Oksana Ezhokina
Co-Artistic Director & Resident Pianist
Icicle Creek Piano Trio – piano
A winner of several piano and chamber music competitions, Russian pianist Oksana Ezhokina frequently appears as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and Europe, and has been featured on multiple live radio broadcasts on stations including WFMT-Chicago, KUOW-Seattle, and Maine Public Radio. Her collaborations have included concerts with such ensembles as the Seattle Chamber Players, Klimt Piano Trio and the Contemporary Chamber Players. A dedicated champion and performer of works by contemporary composers, she has premiered music by Laura Kaminsky and Paul Drescher, among others.
Ms. Ezhokina was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Ryazan School of Music in Russia, a Master of Music degree in piano from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Walla Walla College. Her principal teachers were Christina Dahl, Donald Walker, Leonard Richter and Eleanor Oragyoff, and she has coached chamber music with pianists Gilbert Kalish and Seymour Lipkin as well as members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Orion and Vermeer String Quartets. Ms. Ezhokina is the pianist of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, Co-Artistic Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center, and Co-Director of the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute.
Sally Singer
Co-Artistic Director & Resident Cellist
Icicle Creek Piano Trio – cello
British cellist Sally Singer has given numerous world premiere performances of solo and chamber works in Europe and throughout the United States and performed as a soloist with orchestras in New York, Washington, Connecticut, Bulgaria, and Russia. Chamber performances highlights include the Tanglewood Music Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, first prize in the John Ireland Chamber Music Competition, British National Televeision appearances, and collaborations with artists Ian Swensen, Nathaniel Rosen, Heasook Rhee, Steven Doane, Anthony Elliott and Rachel Barton Pine.
As well as being a member of the acclaimed Icicle Creek Piano Trio, Ms. Singer performs with the New York based group Sankusem, an ensemble dedicated to the exploration of African Art Music written for classical instruments. As Co-Artistic Director and Resident Cellist of the Icicle Creek Music Center, Ms. Singer co-presents and performs in the Canyon Wren Concert Series, and the Icicle Creek International Chamber Music Festival. She plays an English cello made in 1835 by Bernhard Simon Fendt.
Jennifer Caine
Assistant Director & Resident Violinist
Icicle Creek Piano Trio – Violin
Jennifer Caine, violinist, was a winner of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship Competition in 2004 and recipient of several awards including the Royal College of Music's Isolde Menges Prize for solo Bach, the Polonsky Foundation Grant, and the Frank Huntington Beebe Grant for Musicians. She has performed as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout the United States and Europe, and at music festivals including the Olympic Music Festival, Soesterberg International Music Festival, Music@Menlo, and Norfolk, Yellow Barn and Sarasota Music Festivals. Ms. Caine was a co-founder and former member of the Knox Piano Trio, which toured England and Northern Ireland, and she has perfomed in orchestral concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica, and Seattle Symphony.
Ms. Caine is a graduate of Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and holds Masters Degrees in performance and musicology from the Royal College of Music and Oxford University respectively. Her teachers and coaches have included Grigori Zhislin, Zinaida Gilels, Olga Yanovich, Robert Lipsett, Elisabeth Adkins, Robert Levin and Daniel Stepner. She is Resident Violinist and Assistant Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center and violinist of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, collaborates frequently with chamber ensembles in the Seattle area, and is a freelance writer for Strings magazine.
Dan Jackson
Music Director & Conductor
Dan Jackson earned a Master of Music Degree in Conducting and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education Degree from Pepperdine University with a teaching certificate from UCLA. He has served as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator at conferences, contests, clinics and summer camps throughout the Pacific Northwest and California. He is a co-founder of the WMEA/WIAA State Ensemble Contest and the NCWMEA Honor Festival. Dan’s primary instruments during his formative years were the violin and the cello. He served as a band director for six years and guest conductor for theater orchestras throughout his career. A thirty-year veteran in public education, Dan has received such honors as Wenatchee Museum & Cultural Center 2004 Living Treasure Award and the 2000 NCESD Award of excellence.
