Dr. Charles Huang has concertized throughout North and South America, Brazil, Germany, and Asia. He has performed with the Miami String Quartet, the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, the Hartford and New Haven Symphonies, and with soloists Humbert Lucarelli, Henrique Pinto, Angel Romero and others. A founding member of Oboe Duo Agosto, he is active in commissioning diverse new repertoire. Their project, Daughter of the Sea, composed by Andrea Clearfield and choreographed by Katie Stevinson-Nollet, features music, movement, and poetry, all performed by the duo.
Dr. Huang has been a Fulbright Scholar in Stuttgart, Germany, semi-finalist in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, scholarship recipient to the Music Academy of the West and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and a winner of the Miami String Quartet Competition. He has recorded music by Phil Salathé, released by PARMA records, and Keith Kramer, on Navona Records and released by the Society of Composer’s Inc. He currently teaches at the Hartt School Community Division and at Smith, Mount Holyoke and Williams Colleges. As a clinician and performer, he has given masterclasses at the University of Michigan, Alabama, SUNY Purchase and Chiayi University in Taiwan. Dr. Huang has also been on the faculty of the Lucarelli Oboe Masterclass, and at Festival Eleazar de Carvalho in Fortaleza, Brazil. His teachers include Nancy Ambrose King, Humbert Lucarelli, Ray Still and Ingo Goritzki.
Chamber Music Intensive
2024 Faculty
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Piano |
Violin Viola |
Program Coordinator Clarinet |
Trumpet |
Trombone/Low Brass |
Horn |
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Oboe
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Victoria Moreira, violin |
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Bassoon |
Flute |
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KAIA QUARTET:
Victoria Moreira, violin
Naomi Culp, violin
Susan Bengtson Price, viola
Hope DeCelle, cello
From the tango of the Rio de la Plata to the string quartets of Silvestre Revueltas, the KAIA String Quartet is an ensemble devoted to promoting the rich and colorful music of Latin America. Active performers in both the US and abroad, highlights of the 2019-2020 season include a residency at the Avaloch Farm Institute, a concert tour in Uruguay and Argentina including a performance at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, as well as performances at various concert series in North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The Quartet plays an active role in Chicago's music scene where they are regular guests at the Chicago Latino Music Festival and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. In 2017, KAIA was the first ensemble in residence at Chicago's classical radio station, WFMT. During this residency they explored the world of Latin classical music with audiences through daily radio segments, performances and broadcasts around the city and the production of KAIA Kids, a series of children's education videos.
Celebrated by Downbeat magazine for its ability to "beautifully blur the lines between jazz, classical, Latin and world music" KAIA’s album collaboration with Fareed Haque was chosen by Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich as one of the top ten classical recordings of 2018. Their album, Sureño, explores the music and relationship of Argentinian composers Astor Piazzolla and José Bragato. The latest recording project released in 2020 includes a collaboration with jazz pianist Ryan Cohan in his work Originations. KAIA together with Cohan and his chamber ensemble were featured performing this piece at 2019 Chicago's Jazz Fest main stage.
KAIA is deeply devoted to music education. From 2013-2017, the quartet traveled to Tijuana, Mexico to present and perform in schools through the sponsorship of the Mainly Mozart Festival. They are teaching artists for Ravinia's Reach*Teach*Play program and for the International Music Foundation's Live Music Now program. KAIA is currently in residence at DePaul University’s Community Music Division.
Venezuelan pianist Elena Abend has performed and toured throughout her native country. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Ms. Abend has performed at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, Merkin Concert Hall, the Corcoran Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, the Pabst Theater, Atlanta Historical Society and the Academy of Music with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Performances in Europe include London’s Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Toulouse Conservatoire, Theatre Luxembourg, University of Glasgow and “Musicales de Montsoreau” in France.
An active chamber musician, she has collaborated at the Marlboro and Ravinia Music Festivals, Frankly Music, Present Music, Milwaukee Musaik, Chamber Music Milwaukee, Rembrandt Chamber Players in Chicago, “Classical Progressions” at the Wilson Center, “Four Seasons” in Berkley, California, Music Institute of Chicago, Washington Island Music Festival and with the Philomusica, Mendelsohn, and Fine Arts Quartets.
Recordings include soloist with the Filarmonica Nacional in Venezuela, INNOVA recording, Albany Records and Avie label. Her latest recording “Fierce Lyricism” in collaboration with flutist Caen Thomason-Redus is now available on Spotify, Amazon and other digital music platforms. Pedagogically Ms. Abend has worked on numerous recording and editing projects for the Hal Leonard Corporation. She is chair of piano studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches piano performance, collaborative piano and chamber music, as well as faculty at the Collaborative Piano Institute at Louisiana State University.
Music Program
Instrumentalists and vocalists at New England Music Camp spend their mornings in four one-hour periods of music taught by a prestigious faculty of professional performers and educators from universities, colleges, and highly recognized public and private school music programs. A 4:1 faculty to student ratio provides an environment rich in sharing and learning. Students and their teachers at home often remark that “one summer of music at NEMC is like a year at home”!
Campers at New England Music Camp design their own schedules, choosing from a wide range of classes. The weekly schedule includes two one half-hour private lessons, with the option to add additional lesson time, and participation in one or more of the major performing groups. Public performances take place on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm at our outdoor amphitheater, the Bowl-in-the-Pines.
NEMC Employment
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This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Snow Pond Center for the Arts makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Faculty
Faculty members at New England Music Camp are carefully chosen for both their achievements as professional performers and their recognition for excellence in teaching. We live in a close knit community where we dine family style and many of our faculty enjoy joining the campers on the recreation fields.
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Music Lessons