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About the Guest Artists 2010-2011 Concert Season Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet
Doris can be heard on the MMC, Naxos and New World record labels. About the recent Naxos recording of Hansen's "Nymphs and Satyr Ballet Suite," Paul Cook of classicstoday.com, was moved to say, "I was particularly taken (by) Doris Hall-Gulati on the clarinet." An advocate for "new and old" music, Doris has performed in music festivals and on multiple series as soloist and chamber musician, throughout the United States as well as China and Russia. She toured the Silk Road with the International Music Festival in West China in July 2007, touring six cities as performer and teacher. Due to this latest trip, Doris was invited to serve as a Visiting Professor at the Lanzhou Multicultural University. She hopes to return to China in 2011. Doris also performs annually with Beyond Ourselves, a group of chamber musicians who perform to help raise monies for MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) peace-keeping efforts around the world. Doris finds it very important to raise awareness about the millions of people who are much less fortunate. Doris earned her Bachelor's degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and she received a Masters in Music studying on a graduate fellowship from the University of Michigan. Doris is a Phi Kappa Lambda. Her principal instructors have been Ignatius Gennusa, Loren Kitt, and Fred Ormand, and she was introduced to chamber music by Karen Tuttle, whom Doris greatly admired. Ms. Hall-Gulati is Principal Clarinet in The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra also based in Philadelphia, PA. She also served as Bass Clarinetist in The Opera Company of Philadelphia for 15 years, and for 10 years as Principal Clarinetist of the Berkshire Opera Festival. Most recently Doris became an Artist in Residence at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Check out her website! Odin Rathnam, violin
Highlights of recent seasons include Lalo's Symphony Espagnole with the Hershey Symphony, Wieniawski's f# minor Violin Concerto with the York Symphony, Erick Korngold's Violin Concerto with the Harrisburg Symphony, collaborations as guest violist with the Ying Quartet and the Raphael Trio, and the complete sonatas for violin and piano of Johannes Brahms with pianist Stuart Malina. In March 2004, Mr. Rathnam gave the Colombian premier of Korngold's Concerto with the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra in Bogota, led by Charles Peltz. He then returned to the United States to perform the viola part for Mozart Symphonia Concertante with the Cleveland State University Orchestra under the baton of Victor Liva. In June and July 2004, Mr. Rathnam appeared as violinist and violist for several programs at the Boswil Festspiel in Switzerland, culminating in a performance on July 4th of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. The Harrisburg Symphony featured Mr. Rathnam as soloist in Tchaikovsky's Concerto at the 75th anniversary opening gala concert in October 2004. The 2005-2006 season included performances of concerti of Bernstein, Mozart and Bach with the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Mozart's Concerto No. 3 at the inaugural season of the Endless Mountain Music Festival with conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser, a recital/recording of French violin sonatas and chamber music concerts in the United States and Europe. The 2006-2007 season included return solo engagements at the Endless Mountain Music Festival and Market Square Summer Series, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the orchestras of Harrisburg and Lancaster, virtuoso violin duos with Venezuelan violinst, Romulo Benevides on the Trinity Lutheran and “Music Naturally” Series and a Tivoli festival debut, performing Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins with Nikolaj Znaider. The Danish newspaper, Kristelig Dagblad, hailed the “outstanding, full-blooded romantic violin playing by both players.” Upcoming appearances include concerti and virtuoso showpieces with the newly founded Pennsylvania Chamber Symphony, with conductor Frank Collura, Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 with Stuart Malina and the Harrisburg Symphony, and a series of recitals tracing the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach to Piazzola and Corigliano. As a chamber musician, Mr. Rathnam has performed frequently in Harrisburg, Baltimore and New York with Concertante, the internationally acclaimed chamber group he founded in 1995. His 2000 recording of Strauss “Metamorphosen” received the highest praise from Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine who wrote “[Concertante’s] performance [of the Strauss, Metamorphosen] is white-hot, so intensely felt and so superbly realized technically as to be almost beyond praise; they create their own benchmark in this version.” Odin Rathnam has collaborated as a violinist and violist with leading artists of his generation including: violinists Nikolaj Znaider, Gil Shaham, Adele Anthony and Kurt Nikkanen; pianists Rohan De Silva, Albert Tiu, Robert Koenig and Anton Nel; and cellists Matt Haimowitz, Bion Tsang, Laszlo Fenyo and Daniel Gaisford, The Fry Street, Casal and Ying Quartets and the Rafael Trio. Mr. Rathnam is extremely committed to the development of young musicians and his numerous students have been accepted at major conservatories throughout the United States and abroad, several going on to win prizes in national and international competitions. He currently serves as a performing faculty member at the Nordic Music Academy in Denmark. Mr. Rathnam has performed extensively on American and European radio and television, including the major classical stations of New York, Washington and Harrisburg as well as coast to coast broadcasts on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and CBS’s 60 Minutes. Born in 1965 to Danish and Indian parents, Odin Rathnam was raised on the Upper-West Side of Manhattan. He was accepted at the Julliard School’s pre-college division at the age of 11, continuing his formal education at Mannes College of Music with Sally Thomas and at the Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay. He studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and Josef Gingold. He also studied with the Danish violinist Anker Buch. Mr. Rathnam has recorded for the Helicon, Kleos and ABM labels. He performs on a rare Italian violin crafted by Bartolomeo Calvarola in 1755. Check out his website! Douglas Wallace, timpani (click here for biography) Jonathan Rance Biography coming soon! |
After being awarded First Prize in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition, Doris gave her New York debut, performing the world premiere of John Carbon's "Rhapsody For Clarinet and Orchestra" at Avery Fischer Hall, 
Since his critically acclaimed