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Kenneth Woods is now widely recognized in the US and Europe as a
musician of rare versatility, equally at home as conductor, recitalist, chamber
musician and soloist.
A founding member of the NEA Rural Residency Grant winning Taliesin Trio,
he has concertized throughout the US and Canada, and has also been heard
as soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and New Zealand. He
has also been the cellist of the Masala String Quartet from 1993-1999. He
was artist-in-residence, member of the Eastern Piano Trio while serving as
director of strings and chamber music at Eastern Oregon University from
1999-2002.
Concerto appearances include the Aspen Music Festival, the Grande Ronde
Symphony, Cambridge Symphony, Gonzaga Symphony, Boston Chamber
Orchestra, Lancashire Chamber Orchestra, Blue Mountain Festival Chamber
Orchestra, Oregon East Symphony, and the Madison Philomusica. He has
been heard in radio broadcasts on NPR, the BBC and the CBC, and recorded
for Vienna Modern Masters.
Festival appearances include the Festival at Sandpoint, Great Lakes Chamber
Festival, Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Schloss Weinberg Festival in
Austria, Chautauqua Institute, Domaine Forget Festival in Canada, Wallowa
Lake Chamber Music Festival and the International Festival Institute at Round
Top. He is currently and affiliate artist with the Ischia Chamber Music Festival,
the Clock Tower Chamber Music Festival and is cellist of the string trio
Ensemble Epomeo.
Intensely committed to new music, Mr. Woods has collaborated with such
composers as Bruce Adolphe, Gerhard Samuel, John Corigliano, Oliver
Knussen, and Peter Lieberson, and has given numerous premieres. As a
cellist he has been recipient of the Aspen Fellowship, and is the only person
to have received the Dale Gilbert Award, given annually to the “Outstanding
String Performer in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music” in
consecutive years. Also while in Madison, he held the Strelow Quartet
Fellowship, as a member of the graduate quartet-in-residence.
Kenneth Woods chamber music colleagues include members of the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Pro
Arte, Audubon, La Salle and Tokyo Quartets, the Cincinnati, Chicago, and
Toronto Symphonies, and the Minnesota, Gewandhaus and Concertgebouw
Orchestras.
Kenneth Woods plays a cello of Italian origin believed to be made by the great
Pesaro maker Mariani in the 1640's.
A fluent and busy writer who finished his first novel at the age of 13, Kenneth
Woods is the author of the blog A View From the Podium, where he writes
about music, conducting, cello playing and the life of a traveling musician.
Consistency one of the most popular classical music blogs in the world, it has
been blog of the month in Gramophone Magazine, and has received
favorable notice from the music critics of the Independent, the New Yorker,
Wall Street Journal and others.
Ken's hobbies include cycling, complaining about the Green Bay Packers,
cooking and hiking with his son Sam, his wife, the violinist Suzanne Casey and
his dog Murphy.
www.kennethwoods.net
musician of rare versatility, equally at home as conductor, recitalist, chamber
musician and soloist.
A founding member of the NEA Rural Residency Grant winning Taliesin Trio,
he has concertized throughout the US and Canada, and has also been heard
as soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and New Zealand. He
has also been the cellist of the Masala String Quartet from 1993-1999. He
was artist-in-residence, member of the Eastern Piano Trio while serving as
director of strings and chamber music at Eastern Oregon University from
1999-2002.
Concerto appearances include the Aspen Music Festival, the Grande Ronde
Symphony, Cambridge Symphony, Gonzaga Symphony, Boston Chamber
Orchestra, Lancashire Chamber Orchestra, Blue Mountain Festival Chamber
Orchestra, Oregon East Symphony, and the Madison Philomusica. He has
been heard in radio broadcasts on NPR, the BBC and the CBC, and recorded
for Vienna Modern Masters.
Festival appearances include the Festival at Sandpoint, Great Lakes Chamber
Festival, Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Schloss Weinberg Festival in
Austria, Chautauqua Institute, Domaine Forget Festival in Canada, Wallowa
Lake Chamber Music Festival and the International Festival Institute at Round
Top. He is currently and affiliate artist with the Ischia Chamber Music Festival,
the Clock Tower Chamber Music Festival and is cellist of the string trio
Ensemble Epomeo.
Intensely committed to new music, Mr. Woods has collaborated with such
composers as Bruce Adolphe, Gerhard Samuel, John Corigliano, Oliver
Knussen, and Peter Lieberson, and has given numerous premieres. As a
cellist he has been recipient of the Aspen Fellowship, and is the only person
to have received the Dale Gilbert Award, given annually to the “Outstanding
String Performer in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music” in
consecutive years. Also while in Madison, he held the Strelow Quartet
Fellowship, as a member of the graduate quartet-in-residence.
Kenneth Woods chamber music colleagues include members of the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Pro
Arte, Audubon, La Salle and Tokyo Quartets, the Cincinnati, Chicago, and
Toronto Symphonies, and the Minnesota, Gewandhaus and Concertgebouw
Orchestras.
Kenneth Woods plays a cello of Italian origin believed to be made by the great
Pesaro maker Mariani in the 1640's.
A fluent and busy writer who finished his first novel at the age of 13, Kenneth
Woods is the author of the blog A View From the Podium, where he writes
about music, conducting, cello playing and the life of a traveling musician.
Consistency one of the most popular classical music blogs in the world, it has
been blog of the month in Gramophone Magazine, and has received
favorable notice from the music critics of the Independent, the New Yorker,
Wall Street Journal and others.
Ken's hobbies include cycling, complaining about the Green Bay Packers,
cooking and hiking with his son Sam, his wife, the violinist Suzanne Casey and
his dog Murphy.
www.kennethwoods.net
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