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Principal French horn with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Laura Klock has also performed as guest principal horn with orchestras from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. At age 22, Ms. Klock was appointed to the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she is Professor of Horn, and a member of the Avanti Wind Quintet and the Infinity Brass Quintet. She has been a guest artist in Taiwan and in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and can be heard in recording on the Open Loop, Crystal, and Gasparo labels.

Appearing for the second time with The Shakespeare Concerts, Carolyn Cantrell is in her fifth season as Principal horn of the Orchestra of Indian Hill. She is also principal horn of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, third horn with the Boston Lyric Opera, and second horn in the Portland (ME) Symphony. Ms Cantrell is on the faculty of the Indian Hill Music School.

Kimberly Harriman is third horn of the Orchestra of Indian Hill and has performed with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Vermont and Portland Symphonies. A 2000 fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and a 1999 fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Ms Harriman is making her second appearance with The Shakespeare Concerts. Ms Cantrell and Harriman premiered Joseph Summer's setting of Sonnet CXXXIII, for horns, harp, soprano and tenor; in 2004.

French hornist Joseph Walker is finishing his Master of Music degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, after undergraduate study at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. This is Mr Walker's The Shakespeare Concerts' debut.

The Shakespeare Concerts features music set to the text of the world's pre-eminent dramatist and poet, William Shakespeare.