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 The Madison Singers is James Madison University's premiere small choral ensemble and the Staunton Music Festival's chorus-in-residence. Participants in JMU's annual Contemporary Music Festival, they have performed works by Ofer Ben-Amots and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky. This is the featured ensemble at JMU's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in December, which is modeled after the famous service at King's College. For more information visit: orgs.jmu.edu/choirs Violinist Claire Jolivet performs with orchestras and chamber ensembles in the New York area and has toured in South America with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Bach Aria Festival Orchestra in New York and with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with Joseph Kalichstein, Paula Robison and Kathleen Battle. She has appeared with the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Four Nations Ensemble. She began her violin studies in England with Pamela Spofforth and is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She has recorded on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and EMEC labels. Violinist Theresa Salomon, a native of Germany, came to New York in 1993. Her festival credits include Festival Presence, Paris; Gulbenkian Festival, Lisbon; Prague Spring Festival; Ostfriesland Festival, Germany; Connecticut Early Music Festival; and Ostrava Days for New Music, with the Janacek Philharmonic in 1993. She performs with ensembles such as the Orchestra of St Luke's, Rebel Baroque Orchestra, New York Collegium, and SEM Ensemble. She directs a chamber music series at Music under Construction, and plays for the dance branch of the Organization, Dance under Construction. Her teachers include Ulf Hoelscher, Wolfram Koenig, Philipp Hirshhorn and Todd Philipps. SMF Artistic Director Carsten Schmidt performs a repertoire ranging from the early Baroque to new works, of which he has premiered more than 100. He has appeared at the Ravinia Festival, International Schubert Festival in Amsterdam, the German Mozart Festival, Merkin Hall in NYC, Kennedy Center, and Kaleidoscope Festival in Moscow, and he has been heard in radio broadcasts worldwide. Since 2004 he has conducted opera productions of Handel and Purcell, and a concerto program at the Kuhmo Festival in Finland. He holds Artist Diplomas from the Folkwang Institute, Indiana University, and a doctorate from Yale. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Music at Sarah Lawrence College in NY. Patrick Walders is a professional vocalist, music educator, church musician, clinician, and conductor. As the Director of Choral Activities at JMU, he directs the JMU Chorale and the Madison Singers, and oversees the Men's Chorus, Women's Chorus and Treble Concert Choir. He is Associate Conductor of the National Philharmonic Chorale, and Artistic Director of the National Philharmonic Singers at Strathmore. Patrick has sung with the Westminster Choir directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, as well as the Westminster Symphonic Choir, performing with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a founding member of Viri Animarum, a six-voice male chamber choir Cellist James Wilson has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the City of London Festival, the Deutches Mozartfest in Bavaria, the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. He has performed with violinist Joshua Bell, flutist Eugenia Zukerman, pianist Christopher O'Riley, guitarist Eliot Fisk, actress Claire Bloom, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. A resident of both Staunton and New York City, he performs with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, teaches cello and chamber music at Columbia University, and is currently the Artistic Director of the Richmond Festival of Music in Virginia.
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