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Byline: The Register-Guard

HELMUTH RILLING: Festival artistic director and conductor. Distinguished interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach. Winner of Grammy Award for the festival's recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's Credo. Founder and director of the International Bachakademie Stuttgart, which was awarded UNESCO Music Prize. Holds Bach academies all over world. Conducts major orchestras in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States.

THOMAS QUASTHOFF: Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone. Has collaborated with conductors Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Mstislav Rostropovich. Performed with Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic.

JEFFREY KAHANE: Conductor, pianist. Performed with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic and Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Toured with Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw and Joshua Bell. Music director of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and artistic director of Green Music Festival. First-prize winner of 1983 Rubinstein Competition.

TAN DUN: Conductor, composer. Winner of the Academy Award for the score to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,' the 2002 Classical Brit Contemporary Music Award and the Grawemeyer Award. Has conducted Boston Symphony, National Orchestra de Lyon, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, National Orchestra of France and the NHK Symphony of Japan.

ELIZABETH BAKER: Violin and concertmaster. A member of the San Francisco Symphony from 1977 to 1987, Baker has been associated professionally with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra from 1987 to the present day.

MAYA BEISER: Cello soloist. Long associated with the Bang on a Can ensembles. Frequent collaborator with Tan Dun. Upcoming work commissioned for Beiser by Steve Reich, David Lang and Osvaldo Golijov will have its world premiere as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hall's new theater.

CHRISTOPHER COCK: Tenor. Director of choral programs at Valparaiso University. Appears as a Bach "evangelist" throughout the country; stepped in on 24 hours' notice as a replacement in Rilling's presentation of the St. Matthew Passion with Los Angeles Philharmonic. A Robert Shaw soloist, he is with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, including performances of Bach's Mass in B Minor.

INGEBORG DANZ: Alto. Concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, NHK Symphony (Tokyo) and San Francisco Symphony. Soloist in the B Minor Mass at La Scala in Milan under Riccardo Muti and in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig.

MARC DESTRUBE: Violin, concertmaster. Performs with Ensemble More Maiorum. Concertmaster, CBC Radio Orchestra. Co-concertmaster, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Amsterdam); music director, Pacific Baroque Orchestra. Guest director and soloist, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Victoria and Windsor Symphonies.

GUY FEW: Principal trumpet. Solo appearances with the Toronto Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Orchestra Metropolitain and Vancouver Symphony. Recital and chamber music tours in Canada, the United States, and Japan. Festival appearances at Tanglewood, Festival of the Sound (Canada), and Takefu International Music Festival (Japan).

KARINA GAUVIN: Soprano. Appeared with Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, Handel and Haydn Society and Tafelmusik Orchestra and with conductors Charles Dutoit, Christopher Hogwood, Bernard Labadie, Andrew Parrot and Christophe Rousset. First prize in the CBC Radio National Competition, chosen soloist of the year by the International French Public Radio Community.

KATHLEEN LENSKI: Violin, concertmaster. Founding member and first violinist of Angeles String Quartet; won 2001 Grammy Award for recording of complete Haydn string quartets. Solo performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Alabama and St. Louis symphonies; former concertmaster and soloist with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

ROBERT LEVIN: Piano soloist. Appears as recitalist, soloist and in chamber concerts. Known for free fantasies in Mozart's style, invented at the moment using themes written by the audience. His reconstruction of Mozart's unfinished Requiem has been recorded three times. Has performed with the orchestras of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal and Vienna, appearing in recital in New York, London, Tokyo and in numerous European cities.

LORNA McGHEE: Principal flute. Former co-principal flute, BBC Symphony Orchestra; guest principal with Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Soloist, London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Canada Seattle Festival, Vancouver Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Guelph Spring Festival. Currently teaching at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

KRISTIAN OLESEN: Organ recitalist. Organist and director of music at Roskilde Cathedral in Roskilde, Denmark, since 1985. Led the latest restoration of the cathedral's historic organ. Olesen's appearance sponsored by the Eugene chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

ERIC OWENS: Bass. Soloist with the English National Opera, Detroit Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and many concerts with Rilling in Europe and in U.S. Won the Placido Domingo Opera Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition.

MARC VANSCHEEUWIJCK: Baroque cellist. Assistant professor of musicology, UO School of Music. Directs the UO Collegium Musicum ensemble. Conducts seminars on Baroque music at the Conservatories of Brussels, Ghent, The Hague and Amsterdam. Has appeared in many early music festivals in Europe and North America.