Team

Management Team

Dr Abigail Dolan

CEO

Abigail Dolan is co-founder and CEO of Symphonova, bringing to the project her leadership skills, background in performance studies and extensive experience as a concert flautist.
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Dr Shelley Katz

Musical & Technical Director

Shelley Katz has a multifaceted career in the music industry as a musician, inventor, and entrepreneur. Known for his innovative contributions as a music technologist

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Goran Tchubrilo

Score Production Director

Goran Tchubrilo is fascinated by Symphonova’s unique concept of integrating musicians with the most recent developments

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Musicians

Midori Komachi

Violin

Lucas Gomes De Freitas

Violin

Diogo Ramos

Viola

Naomi McLean

Cello

Gween-Reed

Double-bass

Abigail Dolan

Flute

Julia White

Oboe

Ángel Sánchez Ruiz

Clarinet

Adam Crighton

Trombone

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Dr Abigail Dolan

Abigail Dolan is co-founder and CEO of Symphonova, bringing to the project her leadership skills, background in performance studies and extensive experience as a concert flautist. 

Abigail received her PhD from King’s College London. Her research examines musical performance from both a historical and cognitive perspective. Her work has been awarded the AVI Fellowship and the Edison Fellowship of the British Library Sound Archive.

Abigail founded and served as Artistic Director of the Intimate Engagements chamber-music concert series at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. She was elected a Fellow Commoner in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the College life.

Abigail has performed solo and in chamber music ensembles at international festivals and concert venues worldwide. Her discography includes French repertoire programmes (Selena label), Michael Wolpe’s flute concerto (Memus publication) and works by composers Andre Hajdu and Yinam Leef. Concerto performances include Nielsen’s concerto and her arrangement for flute of Mendelssohn’s violin concerto (the Symphonova Orchestra), Partos’ flute concerto (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra) and Ben-Haim’s Divertimento Concertante (Kaprizma Ensemble). Her repertoire extends from classical concerti and chamber works to today’s music, with an increasing number of pieces written for and dedicated to her.

 

Dr Shelley Katz

Born in Montreal in 1960, Shelley Katz has a multifaceted career in the music industry as a musician, inventor, and entrepreneur. Known for his innovative contributions as a music technologist and incredible musicianship, Shelley has gained a reputation worldwide for his performances as a pianist and conductor, as well as for his expertise in sound reproduction, gestural control of artificial systems and the design of virtual acoustic systems.

Shelley Katz’s professional musical journey began with his graduation from the Julliard School. He then honed his conducting skills working as solorepetitor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and conductor of the Duisburg Studio Orchestra. Furthering his career, Shelley served as a conductor and Studienleiter at the Theater der Stadt Koblenz and the Staatstheater Mainz. 

As a pianist, Shelley performed regularly and recorded with some of the world’s most acclaimed singers, including  Jochen Kowalski, Gwyneth Jones and the tenor Nikolai Gedda, with whom he toured Europe for three years. His recordings can be found on Deutsche Grammophone, Capriccio, Somm Recordings, and Koch/Schwann among others. He has performed as an accompanist and in chamber music concerts at leading festivals and venues worldwide, including Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Carnegie Hall in New York, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

As a music technologist, Shelley is the author of numerous granted patents and inventor of the innovative Symphonova system. He also designed the highly-acclaimed Podium Sound loudspeakers, which are the only audiophile-quality, passive flat-panel loudspeakers in the world. His academic pursuits led him to earn his Ph.D. (Tonmeister) from the University of Surrey, where he researched the cognition of musical expression.

As an entrepreneur, Shelley founded Symphonova UK Ltd and Podium Sound Ltd, where he is co-founder, artistic director, and managing director respectively.

Shelley is a Former Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and also Former Musician in Residence (Queen’s University – Canada).

Goran Tchubrilo

Goran Tchubrilo is fascinated by Symphonova’s unique concept of integrating musicians with the most recent developments in music technology, as well as by the new opportunities that open-up to composers, performers, and in the concert arena in general. He was trained as a composer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in Austria. In 2005 he started his training in sample based music production, with Vienna Symphonic Library as his main (but not only) area of interest. He is also the author and lecturer of the Art of VSL, an online learning platform for VSL libraries and software.