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Artistic Directors
Pianist Michael Carroll studied with Robert Van Meter at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. An experienced choral and vocal accompanist, he was the staff pianist and program annotator for Seattle’s Thalia Symphony Orchestra for ten years. Michael lives in Port Ludlow and is an Artistic Director of the PTSO Chamber Music Series.
Cellist Pamela Roberts graduated from the University of Washington, studying with teachers Eva Heinitz and Toby Saks. She was faculty cellist at the University of Puget Sound and a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival. She lives in Quilcene with her husband, Howard Gilbert, a retired Seattle Symphony percussionist and jazz drummer. Pamela is principal cellist in the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra and an Artistic Director of the PTSO Chamber Music Series.
Musicians
Pianist and Violist Sung-Ling Hsu from Taiwan immigrated to the United States in 2014. She started learning the piano at the age of 6 and the viola at the age of 8 and a half. Sung-Ling majored in composition while studying at university. After graduating from university, she worked in scoring and sound effects design. At present she is devoted to chamber music. Sung-Ling is Music Director at Port Ludlow Community Church.
Oboist Anne Krabill is principal oboe of the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra. She is a native Canadian and received a Bachelor of Music from Mount Allison University. She studied with Gustav Steinert in Germany and Leon Goossens in London. Anne was principal oboist with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She taught oboe and chamber music at Dalhousie University, and performed frequently as a soloist and chamber musician. Anne and her husband, David, a bassoonist, recently retired from their reed manufacturing business.
Pianist Lisa Lanza enjoys a rich life of music through solo performing, collaboration and teaching. Voted “Best Musical Performer of Jefferson County” in 2017, she has performed at the Hebden Bridge Piano Festival in UK and Music at Albignac, France. She earned a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Accompanying from the University of Redlands and has studied at the Guildhall with Paul Roberts and in Portugal with Maria João Pires. Lisa is pianist at Grace Lutheran Church and with the Rainshadow Chorale.
Mandolinist Mike McLeron is a career music educator. He plays double bass in the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra and tuba in the Port Townsend Summer Band. He is also a founding member of YEA Music, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting music education in East Jefferson County. After decades of playing bass clef instruments, he decided to look for “treble” and took up mandolin.
Flautist Marie Meyers is principal flute in the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra. Originally from Seattle she received her BA in Music Education from WWSU and taught 32 years in Germany and on the US territory of Guam. While on Guam she played principal flute in their symphony orchestra. In her retirement, she studies with Sarah Bassingthwaighte and enjoys subbing with the Bremerton WestSound Symphony and playing with the Port Angeles Symphony and the Sequim City Band.
Vocalist Sarah Moran is pleased to join the Port Townsend Chamber Orchestra for this performance of “Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen”. Mrs. Moran has sung professionally for over twenty years and has taught private voice lessons locally and nationally for nearly as long. Mrs. Moran currently resides in Chimacum where she teaches special education at Chimacum Elementary School.
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Soprano Jeannie Bennett Oneppo started as a child singing in church choirs and has gone on to perform as a soloist in recitals, with choruses and orchestras, and while touring Europe, Turkey, and China. She taught singing full time for many years, and was faculty at the Yale School of Drama. She earned her BME from Illinois Wesleyan and MM from the Yale School of Music.
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Clarinetist and saxophonist Vincent Oneppo is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where he later served in various administrative roles over the course of four decades. He has appeared as soloist with Yale ensembles in New Haven, at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and at Carnegie Hall in New York, and was a member of the New Haven and Bridgeport Symphony orchestras, Orchestra New England, and many other classical, pop, and jazz groups. Since moving to Washington in 2017, he has been a featured soloist at Chamber Music Northwest, and has performed with several other ensembles.
Violinist Marina Rosenquist has primarily called the Olympic Peninsula home. A graduate of Lawrence University, she puts her education to use in her private studio, rehearsals, and occasional performances. Marina enjoys the gifts of her simple life in being a mum and wife.
Lutenist Guy Smith currently plays bass trombone for the Port Townsend Orchestra and the Port Townsend Summer Band. In high school he also took up classical guitar which led him to lute music transcriptions. Eventually he learned to read lute tablature, bought a lute, sold the guitar, and never looked back. His current interests are the music of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, particularly the Elizabethan solo lute repertoire.
Violinist Kristin Smith was born and educated in Montana where she earned a degree in music performance with an emphasis on chamber music. Her career took her to Edmonton Alberta as a member of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. After retiring from that position she came to Port Townsend to build a boat. She continues to play in regional orchestras and chamber ensembles and also enjoys teaching privately and in the public schools.
Concertinist Otto Smith is a Port Townsend resident and a long-time percussionist in the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra. Otto moved to Port Townsend from Seattle in 1979, and he’d been playing Irish music on concertina for about a year or two by then. He’d been playing backup guitar in an Irish band, and someone lent him a concertina, which he eventually purchased. He’s been playing concertina ever since — over forty years, now.
Violist Marcy Stewart began studying violin in 1960 but soon defected to the more sonorous viola. Over the past 60 years she has played in orchestras and chamber ensembles from California to Alaska. Marcy is a former children’s librarian and semi-retired classroom teacher who spends her free time spinning, hiking, bicycling and playing music.
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Concertinist Rolf Vegdahl retired in Port Townsend two and a half years ago after spending almost thirty years in the Lake Chelan Valley of Central Washington. There, he was a homemaker, church music director, composer/arranger, singer/songwriter and music teacher. He is pleased to find a rich concertina culture here in Port Townsend.
Guitarist William Walden is a student at Port Townsend High School and is part of the Maritime Academy. As music is not offered in that program, he embarked on an independent study for credit in music last September. His goal was to learn how to play guitar using the Travis-Picking technique. After a year of collaboration with Mike McLeron and Chuck Easton he is looking forward to sharing his progress with an audience.
Clarinetist Joel Wallgren, a Poulsbo native, began studying clarinet with Julie Werth in 1998 and continued his studies with Laura Deluca in 2001. He went on to study clarinet with Russell Dagon, Steven Cohen, and J. Lawrie Bloom at Northwestern University. He is Executive Director of the Poulsbo Community Orchestra where he works to keep classical music alive in
our community.
