Jacqueline Pollauf, American harpist, is known for her sensitive performances, dedication to teaching, and beautifully-crafted compositions. Past performances include a premiere for voice and harp at Carnegie Hall and appearances at the Eleventh World Harp Congress and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Her most recent recording, Beau Soir, with cellist Dariusz Skoraczewski, was lauded as “utter perfection” (The Harp Column).
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Hailed by the Gramophone Magazine as "brilliant and intrepid", violinist Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. Deeply committed to chamber music, she is the founding member of the Damocles Trio and Modigliani Quartet and has performed and recorded with the members of the Emerson, Brentano and Arditti Quartets. Damocles Trio's debut disc of complete Piano Trios and Piano Quartet of Joquín Turina has won a four-star rating from the BBC Music Magazine, Le Monde de la Musique and Diapason.
Carol Hess grew up in New York City where she trained as a dancer. She performed with Hannah Kahn and Dancers, Rondo Dance Theater, DANCES/Janet Soares, and others, and taught hundreds of dance workshops in New York city schools through New York City's Yound Audiences Programs and Residencies in the Schools, and the Lincoln Center Touring Program. During the late 1970's she performed solo tap concerts and appeared on PBS ìn the documentary Paul Draper on Tap.
Susan Mann performed with professional companies, including the Hartford Chamber Ballet, Das Bonner Ballet in Germany, and the Sharir Dance Company (modern) before receiving her M.F.A. in Choreography from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
Ryan Kenneth Johnson is a virtuosic performer, choreographer and artistic director of SOLE Defined. He is a well-known national and international performer who has been called "purely amazing" by Septime Weber, Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet, At the tender age of fourteen, Johnson started his professional joumey in the arts by performing with greats such as Gregory Hines and Marvin Hamlisch along side with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Johnson's achievements include being cited for his choreography and solo dance performances.
Victoria Rouse is an artist and museum professional that lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She started painting and drawing at a very young age but did not decide to pursue it professionally until her adult years. Victoria received her Bachelor of Fine Art in painting, drawing, & printmaking from Towson University (2019) and Associate of Fine Art in painting & drawing from the Community College of Baltimore County (2017). Her artwork explores themes around her personal experiences with self love, identity, and physical appearance.
Pam grew up in Baltimore County, MD. As a child, she was enchanted by the outdoors. To her, the woods behind her house held a mysterious, supernatural power. Pam found a way to get to know the natural world on a deeper level. She made her first landscape painting in oil in High School. Once she painted in oil, she was hooked. Painting was magical to her, although it did not come easily. She was more comfortable expressing her ideas through drawing and printmaking.
CBilly (Baltimore, Maryland) is a surrealist oil painter. As a self-taught painter, CBilly is influenced by the human anatomy, nature, and life’s journeys. CBilly’s artwork is shown in the "Erase Hate Though Art" exhibit at the Chesapeake Arts Center, located at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in Terminal D. The artist’s work was also featured at the Columbia Art Center in Columbia, Maryland. Currently, CBilly will present a solo exhibition at the Aloft Hotel BWI Baltimore International Airport (2017).
April C. House is an abstract encaustic and acrylic artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Communication Design from the Atlanta College of Art (now SCAD Atlanta.) A shy child, everything was fodder for her imagination. She spent time wandering the outdoors, making Barbie clothes with her grandmother’s fabric scraps and tape, creating fashion illustrations, and collaging with old wallpaper books and mail order catalogs. April is inspired by everyday color, composition, and her saved mementos of daily life.