ex luce color, the musicians
colleen jennings - violin
violinist, colleen jennings, performs regularly as an orchestral player and chamber musician in europe and the usa. she is a member of the kammerorchester basel in switzerland and principal second violin of opera north in the usa. she has participated in several orchestral festivals including the verbier festival youth orchestra under the direction of james levine, a group with whom she has toured extensively throughout europe and asia. she was also a participant in the miyazaki festival in japan and the tanglewood music festival. formerly she held the post of principal second violin in the vermont symphony orchestra under maestro jaime laredo. as a chamber musician, she performs with ex luce color, a group she founded with soprano, ana arnaz and focuses on bringing early music and folk based contemporary works together. the group has performed concerts in the usa, spain, france and germany. she also performs regularly with the classicopia chamber music series. colleen received a bachelor of music degree from the oberlin conservatory and a master of music degree from rice university. she also studied with antonio pellegrini in basel, switzerland where she received a performance diploma from the smpv (schweizerischen musikpädagogischen verband). colleen currently teaches at the upper valley events center in norwich, vt where she offers private classical violin lessons and group folk fiddle classes.
julia schröder - violin
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alexandra flannagan-jennings - violin
alessandra jennings flanagan is a graduate of the shepherd school of music at rice university where she completed her master of music and bachelor of music degrees in violin performance with sergio luca. her former teachers include raphael fliegel, camilla wicks, stephen shipps and stephanie sant'ambrogio. mrs. flanagan was a founding member of the basmati string quartet, which won the grand prize at the coleman chamber ensemble competition and second place at the fischoff international chamber music competition. the basmati quartet was quartet-in-residence at the yellow barn music festival, and participated in the audubon and mendelssohn quartet institutes. in 2002, alessandra moved to new york city where she was a protégée of roberta guaspari, founder of opus 118-harlem center for strings, and inspiration for the films music of the heart and small wonders. she worked in three east harlem public elementary schools, as well as starting her own violin program in a west harlem school. while in new york, she was also on the faculty of henry street settlement school and principal second violin of the one world symphony orchestra. alessandra attended the tanglewood music center for two years where she was a winner of the pierre mayer award. mrs. flanagan is currently associate principal second of the fort worth symphony orchestra. she has held former posts in the houston grand opera and houston ballet orchestras. she lives in fort worth, texas with her husband.
