Echoes in the Basin

Timothy Tan, violinist, has been a member of the Lake String Quartet since 1996, He currently holds the position of Assistant Concertmaster of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, having also played in the Indianapolis Symphony, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Sarasota Opera, Charlotte, Richmond, Toledo, West Virginia, Dayton, Erie, and Youngstown Symphonies. Timothy has performed in Disney World in the All-American Orchestra, two summer orchestral tours in Europe, and The World Youth Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Violinist Colleen Tan is a member of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic violin section. An active violinist and violist, she has performed in Italy with the Opera Teatro di Lucca and the Cincinnati Eighteenth Century Ensemble. Her musical tours have included Bermuda, Ireland, Portugal, and a special performance in the Vatican in a private audience for Blessed John Paul II.  She has enjoyed performing with the Washington Concert Opera, String Shift, Montclaire String Quartet, West Virginia Symphony, Cincinnati Ballet, and Harrisburg Symphony. With her husband, violinist Timothy Tan, she performed chamber music for former Governor Joe Manchin, at the WV Governor’s Mansion, and for the West Virginia Legislature. Mrs. Tan has performed chamber music at embassies and museums in Washington, DC. She is a violinist in the Lake String Quartet, the quartet in residence at Yellowstone National Park.

Violist Leanne Darling is a performer, teacher and composer who specializes in middle eastern music, improvisation and electronics. Leanne holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music and has held principal positions in the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, the Slee Sinfonietta and Camerata di San’Antonio. Before joining the Lake String Quartet, she was a member of the New Artists Piano Quartet and Trio Tritticali, a genre bending trio based in New York City. Her compositions have garnered several grants and commissions and earned her the New York Innovative Theater Award for best original music. Her composition Isma’a – published by Hal Leonard – is played by orchestras across the country. Leanne currently teaches viola and violin at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo String Works and leads improvisation workshops throughout the Buffalo area.

Originally from Guilford, CT,  Martha Colby, cellist, pianist, vocalist and award winning songwriter and composer, left her freelance career in NYC to be out west with bears, wolves and pine martens, and work as a resident musician for America’s first national park, Yellowstone. As a cellist she began her Yellowstone career in 2007, at the park’s historic Lake Yellowstone Hotel with the Lake String Quartet. She also became the resident soloist performing as a cellist,  pianist, and vocalist at the Old Faithful Inn (summer season) and the Old Faithful Snow Lodge (winter season). While in NYC, Martha earned her living playing and creating a variety of musical styles including: classical (chamber and orchestral), jazz, pop, folk, rock, latin and avant-garde free improvisation. Martha is a graduate of Berklee College of Music where she was a recipient of the Joe Venuti Jazz Masters Award and has also been awarded several Meet the Composer grants. Colby is featured on numerous CD’s as well as her own — Across Two Rivers — featuring her own voice, cello, piano playing and original compositions, and Bear Jams and Cello Jams – typical of her performances in Yellowstone on cello and vocals. .  www.MarthaColbymusic.com