Join us for a relaxed and enjoyable summer evening of classical chamber music featuring Zoe Schramm (clarinet), Joel Rosenberg (viola), and Shann Wood. Zoe will be stepping in for Scott Harris, who was originally scheduled to perform. The program will include a blend of well-loved classics and a few lesser-known treasures by composers such as Max Bruch, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert Schumann, Bernstein, Brahms, and Piazzolla. It’s the perfect way to spend a summer evening surrounded by beautiful music.
All are welcome! While there is no cost for tickets, donations are appreciated! All proceeds contribute to Kol Ami concerts programming. Get your tickets below!
Zoe Schramm
Zoe Schramm is a Boston-based clarinetist currently completing her masters degree in Clarinet Performance at New England Conservatory of Music. Prior to attending NEC, she completed her undergraduate degree in Clarinet Performance and Historical Musicology, with a minor in German at Stanford University. During her studies at Stanford, she spent a summer living in Vienna as a recipient of the Stanford University Major Grant working on her Honors Thesis entitled Varying Reactions to Jewish Viennese Musicians and the Impact on Austrian National Self-Fashioning, which compared the reactions of the Viennese cultural institutions towards Fritz Kreisler’s Sissy and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus.
Zoe currently studies with Christopher Elchico at NEC. Her other significant mentors include Andrew Sandwick, Jerome Simas, Mark Brandenburg, Tad Calcara, and Al Badham. As an avid collaborator, Zoe has performed with the members of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony, The Beach Boys, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, and has performed internationally in Austria, Bermuda, France, Germany, and Monaco.
Joel Rosenberg
Joel Rosenberg is the Music Director of the American West Symphony and Paradigm Chamber Orchestra. He has performed, and recorded for Albany Records, the William Wallace Concertino for Viola with the Slovak Radio Orchestra in a concert sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Bratislava.
Joel is a graduate of Juilliard in New York City and a recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Rome, Italy, where he studied conducting and the viola at the Conservatory of Santa Cecelia. He has also received an Individual Artist Award from the State of Utah.
Joel is a recipient of the Governor’s Award in the Arts and has guest conducted at the Elizabethan Philharmonic at Sydney Opera House, The Orchestra of Victoria in Melbourne, Auckland Sinfonietta, New Zealand Opera, Utah Opera, San Francisco Ballet,Erik Hawkins Dance Company, the Elbland Philharmonic (Germany), the New Mexico Symphony, National Orchestra of South Africa with PACT Ballet in Johannesburg and Pretoria, Ballet West with the Utah, Phoenix Symphony Orchestras, the Teton Festival and a tour for Sony Music of Japan. He has also conducted concerto performances with Leon Fleisher.
Shann Wood
Shann Jacobsen Wood began piano study at five, gave her first full solo recital at eight, and performed her first concerto with orchestra at nine. She studied piano with Mable Borg Jenkins, Adolph Baller, Gladys Gladstone, and Leonard Shure. She holds a BA in Music from Stanford University and an MA in Vocal Accompaniment from the New England Conservatory where she studied with John Moriarty.
As Grand Prize winner of the Utah State Fair Piano and Music competitions, she was a soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel. She was an award-winning fellow at Tanglewood where she accompanied Master classes for Phyllis Curtain and performed in recital with vocal fellows. She has performed solo piano recitals and collaborative vocal and instrumental recitals and choral concerts throughout the United States and in the UK and Canada, most recently on tour and on CD with the Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus.
As an opera coach, she has been a staff member of the Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera Merola Program, the New England Conservatory Opera Workshop, Boston University Opera, and was Assistant Director of the University of Utah Opera Company.
Scott Harris
Scott Harris is an accomplished musician with a diverse career across the United States. He began performing with the Utah Symphony at age 20 and has since played with groups like Ballet West, the Utah Wind Symphony, the Burbank Symphony, and the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra. As the founder of The Prevailing Winds woodwind quintet, Scott has also collaborated with renowned artists including Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, The Moody Blues, and Seth MacFarlane.
In Los Angeles, Scott contributed to over 200 film scores, including Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, and Schindler’s List, as well as TV scores for The Simpsons and the Academy Awards. He holds a degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Utah and studied with prominent musicians like Mitchell Lurie and Gary Foster.
Scott is a member of the American Federation of Musicians and a former member of NARAS (The Grammys).
Thu, August 28 2025
4 Elul 5785
