Current Season Guests, Performer, Violinist
Logan Chiang is a Taiwanese violinist based in New York currently studying at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as a doctoral student, majoring in violin performance with a sub-specialization in concert composition. From the age of six he was trained as a classical pianist and frequently performed and competed across Taiwan, and at 9 years old he became champion at the 18th PIARA International Piano Competition in Hamamatsu, Japan, performing works by Burgmüller and Rachmaninoff. In 2018, he was one of the youngest students to ever be accepted to New York University at age 14, where he studied neuroscience, programming, and violin performance.
As an undergraduate, he studied diverse repertoire under the tutelage of Kurt Nikkanen and Giora Schmidt while maintaining a double major in neuroscience. In masterclasses he has played for Grace Shim, Peter Herresthal, and Qianqian Li. He was briefly assistant concertmaster of the NYU orchestra, playing works by Mahler and Viet Cuong. As a master’s student he served as concertmaster for both the NYU Baroque Ensemble and Steinhardt’s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera Amahl and the Night Visitors. He regularly collaborates with NYU’s Screen Scoring department by premiering new music from student composers, and also serves as a graduate adjunct violin faculty member.
In March 2023, Chiang won the NYU Strings Concerto Competition and performed the Korngold Violin Concerto with the NYU orchestra the following year. In his most recent appearance he performed Saint-Saëns’ 3rd Violin Concerto in Thessaloniki with the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Macedonia, conducted by Georgios Vranos. Chiang is also the youngest laureate in the senior division of the 2024 edition of the Chicago Violin Competition.
Current Season Guests, Performer, Trumpet
Clyde Daley is a freelance trumpeter and teacher based in the NYC Metropolitan area. He has played at many of the city’s prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Trinity Church Wall Street, and Riverside Church. In addition to playing with orchestras and opera companies, He has held chairs on several Off-Broadway shows and regularly subs on Broadway.
Conductor, Current Season Guests, Performer
Conductor Audrey J. Edelstein brings sensitivity, power, and connection to the podium, championing a compassionate experience between herself, ensemble, and audience. Incorporating a background in classical dance in her conducting, Audrey shapes soundscapes with fluidity and grace in a variety of settings including the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, a fully staged production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, and Musical Passport with the Arcadian Chorale featuring choral pieces in eleven languages and original orchestrations for string quartet. Actively engaged in programming women and underrepresented voices, Audrey blends the richness of the classical tradition with perspectives of the next generation of creators.
Previous positions include Assistant Conductor of the Oratorio Society of Queens and Northwinds Symphonic Band. Audrey is a founding member of the New Conductors Orchestra, a NYC-based civic orchestra committed to showcasing emerging conductors. Audrey earned a MM in Orchestral Conducting at the Aaron Copland School of Music, and a BA at Swarthmore College. Learn more at www.audreyjedelstein.com
Bassist, Current Season Guests, Performer
Bassist Timothy Cobb joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Bass in May 2014, after serving as principal bass of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and principal bass of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra since 1989.
He has appeared at numerous chamber music festivals worldwide, including the Marlboro Music festival, through which he has toured with the Musicians from Marlboro series. A faculty member of the Sarasota Music Festival, he is helping to launch a new bass program for the Killington Music Festival in Killington, Vermont. Mr. Cobb also serves as principal bass for Valery Gergiev’s World Orchestra for Peace, an invited group of musicians from around the world who donate their time biannually and perform to promote international harmony. Mr. Cobb has been designated a UNESCO Artist for Peace from his affiliation with the World Orchestra.
He has an ongoing collaboration with actor Stephen Lang, for whom he recorded a solo bass sound track for Mr. Lang’s animated short film The Wheatfield, which depicts a human drama from the Battle of Gettysburg. The two were invited to Gettysburg in July 2013 on the 150th anniversary of the battle to perform in the Salute to the States event held there, and they will continue to collaborate for future events.
Mr. Cobb serves as bass department chair for The Juilliard School as well as on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Purchase College, and Rutgers University. He is also a distinguished visiting artist for Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.
A native of Albany, New York, Timothy Cobb graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Roger Scott. While at Curtis, Mr. Cobb was a substitute with The Philadelphia Orchestra and in his senior year became a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti. Mr. Cobb can be heard on all Metropolitan Opera recordings released after 1986, as well as on a recording of Giovanni Bottesini’s duo bass music with bassist Thomas Martin on the Naxos label.
Conductor, Current Season Guests, Performer
Michael F. Tietz is the Music Director and Principal Conductor of The Broadway Bach Ensemble, which he founded in 1985. His conducting repertoire spans baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary works. Mike has had the privilege of working with numerous professional musicians as soloists, including members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Juilliard String Quartet, Raphael Trio, New York City Opera Orchestra, Orpheus, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the American Brass Quintet.
Mike started his conducting activities at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Light Opera Company, which he founded in 1978. He is a member of New York’s Village Light Opera Group, where he has served as Music Director, member of the company/chorus, and orchestra member.
An active ’cellist and violist, Mike plays in orchestras and chamber ensembles in the New York City metropolitan area.
