Bart Feller is Principal Flute of the New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera and Santa Fe Opera Orchestras. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Bargemusic and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; he regularly tours with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Feller has also appeared as concerto soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Jupiter Symphony. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Julius Baker and John Krell. He has given recitals and classes throughout the US, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Equally at home as a soloist, teacher, chamber musician, and symphonic horn player, Gregory Miller is fast becoming one of the most accomplished horn players of his generation. As hornist with the internationally acclaimed Empire Brass, Mr. Miller has performed in nearly every major concert hall in the world, including Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Tokyo Opera City, the Mozarteum, Petronas Towers, the Barbican, and Suntory Hall.

A riveting journey of influential American music led by Grammy-winning conductor David Alan Miller featuring pianist Kevin Cole, the world’s leading authority on Gershwin’s piano literature. Gershwin’s virtuosic and jazz-inspired Concerto in F is paired with landmarks of American repertoire by Joan Tower, John Harbison and Walter Piston. Tower’s Sequoia implements winds, brass and percussion to paint both the tall branching and the deep rooting of the giant redwood trees.

NOI+F musicians shine in this special performance that combines the demands of chamber music playing with those of large ensemble performance. Performing without a conductor, players will lead each other in diverse chamber orchestra repertoire by Stravinsky, Wagner and Menotti. Adelphi Quartet, NOI+F’s Sphinx Fellowship Ensemble, returns as a featured solo ensemble in Igor Stravinsky’s neoclassical ballet suite from Pulcinella.

Join School of Music faculty member Will Robin and featured NOI+F composer Joan Tower as they discuss the recording of her piece Sequoia.

A special thank you to NOI+F's Community Partners: Cambria, preferred festival hotel, and show your festival ticket at Old Maryland Grill to receive 10% off your restaurant check.

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