema” in Caracas, Venezuela with maestro Jose Francisco Del Castillo. He has participated in the Latin American Violin Academy Summer Festival, Read more .... 
Silvana Santinelli , piano
Santinelli has performed in Russia, Czech Republic, France, Canada, China and Switzerland, in addition to the United States and her native Mexico. A Fulbright former scholar, Santinelli’s many accomplishments include being the first prize winner of the Mexican Read more ... 
Phillip Stevens, viola
Phillip Stevens, violist, is currently a member of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and is Affiliate Professor of Viola at Metropolitan State University of Denver. In addition to joining the Colorado Symphony in 1996, Phillip has performed with the Rochester Read more ... |
Mary Cowell, violin
Washington state native Cowell is Colorado Symphony's 3rd chair violist. Raised in Everett, WA, she began playing the violin at age four, played in the local youth symphonies through middle school and continued studying at the Far Eastern Music Institute when her family moved to Read more ... 
Gal Faganel, cello
Faganel is a cello performer, teacher, coach, and recording artist. As a performer, he is frequently heard in recital, in chamber music concerts, and as a soloist with orchestras throughout North America and Europe. He is the founder and artistic director of the Arizona Chamber Orchestra, Read more ... 
Danielle Guideri, cello
Guideri received her undergraduate and master's degrees in cello performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at the City University of New York, Queens College, where she was the winner of the Louis Pastore Cello Scholarship Award. She has performed Read more ... 
Lydia Hynson, cello
Cellist Lydia Hynson, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She participated in the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and youth chamber ensembles until she graduated high school. She attended Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she Read more ... 
Heidi Mausbach, cello
Cellist Heidi Mausbach, a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, has enjoyed a fulfilling and diverse orchestral career throughout the US. She has played with the Naples Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra, and the Minnesota Read more ... 
Paul Mullikin, percussionist
Multi-instrumentalist and award-winning composer Mullikin is a graduate of Denver School of the Arts and Lamont School of Music at Denver University. He has been a veritable chameleon on the Denver music scene for over a decade. On any given Read more ... 
Kimberly Patterson, cello
Patterson has earned recognition for her artistry as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. She was the founding cellist for the Tesla Quartet, winner of the 2012 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and a prizewinner of the 2012 London International Quartet Competition and Read more ... 
Harumi Rhodes, violin
Rhodes has gained broad recognition as a multifaceted musician with a distinctive and sincere musical voice. Her generosity of spirit on stage is contagious, making her one of the most sought after violinists of her generation. Recent solo engagements Read more ... 
Michelle Stanley, flute
Stanley is Associate Professor of Music at Colorado State University. She is an active teacher and performing musician. She travels frequently throughout Europe and the U.S. as a recitalist and master teacher, most recently having performed in Italy and Russia. She is a faculty member at the Interharmony Read more ... 
Barbara Thiem, cello
An internationally acclaimed cellist, Thiem combines teaching cello and chamber music with her active schedule of performances in Europe and the United States, playing solo recitals with orchestra, and chamber music. Thiem is a member of the Mendelssohn Trio and in the summers Read more ... |
Charles Tucker, cello
Tucker leads a dual life as lawyer and cellist. He received his Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. He practices estate planning, probate, business, and real property law with the law firm of Charles C. Tucker PLLC in Fort Collins, Colorado. Read more ... |
Lei Weng, piano
Steinway Artist Lei Weng enjoys a successful international career as an accomplished pianist, a dedicated teacher, and a sought-after adjudicator and clinician. He has performed at many prestigious venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Read more ... |
