Flutist Lois Bliss Herbine is an internationally renown solo piccolo recording artist. All six accompanied recordings from her CD, Take Wing, which include Vincent Persichetti, Daniel Dorff and Michael Daugherty premieres, have been broadcast on radio stations across the United States. The Gramophone hails her recital as “high-flying” and Music Web International proclaims, “Another leading wind soloist takes flight”. In 2009, in her premiere chamber recording produced with DTR Music, Illuminations, her performance was praised as a “model of color-driven expression” that compared favorably to internationally renowned chamber artists (David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer).
With the support of Powell Flutes, Herbine released her solo EP, Alight, August 2018, which includes the premiere recording of Tweet! composed for her by Daniel Dorff and Amanda Harberg’s Prayer which is Herbine’s debut classical solo flute recording. Her first flute solo recording in a new age composition, titled I Cried, was released as part of UNESCOs world peace project – Action Moves People United. This double CD set made the Billboard Chart in October 2016 and her partners in the creation of the single track went on to win three Grammy Awards in 2019. In September 2017, Herbine recorded for Rupam Sarmah’s, A Musical Journey: Together in Peace, which was released at the United Nations in New York. This CD climbed to #1 on the Billboard World Music Chart in November 2017. As a commercial artist, Herbine has performed in soundtracks for television and radio specials, theme music and commercials. She has accompanied John Legend and recorded for Spike Lee. For four years Herbine served as both the principal flute for Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and for the Mann Festival orchestra, accompanying artists such as YES, Art Garfunkel, Brian Wilson and Linda Eder on tour.
Herbine has performed piccolo continuously with the Reading Symphony Orchestra and annually for the Ocean City Pops Orchestra for over twenty years. She also performs piccolo with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra. For eighteen years as solo flutist and piccoloist for Philadelphia’s new music ensemble, Orchestra 2001, Herbine worked closely with many composers including Gunther Schuller, Tan Dun, George Rockberg, Andrea Clearfield, Gerald Levinson, Melinda Wagner and Jennifer Higdon. She recorded with the ensemble for CRI (New World Records) in the Music of our Time CD series and for Albany Records. A five track recording of Gerald Levinson’s in dark featuring Herbine’s bass flute was re-released in 2020 on the Innova label. See loisherbine.com.
Beth Dzwil, violist, founder and director of Fairmount Strings, is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, where she studied with long time principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Joseph dePasquale. She is a former member of the Elysian Camerata and has performed with the Delaware Symphony, the Classical Symphony, the Ocean City Pops and Orchestra 2001. She has served as principal violist of the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as soloist with the St. John’s Festival Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, the Fairmount Chamber Ensemble and the Buxmont Chamber Orchestra. In 1995, she was the subject of a Philadelphia Inquirer feature article.
In addition to her classical work, Beth has studied jazz techniques with the Turtle Island String Quartet and has performed internatiIn addition to her classical work, Beth has studied jazz techniques with the Turtle Island String Quartet and has performed internationally and recorded six critically acclaimed jazz albums with the Tyrone Brown String Sextet. It is her work with this group that earned her the status of voting member in the Grammy organization.onally and recorded six critically acclaimed jazz albums with the Tyrone Brown String Sextet. It is her work with this group that earned her the status of voting member in the Grammy organization.
Beth has been teaching violin and viola and coaching chamber music for over 30 years. In addition to maintaining a private teaching studio, she teaches at Community College of Philadelphia and Germantown Friends School.
Cellist Mimi Morris-Kim, loves playing chamber music on modern cello as well as continuo onBaroque cello. She has a doctorate in cello performance from the University of Michigan where she was a member of the University of Michigan Graduate String Quartet and where she met her husband, harpsichordist and medical physicist, Leonard Kim. Mimi performed as a member of the Ann Arbor Symphony for seven years. She performs frequently with the Riverside Symphony and as a substitute with many groups throughout the Delaware Valley. Mimi has three children, two of whom are among her twenty five cello students. Mimi Morris-Kim is on the faculty of Princeton String Academy and has extensive training in the Suzuki method of cello instruction.
