Garth Newel Music Center

Tobias Werner (email), Cello, has performed at Garth Newel Music Center since 1999 and is a member of the Contemporary Music Forum, ensemble-in-residence at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. He has performed at the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Villa Musica Mainz, the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop, the Vail Valley Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, the Maui Classical Music Festival, in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Strathmore Hall, the Phillips Collection, the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and at Bargemusic. Tobias has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the US, France, Germany, and Romania, and recent performances have included the concertos of Dvorák, Elgar, Haydn, and Boccherini. He has recorded on the ECM, Darbringhaus & Grimm, Bayer Records, and Orfeo labels. Recent CD releases include Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorák, and Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach, and the Sonatas for Piano and Cello by Beethoven with Victor Asuncion. Tobias studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, and at Boston University. His teachers have included Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, and Xavier Gagnepain. He plays on an 1844 J.F. Pressenda cello.

Evelyn Grau (email), Viola, has been violist with the Garth Newel Music Center since 1983, initially as a visiting guest artist and now as a full-time resident musician and artistic director. She has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Western Michigan University, and has participated in such festivals as Tanglewood; Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy; and the American Institute, Graz, Austria. An active performer of chamber music, Evelyn has performed worldwide as a member of the Garth Newel Chamber Players, the Atlanta Virtuosi, the Colden String Quartet, and the Alexander String Trio. Evelyn holds a Master of Music degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts from Peabody College at Vanderbilt, with further studies at the University of Michigan and Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Her teachers have included Raphael Hillyer, Bruno Giuranna, Jean Dane, Paul Makanowitzky and Russell Gerhart.

English pianist Andrew Harley enjoys a performing and teaching career recognized at both the national and international level. Specializing in both instrumental chamber music and song literature, he has been heard in live broadcasts on national radio and television, as well as on numerous CD recordings. Andrew began his musical studies at the famous Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, England, and continued his education at Oxford University, the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Southern California. Since emigrating to America, he has held positions at the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of California Santa Barbara, the International Institute for Young Musicians and The Music Academy of the West. He has been invited to join the faculty at both the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz as well as the University of Miami Summer Program in Salzburg. In 2005, he gave his Carnegie Hall debut and in March 2007, he made his Washington debut at The Library of Congress. In addition to the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, Andrew is one of two collaborative pianists at the Kamp-Lintfort International Chamber Music Festival in Düsseldorf, a position he has held for the past four years. In a recent recital in Germany, The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung described him as “a soloist who understands how to blend within an ensemble with excellence, yet without subjugating himself. Pearls of gold met with a diamond.”

Teresa Ling (email), Violin, has been a resident artist with the Garth Newel Music Center since 1998. She has served on the faculties of the Washington Conservatory, University of the Pacific, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University of South Dakota, and Augustana (SD), Northwestern (IA) and Dordt Colleges, and has been a member of the Dakota String Quartet, Mariposa Piano Trio and the Aurelian Trio. Additionally she has performed and taught at the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival (Italy), the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop and the Las Vegas Music Festival. Her awards and prizes include an Artist Fellowship from the South Dakota Arts Council, the Winnifred Small Solo Prize in London, and a Rotary Fellowship resulting in an Advanced Diploma from London’s Royal Academy of Music. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Performance from Eastman School of Music. Her teachers have included Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, and Carmel Kaine.