Chris Bolduc, horn
Alex Chambers-Ozasky, cello
Oriol Sans, guest conductor
Oriol Sans, guest conductor
Chris Bolduc, violin
Alex Chambers-Ozasky, cello
Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102, featuring Chris Bolduc & Alex Chambers-Ozasky
Additional Repertoire TBA
Christopher Bolduc is an American violinist and educator. He was born into a musical family in Boca Raton, Florida and was exposed to various genres of music ranging from Brazilian Bossa Nova, Fusion, Jazz and Western and Indian Classical music. He began studying violin at the age of 11. Soon after he became concertmaster of his respective school orchestras and participated in regional academic orchestras like All-County and All-State Orchestras, securing the concertmaster position of both during his senior year. During previous summers, Mr. Bolduc attended Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Brancaleoni International Music Festival, the DaPonte String Quartet Institute and Bad Leonfelden Sommerakadamie receiving lessons from pedagogues Mimi Zwieg, Rictor Noren, I-Hao Lee, Bayla Keyes, Marcus Thompson and Mark Gothoni. He graduated with a BA in violin performance from the University of South Florida in 2020, a masters in Violin Performance from the University of Massachusetts in 2022 and a masters in Chamber Music from the University of South Florida in 2024. From 2024-2027, Mr. Bolduc will be attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison pursuing a Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree in Violin Performance as a School of Music Fellow under the direction of David Perry. He currently holds the posts of Concertmaster of the Middleton Community Orchestra and instructor of violin at the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra (WYSO) Music Makers Program. From 2025-2027, Mr. Bolduc will be a member of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Community of Graduate Research Scholars, collaborating and exchanging ideas with professionals in various departments in the College of Letters & Sciences.
An experienced musician, Dr. Alex Chambers-Ozasky performs across genres. He currently serves as section cellist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Principal cellist of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he performs with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Iowa, and the Wisconsin Philharmonic. In recent years, Alex has appeared as a core member of the Lake Lanier Music Festival, performing chamber music throughout North Georgia. In the summer of 2022, he was awarded a position in the Festival Napa Valley Orchestra, and during the prior summer Alex served as principal cellist of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado.
A versatile performer, Alex frequently collaborates with artists across a variety of genres and styles. Most recently, he recorded tracks for the upcoming album of Toronto-based artist STORRY. Alex has been featured in multiple music videos of Chicago-based Pakistani pop music group SAMAA. Working with choreographer Lin Kahn and renowned Jerusalem-based dancer Miriam Engel (artistic director of the Angela Dance Company), he presented two concerts of music and dance in Chicago. Alex also performed with dancer Courtney Henry, of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet, in the 2014 Minnesota fringe Festival. Having performed and taught throughout North America, he is currently based in Wisconsin.
An enthusiastic and dedicated teacher, Alex has taught musicians of all ages for the past decade and maintains a private studio of curious, thoughtful, and expressive cellists of all levels. As cellist of the Hunt String Quartet, Alex gave dozens of outreach concerts in partnership with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and UW Madison. Combining his chamber music experience with his passion for teaching, Alex has coached young chamber ensembles at the MacPhail Center for Music, International Cello Institute, and the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras. He has taught cello at the Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago, The EAGLE K-8 school in Fitchburg, and the Chanson Voice & Music Academy in St. Paul, MN. He is also on faculty at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. Most recently, Alex was on faculty at the Manitou Chamber Music Festival in Colorado Springs, where he coached chamber groups and performed with the faculty string quartet as a part of their 2024 summer festival.
Alex received his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, where he studied with Joseph Johnson, former principal cellist of the Toronto Symphony, current cello professor at the Eastman School. For his dissertation, Alex researched the Feldenkrais Method (a somatic method of movement) and its ties to cello pedagogy.
Since starting the cello, Alex has been passionate about music. Winning the Minnesota Sinfonia’s Young Artist competition in 2009, Alex performed Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C with the orchestra at age fourteen. In 2011, during a six month stay in Spain, Alex studied with cellists Angel Garcia Jermann and Israel Fausto at the royal conservatories of Madrid and Seville respectively. Moving to Chicago in 2013, Alex received his Bachelor’s in cello performance from DePaul University, where he studied with Stephen Balderston. He went on to earn his Master’s of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020, where he studied with Uri Vardi, and was awarded a full scholarship position in the prestigious graduate Hunt String Quartet.
Hailed as “refreshing and expressive in his handling of the orchestra” (El Informador, Jalisco) Catalan conductor Oriol Sans has inspired musicians and audiences across North America and Europe. Mr. Sans has conducted concerts with outstanding orchestras and ensembles including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Michigan Chamber Winds and Strings, the New Mexico Philharmonic, the San Juan Symphony (Colorado), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Flint Symphony Orchestra, the Sheboygan Symphony, the International Contemporary Ensemble and the Four Corners Ensemble. He has lead performances with a long list of renowned soloists that includes Yoonshin Song, Wey Yu, Tony Arnold, Amy Porter, Aaron Berofsky, Jourdan Urbach, Álvaro Bitrán, Íride González, Alan Pingarrón, Jason Vieaux, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, Alon Goldstein and Wu Han.
Mr. Sans is Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His responsibilities include directing the Symphony Orchestra, conducting the opera productions, and teaching graduate conducting students. Under his musical direction, the University production of Così fan tutte received 2nd prize from the National Opera Association. Before joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was Associate Director of Orchestras at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he directed both the University Philharmonia Orchestra and the Contemporary Directions Ensemble (CDE). With CDE, Mr. Sans fostered projects with celebrated composers such as John Luther Adams, Ted Hearne, Julia Wolfe, David T. Little, Tyshawn Sorey and Augusta Read-Thomas.
As Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra, a position he has held since 2016, Mr. Sans has initiated collaborations with other musical institutions in the community, like the Young Artists Program at the Michigan Opera Theater. His reputation for working with young musicians has led to several invitations to serve as conducting faculty at leading educational institutions including the Interlochen Summer Academy and Sewanee Summer Music Festival. He is also a frequent conducting clinician and guest conductor for other youth ensembles across North America.
As an opera conductor, his eclectic repertoire includes performances of Verdi’s Falstaff, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Jake Heggie’s Two Remain. In 2018 he conducted a production of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors at the Michigan Opera Theatre, and more recently he collaborated with the Opera Theatre Saint Louis in a workshop of Awakenings, a new opera by composer Tobias Picker that will be premiered in 2022. In the Fall of 2021 he conducted a production of Puccini’s Giani Schicchi with the Tulsa Opera.
A native of Catalonia, Spain, Mr. Sans studied Orchestral and Choral Conducting at the Barcelona Conservatory, receiving the school’s Honors Award in both specialties upon graduation. Following his training in Spain, he studied with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan where he received his Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting and his Doctorate in Musical Arts. In addition to his degrees in music, Mr. Sans also holds a degree in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.