Clarinetist Garrick Zoeter's passionate and exciting way with the clarinet has been acknowledged around the world. The Clarinet recently described his playing as “remarkable, his tone is beautiful and he shows complete mastery of all the technical demands and effects that are required of this piece, His artistry and virtuosity are compelling. This is one of the finest clarinet performances I have reviewed.”

A native of Alexandria, Va., Mr. Zoeter received his bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School and his master’s degree from Yale University. He has won numerous competitions as a soloist including the 1991 International Clarinet Society International Clarinet Competition, as well as prizes in chamber music – the Grand Prize in the 1998 Fischoff, Coleman, and Yellow Springs chamber music competitions, the silver medal in the 1997 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and first prize in the 2002 Concert Artists Guild competition.

Mr. Zoeter is the founding member of the acclaimed multi-award-winning clarinet, violin, cello, piano quartet Antares. From 1997-2013 with Antares, he annually gave performances around the United States at such prestigious venues as The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Aspen Music Festival, Strathmore, Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, Carnegie Recital Hall, Market Square Concerts, The Library of Congress, The Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, and Cincinnati Chamber Music Society.

Mr. Zoeter is also a frequent performer with such diverse groups as Trio Solisti, The Audubon String Quartet, The Ensemble for the Romantic Century, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, the University of Buffalo’s Slee Sinfonietta, The Post Classical Ensemble, the Pressenda Chamber Players, the Monadnock Music Festival, and the New Orchestra of Washington. Recent performances have included Donald Martino’s Triple Concerto in Buffalo, NY, and chamber music appearances in Strasbourg, France, and Medellin, Columbia, as well as an appearance at The Cactus Pear Music Festival in San Antonio, TX. and the Bennington Chamber Music Conference in Vermont.

A committed teacher as well as performer, Mr. Zoeter serves as the Anna Lee Van Buren Professor of Clarinet at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. His students from Shenandoah include numerous competition winners and can be found performing in professional ensembles such as the President’s Own Marine Band, teaching in university and public schools positions, and serving as music therapists throughout the country and abroad. In the summers he serves on the faculty of the Chamber Music and Composers Forum of the East at Colgate University.

Come visit him at his YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/SUclarinets

Grammy-nominated American Saxophonist Timothy Roberts is currently Professor of Saxophone and Chair of the Instrumental Division at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. He retired as Principal Saxophonist and National Tour Soloist with the Navy Band in Wash, DC, where he was also Coordinator of the Navy’s International Saxophone Symposium, building it into one of the largest events in the world. As one of the Navy’s premier concert soloists, he performed for five U.S. Presidents, many foreign dignitaries, and hundreds of thousands of people throughout all 48 states and around the world from 1987-2011. The Washington Post described his Kennedy Center performance of Ibert Concertino da Camera with the National Symphony Orchestra as “simply stunning”; He appears often and has performed three separate concerti with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and was recently featured as a concerto soloist at the Clarisax Festival in Medellin, the Mahidol University Wind Ensemble in Bangkok.

Dr. Mihai-Zoeter stands out as a premiere soprano and voice teacher. Her musical journeys have taken her around the world to halls in Europe, South America and North America and venues large and small such as the Family Theater at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, The State Symphonic Orchestra at Sala “Sao Paulo”, Amazonas Opera House, The Opera House “Teatro da Paz” in Brazil, the “George Enescu” Philharmonic, and National Operetta “Ion Dacian” in Romania. As an educator shehas held teaching positions at universities in Brazil and the United States as well as teaching privately students of all ages.

A remarkably versatile artist, Mariana sings in many genres of music from renaissance music to lied, from opera to sacred music, from chamber ensemble to contemporary music.​

Described by her students and her colleagues as being passionate, supportive, creative, inspired, dedicated, knowledgeable, and an outstanding leader in May of 2016 she won the 2016 Outstanding Faculty Award at the 2015-16 Leadership Awards Reception at Frostburg State University. In 2012, Mariana received a Diploma and Medal of Excellence from her native city of Braila, Romania for artistic and pedagogic contributions to the vocal arts.

As a clinician Dr. Mihai-Zoeter is frequently invited to teach master classes, workshops and summer courses at different high schools, universities, and festivals.

Dr. Mihai-Zoeter graduated from the Bucharest University of Music with a BM in Vocal Performance and Vocal Pedagogy, and she received her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Vocal Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory. Dr. Mihai-Zoeter is also a certified voice teacher of the Institute for Contemporary Commercial Music, Vocal Pedagogy Somatic Voicework™, The LoVetri Method. (Musical Theater, Pop, Rock), and in 2014 she received a certification in A Practical Approach to Directing from the Yale University, School of Drama where she worked with Evan Yionoulis.

In addition to her Director of Music position at Holy Cross Church and School, Dr. Mariana maintains a private voice studio at Mariana’s Vocal Arts- Sing. Soar. Succeed. For more information,

please visit her at: www.MarianasVocalArts.com

Pianist Yejin Lee is an active soloist and chamber musician based in the United States. Yejin’s performances have been praised for her “coloristic and poetic expressions” and “compelling and thrilling rhythmic senses,” and she has been invited to perform in many prestigious venues, including her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York. Her appearances include guest artist performances at the Cultural Art Center in Jaen, Spain, the Tyler Recital Hall in Florida, and the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, Korea. Her performances have also been featured and broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM from the Cleveland Play House. Most recently, she performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Accord Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Julien Benichou at Atlas Theater in Washington, DC.

Claiming top awards at a number of international competitions, including the Dallas International Piano Competition, Kingsville International Piano Competition, and Wideman International Piano Competition, Yejin has also had the privilege of performing at leading music festivals and masterclasses such as the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Banff Music Festival, Gijon Music Festival in Spain, and Piano Texas International Academy & Festival. She has shared musical inspiration with great pedagogues and pianists of this century, including Richard Goode, Dmitry Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry, and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.

Yejin holds both piano performance and vocal accompanying degrees from Oberlin Conservatory with honors under Haewon Song and Philip Highfill, as well as master’s and doctorate degrees under Boris Slutsky from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

She currently serves as a piano faculty member at the Washington Conservatory of Music and as a professorial lecturer at George Washington University. As a staff pianist at Shenandoah University, she actively works with students in collaborative and solo performances. In addition to her roles in academia, Yejin maintains a private teaching studio and is dedicated to education as a member of MTNA and NVMTA.

An active performer in the greater Washington, DC area, Yejin frequently participates in local recital series, including the Epiphany Tuesday Series in Washington, DC, and the Emerson Avenue Salon Series in McLean, VA. As the founder and artistic director of Matinee-M, a house concert series in McLean, VA, she is also committed to bringing classical music into the community through intimate and engaging house concerts.