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Lautaro Mantilla
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LAUTARO MANTILLA, DMA is a guitarist, composer, and improviser from Bogotá, Colombia. In his performances, he typically combines guitar, extended vocalization techniques, and homebuilt electronics to...

Jennifer Caraluzzi
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Hailed by Opera Today as a “polished, soaring soprano,” Jennifer Caraluzzi is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed singer from Connecticut, who began her career singing the National Anthem for...

Amanda Hardy
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Amanda Hardy, oboist, studied with Boston Symphony Orchestra principal oboist John Ferrillo at the New England Conservatory (NEC), where she received the Gillet Scholarship and Tourjée Alumni...

Kai-Yun Lu
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Kai-Yun Lu is the principal clarinetist of Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, holding the Muriel Bledsoe Chair since 1998. She is also a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston...

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Violinist Kyoko Horowitz has twice been named winner of the prestigious Mainichi Competition in Japan. She studied at the Sibelius Academy in Finland and at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory in Berlin...

James Markey
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     James Markey joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as Bass Trombone in Fall 2012 following a 15-year tenure in the New York Philharmonic as Associate Principal (1997-2007) and Bass Trombone (2007...

ChrisRathbun
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Chris Rathbun has enjoyed decades of bass playing from orchestra and chamber music to blues, free improvisation, be-bop, Bluegrass, Dixie-Land, swing, Broadway shows, cabaret, Klezmer, Latin, and...

Dimitar Petkov
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Dimitar Petkov, a Bulgarian violist, has performed in recitals and chamber music appearances in Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the United States. He received a BM and a MM from State...

Naoko Sugiyama
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Pianist Naoko Sugiyama, a native of Japan, is active as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Japan and the Northeastern United States. She has appeared with the Boston Chamber Music Society...

NEC faculty Yukiko Sekino looking off to the right
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Praised for her “thrilling, inspirational performance” (Florida Sun-Sentinel) and “elegance of line, leaping energy” (San Jose Mercury News), pianist Yukiko Sekino has forged a career that encompasses...