"JUST PLAIN FUN"
"Here are four amazingly talented hornists with some very hip music - moments of inspiration, sorrow, silliness, love, virtuosic display, but above all: just plain fun." - International Horn Call
QUADRE: Artist Bios
AMY JO RHINE (aka Dot)
Amy Jo Rhine is a seasoned orchestral performer who is a member of The IRIS Orchestra, based in Memphis and who performs regularly with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. From 1996-2001, Ms. Rhine was the Assistant Professor of Horn at Wichita State University and currently is on faculty at both Webster University and Maryville University. In demand as a chamber musician, she has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Panama most notably with the faculty quintets of WSU, the Wilson Wind Quintet and since 2008, QUADRE. Ms. Rhine received her training from Verne Reynolds at the Eastman School of Music and James Decker at the University of Southern California. Formerly, she held Principal Horn positions with the Wichita Symphony and the Louisiana Philharmonic, to which she made critical administrative contributions in that cooperative ensemble. Since 1996, she has enjoyed spending her summers in Boulder, CO performing Associate Principal Horn with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, where she met her husband and fellow hornist, Greg Roosa. Amidst their busy performance schedules, they reserve ample time to manage the Death Star with their sons, Norty and Sutton.
DANIEL WOOD (aka Moe)
A horn player, teaching artist and composer, Daniel founded QUADRE in 1998 after working as a music contractor in Los Angeles. Since then he has composed for all three of their commercially released albums. As a solo artist, he has played with numerous chamber ensembles, symphonies, opera & ballet companies, and new music ensembles. He also presents solo shows as an improvisational musician using the horn, piano, and electronics - a favorite artistic pastime. In 2007, he premiered his show, “Life on a Island” which delved into the issues of music & diversity in the United States. In 2009, he premiered his show, “Brother, can you spare a Dime,” a depression-era musical retrospective. He is the executive director for the organization’s nonprofit and has handled all aspects of the business including marketing, development, and sales. He lectures regularly on the “Business of Music.” He also runs a horn music publishing company, Solid Wood Publishing with over 130 titles of horn music. In 2002, he founded the digital arts program for the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, CA. As a current faculty member, he teaches horn and music composition. He received his education from UCLA with additional training in discipline-based arts education – a Getty Center curriculum.
LYDIA VAN DREEL (aka Frank)
Lydia Van Dreel is assistant professor of horn at the University of Oregon. Ms. Van Dreel performs regularly as a member of the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, The Iris Orchestra (Germantown, TN) the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, and the faculty brass and wind quintets at the University of Oregon. Before joining the Oregon faculty in 2006, Ms. Van Dreel held a ten-year tenure as Co-Principal horn of the Sarasota Orchestra (FL) and was a member of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in Boulder, CO. Ms. Van Dreel maintains an active schedule, performing as an orchestral, solo and chamber musician throughout the United States, concertizing and recording music of all styles, including recent recordings with QUADRE, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and the eclectic new music group, DaDaDah. She joined QUADRE in 2007. Ms. Van Dreel received her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School where she was a student of William Purvis and her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
NATHAN PAWELEK (aka Ned)
A composer and horn player, Nathan has been playing the horn a long time. He has worked with nationally-recognized artists, and an occasional international VIP. Receiving degrees in music from Oberlin and Yale, and later an MFA in creative writing from a tiny school in Vermont, Nathan attended the Tanglewood Music Festival, the European Mozart Academy in Poland, and played under the baton of Michael Tilson-Thomas with the New World Symphony. He just finished a ten-year tenure as principal horn with the South Dakota Symphony and the Dakota Wind Quintet. He has written numerous works for orchestra including a symphony, a clarinet concerto, a song cycle, and a children’s program for narrator and orchestra, as well as chamber music for woodwind quintet, and since joining QUADRE in 2003, horn quartet. His wife is Karen and his children are Aidan and Zachary, boys whose ages are changing all the time.