Ceremony Musicians IN

The Innocenti Strings

Performing at Valerie & Pete Lombardo wedding day.

Château Pomije, Guilford, Indiana

May 30^th, 2009

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Featured Cellist

Greg Nelson is Adjunct Instructor of Cello at St. Cloud State University. Greg received his Bachelor of Music in performance from St. Olaf College under the instruction of Dr. David Carter, and his Master of Music in the same field from the University of Minnesota with Prof. Tanya Remenikova. Mr. Nelson has taught at St. Cloud State University for two years and in addition to his duties at the college he maintains a studio of cellists in the Minneapolis area. He has also been instructor at the Strings and Piano Academy Summer festival at St. Olaf College, and the Chamber Music Midwest festival in New Richmond, WI.

Mr. Nelson has been principal cellist with the St. Olaf Orchestra (with whom he performed Shostokovich’s cello concerto in 2005), the Muncie Civic Symphony, the St. Cloud Symphony, Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra, and the University of MN symphony orchestra. His teachers have included, Dr. David Carter, Mr. Mihai Tetel, Prof. Tanya Remenikova, Mr. Sachiya Isomura, and Arek Tesarczyk among others.

In addition to his educational endeavors Greg maintains an active performance career appearing at various venues in the Twin Cites Metro and St. Cloud areas. He frequently performs in chamber music settings often with other faculty of St. Cloud State University as well as musicians in the Twin Cities. He will be featured as soloist this fall with the St. Cloud State symphony and the Linden Hills Chamber orchestra in performance of the cello concerto by Edward Elgar.

Mr. Nelson is also a proponent of new music and has premiered numerous compositions most notably as soloist in the Mixed Blood Theater company production Bahala Na in 2007. His latest project is a work for Solo cello and electronics, done in collaboration with St. Cloud State Composition instructor Brett Wartchow.

Featured Violinist in San Francisco

Violinist Benjamin Thacher has performed solo, chamber, and orchestral music around the globe. He has collaborated in music festivals and orchestras with such noted conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, John Williams and Ivan Fischer, among others.

After winning a position with the prestigious Shleswig-Holstein Musik festival under the direction of Christophe Eshenbach, Mr. Thacher has most recently completed a tour of Russia, Armenia, Lithuania, and Germany with the festival orchestra.

As a violin soloist, Ben has performed concerti with several different orchestras which include the Cape Cod Symphony, Nashua Symphony, Metrowest Symphony and the Chatham Chorale Chamber Orchestra. He currently studies with Donald Weilerstein, founding first violinist of the Cleveland quartet. Previous teachers have included the following: James Buswell, Kelly Barr and additional private studies and masterclasses with Midori Goto and Itzhak Perlman. Mr. Thacher has won several competitions, prizes and awards which include the Eugene Lehner Chamber Music Award given by the New England Conservatory for excellence in chamber music.

He is a member of the acclaimed Béla Quartet of whom were two time winners in the prestigious honors competition at NEC. In 2005, his piano trio won first place in the international chamber music foundation of New England which enabled them to perform at Carnegie Hall. He has appeared twice on national radio for NPR’s “From the Top” performing as a soloist and as a concertmaster for the Walnut Hill Orchestra at Boston's symphony hall. Mr. Thacher was personally invited by Toby and Itzhak Perlman to participate in the Perlman Music Program residency in Sarasota, Florida and was among those who soloed under Mr. Perlman's baton as part of this experience. While a participant in this program, he has performed concerts with Perlman at Van Wezel Hall and Carnegie Hall. Dedicated to the growth of the next musical generation, he currently conducts the Nashoba Youth Orchestra in Westford, Massachusetts.