Jillian storey, flutes
Jillian Storey just finished her second year as a doctoral candidate at UNC Greensboro where she is a Teaching Assistant in the flute studio and is studying with Dr. Erika Boysen. An avid teacher and music advocate, Jillian has held numerous teaching and leadership roles. She is currently the curator for the Pre-Concert Conversations series for the UNCG Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestras, and an administrator for the UNCG School of Music’s Instagram account. She currently serves on the Archives and Oral History Committee of the The National Flute Association, is the Newsletter editor for the Marcel Moyse Society Fan Page, and will assist with the 2020 Darkwater Women in Music Festival. Previously, Jillian maintained a private teaching studio in Houston, TX, and has taught in Waco, TX, Tennessee, and spent two weeks in the summer of 2016 teaching music reading in Malaysia. She was also the Woodwind Area Coordinator of the Chamber Music Outreach Program while studying at Baylor University and a faculty member for the Baylor High School Band and Orchestra camps.
A dedicated performer, Jillian has performed with the Waco and Bryan Symphonies and the Greensboro Opera. In 2018 she was the flutist for J.S. Bach’s B Minor Orchestral Suite, BWV 1067 with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra and is a prior finalist of the Baylor University Concerto Competition and winner of the Marcel Moyse Society’s Essay Contest (2015), TN MTNA Young Artist Competition (2013, Honorable Mention and 2010, Winner), the Joan Derrberry Memorial Competition (2010), and a finalist in the Nashville Philharmonic’s Concerto Competition (2010 and 2011). She was also the flutist for Coloratura Winds, the TX MTNA Chamber Music Competition Winner and South-Central Division’s Runner-Up in 2016.
Jillian holds an MM from Baylor University (2016) where she was a Graduate Assistant in the flute studio, and a BM from Tennessee Tech University (2012), with further flute studies with Trevor Wye (2012-13 and 2016-17). Her primary teachers are Erika Boysen, Trevor Wye, Francesca Arnone, Roger Martin, and JoAnn McIntosh.
Kyle Kostenko is an American clarinetist, scholar, and teacher whose work seeks a new, socially conscious understanding of art music in the 21st century. A Fulbright Award recipient, Kyle conducted research on Romanian experimental art music for clarinet in Bucharest, Romania from 2019-2020. Kyle currently serves as the artistic director for the award-winning, high energy Splinter Tongue. He is also a founding member, clarinetist, and bass clarinetist with the innovative sextet Catchfire Collective. Kyle’s work as a chamber musician has been recognized at the Douglas Wayland Chamber Music Competition and at competitions of the Music Teachers’ National Association. Kyle is a frequent guest with orchestras in the Piedmont Triad, and during the 2015-16 season, he was the clarinet mentor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Wu Family Academy.
Kyle is dedicated to the performance and commissioning of music by traditionally underrepresented composers, especially works by women and Black, Indigenous, People of Color. An advocate for new and experimental music, he has performed works by composers including Liana Alexandra, Stephen Hartke, Michael Henry, Jennifer Higdon, David Lang, Theresa Martin, Doina Rotaru, and Joan Tower. In 2016, he was featured on the Bowling Green State University New Music Festival in a performance of Higdon’s Zaka for the composer. In 2019, Kyle was featured in a performance of composer and soprano Lisa Bielawa’s chamber and electroacoustic music. In addition, Kyle participated in the world premiere of D.J. Sparr’s Ella Que Llora for soprano and chamber ensemble. 2019 also saw the premiere of a new work for clarinet and speaker by Robin McLaughlin titled Hot Take, written specially for Kyle.
Kyle earned his Master’s in Music and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Musicology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Bowling Green State University. His principal teachers were Anthony Taylor, Kevin Schempf, and Andy Hudson.
lalia mangione, violin
Lalia Mangione graduated from UNC Greensboro with her MM in Violin Performance where she studied under Prof. Marjorie Bagley. Lalia earned her BA degree in Violin Performance from Westmont College (CA) in 2016.
As a solo performer, Lalia has consistently advanced in competitions and has played in masterclasses for many renowned violinists, including Kevork Mardirossian, Jamie Laredo, Phil Setzer, David Kim, Adam Han-Gorski, and Rachel Barton Pine. She has ranked as a national finalist for the MTNA Competition, placed in Santa Barbara’s PASF Competition, was a finalist in UNCG’s Student Artist Competition, and won first prize for concerto competitions at Grand Valley State University (MI) and Westmont College (CA). Lalia has appeared as a soloist with the Grand Valley State University Orchestra and the Westmont College Orchestra performing works by Lalo and Sibelius.
As a highly sought-after collaborative musician, she performs regularly with many ensembles around the Triad, including the Gate City Camerata and Greensboro Opera. As part of her Graduate Assistantship at UNCG, Lalia was a member of the Graduate String Quartet, and a principal player in the University Symphony Orchestra. This past season, Lalia was awarded a fellowship with the Eastern Music Festival (NC), where she performed with the faculty orchestra under the baton of Maestro Gerry Schwarz, and played in a chamber ensemble with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. As an active orchestral musician, Lalia has worked with orchestras in California, Michigan, and North Carolina. Presently, Lalia performs with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Winston-Salem Symphony, and the Cleveland-based ensemble Renovare. In addition to her performing engagements, Lalia is also in high demand as a teacher. She has been teaching private lessons through music schools and her own private studio for the past 10 years.
Praised for his "dramatic performance" and "stunning orchestral playing," rising cellist Peter Swanson has performed across the United States as soloist, cutting-edge collaborator, and orchestral leader. Recent highlights include concerto performances with the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra and Northshore Philharmonic (both MN), as well as several Upper Midwest solo tours of unaccompanied recitals . His passion for the modern cello repertoire has led him to tackle the works of Hindemith, Crumb, Britten, Ligeti, Barber, Shostakovich, Dutilleux, Lutosławski, Golijov, MacMillan, Augusta Read Thomas, and John Luther Adams. His debut CD "Anti-Compass: Masterworks for solo cello" on the Sheva Collection (UK) label was released in August of 2021.
As an orchestral musician, his leadership positions span nearly a dozen orchestras at the community, collegiate, and professional level. Accolades include a full fellowship to the National Orchestral Institute, being named winner of the inaugural Prince George's Philharmonic Cello Internship (MD), and two years as endowed principal of the Luther College Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. He can be heard on the Grammy-nominated NAXOS recording of the National Orchestral Institute performing masterworks by Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison. As a chamber musician, he is a founding member of Catchfire Collective, Other chamber tenures include the Ekklesia Trio, Music In The Shape Of A Pear, the TEMPO Ensemble, the Gate City Camerata, Present~Continuous, and the Di Domani Quartet. In these groups he has premiered numerous pieces and promoted recent compositions from around the world.
Peter is Interim Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Youth Philharmonic and serves on the faculty at Guilford College (NC). He holds a doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro where he was graduate assistant under the instruction of Alex Ezerman. He also holds degrees from the University of Maryland and Luther College (IA). He has performed in masterclasses for Andres Diaz, Cecylia Barczyk, Richard Belcher, Tulio Rondon, Christine Kim, Lawrence Stomberg, and Robert DeMaine. He is a winner of the National School Orchestra Award, the Luther Music Excellence Award, and the Burlington Industries Music Award. Peter plays a 2013 Beckmann cello specially commissioned by Givens Violins in Minneapolis.
Composer and pianist Robin McLaughlin has had her works performed throughout the United States and Canada, and has been recognized by ASCAP and the American Composers Forum. Drawing musical inspiration from metaphor and the sacred, her music is imaginative and energetic.
Robin recently wrote large-scale sacred work Hope Chapel in Greensboro NC for their 2019 Lessons and Carols Service, and thanks to community support, the work is becoming an album that will be out in Fall 2020. She also recently created Lights Will Find You, a consortium-commissioned work for saxophone and lighting design. Robin has held artist residencies at Arts Letters and Numbers and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been a fellow at the Norfolk New Music Workshop and the University of Nebraska Lincoln Chamber Music Institute, and was one of the participants at the Lake George Music Festival’s inaugural composers’ institute. Her saxophone quartet On This Day won the American Composer’s Forum’s Showcase Award, and was performed in Minneapolis in May 2017 by the ANCIA Saxophone Quartet.
Other recent projects include In the Beginning for flute, ensemble and lighting design for Krisztina Dér’s flute/light project. She has helped to tour as a pianist, and has brought the work to Nief-Norf’s Genre Lines summit. Her work has been performed at the 2018 and 2020 NASA Biennial Conferences, and has garnered performances by numerous ensembles, including the Bechtler Ensemble, Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, Present~Continuous, the Oraia Reed Quintet, the Ohio University New Music Ensemble, the Fresno State New Music Ensemble, the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble, and the Houghton College Philharmonia.
Robin received her Masters in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a dual-BM in Music Composition and Music Education from Houghton College.
isaac pyatt, percussion
Isaac Pyatt is a percussionist, composer, and educator currently based in Lansing, Michigan. Isaac has presented or performed in concerts and festivals across the Eastern half of the United States and Canada. Recent performances include guest artist recitals at UNC-Pembroke and Winthrop University and appearances at University of Nebraska –Kearney’s New Music Festival and SCI Student Conferences, with an upcoming solo tour in Fall 2019 at universities across the southeast. Winner of numerous competitions, he has performed as a soloist with the Michigan State University Orchestra, UNC-Greensboro Orchestra, and UNCG Percussion Ensemble, and performed at Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention and North Carolina Days of Percussion.
He is a founding member of two Triad-based chamber music ensembles – Conduit Percussion Trio and Catchfire Collective. In recent years, he has attended Bang On A Can Summer Festival, Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Sessions, So Percussion Summer Institute, and Leigh Howard Stevens’ Marimba Seminar. Isaac frequently performs with regional orchestras in North Carolina and Michigan, including the Winston-Salem Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra.
Isaac’s music is published through APAKA Music and Tapspace Publications, and his performances have been featured by Vic Firth Concerts. In addition to performing and promoting his own compositions, he has premiered works by Mark Engebretson, Lowell Fuchs, Grace Gollmar, Cory Harper-Latkovich, Sharneisha Joyner, Ricardo Lorenz, John Mackey, Hedra Rowan, Adam Silverman, Jason Treuting, Kendall Williams, and Binshan Zhao. Isaac is currently a Graduate Assistant at Michigan State University, working towards a Master’s in Percussion Performance. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion performance and music composition at University of North Carolina – Greensboro, where he was also a recipient of the Minerva Music Scholarship. He has studied percussion with Gwendolyn Dease, Jon Weber, Eric Willie, and John Beck, and studied composition with Alejandro Rutty and Mark Engebretson.
