2007 Artists

Festival Chamber Players

Our 2007 Festival chamber concerts celebrate woodwinds, in two superlative performances by five members of the Festival Orchestra. At the Boathouse, Alan Juza (oboe) and Tom Schubert (bassoon) join Portland piano virtuoso Kelli Stephens to perform works by Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, and Head, as well as solo pieces that feature their individual instruments. At Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Greg Bishop (flute), Chip Phillips (clarinet), and Steve Durnin (horn) -- will add their singular sounds in a concert featuring works by Mozart and Poulenc.

Greg Bishop (flute)

Greg Bishop received his Masters Degree in Flute Performance from the University of Wisconsin. As a freelance flutist in Southern California, he performed with the Royal Ballet, Opera Pacific, Pacific Symphony, Orange County Philharmonic, and South Coast Symphony, and appeared as a soloist with the Long Beach Bach Festival Orchestra, Orchestra of Santa Fe, and Washington Idaho Symphony, as well as with orchestras in the Czech Republic and Austria. Since his return to the Pacific Northwest, Greg has performed with the Spokane Symphony, Spokane Opera, Spokane Bach Festival, Zephyr, and Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, and is currently principal flute for the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra. 

Chip Phillips (clarinet)

Chip Phillips received his Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Thom Martin and Bill Wrzesien. He has performed as Principal Clarinet with the New Zealand Symphony, Alabama Symphony, and New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, and also teaches clarinet at Gonzaga University. Chip joined the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra as Principal Clarinet in 2000, the same year he became Principal Clarinet of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. Performing with the Music Festival is a treasured experience that Chip looks forward to every year. 

Steve Durnin (horn)

A native Californian, Steve Durnin has worked with most of the top composers and arrangers in the entertainment industry, including John Williams, Henry Mancini, Danny Elfman, Quincy Jones, Elmer Bernstein, Lalo Shifrin, Trevor Jones, Stanley Clarke, and Hans Zimmer. His film credits include JFK, Hook, Beethoven, Mission Impossible III, The Color Purple, Hoffa, The Incredibles, and Far and Away. Steve has performed with the Long Beach, Pacific, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, New West, Glendale, Santa Fe, San Luis Obispo, Capistrano Valley, and Beverly Hills symphonies, and the Riverside County Philharmonic, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, and Opera Santa Barbara. He is the Principal horn of the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra, as well as the Sierra Summer Festival, Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, Capistrano Valley Symphony, and Long Beach Opera. 

Alan Juza (oboe)

Alan Juza is a long-time member of the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra. He currently resides in the Portland area, where he is a member of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra and Portland Opera Orchestra. Alan has also performed with the Oregon Symphony, Houston Symphony, Eugene Symphony and Peter Britt Festival Orchestra, and is an oboe instructor in the Music Department of Pacific University. 

Thomas Schubert (bassoon)

Thomas Schubert has performed extensively on the West Coast, from northern Mexico to Washington.  He joined the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra in 1982 while the principal bassoonist for the Salem Symphony and is now principal bassoonist for the La Jolla Symphony.  Since moving to San Diego in 1987, Thomas has pursued chamber music with several ensembles including the San Diego Double Reed Ensemble, MUSE, Trio Divertimento, Geisel Library Bassoon Quartet, SONOR, and Camarada. An active free-lance bassoonist, he has performed with Starlight Productions, Orquesta de Baja California, Opera de Tijuana, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Cabrillo Chamber Orchestra, Classics 4 Kids, and other organizations. With a Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine, Thomas spends his free time as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego.

Kelli Brown Stephens (piano)

A resident of Portland, Oregon, Kelli Brown Stephens is an active recitalist, teacher, adjudicator and clinician in the Northwest. She has served for thirteen years on the music faculty at Pacific University in Forest Grove and maintains a private teaching studio in her Portland home. Her students have been winners in state, national and international competitions. Kelli’s principal piano studies were with Mary Busterud, Paul Parmelee, Mark Westcott and James Cook, and she coached with Gyorgy Sebok and Storm Bull, a student of Bartok. Kelli received a Master of Music from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Bachelor of Music from Willamette University, both in piano performance.