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Sato Knudsen
Born in Baltimore in 1955, Sato Knudsen was raised in Newton, MA, began his musical studies as a violinist at the age of three, and switched to cello when he turned seven. Knudsen joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1983. His teachers include David Soyer at Bowdoin College and Stephen Geber, Robert Ripley, and Madeleine Foley at New England Conservatory. He also attended the Piatigorsky Seminar in Los Angeles and was a fellowship student at the Tanglewood Music Center. Before joining the BSO, he was associate principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony for three years; prior to that appointment he performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Opera Company, New Hampshire Symphony and Worcester Symphony.
Knudsen was a concerto soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1974, as a winner of the BSO' Youth Concerts Concerto Competition. More recently he has been a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Newton Symphony and Brockton Symphony.
A member of the Hawthorne String Quartet, he has performed extensively with that group in the New England area and in Europe. As cellist with the Anima Piano Trio, he has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall and Jordan Hall, throughout New England, and on radio stations WQXR in New York and WGBH in Boston.
 ANDREW MARK
Andrew Mark earned a B.M. and M.M. with both artistic and academic distinction from the New England Conservatory (NEC). He has studied cello with Laurence Lesser, Bernard Greenhouse, George Neikrug and Colin Carr and chamber music with Eugene Lehner, Madeline Foley, William Kroll, Louis Krasner, Mischa Schneider, Artur Balsam and Isadore Cohen.
From 1988-1991, Mark served as a US Artistic Ambassador, giving recitals and master classes throughout Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Mark was cellist of the Boston Composers String Quartet (1987–1994) and The CORE Ensemble (1993–2000), a trio dedicated to the performance of newly commissioned works. Between these two ensembles, Mark premiered over 100 new chamber works and collaborated with composers such as Donald Martino, Bernard Rands, Leon Kirchner, and Witold Lutoslawski. In 1993 Mark was the winner of the silver medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (Japan) and was the recipient of MIT’s 2000 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts for innovative work in the chamber music field. He has performed at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, the Newport Chamber Music Festival (RI), the Moscow Autumn Festival, the Schreyener Herbst Festival (Germany), June in Buffalo Festival, the Daytona International Festival, the Chautauqua Festival and Rockport Chamber Music Festival (MA). He is a frequent performer with the Portland Chamber Music Festival and recently made his debut with the Boston Chamber Music Society.
As an orchestral player, he performs regularly with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and has served as an extra player with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the Boston Pops since 1990. He has had the opportunity to perform with nearly every major conductor, including Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. As soloist, Mark has given concerto performances with the Florida Philharmonic, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony, Waterloo Symphony (IA), the Yamagata Symphony (Japan), as well as numerous ensembles in the New England area.
Mark has served on the faculties of the Longy School of Music and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is currently a faculty member of The Boston Conservatory, the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Mark has instructed master classes at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, the Sichaun Conservatory (China), the Sibelius Academy (Finland), Enescu Conservatory (Roumania), Nuremberg Conservatory (Germany), Reykjavik College of Music (Iceland) and throughout the US. His reputation as a teacher has been recognized by awards from the Foundation for the Advancement of String Education and by the Massachusetts chapter of the American String Teachers' Association (2008 Studio Teacher of the Year). His recordings can be heard on the New World, Koch, Albany, Dorian, CRI, Ongaku and Neuma labels.
 RHONDA RIDER
Chair,
Rhonda Rider earned a B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory and a M.M. from the Yale School of Music. She has completed studies with Aldo Parisot, Richard Kapuscinski, Zara Nelsova, Robert Koff and Louis Krasner.
Rider is a founding member of the Lydian Quartet, which has won the Naumburg Award, Evian, Banff and Portsmouth prizes and several awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards. The Lydian Quartet has also received Meet the Composer and Copland Fund grants. Rider is a current member of the Triple Helix Piano Trio, which earned recognition as Artists of the Year from The Boston Globe.
Annually, Rider gives an average of 60 concerts in venues such as Kennedy and Lincoln Centers, Wigmore Hall, American Academy Rome, Moscow Conservatory and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has premiered numerous works by John Harbison, Lee Hyla and Steve Mackey and performed chamber music with Robert Levin, Kim Kashkashian, David Krakauer and Mstislav Rostropovich. Rider was the recipient of the Concert Artists' Guild Award and has given masterclasses at Yale, Oberlin and the New England Conservatory (NEC). She is also a panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), the American String Teacher Association (ASTA) and Chamber Music America and is involved in summer festivals such as Music from Salem, Green Mountain, Tanglewood and the Asian Youth Orchestra (Hong Kong).
Rider has made twenty recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Centaur, New World, CRI and Nonesuch record labels and has earned Grammy nominations and "Critic's Choice" awards from the New York Times.
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