Flutist and Yamaha Performing Artist, Sophia Tegart, performs regularly throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a member of the Transformations Duo, the Cherry Street Duo, and Pan-Pacific Ensemble. She has performed with the Oregon Mozart Players, Des Moines Metro Opera, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and Kansas City Symphony. Currently, Tegart is piccolo in the Colorado Mahlerfest and second flute in the Washington-Idaho Symphony. She serves on the faculty of Washington State University as Clinical Assistant Professor of Flute and Music History. Tegart received her DMA in Flute Performance from the UMKC Conservatory.
Keri E. McCarthy has cultivated an international reputation as a chamber musician, soloist, teacher, and clinician, and has been active as a performer and researcher throughout Southeast Asia. She is co-founder of the Light through Music project with Pan Pacific Ensemble bassoonist Michael Garza, bringing double reed instruments and instruction to music centers in Myanmar and the Middle East. In spring 2014 she spent three months in Singapore, and gave concerts in Yangon, Bangkok, Hanoi, and Kuala Lumpur. In 2011, Keri was a Fulbright Scholar in Bangkok, researching connections between Thai traditional and contemporary musics, commissioning Thai and Malaysian composers, and performing new works with professional oboists in the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. She also completed a 2008 solo tour of Southeast Asia, performing commissioned works by composers from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Keri is passionate about new music and has premiered works by American and Southeast Asian composers at International Double Reed Society Conferences in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2015.
Dr. McCarthy is Professor of Music at Washington State University, where she teaches oboe and music history. Her oboe students have graduated to successful careers in education and performance across the United States. Keri has been active orchestrally as a member of the Washington Idaho and Yakima Symphonies. Previously-held oboe and English horn positions include the Salaya and Evansville Philharmonics and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. Keri has performed with the New Haven, Binghamton, Syracuse, Spokane, and Louisville Symphonies, and the Nashville and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestras.
Keri completed her doctorate in Music Literature and Performance at Indiana University under the tutelage of Linda Strommen, Roger Roe, and Ted Baskin, having previously completed her Master’s degree with Ronald Roseman at the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College, where she studied with Mark Hill and Paige Morgan.
Keri’s solo CD, Shadowplay: New Music for Oboe and English Horn, features works by Asian and American composers of the 21stcentury, and is available streaming on Spotify and for purchase from Amazon.
Dr. McCarthy is Professor of Music at Washington State University, where she teaches oboe and music history. Her oboe students have graduated to successful careers in education and performance across the United States. Keri has been active orchestrally as a member of the Washington Idaho and Yakima Symphonies. Previously-held oboe and English horn positions include the Salaya and Evansville Philharmonics and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. Keri has performed with the New Haven, Binghamton, Syracuse, Spokane, and Louisville Symphonies, and the Nashville and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestras.
Keri completed her doctorate in Music Literature and Performance at Indiana University under the tutelage of Linda Strommen, Roger Roe, and Ted Baskin, having previously completed her Master’s degree with Ronald Roseman at the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College, where she studied with Mark Hill and Paige Morgan.
Keri’s solo CD, Shadowplay: New Music for Oboe and English Horn, features works by Asian and American composers of the 21stcentury, and is available streaming on Spotify and for purchase from Amazon.
Shannon Scott commissions, performs and records new works by American composers including Lowell Liebermann, Libby Larson, Derek Bermel, Daniel Dorff, Pierre Jalbert and John David Earnest. In the summers Scott teaches and performs as principal clarinetist of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina and at the Red Lodge Music Festival in Red Lodge, Montana. She is principal clarinet of the Walla Walla Symphony (WA) and has performed with the Spokane and Washington-Idaho Symphonies. She spent three years in France, earning diplomas and performing as a member of the Lyon Opera Orchestra in Lyon, France. Scott holds degrees from Juilliard, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Conservatoire Regional Marcel Dupre, Yale University and Northwestern University.
Michael Garza is a professional American bassoonist living in Guangzhou, China and working as the principal bassoonist with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. Garza is active in music education throughout the Guangzhou metropolitan area, a promoter of classical and contemporary chamber music in southern China, commissioner of new works for bassoon, and an active volunteer in music-education based projects in Yangon, Burma at the Gitameit Music Centre and other Yangon-based institutions.
Born and raised in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Martin D. King graduated from James Madison University and pursued a career as a band director. After a successful tenure with the Alleghany County Public Schools, King studied horn performance with Charles “Skip” Snead at the University of Alabama and was hired at Washington State University in 2015 after teaching horn at Mississippi State University. Dr. King currently teaches studio horn and leads the music education program at Washington State. An active and versatile performer, King has performed with symphonies including the Guangxi, Spokane, Yakima Symphony, Tuscaloosa, North Mississippi, and Starkville Symphonies. As a soloist, he has performed with the Saigon Wind Ensemble, the Mississippi State Chorale, and the WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. He has performed and given lectures at regional and international horn symposia and his new music reviews can be found in the Horn Call. An advocate of the horn in new music, he has collaborated with composers from around the world and his CD, Solitary Freedom, features 20th and 21st century music for solo horn. He lives in Pullman, Washington with his wife Amber, daughter Lily, and terrier mix Lucy.