Mr. Lamy has performed live broadcasts on K-Mozart in San Francisco and Los Angeles, performed more than ten times on Texaco Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcasts, is a founding member of the Halcyon Trio, and has collaborated with such groups as the Los Angeles Wind Quintet, the Charleston and Madison String Quartets, the Richardson and Gindi Chamber Players, the Lincoln Center Festival, and the Mad Coyote Ensemble. As a New York area artist, Mr. Lamy has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, the Concordia Orchestra, and the Royal Opera of London.  As a recitalist, chamber music coach, and guest master clinician, Mr. Lamy has been engaged by The Juilliard School, USC, CSUN, Occidental College, The Baylor School, Rutgers University, University of Tennessee, William Paterson University, Seton Hall University, Drew University, Bard College, California Institute for the Arts, New Jersey Youth Symphony, and the Walt Disney Youth Orchestra.

During the 2004-2005 season, Mr.Deubner was featured as concerto soloist with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Knoxville Sympony, premiering the Triple Concerto by Lalo Schifrin, especially written for him and the Halcyon Trio. The New Jersey Star-Ledger described the debut in glowing terms: "Deubner performed the cadenzas with virtuosity, hitting the center of every note no matter how many there were..." He also performed the Bruch Double Concerto with the North Shore Philharmonic; appeared as recitalist in ten major cities from Los Angeles and New York to Juneau, Alaska; and collaborated with such international artists as clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, New York principal oboist Joseph Robinson, violinist Arturo Delmoni, and cellist Jeffrey Solow.  As an orchestral musician, Mr.Deubner has led the viola sections of the Rochester Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, the Princeton Symphony, the Heidelberg Opera Orchestra, the Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra, and the String Orchestra of New York City - as well as festival orchestras such as the National Orchestral Association, the International Festival at Roundtop, and the Manchester Music Festival. From 1998-2000 he was the Assistant Principal Violist of the Grammy Award-winning New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Deubner has given masterclasses at Cal State Northridge School of Music, Occidental College in Glendale, CA, Drew University in New Jersey, the University of Akron, University of Tennessee, University of Southern Maine, and the Kent-Blossom Festival, among many others. He is the Affiliate Artist for Viola at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Mr. Deubner resides in Glen Ridge, NJ with his wife Susan and their four children.
 

Manu is most widely known for originating the “hero” Akaash in the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber/ A.R. Rahman musical Bombay Dreams on Broadway; the Drama League recognized him for his work. Last year off Broadway, he was in the revival of Eric Bogosian’s subUrbia, and in Getting Home both at Second Stage Theater.  He also played Siddharta in SIDD: the musical at the Dodger Stages. Manu was in the world premiere of Pulitzer prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Park’s Fucking A with Mos Def and S. Epatha Merkerson at the New York Shakespeare Festival/ Public Theater. He has starred with Cyndi Lauper, Fisher Stevens, and Garth Hudson (from “The Band”) in New York Stage and Film’s workshop production of Largo. On TV he can be seen in episodes of Law and Order SVU, As the World Turns, and The Sopranos.  Manu’s films “QuarterLife Crisis” and “Two Men in Shoulder Stand” are playing film festivals across the US and India. 

From 2001 to 2005 Manu was a founder and co-Artistic Director of Rasa Theater, Inc. Rasa Theater was established to help develop theater artists of the South Asian Diaspora. In 2004, Rasa produced its first full production, the New York premieres of two one-acts by Eugene O’Neill and Sarovar Banka, at Theater Row on 42^nd Street in the heart of Manhattan.  This production got rave reviews and played to sold out houses. Rasa produced the 2002 Indian Diaspora Playwrights Festival presented by The Lark Theatre and The Indo-American Arts Council and has also produced several workshops of new plays of which one – Baby Taj by Tanya Schaffer- had its world premiere in the fall of 2005 at Theater Works in Berkley, California.  In 2003-2004 Rasa started a community outreach program with the Queens Museum for the Art in addition to producing a Manhattan based talk back series entitled Conversations.

Last year, Manu took his first steps in the music recording industry.   When he was asked to host and sing at the 2006 Bollywood fashion Awards, Manu approached Radovan and Frank Harts, a.k.a The Stemsel Brothers, to create some original music.  Their band M&SB had a wonderful debut at the awards and has been busy in the studio.  The M&SB sound brings together the melodies and rhythms from three homelands: America, India, and Serbia creating a world-pop-punk sound.  Their single “Have Me” has been optioned for the upcoming Vanessa Williams film entitled And Then Came Love.

In addition to working with M&SB, Manu has frequently been asked to record and perform. Manu can be heard on the Hiding Divya soundtrack with his single “Help Me to Find.”  He also can be heard on the live recording of SIDD: The Musical, and as lead vocalist on the upcoming Frank London concept album of A Night in the Old Marketplace. As a concert artist, Manu has been asked to sing for many distinguished dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton.

Manu grew up in Delmont, Pa a little town outside of Pittsburgh where he showed an affinity for music, dance, and drama at a very young age.  Manu is an award winning classical saxophonist both in the western style - he has performed the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto with orchestra at Carnegie Hall Pittsburgh- and in the Indian Karnatic style - he won the All India Radio music competition in Mangalore, India. He is the Karnatic saxophone student of Sri Kadri Gopalnath and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

The Valkyrian String Quartet

The four women that comprise The Valkyrian String Quartet are all active soloists, orchestral musicians, and music educators. Based out of the New York metropolitan area, the four members have performed across the United States, South America, and Europe. This ensemble indulges not only in the standard quartet literature of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and others, but seeks to integrate the more obscure, avant garde, and modern quartet repertoire into their recitals, such as Astor Piazolla, Elvis Costello, and Led Zeppelin. 

In their quest for musical excellence, The Valkyrian String Quartet also recognizes the challenging cultural juxtapositions of the present day. Musicians of the 21^st century carry a responsibility to bring not only enjoyable, but educational programs to their audience in an attempt to further an appreciation of music through the centuries. This intellectual work is necessary to help raise the level of what the listener demands from a live concert in the 21^st century. Therefore, it is not out of the ordinary for The Valkyrian String Quartet to perform one of Mozart’s celebrated string quartets followed by a top hit of Led Zeppelin, arranged for string quartet. The women in this ensemble believe that good music is good music, regardless of when it was written. As performers and listeners of the 21^st century, The Valkyrian String Quartet urges their audience to listen to old music as if it were new music, and new music as if it were old music.