PFCM Welcomes... Blake!

We're very lucky to have Blake Espy joining us on violin this year. He'll be around for at least the first week of the festival. 

Blake Espy has enjoyed a diverse career as an active recitalist and performer with several orchestras and chamber ensembles. He is a frequent substitute with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Pennsylvania Ballet, among others. For four years, Blake was a violinist in the La Catrina Quartet, in residence at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. As a member of the quartet, Blake has performed in over 35 states in the US and Mexico. The quartet recorded with Cuarteto Latinoamericano on the Dorian Label, which subsequently won a Latin Grammy for best classical album 2012. In 2007, Blake was invited to become a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL, a professional studies orchestra whose alumni have gone on to join the ranks of professional orchestras all over the US and the world. In this program, he was given the opportunity to act as a rotating concertmaster, chamber musician, and educator to young musicians in the Miami area.

James Keene will be returning, so Blake and James are going to make a great violin team!

Let's see... 2 more people to announce! Look for those posts later this week...

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