Akemi Takayama, Violinist
Born into a musical family, Akemi Takayama has been performing
chamber music her whole life. She has been an invited performer
in the Marlboro Music Festival and the Isaac Stern Chamber Music
Workshop in Carnegie Hall. Since joining the Audubon Quartet in
1997, she has toured and taught extensively in the U.S., as well
as having concerts in England and Israel. Her professional solo
recital debut in Tokyo led to a special invited appearance on
the "FM recital" program broadcast nationwide in Japan.
She has served as Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, where
she has performed for students, faculty, and the community. Ms.
Takayama has served on the faculty at the Chautauqua Institute
in NY, the Idyllwild School for the Arts in CA, the Marrowstone
Music Festival in WA, as well as in the Audubon Quartet's annual
String Quartet Seminar in VA. Ms. Takayama was the teaching assistant
of Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music where
she holds an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music Degree and Performer's
Certificate from University of Wyoming. Prior to coming to United
States, Akemi Takayama received the Bachelor of Music in violin
performance from Toho School of Music where she studied with Toshiya
Eto and Ryosaku Kubota and was the guest concertmaster for the
Shinsei-Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist for the Tokyo
Freiden Ensemble. she plays on an 1805 J. B. Ceruti violin made
in Cremona.
Clyde Shaw, Cellist
Clyde Shaw (a.k.a. Tom), founder of the Internationally acclaimed
Audubon Quartet has served as a member of that ensemble since
1974. During the past twenty-eight years, he has made approximately
2000 appearances worldwide as the cellist of the Audubon Quartet
and has recorded for the RCA, Telarc, Centaur, CRI and Opus One
recording companies. His appearances include featured performances
on CBS Sunday Morning, Recitals at Alice Tully, Avery Fischer,
Carnegie and Town Halls in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington,
DC, Curtis Hall in Philadelphia, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Wilshire
Ebel Theater in Los Angeles, Wigmore Hall in London, Academy of
Santa Cecilia in Rome, Red Tower Theater in Beijing, Bavarian
Radio in Munich, Swiss TV in Geneva, Tel Aviv Museum in Israel
and several tours abroad for the United States Department of State.
Doris Lederer, Violist
As a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Doris Lederer
has performed with the Marlboro Music Festival and toured with
Music From Marlboro. She has appeared as soloist with the Seattle
Symphony, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Albuquerque Chamber
Orchestra, among others. As a member of the Audubon Quartet since
1976, Ms. Lederer has performed extensively throughout the world
and given master classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music,
the Eastman School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Shanghai
and Beijing Conservatories, the Yale School of Music, The Chautauqua
Institution, as well as the Audubon Quartet's annual String Quartet
Seminar. Ms. Lederer has been on the faculties of The International
Festival at Round Top, Texas, The Apple Hill Center for Chamber
Music, and is currently on the faculty at Kneisel Hall in Blue
Hill, Maine, the Chautauqua Institution in New York and the Idyllwild
Arts Summer Program in Idyllwild, California. Born in Istanbul
to European parents, Ms. Lederer grew up in Seattle, Washington,
where she began her study of the viola at age nine with Vilem
Sokol. She studied with Georges Janzer at Indiana University and
subsequently attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where she
studied with Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, Felix Galamir and Mischa
Schneider. Ms. Lederer can be heard on disc as a member of the
Audubon Quartet on the RCA, Telarc, Centaur, Orion and Opus One
labels.
Ellen Jewett, Violinist
Ellen Jewett holds a Master of Music degree from SUNY-Stony Brook
and a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University. She has
studied with Joyce Robbins, James Buswell, Josef Gingold, Sergiu
Luca, and Stephen Shipps and Has performed throughout the world
as a recitalist and with groups such as the New York Chamber Soloists,
The Apple Hill Chamber Players, The Ciompi Quartet, the Tchaikovsky
Chamber Orchestra, and the American Symphony. She is currently
a member of the New York Chamber Ensemble and the Taliesin Trio,
with whom she has been in residence both at the Tanglewood Festival
in Lenox Massachusetts, and at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto,
Italy. Formerly assistant professor of violin at Ithaca College,
she now teaches at her alma mater, SUNY-Stoney Brook in Long Island,
NY.