Opus 76 artists

Keith Stanfield is an internationally acclaimed concert violinist and former international soccer player whose career spans the world’s leading stages.

Founder of the renowned Opus 76 Quartet, he performs recitals and concertos regularly around the world, with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie Berlin, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. His discography, in partnership with numerous labels, includes the complete Beethoven String Quartets, Mozart’s “Haydn” Quartets, Schubert’s String Quintet, and solo recordings of Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto and Bach's 6 Sonatas and Partitas. A recent performance of the latter was described as “deep, resonant… played with considerable sensitivity… profoundly moving” (KC Arts Beat).

From London, England, he made his recital debut at the Royal Festival Hall at the age of six and performed live on BBC television at ten in "Brian Connelly's Crazy Christmas" as part of a feature showcasing talented young instrumentalists. He went on to study at The Purcell School of Music, The Royal Academy of Music and other renowned institutions with Remus Azoitei, Alexander Markov and Károly Schranz, before embarking on a performing career spanning across Europe and the US.

Keith is based in the United States, and is represented by Tom Gallant of General Arts Touring, NY.

Stanfield's artistry has been shaped through collaborations with some of today’s most distinguished performers. He has appeared in recitals  with David Kim, Paul Neubauer, Alexander Markov, David Krakauer and Julie Coucheron among others. 

Beyond the traditional recital platform, Bond has also worked extensively with ballet companies across the United States including the Cincinnati Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Arizona and the Oklahoma City Ballet, leading ensembles performing on stage in productions of Philip Glass’s Wunderland and Alexander Ekman’s Cacti.

He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (London), where he also serves as a visiting lecturer. He is the Concertmaster of the Kansas City Civic Orchestra and has served on numerous occasions as Guest Concertmaster for the Kansas City Ballet.

Waka Kim is a professional violinist with extensive experience in orchestral music, chamber music, solo performances, and teaching. She obtained her degree from Toho Gakuen School of Music, one

of Japan’s top conservatories, studying under the mentorship of Akiko Tatsumi.

Throughout her career, Kim has garnered top prizes from competitions, including notably a second-place prize at the 66th Student Music Concours of Japan, as well as multiple prizes at the18th Japan Player’s Competition. She has received awards from

the Japan Classic Music Concours, the All-Japan Student Music Concours, and the Japan Performers’ Competition. Additionally, she has participated as a violin fellow at the Pacific Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and the International Summer Academy

Mozarteum University in Vienna.

Waka’s teaching journey began as a collegiate volunteer for Toho Gakuen’s young music education program for students aged 3-15. Coupling her firsthand experience in high-level violin performance

with her love of teaching, she has since expanded her teaching practice to work with students of all ages.

Currently, Waka Kim finds fulfillment in sharing her expertise as a violin teacher, collaborating with her husband, Paul Kim, at P & W Violin Studio. Through their dedicated instruction, they provide students with exceptional violin lessons, imparting their extensive

knowledge and fostering the growth of aspiring musicians.

Violinist David Kim was named Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1999. Born in Carbondale, Illinois in 1963, he started playing the violin at the age of three, began studies with the famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay at the age of eight, and later received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School.

Mr. Kim continues to appear as soloist with orchestras across the country and appears as concertmaster of the 9-time Emmy Award winning All-Star Orchestra on PBS stations across the USA and online at the Khan Academy. He regularly presents masterclasses at schools such as the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, and the Australian National Academy of Music. Mr. Kim’s first book was released in 2022: The Audition Method for Violin, published by GIA Publications. This long-awaited collection of standard orchestral excerpts walks the reader through each work with his suggestions on execution, audition strategy, bowings and fingerings. 

Mr. Kim is a frequent touring guest of famed modern hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty at venues such as the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Carnegie Hall. He is also a regular performer around the nation at events for YoungLife, Illuminations, and The Gathering. Mr. Kim serves as Distinguished Artist at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He frequently serves as an adjudicator at international violin competitions such as the Menuhin and Sarasate. 

Mr. Kim has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Eastern University in suburban Philadelphia, the University of Rhode Island, and Dickinson College. His instruments are a J.B. Guadagnini from Milan, Italy ca. 1757 on loan from The Philadelphia Orchestra and a Francesco Gofriller ca. 1735. Mr. Kim exclusively performs on and endorses Larsen Strings from Denmark.

Sir Yehudi Menuhin said of violinist Alexander Markov: 

“He is without doubt one of the most brilliant and musical of violinists…Alexander Markov will certainly leave his mark on the music lovers of the world and in the annals of the violin virtuosi of our day.” 

Awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1987, Markov made his New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1983. A Gold Medal winner at the Paganini International Violin Competition, he has appeared as a soloist with some of the world's most celebrated orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, the Montreal Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Markov has performed with such  conductors as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Franz Welser-Möst and Ivan Fischer, and has been sharing stages with 
Martha Argerich and other luminaries.

Alexander Markov’s  recent headlining concerts  at Carnegie Hall were  filled to capacity  and his upcoming engagements  are  scheduled in USA,  Europe,  Russia, Japan,  the Middle East and South America.

Alexander Markov’s reputation in the 19th-century romantic virtuoso repertoire is second-to-none. One of the few violinists in the world who performs the entire set of the 24 Paganini Caprices in a single recital, he is featured in the internationally acclaimed film about great violinists, “The Art of Violin,” directed by the legendary film director Bruno 
Monsaingeon. His CD release and the video of the 24 Paganini Caprices, distributed world-wide by Warner Classics International,  caused a sensation and became a best-seller.

In 2006, Warner released the long-awaited DVD of the 24 Paganini Caprices and it instantly became one of the best-selling classical DVD’s on Amazon. Many Caprices were posted by fans around the world on YouTube and some clips  have over  three  million hits.

Markov's musical journey goes  beyond his work as a classical violin soloist. While attending high school, he discovered and fell in love 
with rock music – a love affair that merged with his first love, classical music, when he has co-written The Rock Concerto with James V. Remington who also custom-designed Markov’s gold, 6-string electric violin. Built by Barry Lipman, the new, patented electric violin is one-of-a-kind in the world and  has a unique sound capable of creating the most extreme  contrasts from the soft and sweet to the most powerful and dramatic. The vision of the project is to bridge a gap between rock and classical audiences closer together and to  attract young people who otherwise never go to a symphony. Markov continues to write numerous new compositions combining  classical and rock genres  featuring the electric violin, orchestra, rock group and a choir.

Alexander Markov was born in Moscow and studied violin with his father, concert violinist Albert Markov. By the time he was eight years old, he was already appearing as a soloist with orchestras and in double concertos with his father. The father and son team still perform 
together in duo-program repertoire in concert halls worldwide. 

Markov emigrated to the U.S. with his parents and received his United States citizenship in 1982.

Hungarian violinist Zsolt Eder has established himself as a versatile and engaging performer and teacher. He is Professor of Violin and Viola at Washburn University (Topeka, Kansas) and has been Concertmaster of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra since 2011. He is a founding member of the Opus 76 String Quartet and also performs with Spire Chamber Ensemble, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, the KC Baroque Consortium, Ensemble Iberica, the Sunflower Music Festival (Topeka), the Kansas City Symphony, as well as his chamber music group Zsolt Eder and Friends. 

With most performances cancelled in 2020, Zsolt and the Opus 76 Quartet immersed themselves in the complete Beethoven string quartets -  performing and recording the 18-piece cycle at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City. Another recent highlight was the completion of Topeka Symphony’s 75th anniversary season (2020/21) and a digital residency with Musica para Respirar, a Bolivian organization presenting free, live performances on WhatsApp to people affected by the pandemic across South America.

Zsolt has performed extensively in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Highlights include performing in the first Canadian Ring Cycle (Wagner) with the Canadian Opera Company, the Beijing Modern Music Festival in China, IMS Prussia Cove in England, and at the International Classical and Folk Music Festival in Kyrgyzstan. He has performed as a soloist with the Cleveland Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Topeka Symphony, the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, the City of Asuncion Symphony Orchestra (OSCA) in Paraguay, the Washburn Symphony,  the Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra (Toronto, Canada), the Midwest Chamber Ensemble and the Medical Arts Symphony (Kansas City). In 2018, Zsolt appeared as guest concertmaster of the National Symphony of Colombia (South America). He has appeared live on Kansas Public Radio, Hungarian National Radio and ABC Australia. 

Zsolt is passionate about education, working with organizations like UMKC Conservatory Bridges, Heartland Chamber Music, the Blanche Bryden Chamber Music Institute, Harmony Project KC, Topeka Strings for Success and CityMusic Cleveland. He is frequently invited to adjudicate and present lectures and masterclasses. In 2019 he completed a week-long residency at the National University of Paraguay. 

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Zsolt spent most of his childhood in Perth, Australia. College studies brought him first to Toronto, Canada, where he studied with Lorand Fenyves. Zsolt then continued with Paul Kantor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, earning his Bachelors and Masters Degrees there. In Kansas City he studied with Benny Kim at the UMKC Conservatory and received a Doctoral Degree in Violin Performance in 2018. He lives in a suburb of Kansas City with wife Gloria and their two children.

Violist Paul Neubauer's exceptional musicality and effortless playing led the New York Times to call him “a master musician.” 

He recently made his Chicago Symphony subscription debut with conductor Riccardo Muti as well as his Mariinsky Orchestra debut at the White Nights Festival. He also gave the U.S. Premiere of the newly discovered Impromptu for viola and piano by Shostakovich with pianist Wu Han. In addition, his recording of the Aaron Kernis Viola Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, was released on Signum Records and his recording of the complete viola and piano music by Ernest Bloch with pianist Margo Garrett was released on Delos.

 Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. 

He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower and has been featured on CBS's Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. 

A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on numerous labels including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical. Mr. Neubauer is the artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College. 

Lubomira G. Paskaleva began her studies in Sofia, Bulgaria, with Professor Peter Arnaudov when she was merely 5 years old. She was accepted to the National Music School “Lubomir Pipkov” at the age of 10.

Ms. Paskaleva was awarded a full scholarship to come to Baton Rouge School of Music in Louisiana where she studied under Jerzy Kosmala. During her time in Louisiana she performed concerts with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, Lafayette Symphony, and the LSU

Symphony.

In 1999, Ms. Paskaleva moved to Kansas City to study at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music on a full scholarship. Since coming to Kansas City she has won the hearts of Kansas City Music Club and received the

club’s highest scholarship. During her time in Kansas City, Ms. Paskaleva studied intensively with world-renowned musicians Paul Coletti, Benny Kim

and Scott Lee.

Throughout her musical upbringing, Lubomira Paskaleva has competed in such competitions as Svetoslav Obretenov National Competition where she was awarded the first prize, Young Talent National

Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria, in which she received the second prize, MTNA Competition, where she was a finalist with five other soloists from across the United States. She has participated in the master classes of

Evan Wilson, Simon Roland Jones and Yuri Bashmet.

Ms. Paskaleva worked as the Strings Director at Mid-American Nazarene University. She has performed with various ensembles and artists including the Kansas City Symphony, the Opus 76 Quartet, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rod Stewart, Sarah Brightman, Josh Groban and Michael Buble. 

South-Korean cellist Seungchan Song is building his career as a captivating chamber musician and soloist. His competition experiences include III International Klaipeda David Geringas Cello Competition (Lithuania), Plowman Chamber Music Competition, Gustav Mahler (Czech Republic) and French Music Competition, and has held solo recitals in US and Asia. 

Having made a solo debut at the age of 12, Mr. Song has performed in Hilbert Circle Theatre (Indianapolis), Kauffman Center, Kansas City Convention Center, Busan Art Center, and worked with Jinju Symphony (Korea), State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine, Midwest Chamber Ensemble, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, among others. He has worked with acclaimed masters such as Joseph Genualdi, Gil Shaham, Kevin Noe, Luis Miguel Rojas, Thomas Wilkins, Gary Wedow, among others. He has participated in masterclasses by Mike Block, Zlatomir Fung, John Sharp, Mark Gibbs, and Karen Becker and studied with several internationally acclaimed pedagogues including Susan Moses, Astrid Schween and Ukjin Yang. He has also appeared in Interlochen Arts Camp, IU Summer Music, Heartland Chamber Music Festival and Puerto Rico Piano & Strings. 

Seungchan has been involved with the contemporary music scene immensely. He has collaborated with Renee Baker, Chen Yi, Yotam Haber and Hans Thomalla, and his lecture-performance on extended techniques in a folk context has been presented in the US and Canada. 

His recent collaboration involves masterclasses with Jake Heggie and Del Sol Quartet. Before coming to the United States, he was a former member of Project Midam in Korea, a collaborative project group that seeks to find ways to convey international literature in music. 

Seungchan holds a Bachelor of Music with High Distinction from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Master of Music degree from University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he studies cello with Professor Michael Mermagen and performs in the Conservatory’s Graduate Fellowship String Quartet. 

Daniel Ketter, born and raised in Kansas City, specializes in performance of contemporary and classical chamber music as cellist of American Wild Ensemble, Opus 76 String Quartet, Ensemble Alla Balena, and Cellax Duo. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with Kansas City Civic Orchestra, Eastman Wind Orchestra, Youth Symphony of Kansas City, Westwood Ensemble, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and Outburst Chamber Orchestra. 

Daniel Ketter is Co-Director and cellist of American Wild Ensemble, which celebrates the people and places that define American communities with new music. In 2018, American Wild Ensemble released a two-hour album of eleven original works, Music in the American Wild, including an hour-long video album available on YouTube. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, these works were commissioned and performed for a national tour of 25 performances in seven national parks celebrating the centennial of the National Park Service in 2016. AWE's second album, Duos and Trios, released on New Focus Recordings, was named a Top 10 Album of 2022 by Rochester City Magazine, whodescribedthe album as "a winning combination of accessible and adventurous" performed "with sensitivity and precision" and "the perfect album for those listeners wanting to dip their toes into experimental sounds." Since 2016, AWE has collaborated with ten different national parks and historic sites and commissioned and premiered over 35 new chamber music works for grant-funded projects celebrating the US National Park Service, 19th Amendment Centennial, Great Lakes Region, Frederick Law Olmstead Centennial, and programs promoting children’s literacy with support from National Endowment for the Arts, Washington’s National Park Fund, Chamber Music America, Mid- America Arts Alliance, The Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Missouri State University, Missouri Humanities Council, Missouri Arts Council, and New Music USA.

As an ardent supporter of contemporary music, in 2021, Daniel founded the annual Cello Teaching Repertoire Consortium, with the mission to supplement traditional cello student repertoire with the commission of new pedagogical concert works and etudes representing diverse musical styles and cultural backgrounds. This project has commissioned seven new works for cello students supported by cello teachers across the country, featured in workshops and performed by students at the Eastman Cello Institute, and presented at American String Teachers Association's 2022 and 2024 national conferences.

Since 2018 Daniel has served as faculty at Missouri State University, where he teaches courses in cello, chamber music, and music theory. As a teacher, he continues to present annual summer cello classes as faculty for the Eastman Cello Institute and works with Opus 76 as Quartet-in-Residence faculty for Youth Symphony of Kansas City. In Springfield, Daniel coaches chamber music for the annual Missouri State University String Fling for high school and college students in the region.

In 2020, Daniel completed a Ph.D. in Music Theory at Eastman School of Music, and he has served as Co-Chair for Society for Music Theory’s Performance and Analysis Interest Group. His research interests include essential voices in Schenkerian theory and performance and analysis.

In 2017 Daniel completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Eastman School of Music. Daniel has a MM in cello performance and pedagogy from Peabody Conservatory and graduated with high distinction from both Eastman School of Music (BM ’10, Applied Music - Cello) and from University of Rochester (BA ’10, Mathematics). Daniel completed a MBA in 2024 at Missouri State University with a Certificate in Finance and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.

Daniel plays a cello made by H. C. Silvestre c. 1870 in Lyon, France.

Widely considered one of the greatest clarinetists on the planet with his own unique sound and approach, he has been praised internationally as a key innovator in modern klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. In addition, his work has been recognized by major jazz publications around the world. He received a Grammy nomination as soloist with the conductorless chamber orchestra "A Far Cry", received the Diapason D’Or in France for The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Osvaldo Golijov and the Kronos Quartet/Nonesuch) and the album of the year award in the jazz category for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for The Twelve Tribes (Label Bleu). Abraham Inc’s Tweet Tweet (co-led by Krakauer with funk legend Fred Wesley and renegade beat architect/multi-instrumentalist Socalled) peaked at #1 in Funk and #1 in Jewish and Yiddish Music, and #35 in music sales on Amazon. It reached #7 in Jazz on Billboard and was featured at #40 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart for fastest sellers.

Krakauer began his journey with the music of his Eastern European Jewish cultural heritage at the end of the 1980s as the Berlin Wall was falling, and culture from “behind the Iron Curtain” began to emerge in the West. Inspired by these massive cultural shifts, he began to explore klezmer music as he sought to connect with his Jewish identity in a deeper way. He very quickly became a creator in his own right; first as a member of the ground-breaking band “The Klezmatics” (that launched the second klezmer revival of the early 90s), then as an integral part of John Zorn’s Radical Jewish Culture movement, and ultimately as a composer, soloist, and band leader in the klezmer genre. He recently began composing and producing music for film, and 2019 saw him composing his first score with Kathleen Tagg for the full-length feature film (Minyan by Eric Steel and nominated for best film at 2020 Berlin Film Festival & Winner of Grand Jury Prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at OUTFEST 2020). His second score in 2020 was for Jeremy Kagan’s animated short, Haftorahs. Haftorahs is an animated movie based on a series of drawings that are a response to each of the Haftorah portions read chronologically throughout the year.

His wide array of projects, solo appearances, and multi-genre collaborations includes ensembles, conductors, composers and individual artists such as the WDR Big Band, Abraham Inc. (co-led with Fred Wesley and Socalled), the Emerson Quartet, Marin Alsop, Wlad Mathulets, Leonard Slatkin (Orchestre de Lyon), Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Quatuor Debussy, JoAnn Falletta, George Tsontakis, Anakronic Electro Orkestra, and Kathleen Tagg (pianist and co-creator of Breath & Hammer).

Krakauer’s discography contains some of the most important clarinet recordings of recent decades. Among them are The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Osvaldo Golijov and the Kronos Quartet/Nonesuch), which received the Diapason D’Or in France, The Twelve Tribes (Label Bleu) which was designated album of the year in the jazz category for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer Prize-winning composition Tempest Fantasy (Naxos). He has also recorded with violinist Itzhak Perlman/The Klezmatics (Angel) and Dawn Upshaw/Osvaldo Golijov (Deutsche Grammophon). Other notable releases include his 2015 album Checkpoint with his band Ancestral Groove (Label Bleu), Mathew Rosenblum’s concerto “Lament/Witches’ Sabbath” with BMOP (New Focus), Klezmer NY (Tzadik), Tweet Tweet and Together We Stand with Abraham Inc. (Label Bleu/Table Pounding Records) and Breath & Hammer on his own label, Table Pounding Records. He can be heard in Danny Elfman’s score for the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock and throughout Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson. Awards include winning the Concert Artist Guild and Naumburg Chamber Music Award with the Aspen Wind Quintet. He spent numerous summers at the Malboro Chamber Music Festival and subsequently did numerous Music From Marlboro tours.

Most recently Krakauer has been co-composing large-scale works with Kathleen Tagg including a klezmer fantasy for concert band, a concerto for klezmer clarinet and orchestra, “The Fretless Clarinet” (co-commissioned by the Santa Rosa Symphony, Eugene Symphony and Adele & John Gray Endowment Fund) with conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong, and the score for Minyan by filmmaker Eric Steel.

As an esteemed educator, David Krakauer is on the clarinet and chamber music faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music (New School) and The Bard Conservatory, and the Accademia Chigiana summer program. 

Born in Oslo, Norway, Ms. Coucheron began playing the piano at age four. She earned her Bachelor and Master’s Degree with honors from the Royal Academy of Music in London. At the age of 32, Ms. Coucheron has established an international career, winning awards and prizes in Italy, Germany, UK and in the United States. 

Ms. Coucheron has worked with musicians such as Claude Frank, Emanuel Ax, Chee-Yun Kim, Christopher O’Riley, Steve Miller Band, Yo-Yo Ma, and Elton John, and has toured Europe, America, South America and Asia, performing in halls like Verizon Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Coucheron has performed with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic; Jena Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Philarmonic and the Ukrainian Symphony Orchestra in Kiev. 

Ms. Coucheron regularly performs at festivals such as the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Bergen International Music Festival, Amelia Island Music Festival, Madison Chamber Music Festival, Juneau Jazz and Classics and at La Jolla Summer Fest. She is Artistic Director of the Fjord Cadenza festival in Norway ,the Kon Tiki Chamber Music Festival in Oslo, Norway and Georgian Chamber Players in Atlanta, GA. 

In addition, Ms. Coucheron also performed during the 2003 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. 

Ms. Coucheron enjoys a close collaboration with her brother, the Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony, David Coucheron, and together they have released two recordings, ‘Debut’ and ‘David and Julie’ on the Naxos label. 

In addition to her busy concert schedule, Ms. Coucheron is a sought after teacher and pedagogue. In August 2014, she was appointed Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the top 50 state schools in the United States. 

Ms. Coucheron has given masterclasses and taught at schools such as the New England Conservatory, Emory University and Mercer University. 

Ms. Coucheron enjoys a various and wide range of styles and repertoire emerging from her highly trained classical background to the more contemporary and popular music. Recent collaborations include performances with the Steve Miller Band and Elton John.