MOSSO PRESENTS
KEEP IT FRESH QUARTET
Beth Welty, violin
Dani Rimoni, viola
Joel Wolfe, cello
Jill Dreeben, flute
PROGRAM
Gordon Jacob - Four Fancies for Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Duo for Violin and Viola in G, K. 423
Max Reger - Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola Op 141a
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Divertimento for Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 563 (Selected movements)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Quartet in D for Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
*Additional pieces to be announced from the stage
Longmeadow Adult Center
211 Maple Road, Longmeadow, MA
August 3, 2023 at 6:00 PM
*Outdoor performance. Audience should bring lawn chairs. If inclement weather, concert will be moved indoors. Pre-registration recommended in the event of inclement weather for an indoor performance. Call 413 565-4150-option 1
Tickets: Longmeadow Adult Center
MUSICIANS
Beth Welty received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees in violin performance from Indiana University, where she was a student of Yuval Yaron. She has performed with numerous groups in the Boston area, including the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Society, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. She has performed abroad with various organizations, touring Italy with the Chorus of Westerly, and South Africa with the London Chamber Players. She toured Spain twice as concertmaster of the Massachusetts Symphony. In 2014, she traveled to Switzerland to perform a solo recital, and in 2015 did a five-concert tour of England with the Aryaloka String Quartet. Beth is the assistant principal second violinist with the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra, and has served as concertmaster of the Nashua Chamber Orchestra since 2005.
An avid chamber musician, Beth is a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble, as well as the Keep it Fresh Quartet. In 1991 she made her Lincoln Center debut in New York with the Boston Quartet, of which she was also a founding member. She maintains a private teaching studio in her home in Waltham, and is a teacher at the Upbeat NH Strings program in Nashua, NH. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and making stoneware pottery.
Dani Rimoni graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music, part of Tel Aviv University in Israel, with an artist diploma in viola performance. Mr. Rimoni is principal violist of Symphony New Hampshire (SNH), a member of the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Society Orchestra (MA), and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA). Mr. Rimoni is a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. Since 2001, he has been the string teacher and string ensemble conductor at the Burncoat Middle and High Schools in Worcester, MA.
Joel Wolfe is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston University and received his Master's degree from the St. Louis Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers included Leslie Parnas, Samuel Mayes, Regina Mushabac, and Robert Perry. Joel has been a member of the Portland (ME) and Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestras since 1984 and has taught cello and performed chamber music extensively throughout the area.
During the day, Joel works as a systems administrator for Idemia Identity and Security, supporting the server systems that make drivers licenses. He also enjoys playing blues harmonica, writing children's songs, and thinking about practicing yoga. Joel and his wife, pianist Linnea Bardarson, are parents of seventeen-year-old twin boys and they reside in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Jill Dreeben has performed in numerous solo and chamber music concerts throughout New England. She is a founding member of Solar Winds Woodwind Quintet, is a member of Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble, and performs in the Dreeben/Clemente flute and guitar duo. She has played with the New England Orchestra of Lowell, MA, and Emmanuel Music of Boston. Ms. Dreeben studied flute with Craig Goodman, Lois Schaefer and Louis Moyse, and earned a BA in Music from Cornell University and an MM in Flute Performance from New England Conservatory. Ms. Dreeben currently teaches flute at Brandeis University and maintains a private studio in Arlington, MA. She is also a licensed member of the Association for Body Mapping Education (ABME), teaching the course “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body,” as well as giving private Body Mapping lessons and workshops.