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The Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Members of the Garth Newel Piano Quartet are artists-in-residence at Garth Newel Music Center, one of the premiere and most active chamber music organizations in the United States. They perform over 50 concerts each year. They serve as faculty for the Garth Newel Summer Fellowship Program for college-age musicians and they host the Garth Newel Amateur Chamber Music Workshop each March. Teresa Ling, violin, has been a resident artist with the Garth Newel Music Center since 1998. She has served on the faculties of the Washington Conservatory, University of the Pacific, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University of South Dakota, and Augustana (SD), Northwestern (IA) and Dordt Colleges, and has been a member of the Dakota String Quartet, Mariposa Piano Trio and the Aurelian Trio. Her awards and prizes include an Artist Fellowship from the South Dakota Arts Council, the Winnifred Small Solo Prize in London, and a Rotary Fellowship resulting in an Advanced Diploma from London's Royal Academy of Music. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and a Master's Degree in Performance from Eastman School of Music. Evelyn Grau, viola, has been violist with the Garth Newel Music Center since 1983, initially as a visiting guest artist and now as a full-time resident musician and artistic director. She has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Western Michigan University. An active performer of chamber music, Evelyn has performed worldwide as a member of the Garth Newel Chamber Players, the Atlanta Virtuosi, the Colden String Quartet, and the Alexander String Trio. Evelyn holds a Master of Music degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts from Peabody College at Vanderbilt, with further studies at the University of Michigan and Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Tobias Werner, cello, has performed at Garth Newel Music Center since 1999 and is a member of the Contemporary Music Forum, ensemble-in-residence at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. Tobias studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, and at Boston University. He plays on an 1844 J.F. Pressenda cello. English pianist Andrew Harley began his musical studies at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, England, and continued his education at Oxford University, the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Southern California. Since immigrating to America, he has held positions at the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of California Santa Barbara, the International Institute for Young Musicians and The Music Academy of the West. In addition to the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, Andrew is one of two collaborative pianists at the Kamp-Lintfort International Chamber Music Festival in Düsseldorf, a position he has held for the past four years. |
