Matthew
Gold is a member of the TimeTable percussion trio and Sequitur.
He has been a featured performer on the Summer Garden Series
at the Museum of Modern Art, the Three Two Festival of New Music,
the MATA Festival, the Norfolk Contemporary Festival, and on
tour in Europe and Asia. He has performed frequently with the
Ahn Trio, Speculum Musicae, the S.E.M. Ensemble, and has been
a member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. He also performs
regularly with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Westchester
Philharmonic, and on Broadway. Recent appearances include June
in Buffalo with the New York New Music Ensemble, Kitchen House
Blend, the North Country Chamber Players, and Counter)Induction.
Mr. Gold is currently a resident teaching artist at the Bloomingdale
School of Music and has recorded for, among others, EMI Classics,
Koch International, Albany Records, and CRI.
Joseph
Tompkins has performed with most of the major orchestras
in the New York City area, including the Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony
and the American Symphony. In the realm of new music he has
performed with Speculum Musicae and Sequitur, and as a member
of the Timetable percussion trio has been involved in a number
of commissions and performances of new works for percussion.
Tompkins has studied latin percussion at the Boys Harbor Conservatory
and currently performs in the Lion King on Broadway. His works
for percussion have been performed in Australia, Israel, the
United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. In 2002 he
was asked to compose a trio for the New York Philharmonic's
percussion section, which was performed in April of that year.
He and his wife, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, recently premiered
a Duo For Violin and Percussion written for them by German composer
Siegfried Matthus.
Matt
Ward has performed with groups such as the Boston Symphony,
Albany Symphony, New World Symphony, New Music Consort and Associated
Solo Artists. Mr. Ward has received a bachelor of music degree
from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Duncan
Patton and Chris Lamb. He has a masters degree from the State
University at Stony Brook under the direction of Ray DesRoches
and is currently enrolled in the school's DMA program. Through
organizations such as Arts Connection, Flushing Council on the
Arts, Young Audiences, and Marquis Studios, he has actively
been working with elementary school children throughout New
York City. He has also been working as a chamber and sectional
coach with the Empire State Youth Orchestra, New York Inter-School
Orchestra and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mr.
Ward was the recipient of the Ridley-Tree Fellowship at the
Music Academy of the West in 1998 and in 1999 he participated
in the Tanglewood Music Center under the direction of Seiji
Ozawa and returned the following year as a member of the 60th
Anniversary TMC Alumni Concert. Recent performance highlights
include a concert with Emmanuel Ax on the Great Performers series
at Lincoln Center as well as a concerto performance with the
North Shore Philharmonic. He can be heard on the recording labels
Argo, Newport Classics, and Winston Ma.