About Performers

Kimberly Rowe is best known among harpists as editor of Harp Column, a magazine she founded in 1993 that circulates to harpists worldwide. She continues to produce, edit, and design the publication from her Philadelphia office, while also teaching young harp students and performing with ensembles throughout the mid-Atlantic region. She has performed multiple times with The Phladelphia Orchestra for maestros Charles Dutoit, Cristoph Eschenbach, and others, including the orchestra's 2010 tour of Asia and performances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia.
Kimberly has been a featured performer at conferences of the American Harp Society, the World Harp Congress, Camac's Festival de la Harpe, and Lyon & Healy's International Jazz and Pop Harpfest. She has performed in Atlantic City showrooms for stars such as Tony Bennett, Bernadette Peters, Natalie Cole, and many others, and served as resident harpist at Philadelphia's Four Seasons Hotel and onbaord the oceanliner QE2.
In 2008 Kimberly founded the Young Artists Harp Ensemble through Temple Music Preparatory's Center for Gifted Young Musicians; she also teaches undergradute students at Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance. She is co-director and founder of the Young Artist's Harp Seminar and Competition in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and has been on the faculty at Rowan University, the Sartatoga Harp Colony, and the Philadelphia International Music Festival. Kimberly currently teaches privately and at Temple University.
Kimberly Rowe attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in harp performance as a student of Alice Chalifoux.
 

Since her solo debut with the Manhattan Chamber Symphony at age 17, violist Victoria Voronyansky has distinguished herself as a recitalist, chamber musician, educator, and published author.  She has appeared in major concert halls throughout US and Europe, and collaborated with Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman.  Her performances were broadcast on National Public Radio, WQXR, National Radio of Finland, and Israeli television.  A devoted educator, Victoria has served on the faculty of the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, and is currently viola faculty and artist in residence at Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance.  She teaches privately in New York City and Bucks County, Pennsylvania and consults advanced and professional violists worldwide through her innovative long distance development programs.  Her courses in Juilliard led to publication in the Journal of the American Viola Society.  Her other teaching credits include a fellowship with The Perlman Music Program and a teaching artist position at the Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves Master Classes in France.  Victoria currently serves as Artistic co-Director and violist of Dorian Chamber Players NYC and violist and founding member of Duo Istros.  She is a recipient of the Edward J. Noble Educational Fellowship at The Juilliard School, as well as Blanchette Rockefeller and the Henry Alderman Trust Awards.  Victoria studied viola with Heidi Castleman, Cynthia Phelps, and Pinchas Zuckerman, and chamber music with members of the Juilliard and American String Quartets, Felix Galimir and Isaac Stern.  She holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School.

Michele Kelly is the flutist and co-Artistic Director of Relâche, the ensemble for new music. The octet is known worldwide for its innovative programming, multidisciplinary collaborations, and a library of commissioned works numbering well into the hundreds. Ms. Kelly appears on the group's last four recordings, Press Play, Eight Point Turn, Kyle Gann's The Planets, and the soon-to-be released Comix Trips. She also appears on the Centaur Records disc Flute Loops, featuring the chamber music of Cynthia Folio. When not with Relâche, she performs regularly around the region in a variety of settings, from two- and three-piece chamber ensembles to symphony orchestras. Ms. Kelly is also a College House Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also the founder, Music Director and conductor of Penn Flutes, an ensemble in excess of thirty players with regular performances and educational outreach programs throughout the region. Ms. Kelly also maintains a similar flute ensemble consisting of members of her private studio, Fresh Flute. She received her MMus from the University of Michigan, where she also received a Specialist's degree in Chamber Music Performance. The daughter of noted abstract expressionist artist James Groff lives in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia with her family.