St Louis Chamber Project

Jennifer Gartley

Jennifer Gartley is a native of the Isle of Palms, South Carolina only recently moving to Saint Louis. She is finishing her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Dr. Jonathan Keeble with research focusing on contemporary piccolo literature. Currently, Jennifer is the professor of flute at McKendree University and the Coordinator of Development and Events for the new 560 Music Center of Washington University. Previously, Jennifer attended Louisiana State University, studying with Dr. Katherine Kemler where she won the Dean’s Concerto Competition and Furman University in Greenville, SC. She has been a regular performer with Sinfonia da Camera, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Owensboro Symphony as well as a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois.

Laura Reycraft

Laura Reycraft, violin and viola, received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music in 2003 as a student of Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsey. In 2005 she earned her Master of Music diploma from the University of Maryland where she studied viola with Daniel Foster and Michael Tree and Suzuki violin pedagogy with Ronda Cole. Laura has participated in several music festivals including Tanglewood Music Center, Spoleto Festival USA, Sarasota Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. She has played as a substitute with the National Symphony Orchestra and is currently a regular substitute with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and an active freelancer in St. Louis. She joined the faculty of City Academy in North St. Louis in September 2007 where she teaches Suzuki violin to fourth and fifth graders.

Anna Klein

Following her New York solo debut in 2002 at Weill Carnegie Recital Hall, pianist Anna Klein, has toured extensively as solo recitalist throughout the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, she has given performances in South America, Fiji, and the Marshall Islands. Anna made her orchestral debut with the Webster University Symphony performing concerti by Haydn and Beethoven. Anna has appeared for U.S. Embassies on behalf of the State Department as a free lance performing artist to promote cultural and mutual understanding through the arts. As such, she has performed for ambassadors, diplomats, dignitaries, military personnel, and international audiences. A devoted chamber musician, Anna has performed as collaborative pianist with groups at Bargemusic in Brooklyn, Indiana University in Bloomington, University of Texas at Austin and has given concerts in Detroit, Tulsa, St. Louis and Cincinnati. A native of St. Louis, Anna began piano at age four. She received her Bachelor degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and graduated with a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Dedicated to educational outreach, Anna continues to perform and present master classes at universities, conservatories, elementary and high schools.

Laura Guyer Ross received her Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance from Miami University in Ohio in 2003 and her Master of Music in Oboe Performance from Arkansas State University in 2005. Currently, Laura is Adjunct Professor of Double Reeds at Southeast Missouri State University. Laura has performed with the Oxford Chamber Orchestra, the Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Opera South, the Batesville Symphony Orchestra, the Equinox Chamber Players, and the St. Louis Philharmonic. In addition to her role as co-founder and oboist in Chamber Project Saint Louis, Laura is proud to be a part of the Gateway Chamber Ensemble as well. In April of 2007, she performed as a soloist with the St. Louis Children’s Choir on the Classic 99 radio show, From the Garden, Live!® Laura has also performed as a soloist with Forum Sinfonium, a touring chamber orchestra based in Krakow, Poland, in December of 2007.Throughout March and April of 2008, Ms. Ross has performed and taught Master Classes in St. Louis MO, Cape Girardeau MO, and in Manchester, England; at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Dana Hotle

Dana Hotle, clarinet, holds a bachelors degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with David Krakauer. Returning to her native St. Louis in 2001, she has performed with the St. Louis Symphony, St. Louis Opera Theater, the Webster Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony in Florida. After performing for a season with the Cedar Rapids Symphony in 2004-2005, she is now principal clarinet of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Equinox Chamber Players. In service to her belief in the importance and power of education, Dana is a faculty member of the Community Music School of Webster University, teaching clarinet. Dana helped create and continues to develop and teach at the Music Alive! Summer Composition Intensive camp held at CMS. Dana is also an adjunct faculty at Maryville University.

Adrianne Honnold

Adrianne Honnold is an applied music faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis and an adjunct music faculty member at St. Louis Community College-Wildwood and Maryville University. She received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, and a Master of Music degree in Saxophone Performance from the same institution in 2005. At the University of Illinois she was a student of Debra Richtmeyer and Chip McNeill. She is a former member of the United States Air Force Heritage of America Band located at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, where she was the principal saxophonist and was a featured concerto soloist three times. Ms. Honnold appears regularly with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, St. Louis Philharmonic, St. Louis Wind Symphony, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the USAF Band of Mid-America, the Sessions Big Band, and the Knights of Swing. She has been a member of the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) since 1994, and was a featured performer at the NASA Regional Conference at Drake University in 2005.

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