Performer Biographies

A native of South Carolina, cellist Claire Bryant enjoys an active and diverse career in New York City as a performer of chamber music, contemporary music, and the solo cello repertoire. She is equally passionate and committed to her work as an educator and advocate for the inclusion of the Arts in communities and society.

As a chamber musician, Claire has collaborated with members of the St. Lawrence, Orion, and Mendelssohn String Quartets and has participated in Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, Mohawk Trail Concerts, Spoleto, USA, and Portland Chamber Music Festival, and the Juilliard in Aiken Festival.

In 2006, Claire was the first cellist/fellow selected by The Academy: A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute, a two-year fellowship program encompassing performance, teaching, and community engagement. During her tenure at The Academy, she co-founded The Children's Music Campaign NYC (CMCNYC). The culmination of this year-long project in three New York City public schools included a celebratory concert at Carnegie's Zankel Hall and an inspiring documentary short by David Smith: http://www.acjw.org/cmcnyc_videos.html.

Claire performs regularly with a variety of ensembles, such as Ensemble ACJW, Continuum Ensemble, Second Instrumental Unit, Vision Into Art, and the Zankel Band at Carnegie Hall. In addition, in 2010 she will begin a new project, Enescu Chamber Players, with Donald Weilerstein, Vivian Weilerstein, Nicholas Mann, and Jennifer Curtis.

She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where her primary teachers were Bonnie Hampton and Joel Krosnick. Claire currently serves as Assistant Faculty of Cello at The Juilliard School.

A top prizewinner at the 2007 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, Owen Dalby has been described as "fearless and inquisitive" by the San Francisco Classical Voice and is recognized for his gripping interpretations of music from across the stylistic spectrum. His varied career involves regular performances with the Orchestra of St Luke's, the Four Nations Ensemble, the Clarion Music Society, and the Grand Tour Orchestra, as well as with contemporary music ensembles Argento, Momenta Quartet, and the Hindemith Ensemble. Mr. Dalby's festival appearances include Yellow Barn, Norfolk, Music at Menlo, Kneisel Hall, Aspen, Summerscape at Bard, and the Gros Morne Chamber Music Festival in Newfoundland. He has performed concerti with the Boulder Bach Festival Orchestra, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Festival Orchestra of Sofia (Bulgaria), and on several occasions with the Yale Symphony Orchestra; his chamber music partners have included Dawn Upshaw, the Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Sir Simon Rattle, and many others.

In the 2009-2010 season Mr. Dalby will perform chamber music from Raleigh to Honolulu, premiere major works by James Blachly and Timothy Andres (a concerto for violin and viola with the Albany Symphony) and will appear regularly at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble ACJW in chamber music and under the direction of composers Thomas Adés and John Adams. Mr. Dalby is a member of The Academy, a post-graduate fellowship of Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School that links a performer's life with a teaching residency in New York City pubic schools. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale.

Hailed as "an extraordinary clarinetist" by the New York Times, Carol has performed as soloist in both John Adam's "In Your Ear Festival" at Carnegie, LA's "Monday Evening Concerts", curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen, she has been a participant at Marlboro, performed in the inaugural concert of Zankel Hall at Carnegie and appeared with Midori in Lincoln Center's '08 Great Performers Series.

Carol has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Ulster Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTE Concert Orchestra, Knights Chamber Orchestra and ensembles including Zankel Band, Ensemble Modern, Camerata Pacifica and Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert. She has been broadcast on Irish national TV and radio, Lyric FM, BBC and NPR. Carol is a founding member of Argento, whose Tristan Murail recording was listed among the top 10 classical recordings of '07 by Time Out. She has guest curated the Kilkenny Arts Festival and is artistic director of New Music New Ireland, promoting the performance of Irish compositions abroad.

Carol is the artistic director of Music for Museums, an association with the National Gallery of Ireland and includes museums such as the Metropolitan Museum, the Isabella Stewart Gardner in Boston and the J.Paul Getty in LA. Carol studied with Brian O'Rourke and Charles Neidich. She was one of the 16 handpicked fellows of the first phase of the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute and has been on the clarinet faculty of the Juilliard School's MAP program

Duo pianists Elizabeth Joy Roe and Greg Anderson have been described as “Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers transposed from the dance floor to the keyboard” (The Southampton Press) and “the intense synchronization of genius” (ThirdCoast Digest). Mr. Anderson and Ms. Roe bring their joyous camaraderie and refined artistry to the concert stage, dazzling audiences around the world as a four-hand and two-piano team.

Mr. Anderson and Ms. Roe formed their dynamic musical partnership as first year students at The Juilliard School. They have since toured North America, with notable performances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Salt Lake City, St. Paul, Fort Worth, Milwaukee, Orlando, and Washington, D.C., as well as in nearly every New York City venue imaginable, from Carnegie Hall to children's hospitals. Together they have appeared on MTV and NPR, the Cliburn Concert Series, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival, and dozens of summer chamber music festivals. Mr. Anderson and Ms. Roe have been presented at several international leader symposiums, including the 2008 and 2010 Entertainment Gatherings (EG) in Monterey, California and the 2010 Imagine Solutions Conference in Naples, Florida. The Anderson & Roe Piano Duo released their debut album, “Reimagine,” in 2008.

Mr. Anderson and Ms. Roe earned their bachelors and masters degrees and perform at numerous prominent Juilliard events. A live performance by the duo is included on the “Sounds of Juilliard” CD celebrating the school's centennial year. In 2006, the Anderson & Roe piano duo gave the world premiere of their own composition “Star Wars Fantasy: Four Impressions for Two Pianos,” replacing John Williams on Juilliard's “Cinema Serenades” concert in Alice Tully Hall. Additionally, the two directed the groundbreaking project “Life Between the Keys,” a concert that involved the entire Juilliard Piano Class of 2004; this event celebrated the class's unique friendships and chronicled its Juilliard experience in an all-American program of piano music.

The duo’s interactive website, andersonroe.net, has generated tremendous enthusiasm among fans and Internet bloggers. The duo responds regularly to user questions and comments, and their creative, self-produced music videos have been viewed millions of times on YouTube alone. Mr. Anderson and Ms. Roe believe strongly in the communicative potential of music, and they aim to make classical piano music a relevant and powerful force in society. Their performances, compositions, websites, videos, recordings, and writings all serve this mission, bringing joy to people around the world. As the Northwest Reverb recently stated, “[Anderson & Roe] swept the audience into a cheering mass of humanity, making a strong case that playing piano is the most fun thing that two people could ever do together.”

Greg Anderson & Elizabeth Joy Roe are Steinway Artists.