Holly Chatham, piano
Holly Chatham is a performer of wide range and skill, sought after for her continuo and improvisational skills on early keyboards as well as her virtuosity on the modern piano. An "elegantly florid" (San Francisco Classical Voice) player and a "leader in the field" (Counterpoint), Ms. Chatham is hailed as possessing "a wonderful improvisational flair" (Atlanta Early Music News) on the keyboard. She has played under directors such as Jos van Immerseel, Paul Hillier, Stanley Ritchie, Andrew Megill and Patrick Gardner, and in major concert halls and series throughout the U.S., U.K. and Mexico, including such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space (New York) and Merkin Hall (New York), to name but a few. She has been a feature performer in festivals such as the Ugbrooke Chamber Music Festival (UK), Bloomington Early Music Festival, Miami Bach Festival, Festival Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado (Mexico), Festival San Luis (Mexico), and Music in the Vineyards in Napa Valley. Each summer, Ms. Chatham is a keyboardist in the five-week Carmel Bach Festival (CA). She is Artistic Co-Director and harpsichordist for the critically-acclaimed ensemble reconstruction (www.reconstructionmusic.com - click here to visit). Past seasons found reconstruction performing in such venues as the Lane Series at University of Vermont, Ford Hall at Ithaca College, The Cutting Room in NYC, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and on two tours of Mexico. Ms. Chatham toured the U.S. extensively as harpsichordist for the ground-breaking ensemble Bimbetta from 1998 to 2003, performing in major concert series throughout the country and giving workshops and master classes at many colleges and universities. Bimbetta was chosen to be honored by Chamber Music America as one of the ensembles to have changed the face of chamber music in America. As pianist in The Chatham-Wood Duo, she performs regularly with violinist Patrick Wood Uribe. The Duo's recent engagements include concerts at the Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin) and Bickford Theatre (Morristown, NJ). The Duo’s live performances of works by Chávez and Ponce, as well as their own transcriptions of Gershwin songs, have been broadcast nationwide in the U.S. on WWFM The Classical Network. Ms. Chatham is an active performer in the New York area, performing with ensembles such as Riverside Choral Society, Trinity Choir, Summit Chorale, Fuma Sacra, and Westminster Kantorei, as well as with many singers and instrumentalists in recital. She has been heard on NPR's programs “Performance Today,” “Harmonia,” and “Soundcheck.”
Ms. Chatham is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Collaborative Piano at Rutgers University. She received her Master of Music degree in Harpsichord and Fortepiano Performance from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University (Bloomington) where she studied with Elisabeth Wright and Colin Tilney. At IU she was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate, the highest honor bestowed upon a music student at IU, and was a winnder of the Baroque Concerto Competition. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Clayton State University (Atlanta), where she studied with George Lucktenberg, Michiko Otaki and Lyle Nordstrom.
Patrick Wood Uribe, violin
British-Mexican violinist Patrick Wood Uribe studied as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and holds a BA and MA with honors in Modern Languages from Oxford University. He began to play the violin in Mexico City as a pupil of Icilio Bredo, later studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and with Erick Friedman and Eugene Drucker in the United States. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed widely throughout theUnited Kingdom and the United States, as well as France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain.
His solo debut recording, Thomas Baltzar: The Complete Works for Unaccompanied Violin, was released in early 2008 to critical acclaim: ”his sound is rich and nuanced, his command of the difficulties complete. A full disc of these works might have been a chore in lesser hands...” (Gramophone); “his tone is even, pure, and warm, and his intonation is spot-on” (Strings magazine). All Music Guide describes Mr. Wood Uribe’s playing as “very strong and muscular, much like Nathan Milstein’s playing of Bach.”
Mr. Wood Uribe is a regular performer with the Berkshire Bach Society, appearing as soloist alongside artists such as Eugene Drucker of the Emerson Quartet, Carol Wincenc, Aldo Abreu and Kenneth Cooper. His chamber concerts in the Musica Viva Festival of New Jersey have been broadcast across the United States on WWFM the Classical Network. Mr. Wood Uribe has served as concertmaster of New York Philomusica, is a soloist and Concertmaster for the Vermont Mozart Festival, and performs throughout the United States with the New York Chamber Soloists. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Wood Uribe was a member of The English Mozart Players, as both soloist and Concertmaster with the group in the U.K. and throughout Europe. This summer he joins the artist faculty of the Kinhaven Music School.
Adam Grabois, cello
With a varied career as chamber musician, soloist, teacher and recording artist, Adam Grabois founded the record label Reflex Editions (www.reflexeditions.com) in 2002. Soon after, he released its first recording, music by Beethoven, Debussy and Rachmaninov, about which the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “Sometimes, the way he plays with the sound of a single note has enough emotional sustenance in it to launch a half-dozen distinct feelings in quick succession.” A second disc, DUOS: Martinu Ravel Kodaly was released in 2008, and is available on the Reflex Editions website (www.reflexeditions.com)
A resident of New York City, Adam Grabois is the cellist of the New York Chamber Soloists with whom he performs throughout the country. Recent concerts have included appearances at the National Gallery in Washington and at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Other collaborations include performances with Menahem Pressler and, in past seasons, with Mikhail Baryshnikov in a dance by Jerome Robbins for solo dancer and on-stage cellist with performances in the capitals of Brazil, Argentina and in the Caribbean. He offered a New York solo recital on the inaugural season of Makor as well as multiple concerto appearances with the Vermont Mozart Festival. This summer, he returns to Vermont for performances with the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival.
Adam Grabois was educated at the Lycée Henri IV, Swarthmore College and Kinhaven Music School on whose board of trustees he now serves as President. He studied with David Finckel and has taught as his assistant. His cello was made by Samuel Zygmuntowicz in Brooklyn in 1998 and his bow was made by Ole Kanestrøm in 2004.