Sponsored by Rangeley Friends of the Arts, the WOODLAND CHAMBER
ENSEMBLE will perform a varied program of concert music for flute,
oboe, English horn, guitar, voice, and piano on Tuesday, August 10 at
7:00 P.M. in the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rangeley.  All of the
music has been chosen for its audience appeal.  Compositions by
Telemann, Fauré, Villa-Lobos, Vaughan Williams, and many others,
including ensemble member Barbara Ulman, will be presented.  Music
for Hugh Ogden’s poem “Fir on the Oquossoc Shore, Singing,” for
voice, English horn, and piano, was composed by Ulman specifically
for members of this ensemble.  Tickets ($15) can be purchased at the
Chamber of Commerce and also at the door.   For further information,
please call Barbara at 864-3629.

Woodland Chamber Ensemble

Sue Downes-Borko has been a high school music teacher in the state of
Alaska, a staff accompanist for the College of New Jersey, and a
member of several flute quartets.   Sue is the director of the
Rangeley Community Chorus and has participated in many local music
productions.  Currently, she operates a private lesson studio and is
the Minister of Music for the Rangeley Congregational Church.

Victor Borko was born and raised in the Philadelphia area.  He
studied classical/jazz guitar and music education at the Philadelphia
College of the Performing Arts and then moved to Alaska, where he was
a music educator.  He has played guitar in many professional
productions and has also played for celebrities including Bobby
Rydell, Don Rickles, and Bob Hope.  He now resides with his wife,
Sue, in Rangeley, where they run Gull Pond Music Studio.  Victor
plays guitar and keyboard at St. Luke’s and Our Lady of the Lakes
churches and enjoys composing and performing sacred music and hymns
on the classical guitar.

Gail Russ teaches instrumental music in Maine School
Administrative District 58, which includes Phillips, Kingfield,
Strong, Stratton and Salem.  Since moving to Maine in 2005, she has
played oboe, clarinet, and English horn for the Camden Pro Musica
Orchestra, Monmouth Theater, Lewiston/Auburn Community Theater, the
Bangor Symphony, and other bands and orchestras in the area.   She
says, “I have the best ‘job’ ever: children and music; I have been
blessed!”

Barbara Ulman began piano lessons at age seven, and has continued an
active musical life ever since.  She earned a B.A. from
Harvard/Radcliffe, while also studying piano chamber music at the
nearby Longy School of Music.  She has spent summers on Rangeley Lake
since birth, and now lives in the foothills near Yosemite National
Park the rest of the year.  In 1989 she completed a second B.A., in
Music Theory and Composition, at California State University, Fresno.
She plays chamber music for fun and for public performance, and also
composes art songs and music for small ensembles and for chorus.