Artists
Join Us in our Gala 35th Anniversary Celebration!
Photo by William Haroutounian
Alice Kogan Weinreb, flute
Alice Kogan Weinreb is a member of the
National Symphony Orchestra and has performed as a soloist with the orchestra at the Kennedy
Center. She is co-principal flutist of
Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, and premiered Truman Harris' Concertino for Flute
with the ensemble. Ms. Weinreb serves
on the faculty of The Catholic University of
America and teaches in the NSO
Youth Fellowship Program. In the summer,
she performs at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Ms. Weinreb studied in France under a
Fulbright fellowship and was awarded first prize in flute at the Ecole
Normale de Musique de Paris. She is
the featured artist on two recordings of works by Margaret Brouwer,
Crosswinds on CRI and Light on New World Records.
In February 2010, Ms. Weinreb premiered David Teie’s
Butterfly Concerto with Eclipse Chamber
Orchestra.
Kathleen Golding, oboe
Kathleen Golding is a member of the
Kennedy Center Opera House
Orchestra and serves on the faculty at
American University.
She has played co-principal oboe in the
Orchestra de la Mineria in Mexico City, acting principal oboe with the Grant
Park Symphony Orchestra in Chicago, and has participated in the Marlboro Music
Festival in Vermont. Most recently, Ms.
Golding performed and coached chamber music at the Music Masters Festival in
Kazusa, Japan. She has performed
with the National Gallery Orchestra and Washington Concert Opera, and as a
soloist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, and Terrace
Theatre. Ms. Golding can be heard on
performances recorded on the Smithsonian and Musical Heritage labels.
Lora Ferguson, clarinet
Lora Ferguson joined the Capitol Woodwind Quintet in 1977, a
few months after its founding. She has been a member of the Kennedy Center
Opera House Orchestra since 1980, serving as assistant principal clarinet and
four seasons as acting principal clarinet. Her career as a freelancer has
included principal clarinet positions with the Filene Center (Wolf Trap)
Orchestra, National Gallery Orchestra, Washington Concert Opera, American
Chamber Orchestra, Virginia Chamber Orchestra, American Camerata for New Music,
and Amadeus Orchestra. Lora teaches at the Levine School of Music,
George Washington University and
George Mason University.
An avid chamber musician, she enjoys performing with her colleagues on
the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center and at other venues.
Laurel Bennert Ohlson has held the position of Associate
Principal Horn with the National Symphony Orchestra since 1980, and is a member
of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the
National Symphony Orchestra, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra and Virginia Chamber
Orchestra, and
is an active performer and teacher through the NSO’s Youth Fellowship Program,
Summer Music Institute, and annual State Residencies.
Ms. Ohlson has presented horn recitals and Wagner tuba clinics for the
International Horn Society and International Women's Brass Conference.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the IWBC since 1991, and is
currently vice-president of that organization.
A graduate of Boston University School for the
Arts, Ms. Ohlson majored in
horn performance with a minor in mathematics.
Truman Harris is assistant principal bassoon with the
National Symphony Orchestra and a member of Eclipse Chamber Orchestra.
A graduate of The University of North Texas, he is an instructor at
The Catholic University of America. Also a composer and arranger, his
Prelude was premiered by the National
Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin in 1996.
Truman’s Autumn Dances and
Flowers were premiered by the Capitol
Woodwind Quintet, and his Concertino for
Flute and Chamber Orchestra and
Concertino for Horn and Chamber Orchestra were premiered by Alice Kogan
Weinreb and Laurel Ohlson with Eclipse Chamber Orchestra conducted by
Sylvia Alimena. Truman maintains the Capitol Woodwind Quintet web site, and is married to Laurel Ohlson.