Flutist Eve Friedman is actively involved in both contemporary and historical performance. In 2006 she became the first person ever awarded the Doctor of Music degree in Baroque Flute from Indiana University’s renowned Early Music Institute. She was invited to perform at the 2004 National Flute Association convention in Nashville, where she was a finalist in the Baroque Artist Competition. Recently, Dr. Friedman has performed with Tafelmusik, American Bach Soloists, the Washington Bach Consort, and Tempesta di Mare.
Since 2003, she has been invited regularly to perform in Italy with her husband, pianist-composer Roberto Pace, at the festival Incontri di Canna. Each summer they perform and teach at the Summerkeys festival in Maine. Dr. Friedman received her Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she was a student of Doriot Anthony Dwyer, retired principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At Ms. Dwyer’s invitation, she spent two summers at the Tanglewood Institute.
Michael Greco has been surrounded by music for as long as he can remember. His father, being a musician, played recordings of the Beatles, Sting, Earth Wind and Fire, Frank Zappa, and Miles Davis in the house on a daily basis. At the age of eight Michael became drawn to the beautiful sound of the guitar and soon began taking formal lessons with a local teacher. Michael practiced diligently everyday and soon gained the ability to play traditional pieces along with some of his favorite rock songs by The Beatles and Metallic.
Michael took his musical education a few steps further in high school. He had been accepted into the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts where he would be granted a plethora of opportunities to play and grow as a musician. Michael also learned to play the cello and participated in both the CAPA orchestra and the All Philadelphia Student. In 2003 and 2004 Michael had competed and won the only guitar position in the PMEA All Pennsylvania Jazz Band.
In 2004 Michael had been accepted into Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of music where he studied under some of the best musicians in the country and earned his bachelors degree in music performance.
Michael is currently earning a masters degree in music education at the University of the Arts and is active in performing, teaching, and recording around the Philadelphia area.
June Bender is a native of Philadelphia, and has been playing violin since she was six years old. She currently plays with diverse local ensembles including Matt Davis’ Aerial Photogragh, and the Oscuro Quintet. She will graduate in May 2009 with a bachelors degree in Violin Performance from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, where she studies privately with Philadelphia Orchestra member, Yumi Scott. She loves teaching, and looks forward to continuing her studies in music in the near future.
Tatyana Rashkovsky, mezzo-soprano, was born in Moscow, Russia, where she received her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Musical College of Moscow State Conservatory. She came to the United States, where she joined Advanced Studies Program at the University of Southern California. After a successful audition for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, she joined the company in the role of Die Vertraute in Strauss’s Electra opposite Leonie Rysanek, condacted by Randall Behr. Other highlights of her career have included performing the roles of Enrichetta in I Puritani with Placido Domingo as a conductor, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Maddalena and Giovanna in Rigoletto, 3rd Lady in Magic Flute, Teresa in La Sonnambula and Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring with opera companies of San Jose, Santa Barbara Grand Opera, New Jersy Verismo Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia. Mrs. Rashkovsky orchestral and oratorio engagements include Alto Soloist in Mahler’s Symphony no2, Handel’s Messiah, and Mozart C Minor Mass. Her resent engagements include perfomance and recording of Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas opposite Julianne Baird and Alto Soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with Vox Ama Deus. Currently on staff at The Philadelphia School, Fifth Stone Music School and Private Instruction.
