Meet Our Artists
Jennifer Tiboris, Executive Director (violin) and Lutz Rath, Artistic Director (cello)
Jennifer Tiboris’ passion for music has taken her all over the world. After graduating from college with a degree in English and serving as Concertmaster of New Jersey’s Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra, she embarked on a professional career that has included performances with the Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the National Opera Orchestra of Sofia, Bulgaria, the Bohulslav Martinu Philharmonic of the Czech Republic, the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Bialystok, Poland, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Virtuosi di Praga of Vienna, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Manhattan Philharmonic.
In 1997 Ms. Tiboris founded ELYSIUM, a critically acclaimed chamber ensemble in New York that went on to perform regularly in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, make its European debut at the Mykonos International Music Festival and collaborate on recordings with such distinguished artists as Lukas Foss, Stanley Drucker, Eugene Levinson, L. William Kuyper and Joseph Robinson.
Ms. Tiboris lives in Hilo, Hawaii where she continues to be an active orchestral and chamber music enthusiast. She is President of Orchid Isle Music Productions, LLC and Executive Director of the Hilo Chamber Music Festival.
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LUTZ RATH
Born in Germany, Music Director of the Washington Square Festival Lutz Rath is heard regularly in St. Luke’s Orchestra and performs in solo and chamber music recitals on his Carlo Antonio Testore cello once belonging to the Budapest String Quartet. Over the years he has been a regular performer in the Washington Square Music Festival. For the last 17 years he has participated in the Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College. Mr. Rath has been a member of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, for 10 years the cellist of the International String Quartet, which won Grand Prix in the International Chamber Music Competition, Evian, France. While with the Quartet he toured Europe, Asia, South America, and the US regularly, and recorded internationally. From 1996 to 2000 Rath was the cellist of the Elysium Quartet and toured the USA and Greece, recording with Lukas Foss and Stanley Drucker on the Elysium label.In 2002 he formed the Ecliptica Ensemble, specializing in chamber music composed or performed in concentration camps. Intermittently he performed with the Kandinsky String Trio in Europe and was the director of Chamber Music Lyon from 1992-1998.
In the season 2006-2007, Mr. Rath is directing, acting, and performing the string quartet comedy “Mozartly Yours” by the French playwright Eric Westphal at the Caramoor International Festival in NY, and the Westchester Arts Council. His spoken rendition of Kurt Schwitter’s Dada Ursonate will be incorporated into numerous performances in the upcoming season.
In 1986, Mr. Rath received a research grant from the NY Council for the Humanities. Consequently, he produced the sound track for the Ellis Island Museum, and, via a New Jersey State Grant, produced a tape: “Teaching History through Immigration Music”. He has been involved in the music production for the documentary film, “Margaret Mead, an Observer Observed,” and he wrote and played the sound track for the PBS film, “ Waiting for Beckett.” In his spare time Lutz Rath is an art dealer specializing in 20th and 21st century painting and sculpture.
