Ensemble Aevia
The Musicians
Matthew Daniel Green, violinist, began his study at the Pittsfield Community Music School, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He continued at the Konservatorium Luzern in Switzerland, and graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed recitals in various venues in New England and Switzerland, as well as chamber music for the Manchester Chamber players in New Hampshire. He has performed as a soloist with the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, where he served for five years as concertmaster, and also with the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Manchester Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has done recordings, tours, and numerous concerts with Collegium Musicum Zurich under the baton of the illustrious Dr. Paul Sacher, in collaboration with top international artists. In addition, he has performed with legends such as Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, the Irish Tenors, Donna Summer, Marvin Hamlisch, and others. He is the founder and leader of Ensemble Aevia and the inventor of the C-Clip®, an accessory to protect the violin.
Anne-Marie Chubet, violinist, is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and currently a member of the faculty of the All-Newton Music School and Boston College, where she is also a member of the Boston College Faculty Piano Trio. A performer on both modern and period violin, she is a member of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Cantata Singers, Masterworks Chorale, Boston Baroque, and Boston Cecilia, and has recently performed chamber music at Festival Scarlatti in Palermo, Italy. In the summers, she is a member of the Britt Classical Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. 
Beth Pearson began her professional life as a founding member of the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and has performed close to two thousand chamber music concerts throughout the United States. An Oberlin Conservatory graduate, she studied with George Neikrug and Richard Kapuscinski. Ms. Pearson has appeared as soloist with the Brocton Symphony, The New England String Ensemble, the Nashua Chamber Orchestra, and the Brookline Symphony. Ms. Pearson lives in Boston and combines freelancing with solo playing and teaching.
Lisa Brooke has received reviews on various concerto performances, stating: "...perhaps the most rewarding offering on the program"...Brooke "negotiated ticklish passagework without slighting the works lyricism" and has been praised for her "..unusually intelligent and sensitive musical ideas.." In NYC, she performed with the New York Collegium, Concert Royal, Rebel Baroque Orchestra and Amor Artis, and the American Classical Orchestra, in the summers attended the Carmel Bach Festival, and currently plays with The Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Cecilia. Founding member of Très., she has performed as concertmaster and soloist with Tempesta Di Mare (receiving very fine reviews from the Philadelphia Inquirer), and is a member of Foundling Baroque Orchestra and women's advocacy project, with whom she has also appeared as soloist with critical accolades. Last season, she performed a number of Concerti with Newton Baroque, including the Piccolo solo to Brandenburg I, and live on WGBH radio. Concertmaster positions include The Publick Musick in Rochester, NY, BachWorks in NYC, the Concord Chorale, and Millenial Artists. She has worked with the Musicians of the Old Post Rd. and La Donna Musicale. Ms Brooke has given guest lectures/demonstrations at Columbia University on the role of the violin in French Baroque music. She has attended the Longy and the Amherst Early Music Festivals.
Karen Oosterbaan frequently performs with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Cantata
Singers, and National Lyric Opera. She is a member of the "Harvey
Diamond Jazz Quintet." In addition, she has participated in a wide
variety of music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, New
Hampshire Music Festival, and the Cours International de Musique, in
Switzerland. She teaches violin and coaches chamber music at the
Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra program and Winchester Community
Music School, where she is the Chamber Music Coordinator.
Arie Yaacobi, an Israeli born violinist and violist, is an active performer and teacher in the Boston area. Mr. Yaacobi currently serves as the concertmaster of the Freisinger Chamber Orchestra in Boston. He had served as a concertmaster of the Boston Opera Company under the direction of the late Sarah Caldwell. During his tenure on the faculty of the Michigan Technological University, Mr. Yaacobi performed extensively as a soloist with the Superior String Alliance Symphony Orchestra, String on the Bay Festival Orchestra, and the Keewenaw Symphony Orchestra. He was an assistant director of the Collegium Musicum at the University of Connecticut. In addition, he premiered new contemporary music including Andy Hurlbut's Romance for Violin and Orchestra, which he performed with the New England Conservatory Symphony orchestra. Mr Yaacobi studied with Dorothy DeLay and Paul Cantor in the US and with Ilona Feher, Yair Kless, and Vali Blutner. He holds a Master's Degree from New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music and Artist Degree from Tel-Aviv University.
As a Boston-area freelance cellist, Shay Rudolph has performed with a variety of orchestras and chamber ensembles, such as the Orchestra of Indian Hill, New Bedford Symphony, Cantata Singers of Boston, Portland Symphony, Worcester Chorus, Back Bay Players and Copley Chamber Players. Nationally, she has had the privilege of playing with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra (affiliated with the American Jazz Philharmonic) in Los Angeles. Abroad, she's enjoyed performing in Sweden, Finland, Nova Scotia, Spain and the Dominican Republic. Her range of styles has allowed her to play with hip-hop artist KanYe West; American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken; and Cambridge's own rock cellists The Cello Chix.
Cellist Rachel Arnold, a Los Angeles native, is an active chamber musician and teacher living in the Boston area. She has performed in numerous chamber music festivals including Zephyr (Italy), Bowdoin, and the Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice at the New England Conservatory. Rachel currently performs with the Callithumpian Consort, Juventas Ensemble, and Embryonic Noise. She has been a member of the Los Angeles-based Partch Ensemble, in which she played the microtonal music of Harry Partch on an adapted viola and a kithara (a 72-stringed harp-like instrument). Rachel is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and the Longy School of Music where she earned her Master of Music degree. Her principal teachers are Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick and Terry King. Rachel can be heard on the pfMentum, Cold Blue, 7Tangram Records, Afrasia, and Innova record labels. A multi-talented artist, Rachel also teaches yoga and is a passionate crafter who sells her creations on her website, www.ladyraycello.com