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Featuring Thursday Musical Members Aja Majkrzak, violin & The Nokomis Piano Quartet: Carolyn Boulay, violin, Judy MacGibbon, viola, Daryl Carlson, cello, Max Radloff, piano
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Since receiving her Master’s degree in 2013, Aja has performed with many regional orchestras and is currently concertmaster of the East Metro Symphony Orchestra and section violin in the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra. Her orchestral experiences have given her the opportunity to share the stage with performers like Leila Josefowicz, Audra McDonald, and Gil Shaham. Aja is a faculty member at the Saint Paul Conservatory of Music, an Artist Member of Thursday Musical, and can be found on Instagram @violiningaja.
In an effort to make classical music more fun and approachable, Aja started a podcast called Pour Me A Mozart. The show combines her bartending background with her passion for sharing classical music. Pour Me A Mozart is available wherever you find podcasts.
While orchestral playing is the focus of her career, Aja also performs with the Cuban jazz group Charanga Tropical. In June 2015 she traveled to Havana, Cuba with the group to become the first band from the US to participate in the International Danzon Festival.
If she is not making music you can find Aja with her two cats, Dexter and Cindy Lou Who, cooking vegetarian meals, mixing craft cocktails, and attempting to keep her plants alive.
Carolyn Boulay left the San Antonio Symphony so that she and her husband, Pat, could raise a family in their native Minnesota. As a freelance musician, she has played on rooftops and cruises, at formal garage sales and the White House. She has been a guest soloist with community orchestras, played heavy metal at rodeos and allows to provide unscheduled music in many national parks with her concertina -playing husband. Carolyn and Pat have 3 daughters and 11 grandchildren.
Judy MacGibbon is a native of Hopkins, a graduate of the U of MN and hopes to continue as a freelance violist as the pandemic eases!
She plays with the Duluth Superior Symphony and is a founding member of the Unicorn Ensemble( aka the Royal Strings), who played at the Renaissance Festival for over 35 years. A former viola specialist at the International Music camp, violinist with the Golden Strings, Judy teaches at Mount Calvary Academy of Music in Excelsior, alpine skiing and used to own a singing telegram company.
Daryl Carlson is a Minneapolis native and began cello studies with Paul Thomas and Ruth Fischer. He went on to studies with Tanya Remenikova at the University of Minnesota and with Sachiya Isomura and Mina Fisher. He is the founder of the Lake String Quartet and, later, a founding member of the Northern Lights String Quartet. He is an active teacher and maintains a studio of cello students. In his workshop, he builds string instruments; lutes, viols, violin family instruments and guitars.
Max Radloff majored in piano performance at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he studied with Robert Below, and has a MFA and DMA in piano performance from the University of Minnesota where he was a student of Paul Freed. At various times he has taught at Concordia University and The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul and at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota. He is mostly retired with only a few students at his home studio. Astronomy is a hobby and he likes to travel to view solar eclipses. The eclipse in Australia in April will be the thirteenth that he has seen.
