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While Skogensemble has a steady stream of collaborators who work collectively on projects, here is the list of the group's co-organizers: JACOB CORDOVER (Spain/Australia), guitar Jacob Cordover has established a vibrant and varied international career. He has appeared on stage throughout Australia, Canada, the US, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom as a soloist and in his chamber ensembles, Zoco Duo (with oboist Laura Karney) and the Australian Guitar Duo (with Rupert Boyd). His solo CD Stele, recorded in 2004, is regularly featured on Australian radio. Mr. Cordover has appeared as soloist with the Orquestra Simfonica de Balears "Ciutat de Palma" conducted by Geoffrey Simon and the Orchestra dell'Accademia l'Ottocento conducted by Carlo Barone. He also works regularly with Maestro Barone in the application of appropriate performance practice of 19th-Century music, including performing this repertoire on a variety of period guitars. Complementing his performance schedule, Mr. Cordover has won prizes and awards in international competitions the world over, and has been the recipient of grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Tasmania, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Australian National University Friends of the School of Music, artsACT, Swiss Global Artistic Foundation and the Australian Music Foundation. LAURA KARNEY (Spain/USA), oboe Currently residing in Barcelona, Spain, Laura Karney is an oboist who enjoys a successful free-lance career that has so far spanned 13 countries across 3 continents. Hugely varied in her interests, Ms. Karney can be heard performing on both oboe and English horn, in concerts ranging from historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical repertoire on period instruments to working with contemporary composers and ensembles and giving world premiers. Karney has worked with the SEM ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Cosmopolitan City Orchestra, Peconic Chamber Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the Orquesta de Valencia in Spain. She is also a founding member of Zoco, a guitar and oboe duo, the Prestige Quartet a wind ensemble, the Skogensemble a small chamber ensemble currently working on a chamber opera by a young American composer and the multimedia chamber music ensemble Ardesco (www.ardesco.org), comprising of string quartet, bass, oboe and lighting designer. The foundations of her performing career came from her undergraduate and post graduate studies in oboe at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Hochschule for Musik in Trossingen, Germany under the tutelage of the internationally renowned oboists Richard Killmer and Nicholas Daniel, and her work with Martin Stadler and Carlo Barone on historical performance practice and instruments. ELLEN LINDQUIST (The Netherlands/USA), composer The music of Ellen Lindquist is performed regularly throughout the United States and Canada, and has also been performed in England, the Philippines, South Africa, and Sweden. She has written works for string orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice, chorus, and solo instruments, several of which have been collaborative projects involving dance, theater, poetry, and performance art. Recent festivals and concerts include "Transits: Voices out of Wilderness" at the Tenri Cultural Institute (New York), the Ephyra trio at the Royal Northern College of London (UK), The Music for Peace Festival (New York), the 22nd Annual Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition Finals (Ohio), the Leigh Howard Stevens Marimba Seminar (New Jersey and Texas), the Kravis Center Concert Series (Florida), a joint composition concert mini-tour (New York and Connecticut), the Sunday Concert Series at St. John the Divine (New York), New Music North Music Festival (Ontario, Canada), the Western Illinois University New Music Festival, and the Gregg Smith Singers concert series (New York). Currently, Ms. Lindquist is working on a collaborative chamber opera for Companion Star Productions based on the work of Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. Her work is published by Marimba Productions, Inc. and Apple Mountain Music Press. As a pianist, Ms. Lindquist has performed as chamber musician and accompanist in New England and New York. She is also a co-organizer of the Music for Peace Project (www.m4p.org), which annually coordinates a global network of concerts for peace. Ellen has worked with composers Daniel Weymouth, James Grant, and Daria Semegen. Her B.A. is from Middlebury College; her M.A. in composition is from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is currently working towards her Ph.D. as well. A deep respect for and love of the natural world is reflected in her work. MICHAEL McCURDY (USA), percussion Michael McCurdy performs nationally and internationally with Hi Red Center, Mantra Percussion, and Skogensemble, and at festivals including the Society of Composers, SEAMUS, the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, the Sparks Festival of Electronic Music, the Bang on a Can Marathon and the Festival of New American Music. Michael collaborates with many musicians, including Ricardo Gallo, Peter Evans, Tom Blancarte, and Dither. Michael is a champion of new music — commissioning, premiering and recording works by established composers such as Michael Gordon, Gavin Bryars, Richard Felciano, Michael Fiday, Annie Gosfield, Karen Tanaka, and Ushio Torikai. Michael has also developed relationships with many young composers to commission and perform new works. Most of these collaborations have blended music with dance, and music with text and theatre - many of these efforts have combined music with electronics or interactive computer. Michael completed a doctorate in percussion performance at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2006. His teachers over his career have included Nick Petrella, Steve Schick, Dan Kennedy, Raymond DesRoches, and Eduardo Leandro. Michael is endorsed by Sabian cymbals. AARON PACKARD (USA), violin Aaron has served as concertmaster in the orchestras at Roundtop Festival in Texas, Oberlin College Conservatory, and the All-New England Festival. He was onstage violinist (fiddler) in the Oberlin production of Copland's The Tender Land, and has been impressing his family for years with his ultra-fast performances of Devil's Dream. He has degrees from Oberlin College and SUNY Stony Brook. CHRISTA VAN ALSTINE (Canada), clarinet Christa Van Alstine, clarinetist, performs as a soloist and with a wide variety of groups in New York City and abroad. She is on faculty at the United Nations International School and is the Director of Wind Chamber Music and clarinet at the Stony Brook School. Dedicated to expanding new music repertoire she has commissioned and premiered solo and chamber pieces by young and established composers from around the world. Christa performs with New York based groups including The Talea Ensemble, Mantra Percussion, Beaten Paths, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Camerata Notturna, Da Capo Opera Orchestra, pop singer Erin Hall, and has performed and premiered pieces at international music festivals including Darmstadt (Germany), Impuls (Austria), soundXis (Canada), Moving Sounds (New York City) and the 12 Nights (Miami). Outside New York, Christa has been working as a co-creator since 2007 on drömseminarium a collaborative chamber opera in Västerås, Sweden, to be premiered in Fall 2011. She also collaborates with Canadian pianist Gregory Oh and the Toca Loca Ensemble on performances combining music, theater and dance. New this season, she is also pleased to be a member of the Ilusis Ensemble a collective performance ensemble project consisting of performers and composers based throughout the United States. Before moving to New York, Christa was clarinetist with the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Regina Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Conservatory Orchestra with whom she also performed as a soloist under the direction of Tafelmusik's Jeanne Lamon. Christa holds an Undergraduate Degree from the University of Regina, an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould School, and a Master's in Music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
back to top Skogensemble Collaborators Camille Assaf, costume designer (France)Laura Barger, piano (USA) Patrick Diamond, stage director (USA) Robert Ek, clarinet (Sweden) Kathleen Flynn, soprano (Canada) Michael Douglas Jones, bass vocalist (USA) Henny Linn Kjellberg, ceramicist (Sweden) Benjamin Lanz, trombone (USA) Tim Long, music director (USA) Felix Pastor, bass (Spain) Torkel Skjærven, lighting designer (Norway) Malin Trast, flute (Sweden) Nicolas Tulliez, harp (France) Angela Wilmot, horn (USA)
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