Killington.Music Artists

Daniel Andai has shared his versatile artistry as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, concertmaster, conductor and recording artist in major concert venues in over 50 countries across five continents, the Middle East, the Caribbean and over 30 United States. He has served as concertmaster of orchestras in Europe, South and Central America, and throughout the U.S.A.

He is currently concertmaster of Miami Symphony Orchestra, Conductor of Alhambra Orchestra, and Dean of Music at New World School of the Arts.

A 2016 National YoungArts Winner, Anastasiya Magamedova, began piano at the age of 5 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. She was winner of  2013 International Keyboard Odyssiad Piano Competition, 3rd prize medalist of the 2015 IIYM International Piano Competition, and 2015 MTNA National Finalist. She soloed with orchestra in Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, and performed with the Alicante Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony, American West Symphony, and Wratislava Chamber Orchestra. A recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, she has been featured on NPR’s From the Top.  She was a participant in the inaugural Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition for Young Pianists and the 2015 Hilton Head International Young Artist Piano Competition.

Born in Charlotte, United States, in 1997, Johannes Gray studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music with professor Ivan Monighetti, with Hans Jørgen Jensen in Chicago, Jérôme Pernoo at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in París and Frans Helmerson at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlín. He won several prizes at national and international competitions and took part in several television and radio programmes.

After his debut performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 14, he was awarded the Pablo Casals International Prize, Gold Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and the APCAV Prize at the Verbier Festival.

He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Ravinia and Verbier Festivals, Lincoln Centre, SuperCello in Beijing, and the Amsterdam Cello Biënnale. He often performs in Denmark, where he is Artist-in-Residence at the Scandinavian Cello School.

Pianist Reed Tetzloff, “an artist of broad musical tastes and individuality,” (South Florida Classical Review) has been hailed for his “richly communicative” performances (The Cincinnati Enquirer).  He came to international attention at the XV Tchaikovsky Competition, where he was dubbed “the lyric hero of the competition.” (Сноб Magazine). He has excited audiences worldwide, ever since making his Lincoln Center concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2012.

He has performed in major European venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast, the Allerheiligen Hofkirche at the Munich Residenz, Prague’s Rudolfinum, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Place Flagey in Brussels, and De Singel in Antwerp. His frequent solo recitals in the United States have been heard from coast to coast. In Asia, his 2024 debut at the Seoul Arts Center was broadcast on Korean television. He has also performed in major venues across China.

Stefanie Taylor is the assistant principal violist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and violist for the orchestra’s Juke Box Quartet. She has been principal violist and principal second violin of Middlebury Opera and principal violist for Green Mountain Opera and leads the Champlain Philharmonic as concertmaster. She has performed with the Craftsbury Chamber Players, Taconic Chamber Players, Vermont Virtuosi, Williams Chamber Players, the Manchester Music Festival, and Capital City Concerts.

Stefanie teaches violin and viola at the Middlebury Community Music Center, is Artistic Director of the Manchester and the Mountains Chamber Music Workshop and is on the faculty of Berkshire Summer Music. She resides in Vermont. 

Born in Nashville, TN, Brooke Quiggins Saulnier began her violin studies at age 5. She has performed in recitals and concerts throughout the United States and Europe and has won top honors in numerous solo and chamber music competitions. She previously held the Principal Second Violin position in the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Ridgefield Symphony, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, and the Reading Symphony Orchestra. She is currently the Assistant Principal Second Violinist in the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the VSO's Jukebox Quartet. Brooke can be heard on the Sony Classical, Naxos, Columbia Records, Blue Note, and Universal record labels and has performed, collaborated and/or recorded with Gloria Estefan, John Legend, My Brightest Diamond (Shara Nova), Sufjan Stevens, Young the Giant, Alexi Murdoch, Francesca Blanchard, Moira Smiley, and Aretha Franklin to name a few. Brooke received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music under the private direction of Sylvia Rosenberg and Lucie Robert.

With a broad career as a cellist, performer, teacher and administrator, Aron Zelkowicz has cultivated a repertoire both classical and ethnic, familiar and obscure. He serves as the Founder and Director of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival, which presents rare and diverse works from Jewish musical traditions. Under his guidance, the Festival has featured renowned ensembles and guest artists from the orchestral, chamber, early music, rock, and world music genres in innovative and thematic programs, for which he oversees every aspect of fundraising, marketing, production, and artistic direction. Critics noted his “impressive” directorial debut of an original, fully staged production of the chamber opera “The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds” by Ofer Ben-Amots, and dubbed the Festival “one of the highest quality concert series in town” (Pittsburgh Tribune- Review) and a local “best-kept secret” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In its fourteen seasons, the Festival has programmed over 150 pieces of classical chamber and orchestral music inspired by Jewish traditions, including several world premieres and commissions.

Dr. Zelkowicz serves as the producer for the Festival’s ongoing CD series, "Russian Jewish Classics”, which also features his talents as a cellist. These recordings (dubbed "first-rate" by Fanfare Magazine) represent a multi-year project devoted to the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music and its affiliated Russian composers. The first five volumes have been released by the independent British label Toccata Classics, with future albums projected in a series that will shed new light upon these masters of Jewish art-music.

As a cellist, Aron Zelkowicz has performed at the Tanglewood, Banff, Aspen, Sarasota, Chautauqua, Colorado, Cactus Pear and Sunflower festivals, with members of the Emerson and Cleveland Quartets, as Principal Cello of the Miami Symphony Orchestra, with the Toronto Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, and on international tours with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. From 1999-2002 he was a member of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He is currently based in the Boston and performs through the New England region as a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, the ProArte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), as Associate Principal Cello of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and as Principal Cello of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.  

As a teacher and coach to young string players, Dr. Zelkowicz gives master classes at universities throughout the USA, including state universities of Alaska, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin. He has served on the faculties of Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp, the Brevard Music Center and the North Carolina Governor’s School. In 2013 he completed an eight-city tour of the mid-west United States, playing the complete cello suites of Benjamin Britten to mark the composer’s centenary. Other solo and chamber music appearances include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Chameleon Arts Ensemble in Boston, Killington Music Festival in Vermont, Trinity Church Wall St., Pittsburgh Concert Society, NEMPAC’s (North End Music and Performing Arts Center’s) Winter Concert Series, and Keene State College. In recent seasons he has appeared as soloist in cello concerti by Dvorak, Elgar, and Saint-Saens with orchestras that include the Connecticut Valley Symphony, Arlington Philharmonic, and Edgewood Symphony Orchestras.

A native of Ottawa, Canada, Aron Zelkowicz grew up in Pittsburgh and received degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University and Stony Brook University, where his teachers included Paul Katz, Steven Doane, Janos Starker and Colin Carr.

Nickolas Kaynor is a versatile artist who currently serves as principal violist of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra and section violist of both the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He also performs regularly with ensembles such as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Symphony Orchestra, the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a featured soloist with the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra, he has performed works such as Freddie Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Pete Townshend’s Who Are You?, and Ramin Djawadi’s Game of Thrones Suite. Other solo performances have included Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the Chapman Orchestra and Gerald Cohen’s Uvtovo M’chadesh with the Florilegium Chamber Choir. Nickolas also regularly performs as violist of the NYC-based Starling Quartet in collaboration with singer and composer Lacy Rose; the group recently recorded an album entitled Lispector, which will be released in the near future. He was the violist of the Chapman Duo, an ensemble that won both the Wildflower International Recording Competition and the Frances Walton Competition, and was a semi-finalist for the American Prize in Chamber Music Performance. Additionally, he won first place in the Chapman Concerto Competition and second place in the Ruth Widder String Quartet Competition. In 2022, Nickolas completed a dissertation about the Bartók Viola Concerto to conclude his doctoral studies at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Professor Daniel Avshalomov. His viola is by Lawrence LaMay (Madison, WI, 1966).