Musicians

Ariadne Daskalakis leads an international career as violin soloist, baroque violinist and renowned pedagogue. She has collaborated as soloist with fine orchestras like the English Chamber Orchestras, the Athens State Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Munich, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Dortmund Philharmonic and the New Bedford Symphony. As soloist and leader she also collaborated with the Prague, Cologne and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras and with Ensemble Oriol Berlin. As baroque violinist she has led projects with the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin, the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln and Barokkanerne Oslo. Prizewinner in the International Competition of the ARD Munich and the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition, she also received awards from the Harvard Music Association, the New England Conservatory and the Dortmund Mozart Society.  The repertoire ducmented on her many recordings ranges from Biber, Bach and Vivaldi to Lutoslawski and Gottschick. Recently she released Schubert's complete works for violin on the label BIS.  Born of Greek parentage in Boston, she studied violin with Eric Rosenblith at the New England Conservatory Prep School and with Szymon Goldberg at the Juilliard School. She holds degrees with honors from Harvard College and the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. She is Professor of Violin at the Cologne Conservatory of Music and Dance. 

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Hailed as “ravishing” (New York Times) and possessing “sheer vocal proficiency, a bright, flexible voice, big but controlled, shaded with plentiful color” (Boston Globe), soprano Linda Tsatsanis enjoys a career that spans the concert hall, opera stage, movies, and television. 

Ms. Tsatsanis’ concert performance ranges from oratorio to renaissance song to world premier performances. Her versatility has made for a distinguished career taking her across the United States, Canada and Europe performing with groups such as the Tallis Scholars, Toronto Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Group, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, English Concert, Pacific MusicWorks, Seattle Philharmonic, and Seattle Opera. Holding a Master’s degree from Indiana University specializing in Historical Performance, she has collaborated with the country’s most prominent Early Music chamber ensembles being presented by Pacific Baroque Festival, Indianapolis Early Music Festival, San Francisco Early Music Society, Early Music in Columbus, Renaissance and Baroque Society (Pittsburg), Early Music Now (Milwaukee), Magnolia Baroque Festival, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art. Mixing studied knowledge of this era along with her unique artistry Ms. Tsatsanis has been praised for breathing a new life into this ancient repertoire. 

Her debut solo album with Origin Classical, And I Remain: Three Love Stories, was described as a “seductive recital of the darker sides of 

17th-century love” by Gramophone Magazine. Her past collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group was the inspiration for Beethoven all a Britannia with Centaur Records released in 2016. She can be heard on the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary When Seattle Invented the Future, various recordings by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Naxos. 

In 2015, Ms. Tsatsanis was named a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington. Ms. Tsatsanis resides in New York City with her husband, cellist Nathan Whittaker, and their sweet dog Julep. 

Gideon Rubin has a multi-faceted career that encompasses performing as a soloist, conductor, as a chamber musician, as an orchestral keyboardist, and as a composer. As soloist, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Classical Orchestra, several times with the New World Symphony (once conducting from the keyboard), with the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra on a tour of Israel, and at the Eastern Music Festival where he taught and performed from 1998-2014. He has also performed on live radio broadcasts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and in Israel.

 He has performed solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States and in Europe. He has performed chamber music with Julia Fischer, Robert Vernon, David Jolley, Lynn Harrel, Corey Cerovsek, Timothy Fain, and William deRosa.  He has also collaborated with members of the Boston Symphony, the National Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Louis Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony.  During the 2001-2002 season, he was the pianist for the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, performing concerts in Virginia and on tour in Sicily, Italy.  Their recording of piano quartets by Dvorak and Martinu won the 2002 “Best Classical Album” in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards. From 1997-2000 he was the pianist/keyboardist for the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. As part of the orchestra, he made a recording for the Sony Classical label. Gideon is currently Chair of the Piano Department of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School.