2022 ENSEMBLE-IN-RESIDENCE
The Estrella Consort

The Estrella Consort

The Estrella Consort is a saxophone quartet committed to the performance of exciting works, both old and new. Founded in 2010 while its members were pursuing graduate degrees at Arizona State University, the group has performed and presented educational workshops and clinics throughout the United States and abroad. The group’s first major tour took them through several cities in Ecuador as part of a cultural exchange in 2011. In the years since, the Estrella Consort has presented guest artist recitals and workshops at numerous institutions including Northwestern University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and many others. The Estrella Consort presents thoughtful, exploratory performances of saxophone quartet repertoire ranging from the French classics, to transcriptions, to the living composers of our time. The group has premiered works by such composers as Elliot Miles McKinley, Robert Reinhart, Scott Rubin, and others. They have also frequently worked with young composers and saxophonists to expand the saxophone quartet repertoire. The Estrella Consort’s first commercial recording was released in 2019 on Navona Records, featuring the chamber music of composer Elliot Miles McKinley, and a new album of music by Xenakis (and others) is forthcoming.

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Jeffrey Silberschlag

Jeffrey Silberschlag:
​Conductor, Alba Festival Co-Director

Jeffrey Silberschlag is music director and conductor of the Chesapeake Orchestra and River Concert Series, and serves as artistic director and head of music performance at St. Mary's College of Maryland where he is the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor in the Arts. He has appeared as guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Soloists, Orchestra Filharmonici di Torino, Symphony Orchestra of Rumania, Bulgarian Philharmonic, La Scala Virtuosi, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Moscow Academy Chamber Orchestra.  He also collaborated which such soloists Anne Akiko Myers, Mikhail Gantwarg, Hilary Hahn, Yi Jia Hou, and Lara St. John (violinists). In 2011 he received the Prize for Artistic and Cultural Activities from European Union of the Arts for his lifetime achievement in classical music as a conductor and trumpeter.  Mr. Silberschlag is also a prominent trumpet performer on the international music circuit and has recorded as trumpet soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Czech Radio Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Maryland Bach Aria Group.  He held principal trumpet positions with the Italian National Symphony RAI-Torino, Jerusalem Symphony, and the New York City Opera-National Company.

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Giuseppe Nova:
​Flute, Alba Festival Co-Director

A graduate from the Conservatory in Turin and Conservatoire Supérieur de Lyon, where he studied with the celebrated Maxence Larrieu, Giuseppe Nova has been described as one of the most outstanding Italian flutists of his generation. Mr. Nova made his debut in 1982 as a soloist with the RAI Symphony Orchestra, and has gone on to perform in the most prestigious concert halls in Europe, the United States and Asia (Japan, Thailand, China, Korea, Singapore). Soloist with several Orchestras, such as Prague Virtuosi, Ensemble of Tokyo, Orchestre de Cannes Côte d'Azur, Camerata Bohemica, Arena di Verona Orchestra, Turin Philharmonic, Tübinger Kammerorchester, Thailand Philharmonic, West Bohemian Symphony orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Chesapeake Orchestra, Astana Symphony Orchestra, Pavlodar Philharmonic, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Petrapavlosk Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica Cervantes, Pardubice Philharmonic Orchestra in prestigious concert halls and Festivals, like Suntory Hall Tokyo, Rome Parco della Musica, Umbria Jazz, Washington Italian Embassy, Esterhàzy Castle, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. 

Guiseppe Nova

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