Guest Musicians

Dr. Benjamin Boskoff is a graduate of The University of Colorado Boulder (DMA) and The University of Michigan School of Music (MM). An active vocal artist, Mr. Boskoff is actively engaged in productions, recitals, and chamber concerts in the United States and abroad, most recently in the Czech Republic. Mr. Boskoff specializes in the Bel Canto and Rossini repertoire, the music of Benjamin Britten, and chamber music in both concert and recital settings. Highlights include: Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw with Red River Lyric Opera, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville with Light Opera of New Jersey, Prince Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Opera MODO, Count Ory in Le Comte Ory with Lawrence University as a special guest artist, and Spoletta with Opera in the Heights. Mr. Boskoff has been a resident artist with Opera North and a primary soloist for the Bach Society Houston. His latest engagement was with Penn Square Music Festival as Conte Almaviva in their production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and will be making 3 house and role debuts during the 2024/25 season.

Born into a family of classical musicians, Noah Kay started playing the oboe at age 15. In 2017, he joined the Colorado Springs Philharmonic as Principal Oboe, and in September 2022, he was appointed Principal Oboe of Symphony in C in Camden, NJ. Noah has performed and toured the US, Japan, and Europe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, including a recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label. He has also performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Colorado Symphony, Princeton Symphony, ProMusica Columbus, and Symphoria. Festival appearances include Viva Bach Peterborough, the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Cape May Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and Chautauqua Symphony, with whom he was appointed 2nd oboe in August 2023. For two weeks each summer, Noah also teaches at Kinhaven Music School’s Junior Session. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University.

Flutist, Norman Menzales, joined the Fort Collins Symphony as Principal Flute in 2013 and was appointed to the same position with Montana’s Great Falls Symphony in 2012 and the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra in 2021.  Praised for his “…warm, attractive sound” by the Winston-Salem Journal, Menzales has performed with numerous ensembles including the Buffalo Philharmonic in New York, the Erie Chamber Orchestra in Pennsylvania, the Boulder Philharmonic in Colorado, and the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina. He has appeared at the Aspen, Bowdoin, Colorado College, Eastern and Sarasota Music Festivals. As a soloist, Menzales was awarded top prizes in Young Artist Competitions sponsored by the Atlanta, Central Ohio, Pittsburgh and Rochester Flute Associations. He has performed concerti with the Fort Collins Symphony, Great Falls Symphony, North Carolina School of the Arts Solisti Symphony, the Eastman Chamber Orchestra, and Ars Nova Musicians of New York. An artist dedicated to sharing and spreading his passion for chamber music, Menzales performs as solo flutist of Montana’s premier woodwind quintet, the Chinook Winds. The group strives to bring live, classical music to rural communities throughout the United States and stresses the importance of music education in schools.  The Chinook Winds have toured and performed throughout the Northwest and was invited to perform at the 2015 International Horn Symposium in Los Angeles and the 2015 International Double Reed Society’s Conference in Tokyo, Japan. Born in Georgia, Menzales began studying the flute at the age of twelve and played in a variety of community ensembles.  After graduating with a Bachelor of Music with Dr. Tadeu Coelho at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he continued his graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music where he served as a teaching assistant for world renowned flutist and pedagogue, Bonita Boyd.

Ryan Yamashiro is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he received a Master of Music Degree in 2019 studying with Barrick Stees. He received his Bachelor’s Degree of Art in Music Performance in the spring of 2017 from UCLA where he studied with John Steinmetz. Ryan has played with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Billings Symphony Orchestra, and Battle Creek Symphony. He was a chamber music fellow at the Kent Blossom Music Festival in 2018 and in 2017 performed as a concerto soloist with the UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra. Ryan has been engaged as a guest artist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Music and keeps his own private bassoon studio. When not playing the bassoon, Ryan enjoys artisan coffee, playing chess, and computer programming.

Ronnie Kuller is a composer, arranger, pianist and accordionist who has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Philharmonic, and Mister Tom Musick, and whose compositions have been performed at Ear Taxi Festival and recorded onto wax cylinder at Edison National Historical Park. Ronnie is a co-developer and music director for Her Only Light, a set of new arrangements of the art and folk songs of Elizabeth "Connie" Converse for chamber ensemble, with interdisciplinary performer  Emmy Bean. Ronnie lives in Chicago with her wonderful husband Patrick and amazing daughter Sylvie. Despite growing up in Massachusetts, this is her first visit to Nantucket!