The Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra

Steve Stone has a master’s degree in choral conducting. He has conducted works such as the Vivaldi Gloria and the Schubert Mass in G with chorus and string accompaniment, and performed as accompanist with a choir that performed for the Pope at the Vatican in 1993. In addition to piano and organ, he plays the violin and the guitar.

Lynn Farnham is a violist who retired from Atlanta Public Schools, where she taught elementary strings.  She now teaches privately.

Brad Knobel’s terminal music degree (“DM,” later re-styled “DMA”) is from Florida State University, officially backdated to April 10, 2006. He has played professionally in various groupings since 1975. Mr. Knobel has worked, studied, sat at the dinner table or otherwise had contact with David Soyer, Robert Sylvester, André Navarra, János Starker, Margeret Rowell, Antonio Janigro, Lubomir Georgiev, Anner Bylsma, John Dalley, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Jaap Schröder and Dana Maiben, among others. His playing has been described as “very aggressive,” “fearless” and “artistic, which makes up for a lot” as well as in other less printable terms.

Mr. Knobel works as a recitalist and freelance orchestra cellist. He also teaches privately.

Dr. Susan Tepping was a violinist, violist, theorist and composer. A retired professor of music theory and composition at Georgia State University, Dr. Tepping taught theory, composition and strings privately.