Jennifer Dunn
began violin
lessons with her mother, Judy Call, and studied with Julienne Slaughter,
Craig Purdy, John Chatelain, and Geoffrey Trabichoff. She received her
Bachelor of Music in
Performance and Music History from the University of Utah, and teacher
certification from the College of Idaho. She has participated in
master classes by
Vadim Gluzman, Violaine Melançon, Charles Castleman and Glenn Dicterow;
and has
won violin competitions throughout
Idaho, Utah and Oregon. In 2007, Jennifer was the winner of the American
Mothers National Violin Competition. She
has been a member of the Utah Philharmonia, the Mt. Olympus Honors
String Quartet, The Boise Philharmonic, and has been a guest
artist with the Langroise Trio. Jennifer
has been a featured soloist with the Magic Valley Symphony, the BSU
Symphony, the Crimson Chamber Orchestra, the Magic
Valley Youth Symphony, the College of Idaho Sinfonia, the Treasure
Valley Symphony,
and the Darkwood Consort. She continues
to perform solo recitals throughout Idaho, and works as a free-lance
musician
with the Boise Philharmonic and Helena Symphony. She
and her husband Dave have three children.
Heidi Nagel received her B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University, where she studied
with David Hoffman, and her Master of Music in cello performance from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under cellist Parry Karp. She has
performed numerous solo, chamber and honors recitals, and has performed
in master classes for Carter Brey, Laszlo Varga, Janos Starker, Gordon
Epperson, and the Lafayette String Quartet, among others. Heidi was a
member of the Paragon String Quartet, the flute/cello duo, Haida,
the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Chamber Players, Greeley
Philharmonic Orchestra and Fort Collins Symphony, the Bellevue
Philharmonic Orchestra, and is currently a cellist in the Boise
Philharmonic. She was principal cellist for the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Symphony and assistant principal cellist of the
Northwest Symphony Orchestra. Heidi taught on faculty for the
University of Wisconsin Summer Music Clinic and coached for the
Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras, as well as maintained a large
private cello studio. She was an adjunct faculty associate lecturer in
music for the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County. She has
contributed to numerous recordings, including Storyhill
(singer-songwriters on the Red House Records label). Heidi plays a
John Morrison cello (England, made 1826). She is a genetic counselor for
St. Luke’s Maternal Fetal Medicine. She and her two children enjoy
family time and activities, and the great Idaho outdoors.
Robyn Wells
received her Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Pacific
Lutheran, where she studied with Calvin Knapp and Richard Farner; and
her Master of Music degree in piano performance from Miami University in
Oxford, Ohio, where she studied with Viktor Polonsky. She also studied
with Leander Bien at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Robyn was on staff as an accompanist at both Pacific Lutheran University
and at Miami University. For the last twenty-seven years, Robyn has
been very active as a private teacher and has been adjunct piano faculty
at the College of Idaho since 2003. In addition to accompanying and
teaching, Robyn is very busy as a soloist. She has performed with the
Miami University Symphony Orchestra, has been a featured soloist on
local concert series in Idaho, Michigan, Massachusetts, Colorado, and
Arizona, has given guest recitals at several universities, and has given
performances in Canada, Norway, and Italy. She has participated and won
prizes in several piano competitions, including being selected as a
finalist in the 1998 Award-Debut Competition sponsored by the Ladies
Musical Club of Seattle. In 1998 and 1999, Robyn spent part of the
summer in Italy, as a participant in the Sessione Senese per la Musica e
l’Arte in Siena. In 2005 , 2006, and again in 2011, Robyn performed
Gerald Finzi's Eclogue for Piano and Strings with the College of
Idaho String Sinfonia, and performed the same piece with the Sun Valley
Youth Symphony in 2008. She has also collaborated with the Langroise
Trio for several concerts. Since 1993 Robyn has been managing and
performing her own series of concert tours throughout the Untied States.
These tours have taken her across the country, and have included over
240 performances to date. Robyn has five CD recordings to her credit: A Grand Adventure, A Grand Italian Adventure, A Grand French Adventure, A Grand American Adventure, and her latest release is entitled Hymns, Songs, and Spirituals. Outside
of music, Robyn is an avid reader, a passionate cook, and an
adventurous traveler. She loves to bike, camp, walk, and relax at home
with her husband and their cat.
Trebelle is
a combination of the Italian words "tre" (three) and "belle" (the
plural form of the word, beauty). Jennifer, Heidi and Robyn first
decided to form a piano trio when they collaborated on Robyn Wells' CD, Hymns, Songs and Spirituals. Trebelle
made its debut in a series of concerts in February 2012, performing the
works of Frank Bridge, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Anton Arensky.
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