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Louis Rassaby began his cello studies at aged 9, and has studied with Ilse-Marie Lee and most recently with his current teacher, Peter Landeen. He performed in concerts in China in 2006 as a member of the Montana State University Cello Ensemble, and in Prague, Vienna and Salzburg in 2009 as a member of Bozeman High School Symphony I and the Kamerata Ensemble. In 2007, Louis Rassaby attended the Marrowstone Festival in Bellingham WA, performing with both the Festival and Concert Orchestras. He has taken master classes with Michael Reynolds (2007), Walter Gray (2007) and Alicia Weilerstein (2008). In 2008 and 2009, he played in numerous concerts as a member of the MSU Symphony, as the founding cellist in the Strings Attached Piano Trio, and as a soloist. Louis Rassaby has recently returned from a semester of study in Jerusalem and is a junior at Bozeman High School.
Sarah Broomell studied collaborative piano at UC Santa Barbara (’06 DMA, ABD) and earned the Master of Music in piano accompanying (’98) and Bachelor of Music in piano performance (’94) at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Sarah directs Bozeman’s Young Singers Club, teaches piano and voice, enjoys accompanying MSU music faculty and students and local musicians, and plays the piano in the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and at various churches.
Sarah collaborates with instrumentalists and singers alike. She has worked with song experts Graham Johnson and Martin Katz at Songfest 2004 and in master classes with Warren Jones and Alan Smith. She was staff pianist at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival (2005) and the University Of Miami School Of Music in Salzburg vocal program (2004, 2003). She served as adjunct piano faculty at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo and at Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. Her teachers have been Charles Asche, Anne Epperson, Yael Weiss, Betty Oberacker, John Cozza, Krassimira Jordan, Mary Helen Harutun, Vivian Park, and Jean Coleman.
As a singer, Sarah has performed with ensembles such as the Santa Barbara City College Quire of Voyces, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival Chorus, the Cuesta Master Chorale, and the San Luis Obispo Vocal Arts Ensemble and studied voice with Jackie Kreitzer.
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