Meet the Founders

Abe Feder

Founder COAP Music & Assistant Principal Cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Abraham Feder began his tenure with Detroit Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Principal Cello in the fall of 2018. Prior to his appointment, he was a member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2018, he served as the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Santa Fe Opera. Abraham began his orchestral career as Principal Cellist of the Sarasota Orchestra and Cellist of the Sarasota String Quartet from 2008-2016.

Abraham has been featured as a soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Americas, and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, as a member of the Chroma Quartet, he founded the Tuesdays with Chroma concert series in Sarasota.

An avid chamber musician, Abraham has performed with Ricardo Morales, Amy Oshiro Morales, and Kerri Ryan of the Philadelphia Orchestra; Michelle Kim, Assistant Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic; Richard Hirschl, Brant Taylor, Kenneth Olson, and Yuan-Qing Yu of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO); Stephen Balderston, former Assistant Principal cellist of the CSO; Desomd Hoebig, former Principal Cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra; Danielle Belen; Joseph Silverstein; Ray Chen; Christopher O’Riley; Leonidas Kavakos; and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Abraham earned his Master’s Degree under the tutelage of Desmond Hoebig at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He received his Bachelor of Music at The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with David Soyer and Peter Wiley. His teachers have also included Richard Hirschl and Tanya Carey.

For more information, visit abrahamfeder.com.

Jake Hanegan

Co-founder COAP Music & Principal Cellist of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

COAP co-founder Jacob Hanegan currently serves as the principal cellist of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Opera Theater. Along with these engagements, he also enjoys regular performances with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Sun Valley Music Festival, Sarasota Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. A 2018 alum of The New World Symphony, Jacob spent his time there working with leading cellists and conductors from around the world under music director Michael Tilson Thomas. As a lover of opera, he spent two seasons performing with the Des Moines Metro Opera along with serving as principal of the Aspen Opera Center Orchestra, the Shepherd School Opera Orchestra, and the Eastman Opera Orchestra. Jacob has performed chamber music collaborations with members of the Cleveland Quartet and Emerson Quartet, along with many contemporary music performances in Florida, Texas, and New York. Mr. Hanegan is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Steven Doane (BM), and Rice University Shepherd School of Music where he studied with Desmond Hoebig (MM). Jake is happily engaged to his fiancé Julia Coronelli, principal harpist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and will be moving to Milwaukee with her and their cat Franny in the fall of 2021.