SHELDON ARTISTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Conductor / Conductor Website
Eva Ollikainen has subsequently developed a comprehensive repertoire with a focus on the great German symphonies, and has been working with leading international orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Symphoniker, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Brussels Philharmonic. She also conducted performances at the Royal Danish Opera (Turandot), the Gothenburg Opera (Carmen), and the Royal Swedish Opera (The Magic Flute).
"Both of the Wiener Symphoniker's factory expeditions were led by the Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen with great dedication and charisma. The harmony between her and the musicians was evident, although this was only their first collaboration together - although it is conceivable that this could just be the beginning of their work together."
Job Titles:
- Associate Manager & Administration
- Associate Manager and Marketing
- Co - Founder & Executive Director of the International Saxophone Academy
Jonathan Wintringham joins Sheldon Artists with a uniquely varied background: performing artist on Astral Artist roster, 15 years touring experience in the United States and Asia, two years as Executive Producer of an online Saxophone Academy with a season of 130 events, as well as Executive Assistant for a concert production company in the world of weddings, casinos, cover bands. As an artist Jonathan has performed and produced over 200 concerts, having earned his degrees at the University of Arizona and Eastman School of Music. He has won first-place awards in more than twenty competitions, was the first classical saxophonist to be featured on Performance Today's Young Artists in Residence, and has contributed to the addition of over forty new works for saxophone.
In addition to his role in marketing, production and management at Sheldon Artists, Jonathan is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of the International Saxophone Academy, an online educational platform for saxophonists worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Operations Director for Marlboro Music
- Tour Coordinator
Karen Kloster began her career in the performing arts as a free lance tour manager of chamber orchestras, dance companies and theatre companies in 1988. By 1992 she shifted her focus to symphony orchestras and two years later joined Columbia Artists / Doug Sheldon. Sharing a desk, one computer and one phone line for three weeks in 1994 created a fast bond between Doug and Karen. Countless hours were spent plotting routes and budgeting and choosing hotels to ensure the best tours possible for the musicians.
The Sheldon/Kloster collaboration continued for more than 26 years during which Karen travelled on the road for over 70 tours as a tour manager, and later assuming the role of Tour Coordinator organizing tours, hiring tour staff, booking concerts, plotting routes and overseeing budgets. Among the numerous tours were regular returning visits of the Mariinsky Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, London Symphony, China Philharmonic and Orchestre National de France. She has been involved with tours of Boston Symphony, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Danish National Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Teatro Regio Torino, Vancouver Symphony, World Orchestra for Peace, Stanislav Opera Company, and a stage production of the Haydn Creation.
Karen is the Operations Director for Marlboro Music, having worked in Marlboro Vermont since 1987. She has a degree in Mathematics from the College of William and Mary and lives in Vermont full time with her partner Butch Kaeppel.
Job Titles:
- Conductor, Pianist, Composer
- Conductor, Pianist, Composer / Artist Website
- Conductor, Pianist, Composer / Conductor Website
- Consulting
Job Titles:
- Administrator
- Social Media Intern
Maria Torres-Melgares is a Spanish arts administrator, saxophonist, and educator based in Iowa City where she is pursuing her DMA in Saxophone Performance. She has received a Master of Music degree in saxophone performance from the University of Michigan as well as certificates in Arts Entrepreneurship & Leadership, and in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. She was recognized winning more than twenty international prizes in Europe and America and has performed concerts on both continents as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras. She has been part of the Ibercamera artists agency/presenter in Barcelona, Spain as a social media content creator and a social media intern since 2020 with the International Saxophone Academy. She joins Sheldon Artists as a social media intern.
R Douglas Sheldon's career began as Assistant Conductor of the Brown University Glee Club, then Visiting Instructor in Music and Choir Director at Hamilton College, followed by Executive Assistant to the Music Director and the General Manager of the Rochester Philharmonic, before settling in for a 5-decade stint at Columbia Artists. In the fall of 2020 he formed his own artist management - Sheldon Artists.
Mr. Sheldon has represented artists and ensembles as disparate as Alexis Weissenberg, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Beaux Arts Trio, Boston Symphony, Boys Choir of Harlem, Denis Matsuev, Grace Bumbry, Jaap van Zweden, Khatia Buniatishvili, Leonard Slatkin, London Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre Nationale de France, Salzburg Marionettes, Teresa Berganza and Valery Gergiev.
He has served as Music Director of St. Peters Episcopal Church since 1976, Choirmaster of the Hamilton College Reunion Choir since 1980, and Founder & Conductor of the Baldwin Festival Choir of New York since 2008. In addition, he has guest-conducted the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia, the University Glee Club of New York, and Orfeon Pamplones.
Mr. Sheldon has served as Juror at the Olga Kern Piano Competition, the Concours Musicales International Piano Competition Montreal, and the Malta Piano Competition; Grand Chair of the OSM Organ and Violin Competitions, and President of the Sarasate International Violin Competition.
Robert Treviño has rapidly emerged as one of the most exciting Mexican-American conductors performing today, as well as one of the most in-demand talents of the younger generation. The past three years have seen his appointments as Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
Most recently, he signed a multi-year recording contract with the leading classical label, Ondine, which has already resulted in the critically-acclaimed release of a complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle. Upcoming Ondine recordings will include an all-Ravel album with the Basque National Orchestra and an Einojuhani Rautavaara album in Malmö with violinist Simone Lamsma. His cycle of Max Bruch Symphonies with the Bamberg Symphony was released by Klassic in August 2020, to high critical praise.
Treviño burst into the international spotlight at the Bolshoi Theater in December 2013, when he led a new production of Verdi's Don Carlo. The Russian press wrote, "There has not been an American success of this magnitude in Moscow since Van Cliburn." He was subsequently nominated for a Golden Mask award for "Best Conductor in a New Production".
In recent seasons, Treviño's European engagements have included the London Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vienna Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, to name a few. He has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, the Symphonies of San Francisco, Toronto, Detroit, and the Washington National Opera's
Robert Treviño has commissioned, premiered, and worked closely with many leading composers, among them John Adams, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Higdon, André Previn, Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, and John Zorn.
Job Titles:
- Administrator
- Executive Assistant
Ryan Brideau is a composer, tenor, and teacher living with his wife, Anna, and their Great Dane, Donut, in Astoria. He is a Master of Music in Composition candidate at Mannes School of Music, where he studies under Lowell Liebermann, and holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice from the Juilliard School, where he studied with the late Sanford Sylvan. Recent compositions include Fragments, a set of five miniatures for solo oboe recently given its world premiere by Mitchel Kuhn at Oberlin Conservatory, and Lovely to the outward eye, an anthem for a cappella choir premiered in Boston by the choir of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Milton, MA. Ryan is passionate about people, equity, new music, and Star Wars. Ryan joins Sheldon Artists as Executive Assistant & Administrator.
conductor Steven Fox is Artistic Director of The Clarion Choir & The Clarion Orchestra in New York, and Music Director of Cathedral Choral Society at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
Steven was named an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 2010 ‘for significant contributions to his field in music,' and has received GRAMMY® nominations for his first three recordings: Steinberg's Passion Week (2016), Kastalsky's Memory Eternal (2018), and Kastalsky's Requiem (2020).
Job Titles:
- Associate Manager and Administration
Suzanne Neely brings over 25 years of experience in non-profit presenting, producing and performing in the choral, orchestral and instrumental fields. The last 15 years she has served as Board Chair for two choral organizations in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Prior to her board service, Suzanne worked as Director of Artistic Operations for the Choral Arts Society of Washington, a 200-voice symphonic chorus, where she was responsible for all Choral Arts' concert appearances and managed all their international touring activities. She also directed two emerging artists' series and served as Manager of Concert Operations at Washington Performing Arts, where she first worked with Doug and Karen, presenting their orchestras and instrumental soloists on their tours through Washington, DC. Suzanne holds a Bachelor's degree in Music (vocal performance) from the College of William and Mary and a Master's degree in Arts Administration from Indiana University Bloomington. Suzanne will concentrate on Administration and Career Management.
Vadim Repin was born in Siberia in 1971 and won all categories of the Wienawski competition at the age of eleven. His debuts in Moscow and St. Petersburg followed immediately, and at the age of 14 he made his debut in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin and Helsinki and one year later at Carnegie Hall in New York. At 17 he was the youngest ever winner of the Reine Elisabeth Concours. Since then he has performed with the world's most important orchestras and conductors and in all the major music centres.
Vadim Repin recorded the great Russian violin concertos by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky for Warner Classics. For Deutsche Grammophon he recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Kreutzer Sonata with Martha Argerich with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti, and the Brahms Violin Concerto and Double Concerto (with Truls Mørk, cello) with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly. DG's trios of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov with Mischa Maisky and Lang Lang won the Echo Prize, and a CD of sonatas by Grieg, Janacek and César Franck with Nikolai Lugansky won the BBC Music Award. In 2010 he was awarded the highest French distinction, the Victoire d'Honneur and the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres for his services to music. In Beijing he was appointed Honorary Professor of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2014 and in 2015 the Shanghai Conservatory also awarded him this title.
In April 2014 he became founder and Artistic Director of the first Transsiberian Arts Festival in the magnificent new concert hall of Novosibirsk and performed world premieres of the violin concertos dedicated to him, "Voices of Violin" by Benjamin Yussupov, "De Profundis" by Lera Auerbach and in 2018 the violin concert "Dialogue: You and I" by Sofia Gubaidulina, also commissioned by and dedicated to him. The festival was enthusiastically received, taking place for the sixth time this year in October and November, involving venues in Russia, Japan, Israel, Vienna, the USA and France in addition to Novosibirsk and Siberian destinations, and also setting priorities for young musicians - music education plays an important role in Vadim Repin's life. Last season he gave a series of master classes for young violinists at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and was a juror at the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London and the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.
On a European tour with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, he played the world première and numerous first performances of the double concerto "Shadow Walker" by Mark-Anthony Turnage, together with Daniel Hope. Other recent highlights are performances of the programme "Pas de Deux" together with the internationally renowned ballerina Svetlana Zakharova in Hong Kong, Muscat, Japan and Korea, concerts at the Enescu Festival Bucharest, in Verbier and at the Montreal Festival, with the RAI Torino Orchestra, performances of the new violin concerto by Sofia Gubaidulina in Vienna with the RSO under Andres Mustonen and in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, and most recently the première of Arvo Pärt's revised version of "La Sindone" to which the composer, marking his 85 th year, added a solo violin part with Vadim Repin in mind.
Vadim Repin plays the 1733 'Rode' violin by Antonio Stradivari.
"The solemnity of Vadim Repin's stance on the platform belies the warmly communicative, profoundly expressive interpretations that have become a trademark of one of today's most compelling musicians."