Barbara Hamilton-Primus, past president Ý Barbara Hamilton, Viola, B.M., Indiana University, M.M., SUNY at Stony Brook, M.M.A/D.M.A., Yale
School of Music, has played as principal violist with the Colorado Symphony, the Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, and the Orquesta de Valencia (Spain); and violist with the Delos quartet and the
Cuarteto Martin y Soler. She was a member of the New York Philharmonic for one season. As a student, she won fellowships to attend the Aspen Music Fesitval and the
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She currently is principal violist with the Eastern Music Fesitval, and is on the faculty at the Metropolitan State College of
Denver, Department of Music. With her husband, Paul Primus, she is a founding member and the Artistic Director/Violist of the Colorado Chamber Players. (Colorado Chamber Players
has toured Spain twice, and toured Brazil in summer 1996.) She studied with Jesse Levine and Karen Tuttle. In February 1996, she toured Europe for five weeks with the American Sinfonietta, including
performances in Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt. Dr. Hamilton has served as President of the Rocky Mountain Viola Society for two years. She has recorded
for the Centaur, Bluebird, CBS Masterworks, and Harmonia Mundi labels. In fall 1998, Dr. Hamilton will return to the Yale School of Music to teach for one semester as Visiting Professor of Viola. Ý
Ý Ann Schnaidt, treasurer Ý Ann Schnaidt currently performs with several northern Colorado symphonies and is principal violist with the
Larimer Choral Orchestra. Ms. Schnaidt is active as a chamber musician, performing with the Front Range Chamber Players and Classic Strings Chamber Ensemble. She played with the Breckenridge Music
Institute for several seasons and performed as soloist with the "formerly" Denver Symphony during their Colorado State University Residency in 1986. Ms.
Schnaidt has taught at Colorado State University and Front Range Community College and currently maintains a private studio of viola and violin students.
She is the sectional coach for the Larimer Youth Festival Orchestra in Fort Collins. Her teachers were Donald McInnes, Yizhak
Schotten, and Marilyn Emmons. Ms. Schnaidt currently serves as treasurer for the Rocky Mountain Viola Society. Ý
Ý Board-Members-At-Large
Ý Erika Eckert is currently Assistant Professor of Viola at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As co-founder and former violist of the Cavani Quartet, Ms.
Eckert performed on major concert series worldwide and garnered an impressive list of awards, including first prizes at both the Walter W. Naumberg Chamber
Music Competition and the Cleveland Quartet Competition. Ms. Eckert spends her summers at the Chautauqua Summer Institute in New York, where she
coordinates the Music School Festival Orchestra Chamber Music Program and teaches viola. She is a founding member of Voilý!, a viola quartet dedicated to
performance of original works and transcriptions for viola ensemble, and is a board member of the Rocky Mountain Viola Society. Ý Ý Phillip Stevens, violist, began his musical education in Kansas City, Missouri. He later received his Bachelors
degree at the University of Michigan and completed graduate work at Northwestern University. During this time, he spent summers performing at Music at Penn's
Woods and the Aspen Music Festival. Before joining the Colorado Symphony in 1996, Phillip was a member of the Ann Arbor Symphony, Symphony of the Shores, Chicago Symphony, Il., the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago, and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. Ý Ý Margaret Miller is the violist of the Da Vinci Quartet and has toured with that
ensemble throughout Colorado and the USA, as well as winning prizes in the Shostakovich International Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the
Naumberg Competition. She is a graduate of Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Institute of Chamber Music. Ms. Miller is a
chamber music coach at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music and maintains an active teaching schedule in Colorado Springs. She is a founding
member of Voilý!, a viola quartet dedicated to the performance of original works and transcriptions for viola ensemble, and is a board member of the Rocky Mountain Viola Society. Ý
Ý Voilý! A Viola Quartet Voilý! was founded in the fall of 1996 by members of the board of the Rocky
Mountain Viola Society. The ensemble is dedicated to finding and performing original works and transcriptions for viola ensemble. Voilý! Ý Left to right: Margaret Miller, board member-at-large Barbara Hamilton-Primus, past president
Erika Eckert, board member-at-large Juliet White-Smith, secretary |
