Dr. Jill Deupi is the Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator of the Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami). Prior to assuming this position in 2014, Deupi was Director and Chief Curator of University Museums at Fairfield University, where she was also an Assistant Professor of Art History. Her prior professional experience includes work at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Snite Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Wallace Collection. The recipient of a two-year “Rome Prize,” Dr. Deupi wrote her doctoral dissertation on art and cultural politics in 18th-century Naples. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the Leading Change Institute, and the Getty Leadership Institute. Deupi has served as a Trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and chair of this organization’s academic art museum affinity group. Additionally, Deupi serves on the Cornell Museum’s Visiting Committee and is a member of AAM, AAMC, AAMD, AAMG, ICOM, and UMAC. She has been a peer reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and AAM’s Reaccreditation Committee. Dr. Deupi holds a B.A. in French Literature and Political Science (Mount Holyoke College); a J.D. (Washington College of Law, American University); an M.A. in the History of Art (Birkbeck College, University of London); a Ph.D. in Art History (University of Virginia); a graduate certificate in Arts Administration (New York University); and an executive education certificate in Art and Cultural Heritage Law (Georgetown University Law Center).

A brilliant and accomplished concert artist, “resplendent” soprano Clara Rottsolk has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including American Bach Soloists, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Pacific MusicWorks, the American Classical Orchestra, St. Thomas 5th Avenue, Richmond Symphony, Bach Collegium San Diego, Virginia Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Wall Street, and Seattle Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of conductors including Stephen Stubbs, David Danzmayr, Paul Goodwin, Jeffrey Thomas, John Scott, Daniel Hyde, Joshua Rifkin, Bruno Weil, Julian Wachner, David Effron, John Sinclair, Chia-Hsuan Lin, Timothy Nelson, and Andrew Megill.

With “sophisticated mastery of the nuances of the libretto: with perfect diction and expressive delivery” (Cleveland Classical), she performs chamber and recital repertoire with Les Délices, ARTEK, Les Canards Chantants, Folger Consort, Piffaro, Byron Schenkman & Friends, Colorado Bach Ensemble, and as soloist at festivals including Carmel Bach, Berkeley Early Music, Montréal Baroque, Spoleto USA, Indianapolis Early Music, Philadelphia Bach, Whidbey Island Music, and Boston Early Music Fringe.

Her solo recordings can be found on Chandos, MSR Classics, and independent labels. Currently she is based in Philadelphia and teaches voice at Swarthmore, Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges.

Luke Balslov, a native of Long Island, New York, regularly performs around the country on both modern and baroque trumpets. In New York, Luke received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music performance at Stony Brook University, studying privately with Kevin Cobb. He began baroque trumpet studies with Kris Kwapis and later attended the American Bach Soloists Academy and Berwick Academy in Oregon. Luke has performed with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Upper Valley Baroque, Oregon Bach Festival, Staunton Music Festival, Sonnambula, Oklahoma Bach Choir, and others, including as a soloist with Mercury Chamber Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. While living in Miami, he was a teaching artist with the Miami Music Project and played regularly with the Miami Symphony and the New World Symphony under conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Matthias Pintscher, and Stéphane Denève. Luke now lives in Houston where he is freelancing and building a private teaching studio.

Noah Sonderling is a third-year keyboard fellow with the New World Symphony. In demand as a chamber musician, Mr. Sonderling has collaborated with artists including Norman Krieger, Anton Nel, Eric Kim, Brandon Vamos, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also appeared as a substitute keyboardist with the Owensboro Symphony and American Youth Symphony.

A champion of both classic and modern music, Mr. Sonderling was a member of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble from 2015 to 2020 and appeared twice as concerto soloist with the ensemble.  He has worked extensively with both student composers and recognized modern masters such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Augusta Read Thomas, Andrew Norman, Dai Fujikura, and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Mr. Sonderling has participated in a number of summer music festivals, most recently the Music Academy of the West and Spoleto Festival USA in 2024. He was keyboardist of the National Repertory Orchestra in 2023; he appeared as soloist with the orchestra that summer in Robert Schumann’s Introduction and Allegro appassionato, op. 92. Other festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, Orford Musique Académie, Montecito International Music Festival, and Brevard Music Center.

Mr. Sonderling’s recent awards include second prize in the 2022 Sidney Wright Piano Accompanying Competition at the University of Texas and first prize in Indiana University’s Ligeti concerto competition in 2018. He also received awards in the 2015 Brevard Music Center Piano Competition and 2013 Edith Knox Concerto Competition in Torrance, California.

Mr. Sonderling holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with Anton Nel. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University, where his primary teachers were Menahem Pressler and Norman Krieger. Other mentors have included Michael Tilson Thomas, Asaf Zohar, Christopher Harding, and Junko Ueno Garrett. He also studied harpsichord and fortepiano with Elisabeth Wright.