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Michele Kelly

Flutes

Relâche Ensemble flutist since 1998, Michele Kelly has also served as the ensemble’s co-Artistic Director since 2004. She appears on the group’s four most recent recordings: Press Play, Eight Point Turn, Kyle Gann's The Planets, and Comix Trips.

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Lloyd Shorter

Oboe / English Horn

Lloyd Shorter has been with Relâche since 1990, with worldwide performances including Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, Cracow, Amsterdam, Vilnius, Caracas, Seattle, Phoenix and New York City. Since 2003, he has served as co-Artistic Director.

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Amy Leonard

Viola

Philadelphia native Amy Leonard received viola performance degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music, and has studied baroque viola at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute.

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Chuck Holdeman

Bassoon

Bassoonist Chuck Holdeman first performed as a member with Relâche from 1985 to 1995 before rejoining the ensemble as a member in 2007. He is Principal Bassoon for the Bach Festival of Bethlehem, and is also a composer of opera, orchestral music, songs, chamber music, and music for film.

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Ron Stabinsky

Piano

Ron Stabinsky has been a member of Relâche since 2017, and enjoys working in many stylistically diverse musical contexts  throughout the United States and Europe with a wide variety of other musicians and ensembles.

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Sean Bailey

Clarinet/Saxophone

Sean Bailey is a member of the Philly POPS Big Band and a regular clarinet soloist with Terell Stafford's Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia. He can often be seen performing with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Ballet Orchestra, and also playing clarinets, saxophones, and flutes with the Philly POPS, Opera Philadelphia, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra 2001!, and the Ocean City Pops. Sean received graduate and undergraduate clarinet performance degrees from Temple University, where he studied under Ricardo Morales.

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Gene Koshinksi

Percussionist

Best known for his extraordinary versatility as a solo, chamber, symphonic, jazz, pop, and world music artist/composer, Dr. Gene Koshinski recently accepted a position as professor of percussion at the University of Delaware beginning fall 2020. Gene holds degrees from West Chester University (BM) and The Hartt School (MM and DMA). He is sponsored by Pearl/Adams Instruments, Sabian Cymbals, Remo, and Innovative Percussion, and his works are published by Bachovich, Tapspace and C. Alan Publications.

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Ray Bohn

Bass

Ray Bohn (bass) is Principal bass with the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra (NY) and completes the section of the Reading Symphony (PA). He began musical studies on trumpet at the age of seven and added the contrabass to his interests at age twelve. Dual Bachelors degrees in bass and trumpet were completed at Rowan University before earning a Masters degree in Bass at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with David Grossman. 

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