Animé BOP! Is the collaboration of three colleagues exploring the exciting repertoire possibilities of piano and double reeds. The ensemble is devoted to performing a wide array of music from diverse musical periods and styles, and to discovering new compositions through arrangement and commissions. Animé BOP! Members are:
Basoonist Linda Morton Fisher is principal with the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Civic Light Opera and the Lancaster (OH) Festival Orchestras, as well as instructor of bassoon at the University of Pittsburgh.
Oboist Robin Driscoll is principal with the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet as well as with the Wheeling Symphony. He appears throughout the United States as a soloist and has played with such orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony.
Pianist Robert Frankenberry leads a multi-faceted career as a tenor, pianist and conductor, performing regularly in Chicago, New York and Pittsburgh. Robert is currently artistic administrator for the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, and a member of the IonSound Project and of Music on the Edge Chamber Ensemble.
