Willow Pond Quartet

The Willow Pond Quartet first played at its eponymous location in the summer of 1995 in a performance of what some regard as the Averill Park Premiere of Joachim Raff's Seventh String Quartet. The members also constitute the Shaporelli Quartet:

Angelo Frascarelli and Lilajane Frascarelli both retired in July l994 after twenty-four years of teaching music classes and conducting ensembles at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. Graduates of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, they have been faculty members and orchestra and chamber music performers with the Rochester Philharmonic, Ball State Teachers College, Muncie Symphony, Mississippi Southern College, Amphion String Quartet, Baton Rouge Symphony, and the Memphis Symphonietta. In Pennsylvania, Angelo was Strings Supervisor of Music in the Philadelphia Public School and Lilajane was on the faculty of the Philadelphia Musical Academy and member of the Reading and Lancaster Symphonies, Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, and Cherry Hill NJ Philharmonic. Lilajane has been a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra for twenty-five years; Angelo has been a member of Capitol Chamber Artists and is active as a private teacher of violin and viola.

William Shapiro began his musical studies on piano at age six and took up viola in his early teens. Among his teachers were Paul Doktor for viola and Leonard Shure for chamber music. Having earned degrees from Harvard in government, law, and public administration, he pursued a career in public policy, specializing in issues relating to poverty and welfare; his current activities include teaching economics at SUNY Albany. Throughout, he has remained active as a musician, and has appeared in recent seasons with Capitol Chamber Artists and other ensembles in the region.

Ingrid Porter started as a pianist at age four and switched to the cello while studying music theory at Wellesley College. She went on to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, while continuing her study of the cello with Henrich Joachim of the Baltimore Symphony, then George Finckel in Bennington, and more recently George Neikrug in Boston. Now the Director of the Student Health Service at SUNY Albany, Ingrid played in the Albany Symphony Orchestra for ten years. Drawn by her love of chamber music, she has since devoted herself to playing that repertoire in the tri-city area and throughout neighboring New England.

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