Elsewhere Ensemble: Haydn and The Happy Prince
Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 7pm
Tickets
Haydn and The Happy Prince with
The Elsewhere Ensemble
Colin Pip Dixon, violin
Katie Kresek, violin
Arnaud Ghillebaert, viola
Kathryn Brunhaver, cello
Barbara Podgurski, piano
Program:
Haydn String Quartet op. 77 no 1 in G
Samuel Lord Kalcheim “On Poetry and the Earth” – two poems for Actor and String trio (written for the Elsewhere Ensemble)
I. John Keats – “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket”
II. Countee Cullen – “To John Keats, poet. At Springtime”
Colin Pip Dixon – “The Happy Prince” based on the Oscar Wilde story (adaptation CP Dixon and Dominique Rozan) for Piano Quartet and Narrator
The Elsewhere Ensemble “Words which sing, notes that speak.” Many of Elsewhere’s performances bring music together with stories, poetry and theater. Their works combine the old with the new – literature or stories from the past come to life through new music; or classical music repertoire is presented with new writing or in new ways...always in the belief that classical music and literature shouldn’t be for an elite but are a human necessity. The Ensemble has performed extensively in Oregon and New York, as well as throughout France, in Belgium, Quebec, the UK and Lebanon. www.elsewhereensemble.com
MacIntyre Dixon (Narrator) has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theatres all over the country, and in films and television. He appeared in Alice Wu’s Netflix film The Half of It and performed for eight years on stage in New York City in the legendary musical, The Fantasticks. Some of his Broadway performances include Cyrano de Bergerac (with Kevin Kline, also PBS Great Performances), The Tempest (with Patrick Stewart), The Crucible (with Liam Neeson), Gypsy (with Bernadette Peters), The Threepenny Opera (with Sting), Beauty And The Beast, 1776, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and the National Tour of Guys and Dolls. At New York’s Shakespeare in the Park and The Public Theater: As You Like It, Kevin Kline’s Hamlet (also PBS Great Performances), The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming Of The Shrew Off-Broadway he was seen in Comic Potential,
Arms And The Man & Room Service (Roundabout Theater), and Second City. FILMS include It’s Kind of a Funny Story, School of Rock, In And Out, A River Runs Through it, Secret Of My Success, Popeye, and Reds. He has had many guest appearances on television series. In recent years he has performed regularly with The Elsewhere Ensemble in Oregon and New York.
Originally from Paris, Arnaud Ghillebaert has performed as an orchestra musician with The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields (Sir Neville Mariner) and the London Symphony Orchestra and most recently with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. He toured Europe for two summers with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the baton of Sir Colin Davis and Herbert Blomstedt and has been a member of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra for many years. In 2024 he toured the West Coast with the Belgian Akhtamar String Quartet and performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante as soloist with the Oregon Mozart Players. A founding member and co-artistic director of the Elsewhere Ensemble, in 2013 he created the role of the Shadow in His Majesty the Devil-a play with music (performed at 59E59 Theaters in New York City, Fringe NYC, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival). A dedicated chamber musician, he was invited to perform at the Louis Moreau Institute in New Orleans and in the “Starry Nights” music series at the Staller Center for the Arts alongside Colin Carr, Eugene Drucker (Emerson String Quartet) and Nick Cords (Silkroad Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider). He received his Masters from the
Royal College of Music in London and completed his Doctorate in Violin and Viola performance at Stony Brook University in 2016. He is currently the viola instructor at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance (since 2017) and gives presentations and masterclasses in schools and National and Statewide conferences around the country. In Oregon he performs regularly with Oregon Bach Festival, Chamber Music Amici and microphilharmonic. He is also the principal violist of the Eugene Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, and Eugene Opera.
Colin Pip Dixon is a violinist, composer, and co-artistic director of The Elsewhere Ensemble (www.ElsewhereEnsemble.com). With Elsewhere Ensemble and other groups he has performed extensively throughout France as well as in Belgium (international MAX Festival), Montreal, Beirut, New York City, Boston, Virginia and throughout Oregon. As a composer he has receivedgrants from several important French music institutions (SACEM, SPEDIDAM) and worked closely for many years as composer/performer with the French theater company Compagnie la Première Seconde. Some of his important compositions include Invocation – a prayer for peace (performed with Grammy Award winning baritone Kenneth Overton and acclaimed soprano Camille Ortiz in Eugene and Portland, performed excerpts live on ALLCLASSICAL Portland Radio, as well as in Virginia for an International Peace Builder’s conference); Icarus Quartet for string quartet and narrator based on the Greek Myth (performed in Oregon, Belgium and France), Chekhov Triptych – three Chekhov stories in concert (Paris, New York, Portland) and The Happy Prince for piano quartet and narrator (performed in three different languages on three different continents). He also helped create and co-produce His Majesty, the Devil – a play with music at the Edinburgh and New York International Fringe Festivals. Commissions include Beethoven in the Stars (text, music and concept) by Pacific University (2020) and Chaucer’s The Rooster & The Fox (commissioned and performed by Chamber Music Amici 2021 and programed to be performed again in April 2025) and songs for Birds Flying Through produced by A-Squared productions. He has called Eugene home since 2017 and performs regularly as a violinist with groups such as the Eugene Symphony, Eugene Opera, Chamber Music Amici, among others. He has taught violin in French Conservatories in Versailles, Reims, at Great Neck Music Conservatory and Oregon State University Chamber Music camp, teaches workshops for musicians online (Virtuosity.Online), at Universities and conferences (American String Teacher’s Association National Conferences) and is Associate Director of the Krakauer Institute in Provence, France.
Cellist Kathryn Brunhaver currently lives in Eugene, OR where she is a member of the Elsewhere Ensemble and Eugene Symphony. She has appeared as a guest artist with Chamber Music Amici, microphilharmonic, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Columbia River Chamber Music Festival, Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, Astoria Music Festival Orchestra, and as Principal Cello with Orchestra NEXT, among others. She completed a Doctorate in Cello Performance at the University of Oregon in 2017 and was named Outstanding Graduate Performer. Kathryn enjoys exploring innovative ways of playing the cello and has earned a reputation for specializing in new music, which has included premiering works for solo vocalizing cellist, as well as composing works for herself. This interest in new music extends across genres and has led her to join two regionally-acclaimed bands—Satori Bob and Halie and the Moon. She also performs as a solo singer- songwriter under the name Queen of Cups. Kathryn holds a Master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Peabody Institute, where she was the recipient of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Orchestral Scholarship and the prestigious Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award.
Guest artists
The first American woman to win a Tony award for Best Orchestrations, Katie Kresek’s career as performer, creator, and educator is defined by versatility and multi-genre musical artistry. She is currently the concertmaster of Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway. In addition to a performing career as a classical orchestral player, chamber musician, and recording and touring musician with artists such as Norah Jones, Paul Simon, and Adele, she has played in 18 Broadway productions and numerous Off-Broadway shows. She has arranged for Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Beck, David Byrne, Lana Del Rey, and many others. Her portfolio also includes work as a music coordinator for such events as The Met Gala, The Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting, and in numerous television productions. A leading teaching artist for various New York City cultural institutions, her research and writings on artists who teach have been published nationally and internationally, and she has taught all over the United States and in France, The United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, Italy, and The Philippines. She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in music and music education from Columbia University, where she also serves as adjunct faculty. Katie is also the Founder and Director of The Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study (KIISS), a program that brings students abroad for intensive summer study in France (krakauerinstitute.org).
Guest artists
A native of New York, pianist and teaching artist Barbara Podgurski holds a DMA in piano performance from The Graduate Center (CUNY) as well as a BM in piano performance and an MM in both piano performance and music theory from the Mannes College of Music. Dr. Podgurski has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean and Europe, including a number of performances at Carnegie Hall. She has been featured in television and radio broadcasts which include appearances on WQXR, WNYC’s “Soundcheck”, NPR, WPLN, WQED and numerous others. Dr. Podgurski was featured on a television documentary for NHK in Japan with her touring partner violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn and the famed “Red” Mendelssohn Stradivarius. She was also a past special guest performing for the National Association of Broadcasters with Grammy-nominated violinist Jenny Oaks Baker and was invited with her colleagues to perform at a private ceremony for Pope Francis and members of the United Nations in an interfaith prayer service during the last Papal visit to NYC.
A former faculty member at The Mannes College of Music, Hunter College and Mercy College, she is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at BMCC (CUNY), Staff Pianist for the Strings Department at NYU, and is on the faculty of the RiverArts Music Program in Hudson Valley. Barbara is a consultant for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs as well as for the Board of Education in both NYC and NYS. By invitation in 2014, Dr. Podgurski became a Steinway Teaching Artist. She has performed with rock band Evanescence on their 2017/18 Synthesis Tour and with legendary vocal group Il Divo on their 2019 “Timeless” Tour and 2022 Greatest Hits Tour. Barbara recently completed a project with Alison Cook Beatty modern ballet company in NYC, performing Bartok 2nd Sonata for Piano and Violin and Shostakovich Preludes live on stage during performance. Barbara is currently a contributing writer to Cambridge’s Nineteenth Century Music and has been an Arts Commissioner Advisor for the Queens Council on the Arts and is Chief Advisor on the advisory board of NY Sound Circuit. Barbara is the organist and music director at Trinity St. Andrews Evangelical Lutheran Church in Maspeth, Queens. Barbara is featured in a documentary titled “A Taste of Chamber Music” which will be released in Spring 2026 on PBS.org and allarts.org. Barbara is the Associate Director of KIISS – The Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study in Vaison-la-Romaine, France. Barbara is the Assistant to the Conductor and pianist for The Oratorio Society of Queens.