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Ensemble M
 Ensemble M is a chamber music consortium formed on Whidbey Island involving world-class artists from a vast musical network. Our events are staged in homes, halls, and alternative spaces, presented in the spirit of the Salon: interactive and intimate in style with informative introductions within a stimulating artistic ambience.
June and August
Judy Geist, viola, Judith Serkin, cello  Ensemble M Debuted in Season2009 Chamber Music resounded at The Clyde Theatre in Langley on April 3rd and 4th, 2009 in our season debut Boccherini and Beyond series that included exquisite works by Mozart, Reger, Glazonuv, and Brahms. We also presented a very interesting fundraiser Salon and reception sharing Beethoven and Dvorak close-up. EnSembLeM is grateful to the generosity of patrons and volunteers who helped make these concerts possible.
BIOS Lucy Chapman, violin Widely sought after as a chamber musician, Lucy Chapman has had an eclectic career that spans many musical worlds. She has played solo and chamber music concerts throughout the USA, Europe, Korea, and Japan, and has held positions as Acting Associate Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and first violin of the Muir String Quartet. Her recording of Bartok, Stravinsky, and Ives with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Richard Goode won a Grammy nomination, and she has also recorded with Keith Jarrett, whose solo sonata she premiered in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. Recent performances include the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with violist Kim Kashkashian, an all-Mozart concert in New York with pianist Robert Levin, guest appearances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and return visits to the Busan Festival in Korea and the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Ms. Chapman teaches violin and chamber music at the New England Conservatory, where she also serves as Chair of String and Chamber Music departments. She is a former faculty member of the University of California at Santa Cruz, Boston University, and Harvard. For the past fourteen summers she has divided her time between Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine and the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro, Vermont. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet; her other principal teachers include Dorothy Delay and Marc Gottlieb. Ms. Chapman also earned a Masters in Education from the Antioch New England Graduate School, where she specialized in Waldorf Education.
Carol Cole, violin Violinist Carol Cole studied at the Curtis Institute with Arnold Steinhardt and members of the Guarneri, Budapest and Curtis String quartets. She was the winner of the San Francisco Symphony, Yale Chamber Music and the Stresa International Violin competitions. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra leader, Carol has appeared at major music centers in 20 countries and more that 25 US states performing with distinguished artists, such as Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein and Martha Argerich. Carol has served as concertmaster of I solisti Aquilani and as associate concertmaster with the Florida Philharmnoic, and continues an active solo and chamber music career. She is presently on the faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University and is on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer String Academy.
Judith Serkin, cello Judith Serkin began her cello studies in Puerto Rico with Marta Casals Istomin and continued with David Soyer, of the Guarneri Quartet, at the Curtis Institute of Music. She was also a student of Mischa Schneider, of The Budapest Quartet. Ms. Serkin was a member of the Iceland Symphony, in Reykjavik, and of both the Guilford and the Hebrew Arts(now known as the Mendelssohn) String Quartets. A founding member of the Soldier Creek Music Festival in Nevada, she has been a participant at both the Yellow Barn and Marlboro Music School and Festivals, in Vermont, and has also been on numerous Music from Marlboro tours. Ms. Serkin has performed across the United States and Canada, and has toured extensively throughout France and Japan. She makes her home in Guilford, Vermont, and is presently serving on the faculty of the Brattleboro Music School. The instrument that she is playing was made by Joseph Hill, in 1760.
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