“…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, 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.
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.
Chilean cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws made his debut at age twelve with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and has since then performed frequently as a soloist with orchestras in Chile, Germany and the United States. As a chamber musician he has been a guest artist at the Andover Chamber Music Series, the Cape & Islands, Rockport, Delaware, Florida Arts and the Kingston Chamber Music Festivals and has collaborated with ensembles such as Muir and St. Petersburg String Quartets. In Boston, Jan performs regularly with Boston Musica Viva and Mistral, the touring group of the Andover Chamber Music Series and is also a grant recipient of the Saul and Naomi Cohen Foundation. He can be heard regularly on radio stations across the globe including America's WGBH, Germany's WDR and SWR and Chile's Radio UDEC. This season's highlights include several solo appearances, playing cello concertos by Chou Wen- Chung with the New England Philharmonic and Dvorak with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Currently on Faculty at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Jan is also looking forward to the upcoming release of Pedro Humberto Allende's cello concerto he recently recorded with the Chilean National Symphony Orchestra under David del Pino Klinge.