PROGRAM

A Hard Day's Night
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Yesterday
Day Tripper
In My Life
Eleanor Rigby
Tomorrow Never Knows
Strawberry Fields Forever
Helter Skelter
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Oh! Darling
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Let It Be

LISTESO GROUP

Violinist Victoria Moreira, founding member of the KAIA String Quartet (WFMT 2017 Ensemble-in-Residence) has performed extensively throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, Asia and South America promoting the music of all North and South America. First Prizewinner of Viva El Tango Agustin Carlevaro Competition and former Music Director of the American Tango Institute, Moreira's diverse musical background keeps her involved internationally in the Tango scene.

Her latest recording projects include, Sureño, to be released in October 2018, Quartango, an album of tango for string quartet; Latinoamerica, a cd of all Latin-American works and a co-production with Mark Sonksen Vicisitudes. Previous projects include Sonksen's Postales del Sur and Argentina Tango on Stage, with Carlos Marzan and his ensemble in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Moreira is a member of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio and concertmistress of Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago. She has performed in the Chicago Latino Music Festival since 2007 has been involved with the Chicago Tango Festival since 2006.

In addition to her membership with the KAIA String Quartet, she has also collaborated with Rush Hour Concerts, Ondas Ensemble, Intersection from Nashville, and the National Chamber Ensemble of Uruguay. She was also winner of the 2010 DePaul Concerto Competition.

Moreira is a faculty member at DePaul University Community Music Division. Some of her education projects include KAIA KIDS, an initiative through WFMT and PBS Kids, tango workshops at Old Town School of Folk Music and outreach concerts through Ravinia, Evanston in School Music Association, and Promotora de las Bellas Artes in Mexico.

Moreira studied at Escuela Universitaria de Musica, Montevideo Uruguay under Jorge Risi, received her Bachelor of Music at Roosevelt University under Vadim Gluzman and her Master of Music and Artist Certificate at DePaul University under Ilya Kaler. She also did a residency at Northern Illinois University with the KAIA String Quartet under the tutelage of the Avalon String Quartet.

Violinist and co-founding member of the KAIA String Quartet, Naomi Culp is a dedicated performer and educator in the greater Chicago area. Culp has performed extensively throughout the United States and world wide in notable concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Perth Concert Hall in Australia, Jay Pritzker Pavilion and Symphony Center in Chicago. As first prize winner of the 2003 National Fine Arts Festival Competition in Washington, D.C., she performed in front of the U.S. Capitol Building.

In 2011, Culp was invited to perform Schubert's Cello Quintet with Yo-Yo Ma for Chicago Symphony's Citizen Musician's Week at the Fortnightly Club of Chicago. As a member of the KAIA Quartet, she has worked with the Muir String Quartet and renowned composer, Joan Tower, during her residency at Utah Symphony's Deer Valley Music Festival.

With an extensive orchestral career, Culp served as Concertmaster of the Chicago Composer's Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster of Miami Symphony, and as section player with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Camerata Chicago. Culp is an alumna of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago where she had the privilege of working with world renown conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Ricardo Muti and Gustavo Dudamel. Currently she performs as Principal Second with the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago as well as the Northbrook Symphony.

Outside the classical world, Culp enjoys collaborating with other ensembles and artists in jazz, independent rock, folk, and world music projects. She has also performed with touring and local musical theatre productions in the Midwest area.

In addition to her performance career, Culp maintains a studio at DePaul University Community Music Division as well as her private studio in Northern Chicago. She has recently accepted the position of Academy Coordinator and Orchestra Manager for the Music Institute of Chicago Academy.

Culp holds a Master of Music degree from Northern Illinois University and Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Roosevelt University's Conservatory of Music. Her principal teachers include Betty Haag, Desiree Ruhstrat, Yang Liu, Ilya Kaler and Mathias Tacke.

Dominic Johnson (Viola) - has called Chicago home for over 20 years, and hails originally from the Pacific Northwest. In the 90's he played viola in an indie-rock band based in the Midwest called rachel's, and subsequently felt the Windy City's magnetic pull inexorably draw him into its heady orbit. Career highlights have included co-founding and executive directing the New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago from 2005-15, a solo show of his own work at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, and performances backing up artists like Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, and The Who. The 2020's have found Mr. Johnson often working from his home studio, employing skills honed over three seasons in the music department at Comedy Central's Emmy-nominated show Drunk History. Other recent activities have included arrangements, music direction, and live performance for Sudan Archives' 2020 NPR Tiny Desk concert, strings for Josh Whitehouse's song "Before Christmas" in Netflix's 2019 rom-com The Knight Before Christmas, and 2021-22 membership in the Grossman Ensemble at the University of Chicago. More about Dominic can be found at www.dominicjohnson.me.

Mara McClain, cello, is currently a freelance musician in the Chicago area. She was most
recently a member of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2018. Prior to her position

with the Alabama Symphony, she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music in both the pre-
college Young Artists Program and for her Bachelor of Music studies. Her teachers were

Richard Aaron and Merry Peckham. She has participated in many summer festivals, including the Aspen School of Music, Spoletto Festival USA, and the Pacific Music Festival. She served as principal cellist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before her appointment to the Alabama Symphony. She is currently a member of the Illinois Philharmonic and plays as a substitute cellist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, the Chicago Philharmonic and the Chicago Ensemble.

Pianist Susan Tang is associate professor of piano at Northeastern Illinois University, artistic director of the Chicago Chamber Music Festival, and a founding member of Keys to Inclusion (an multi-institutional initiative to explore the piano repertoire of Black American composers).

An active performer, Susan enjoyed a successful New York solo piano debut at Carnegie-Weill Hall. New York Concert Review has described her playing as having "well-grounded technique...fluid, elegant readings...highly effective interpretations" and a pianist "with an assured playing that sparkled" by the Baltimore Sun. In a recent piano duo performance the Chicago Classical Review noted the duo "literally threw themselves into their amplified instruments, making the dislocated rhythms, explosive roars, glistening high notes and low rumbles speak with acute beauty and concentration."