THE WILDERNESS CHAMBER PLAYERS

Here’s a little bit about the Wilderness Quartet and their planned program:

Rebecca Eckfeld, Violin
Steven Miller, Clarinet
Carole Tilson, Cello
William Eckfeld, Piano & Double Bass

PROGRAM:
Aram Khachaturian: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, & Piano (3rd movement: Moderato)
Felix Mendelssohn: Trio No. 1 in D Minor (2nd movement: Andante con moto tranquillo)
William Eckfeld: Burlesca for Violin, Clarinet, Cello, & Double Bass (March, Lullaby, Frolic)

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:

Rebecca Eckfeld is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Millard Taylor (violin) and Francis Tursi (viola). She has been a member of the Rochester Philharmonic, the Fort Worth Symphony and Opera Company, the Oklahoma Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Ballet Company, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Frohlich-Eckfeld Duo. At present, she is a member of the Queens Oratorio Society Chamber Orchestra, St. Thomas Orchestra, the Eckfeld Duo, the Norwood Trio, Trio D’Été, and the Wilderness Quartet. In addition to performing, she has a private studio of violin and viola students.

William Eckfeld was the orchestra director at White Plains High School from 1987-2013. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra before beginning his career in music education. He has also studied at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria and has earned a Masters Degree from Lehman College. He serves as organist for the Clarkstown Reform Church in West Nyack, and is the music director and conductor of both the St. Thomas Orchestra and the Westchester Community Orchestra.

Steven Miller is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, where he studied clarinet and saxophone with Charles Russo and Joseph Allard. He has performed throughout the New York metropolitan area including performances with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Philharmonia Virtuosi, and the national company of Jesus Christ Superstar. After teaching music in the North Rockland Central School District for 29 years, he recently retired as the band director from Fieldstone Middle School. He currently performs with the Adelphi Symphony, and is a founding member of the Norwood Trio.

Carole Tilson graduated from the New England Conservatory where she studied with Lawrence Lesser. Prior to that she studied with Stephen Kates at the Peabody Conservatory and in the summers was a student at the music festivals at Tanglewood and Aspen. She was a member of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Veracruz in Veracruz, Mexico. In New York she has played in a variety of orchestral groups including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Municipal Concerts Orchestra, and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and Queens Oratorio Society Chamber Orchestra. In addition to playing with Trio D’Été, she is also a member of the Norwood Trio.

The Wilderness Quartet made its debut in July of 2015 and consists of members, who play violin, viola, clarinet, flute, cello, double bass, and piano depending on the instrumentation of the work in question. The members have performed together over many years as members of the Norwood Trio (founded in 1990 and as members of the Trio D’Été, founded in 2013. Both these groups now come together on the same recitals to offer a variety of chamber music in different instrumentations for their audience’s enjoyment.