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Musicians from Marlboro

This selection of archival and contemporary images celebrates some 60 years of Marlboro touring ensembles.

1967-68 | Pianist Luis Batlle, soprano Benita Valente, mezzo-soprano Glenda Maurice, and tenor Jon Humphrey. Photo by Judson Hall.
1965-66 | The very first Musicians from Marlboro ensemble—Jaime Laredo, Samuel Rhodes, Ruth Laredo, and Madeline Foley played Mozart, Fine, Dvořák, and Brahms’ Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 with contralto Florence Kopleff.
Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock with Harold Wright, Peter Serkin, and Benita Valente. Photo by Judson Hall.
1967-68 | Murray Perahia, Leslie Parnas, and Elsa Ludewig. Photo by Judson Hall.
1969-70 | Included revered horn player John Barrows with oboist Joseph Turner, clarinetist Larry Combs, and bassoonist William Winstead, who would go on to principal chair positions in Baltimore, Chicago, and Cincinnati respectively, and Paula Robison, who was featured in her own series at the Metropolitan Museum for many years. There was also a young pianist named Richard Goode.
1970-71 | Back Row: David Golub, pianist, John Graham, violist, James Kreger, cellist, Luis Batlle, pianist; Front Row: Miriam Fried, violinist, Felix Galimir, violinist. Photo by Judson Hall.
The tour group is joined by cellist Madeline Foley, scheduling director Endel Kalam (on Miriam Fried’s lap!), and Artistic Director Rudolf Serkin (preparing to receive Luis Batlle’s foot!).
1972-73 | Violinist Pina Carmirelli was a presence on many early MFM tours that included Philipp Naegele, Michelle Makarski, Peter Rejto, Lydia Artymiw, and Jenny Hansen. Photo by Woodrow Leung.
1972-73 | Murray Perahia, Isidore Cohen, Nobuko Imai, and Timothy Eddy played Mendelssohn, Schumann, and the Ravel Sonata for violin and cello. Photo by John Snyder.
1973-74 | Ani Kavafian, Jaime Laredo, Kim Kashkashian, Heiichiro Ohyama, and Sharon Robinson were heard in the Mendelssohn and Dvořák String Quintets and the Mozart Horn Quintet with Robert Routch. Their recording of the two Mendelssohn quintets is available on SONY/Arkiv. Photo by Woodrow Leung.
1973-74 | Richard Stoltzman, André-Michel Schub, Ronald Leonard, and Felix Galimir. Photo by Woodrow Leung.
1974-75 | Peter Rejto, Robert Routch, Isidore Cohen, Julius Levine, Eugene Drucker, Michael Johns, and Philipp Naegele played Haydn, Tovey, and a Mozart divertimento with two horns. Photo by Woodrow Leung.
1975-76 | A Haydn piano trio, Bartók String Quartet No. 2, and the Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor were played by Beth Levin, Lucy Chapman, Judith Serkin, Kim Kashkashian, and Lynn Horner.
1976-1977 | Yuuko Shiokawa, Patricia McCarty, Felix Galimir, and Paul Tobias played Schoenberg, Wolf, and Dvořák. Photo by Woodrow Leung.
1977-78 | Artists who went on to found the Orion, Mendelssohn, and Muir String Quartets (violinist Daniel Phillips, cellist Marcy Rosen, and violinist Peter Zazofsky, respectively, joined with pianist Stephanie Brown) presented works by Mozart, Dvořák and the Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins (released by Bridge Records on “Duos from Marlboro”). Photo by George Dimock.
1977-78 | Wind Power. Back Row: David Singer, Michael Johns, and Theodore Baskin; Middle Row: Robert Routch, Laurel Zucker, Lynette Diers Cohen, and Stewart Newbold; Front Row: Rudolph Vrbsky and Alexander Heller. Their performances of the Beethoven Octet, Gounod Petite Symphonie, and the Mozart Serenade in E Flat, K. 375 delighted every audience. Photo by George Dimock.
1978-79 | Yefim Bronfman (top left), next to Paul Tobias, had never heard of chamber music when he first came to Marlboro in 1976, when he was 18. Two years later, he had his first touring experience as a member of a Musicians from Marlboro ensemble playing the Brahms Horn trio with Shlomo Mintz and David Jolley. Allan Kozinn writes about Bronfman’s experience at www.marlboromusic.org/tour/50th. George Dimock.
1979-80 | Back Row: Hiroko Yajima, Karen Dreyfus, David Finckel; Carol Wincenc; Front Row: Ralph Evans and Sarah Clarke. Photo by George Dimock.
1980-81 | Sarah Clarke, Joseph Swensen, Cecile Licad, and Rocco Filippini performed Dvořák, Debussy, and Schumann in cities across the United States. Photo by George Dimock.
1980-81 | Gary Hoffman, András Schiff, and Hiroko Yajima played Haydn, Bartók, and Dvořák’s “Dumky” Trio. Photo by George Dimock.
1981-82 | Laurence Lesser, Robert Routch, Stefanie Przybylska, Carolyn Davis, Harold Wright, Steven Tenenbom, and Isidore Cohen. Photo by George Dimock.
1984-85 | Their program opened with Rossini and closed with Mozart’s glorious Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581—wonderful bookends for Hindemith’s rarely-performed Octet for Winds and Strings. Back Row: Karie Prescott, Tomoko Kato, Todd Phillips, and Gail Kruvand; Front Row: Victoria Eisen, Siegfried Palm, Theresa Tunnicliff, Stefanie Przybylska, and Toby Hoffman.
1989-90 | A typically varied Musicians from Marlboro program offered a Mozart flute quartet, Reger string trio, and Beethoven’s marvelous Septet in E flat, Op. 20 for strings and woodwinds. Back Row: Michelle Reed, Todd Palmer; Front Row: Timothy Cobb, Philipp Naegele, Scott St. John, and Jan Vogler. The experiences that Jan and his brother Kai had at Marlboro led to their founding the Moritzburg Festival near Dresden in 1993. Photo by Pete Checchia.
1999-00 | Woodwind Masterworks—Beethoven’s Quintet in E Flat, Op. 16 with Jonathan Biss, Daniel Matsukawa, Katherine Needleman, David Jolley, and Anthony McGill opened a fascinating program that also included works by Janáček, Kurtág, and the Mozart Serenade in E Flat, K. 375. Photo by Barbara J. Gottling.
1990-91 | “Crazy 8s” is what this group, playing Mendelssohn’s Octet, Op. 20, called themselves after the first of three tours together. Naomi Katz, Pamela Frank, Ulrich Eichenauer, Julia Lichten, Scott St. John, Gustav Rivinius, Ivan Chan, and Eric Grossman. Photo by Clemens Kalischer.
2004-05 | Colin Jacobsen, Ida Levin, Jeremy Denk, Yumi Kendall, and Maurycy Banaszek in a program that included the Kirchner Duo for Violin and Piano, commissioned in memory of Felix Galimir and recorded by Levin and Denk for a Marlboro Duos album on Bridge Records. Photo by Allen Cohen.
2004-05 | Efe Baltacigil, Frank Huang, Hyunah Yu, Eric Naslim, Samuel Rhodes, and Tai Murray played Mozart quintets compiled with Hindemith’s rarely performed Melancholie for soprano and string quartet. Photo by Pete Checchia.
2005-06 | Brahms Horn Trio in E Flat, Op. 40 with Anna Polonsky, Radovan Vlatković, and Soovin Kim. The program also included Harbison and Schubert as well as the Ravel String Quartet in F Major, which was a 60th Anniversary CD release on the Marlboro Recording Society/Arkiv.
2007-08 | Back Row: Colin Jacobsen (founding member of Brooklyn Rider and The Knights), Maurycy Banaszek (ECCO), and Earl Lee (who traded his cello for a baton); Front Row: Marina Piccinini (Tre Voci), Soovin Kim (founder of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival), and Rebecca Albers (Minnesota Orchestra).
2009-10 | Augustin Hadelich, violin, Karina Canellakis, violin, Romie De Guise-Langlois, clarinet, Peter Stumpf, cello, and Sebastian Krunnies, viola toured nationally with Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115.
2013-14 | Scott St. John, Matthew Zalkind, Michelle Ross, and Emily Deans (not pictured) played Adès Arcadiana, as well as trios by Beethoven & Fauré, and the Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2.
2014-15 | Kim Kashkashian, Sivan Magen, and Marina Piccinini. Photo by Pete Checchia. Kim Kaskashian participated in her first of ten MFM tours in 1972-73, after her first summer at Marlboro. She had had the opportunity of playing the Brahms Sextet in G, Op. 26 with one of Marlboro’s most important figures, violinist Felix Galimir. She has returned to Marlboro frequently and, in 2010, a collaboration with flutist Marina Piccinini and harpist Sivan Magen led to the formation of the ensemble Tre Voci, which has an enthusiastically received recording on ECM Records.
2014-15 | David McCarroll, Itamar Zorman, Peter Wiley, and Hélène Clément rehearsed, performed and then took on tour the Brahms Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 on a program with the Beethoven Sextet for two horns and strings and the Mozart Divertimento in D, K. 251 for oboe, 2 horns, and strings.
2015-16 | Krzysztof Penderecki with Anthony McGill, Marcy Rosen, Emilie-Anne Gendron, and Daniel Kim following the Marlboro performance of his Clarinet Quartet. Photo by Pete Checchia.
2015-16 | Itamar Zorman, Robin Scott, Brook Speltz, and Samuel Rhodes gave memorable performances of the Berg Lyric Suite. Its secrets were passed on from the composer to Felix Galimir to Samuel Rhodes and to his young colleagues in the 50th Anniversary National Tour.
2021-22 | Geneva Lewis, David McCarroll, Marcy Rosen, and Zhanbo Zheng performed Janáček's and Schumann's first quartets on our Fall 2021 tour, including on the Friends Cole Concert Series in Greenwich, Connecticut.
2022-23 | Giorgio Consolati, Kristina Bachrach, Lydia Brown, and Matthew Zalkind took Shulamit Ran's Moon Songs on tour after working on the song cycle with the composer during Ran's time as Marlboro Composer in Residence in 2019.
2023-24 | Stephanie Zyzak, Anna Göckel, Hsin-Yun Huang, and Chase Park toured Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Fantasie-Stücke, Op. 5 and Webern's Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, as well as Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4, for which they were joined by Jordan Bak and Christoph Richter. This photo is from their February 2024 performance at Philadelphia's Perelman Theater. Photo by Matt Genders.
2024-25 | Stephanie Zyzak, Oliver Herbert, and Beth Guterman Chu (not pictured) joined Co-Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida on a November 2024 tour that culminated with a performance on MItsuko's Carnegie Hall Perspectives series. Photo by Matt Genders.
2025-26 | Chihiro Asano, Solomon Ge, Judith Serkin, Oliver Neubauer, Bridget Esler, Lydia Brown, and Patrick Bessenbacher celebrate after their performance of works by Haydn, Britten, Schumann, and Brahms at the Harvard Musical Association. Photo by Anne Marie Strader.
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