Viola
 Roger Myers enjoys an impressive record of performing and teaching both here and abroad and has traveled widely presenting critically acclaimed concerts and master classes in countries on three continents including Austria, Norway, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico as well as the U.S.A. At the University of Texas at Austin he is Professor and Head of The String Division and was the recipient in 2007 of the School of Music Teaching Excellence Award.
He has been associated with some of the nation’s most prestigious summer festivals including the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Maine and the International Festival Institute at Round Top, Texas. He continues to serve on the faculty of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Music Program in California and has taught at the International School for Musical Arts in Canada.
Roger Myers was born in Sydney, Australia where he played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra while still a student. He has lived in the United States since 1987 when his Sydney Conservatorium String Quartet was invited to become the international quartet in residence at Michigan State University. Later he studied on scholarships with Donald McInnes at the University of Southern California and on completion of his Masters degree the string faculty named him its most outstanding graduate of the year.
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Eric Kean is an active teacher and performer in the Northwest. After graduating with Distinction in Statistics from Cornell University, Eric pursued further studies in viola at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Mark Jackobs of the Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Kean has performed with the Seattle Symphony, the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, the Britt Festival Orchestra and, for the past two summers, as a soloist and chamber musician at the Newport Music Festival; An active recitalist, recent concerts include an evening devoted to all 6 Bach Suites and another solo recital where Eric performed his own transcription of Ysaye's "Obession".
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Roxanna Patterson began her professional career at age 16 as a member of the Fort Worth Symphony and the Forth Worth Opera Orchestras. She later attended the Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) and played in the Houston Symphony, Houston Opera Orchestra and served as Concertmaster or the Houston Ballet Orchestra. Her teachers included Ron Patterson, Eudice Shapiro, Wayne Crouse and Karen Tuttle. In 1979 she moved to Monte Carlo with her husband Concertmaster Ron Patterson. There she changed from violin to viola and the couple formed the unique violin/viola ensemble Duo Patterson. A chamber music enthusiast, Roxanna has performed extensively in this capacity, recently recording the Hindemith Trio Op.47 for Viola, Heckelphone and Piano for the Centaur label. Roxanna has also recorded for the Ante Aeternum, CRI, and VOX labels, and appeared on European and American television. She has also appeared in recital and as soloist with orchestras in France, Italy, Germany, England, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and the U.S. In 1984 she received the first Special Award from the Princess Grace Foundation and was recently decorated by Prince Rainier of Monaco with Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Culturel. She is the violist of the Rainier String Quartet and Principal Viola of the New Hampshire Music Festival. She and Ron have three children and reside in Seattle, Washington.
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