Jeffery Zook • Caroline Coade • Kerstin Allvin
Jeffery Zook has been a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra flute section since 1992. He has been a prizewinner in many competitions, including the National Concerto Competition sponsored by General Motors, the William Byrd National Concerto Competition, the National Flute Association Young Artists Competition and the National Endowment for the Advancement of the Arts’ Recognition and Talent Search. He teaches privately in his studio.
Caroline Coade joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1996. Before coming to Detroit, she was a substitute for the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was Principal Viola with the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. She spent two summers at the Marlboro Festival, and performed in chamber music concerts as an Artist-in-Residence at Pennsylvania’s Laurel Festival of the Arts. She is on the University of Michigan faculty.
Harpist Kerstin Allvin has won numerous awards and competitions and has performed concerts all over the globe. She has appeared as a soloist at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie in New York, the historic Carmel Mission in California and the prestigious Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She has made several recordings of important solo and ensemble classical harp and modern repertoire, and is the featured soloist on Affair of the Harp, the Detroit Music Awards Best Classical Recording of 2005. She currently teaches at Oakland University.
