HAYDN Piano Trio No. 16 in D Major
MOZART Sonata for Piano and Violin in E Minor
HAYDN Flute Trio No. 1 in C Major
MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (arr. Hummel)
Joseph Monticello, flute; Emily Dupere, violin; Mark Dupere, cello; Anton Nel, fortepiano
Philharmonie Austin Chamber players is a period instrument ensemble that has been bringing exciting chamber music performances to Austin for the past four years. Under the musical direction of cellist Mark Dupere, the group explores repertoire ranging from early classical to early romantic music and is built around the talent of Anto Nel on the fortepiano and Emily Dupere on the violin. Drawing on the wealth of research and knowledge into performance practice of these periods, the ensemble seeks to bring its audience performances that enliven the soul as we strive to get to the heart of the composer's intentions and communicate this to a new generation.
Joseph Monticello, flute
Flutist Joseph Monticello’s playing has been praised by both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as “graceful" and for being as “exciting as the singers.”
Equally at home on both modern and historical flutes, Joseph enjoys a multi-faceted career as principal flutist of Boston Baroque and assistant principal flutist with the Florida Grand Opera and Palm Beach Symphony orchestras, making his home in Miami.
A frequent performer with the genre-bending Nu Deco Ensemble, Joseph has been featured on three of its commercially-released albums and has shared the stage with genre-defining artists Wyclef Jean, Tank and the Bangas, Masego, Cory Wong, Cory Henry, Luke James, and Larkin Poe.
Joseph has also performed with Les Arts Florissants, Philharmonia Baroque, The Berlin Friday Academy, One Found Sound (San Francisco), Kaleidoscope (Los Angeles), Bach Collegium San Diego, New York Baroque Incorporated, Philharmonie Austin, Seraphic Fire, and IlluminArts and as principal flute of the Teatro Nuovo festival orchestra, specializing in the historically informed presentation of Bel Canto opera on period-appropriate instruments.
A fierce proponent of Japanese traditional music, Joseph has studied Nagauta and Yamatogaku shamisen in the U.S. and in Japan, having recently made his debut at the National Theatre in Tokyo under the given name Yamato Josho (大和晟笙). As a student of these under-represented musical styles, he has previously been awarded funding by Oberlin College’s Shansi In-Asia Grant and the New York-based Friends of Flutes Foundation.
In addition to his performing career, Joseph’s passion for musical curatorship is furthered by his role as part-time Archivist for the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. In his free time, Joe enjoys searching for the holy grail of iced coffees, wherever his travels take him.
Joseph is a graduate of The Juilliard School, Oberlin College and Conservatory, and Interlochen Arts Academy High School.
In addition to a number of original instruments dating from the 18th to 20th centuries, Joseph plays on Powell #1111 and a Dana Sheridan flute with additional headjoints by Salvatore Faulisi, J. R. Lafin, Yoshiteru Akiyama, and David Chu, a Bulgheroni wood flute, a Keefe piccolo, an Eva Kingma alto flute, and traversos by Boaz Berney, Rod Cameron, Simon Polak, Koichi Sugihara, Keigo Takesa, Giovanni Tardino, and Rudolf Tutz.
Emily Dupere, Violin
Emily Dupere, Australian violinist, has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout Europe, the U.S. and Australia. She has collaborated with artists such as Malcolm Bilson, Bart van Oort, Petra Somlai, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Shunske Sato, Jaap ter Linden, Sigiswald Kuijken, Maasaki Suzuki, Jos van Immerseel, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Emily studied under Paul Wright at the University of Western Australia, graduating with first class honors, and was awarded the Lady Callaway Medal for the most outstanding graduate. She completed her studies in baroque violin at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Ryo Terakado, Kati Debretzeni, and Walter Reiter.
In Australia, Emily performed with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and with the award-winning Sartory String quartet. In Europe she performed with many groups, including The Wallfisch Band (United Kingdom), Les Passions de l’âme (Switzerland), Les Inventions (France), Haagsche Hofmuziek (Netherlands), Collegium Musicum Den Haag (NL), The English Baroque Soloists (UK), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (UK), Bach Collegium Japan, and Anima Eterna Brugge (Belgium). Emily’s particular interests include the sacred music of Bach and Classical and Romantic chamber music on period instruments.
Mark Dupere, Cello
Mark Dupere is Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence University, where he is the Director of Orchestral Studies. He currently conducts the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonie Austin, as well as making guest appearances with Regional and National Honor Youth Orchestras. As a cellist, Mark performed throughout Europe with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Haagsche Hofmuzieck, Anima Eterna Brugge, and as an apprentice with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London. Mark was an “Emerging Artist” at the Victoria Bach Festival, performed in the Leipzig Bach Competition, and was recently named a national finalist for the American Prize in Conducting. Mark holds degrees in Cello from the University of Texas at Austin and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, The Netherlands, and a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from Michigan State University.
Anton Nel, fortepiano
Anton Nel, winner of first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, continues to enjoy a remarkable and multifaceted career that has taken him to North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.
Highlights of Nel’s four decades of concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra and the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. (He has an active repertoire of more than 100 works for piano and orchestra.) An acclaimed Beethoven interpreter, Nel has performed the concerto cycle several times, most notably on two consecutive evenings with the Cape Philharmonic in 2005.
Additionally, he has performed all-Beethoven solo recitals, complete cycles of the Beethoven violin and cello works OF WHOM?, and most recently a highly successful run of the Diabelli Variations as part of Moises Kaufman’s play 33 Variations.