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Trio Fedele
Over a decade ago, flutist David Fedele founded Trio Fedele with friends and colleagues of long standing, cellist, Matthew Herren, and pianist, Robert Koenig, with the intention of exploring the rich and varied repertoire for this unique combination of instruments. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, flutist David Fedele is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. He won the Young Concert Artists International Audition Award and in addition, has won the Olga Koussevitsky Competition of the Musicians Club of New York, a grant from Arts International, a top prize in the Second Kobe International Flute Competition in Japan and first place in the New York Flute Club Competition. Mr. Fedele has served on the faculty of Columbia University, Franklin and Marshall College, and The Pennsylvania Academy of Music. Currently, Mr. Fedele serves as Assistant Professor of Flute at The University of Kansas, and divides his time between Lawrence and New York City. He is affiliated with Astral Artistic Services of Philadelphia, and is the recent recipient of a grant from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. Cellist Matthew Herren is a graduate of The Juilliard School. Mr. Herren won the First Prize in Vienna Modern Masters' International Performers' Award Competition, resulting in the release of a compact disc recording, and the Louise Oberne Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs. Mr. Herren was Chair of the String Department at the inaugural season of the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, PA, and has been Acting Principal Cello of the Harrisburg Symphony. He has been artist in residence at both The University of Montana and Montana State University and has served on the faculty of The Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster, PA. He is Principal Cellist of the Vermont Mozart Festival. He is a founding member of Concertante Chamber Players, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project and The Yellowstone Music Festival. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, pianist Robert Koenig began his formal training at the Vancouver Academy of Music and later studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Academie Musicale di Chigiana in Siena, Italy. During this time he received several awards from the Canadian Government, including a Canada Council Project Grant. He completed both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Accompanying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Koenig was staff pianist at The Juilliard School and in 1999 he became a staff pianist at The Curtis Institute of Music. In the fall of 2000, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Chamber Music at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. With the assistance of the University of Kansas Center Research, Mr. Koenig has commissioned renowned American composer Lowell Liebermann to write a new trio for flute, cello, and piano. Mr. Koenig has recorded for Artek, Ambassador, Biddulph, Cedille, CRI, Decca, Eroica, and Naxos. |
