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Karen Stern

Karen Stern's years of professional experience allow you to rely confidently on her entertaining and performing skills. She is equally at home performing classical music or more contemporary love songs and show music. Ms. Stern began performing with the New Jersey Symphony in 1982, while still a college student at the Manhattan School of Music. She has been heard in numerous recitals with the Levin/Stern Flute and Harp Duo, both in this country as well as abroad. Karen has performed at countless private engagements throughout the New York metropolitan area, and continues to be in great demand by numerous musical agencies and private clients.

Additional Musicians

Flutist Sharon Levin, together with Karen Stern, won the Artists International 1987 Young Artists Chamber Music Award, and the duo has been actively performing ever since. Additionally, Ms. Levin is principal flutist with the New Jersey Pops Orchestra. Besides performing classical and popular American music, Ms. Levin has a special interest in Latin music, and regularly performs in Brazilian and Ecuadorian trios.

Violinist Jeffrey Ellenberger has performed as a classical soloist and orchestral musician in the USA, Europe and Asia. In the field of popular music he has worked with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Diana Ross. He plays regularly on Broadway, in shows such as Les Miserables and Beauty and the Beast. Mr. Ellenberger also plays the viola.

Cellist Gerall Hieser received a Master of Music Degree from the Mason Grosse School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Ms. Hieser teaches cello at Drew University and performs regularly with The Gabrielle Piano Quartet and the Colonial and Westfield Symphonies, of New Jersey. When she is not busy playing the cello, she can be heard playing bluegrass music on the fiddle.