Diderot String Quartet

Cellist Paul Dwyer was born in Munster, Indiana, but spent his childhood in Vienna and Munich. Dwyer returned to the American Midwest for college, studying at the Oberlin Conservatory (BM ’07) and the University of Michigan (MM ’08 and DMA ’12), where he received a Javits Fellowship and Presser Award. He spent a year in Amsterdam as a Fulbright Fellow studying new music with Frances-Marie Uitti and baroque cello with Anner Byslma. In 2013, he completed additional graduate studies in the Historical Performance department of The Juilliard School. Paul is fortunate to have a rich musical life playing both historical and modern cello. He is a founding member of Diderot String Quartet and ACRONYM, and loves to play chamber music and collaborate with young composers.  He is assistant principal cello of Lyric Opera of Chicago and teaches at Notre Dame University.

Violist Kyle Miller made his concerto debut in 2005 with the Reading (PA) Symphony Orchestra as “the dog” in P.D.Q. Bach’s Canine Cantata, Wachet Arf! Since that day, Kyle has gone on to study at the New England Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, and earned masters degrees in both viola performance and historical performance at The Juilliard School. Also a member of ACRONYM, Four Nations Ensemble, and New York Baroque Incorporated, Kyle has appeared onstage with A Far Cry, Apollo’s Fire, Clarion, House of Time, Opera Lafayette, Quodlibet Ensemble, Tafelmusik, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Kyle has performed regularly at the Carmel Bach Festival and the Staunton Music Festival. In 2015, Kyle was selected to be an English Concert American Fellow. In 2017 and 2018, Kyle appeared on Broadway in a run of Claire van Kampen’s play, Farinelli and the King.

Violinist Johanna Novom appears internationally as a soloist, principal, chamber, and orchestral musician with ensembles such as ACRONYM, Tafelmusik, Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, Clarion, TENET, and New York Baroque Incorporated. She held the position of associate concertmaster of Apollo’s Fire for ten years, and was recently principal of Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. A first prize winner of the ABS’ International Young Artists Competition, Johanna received her masters degree in Historical Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and was a 2010-11 fellowship member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble. Her discography includes recordings on Old Focus, Deutsche Grammophon, and AVIE labels, including the Grammy award-winning album Songs of Orpheus with Apollo’s Fire. Recent and upcoming festival engagements include the Carmel Bach Festival, Tanglewood, and the BBC Proms Festival.