♪About Musicians♪

Pamela Ambrose

Pamela Ambrose, cello, is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she studied with Raymond Davis.  Coming to Boston to attend New England    Conservatory, her main teacher was George Neikrug.  Pamela has played solo performances with the University of Massachusetts/Boston Orchestra as well as touring Europe and Russia with the Kolibri Ensemble, Chamber music performances: Museum of Fine Arts. Decordova Museum, Berklee School of Music, Ryles Jazz Club. Can be heard on recent recording, Poetic Reflections.    

Loren Pearson

Loren Pearson, viola, has performed chamber, symphonic, and operatic music in Europe for 10 years. She has performed with ensembles such as the Boston Opera, Worcester  Symphony, Masterworks Chorale, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Hartford  Symphony.  Ms. Pearson has participated in the WGBH Live Performance Series.  Since 1987, she and her husband, pianist Kevin McGinty have been active performers in local schools and colleges.  Former faculty positions include Milton Academy and Cape Cod Conservatory.  Loren is currently a faculty member at the New School of Music and the Milton Public Schools program; she also teaches privately at her home.

Mary Jane Rupert

Mary Jane Rupert, acclaimed concert pianist and harpist, has performed throughout the world from Carnegie Hall to Beijing, and has appeared with orchestras and chamber groups across the United States.  She performed as a soloist at the American Harp Society's National Convention (1994), has recorded under the North Star and Harmony Hill labels, and has published duets for harp and flute.  Ms. Rupert holds former teaching positions at Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University, Western Michigan University, and Walnut Hill School for the Arts.  Current faculty positions include Tufts University,   Wellesley College, Boston College, MIT, and the New School of Music.

Anne Hooper Webb

Anne Hooper Webb, violin, received a Bachelor of Science in Music degree from The Mannes College of Music. She played for nine years with the Camerata Academica of Salzburg and the Sinfonieorchester Graunke of Munich, also summers in the orchestra of the Festival dei due Mondi, in Spoleto, Italy. Violin studies were with William Kroll, Raphael Bronstein at Mannes and Bruno Steinschaden, Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum Akademie, Salzburg. Since 1980, she has been a member of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston and the Boston Philharmonic. Winner of the 1993 and 1998 U.S. Scottish Fiddle Championships, she has performed and been music director for numerous dance events of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. She has played for many years with the dance band Tullochgorum, both in the U.S. and in Scotland. She is on the faculty  of Rivers School Conservatory, Weston and the New School of Music, Cambridge.

(Mary Jane Rupert, Loren Pearson, Pamela Ambrose [Anne Hooper Webb not pictured])