STEPHANIE KEY received her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with Distinction in Performance. Having performed throughout the US and internationally, she has commissioned several works for clarinet. She recorded John Cage's Sonata for Clarinet, under the composer's supervision. She is currently Assistant Principal Clarinet with the San Antonio Symphony, a member of the Houston Ballet Orchestra, and plays clarinet, bass clarinet, and squeaky toy with Pseudo Buddha. Stephanie is on the music faculty of Trinity University. Her growing list of hobbies include cross-country cycling and rock and mountain climbing.

ERTAN TORGUL, a native of Turkey, started his violin studies at the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of twelve. He studied violin with Professor Nuri Ceken, Concertmaster of the State Opera and Ballet. After four years he was entered into the “special status” program designed for gifted students where he studied violin with Professor Suna Kan, one of Turkey's premier soloists. After receiving his Bachelor of Music degree in 1987, Mr. Torgul moved to the United States to continue his studies with William Barbini, concertmaster of the Sacramento Symphony, at the Sacramento State University, and was a member of the Sacramento Symphony for two years before he went to Indiana University for further studies with Franco Gulli. After receiving his Performer’s Diploma from Indiana University Mr. Torgul joined the New World Symphony. During his tenure he became a founding member of the critically acclaimed Plymouth String Quartet. In its first season the quartet received first prize in the Prix Mercure Wettbewerb in Vienna, second prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and was a finalist in the Paolo Borciani String Quartet Competition in Italy. The Florida-based quartet performed nationally and throughout Europe and South America, in such cities as Paris, Vienna, Monte Carlo, Madrid, and Buenos Aires, and collaborated with such artists as Jean Yves Thibaudet, Michael Tilson Thomas and the Miami String Quartet.

He is an active chamber musician and has performed throughout Texas in such cities as Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and across the country. He is a member of SOLI Chamber Ensemble which specializes in contemporary repertoire. His summer engagements include The Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, Music in the Mountains Festival in Northern California, The Cactus Pear Chamber Music Festival in Texas, the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado, and the Sun Valley Symphony in Sun Valley, Idaho.

He is currently living in Fort Worth with his wife, Kim, who is a violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony, and two cats, Flapjack and Pablo. Mr. Torgul plays on the 1732 “Arkwright-Lady Rebecca” Stradivarius violin.

DAVID MOLLENAUER received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied with Harvey Shapiro. He also studied with Lynn Harrell at the University of Southern California and has coached with the Juilliard Quartet, and concert artist Yo-Yo Ma. David is the Assistant Principal Cello of the San Antonio Symphony, a member of the adjunct music faculty at Trinity University, and has served as Teaching Assistant to Lynn Harrell at Houston's Rice University. During the summer he performs with the Grand Teton Music Festival. And having passed the first level in 2005, David continues his pursuit of advanced titles from the Court of Master Sommeliers.

Hailed as “an artist with commanding technique, always at the service of the music and capable of taming any tigers the composer has unleashed” (Windeler, San Antonio Express News), CAROLYN TRUE is a pianist equally at home on the concert stage and in the teaching studio. Celebrating her sixteenth year on the faculty of Trinity University, True teaches individual lessons, accompanying, piano ensemble, piano literature, piano pedagogy, and other related courses. She walks the delicate balance between teaching in San Antonio, giving workshops, master classes, seminars, and adjudicating and actively performing solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire.

A prize winner in national and international competitions (most notably the Kapell International, MTNA, and the Eastman Concerto Competitions) she has performed in more than half of our fifty states, as well as in Tours, Paris, Lyon, and Biarritz (France) and Graz (Austria). She was awarded the prestigious Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music where she also received her DMA. Other degrees were earned at the University of Maryland, College Park (MM) and Central Missouri State University (BM) where she, in 2001, was chosen as the Distinguished Music Alumna. Major teachers have included Nelita, Wesley, and Marilyn True, Charles Fisher, and Thomas Schumacher. Thanks to a generous Rotary Foundation Scholarship, she spent a year studying at the Conservatoire National de la Musique de Lyon, France with one of Cortot’s final pupils - Eric Heidsieck.

A compassionate and challenging professor, True is carrying on the family tradition. In 2000, True was recognizes as the Texas Music Teachers Association’s Collegiate Teacher of the Year. Recently, True and nationally known pedagogue Jody Graves gave duo-workshops at the Eastman School of Music; they presented a series of sessions inviting teachers to re-experience their creativity and celebrate music through all of the musical senses (seeing, hearing, singing, feeling, and being).

True is drawn not only to the great works of the past but also to that of the present. With verbal commentary she draws audiences in to music perhaps not immediately accessible (she would hasten to add, contemporary music is always immediately accessible to younger audiences). Through her work with SOLI Chamber Ensemble, she has performed many premieres, most recently a commission by Ned Rorem. She has recorded works of Ligeti, Bach/Brahms, Beethoven, and Bennett. Stay tuned for the release date!