Santa Fe Women's Ensemble

Dana Winograd, originally from Los Angeles, received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in performance from the Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Harvey Shapiro and Channing Robbins, as well as members of the Juilliard String Quartet for chamber music. Following graduation, Dana led an active freelance career in New York City, including performances at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra and the American Symphony, and Broadway appearances (both in the pit and on stage) with Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Beauty and the Beast and Once Upon a Mattress. She also played backup for Rod Stewart, Luther Vandross, Lyle Lovett, Manhattan Transfer and Harry Connick Jr.

Since moving to Santa Fe in 1999, Dana has been a member of the New Mexico Symphony (now New Mexico Philharmonic), and she is principal cellist of the Santa Fe Symphony. She has appeared as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, the Plainfield Symphony in New Jersey and the Julius Grossman Orchestra in New York. As a chamber musician, Dana plays frequently with the Taos Chamber Music Group, Serenata of Santa Fe and Chatter. She is one of the Santa Fe Symphony’s orchestra mentors for the Santa Fe Public Schools, and she is also the cello teacher of many budding musicians in the Santa Fe area. 

Dana is in her fifth year working with the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association. She and her husband, Gil, have started a scholarship for Youth Symphony kids, in honor of their recently deceased dog, Sydney. They live happily together with Sydney’s three friends: Poco, Loco and Lily.

​ Lisa Donald is an Albuquerque native with a life-long passion for music.  As a young person, it was something she did almost without thinking.  As a youngish older person, she contemplates the ins and outs and guts and skin and bones and sweat of music and sound, and how all of those relate us to each other and ourselves and our hearts. A teacher of hers once said, "Never ignore an opportunity to make a beautiful gesture," a concept which she as taken to heart in all of life.  Each moment has potential to be beautiful in its own enriching, challenging, exquisite, frustrating, strengthening, releasing, powerful way, and she feels most honest when those moments for her are expressed through music.  She teaches and plays in and around Albuquerque, has a (very) small business making jewelry with instrument strings, is bulking up on her knowledge of home repair and maintenance and is raising two young daughters.

David Solem was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and has bachelor and master of music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he studied organ, harpsichord, and piano. He is currently assistant organist for First Presbyterian Church (Santa Fe) and an active performer for many arts groups in Santa Fe, including Pro Música and the Santa Fe Symphony. He has 30 years of experience in liturgical music and has taught applied music and choral arts at Loyola University Chicago. He is also a respected psychotherapist in private practice in the Santa Fe area.