Catherine Herbener - piano (both YAS and JSS)
 Catherine Herbener, piano, appears as a collaborative artist in recitals throughout the United States. As a member of the Bachman Trio, she participated in the touring program of the Nebraska Arts Council, received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and participated in a cultural exchange with the Republic of Tajikistan. Ms. Herbener often performs and premieres new works of music. She frequently concertizes with oboist William McMullen. They have been heard in numerous recitals, master classes and conferences. In 2002, their recording of 20th Century British Music for Oboe and Piano was released by Crystal Records. Ms. Herbener has also recorded on the Vienna Modern Masters label and her performances are heard regularly on Nebraska Public Radio. Ms. Herbener operates a piano studio in Lincoln, Nebraska and is on the faculty of Concordia University.
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Eli Kalman
 Eli Kalman, piano has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician on the stages of Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, USA and Canada. Currently he is a Doctoral candidate at UW Madison, recipient of Collins Fellowship for Excellence. He holds a Diploma in Piano Performance from the Music Academy Cluj, Romania and a MM in Collaborative Piano from UW Madison. The last years Mr. Kalman focused mostly on string repertoire contributing intensively to the rich musical life of Madison, Wisconsin. He is also an enthusiast participant to the Chamber Music Festival from Banff, Canada where he has performed third year consecutively in the Art of the Ensemble concert series.
Mr. Kalman is invited frequently to play in the Faculty Concert series at the UW Madison and the recordings of his performances have been heard on Jerusalem Radio and Wisconsin National Public Radio. He is piano faculty member of recently founded “Maestro“ which is a non-profit organization in Israel that provides a home base for accomplished Israeli musicians living abroad.
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Naoko Takao - Piano
 Naoko Takao, piano, is the winner of many top prizes including the 7th San Antonio International Piano Competition, and has been actively performing as recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician in the United States, as well as in Canada, France, Taiwan, and Japan. Currently a faculty member at Levine School of Music in Washington, D. C., she performs regularly with such noted ensembles as Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica. She has studied piano with Santiago Rodriguez, Anne Koscielny, Raymond Hanson, Nathan Schwartz and Andre Watts and chamber music with the Guarneri String Quartet
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Constance Cook Glen - JSS Program Director and piano
 Constance Cook Glen, JSS Program Director and piano, holds degrees from Nebraska Wesleyan University and Indiana University. A Rocky Ridge alumna, Ms. Glen currently teaches musicology courses at the Indiana University School of Music, in addition to accompanying and performing in the Bloomington area. She also presides over the Bloomington, IN Community Chamber Music Association, maintains a private piano studio and recently co-chaired the Bloomington Multicultural Festival. Ms. Glen has been a faculty member at RRMC for the past eleven summers.
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Catherine Herbener - piano (Description located above in Young Artist Seminar section)
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Susan Lee Cable - piano
 Susan Lee Cable, piano, is Professor Emeritus of Music at Metropolitan State College of Denver where she taught Piano, Chamber Music, Piano Literature, Piano Pedagogy, Accompanying, and Music Theory. Earlier in her career she was on the piano faculty of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. She holds degrees in Piano Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Illinois, and the University of Northern Colorado. She also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado, the Aspen and Tanglewood Music Festivals, and the French Piano Institute in Paris. Her teachers include Howard Karp, Kurt Neumiller, Beth Miller Harrod, Adele Marcus, and Daniel Graham. In her doctoral dissertation, The Piano Trios of Bohuslav Martinu, she
explored the composer’s life, musical style, and influences in his trios and numerous chamber music works.
Dr. Cable has performed extensively as piano soloist and collaboratively with many instrumentalists and singers in the United States and Europe. She founded the Ariel Trio, performing concerts and lecture-recitals throughout Colorado from 1991 to 2002. Currently, she continues to perform and teaches piano in her studio in Denver, Colorado. She is a frequent adjudicator, lecturer, and master class teacher for numerous piano festivals, competitions, and conferences. During the Fall of 2004 she was invited to teach a course for the Denver Area Music Teachers Association in Movement and Improvisation based on her studies in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She is active in the Colorado State Music Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association, and serves on the executive board of the Young Musicians Foundation of Colorado.
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Marina & Fred Hammond - duo-pianists
 The Hammonds made their debut as a duo in 1991 at the V Latin-American Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. The Hammonds have played at the IX Contemporary Music Festival in Alicante, Spain and in the Chamber Music series at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. They have toured Argentina repeatedly, playing in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Cordoba and Concepcion. The Duo has given many performances as recitalists and with orchestra in the United States, Venezuela, Spain and Argentina.
Fred Hammond, piano, born in Venezuela, received his Bachelor and Master of Music from The Julliard School. He is currently teaching piano at the Young Pianists Program of the Indiana University and IUPUI Music Academy. He has played in Spain, France, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and the United States. Marina Berretta-Hammond, piano born in Argentina, graduated from the National Conservatory of Music and in 1992 received a Master of Music at Indiana University.
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