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Andrew Rammon was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and grew up in Mainz, Germany in a family of musicians. Currently he is the cellist of the Grammy-nominated Eaken Piano Trio. The trio has performed across the US, Europe and China. Upcoming events include the release of two new CDs with piano quartets by Schumann and Brahms and piano trios of Mozart and Haydn. The trio’s CDs have been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and All Things Considered.
In October 2009 Mr. Rammon performed the World Premier of ‘Still the Fire’ by John Lennon with saxophonist David Stambler. On April 11, 2010 a recital with pianist Naomi Niskala will be recorded for broadcast at a later date.
During the summers Mr. Rammon teaches at Pepperdine University’s summer chamber music program in Heidelberg, Germany. Mr. Rammon teaches at Susquehanna, Bucknell and Mansfield Universities, and is the principal cellist of the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra.

Pianist Naomi Niskala has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Canada, Israel, and Japan, and her performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio and NPR’s Performance Today. Attending two summers each at Tanglewood’s Music Center and Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, Niskala also toured on the first “Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute” tour with violinist Miriam Fried. Upon invitation from Zarin Mehta and the Ravinia Festival, she performed as chamber musician in Israel, Turkey, and Greece. Niskala also performs as a member of ADCA, a chamber ensemble based in New York City. She has established herself as one of the prominent scholars of the solo piano works of American composer Robert Helps (1928-2001), and has been invited to perform and lecture on these works at universities and halls in the United States, Canada, Japan and Germany. Her release of the first complete recordings of Helps’ solo piano works on two discs with Albany Records in 2007 was met with high acclaim, and the first volume was declared one of the ten “2007 Best of the Year” discs by Classics Today. Recent performance highlights include the San Francisco Symphony Chamber Series at Davies Symphony Hall, soloist with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic of Russia, and Spectrum Concerts Berlin at Philharmonie Hall in Germany. Niskala will return to Berlin’s Philharmonie Hall in 2010 to perform and record the piano chamber works of Robert Helps with Spectrum Concerts Berlin for Naxos Records.

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