Krista Buckland Reisner
“Excellent left hand..” (Toronto Star), “lovely tonal bloom” (LeDROIT) and “..heartbreaking..”
(Worcester Telegram & Gazette) are words that describe the performances of violinist Krista
Buckland Reisner. An artist of great diversity, she has toured across her native Canada as a
recitalist, performed concertos in cities ranging from New York City to St. John’s, Newfoundland,
toured internationally throughout Europe, Russia and New Zealand and has created multi-media
works for herself involving dance and movement. Krista’s love of working with singers led her to
be Principal Second Violin of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for five years, perform
Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the Arizona Opera, hold a position with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra,
and act as Concertmaster of Opera Boston. Viewing early music akin to new music, which she
approaches as borderless musical maps not mired in tradition, she has sought out period
instrument work with Canada’s Aradia, was formerly the music librarian and a period violinist for
Boston Baroque, is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society period orchestra and
recently began playing with Arcadia Players. Her involvement in new music includes being
Principal Second Violin of Boston Modern Orchestra Project, premiering concertos written for her
by Canadian composers and developing countless collaborative projects with living US
composers like Mark Berger, John MacDonald, Theodore Antoniou, John Alyward, Joseph
Summer, Peter Child, Charles Shadle and Matthew Malsky and their students at institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark University, Boston University and Tufts University.
She is also a frequent player with Boston Musica Viva, is lead violinist of Alea III and of the
Worcester Chamber Music Society and performs annually as part of the Shakespeare concerts,
held in Jordan Hall, which mixes chamber musicians and vocalists with music both freshly written
and classic, synergizing many of her passions. She can be heard on recording labels including
Naxos, Albany, BMOPsound, Telarc and CBC. She is also an MBA candidate at Babson College.
Rohan Gregory
Rohan Gregory, violinist, has cultivated a wide-ranging expertise in chamber music, new music
and world music. He has played with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Ancora Ensemble and
award-winning Boccherini Ensemble and was also a founding member for ten years of the Arden
String Quartet, performing new music concerts in New York, Boston, Amsterdam and St.
Petersburg, Russia. On the world music scene, Rohan has toured extensively. His travels have
taken him to Europe with The Klezmatics, to Thailand with multi-ethnic flute player Abbie
Rabinowitz, to India with the Indo-jazz group Natraj and to the U.S. West coast with Sophia
Bilides Greek Folk Ensemble. Locally, Rohan is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera Company,
the New England String Ensemble and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He also coaches
chamber music for the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, the Greater Boston Youth
Symphony Orchestra, Music at Port Milford, Canada and the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival.
Peter Sulski
Violist Peter Sulski has recently returned to his native Worcester after many years abroad in
Europe and the Middle East. Peter is a musician who uniquely combines performing and teaching
in an entrepreneurial way. For seven years, Peter was a member of the London Symphony
Orchestra’s viola section, as well as being a prime player in the education Discovery Program. In
London, he was on faculty at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College and ran the viola
masterclasses at the Dartington International Summer School in the south of England. After
touring to the Middle East with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, Peter was asked to become Head
of Strings at the Palestinian Conservatory, a position he held for several years, before becoming
Principal Violist of the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra. He was also the Fulbright Commission’s bi-
communal chamber coordinator for the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities. Currently, Peter
is on faculty at the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University and University of Massachusetts,
Lowell.
Jan Müller-Szeraws
Cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws’ musical journey has taken him over three continents as a soloist,
chamber musician and teacher.Since his early debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción
he has performed frequently as a soloist with orchestras in Chile, Germany and the United
States. He has been a guest artist at many festivals including the Cape & Islands, Rockport, El
Paso Pro-Musica, Strings in the Mountains (Steamboat Springs, CO), Delaware, Music at Gretna,
Florida Arts, Sebago Long Lake and Kingston Chamber Music Festivals, the Garth Newel Music
Center and the European Chamber Music Association. Recent performances include the Boston
premiere of Gunther Schuller’s cello concerto as well as Chou Wen-Chung’s cello concerto with
the New England Philharmonic, Shostakovich concerto no.1 and Brahms double concerto with
violinist Bayla Keyes and the Concord Orchestra (MA), Haydn C major concerto with Worcester
Collegium, Dvorak concerto with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo
Variations with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
He also recorded Pedro Humberto Allende’s cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile,
recording which has been released by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts as part of the
celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Chilean Independence.
Müller-Szeraws has appeared regularly at the Hammond Performing Arts Series, playing recitals
with pianists Ya-Fei Chuang as well as in other chamber music formations. Müller-Szeraws is
cellist of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. He is also a member of Mistral,
the resident and touring ensemble of the Andover Chamber Music Series. A guest lecturer at
the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2007 and 2008, he currently teaches at the Phillips Academy
Andover and College of Holy Cross in Worcester.
A prize-winner at the Washington International Competition he is a grant recipient of the Saul
and Naomi Cohen Foundation. Jan Müller-Szeraws studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg,
Germany and holds a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree from Boston University. His teachers
include Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, Arnaldo Fuentes and Javier Santamaría.
“Excellent left hand..” (Toronto Star), “lovely tonal bloom” (LeDROIT) and “..heartbreaking..”
(Worcester Telegram & Gazette) are words that describe the performances of violinist Krista
Buckland Reisner. An artist of great diversity, she has toured across her native Canada as a
recitalist, performed concertos in cities ranging from New York City to St. John’s, Newfoundland,
toured internationally throughout Europe, Russia and New Zealand and has created multi-media
works for herself involving dance and movement. Krista’s love of working with singers led her to
be Principal Second Violin of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra for five years, perform
Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the Arizona Opera, hold a position with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra,
and act as Concertmaster of Opera Boston. Viewing early music akin to new music, which she
approaches as borderless musical maps not mired in tradition, she has sought out period
instrument work with Canada’s Aradia, was formerly the music librarian and a period violinist for
Boston Baroque, is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society period orchestra and
recently began playing with Arcadia Players. Her involvement in new music includes being
Principal Second Violin of Boston Modern Orchestra Project, premiering concertos written for her
by Canadian composers and developing countless collaborative projects with living US
composers like Mark Berger, John MacDonald, Theodore Antoniou, John Alyward, Joseph
Summer, Peter Child, Charles Shadle and Matthew Malsky and their students at institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark University, Boston University and Tufts University.
She is also a frequent player with Boston Musica Viva, is lead violinist of Alea III and of the
Worcester Chamber Music Society and performs annually as part of the Shakespeare concerts,
held in Jordan Hall, which mixes chamber musicians and vocalists with music both freshly written
and classic, synergizing many of her passions. She can be heard on recording labels including
Naxos, Albany, BMOPsound, Telarc and CBC. She is also an MBA candidate at Babson College.
Rohan Gregory
Rohan Gregory, violinist, has cultivated a wide-ranging expertise in chamber music, new music
and world music. He has played with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Ancora Ensemble and
award-winning Boccherini Ensemble and was also a founding member for ten years of the Arden
String Quartet, performing new music concerts in New York, Boston, Amsterdam and St.
Petersburg, Russia. On the world music scene, Rohan has toured extensively. His travels have
taken him to Europe with The Klezmatics, to Thailand with multi-ethnic flute player Abbie
Rabinowitz, to India with the Indo-jazz group Natraj and to the U.S. West coast with Sophia
Bilides Greek Folk Ensemble. Locally, Rohan is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera Company,
the New England String Ensemble and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He also coaches
chamber music for the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, the Greater Boston Youth
Symphony Orchestra, Music at Port Milford, Canada and the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival.
Peter Sulski
Violist Peter Sulski has recently returned to his native Worcester after many years abroad in
Europe and the Middle East. Peter is a musician who uniquely combines performing and teaching
in an entrepreneurial way. For seven years, Peter was a member of the London Symphony
Orchestra’s viola section, as well as being a prime player in the education Discovery Program. In
London, he was on faculty at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College and ran the viola
masterclasses at the Dartington International Summer School in the south of England. After
touring to the Middle East with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, Peter was asked to become Head
of Strings at the Palestinian Conservatory, a position he held for several years, before becoming
Principal Violist of the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra. He was also the Fulbright Commission’s bi-
communal chamber coordinator for the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities. Currently, Peter
is on faculty at the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University and University of Massachusetts,
Lowell.
Jan Müller-Szeraws
Cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws’ musical journey has taken him over three continents as a soloist,
chamber musician and teacher.Since his early debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción
he has performed frequently as a soloist with orchestras in Chile, Germany and the United
States. He has been a guest artist at many festivals including the Cape & Islands, Rockport, El
Paso Pro-Musica, Strings in the Mountains (Steamboat Springs, CO), Delaware, Music at Gretna,
Florida Arts, Sebago Long Lake and Kingston Chamber Music Festivals, the Garth Newel Music
Center and the European Chamber Music Association. Recent performances include the Boston
premiere of Gunther Schuller’s cello concerto as well as Chou Wen-Chung’s cello concerto with
the New England Philharmonic, Shostakovich concerto no.1 and Brahms double concerto with
violinist Bayla Keyes and the Concord Orchestra (MA), Haydn C major concerto with Worcester
Collegium, Dvorak concerto with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo
Variations with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
He also recorded Pedro Humberto Allende’s cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile,
recording which has been released by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts as part of the
celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Chilean Independence.
Müller-Szeraws has appeared regularly at the Hammond Performing Arts Series, playing recitals
with pianists Ya-Fei Chuang as well as in other chamber music formations. Müller-Szeraws is
cellist of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. He is also a member of Mistral,
the resident and touring ensemble of the Andover Chamber Music Series. A guest lecturer at
the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2007 and 2008, he currently teaches at the Phillips Academy
Andover and College of Holy Cross in Worcester.
A prize-winner at the Washington International Competition he is a grant recipient of the Saul
and Naomi Cohen Foundation. Jan Müller-Szeraws studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg,
Germany and holds a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree from Boston University. His teachers
include Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, Arnaldo Fuentes and Javier Santamaría.
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