Guest Artists
In addition to the Composers
Ensemble, ECCE works with a group of outstanding young
performers from the Boston and New York area.
Dieter Hennings,
guitar
Dieter Hennings, a native of
Mexico, is one of the few guitarists/lutenists of his
generation. After graduating from the University of Arizona
School of Music, where he received the Outstanding Senior
Award, in Guitar Performance in 2004, he continued to study
for a Masters Degree in Early Plucked Instruments with
world-renowned lutenist Paul O'Dette. A versatile continuo
player in both theorbo and lute, Mr. Hennings premiered
with Paul O'Dette the opera "Apollo and Daphne" by
Francesco Cavalli's at Bowling Green State University last
year. Mr. Hennings has won many prestigious competitions
including the 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the
2002 Villa de Petrer (Spain) International Competition
Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar
Competition the 1999 and 2000 Claire Schaeffer Guitar
Competition. Mr. Hennings is currently pursuing a double
Doctoral degree in Early Plucked Instruments and Guitar
Performance and Literature. In the field of guitar
performance Dieter is deeply committed to the diffusion of
new music, specially of Latin America, having recently
performed works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos
Sanchez-Gutierrez and Mario Davidovsky.
Leo Eguchi, cello
A native of Michigan, Leo
Eguchi began his cello studies at the age of twelve with
Eva Ell and Louis Potter Jr., renowned author of "The Art
of Cello Playing." He received Bachelor's degrees with
honors in Physics and Cello Performance at the University
of Michigan - Ann Arbor, where he studied cello with
Anthony Elliott. He next completed a Masters degree under
the famous pedagogue, George Neikrug, at Boston
University's College of Fine Arts. Eguchi maintains a busy
performance schedule including recent chamber music
appearances in Moscow, Russia and across the U.S. as a
member of the newly founded Lunaire String Quartet. Eguchi
holds the principal position of the New Bedford Symphony
and is a member of the Portland Symphony. Additionally, Mr.
Eguchi performs with more intimate chamber ensembles such
as the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra (which he co-founded) and
the Arioso Chamber Players as well contemporary music
groups such as Brave New Works, and ALEA III.
Emily Marvosh, mezzo
soprano
Mezzo soprano Emily Marvosh
recently received a Master of Music Degree from Boston
University. She is active in opera and oratorio in the
Boston area, and has performed with Opera Boston, Boston
University Opera Institute, Longwood Opera, Lowell House
Opera, Marsh Chapel Choir, and Boston Orpheus Ensemble. She
recently sang the role of Meg in the New England prèmiere
of Mark Adamo?s Little Women with the Boston Opera Project.
Upcoming performances include a production of Suor Angelica
with Mass Theatrica.
Julia Carey, piano
Julia Carey is a sophomore at
Harvard and a student in the Harvard/New England
Conservatory joint degree program, through which she
studies composition with Lee Hyla. She has won numerous
awards, including nine recognitions in the American Society
of Composers, Authors, and Publishers' Morton Gould Young
Composer Awards. Her orchestra pieces have received nearly
seventy performances by twenty-four different orchestras,
including the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She is the
youngest composer ever published by the Theodore Presser
Company. Recently, she served as the Principal Guest
Composer for the Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra, for which
she wrote a piano concerto.