Albemarle Ensemble
The Albemarle Ensemble has been in residence at the University of Virginia since 1987. A wind quintet, the group has performed throughout the Eastern United States, including at Carnegie Hall. The ensemble received a Virginia Commission for the Arts Grant for educational programs and several other grants for recording and touring projects. The members of the ensemble serve as Principals of The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia as well as Faculty Lecturers at the University. To contact the Albemarle Ensemble please e-mail Jiyeon Choi.
Flute: Kelly Sulick
Oboe: Kelly Peral
Clarinet: Jiyeon Choi
Horn: Cody Halquist
Bassoon: Elizabeth Roberts
Jiyeon Choi, Clarinet
Clarinetist and educator Jiyeon Choi joined the Arts & Sciences faculty as a lecturer in Clarinet and as principal clarinet with the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra in the Fall of 2019, and also holds the principal clarinet position with the Sinfonia da Camera, Illinois. She is an advocate for contemporary music as well as specializing in standard solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire. Her primary research explores the chamber music of Jörg Widmann, a renowned German clarinetist and composer. She is also a core member of the newly-founded ensemble VIM, a new music ensemble featuring southeastern artist with cross-disciplinary performances based in Atlanta, GA. More info.
Cody Halquist, Horn
Cody Halquist is a multifaceted horn player who enjoys a busy career as a performer and educator. Originally from Rochester, NY, Cody has worked as an active freelancer in the New York City area and Virginia, where he has frequently performed with the Richmond Symphony. He has played with the New Haven Symphony and is 3rd Horn of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Cody has also performed internationally as an orchestral musician in Germany and South Korea. As a chamber musician, he has performed at the Norfolk Chamber music festival, as well as in NYC with Ensemble Echappé and the Frisson ensemble. More Info.
Kelly Peral, Oboe
Kelly Peterson Peral is University of Virginia’s Lecturer of Oboe and Principal Oboe with the Charlottesville Symphony. Peral’s performance background includes extensive engagements with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York City Ballet, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, numerous Broadway shows, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, among others. Most recently she has enjoyed engagements with the Roanoke Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Williamsburg Symphony, and Norfolk’s Virginia Symphony. Peral is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Cleveland Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School. More info.
Elizabeth Roberts, Bassoon
Principal Bassoon and Director of Youth Education for the Charlottesville Symphony since 2001, Elizabeth Roberts joined the faculty at the University of Virginia the same year. She became a member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra as their contrabassoonist in 2017, and has played Second Bassoon with the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra since 2015. She freelances on bassoon and contrabassoon with the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Washington National Opera, and Baltimore Symphony. Ms. Roberts joined the faculty of the New England Music Camp during the summer of 2017. She was a 2008 Virginia Governor’s Award for the Arts nominee, and has given world premiere performances of works by Arthur Weisberg, Bernard Rands, Barbara York, Gary Schocker, and Walter Ross. More info.
Kelly Sulick, Flute
Kelly Sulick teaches at the University of Virginia and serves as Principal Flute in the Charlottesville Symphony, and previously served as Principal Flute with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and as Consortium Instructor of Flute at the University of Evansville. She earned her Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from the University of Southern California; prior to her graduate studies, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. Sulick won second place in the 2010 National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition, and can be heard on several compact discs, including William Bolcom's “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” under Leonard Slatkin, a Naxos release that received four Grammy awards including Best Classical Album. More info.