Fortunata Trio; Alicia Kosack, flute; Laura Armstrong, clarinet; Kimberly B Nolet, bassoon; Lily, piano

Alicia Kosack enjoys a diverse career as a performer of both modern and Baroque flute. She has won numerous honors, including a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. Most recently, she won first place in the 2010 Flute Society of Washington Adult Artist Competition. An active soloist and chamber musician, she regularly performs with both the Trelumina Trio and Fortunata Trio, and has performed with groups such as the Ash Lawn Opera Festival, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, Opera Vivente, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, among other ensembles. She is equally committed to teaching, and is currently on faculty at York College of Pennsylvania. Alicia holds a DMA from the University of Maryland, and has received an MM from the Peabody Conservatory and a BM from the Harid Conservatory.

Laura Armstrong is a clarinetist and saxophonist currently living in Baltimore, MD. She is a faculty member of Frederick Community College, where she teaches clarinet and saxophone. Dr. Armstrong has performed in recitals in the Mid-Atlantic region and has performed as a soloist at the 2012 International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest held in Lincoln, NE. Laura also performed Weber’s Second Clarinet Concerto with the Frederick Symphony in 2014. As a freelance orchestral performer, Laura has played with a variety of orchestras including the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Shippensburg Festival Symphony, HUB Opera Ensemble, and the Honolulu Symphony. She is also an advocate of contemporary music and performs with new music groups based in the Baltimore/Washington region and is a founding member of the Fortunata Trio. Laura received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Maryland in 2010 and also holds performance degrees in clarinet from Duquesne University and Susquehanna University. For more information, please visit www.lauraarmstrong.net.

Bassoonist Dr. Kimberly D. Buchar Nolet received her degrees in bassoon performance from the Harid Conservatory in 1997, the Eastman School of Music in 1999, and the University of Illinois in 2005. Kimberly has taught bassoon and double reed method classes at Millikin University, Eastern Illinois University, Chestnut Hill College, Valley Forge Christian College, Messiah College, and at the University of Illinois. She has performed in various orchestras such as the Illinois Symphony, New World Symphony, York Symphony, and the Allegro Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recently premiered a concerto by Ralph Lehman. Dr. Buchar is a member of the Dickinson Faculty Woodwind Quintet and a founding member of Trelumina Trio, Dickinson Double Reed Trio, and Fortunata Trio. Her major teachers include Phillip Kolker, Arthur Weisberg, John Hunt, and Timothy McGovern. Dr. Nolet enjoys teaching at Dickinson College, Franklin and Marshall College, and York College of Pennsylvania and performing the bassoon and contrabassoon in chamber music and orchestras, such as the Lancaster Symphony, where she has been a member since 2005.Music by Charminade, Kummer, Cohen, Albert, Colonna and Peggey Glanville-Hicks' "Concertino" with Li-Ly Chang, piano.

Li-Ly Chang, pianist, composer, currently teaches at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD