Lynne Abbey-Lee joined the University of Colorado faculty as Instructor of Harp in August 2000. Previously on the faculty of the University of Richmond, she was Principal Harpist of the Richmond Symphony for 15 years. She served in that same position for the Colorado Symphony and the Shreveport (LA) Symphony, and also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic and orchestras in North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, and Michigan. Her teachers include Ruth Dean Clark at the University of Michigan and Alice Chalifoux in Camden, Maine.

Ms. Abbey-Lee has recorded a CD of Christmas music with soprano and flute, and also with the Richmond and Colorado orchestras, including as soloist in Frank Martin's Three Dances in Richmond. In July 2002, she performed at the World Harp Congress in Geneva with the seven-harp Salzedo Ensemble. She has appeared at national conferences for the American Harp Society and the National Flute Association, and writes for The Harp Column magazine. Local performances include those with the Colorado Chamber Players, Colorado Opera Troupe, the Denver Women’s Chorus, and various CU groups.

A small sampling of his critical acclaim includes the Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s review of his performance of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with the Pittsburgh Opera: “The orchestra was led from the harpsichord by Michael Borowitz with crispness and imagination.” And this from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, describing his performance of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale: “Michael Borowitz offered such imagination and sensitivity…shaping the melodies with emotional finesse…” As Head of Music Staff with Des Moines Metro Opera, Mr. Borowitz conducted the world premieres of Blumenfeld’s Breakfast Waltzes and Wright’s The Fifth String (“Michael Borowitz conducted with savvy… .” – Opera News).

Mr. Borowitz founded the Cleveland Concert Opera, and as its Artistic Director, took the group on tour to Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, with Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine. Other conducting credits include Pensacola Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, Indianapolis Opera and Cleveland Opera. He has studied at the Istituto Donizettiano in Bergamo, Italy, and holds music degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and The Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Borowitz has been on the faculties of The University of Memphis, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Kent State University and The University of Akron.

Having grown up in upstate New York, Ms Davis was accepted into the highly selective Young Artists Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music.  To participate in the Program she relocated on her own to Cleveland, Ohio, where she lived throughout her high school years.  During this time she studied violin with Linda Cerone and David Updegraff, and was coached in chamber music by Peter Salaff, Anne Epperson, and members of the Cavani Quartet. 

After finishing the Program and receiving her high school diploma, Ms Davis went on to earn a Bachelor's and two Master's Degrees from the University of Michigan, in Violin Performance and Chamber Music.  While studying at Michigan she was taught by Paul Kantor and Andrew Jennings, and worked on chamber music with Katherine Collier, Martin Katz, Phillip Bush, and Aaron Berofsky. 

Ms Davis has spent her summers at a variety of festivals, including the Meadowmount School of Music, the Encore School for Strings, the Aspen Music Festival, the National Repertory Orchestra, and most recently the Tanglewood Music Center.  During her first year in Denver, Ms Davis successfully completed the University of Denver's Suzuki Certificate Program under the instruction of James Maurer.  She plays first violin in the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra.

A native of Ireland, Paul Dorgan studied at the Dublin College of Music, where he was the recipient of many prizes and awards. He spent two summers at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg as a student of the Italian pianist Carlo Zecchi.

Dorgan has performed as both soloist and accompanist on tour throughout Ireland and has appeared on Irish radio and television. He has accompanied singers in recitals in London, Paris, Toronto, at the Puccini Festival in Viareggio, and throughout the United States. In Salt Lake City, where he now resides, Dorgan has frequently performed on the Temple Square Recital Series, with the NOVA Chamber Music Series, and with OPUS Chamber Orchestra as concerto soloist, chamber musician and accompanist.

While still in Ireland, Dorgan was associated with the Irish National Opera, and he has continued his operatic associations in America. For seven years he was on the music staff of Cincinnati Opera, and he spent two seasons at Virginia Opera. Other companies he has worked with include L'Opéra du Montréal, Opera Columbus, Utah Opera, and Opera Memphis. He was invited by Anton Coppola to assist in the world premiere of his opera Sacco and Vanzetti in Tampa in the spring of 2001. Dorgan has been invited back to Tampa as Maestro Coppola's assistant for the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 seasons.

Dorgan has published numerous articles and many American opera companies have used his supertitle translations. He instituted "Preludes" - a series of pre-performance talks - at Utah Opera, and he lectures and presents master classes for singers and accompanists throughout the United States.

Ms. Grace and her husband, Michael, have toured with a concert titled Piano Music and Painting; these programs, which include slides of the paintings upon which the piano compositions are based, have been presented recently on numerous series, including those at Florida International University, Bucknell University, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, South Dakota State University, the Loveland Civic Music Association, and the University of Lueneburg, Germany. As a collaborative artist, Ms. Grace has performed with cellist Janos Starker, violinists Martin Chalifour, Glenn Dicterow and Jose-Luis Garcia, clarinetist David Shifrin, soprano Martile Rowland and many other internationally known musicians.

Ms. Grace is Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Music at Colorado College and Music Director of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. She is a member of Quattro Mani, a two-piano ensemble that made its New York debut in January, 2001 in Carnegie Recital Hall to a sold-out house. They were immediately re-engaged for the following season, and will return again in December, 2003. This duo, which completed a critically acclaimed tour of Spain and Asia, has also performed with orchestras in Fort Worth, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne and Chico. Quattro Mani’s first recording, A Game of Go, was released in November, 2000, by Klavier Music Productions. A CD of George Crumb’s two-piano compositions (Bridge Records) came out in March, 2001, and has received numerous international awards.

Prior positions include principal accompanist and coach for the Central City Opera, the Colorado Opera Festival and the National Affiliate Artist Program. Ms. Grace has recorded for the Belgium National Radio, WFMT in Chicago, the Society of Composers, Wilson Audio, and Klavier International, Klavier Music Productions and Bridge Records. She studied at the Univ.] of Iowa with John Simms and with Benjamin Kaplan in London.

Graham is a native of Oklahoma and received his training at the Juilliard School in New York City, as a scholarship student of Rosina Lhevinne and Martin Canin. Early successes in such piano competitions as the Kosciuszko, Bloch, and G.B Dealey resulted in his debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1965. In 1969, Mr. Graham won the Concert Artists Guild auditions which led to his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. His mastery of the piano repertoire encompasses works of Bach through Stravinsky. Since the Queen Elisabeth success in 1975, he has performed over 30 different concerti with orchestras here and abroad, as well as numerous solo engagements.

For eleven years, Mr. Graham was the pianist for the Pablo Casals Trio, a highly acclaimed ensemble which performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He has been the subject of a PBS documentary film, funded by the Firestone Foundation. In April of 1986, Mr. Graham won first prize in The McMahan International Music Competition, a premiere event for pianists over the age of 25. In addition to his musical life, Larry Graham is an avid runner and rock climber. He is on the piano faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

While living in Spain, she played with the acclaimed "Cuarteto Martin y Soler", including tours of Mexico, Scandinavia, and Europe. The quartet played on numerous occasions for the Royal Family of Spain. Dr. Hamilton-Primus has performed frequently as a soloist, including the Valencia premiere of Penderecki's Viola Concerto, with Maestro Penderecki conducting. She currently is principal violist with the Eastern Music Festival. The Colorado Chamber Players has successfully toured Spain and Brazil.

She is on the faculty at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, and gives master classes and seminars throughout the USA and Europe. She is past president and founding member of the Rocky Mountain Viola Society. In 1996, she toured Europe with the American Sinfonietta, including concerts in Vienna, Berlin, Vaduz and Frankfurt. She has recorded for the Centaur, Bluebird, CBS Masterworks, and Harmonia Mundi labels.

Dr. Hamilton-Primus returned to teach at the Yale School of Music for one semester in fall 1998, and taught on the faculty of University of Colorado/Boulder in spring 2003. She has performed chamber music with Sharon Isbin, David Krakauer, Larry Combs (Chicago Symphony), Daniel Damiano (Berlin Philharmonic), Jesse Levine, Bruce Adolphe, Franco Gulli, and Randall Hodgekinson. In summer 2003, she performed with the great Russian violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky in his transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations for string trio.

Karen Lee-Terbeek’s musical career began as a cellist with the Tucson Symphony, while attending the University of Arizona. With her undergraduate degree in Cello Performance, she was hired by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Principal Cello. As a graduate student she performed with the Dallas Opera Co. and the Fort Worth Symphony.

After earning her Masters degree in Cello Performance under Lev Aronson at SMU, she joined the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Principal Cello, a position she held for 9 years. She has also served as Principal Cello of the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, and can be heard during the summer as Principal Cello with the Des Moines Metro Opera. She has also performed as guest Principal Cello with the Amarillo Symphony. In 1998 she was appointed Principal Cello with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and now enjoys playing part-time with the Colorado Symphony, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and the Boulder Philharmonic.

In addition to her orchestral career, Ms. Terbeek pursues the delights of chamber music. She has held the position of Associate Principal Cello in the Nebraska Sinfonia, and has served as cellist with the Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Omaha String Quartet, the Ensemble of Santa Fe, and Serenata of Santa Fe. While in Texas she was resident cellist with the Perspectives New Music Ensemble. She has performed as principal cello with the Colorado Chamber Players and the Colorado OperaTroupe. She has also performed with the Ariel Trio (Metro State) and the Columbine String Quartet.

She made her New York debut playing unaccompanied Bach with dancer Susan Caligaris in the Merce Cunningham Studio, a performance which one reviewer called a perfect wedding of the arts. Ms. Terbeek was invited by the Corrales Arts Council in New Mexico to give a solo cello recital in the historic San Ysidro Church.The Colorado Council of the Arts selected her as a Young Audiences of Colorado Residency Artist in 2001-2003.

She is currently Artistic Director and resident cellist for Music at Saddle Rock, a chamber music series she founded with her husband, counter-tenor Dale Terbeek. As of Fall 2006, she was appointed cello instructor in the Music Department of the Metropolitan State College of Denver. In addition, she can be heard regularly as solo cellist on commercial recordings produced at Coupe Studios in Boulder, Colorado

Michael Thornton has held the position of Principal Horn with the Colorado Symphony since 1997.  He has appeared with the orchestra as a soloist on many occasions.   Prior to joining the Colorado Symphony, Michael left his studies at The Juilliard School for the Principal Horn position with the Honolulu Symphony.  Mr. Thornton has also played Principal Horn for the Chatauqua Institute Festival Orchestra in Chatauqua, NY.  He has performed many subscriptions and summer seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra, including several Carnegie Hall performances.  Michael has also performed with the Concerto Soloists Orchestra of Philadelphia, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the members of the New York Philharmonic Brass Section.  Mr. Thornton has recorded on the Angel/EMI, Koch International, Naxos, Vox Classics, and Albany labels.

Michael is an active chamber musician and soloist.  In addition to solo engagements with the Colorado Symphony, he has appeared with various Front Range orchestras.  He has also performed many recitals throughout the United States.  Michael Thornton is the Solo Horn of the Washington Island Chamber Festival in Door County, Wisconsin.  He is also a member of both the Colorado Symphony Wind Quintet and the University of Colorado faculty chamber winds. Michael has performed and toured with the Denali Ensemble.  He has performed on several occasions with the New York Wind Soloists Quintet, a group comprised of members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  Michael especially enjoys playing chamber works for flute and horn with his wife, Colorado Symphony Piccolo Julie Duncan Thornton.

Mr. Thornton became a member of the horn faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1999.  His students come from around the country, and have gone on to major conservatories and orchestral positions.  Mr. Thornton has presented masterclasses at conservatories and universities throughout the United States.  His numerous music camp and horn workshop appearances include the Western US Horn Symposium, Southwest Horn Workshop, Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, Interlochen Arts Camp, Usdan Center for the Arts, New York State School of Orchestral Studies, and many others.

Michael studied at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and Temple University. His main teachers have included Jerome Ashby, Randy Gardner, Julie Landsman and J. C. Leuba.  Mr. Thornton is a Conn/Selmer artist, and performs on an Elkhart Conn 8D.