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The MONTAGE Music Society ensemble is comprised of five of Boston's most active freelance musicians and its make-up allows for a wide diversity of repertoire.
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Violinist Sarita Uranovsky is a native of Cape Town, South Africa. Since her debut at the age of 15, she has appeared as soloist and in recital with, among others, Boston University, Cape Town, Richmondshire, University of Miami and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Symphony Orchestras as well as the Cape Town Baroque Ensemble. Sarita has been Concertmaster of Orchestra Geminiani de Fallonica (Italy), Boston University, University of Miami and RSAMD Symphony Orchestras and can be seen performing regularly in grous around Boston including Boston Musica Viva, the Cantata Singers, BMOP and the Boston Pops. Ms. Uranovsky is a founding member and violinist of Boston's new music ensemble MONTAGE. She has recorded and broadcast for both the BBC and SABC. Sarita performed regularly for Sir Yehudi Menuhin’s “Live Music Now” Scheme while in the UK and has appeared as first violinist of the RSAMD Quartet in concert for HRH Prince Charles, HRH Princess Anne and at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Ms. Uranovsky teaches at Tufts University and on MIT's Emerson Program. Upcoming events include a tour with MONTAGE to Colorade in March.
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Violist Stephen Dyball, a native Australian, came to the US to attend The University of Michigan, where he studied with Yitzak Schotten. He was subsequently appointed to a position with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was featured in recital on the Australian Broadcasting Company. A winner of the Chicago Cultural Music Competition, Stephen returned to the US to pursue a master’s degree at The Juilliard School, where he studied with Samuel Rhodes. After an appointment with the Virginia Symphony, Stephen moved to Boston, where he is assistant principal of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a frequent performer with the Boston Ballet and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, New Hampshire Symphony, and Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Stephen has performed at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. He currently has a private studio, and has also taught on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival and the Community Music Center of Boston. Stephen lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife and son.
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A resident of Boston since 2001, Marc Moskovitz has performed with some of the city's most venerable music organizations including The Boston Pops, The Handel and Haydn Society and the Lydian String Quartet. He remains principal cellist of the Columbus ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, is a founding member of MONTAGE, a Boston-based chamber ensemble, and has been a faculty member of the Eastern Music Festival, Greensboro, NC for over a decade. In October of 2006 he gave the North American premiere of Zemlinsky's rediscovered Cello Sonata at the Library of Congress, which the Washington Post called "an impassioned performance." A former associate professor at The University of Toledo, he has recorded for ASV (Music of Reizenstein and Zeisl) and VAI (cello music of David Popper). His articles have appeared in leading music journals, he has written program notes for the Aspen Music Festival and has contributed several entries for The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. As a student of Gary Hoffman, Moskovitz earned his Masters degree with high honors from Indiana University, and went on to earn his doctorate at Indiana under Janos Starker. During this period he also studied as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin with Wolfgang Boettcher, former solo-cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Clarinetist Bruce Creditor has enjoyed a distinguished career in solo, chamber music and orchestral settings and has received numerous honors, including the Naumburg Award in Chamber Music with the Emmanuel Wind Quintet. An Honors Graduate of the New England Conservatory, he has performed with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the New Hampshire Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Ballet, Cantata Singers and Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Collage New Music, the world-renowned Grammy Award-winning New England Ragtime Ensemble, Aeolian Chamber Players, among others. Mr. Creditor taught on the NEC faculty, was a founding member of Alea III New Music and the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, General Manager of Margun Music and founder of GM Recordings, and is associated with the Zamir Chorale of Boston. He has given the Boston and New York premieres of works by Schuller, Martino, Wyner, Harbison, Tower, Lerdahl, Ben-Haim, Navok and others, and has recorded for Naxos, CRI, GM, Albany, New World, Koch, Neuma, Centaur, and Arisis. Mr. Creditor is currently Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras.
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Debra Ayers performs extensively as a recitalist with singers, instrumentalists, and chamber music ensembles including Vega string quartets, Arcadian Winds, Auros New Music Ensemble, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen Music Festival Chamber Players, Emerald City Opera, Breckenridge Music Institute, Serenata of Santa Fe and Taos Chamber Music Group. She is co-founder and pianist of Boston-based MONTAGE Music Society. With MONTAGE cellist Marc Moskovitz she presented the North American premiere of the rediscovered Zemlinsky Cello Sonata at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. A proponent of contemporary music, premieres include works by William Bolcom, Paul Elwood, Andrew List, Daniel Schnyder and Yehudi Wyner among others. Ms. Ayers is recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Adele Marcus Foundation and the Norman Cousins Award. An alumna of the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin, her teachers include André-Michel Schub, Brooks Smith, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Martin Katz, and John Barrows. Ms. Ayers is featured with soprano Ilana Davidson in a critically acclaimed Capriccio recording of Ernst Krenek Lieder as well as a VAI recording with cellist Marc Moskovitz. MONTAGE’s STARRY NIGHT Project recording is scheduled for release in early 2009.
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