Current Fellows

We are extremely grateful to the Rowland Foundation for their support of Emmanuel Music’s Community Connections program.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellows

The artistic staff of Emmanuel Music is pleased to announce the Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellows for the 2011-2012 concert season. This Fellowship honors younger artists who have performed with Emmanuel Music, have demonstrated exceptional artistic talent, and have enthusiastically participated within the Emmanuel community of musicians. Fellows are featured in the concert season and in the Community Connections Programs, and they are given substantial publicity in all concert programs and marketing materials.

Mark Berger, violist and violinist, has performed with many of Boston’s finest ensembles, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade, Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Opera Boston, and Boston Lyric Opera. An avid chamber musician with a particular interest in performing new music, he is a member of Music at Eden’s Edge and the Worcester Chamber Music Society. He has a duo partnership “The Two Composers” with pianist/composer Ketty Nez, and he has performed with the Lydian String Quartet, Radius Ensemble, and Ludovico Ensemble. Mark also maintains an active career as a composer, having received awards from the League of Composers/ISCM and ASCAP. His works have been presented locally by the New York New Music Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, ALEA III, the Worcester Chamber Music Society, Xanthos Ensemble, Music at Eden’s Edge, QX String Quartet, and the Lydian String Quartet. He is currently on the music faculty at Clark University, UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College.

With “a voice of lambent beauty,” soprano Teresa Wakim enjoys an active performance career in Boston and beyond and is perhaps best known as “a fine baroque stylist.” Ms. Wakim recently won first prize in the Internationaler Solistenwettbewerb für Alte Musik in Brunnenthal, Austria. In April 2011 she made her European solo debut with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in Bach’s Johannes Passion in the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Portugal. Noted engagements include Handel’s Messiah with the Charlotte, San Antonio, and New Bedford Symphonies, Papagena in The Magic Flute with Apollo’s Fire, Haydn’s The Seasons with Back Bay Chorale, a title role in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Boston Early Music Festival, and Brahms’ Requiem with Seraphic Fire. In addition, she will appear with The Cleveland Orchestra twice in the 2011-2012 season, singing Mendelssohn at the Blossom Music Festival with Nicolas McGegan, and Bach with Ton Koopman. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in both Vocal Performance and Music History from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and a Master’s degree in Historical Performance from Boston University.