Artists
Thomas Bagwell
Artburst Performances Include:
An Evening of Kurt Weill
Called by Marilyn Horne, "a pioneer for his age," Thomas Bagwell served as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera from 1997-2006. Other long term opera house affiliations include the Washington National Opera and the Santa Fe opera. He has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has collaborated in recital with such luminaries as Midori, Marilyn Horne, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Denyce Graves and James Morris. His career has taken him to such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein, the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall and many others.
Grant Dalton
Grant Dalton is the Instructor of Percussion Studies at Samford University where he directs the Samford Percussion Ensemble and Samford Steel, the university’s steel drum band.
Karen Bentley-Pollick
Karen Bentley Pollick is a native of Palo Alto, California where she was concertmaster and conductor of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and studied with Camilla Wicks in San Francisco. She then attended Indiana University where she studied violin with Josef Gingold, coached string quartets with Rostislav Dubinsky and graduated with a Masters of Music Degree in Violin Performance in 1987. Other violin teachers include Nathan Milstein, Yuval Yaron, Glenn and Harold Dicterow, and David Balakrishnan.
