Concert Information:
Thursday, August 30 th
8:00 pm
The Leelanau School Green
Tickets $15 in advance, $18 at the door

Gabriel Bolkosky
Gabriel Bolkosky has been praised for the way he "takes audiences into his confidence and includes them" and described as having "the serenity of a master without a hint of coldness."

He is executive director of The Phoenix Ensemble, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to helping artists and the educational community. His debut solo album, This and That, was released in 2005 to critical acclaim and features both jazz and classical music. Other recordings include explorations of klezmer with Into the Freylakh (The Shape of Klez to Come), of the nuevo tango music of Astor Piazzolla (The Oblivion Project Live), children's folk music with the children's-music group Gemini (The Orchestra Is Here to Play), and contemporary music of composers such as Xenakis and Boulez   with his former group Non Sequitur (Non Sequitur).

Bolkosky is a sought-after guest artist, performer, and teacher at schools and workshops throughout North America, including at Harvard, Dartmouth, Brandeis, and Princeton and many Suzuki institutes. He has also taught workshops on improvisation and composition to nearly 5,000 students in Aspen, Colorado, and the Walden School in New Hampshire.

He previously served as assistant director for Strings Attached, an intensive string program for children in inner-city Cleveland, and as assistant to Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In Ann Arbor, Bolkosky directs one of The Phoenix Ensemble's signature events, PhoenixPhest!, an annual amateur chamber-music festival held each May, and maintains a private violin studio.

Michele Cooker
Michele Cooker, has performed on concert series and participated in festivals throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. She has appeared on PBS and has performed programs broadcast live for WFMT-radio in Chicago and the CBC in Canada.   Ms. Cooker teaches piano privately at the Kerrytown Concert House, where she is a member of the Board.