Cadillac Moon Ensemble

Patti Kilroy, violin, strives to be conversant in a wide array of musical languages. Her ventures into contemporary music have led to a passion for repertoire research and commissioning new pieces. She is a member of Cadillac Moon Ensemble, a quartet dedicated to the advancement of adventurous new music.

Patti also participates in various ensembles in the New York City area including the Argento New Music Project, Signal, The Knights, Chelsea Symphony, One World Symphony, This Ambitious Orchestra, The New York Chamber Virtuosi, rock guitarist Dan Teicher’s Vices and Vines String Quartet and the Noam Faingold Orchestra. She has played at Carnegie Hall, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Merkin Hall, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Galapagos, The Tank, The Living Room, the Mercury Lounge and Death by Audio, among other places. She was a Bang on a Can Summer fellow in the summer of 2010.

Patti is currently a second-year MM candidate in String Studies program at NYU Steinhardt in the studio of Naoko Tanaka. She currently plays a violin crafted by Paul Crowley in the summer of 2009.

Roberta Michel, flute, lives in New York City and is an active performer of solo, chamber, and orchestral music. Michel recently won the Artists International Special Presentation Award and was presented in her debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall for which she was described in the New York Concert Review as a “solid craftsman” who “riveted with her performance, inspiring one to want a repeated hearing”. Michel has performed with groups throughout North America including the Portland String Quartet, SEM Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Cheyenne Symphony, and the Greeley Philharmonic in venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tulley Hall, Merkin Hall, and The Kennedy Center.

Dedicated to the advancement of new music and described for her “extreme adventurousness” (New York Concert Review), Michel has premiered numerous works. She is a founding member of The Cadillac Moon Ensemble, a quartet dedicated to commissioning and performing new works. Michel’s flute and piano duo, Duo RoMi, in addition to performing standard repertoire, is invested in performing new works and promoting composers of our day.

Michel holds a BM with highest honors from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MM from SUNY-Purchase College, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her teachers include Robert Dick, Tara Helen O’Connor, and Alexa Still. Michel has been a Bang on a Can Summer Institute fellow and a participant in the Institute and Festival of Contemporary Performance at Mannes College, as well as participating in festivals at Banff and Domaine Forget. She is on faculty at Great Neck Music Conservatory.

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Michael Midlarsky, cello, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York, has performed extensively as a chamber musician and soloist over the course of his career. Michael received his Masters of Music as a Collins Distinguished Fellow from the University of Wisconsin- Madison under the tutelage of Uri Vardi, and earned his Bachelors of Music as a student of Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music. He has won numerous awards and distinctions including the Howard Hanson and Linda van Voorhies Awards for study at the Eastman School, the National School Orchestra Soloist Award, Queen’s College Cultural Heritage Competition, NJ American String Teacher’s Association Competition, East Brunswick Orchestra Competition, and prizewinner in the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra Competition and Woodmere String Competition. As member of several new music chamber ensembles (Tarab Cello Ensemble, Syzygy New Music Collective, and Cadillac Moon Ensemble) Michael has premiered many works as well as recorded for the Bridge and Naxos labels. Likewise, Michael’s chamber music resume includes performances in 16 states, 6 countries, and at many of the world’s great venues. Recent festivals include the Taos School of Music and the Bowdoin International Music Festival as Steven Doane’s Performing Assistant. Michael plays a David Segal cello and is currently on the music faculty of the St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn.

Performer, composer, and educator Sean Statser, percussion (b. 1983) has been called “Lithe, muscular, and mesmerizing” by the New York Times. As an advocate for new music, Mr. Statser actively collaborates with several New York City artists and ensembles including: the Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Syzygy New Music, Blind Ear Music, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo and is a founding member of NoiseBox. He has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra and One World Symphony as a section percussionist, and has appeared at several major venues including: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Space, three appearances at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (2007, 2008, 2010), Galapagos Art Space, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Roulette, The Tank and the Alba Music Festival. He recently performed with the Metropolis Ensemble as part of Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Festival, under the baton of Maestro Tan Dun.

Mr. Statser has recorded with a variety of artists, including jazz pianist Kenny Werner (No Beginning, No End – Winner of the 2010 Guggenheim Award). He has appeared as a featured soloist on several albums, and is currently working on his latest release, It’s Mutual, comprised of commissioned and new works for percussion. He has recorded for labels including: Naxos, Nonesuch, Orange Mountain Music, Innova Records, Half Note Records, Albany Records and New Dynamic Records.

Mr. Statser received his M.M. in Instrumental Performance from New York University, studying under the instruction of Jonathan Haas and Simon Boyar. He holds a B.A. in Music Performance from Fort Lewis College, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Upon graduating in 2010, Mr. Statser joined the Percussion Studies faculty at New York University and serves as Coordinator for the NYU Steinhardt Broadway Percussion Seminar/Summit.