Kalistos Alumni members
Yi Ching Fedkenheuer, violin [founding member][on leave]

Ms. Fedkenheuer hails from sunny Southern California, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her teachers include Peter Salaff, David Russell, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Charles Stegeman. Ms. Fedkenheuer has worked with artists such as Martha Strongin-Katz, Paul Katz, Anne Epperson, and members of the Cavani, Ying, and Miami String Quartets.Active in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings, she has appeared in concert in New York City, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Houston, Cleveland, and throughout Taiwan and Italy. She also maintains a private teaching studio and is currently on faculty at Powers Music School. Locally, Ms.Fedkenheuer performs with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Ballet Orchestra, and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra.

Lelia Iancovici, violin [founding member] [on leave for 2003-2004]

A native of Bucharest, Romania, Ms. Iancovici began playing the violin at the age of seven under the tutelage of D.Ionescu and M. Tomescu. She has received numerous awards including first prizes at the “Concorso Internazionale di Musica 'Isola di Capri'” (Italy), the “'W. A. Mozart' Interpretation Festival” (Romania), and the “Contest for 'W.A.Mozart Violin and Piano Sonata Interpretation'” (Romania). Ms. Iancovici has performed in masterclasses for Sergiu Luca, Ana Chumanchenco, Emilian Piedicuta, Adelina Oprean, Chaba Erdely, and Claude Hobson. In 2001, she was a participant in the Kent/Blossom Festival where she received the Joseph Gingold Award and studied with William Preucil and Anton Nel. Ms. Iancovici received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied with.Sherban Lupu, and her Master of Music degree from Boston University studying with. Peter Zazofsky. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center for the 2002 season.

Annette Klein, viola [founding member][on leave]

Ms. Klein has concertized as a chamber and orchestral musician internationally. She lived in Germany for over 10 years as a member of Ensemble Oriol, a Berlin-based chamber orchestra, and played with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Freiburger Barockorchester. Locally, she is a member of the Radius Ensemble and is principal violist with the Indian Hill Symphony. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and has studied chamber music with György Kurtág, Franco Rossi (Quartetto Italiano), Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner and the Muir String Quartet. She received her BA from Columbia College and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany and is finishing up her MM at Boston University. Her teachers include Steven Ansell, Kim Kashkashian, Mary Ruth Ray and Leonard Davis. Annette is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music and the Indian Hill Music School.

Matt Reeder, bass [founding member][on leave]


Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Matthew Reeder moved to the Boston area in the fall of 2001 after completing his Bachelor of Music degree at Indiana University, where he studied with Lawrence Hurst. Currently, Mr. Reeder is completeing a Master of Music degree at Boston University, studying with Boston Symphony member John Stovall. As a student at Boston University, he recently received the Dean’s Award for the 2002-2003 school year. Mr. Reeder won first prize in the International Society of Bassists' 1999 orchestral competition. He was a fellow at Tanglewood Music Center in 2000 where he was invited to participate as the only bass player in the Bach Cantata Project. Since moving to Boston, Mr. Reeder has performed with the Indian Hills Symphony Orchestra, UMASS Boston Chamber Players, the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Women’s Chorus, and Emmanuel Music. Currently, he is serving as Principal Bass of the Hingam Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Reeder has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Wendy Richman, viola [founding member][on leave]

has received international praise for her creative and committed performances. A 2001 graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, she has been a three-time prizewinner in her native Milwaukee's Civic Music Association competition and has also been recognized in the American String Teachers Association and Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competitions. Ms. Richman's affinity for contemporary music has led her to premiere numerous works for solo viola and for ensembles; she maintains a close collaboration with composer Jeffrey Mumford and has also worked closely with such distinguished composers as George Crumb, Thea Musgrave, Huang Ruo, and Joan Tower. She has recorded for Bloodshot Records, Between the Lines, and AURec, and will record music of Jeffrey Mumford for Albany Records in 2003. Summer activities have included Madeline Island Music Camp, the Quartet Program at Bucknell, Killington Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. This summer, she will attend Yellow Barn Music Festival and School in Putney, VT. Recent engagements include solo recitals at the Phillips Collection (Washington, DC) and Schwan Hall (Milwaukee, WI) as well as chamber music performances on the Cleveland Museum of Art's Aki Festival of New Music, Chicago's Music in the Loft Series, and the Cutting Edge Concert Series in New York City. She is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), with whom she will premiere several works in Chicago this June and on next season's Bargemusik series. In the fall, she will appear twice at New York's Miller Theater in concerts of Huang Ruo's and Jeffrey Mumford's works. Ms. Richman has studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where her teachers have included Peter Slowik and Jeffrey Irvine (viola), Marlene Rosen (voice), and the St. Petersburg Quartet, Gregory Fulkerson, and Peter Salaff (chamber music). She recently moved to the Boston area and will pursue graduate studies at the NEC in the fall, where she will work with Carol Rodland and Kim Kashkashian.

Sara Stalnaker, cello [founding member] [on leave]

A native of Portland, OR, Ms. Stalnaker recieved her bachelor's degree from Oberlin Conservatory and her master's of music from Rice University. She is a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and subs regularly with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Ocean State Orchestra. Ms. Stalnaker makes her home in Providence, RI, where she plays in Circle, a quartet comprising of faculty at Community MusicWorks , a non-profit music program based in low-income neighborhoods. Ms. Stalnaker has participated in festivals including Sarasota Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Round Top Music Festival. Major performances include solo appearances with the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Festival Symphony, and Rogue Valley Symphony. Her principal teachers include Norman Fischer, Peter Rejto, and Hamilton Cheifetz.

Mr. Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, where he began playing the violin at the age of seven. After coming to the United States, Mr. Tsai studied privately with Prof. Gerardo Ribeiro at the Northwestern University for several years. Mr. Tsai received his Bachelors of Music in Violin Performance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Masters of Music from the New England Conservatory. Principle teachers include Sherban Lupu and Masuko Ushioda. Mr. Tsai has participated in summer festivals such as the International School for Musical Arts and Musicorda, and he was invited to be a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center during the 2002 summer season.