Springfield Chamber Players Oboe Quartet
Karen Hosmer is an oboe and English horn player with the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra and principal oboe of the Kinderhook Broad Street Orchestra. She is a professor at the SUNY Schenectady School of Music, where she was honored with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been a concerto soloist in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and in Lithuania, where she recorded Frank McCarty’s Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra. Karen has received honors in the Gillet International Oboe Competition, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and the Coleman Competition. She has performed with local oratorio groups, Saratoga Opera and Glimmerglass Opera, and maintains a private studio in Schenectady. Karen earned her DMA from Temple University, MM from Michigan State University, and BM from the Oberlin Conservatory.
Marsha Harbison, violinist, is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and a founding member of the Springfield Chamber Players. She joined the SSO in 1977 and later co-founded the Longmeadow Chamber Music Society. Ms. Harbison received a B.A. from Carleton College, Northfield, MN and a Master’s at Juilliard, where she studied with Ivan Galamian. In NYC, she performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Pro Arte Orchestra, the Bach Cantata Series, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In Montreal, she performed in the Montreal Symphony, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and the Radio, TV, and Ballet Orchestras. She has taught numerous music courses at Westfield State University, Bay Path University, and violin students at Mount Holyoke, and continues to teach private violin students.
Dani Rimoni graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music, part of Tel Aviv University in Israel, with an artist diploma in viola performance. Mr. Rimoni is principal violist of Symphony New Hampshire (SNH), a member of the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Society Orchestra (MA), and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA). Mr. Rimoni is a founding member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Ensemble. Since 2001, he has been the string teacher and string ensemble conductor at the Burncoat Middle and High Schools in Worcester, MA.
Boris Kogan, cellist, was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russia. He began studying the cello at age 5, attending the School for Musically Gifted Children. He then received his Bachelor’s degree from the Leningrad College of Music and his Master’s degree from the Leningrad Conservatory of Music. He served as Assistant Principal Cellist with the Leningrad Symphony, and with the television and radio symphony orchestras. Mr. Kogan moved to the United States in 1991, and was the principal cellist with the New England Symphony, the Thayer Symphony Orchestra, and the Central Massachusetts Symphony. He currently plays in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, teaches at the Springfield Community Music School, and has a private cello studio.