Boston Metrowest
About the Artists
2026
Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown is a New England-based clarinetist with a dynamic performance career spanning orchestral, chamber, and solo settings. He holds positions with the Boston Festival Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, Portland Symphony, and New Bedford Symphony, and performs regularly with ensembles throughout New England. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Boston Pops, Concord Orchestra, and New Bedford Symphony, and has been featured by presenters including the Celebrity Series of Boston, the Library of Congress, and the Newport Music Festival. Nicholas is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Boston Festival Orchestra, and also serves on the faculty at Concord Academy and the New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestra Institute.
Originally from Portland, Maine, Nicholas is a graduate of Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music and an alumnus of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Learn more about Nicholas at nbclar.com.
Amanda Hardy
Amanda Hardy joined the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe in November 2013 where she occupies the Clinton Graffam Chair. An in-demand artist in New England and beyond, Amanda is a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, with whom she has both toured internationally and recorded. She has performed as guest principal oboe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, the Des Moines Symphony, and the Boston Philharmonic. Amanda has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall (2009), the Portland Symphony, the Chelsea Music Festival, the Bach Virtuosi Festival, the NEC Bach Ensemble, and the Drake Symphony Orchestra. As a recipient of the Gillet Scholarship and Tourjée Alumni Scholarship Award, Amanda studied with BSO principal oboist John Ferrillo at the New England Conservatory (NEC). Amanda was winner of the 2010 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award Competition. As a chamber musician, she co-founded the St. Mary’s Quarantine Series with soprano Tamra Grace Jones, a chamber music series during the pandemic that both raised money for a food pantry in Dorchester and employed musicians during the pandemic. She also is on the planning team for Boston Conservatory’s Artistry in Action Faculty Chamber Music Series.
Amanda recently joined the faculty at Boston University as Lecturer in Oboe, is Assistant Professor of Oboe at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is on the faculty of New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She holds a Bachelor of Music in oboe with a piano minor from Drake University and a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma from NEC. Previous festivals include the Masterworks Festival, the Chelsea Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and Tanglewood Music Center in 2010 and 2011 where she was awarded the Mickey L. Hooten Memorial Award both summers. Her solo work can be heard on, Dancing with J.S. Bach (2019), on the Chelsea Music Festival Live label. Her teachers include John Ferrillo, Marilyn Zupnik, Anne Gabriele, and Jay Light; summer studies with Elaine Douvas and Richard Woodhams.
Hayley Miller
Hayley Miller has held positions with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Chattanooga Symphony Opera. She has performed as a guest with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Opera among others. Miller currently holds Second Flute & Piccolo positions in the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Boston Festival Orchestra and Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
Miller is an active chamber musician, recently working with Angélica Negrón on a curated recital for the 2022 Women in Classical Music Symposium, and premiering new chamber works with Voices of Change. Additional chamber music engagements include ensembleNewSRQ, Herd Here and Fine Arts Chamber Players.
Miller is a Haynes Performing Artist and plays on a rose gold Haynes Fusion.
Meryl Summers
Meryl Summers, bassoon, is a Boston-based musician whose career spans orchestral and chamber performance. She has performed internationally from China to Germany and throughout the Americas, and regularly appears with Boston’s premier ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Landmarks Orchestra, and A Far Cry. She is the principal bassoonist of the Cape Cod Symphony and a member of the Radius Ensemble. Prior to moving to Boston, she spent several years playing second Bassoon in the Winnipeg Symphony. She is also an Occupational Therapist specializing in hand and upper extremity conditions. A former Fulbright scholar, she has been a finalist in prestigious competitions and is a frequent presence at music festivals like Tanglewood. She founded the Adelia the Wondergirl Foundation, which aims to raise awareness and funds for pediatric brain cancer research in honor of her late daughter. She holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degrees from Yale University and Tufts University. In her free time, Meryl is an avid runner and enjoys spending time with her family.
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Lyle Brewer
Lyle Brewer is a guitarist and songwriter from Massachusetts. He has released several instrumental guitar albums and has performed all over the country with such artists as Neighbor, Ryan Montbleau and Lori McKenna. For the last decade Brewer has been a professor of guitar at The Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has released three transcription books and maintains a hearty teaching schedule through his Patreon site. His solo show will consist of instrumental music from his albums Juno, Get It Together and Hold On.
Daniel Kurganov
Violinist Daniel Kurganov, praised for his “extraordinary fervor, commitment, and technical prowess” (Classics Today), has recently given recitals at venues including Merkin Hall, BargeMusic, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Harvard Musical Association. He worked with the Violins of Hope project in Sion, Switzerland, performing on an instrument rescued from Auschwitz. Daniel runs a YouTube Channel with 80,000 subscribers focused on violin pedagogy and performance, and has recently given masterclasses at the Boston Conservatory, the University of Maryland, and Münster Hochschule. He is also regularly featured in The Strad, and was voted “Best of The Strad 2021.” In 2025, Daniel was a visiting instructor at Boston University, working with graduate/doctoral violin students of Bayla Keyes. Daniel’s studio albums include a 2018 debut with pianist Constantine Finehouse, world premieres by Lera Auerbach and Richard Beaudoin (Orchid Classics, 2021) and the complete Brahms Violin Sonatas on historical instruments (Hänssler Classics, 2023), which earned a 10/10 rating from Jed Distler. Born in Minsk, Belarus, and raised in Chicago, he completed his Master’s at the
Zurich University of the Arts under Rudolf Koelman, a protégé of Jascha Heifetz.
Daniel Lelchuk
Described by The Washington Post as a “dazzling virtuoso,” Daniel Lelchuk is renowned worldwide as both cellist and communicator. He has performed at numerous international festivals including those of Aspen, Baden-Baden, Hawaii, Colorado, Minnesota Lakes Area, Silicon Valley, and Salzburg. He has served as guest cellist of the Qatar Philharmonic, guest first cellist of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, cellist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (Mexico City) and first cellist of the Royal Opera House Muscat (Oman). He served a decade-long successful tenure as Associate Principal Cellist of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Orleans Opera Association, appointed by Music Director Carlos Miguel Prieto. At the invitation of Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, he presented a series of solo cello recitals at the famed Villa Aurora, Rome.
Lelchuk served from 2010-2014 as principal cellist of the Castleton Festival under Maestro Lorin Maazel, where he performed to acclaim major solos from the operatic and symphonic repertoire, most notably Verdi’s Otello. Since 2016 he has served as first cellist of the New York-based Salomé Chamber Orchestra and makes regular international tours with David Aaron Carpenter and the Ensemble.
Also an accomplished administrator, in 2023, Lelchuk founded the Festival de Música de Cámara Antigua (Antigua Chamber Music Festival), the first ever fully-fledged chamber music festival in Guatemala. In his capacity as Artistic Director, he has brought world-class musicians to the historic cultural capital city of Antigua to present chamber concerts each Winter to great acclaim.
Daniel Lelchuk is a founding member of the Castleton Chamber Players with violinist Eric Silberger, where they present chamber music in the jewel box Theatre House designed and built by Maestro Maazel. In these concerts they are regularly joined by world-class musicians such as Orion Weiss, Ashley Jackson, Michelle DeYoung, and Paul Groves.
Always forward-looking to the future of music, Lelchuk designed and built the cello platform at tonebase, the premier online music education company, where he served as the Lead of Cello Content. In addition to designing all content for the cello platform, he hosted regular livestreams broadcast worldwide and managed a community of thousands of passionate, diverse cellists from every corner of the globe.
An avid road cyclist, Daniel Lelchuk spends as much time as he can on two wheels.
Constantine Finehouse
Constantine Finehouse has performed extensively in the US and abroad, including in Salzburg, Trieste, London, Ghent, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Odessa. His 2009 solo release, "Backwards Glance," interweaves works by Brahms and Richard Beaudoin. “The Bolcom Project”, made in collaboration with his American Double partner, violinist Philip Ficsor, included an Albany Records two-CD album and a national tour with concerts in Boston, New York, Denver, Santa Barbara, Spokane and at Yale University. Fanfare praised the recording as “indispensable to any serious collector with an interest in later 20th-century duo repertoire for violin and piano.” The American and European premieres of William Bolcom's Horn Trio, in collaboration with Ficsor and Steven Gross took place in the summer and fall of 2018. The work, commissioned by the group, was recorded at the Martinu Hall in Prague and released on Naxos Records in December 2021. Finehouse's recording of Bolcom’s piano solo works for Naxos saw its world-wide launch in December 2017. His new album "Rhythm and the Borrowed Past" with violinist, Daniel Kurganov, was released on Orchid Classics in November 2021, following their 2018 release "Between the Notes" on Spice Classics. Finehouse latest album with Sebastian Baverstam, duo's second release, features sonatas by Brahms and Shostakovich. During recent concert seasons Finehouse has performed at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Miaskovsky Hall (Moscow Conservatory), Merkin Recital Hall, Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) and Jordan Hall (Boston), as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Emory universities, and St. Vincent's and Elmira colleges, among others. With degrees from Juilliard and Yale, Finehouse teaches at New England Conservatory, and serves as Visiting Artist/Faculty at Westmont College, CA.
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