Garden Trio Concert

Nora Williams is the Artistic Director at Ossia Musical Forum, a collaborative academy for musicians to discover their inner voice through violin, viola and chamber music instruction. Ossia Musical Forum is also a place to find top-rated performers that you can book for your next event! Visit ossiamf.com for more information.

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An enchanted evening of classical string trio music under the stars with a post-concert dinner of organic food and non-alcoholic beverages.

East Pilsen private garden

Ossia Musical Forum presents an evening of classical string trio music in a hidden garden bringing beauty and harmony to a summer evening. Listen to the music of Purcell, Bach, Kodály, and Beethoven and unwind from the year of pandemic stress. Stay for a post-concert dinner with the musicians featuring organic food and non-alcoholic beverages. Address to the East Pilsen location will be sent with registration. Rain date: Sunday, July 25, 7pm

Maria Storm, violinist, made her solo début at fourteen with the Odessa Symphony Orchestra in Ukraine. In the following year, her recording of the sixteenth Paganini Caprice was regularly broadcasted on the Second Channel of Ukrainian Radio. She later won second place at the First Baltic Competition for Young Violinists in Gdansk, Poland, and performed W. A. Mozart Violin Concerto no.3 in G Major with the Rubenstein School of Music Orchestra.While living in Poland and Austria, Maria established herself as a soloist and chamber musician, performing with the Torun Chamber Orchestra, the A. Rubinstein Symphony Orchestra, and appeared at various European festivals.Maria conducted her violin performance studies at Mannes College of Music, Chicago College of Performing Arts and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she received her Masters Degree. Her teachers were Vadim Gluzman, Mark Kaplan, Arkady Winokurov, Benjamin Mordkovich, Galina Sokolova and Jaroslava Rivniak.

Chicago-based violist Nora Williams brings “…excitement and passion to every work she performs…” and loves her audiences as much as they love her. A varied performer with a penchant for chamber music, Nora delights in exploring old and new gems from the chamber repertoire and in connecting her audiences with the depth, vitality and intimacy that small ensembles provide. During the pandemic, Nora presented a trio of chamber concerts in eclectic fresh-air venues for small audiences starved for live music. This time has also been an exploratory one, learning new technical platforms for rehearsing and performing virtually and an interest in producing her first commercially distributed recording. Nora has found that the Sturm und Drang of the time have unleashed creativity and new collaborations in equal measure and predicts classical music will be an integral and necessary component of our global collective healing process.In addition to holding the principal viola chair in Highland Park Strings, Nora has made many appearances with the Northwest Indiana Symphony, New Philharmonic, and Music Theater Works. She spent seven seasons as a member of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra and loves to freelance with small opera companies, churches and society bands. Nora is the Artistic Director of the Ossia Musical Forum, located in the historic Fine Arts Building in Chicago, where her studio focuses on teen and adult students. Multiple summers since 2012 find her in northern Italy at the Interharmony Festival where she is a performer and faculty member. Nora holds a bachelors degree in music from Stanford University; she studied with Bernard Zaslav. Her other teachers include Alan de Veritch (Indiana University), Burton Kaplan and Serge Collot. Many summer festivals have contributed greatly to Nora’s development and love of chamber music including, Kneisal Hall, Magic Mountain, Idyllwild, Britt, and the Paillard Academie de Musique de Chambre. Nora plays a viola made by Benoist Fleury in 1749 and her favorite bow is a A. Lamy, also from France.Nora is native to the San Francisco Bay Area in California. She is athletic, loves to ride her bicycle nearly everywhere, read good books, grow and cook organic food and share these activities with her husband, Shawn Quaid, a Chicago area chef.

Christopher Ferrer is a member of Lakeshore Rush and principal cellist of Camerata Chicago. Christopher has toured, recorded and performed internationally as an orchestral and chamber musician. His recording credits include the soundtrack for Spike Lee’s Chiraq and music for the 2020 film Dreaming Grand Avenue. He has performed with bands such as My Morning Jacket and Chance the Rapper – as well as with ensembles such as the Chicago Children’s Chorus, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Chicago Sinfonietta, The Florida Orchestra and Picosa. Christopher traveled as solo cellist for the Broadway North American Tour of West Side Story, giving performances throughout the United States and Canada. He is also featured as a guest artist on the award-winning album American Melting Pot as part of the premier recording of Ilya Levinson’s Shtetl Scenes for piano trio.As a member of Lakeshore Rush, Christopher presents classical chamber works alongside the music of living composers, including premiers and new commissions by Laura Schwendinger, Beth Bradfish, and Amos Gillespie. Projects over the past seven seasons include residency at Avaloch Farms Music Institute and performances for Merit School of Music, Thirsty Ears, the Chicago Composers’ Consortium, New Music Chicago and the George Crumb festival at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Born in Valencia, Venezuela, Christopher began studying cello through the Community School for the Arts in Wheaton, IL at the age of seven and was later a member of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Hall School Baroque Festival Orchestra. He attended the Royal College of Music in London and Northern Illinois University, studying with many cellists in private lesson and master class including Ann Griffin, John Sharp, Cheng-Hou Lee, Yehuda Hanani, Alastair Blayden and Alexander Boyarsky.

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