Visiting Artists
2024-25 Featured Visiting Artists
Julia Bengtsson
Julia Bengtsson choreographed and performed for us in both baroque and contemporary dance styles in October, 2024. She is a Swedish dancer and choreographer based in New York. Her performances range from classical ballet, to experimental theater and opera. Her choreography has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, the UN Headquarters, Alvin Ailey Dance Center, among others. She is the choreographer of Bach Cello Suites Festival. As a dancer, she has performed nationally and internationally with companies including New York Baroque Dance Company, Connecticut Ballet, Neglia Ballet, Victoria Ballet, as well as at Sweden’s two finest theaters.
Our January 2025 program The Voice of Juana Inés will feature:
Zoe Tall Weiss
Zoe Tall Weiss is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. Both a musicologist and performer, she believes passionately in music’s ability to forge human connections which she explores in both her scholarly and performance work. An active performer on the viola da gamba and Baroque cello, Zoe is a founding member of LeStrange Viols, Science Ficta, and the Folk Baroque Trio. She has also performed with the Oberlin Consort of Viols, the Smithsonian Consort of Viols, the Folger Consort, and ACRONYM.
Gabriella Cavallero
Actor, Gabriella Cavallero has played a wide range of roles in dozens of productions at the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company and on many of Colorado’s top stages. She has over 30 years experience as actor, director, dialect/voice coach, and teaching artist. Her voice has been featured as narrator of several Emmy-nominated PBS documentaries, in over 1500 audio books for the Library of Congress’ National Library Service, on Audible, and on countless commercials and industrials in both her native Spanish and English. She was Artistic Director of Modern Muse Theatre Company and is co-founder and producer of Sonus International Music Festival, creating programs inspired by the work of composer Carlos Guastavino. She is an Associate Artist with Local Theater Company. .
Estelí Gomez
Gomez is a multiple Grammy winner. Praised for her "clear, bright voice" (New York Times), soprano Estelí Gomez has gained recognition as a stylish interpreter of both early and contemporary repertoires. In January 2014 she was awarded a Grammy with contemporary octet Roomful of Teeth, for best chamber music/small ensemble performance. Estelí can be heard on the soundtrack of Lena Dunham's 2022 film Catherine, Called Birdy, Seattle Symphony’s 2017 recording of Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, on the first track of Silkroad Ensemble's Grammy-winning 2016 album Sing Me Home, and on Roomful of Teeth's self-titled debut album.
Our February 2025 concerts will feature:
Nicola Canzano
Canzano is a composer, harpsichordist and organist specializing in historical composition and improvisation. His compositions in baroque style have been widely performed. He is the studio accompanist for Juilliard's Historical Performance department, and adjunct professor of harpsichord at Michigan State University. He teaches improvisation and composition, and maintains a busy performance schedule as a continuo player with ensembles throughout the US and Europe.
Vijay Chalasani, Artist-in-Residence,
South Asian-American violist Vijay Chalasani is a performer, scholar, teaching-artist, and advocate for diversity and equity, whose work focuses on the performance practice of music of the last five centuries. Equally at home on both modern and historical violas, he is also an avid advocate for contemporary music, collaborating with a variety of living composers to create new works for public performance.
Fanfares & Flourishes in March will feature:
Kathryn James Adduci
Kathryn James Adduci is a versatile trumpet player who has performed in many countries around the world. A native of Australia she has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in numerous groups throughout Australia as well as in orchestras in Malaysia, Canada and her current home country the USA. Highly regarded for her period trumpet performances, Kathryn has been described as “a rare treat”…”a highly skilled trumpeter” (Denver Post), and her playing as “flawless, elegant”…”delicate as that of a flute, yet with all the power and color of brass” (SanDiego.com). She has performed with period instrument groups such as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), Bach Collegium San Diego, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and many more and can be heard on over 20 CDs with repertoire ranging from 1600-2019, including the CD ‘Forte e Dolce’ with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado which features her as the soloist.