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MARCH 2006

photos by Hayley Liebmann

Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble

Since its inception in 2000, the Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble has delighted audiences throughout the region by presenting diverse and engaging programs from the chamber music repertoire for wind and string instruments.  As graduates of Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and Eastman School of Music, each member brings a high level of musical artistry to the group.

Fri,17th @ 8pm - Sat,18th @ 8pm
Tickets: $15-Adult \ $12-Senior 65+ \ $12-Student w/ID - Buy Tickets

Since she began playing the violin at the age of five, Melissa M. Bull has received numerous awards, succeeded at multiple national competitions and festivals, and was the youngest musician (age 11) ever to win a professional position with the York (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra. In 1996, she was cited by the PA House of Representatives for excellent representation of the state in music. That same year, she enrolled at New England Conservatory of Music and studied with the acclaimed violinist James Buswell. Melissa has participated in a concert collaboration with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, played at a master class for Glenn Dicterow, and performed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA. She has performed in such prestigious venues as New York City's Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall, New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, and Boston's Symphony Hall. She now lives near Boston, MA and enjoys a busy free-lancing career on violin, piano, and voice, playing for private functions, spending time in recording studios for local pop artists, and presenting concerts with various ensembles and orchestras.


Melisa M. Bull
~ Violin ~



Bonnie L. Cochran
~ Flute ~

Bonnie L. Cochran performs regularly throughout the Boston area with The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble, Willow Flute Ensemble, Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, Metrowest Symphony, the National Flute Association (NFA) Professional Flute Choir and the Harvard Square Chamber Orchestra. Bonnie was a 2004 winner of the NFA's Convention Performer Competition, where she performed the newly rediscovered CPE Bach Concerto in D Major. She has performed as a soloist on a recital series at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001, 2000), at the NFA Flute Convention (2002) and released a CD (2000) with the Willow Flute Ensemble. Her primary teachers have included Linda Toote, Elinor Preble and Paul Brittan, and she has performed in master classes with Keith Underwood, Susan Glaser, Paul Edmund-Davies and Laura Barron. Bonnie holds a MM in Flute Performance from The Boston Conservatory and a BA in Music and Religious Studies from Agnes Scott College. Bonnie is also an accomplished composer and has had her works performed on numerous concert programs in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Cape Cod, including performances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (2005), the Greater Boston Flute Association Flute Fair (2002), Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The Boston Conservatory and Agnes Scott College. Bonnie has studied composition with John Heiss, John Clement Adams, Larry Bell, and Ronald Byrnside.

Kate Marsch holds a MM and a Graduate Performance Diploma from The Boston Conservatory and also graduated magna cum laude with a BM in Music Performance and Education from the University of Houston. Originally from Iowa, Kate remained in Texas after undergraduate school and taught middle school instrumental music in Houston for two years before moving to Boston. Currently, Kate teaches cello lessons in Wellesley and works as a freelance performer throughout the greater Boston area. She has performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and is Principal Cello with the Boston Civic Symphony among others. Her principal teachers have included Ronald Feldman, Andrew Mark and Laszlo Varga.


Kate Marsch
~ Cello ~

Leanne Rabesa
~ Viola ~
Leanne Rabesa is a violists and self-described chamber music addict. She has studied with such groups as the Colorado, Ying, and Lydian String Quartets. She holds both a BM and MM from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with George Taylor. As a founding member of the Pharos and Caravaggio String Quartets, she has performed in places as diverse as the mountains of British Columbia and the hills of Kentucky, and played in master classes for members of the Tokyo, Guarneri, and Miró Quartets, among others. She currently has a large studio of small violists (the latter growing more rapidly than the former) in Wellesley and Milton, MA.