2026 SEASON July - August
About Us
Ariadne Daskalakis, Artistic Director
Ariadne Daskalakis leads an international career as violin soloist, baroque violinist and pedagogue. She has collaborated as soloist with 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 the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. As baroque violinist she has led projects with the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin, the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln and Barokkanerne Oslo. She was Prizewinner in the International Competition of the ARD Munich and the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition, and received further awards from the Harvard Music Association, the New England Conservatory and the Dortmund Mozart Society. Her discography includes a wide range of repertoire, with works by Biber, Bach, Vivaldi, Raff and Ries. She recorded the complete works for violin by Handel, Schubert, Faure and Lutoslawski, and violin concertos by Vivaldi, Tartini, van Bree and Kalliwoda. Born in Boston, she studied with Eric Rosenblith and Eugene Lehner 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 and Artistic Director of the Palazzo Ricci European Academy of Arts Montepulciano.
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Anna Griffis, violist/violinist
Equally at home on steel and gut strings and with new and old music, violist/violinist Anna Griffis has performed in Mexico, Turkey, Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Taiwan, and across North America. She is a principal viola with the New Bedford Symphony and the Boston Festival Orchestra, a member of the Albany Symphony, and performs frequently with Emmanuel Music, Blue Heron, Les Bostonades, A Far Cry, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Boston Lyric Opera, and Boston Ballet. She co-founded Chicago-based Trio Speranza, prize winners at the Early Music American Baroque Competition, and performs with and is executive director of the new music group Ludovico Ensemble. Anna studied at Lawrence University, The Hartt School of Music, Tanglewood Music Center, and Boston University and now teaches and coaches chamber music at the New School of Music (Cambridge) and Tufts University, and is an affiliate artist in the Emerson/Harris program at MIT. In addition to playing and teaching, she works in marketing and communications for the Tufts Music Department and Emmanuel Music and is a freelance graphic designer. Originally from Annapolis, MD, Anna is the proud product of her public school music program.
Roglit Ishay, pianist, composer
Roglit Ishay enjoys a career as pianist, chamber musician, pedagogue and composer. Born and raised in Israel, she studied piano with Madeleine und Walter Aufheuser in Tel-Aviv, where she also studied Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. Then she moved to Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory with Veronica Jochum. As a soloist Roglit Ishay has appeared with orchestras including the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Scottish BBC and the National Theater Orchestra of Mannheim. A coveted chamber musician, she was a founding member of the Dresden Piano Trio and is now a long-standing member of the Israel Piano Trio. With these and other ensembles she has toured throughout Europe, Israel, Turkey, Russia, China and South America. She was also a guest at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Berlin and Dresden Festivals, the Dartington Festival and the Moritzburg Festival, and many others. Her discography, represented on a range of labels, consists of numerous piano trio recordings and programs with cellist Peter Bruns, clarinetist Ron Chen Zion, violist Tatjana Masurenko and violinist Ariadne Daskalakis. Since 2011 Roglit Ishay holds a position as senior Professor for Chamber Music at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany. She gives master classes in Germany, England, Spain, China and Israel. As a composer Roglit Ishay concentrates on chamber music formations, writing in a vast range of genres.
Anna Dorothea Wolff, cello
Cellist Anna Dorothea Wolff is a highly versatile musician, with experience ranging from historically informed performance to contemporary chamber music and dance collaborations. She lives in Copenhagen and is co-principal cellist in the Odense
Symphony Orchestra as well as the Danish Chamber Orchestra. She also teaches at the Danish National Academy of Music. A passionate chamber musician, she performs regularly at Østerbro Chamber Music Society in Copenhagen - which she also organizes - and the Equinox Chamber Music and Dance Festival. In the US she has been a guest artist at the Portland Chamber Music Festival and Music from Salem. Anna Dorothea studied with Laurence Lesser and Colin Carr at the New England Conservatory and with William Pleeth in London. She studied baroque cello with Phoebe Carrai. Formative chamber music studies were with Eugene Lehner and Louis Krasner at NEC. After her studies, Dorothea moved to Europe where she began touring with Chamber Orchestra of Europe (which continues until the present) as well as performing and recording with Musica Antiqua Köln. She was the cellist of the Esbjerg Ensemble for 10 years.