Biographies—Woodwinds
John Barcellona
Flute
John Barcellona is Professor of Flute at California State University Long Beach. He is also the flutist with the internationally acclaimed Westwood Wind Quintet. An active freelance musician with many orchestras, he also writes for Flute Talk Magazine, and he travels internationally giving concerts and master classes.
Anthony Costa
Clarinet
Anthony J. Costa is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Penn State and clarinetist with The Prestige Clarinet Quartet, The Pennsylvania Quintet and The Chihara Trio. He has served as clarinetist/bass clarinetist with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra since 1999 and is an associate musician with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (OH). Costa will be presenting a recital with The Chihara Trio at Carnegie Hall’s “Weill Recital Hall” this year.
Robyn Dixon Costa
Oboe
Robyn Dixon Costa is the principal English hornist with the Dayton Philharmonic and Dayton Opera Orchestras. She is also an Associate Musician with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Costa taught oboe, ear training and chamber music at the Capital University, Otterbein College and the University of Dayton.
Dorli McWayne
Flute
Dorli McWayne is principal flutist for the Fairbanks Symphony, and has appeared as soloist with the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. She is an adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. McWayne is the founder and director of the Fairbanks Flutists and has performed across the country with the Professional Flute Choir.
Karen J. Pierson
Bassoon
Karen Pierson is the Associate Professor of bassoon at The Ohio State University and a member of OBOHIO Double Reed Consort. During Karen's thirteen years with the Houston Symphony, she made several recordings and toured internationally. She performs with the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has taught bassoon at the University of Texas at Austin, served as principal bassoonist with the Omaha Symphony and won the second prize at the Fernand Gillet International Double Reed Competition. Karen's teachers include Pierson Norman Herzberg at USC and Hugh Cooper at University of Michigan.
P. Bailey Sorton
Oboe
P. Bailey Sorton plays in a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles. As a founding member of OBOHIO and The Winds of Wintergreen, she has performed in North America, South Africa and Europe. She is an active educator, teaching applied oboe at Kenyon College and Mount Vernon Nazarene University. During her college career she was honored for both her scholarship and musicianship.
Robert Sorton
Oboe
Robert H. Sorton is Professor of Oboe at The Ohio State University, where he founded OBOHIO, The Double Reed Consort and received the School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award. For fourteen seasons prior to coming to Ohio State, Sorton was Assistant Principal Oboe of the Detroit Symphony. For many years, he was Principal Oboe of the Eastern Music Festival and Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and has also played with orchestras such as Cleveland, Orpheus, Atlanta and Columbus. Sorton is internationally known for his reed-making abilities.
Carol Wincenc
Flute
Carol Wincenc is one of the most respected and acclaimed flutists performing today. She has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the Chicago, Saint Louis, Atlanta and London Symphonies; the BBC and Buffalo Philharmonics, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, and the New York Woodwind Quintet. She has performed in the Mostly Mozart Festival and the music festivals in Aldeburgh, Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto and Marlboro. Ms. Wincenc has premiered numerous works written for her by many of today's most prominent composers, including Christopher Rouse, Henryk Gorecki, Lukas Foss, Peter Schickele, Joan Tower and Tobias Picker. She has recorded for Nonesuch, London/Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Telarc. As a result of her fascination with the flute family, Ms. Wincenc created and directed a series of international flute festivals in St. Paul, featuring such diverse artists as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Herbie Mann and the American Indian flutist R. Carlos Nakai. Carl Fischer is publishing a series of Carol Wincenc Signature Editions, featuring her favorite flute repertoire. She was First Prize Winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition. Carol Wincenc is faculty at the Juilliard School and SUNY Stony Brook.
