We are delighted to invite all our subscribers and donors to the 59th Annual Membership Meeting of the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City. This important yearly gathering will be held on the 2nd floor of David P. Gardner Hall in the beautiful Thompson Chamber Music Hall.
This year, not only will we reflect on our past achievements and outline plans for our 60th season, but the meeting will also be complemented by a special performance. This event is free for all subscribers and donors of the Society, courtesy of the Society’s Board of Directors. We encourage all members to join us in shaping the future of our beloved society while enjoying an evening of sublime chamber music.
Event Details
Estimated duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Annual Meeting (~30-40 minutes)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1014
13 min
Anthony Suter – A Hymn to Forgotten Moons
8 min
Ernest Bloch – 3 Nocturnes, B.56
10 min
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Trio in G major, K. 564
18 min
Featured Performers
Kasia Sokol-Borup, violin
Lauren Posey, cello
Nicholas Maughan, piano
KASIA SOKOL-BORUP
Dr. Kasia Sokol-Borup is a native of Lublin, Poland. Having been born onto a musical family, she began playing the violin at age six. At age twelve she had won her first award at a national Polish competition and won a Scholarship for Gifted Children. Over the next few years, she competed in several Polish national competitions as well as international competitions, and received numerous awards. At age seventeen she travelled the US as a scholarship winner for the Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, MI. Subsequently, she received a full scholarship to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy.
Dr. Kasia Sokol-Borup holds a DMA degree from Indiana University, a MM degree from Northwestern University and a BM degree from Western Michigan University. In the course of her studies she has worked with such prominent musicians as Miriam Fried, Almita Vamos, Menahem Pressler, Renata Knific and Mimi Zweig. Dr. Sokol-Borup earned her Masters Degree from NU on a full scholarship in conjunction with Chicago Civic Orchestra, a professional training orchestra to Chicago Symphony. While at IU she has earned her doctoral degree as an assistant to Miriam Fried and worked at the Jacobs School of Music Pre -college School under the direction of Mimi Zweig.
In 2006, Dr. Sokol-Borup begun her work as an Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO, where she taught violin, viola, chamber music and orchestra. While living in Durango, she was also the director of the Durango Youth Orchestra as well as a concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony and a director of the Durango Chamber Music Festival.
In 2010, Dr. Sokol–Borup moved to Salt Lake City, UT, where she teaches violin, chamber music and string pedagogy at the University of Utah. Her diverse music education and experience as a performer and a teacher lead her to create a pre - college strings program at the University of Utah, the U of U String Preparatory Division, which she directs. Dr. Sokol-Borup was also leading the effort to design a MM degree in String Performance and Pedagogy at The U of U, which was implemented in 2012. Graduates from this program have been successfully employed in positions around the country.
Dr. Sokol-Borup is an active chamber musician, she performs solo concerts and gives clinics. Her clinics, master classes and lectures focus on violin technique, teaching the violin, leading sting group classes and youth orchestras. She has trained and worked with teachers in the United States and in Europe at festivals such as the Moab Music Festival and Saarburg Festival, Germany.
Dr. Sokol-Borup lives in Salt Lake City with her husband – violinist, Hasse Borup and their two children Sophia and Christopher. She plays on a violin made by luthier Ryan Soltis in 2008.
LAUREN POSEY
Dr. Lauren Posey is the Executive Director of the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute and performs as principal cellist of the Ballet West Orchestra. She is also on faculty at Westminster University, directs the Alaska Cello Intensive, and runs a successful private cello studio.
She was most recently honored as one of Utah’s 2024 Forty Under 40 by Utah Business Magazine for her work with the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute. Along with bringing some of the finest music education to Utah, Dr. Posey regularly performs with the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series and the Park City Beethoven Festival. Recently, she was also delighted to be the keynote speaker for the 2023 Utah ASTA Midwinter Workshop.
Dr. Posey’s extensive chamber music experience includes the 2013 Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, 2014 Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, and the 2014 Deer Valley Music Festival Emerging String Quartet Program. In 2014, she won the 2014 MTNA National String Chamber Music Competition as well as the 2014 University of Utah Chamber Music Competition with the Rosco String Quartet. In 2016 and 2017 she was a quarterfinalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, attended the 2016 Banff Chamber Music Residency, and performed in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Masterclass Series for Wu Han with Trio Mondial.
In 2017, Dr. Posey completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Colin Carr and was a recipient of the Staller Scholar Award. She began her music training in Salt Lake City with teachers Carey and Elliott Cheney. In 2012 she won the T. Gordon Parks Memorial Collegiate Concerto Competition and the following year also won the 2013 University of Utah Concerto Competition.
She graduated in 2011 with her Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance from the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Alexander Suleiman, and received a Master of Music degree from the University of Utah in 2014, where she studied with John Eckstein and Elliott Cheney.
In her spare time, Dr. Posey enjoys taking road trips with her partner Marcus and their six dogs Riggins, Taylor, Lyla, Garrity, Kora, and Cassidy. She also volunteers with Arctic Rescue, a Utah-based rescue that places an emphasis in finding homes for huskies and malamutes.
Dr. Posey’s cello was made in 2006 by local Salt Lake City maker Carrie Scoggins.
NICHOLAS MAUGHAN
Whether Nicholas Maughan is music directing a production of Rocky Horror at a barn in Kennebunkport, Maine, coaching a high school violinist on the Mendelssohn Concerto, or playing tunes from Wicked with Kristin Chenoweth and the Utah Symphony, he is at a piano doing what he loves: making music with other people.
Collaboration is the theme in Nic’s musical life. His first piano lessons, taught by his mother, included duets. He was accompanying choirs in middle school and high school. At Utah State (Charlene Shelzi Jarvis, Annette Colledge) and Weber State (Ralph van der Beek), he worked extensively with singers and string players. Nic credits much of his ability to adapt his playing to “styles-beyond-classical” to the work he did under the mentorship of Jim Christian (musical theater), Viktor Uzur (chamber music), and Cristin Tillinghast (voice).
From 2019 to 2025, Nic served as the full-time Company Pianist at Ballet West. He continues to collaborate with the company in rehearsals and with the Ballet West Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Jared Oaks. He enjoys incorporating a wide range of musical favorites into class playlists—dancers might hear anything from Scarlatti & Chopin to Jerome Kern & Katy Perry—and finds the ballet repertoire (Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and more) both challenging and exhilarating. Recent highlights include Rodeo (De Mille/Copland) and In the Night (Robbins/Chopin).
Special projects during the 2022–2023 season included performing the premiere of Alfonso Tenreiro’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Dr. Michael Palumbo and Chamber Orchestra Ogden, and expanding Nic’s original score for choreographer Jessica Baynes’ modern dance piece Bloom, a grantee of Salt Lake City’s Arts Council’s 2022 Artist Career Empowerment Grant.
Nic can be heard on Aubrey Adams-McMillan’s 2021 album Beautiful Dreamer and Ginger Bess’s 2014 album Give Me the Simple Life, both available on all streaming platforms.
