2024 Artists

CLARINET

Nick Davies is the Bass/Utility Clarinet of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly the Principal Clarinet of the Great Falls Symphony and the Chinook Winds. Additionally, he has performed as a substitute with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Des Moines Metro Opera, Sarasota Opera Orchestra, Bozeman Symphony and Santa Barbara Symphony.

As a soloist, Nick recently performed Frank Ticheli’s Clarinet Concerto alongside the composer, and has performed as a soloist with ensembles such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the USC Wind Ensemble. Mr. Davies has a strong interest in contemporary music and has held past fellowships with Ensemble Modern’s Klangspuren Schwaz, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and Spoleto Festival USA.  As a composer, his commissions include those from the Houston Grand Opera, Midic Winds, Webster Trio, and the Chicago Harp Quartet. Nick is the artistic director and founder of the Rossini Club, a chamber music organization based in Nantucket, Massachusetts, which is hosting its twelfth season this year. 

Nick holds degrees from Rice University and the University of Southern California.

VIOLIST

Co-Artistic director of TCMF, Bulgarian violist Koko Dyulgerski is currently based in Denver, where he performs with Opera Colorado, the Colorado Symphony, and was recently appointed Principal Viola of the Central City Opera Orchestra. Koko received his Master of Music degree from Rice University in Houston as a student of Ivo-Jan Van der Werff, and previously studied under Kevork Mardirossian. During his time in Houston, Koko played regularly with the Mercury Baroque, Houston Grand Opera, and Houston Symphony Orchestras.

Also an avid chamber musician, Koko is co-founder of the Violamore Duo with his wife Leah Kovach. As a mentor, Koko loves teaching young violinists and violists and inspiring them to reach their full potential.

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VIOLIN

Praised by the international press for her “passion, empathy and precision” and her “outstanding” performances, violinist Rachelle Hunt has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe, and South America. She has been a top prize-winner in international and national competitions, including the Kingsville and Corpus Christi International Competitions. Rachelle has been presented as a soloist and chamber musician at such venues as the Concert Hall and Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, the Frankfurt Radio Hall (Germany), the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, and Casa de la Música (Ecuador), as well as being featured on the nationally broadcast “From the Top” on NPR, several German radio stations, and TV in Venezuela and Colombia. Her recordings of chamber works appear in the digital Mozart Archives (Salzburg) and Beethoven Archives (ARTE) as well as the ARD Mediathek in Europe, and she is regularly featured on digital concert venues such as ARTE Concert and Stage@Seven. After graduating from Rice University, summa cum laude, Rachelle was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Germany, where she earned both the Konzertexamen Diploma and Chamber Music Certificate with the highest honors. In addition to her dozens of solo and chamber music concerts around the globe each season, she has been a tenured member of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester) in Germany for over a decade and is on faculty at the Conservatory in Frankfurt (Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium). Read more at www.rachelleviolin.com.

PERCUSSION

Eric Klein is the principal percussionist of the Salt Lake Symphony. He has previously played with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony and Symphony Parnassus. As a percussionist, pianist, and accordionist, he loves playing chamber music, whether classical, klezmer, or improvising. Eric has his bachelor's degree in percussion from the University of Michigan. In addition to playing and teaching, he works with adults as a speech-language pathologist. He lives in Salt Lake City with his husband and sweet dog.

VIOLIST

Violist Leah Kovach grew up in Salt Lake City and is co-Artistic Director of the Torrey Chamber Music Festival. Leah is currently based in Denver, where she is a member of the Colorado Symphony and was recently appointed to the Central City Opera Orchestra. Leah holds degrees from Indiana University and Rice University, where her primary teachers were Atar Arad and James Dunham. Leah has performed with orchestras and ensembles across four continents, including the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In high school, Leah was lucky to participate in the Utah Youth Symphony and study with Utah Symphony musician Julie Edwards. She is excited that TCMF is providing educational and ensemble opportunities for young musicians in other areas of the state! Leah is co-founder of the Violamore Duo with her husband Koko Dyulgerski.

CELLO

Annamarie Reader grew up in Wichita, Kansas. She completed her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Rice University Shepherd School of Music, where her primary teachers were Melissa Kraut and Desmond Hoebig. While in Houston, she has established a private cello studio of her own while also freelancing and at times substituting with various ensembles in town, including River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Mercury Baroque Orchestra and the Houston Symphony. In recent summers she has enjoyed playing at Music in the Mountains in Durango, CO and the Bellingham Music Festival in Washington state.

VIOLIN

Lynn Maxine Rosen (Xiné) began violin study in Los Angeles with the prominent studio musician Joachim Chassman, and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance with Distinction at Indiana University. Primary studies there were with Tadeusz Wronski, who was previously Dean of the Warsaw Conservatory of Music in Poland. Ms. Rosen later studied with Josef Gingold, Pinchas Zukerman, and Joseph Silverstein, Malcolm Lowe. After Indiana University, Ms. Rosen landed the title of Assistant Concertmaster with

Tulsa Philharmonic, where she performed until moving to Utah in 1982. She is now in her forty-second season with the Utah Symphony, playing first and second violin, as well as viola. Ms. Rosen has also successfully performed as a soloist and chamber musician on many occasions. In 1990 she founded and managed the Jupiter Trio, which was awarded the Utah Performing Arts Tour status in 1990-1991.

In November 1996, Ms. Rosen received a Salt Lake City Individual Artist Grant to make a music video. The music video, entitled Passacaglia, features Ms. Rosen playing both violin and viola, and was sold through the Utah Symphony Guild Store, Summerhays Music, Peter Prier Violins as well as Borders Books. The video has been televised on Classic Arts Showcase, a nationally televised classical music video channel. In her spare time, Ms. Rosen enjoys skiing Utah’s beautiful powder, tennis, hiking, sewing, and gourmet cooking with her husband, Principal Clarinetist Tad Calcara. They are parents of three vibrant teenagers. She plays on an Italian violin made in 1830.

VIOLIN

Violinist Eric Siu is currently a member of the San Antonio Philharmonic and Assistant Professor of Violin at Texas Lutheran University. He began studying the violin at the age of 6 in Hong Kong, later attending Wells Cathedral School (UK), Mannes College of Music, and The Juilliard School. In 2012, he graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rice University. His primary teachers include Catherine Lord, Sally Thomas, and Kathleen Winkler. Eric has appeared on KUHF Houston Public Radio and Texas Public Radio KPAC. Recent solo performances include Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Texas Lutheran University Orchestra and Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with Symphony Viva. As a chamber musician, he has performed with the Olmos Ensemble, Musical Offerings, at the Three Cities Chamber Music Marathon at the Kennedy Center, and at the Cali de Camara festival.

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In addition to his role at the San Antonio Philharmonic, Eric has performed with orchestras such as the Houston Symphony, Austin Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. He has attended the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and the Pacific Music Festival, where he served as concertmaster for two years.

CELLO

Award-winning American cellist Katie Tertell is a performer and artistic curator, innovating how classical music is digested in modern times. Katie is Artistic Director and Founder of the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival, and member of the critically- acclaimed folk band “Howay the Lasses” as well as female-led chamber collective Musici Ireland. Formerly a Tutti cellist of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, she enjoys a rich and varied experience as an artist in Europe and America. Alongside work with internationally celebrated ensembles, Katie focuses her attention on projects that aim to connect people through meaningful experiences in music, working cross disciplinarily and in various sectors. Notable projects include the “Lost in Plain Sight” project (about Gaspar Cassadó), featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in 2023, “Cello Power: The Popper Project” featured in The Strad in 2022, and project development on a multi-disciplinary work about unseen disabilities to be premiered

internationally in 2025.

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Katie also performs and records regularly with respected European symphony and chamber orchestras including in various leadership roles at major venues like the BBC Proms. She can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and RTÈ Lyric FM in recorded and live performances of both chamber and orchestral works. Katie teaches cello at

Durham University (UK).

Katie grew up outside of Washington D.C. in McLean, Virginia. She holds degrees with honours in performance from Indiana University, Cleveland Institute of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, as well as a Second Masters degree in Suzuki Pedagogy from the Sato Center at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her teachers and mentors include among many Janos Starker, Emilio Colón, Joely Koos, Peter Dixon and Ralph Kirschbaum. She plays on an 1888 Colin-Mezin cello.