Nor'easter String Quartet Player Bios
Trond Saeverud
violin, is a violinist and conductor. He has been a frequent soloist with orchestras in Norway and Denmark, has produced CD's with orchestras in both countries, and regularly premieres and records new works dedicated to him. Concert tours in Japan, the United States and Europe have been combined with positions as concertmaster of several Scandinavian orchestras.
Saeverud had a very successful London debut in 1992 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His New York debut was as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at the Lincoln Center. The New York Times described his playing as "a warm-toned affectionate account."
Saeverud has produced nine CD's. His last release, HIKA, was chosen as "Strad Selection" in the May 2002 issue of The Strad, which wrote: "... a gem of a disc...outmost fragility...shimmeringly beautiful...makes every phrase speak."
Currently, Saeverud and his artist wife, Joan, live in Robbinston, where she exhibits in her own art gallery and he is the artistic director of an international music camp and festival.
Lynn Brubaker
violin, is a chamber and orchestral musician with experience throughout the United States. Orchestras she has worked with include the San Diego Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Fredonia, NY Chamber Players, the Toledo Symphony, the Eastern Music Festival, and the New Hampshire Music Festival. As well as co-concertmastering the Bangor Symphony, she is active as a chamber musician, performing in the Biss/Brubaker Duo, and Bangor Symphony ensembles. She maintains a private teaching studio, has taught at the University of Maine at Machias, and has started a violin project at the Elm Street Elementary school. She resides in Machiasport, Maine.
Marisa Solomon
cello, received her performance degrees from the Oberlin College and San Francisco Conservatories. Her summer festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, SpoletoUSA, Festival de due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, and the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado. She has held positions in the Florida Orchestra, Tampa Bay Chamber Orchestra, Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Symphony, Corpus Christi Symphony, Victoria Symphony and the San Antonio Symphony. Marisa is also the cellist in the Cormier Trio as well as a member of the Bangor Symphony. She lives in Bangor with her husband, Jack Burt, professor of trumpet at the University of Maine at Orono, and their two sons, Ben and Lucas.
Laura Gallucci
viola, is a full time private music teacher and freelance musician. She teaches a studio of nearly 60 students of violin and viola at RDL Strings in Bangor. She is Interim Principal Viola of the Bangor Symphony, and has freelanced with the Mount Desert Island Chorale Orchestra, Maine Grand Opera, and a variety of orchestras at Maine Center for the Arts. She is the co-founder of the hard folk band St. Huckleberry, in which she has played electric viola, violin, fiddle, bass and piano. She and her husband, singer / songwriter Michael Gallucci, have co-written and recorded more than 75 original pieces of music. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music at which she studied with violist James Dunham of the Cleveland Quartet.
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