Artistic Coordinators
Dominique Bellon is a professional oboist, teacher and specialist in performance psychology from Montreal, Quebec. She holds a doctorate in Oboe Performance from Arizona State University, a Master’s in Oboe from the Cincinnati Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music in Honours Composition from McGill University. Dominique has taught music classes at Eastern Kentucky University, University of Ottawa and the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She has also given numerous lectures and workshops in performance psychology at various universities and professional organizations throughout the US and Canada. Her professional performing experience includes holding a position as principal oboe of Orquesta sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico) and playing principal oboe and English horn with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, she frequently returns to Quebec to play with various orchestras.
Performers
The Favonian Winds, Mattie Greathouse, flute, Dominique
Bellon, oboe, Adria Sutherland, clarinet, are professional musicians,
university professors and teachers from the Lexington, Kentucky area. They have
a special interest in promoting new music by Kentucky composers and have
premiered new works at the Kentucky Music Teachers Association conference, as
well as at Transylvania University and Eastern Kentucky University. In 2018, the
Favonian Winds were invited guest artists at Murray State University for three
days, giving lectures, masterclasses and a collaborative performance. The trio
is named after Favonius, the god who personified a favorable western wind in Greco-Roman mythology.
Loren Tice has concertized widely as pianist, organist, harpsichordist, hand bell and choral conductor. A former reviewer of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra for the Lexington Herald- Leader, he holds degrees from College of Emporia in Kansas and University of Illinois. He is an accompanist at Transylvania University and performs with Musick’s Company, the leading early-music group in central Kentucky.
Amy Feather, soprano, has recently reprised the role of Violetta in La Traviata with Rogue Opera in Oregon and performed the roles of Fiordiligo in selected scenes from Cosi fan Tutte with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony in Illinois. She has also performed the role of Violetta in La Traviata, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Illinois Opera Program as well as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro with the University of Illinois Orchestra. Her credits also include Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, and Nekhlyudov's Sister and Princess Myagkaya in the Resurrection by Machover with the Boston Lyric Opera. As a member of the Boston University Opera Institute Young Artist Program, her credits include Ilia in Idomeneo, Irena in The Seduction of a Lady, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Lizzie in Bach's Coffee Cantata. Ms. Feather is also an internatinal recitalist performing in Salzburg, Austria and the roles of Micaela in Carmen and Antonia in Les Contes D'Hoffman with the Komische Kammer Oper Munchen in Humbach, Germany.
Adria Sutherland is currently ABD at the University of Kentucky, where she was also a teaching assistant for the Department of Music Theory. She obtained her Bachelor of Music from Morehead State University, and her Master of Music from East Carolina University, and her primary teachers include Scott Wright, Nathan Williams, Michael Acord, and Atossa Kramer.
Adria is adjunct professor of clarinet at Berea College, and has previously served on the faculties of Morehead State University, Georgetown College, Transylvania University, and Asbury College, where she has taught clarinet, chamber music, music theory, music history, and music education courses. She has performed throughout the U.S. and Western Europe, and she enjoys coaching middle and high school clarinet sections throughout central Kentucky.