The Cassatt String
Quartet
Acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding
ensembles, the New York City-based Cassatt
String Quartet has performed throughout the
world, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall
and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New
York; Tanglewood Music Theater; the Kennedy
Center, Washington, DC; Théâtre des
Champs-Élysées, Paris; Centro National de las
Artes, Mexico City; Maeda Hall, Tokyo; and
Beijing Central Conservatory. At the Library
of Congress, the Cassatt performed on the
library’s matched quartet of Stradivarius
instruments.
Esteemed music critic Alex Ross named the
Cassatt three times to his “10 Best Classical
Recordings” in The New Yorker, and the
ensemble has been featured on NPR’s
“Performance Today,” Boston’s WGBH, New York’s
WQXR and WNYC, on Canada’s CBC Radio, and on
Radio France.
The Cassatt’s numerous awards are from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the USArtists
International, Chamber Music America,
CMA/ASCAP, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust, Meet the Composer, and the Amphion,
Copland, Fromm and Alice M. Ditson Music
Foundations. Since 1995, the ensemble has been
on the performing artist roster for the New
York State Council on the Arts.
With a deep commitment to nurturing young
musicians, the Cassatt has offered classes for
composers and performers at the American
Academy, Rome; the Toho School, Tokyo; Bowdoin
International Music Festival; Columbia,
Cornell, Princeton and Syracuse universities,
and the University of Pennsylvania. The
quartet is in residency annually at Cassatt in
the Basin! in Texas.
Equally adept at classical masterpieces and
contemporary music, the Cassatt has
collaborated with members of the Tokyo,
Cleveland and Vermeer Quartets, pianists
Ursula Oppens and Marc-Andre Hamelin,
clarinetist David Shifrin, flutist Ransom
Wilson, jazz pianist Fred Hersch, didgeridoo
player Simon 7, the Trisha Brown Dance
Company, and composers Louis Andriessen, Kaija
Saariaho, Joan Tower and John Corigliano. The
Cassatt’s discography includes new quartets by
Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Stucky;
Guggenheim fellow Daniel S. Godfrey; and
Grawemeyer- and Rome Prize-winner Sebastian
Currier.
Named for the celebrated impressionist painter
Mary Cassatt, the quartet consists of Muneko
Otani, violin; Jennifer Leshnower, violin; Ah
Ling Neu, viola; and Elizabeth Anderson,
cello.
Please visit the Cassatt String Quartet
website for more information:
http://www.cassattquartet.com
Andy Lin
Taiwanese-American violist and erhuist, Dr.
Andy Lin, is recognized as one of the most
promising and the only active performers who
specialized in both western and eastern
instruments. Praised by The Strad “The great
Molto adagio…..elicited some of the night’s
most sensitive work, especially from Andy Lin
on viola.” and New York Times “Taiwanese-born
violist Andy Lin..…is also a virtuoso on the
erhu, and he gave a brilliant performance.”
His recent highlights have included erhu solo
debut appearance at the Festival PAAX GNP in
Mexico, erhu solo collaboration with world
renowned pianist Lang Lang and the Orchestra
of St. Luke’s at the Radio City Music Hall in
New York City, as well as a recital at the
Metropolitan Museum. Andy is the artistic
director and co-founder of the New Asia
Chamber Music Society and holds his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School
and his Doctor’s degree in Musical Arts from
SUNY Stony Brook.
He has also appeared as a soloist with both
the viola and/or erhu with orchestras such as
the Busan Metropolitan Traditional Music
Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia,
Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Incheon
Philharmonic, the Juilliard Orchestra,
Milwaukee Symphony, Orford Academy Orchestra,
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and Yonkers
Philharmonic Orchestra. Andy is also a member
of the Musicians of Lenox Hill and INTERWOVEN,
and serves as principal violist of the New
York Classical Players and the Solisti
Ensemble.
Wang Guowei
Wang Guowei is performer on the Chinese
two-string fiddle erhu and a composer. He
studied at the Shanghai Conservatory and was
concertmaster and soloist with the Shanghai
Traditional Orchestra. Becoming Artistic
Director of Music From China in 1996, he has
been hailed as a “master of the erhu” by the
American press.
Wang Guowei has appeared with such artists as
the Shanghai Quartet, Ying Quartet, Amelia
Piano Trio, Continuum, Third Angle New Music
Ensemble, Virginia Symphony, Post Classical
Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,
Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Columbus
Symphony Orchestra, Ornette Coleman, Butch
Morris, Yo-Yo Ma, and has performed at
colleges, universities, cultural institutions
and music festivals across the U.S. and
internationally.
A dedicated teacher and educator, he is
Artist-in-Residence in Chinese Music
Performance at Williams College and Director
of the Williams College Chinese Music
Ensemble; co-director/conductor of the
Swarthmore College Chinese Ensemble, and
artistic director of the Music From China
Youth Orchestra. Wang Guowei received a folk
arts fellowship from the New York Foundation
for the Arts; commissioning awards from the
American Composers Forum, New York State
Council on the Arts, National Endowment for
the Arts; and project grants from the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council and Queens Council
on the Arts.
Peter Weitzner
Peter Weitzner, a graduate of the Juilliard
School, has performed with Solisti New York, the
Jupiter Symphony, EOS Ensemble, SONYC,
Philharmonia Virtuosi, Stamford Symphony,
Musicians Accord, and the New Jersey Symphony.
As soloist, he has appeared with the Baltimore
Symphony and performed the New York premiere of
Sheila Silver’s Chant for bass and piano. Mr.
Weitzner has been a frequent participant at
international music festivals including Mostly
Mozart, OK Mozart, Cape May, Festival of the
Hamptons, Bratislava Music Festival, and the
Bruckner Festival in Linz, Austria.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Weitzner is
currently the curator and host of the BPL
Chamber Players in residence at the Central
branch (Grand Army Plaza) of the Brooklyn Public
Library. He has performed with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, the Orion, Ens?,
Daedalus and Clarosa Quartets, Trio Solisti, New
York Chamber Ensemble, Yale at Norfolk,
Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, New York
Philomusica, Garden City Chamber Music Society,
Sherman Chamber Ensemble and the Berkshire Bach
Society.
He has also performed with the dance companies
of Lar Lubovitch and David Parsons as well as
Merce Cunningham's 80th birthday celebration at
the Lincoln Center Festival in the New York
premiere of Biped. He also participated in a
performance at NJPAC (NJ Performing Arts Center)
with the re-emerging Alice Coltrane shortly
before her passing. For ten years Mr. Weitzner
toured the world as a member of the Giora
Feidman Trio. In the spring of 2009, he was
invited to become a member of the Quincy Jones
Musiq Consortium, an arts education advocacy
group comprised of arts related non-profits,
musicians and educators.
His work can be heard on the Nonesuch, Albany,
Pro Gloria Musicae, New World Records, Musical
Heritage Society, Delos, Grenadilla, and
Berkshire Bach Society record labels. He has
also produced recordings of the Brandenburg
Concerti with the Berkshire Bach Society and the
critically acclaimed complete flute music of
J.S. Bach with flutist Susan Rotholz and Kenneth
Cooper, fortepiano, released by Bridge Records.
A CD of American flute music with Susan Rotholz
and pianist, Margaret Kampmeier has also been
released by Bridge. He is also a frequent
contributor of concert recordings to NPR’s
Performance Today.
Zhou Long
Zhou Long is internationally recognized for
creating a unique body of music that brings
together the aesthetic concepts and musical
elements of East and West. Winner of the 2011
Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, Madame White
Snake, Dr. Zhou also received the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Elise
Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music
Society, and Barlow Prize. He has received
commissioning awards from the Koussevitzky,
Fromm Music Foundations, Meet the Composer,
Chamber Music America, and the New York State
Council on the Arts. Fellowships are from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim
and Rockefeller Foundations, and the New York
State Council on the Arts. Symphony Humen 1839
(commissioned and premiered by the Guangzhou
Symphony Orchestra) has been awarded the first
prize at the 2009 China National Composition
Competition for symphonic work.
Born on July 8, 1953, in Beijing. Zhou Long
enrolled in the Central Conservatory of Music in
Beijing in 1977. Following graduation in 1983,
he was appointed composer-in-residence with the
China Broadcasting Symphony. He travelled to the
United States in 1985 under a fellowship to
attend Columbia University, where he studied
with Chou Wen-Chung, Davidovsky and Edwards,
receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in
1993. Dr. Zhou is currently Bonfils
Distinguished Research Professor of Composition
at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Conservatory. He has been invited to serve as
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tianjin
Conservatory and Southern University of Science
and Technology in China.
Recently, he has completed a Symphonic Oratorio:
Men of Iron and the Golden Spike for voices,
choir and orchestra (c. 50 minutes)
co-commissioned by the Stanford University and
Bard College, premiered at the Carnegie Hall in
2019; Classic of Mountains and Seas – Concerto
for Orchestra, commissioned and premiered by the
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra which received an
award from the China National Arts Fund for
subsequent performances; Tipsy Poet for
violoncello and orchestra, co-commissioned and
premiered by the WDR Symphony in Cologne and at
2019 Dresden Music Festival, and the Singapore
Symphony; piano concerto (co-composed with Chen
Yi) Bright Future commissioned by Southern
University of Science & Technology and
premiered by Shenzhen Symphony; Tsingtao
Overture, commissioned and premiered by Qingdao
Symphony which received an award from the China
National Arts Fund for subsequent performances;
Beijing Rhyme - A Symphonic Suite, commissioned
by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra; a mixed
quartet Legend of Nine Bells co-commissioned by
the Wigmore Hall and Lincoln Center; and his
first piano concerto Postures co-commissioned by
the BBC Proms and Singapore Symphony. In 2013,
Zhou Long has composed a whole evening symphonic
epic Nine Odes on poems by Qu Yuan for four solo
vocalists and orchestra, commissioned by the
Beijing Music Festival. Zhou’s music of all
genres has been widely performed and recorded,
published by the Oxford University Press and the
Shanghai Music Publishing House.
ZHOU is family name. Long is personal name. Zhou
Long could be referred to as Mr. Zhou, Dr. Zhou,
Prof. Zhou, or Zhou Long.
Chen Yi
As a prolific composer who blends Chinese and
Western traditions, transcending cultural and
musical boundaries, Dr. Chen Yi* is
Distinguished Professor at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, and recipient
of the Charles Ives Living Award from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Her music is published by
Theodore Presser, commissioned and performed by
such musicians and ensembles as Yehudi Menuhin,
Yo-Yo Ma, Evelyn Glennie, Chanticleer,
Cleveland/Halle/Saxon State Orchestras,
BBC/Royal Philharmonics,
Seattle/Pacific/Singapore/China National/San
Francisco/ Chicago/New Zealand/BBC Symphonies,
LA/NY/China Philharmonics, Stuttgart/St.
Paul/St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestras, BMOP,
Rascher/Prism Saxophone Quartets, Music From
China, and Shanghai/Ying Quartets, recorded on
Bis/New World/Albany/Bridge/Naxos, and many
labels. Major fellowships and commissions were
from Guggenheim/Fromm/Roche/Koussevitzky Music
Foundations, AAAL, Meet The Composer, Barlow
Endowment, Chamber Music America, ACDA, NYSCA
and NEA. Honors include top prizes from Chinese
National Composition Competition, CalArts/Alpert
Award, UT Eddie Medora King Composition Prize,
Elise Stoeger Award and ASCAP Concert Music
Award.
She received bachelor and
master’s degrees in composition from Beijing
Central Conservatory of Music, and Doctor of
Musical Arts degree from Columbia University in
the City of New York. Major composition teachers
are Profs. Wu Zu-qiang, Chou Wen-chung and Mario
Davidovsky. She hopes that her music can bridge
different cultural traditions, to improve
understanding between peoples in the world for
the peace of our society. She has been inducted
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the American Academy of Arts and Letter.
* Chen is family name.
Anthony De Ritis
Described as “An eclectic whose works draw on
popular and electronic music” (Wall Street
Journal), and a “genuinely American composer”
(Gramophone), Anthony Paul De Ritis has received
performances around the world, including at
Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center,
Beijing’s Yugong Yishan, Seoul’s KT Art Hall,
the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 World Expo in
Milan, and UNESCO headquarters in Paris. De
Ritis’s 2012 release Devolution with the
Grammy-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project
(BMOP) features three of De Ritis’ symphonic
works, Chords of Dust, Legerdemain, and
Devolution: a Concerto for DJ and Symphony
Orchestra featuring Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
as soloist.
His Pop Concerto (2017)
featuring Eliot Fisk was lauded by Classical CD
Review as “a major issue of American music;” and
his Electroacoustic Music – In Memoriam: David
Wessel (Albany Records, 2018) was cited as a
“Best of 2018” in the Electronic Music category
by Sequenza 21. De Ritis was a Fulbright Senior
Research Scholar at the Central Conservatory of
Music (2011) in Beijing; and earned his Ph.D. at
the University of California, Berkeley (1997),
where he served as the teaching assistant to
David Wessel (Founding Director, Center for New
Music and Audio Technologies).
De Ritis’s current projects
include completing his third CD with BMOP, a
collection of his works for Chinese traditional
instruments and Western orchestra; and text
settings of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s book of
algorithmic poetry on themes of racial and
social justice titled Travesty Generator, which
received a 2021 Live Arts Boston (LAB) award
from the Boston Foundation. De Ritis is
Professor, former Chair (2003-2015), and
co-founder of its Music Technology program in
the Music Department at Northeastern University.
www.deritis.com
Daniel S. Godfrey
Daniel Strong Godfrey (b. 1949) has earned
awards and commissions from the J. S.
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music
Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Bogliasco Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music
Foundation, and the Barlow Endowment for Music
Composition, among many others. His music has
been performed by soloists, chamber ensembles
and orchestras throughout the U.S. and abroad.
He is founder and co-director of the Seal Bay
Festival of American Chamber Music (on the
Maine coast) and is co-author (with the late
Elliott Schwartz) of Music Since 1945,
published by Schirmer Books.
Godfrey's works have been recorded on Albany,
CRI, GM, Innova, Klavier, Koch, UK Light and
Mark compact disks. His music is available
through publishers Carl Fischer and G.
Schirmer.
Godfrey received his graduate degrees in
composition from Yale University and the
University of Iowa. He is currently Professor
and Chair in the Department of Music at
Northeastern University's College or Arts,
Media and Design (Boston, Massachusetts).
Prior to his recent appointment at
Northeastern, Godfrey was Professor of Music
Composition, Theory and History at Syracuse
University's Setnor School of Music, and he
has also held guest faculty appointments in
composition at the Eastman School of Music and
the Indiana University School of Music.
Shirish Korde
Shirish Korde is celebrated for "integrating
and synthesizing music of diverse cultures
into breathtaking works of complex expressive
layers." His works have been performed by
orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, The
New Zealand Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, the
National Polish Radio Orchestra; and ensembles
such as The Boston Musica Viva, Da Capo
Chamber Players, The Ensemble Modern and
others. He has received many grants and awards
including the National Endowment for the Arts,
The Fromm Foundation, and The Siemens
Foundation. His works can be heard on Chandos,
Neuma, Centaur, and Mode.
Vineet Shende
Vineet Shende spent his formative years in
Chicago and Pune, India. He holds degrees from
Cornell University, Butler University and
Grinnell College, where he studied composition
with Roberto Sierra, Steven Stucky, Michael
Schelle and Jonathan Chenette. He has also
studied sitar with Ustad Usman Khan. Shende’s
music has been commissioned, premiered, and/or
recorded by ensembles such as the National
Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony
Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the
Amernet String Quartet, the Cassatt String
Quartet and Flexible Music. He is an associate
professor and chair of the Music Department at
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Laura Kaminsky
Laura Kaminsky is a composer with "an ear for
the new and interesting" whose works are
"colorful and harmonically sharp-edged" (The New
York Times). Social and political themes are
common in her work, as is an abiding respect for
and connection to the natural world. Kaminsky's
"music is full of fire as well as ice, written
in an idiom that contrasts dissonance and
violence with tonal beauty and meditative
reflection. It is strong stuff." (American
Record Guide) Her opera, As One (co-librettists
Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed), recently
presented at BAM, received unanimously positive
reviews, including: "(As One) is a piece that
haunts and challenges its audience with
questions about identity, authenticity,
compassion, and the human desire for self-love
and peace" (Opera News) and "...musically, (this
seasoned, socially-aware composer's)
dramatically charged music has a tonal ambiguity
that allows each scene to go where it needs to,
and in a clear dramatic trajectory."(Operavore)
Kaminsky has received support from the National
Endowment for the Arts, Koussevitzky Music
Foundation, Opera America, BAM/The Kennedy
Center De Vos Institute, New York State Council
on the Arts, Aaron Copland Fund, Chamber Music
America, American Music Center, USArtists
International, CEC ArtsLink International
Partnerships, Likhachev Foundation, Kenan
Institute for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle
Arts Commission, North Carolina Arts Council,
Seattle Arts Commission, Virgil Thomson
Foundation, Meet the Composer, and others. She
has received six ASCAP-Chamber Music America
Awards for Adventuresome Programming, a citation
from the Office of the President of the Borough
of Manhattan, and the Polish Ministry of Culture
National Heritage 2010 Chopin Award. She has
been a fellow at the Hermitage Artist Retreat
Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,
Centrum Foundation, Dorland Mountain Arts
Colony, and Millay Colony for the Arts.
Currently composer-in-residence at American
Opera Projects, Kaminsky is a member of the
faculty in the School of the Arts/Conservatory
of Music at Purchase College/SUNY, where she
served as dean from 2004-2008.
Maja Maklakiewicz
Polish violinist born in Warsaw. Graduated with
honors at the Music Department of the University
of Veracruz, Mexico where she studied under the
supervision of Prof. Stanisław Kawalla. She
received a Master's Degree in Music Arts from
the Fr. Chopin Music University in Warsaw,
Poland - in the class of Prof. Krzysztof
Jakowicz. She received a second Master’s Degree
with distinction from the Royal Conservatory of
Brussels in the class of Prof. Igor Oistrakh. At
the same time, she obtained her third Master’s
Degree in Music Theory, where she studied
counterpoint and fugue with Kristin De Smedt,
and a fourth Master’s Degree in Composition at
the Royal Conservatory of Brussels under the
guidance of Raphael D’Haene – a former student
of Henri Dutilleux. She has performed as a
soloist and chamber musician in Mexico, Belgium,
Sweden, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
France, China and Taiwan. She was also member of
the of the Veracruz State Secretariat of
Education and Culture Solo Recitalists
Fellowship. Maja appeared as a soloist in Mexico
with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, Tampico
Symphony Orchestra, Veracruz State Youth
Symphony Orchestra, Xalapa Guitar Orchestra and
in Belgium with the Hainaut-Picardie Orchestra
and the Arpeggio Chamber Orchestra.
Maja took composition masterclasses with:
Raffaelle Longo, Gian Paolo Luppi, Adam Gorb and
Octavian Nemescu. Maja wrote "Childhood
Memories" for solo violin, which was used as the
material for Dr. Juan Valentin's PhD
dissertation at the Argentine National
University "El Rosario" in Buenos Aires, and
later published by the Spanish Academic
Editorial Board. Maja wrote musical
illustrations commissioned by the Arpeggio
Chamber Orchestra, which were
presented in a series of didactic concerts,
including: Three Fairy Tales by La Fontaine
(2012), “The Little Prince" - Saint-Exupery
(2011) and her piece "Antonio"(2012).
She taught violin and chamber ensembles as well
as theory and composition at the Music Faculty
of the University of Veracruz in Xalapa, Mexico.
She also taught violin and chamber ensembles at
the Veracruz State Institute of Higher Music
Education (ISMEV) in Xalapa, Mexico. Maja is
currently studying a Doctorate in Music Arts in
violin at Texas Tech University, Texas, USA,
under the guidance of Prof. Anne Chalex-Boyle.
Yun Li
LI Yun, DMA student in composition at the
University of Missouri Kansas City. Composer in
residence of China-ASEAN Contemporary Ensemble.
She graduated from the China Conservatory of
Music with a bachelor's degree in 2018 and was
recommended for a master's degree as an honorary
student in the same year. Successively studied
music composition with composers such as Shi
Wanchun, Gao Weijie, Chen Yi, and Zhou Long.
Her works include various genres and are
commissioned and performed by many artistic
groups, such as Ensemble Con Tempo Beijing,
Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Academia
China, Guangxi Symphony Orchestra, China
National Traditional Orchestra, Cincinnati
Soundbox Trio, China-ASEAN Contemporary
Ensemble, etc. Some of her musical works and
academic essays were also published in core
journals in the realm of music. Adapted work The
Mermaids Song, piano work Yangchun Lyric has
been included in the college textbooks.
Participated in the Beijing Science Foundation
Project "Research on Contemporary Chinese
Opera."
Leyou Wang
Leyou Wang grew up in Beijing China, where he
began studying composition at an early age. He
studied at HMDK Stuttgart music theory with
Prof. Bernd Asmus (bachelor), orchestral
conducting with Prof. Per Borin (bachelor) and
Prof. Rasmus Baumann (master). He did his
master’s degree in music theory at MH Freiburg
with Prof. Otfried Büsing.
His symphonic piece The Battle of Shantsuguan
won the 2015 Winter Kompolize Award for
composition. Since then, multiple orchestral
pieces of his have been performed by
professional orchestras in Germany including
Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart
Chamber Orchestra, Württembergische Philharmonie
Reutlingen and Junge Philharmonie
Baden-Württemberg. He conducted most of the
performances himself.
In 2020, Wang was accepted into the DMA program
of University of Missouri Kansas City with full
scholarship. He has been studying with Dr. Chen
Yi and Dr. Zhou Long. During the program, he won
the 1st Prize of Lei Cine Film Scoring
Competition in 2021 (Beijing China), the Dr.
Gerald Kemner prize of orchestra composition as
well as UMKC Conservatory Chamber Music
Composition in 2022. In 2023 he was chosen as
one of the featured artists of the American
Composers Orchestra’s EarShot program.
Woody Mo
Woody Mo (b. 2001) is a composer from Beijing.
Being brought up in both a traditional Chinese
education system, as he inherited concepts of
traditional culture and philosophy, and an
international education system, enabling him to
be more accessible to ideas, views, and values
across the globe. He absorbs elements from his
experiences, philosophy, or other arts into the
process of creating music. He is currently
studying as a BM student with Chen Yi, Zhou
Long, Yotam Haber, and Paul Rudy at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City.
He collaborated with several artists and groups,
including Guo Yazhi, the Imani Wind, and UMKC
Graduate Fellowship Brass Quartet. His animation
scoring had been selected as a Semi-Finalist at
Australia Animation Film Festival. His game
scoring for a 2022 Game Jam Project - Dienasty
Warrior was rated in the top 3% percent among
all participants for its presentation.
Master Printmaker, Chris
Clarke
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1971
As a young 16-year-old, in the
summer of 1987, I started my printmaking
journey, at the Vinalhaven Press. From the
summer of ’87 through 1992 I apprenticed under
the guidance of Master Printers Orlando Condeso,
John C. Erickson, and Randy Hemminghaus, and
received hands-on training in the various
methods of printmaking: etching, lithography,
and relief. During this time I also had the
opportunity to assist in collaborations with
artists such as Leon Golub, Alex Katz, and
Robert Indiana.
While developing my own skills
as an artist - primarily in etching - during the
following years, I found myself working
independently in various workshops in Maine and
Massachusetts, eventually landing in NYC, where
I worked with Richard Haas, William Kentridge,
and Robert Indiana. After 7 years of city life,
I finally came back home to Vinalhaven and
founded The Engine House Press, a co-op
collective, acting as collaborator and teacher
for artists of all skill levels.
My artwork, mostly etchings, are in many private
collections worldwide, with permanent
collections held by the John Noble Maritime
Museum (Staten Island, NY) and The Farnsworth
Art Museum (Rockland, ME).
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