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2012 Season
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| HARP Elizabeth Hainen |
CLARINET Alexander Fiterstein |
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Christopher Deviney Don Liuzzi |
BASSOON Harrison Hollingsworth |
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Charles Abramovic has won critical acclaim for his international performances as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with leading instrumentalists and singers. He has performed a vast repertoire not only on the piano, but also the harpsichord and fortepiano. Mr. Abramovic made his solo orchestral debut at the age of 14 with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Since then he has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Philharmonic, the Florida Philharmonic, and the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra. He has given solo recitals throughout the United States, France and Yugoslavia. He has also appeared at major international festivals in Berlin, Salzburg, Bermuda, Dubrovnik, Aspen and Vancouver.
Mr. Abramovic has performed often with such stellar artists as Midori, Sarah Chang, Robert McDuffie, Viktoria Mullova, Kim Kashkashian, and Jeffrey Khaner. His recording of the solo piano works of Delius for DTR recordings has been widely praised. He has recorded for EMI Classics with violinist Sarah Chang, and Avie Recordings with Philadelphia Orchestra principal flutist Jeffrey Khaner. Actively involved with contemporary music, he has also recorded works of Milton Babbitt, Joseph Schwantner, Gunther Schuller and others for Albany Records, CRI, Bridge, and Naxos. Mr. Abramovic is a professor of keyboard studies at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music in Philadelphia, where he has taught since 1988. He is an active part of the musical life of Philadelphia, performing with numerous organizations in the city. He is a core member of the Dolce Suono Ensemble and the Dolce Suono Trio with flutist Mimi Stillman and cellist Yumi Kendall. In 1997 he received the Career Development Grant from the Philadelphia Musical Fund Society, and in 2003 received the Creative Achievement Award from Temple University. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, and received his doctorate from Temple University. His teachers have included Natalie Phillips, Eleanor Sokoloff, Leon Fleisher, and Harvey Wedeen.
Mr. Abramovic is also a composer. He studied composition with Maurice Wright at Temple University. Philadelphia’s Orchestra 2001 premiered his Concerto for Piano, Strings and Timpani in November of 2004. “Beasts,” a trio for flute, cello and piano, has received performances at Temple University and on the Dolce Suono series. The Chamber Music Society of Philadelphia and the Dolce Suono Ensemble jointly commissioned his most recent work, “Laus Deo,” which received a premiere performance in January 2010.
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Taiwanese-American violist Che-Yen Chen has established himself as a prominent recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician. Currently the violist of the Formosa Quartet, the Myriad Trio and Camera Lucida, Mr. Chen is also the principal violist of the San Diego Symphony and the Mainly Mozart Festival. He maintains a highly active career as both a performer and educator.
Noted by the Strad Magazine as a musician whose "tonal distinction and essential musicality produced an auspicious impression," Mr. Chen has been the recipient of international acclaim, winning first prize at the 2003 Primrose International Viola Competition and the "President Prize" of the 2003 Lionel Tertis Viola Competition. A founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won first prize and the Amadeus Prize at the 10th London International String Quartet Competition.
Mr. Chen is a former member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two, and has toured with Musicians From Marlboro following several seasons of his participation at the Marlboro Music Festival. His many festival appearances include performances with La Jolla Summerfest, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, and Taiwan Connection, among numerous others. He has also appeared as guest principal violist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
A native of Taipei, Mr. Chen is a four-time winner of the National Viola Competition in Taiwan. He came to the U.S. in his teens to matriculate at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, studying with such luminaries as Michael Tree, Joseph de Pasquale, Karen Tuttle and Paul Neubauer. He has since taught and performed at Interlochen, Mimir Chamber Music Festival, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and has also served on the jury of the 13th Primrose International Viola Competition in 2011. Chen has served on faculties of McGill University, University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, Indiana University South Bend, and currently at California State University Fullerton. He joined the viola faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music in 2012.
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Chris Deviney is principal percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Prior to assuming this title in 2003, Mr. Deviney was section percussionist with the Houston Symphony. He has also previously performed and recorded with the New Orleans Symphony, Toronto Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra. He has performed professionally at the Bard Music Festival and as a featured marimba soloist with the Brevard (FL) Symphony.
Mr. Deviney was a student at the Aspen Music Festival where he was the recipient of the first Charles Owen Memorial Fellowship. He was also a two-year Tanglewood Institute Fellowship recipient. Mr. Deviney received his bachelor of music degree in percussion performance from Florida State University under Gary Werdesheim and his master of music degree in percussion performance from Temple University under the legendary Alan Abel. Mr. Deviney has been featured in a number of chamber settings and recitals including Tulane University, Temple University, Network for New Music, Atmos Percussion Ensemble, and the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Series.
In 2002, 2007 and 2009, Mr. Deviney was a featured clinician at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and has presented clinics for PAS Day of Percussion events in Louisiana, Florida and Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the PAS Symphonic Committee since 2008 and the chair since 2010. He has given master classes at Temple University and the Curtis Institute on the study of preparation for successful audition-taking and was a Charles Owen Memorial Guest Lecturer at the University of Michigan in January 2008.
In February, Mr. Deviney appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Bartok’s Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion with Emmanuel Ax. In 2005, he received the Florida State University Dohnanyi Award for Excellence in Music Performance. He was on the faculty of Rutgers University from 2004-2008 and has given professional coaching at the New World Symphony. From 2008-2009, Mr. Deviney was the coordinator of the Curtis Institute of Music percussion program. He resides in Elkins Park, Pa., with his wife Tonja and daughter Caitlyn.
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A violist of international reputation, Roberto Díaz holds the position of President and CEO of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He follows in the footsteps of renowned soloist/directors such as Rudolf Serkin, Gary Graffman, Efrem Zimbalist and Josef Hofmann. As a professor of viola at Curtis and former principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Mr. Díaz has already had a significant impact on American musical life and will continue to do so in his dual roles as performer and educator.
Some of Mr. Díaz’s recent and upcoming performances include the Kansas City Symphony with Michael Stern, Fort Worth Symphony with Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias with Krzysztof Penderecki, Orquesta Simfónica de Barcelona with James Judd, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra with Gabor Ötvös and the Bilbao Symphony with Juanjo Mena. Recital dates include appearances at the Gardner Museum in Boston, Cleveland Institute of Music, Library of Congress and the Festival Cultural de Mayo in Guadalajara.
An active chamber musician, Mr. Díaz has performed with artists such as the Emerson String Quartet, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Christoph Eschenbach, Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Isaac Stern. As a member of the Díaz Trio, with violinist Andrés Cárdenes and cellist Andrés Díaz, he has performed throughout the North and South America and China.
Mr. Díaz was principal violist of the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich, a member of the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and a member of the Minnesota Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner. His recording of transcriptions by William Primrose with pianist Robert Koenig (Naxos) was nominated for a 2006 Grammy. Recent Naxos releases include an all-Brahms recital CD with Jeremy Denk and a recording of Jonathan Leshnoff's double concerto with Michael Stern, violinist Charles Wetherbee and the Iris Chamber Orchestra.
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Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is recognized for playing that combines flawless technique and consummate musicianship with graceful phrasing and a warm soulful tone. Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award, Mr. Fiterstein has been praised by The New York Times for possessing a “beautiful liquid clarity,” and The Washington Post wrote, “Fiterstein treats his instrument as his own personal voice, dazzling in its spectrum of colors, agility and range. Every sound he makes is finely measure without inhibiting expressiveness.”
Considered one of today’s most exceptional clarinet players, Mr. Fiterstein has performed with prestigious orchestras, in recital and with chamber music ensembles throughout the world. Mr. Fiterstein is the founder of The Zimro Project, a unique ensemble dedicated to incorporating Jewish art music into chamber music programs that is inspired by the Zimro Ensemble, a group that nurtured the music of Jewish composers and culture nearly a century ago in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Fiterstein was also a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center from 2004 to 2006, and continues to perform with the CMS each season.
Alexander Fiterstein often works with composers in commissions and premieres of clarinet works. He has worked with composers Corigliano, Golijov, Adler and Bates, and he has performed the U.S. premieres of Henrik Strindberg’s Clarinet Concerto “Minne,” Harrison Birtwistle’s “Pulse Shadows” and Paul Schoenfield’s clarinet trio, a recording of which was released in May 2010 by Naxos. Last season, Mr. Fiterstein performed the world premiere of Roger Zare’s clarinet concerto “Bennu’s Fire” at ClarinetFest 2011 in Los Angeles, and the world premiere of a new arrangement of Julius Chajes’ Hebrew Suite for piano trio and clarinet by Sarah Nemtsov for Pro Musica Hebraica at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. Mr. Fiterstein’s upcoming recordings include clarinet music by Ronn Yedidia to be released by Naxos in April 2012, and Weber’s Clarinet Concertos with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra conducted by Martin West.
Mr. Fiterstein was born in Belarus and immigrated with his family to Israel at the age of two where he later studied at the Israel Arts and Science Academy. Mr. Fiterstein is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and the Juilliard School, and his teachers include Charles Neidich and Eli Heifetz. He is a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and the “Aviv” competitions in Israel; and he is the recipient of the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award (Tokyo) and numerous awards from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Mr. Fiterstein is the clarinet professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Elizabeth Hainen has won international acclaim as one of today’s foremost harpists. Hailed by the Washington Post for her “unusual presence with silky transparency,” she has charmed audiences as a recitalist and concerto soloist throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America. Engagements include the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Mexico State Symphony, the John F. Kennedy Center Orchestra, New World Symphony, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, in addition to performances with the Paris Opera Ballet and Vienna Boys Choir. An active chamber musician, Ms. Hainen has performed at the Festivals of Grand Tetons, Kingston, Marlboro, Sachsisch Bohmisches and the World Harp Congress. She has collaborated as soloist with such eminent conductors as Charles Dutoit, Raphael Frühbeck du Burgos, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Ms. Hainen’s most recent season includes solo appearances and recitals with the Anchorage and Annapolis Symphonies, Bulgaria National Radio Orchestra, the Camerata Ducale in Vercelli, Italy, the French Embassy in Washington D.C., the National Symphony Orchestra of Columbia, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with the Juilliard String Quartet, and the Lyon & Healy Concert Series. Her recordings include Music for Solo Harp on the Naxos label and a recording series for Lyon & Healy on the Eagen label.
Elizabeth Hainen is the solo principal harpist for The Philadelphia Orchestra and serves on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music and Temple University. She is the director and founder of the Saratoga Harp Colony and has recently founded The Lyra Society, a nonprofit organization to promote new works for the harp and educate young musicians.
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David Jolley has thrilled audiences throughout the world with his “remarkable virtuosity” (New York Times), and has been hailed as “a soloist second to none” by Gramophone Magazine. He has traveled extensively in North and South America, Europe, East Asia, and Japan, sustaining an active performance career. A chamber artist of unusual sensitivity and range, Mr. Jolley has frequently collaborated with such groups as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Guarneri Quartet, the American String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, Musicians from Marlboro, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Jolley is a member of the virtuoso quintet “Windscape,” and is also a founding member, now Emeritus, of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he toured widely and made over two dozen recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon label. A frequent soloist with orchestras, Mr. Jolley has appeared with symphonies across the U.S. and internationally. He most recently peformed with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra in Enschede, where he performed Joseph Swenson’s Horn Concerto, The Fire and the Rose. His keen interest in enlarging the solo horn literature has led to the composition of many new works for him, including Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto, which Mr. Jolley premiered with Orpheus at Carnegie Hall. Other memorable works composed for Mr. Jolley include Twilight Music by John Harbison, Dust and Shiver by George Tsontakis, and George Perle’s Duos for Horn and String Quartet, premiered by Mr. Jolley and the Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall. He most recently premiered the Concerto for Horn by Lawrence Dillon with the Carolina Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Jolley has six solo recordings under the Arabesque label, including Mozart Concerti and Strauss Concerti with the Israel Sinfonietta. He is on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Mannes College of Music, and Queens College-CUNY.
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Yumi Kendall joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2004 as assistant principal cello upon graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with David Soyer and Peter Wiley.
Ms. Kendall began studying cello at the age of five following the Suzuki method; made her recital debut at age seven in Boulder, Col.; and, following the completion of the Suzuki method, continued to study for seven years with National Symphony Orchestra principal cellist David Hardy. At age 16, Ms. Kendall made her orchestral solo debut with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Her participation in summer festivals includes Music from Angel Fire, Verbier, Marlboro, touring with Musicians from Marlboro, Taos School of Music, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, and Carnegie Hall’s Emerson String Quartet Workshop. Ms. Kendall is also a member of the Dryden String Quartet and Dolce Suono Ensemble.
Recipient of several awards and honors, Ms. Kendall won first place in the Friday Morning Music Club Competition, first place in the National Symphony Young Soloists’ Competition, and the Judges’ Commendation award at the Johansen International Competition. She has served on the faculties of the New York State School for Orchestral Studies, the University of Pennsylvania chamber music department, the National Orchestral Institute, and Brevard Music Center, in addition to teaching privately.
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Kyu-Young Kim is one of the most versatile and accomplished violinists of his generation. Hailed by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune for his “flawless musical and technical command,” Kim is an active soloist and chamber musician.
He recently toured throughout North America, Europe and Asia, performing in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Seoul Arts Center, the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), and the Beethoven-Haus (Bonn). As a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, winners of the Grand Prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, he performed in many of the major halls of Europe, including the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Philharmonie (Cologne), the Cité de la Musique (Paris), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Festpielhaus (Baden-Baden), and the Megaron (Athens), and was a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two Program.
Mr. Kim has appeared as soloist with the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, of which he is currently Principal Second Violin, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poland, and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, he has performed throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Japan, Germany, and New Zealand. He has also served as guest concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. He was recently elected the newest member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with which he has toured on four continents.
Mr. Kim is a recipient of the 2007 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center in recognition of outstanding young artists from the Lincoln Center community. He is also a winner of a McKnight Fellowship as a member of the Soyulla Duo with his wife, cellist Pitnarry Shin. As a former member of the Pacifica String Quartet, Mr. Kim won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1998 and served as an artist-in-residence for National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” His other chamber music activities have included collaborations with pianist Gary Graffman and the Juilliard String Quartet, and performances with the Chicago Contemporary Players, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the DaCapo Chamber Players, and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and Sejong Soloists.
Widely recognized for his teaching and musical outreach activities, Mr. Kim has served on the faculties of Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the Music Institute of Chicago, and the Interlochen Summer Festival, among others, and has given outreach concerts to young audiences throughout the United States. Mr. Kim received degrees from the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has studied with Donald Weilerstein, Robert Mann, Jaime Laredo, Yumi Scott and Shirley Givens.
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Violinist Jennifer Koh is recognized for her intense, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance. With an impassioned musical curiosity, she is forging an artistic path of her devising, choosing works that inspire and challenge. She is dedicated to performing the violin repertoire of all eras from traditional to contemporary, believing that the past and present forms a continuum. She is also committed to exploring connections in the works she performs, searching for similarities of voice among diverse composers and associations within the works of a single composer, creating thoughtful programs that present rare, revealing juxtapositions.
Since the 1994-95 season, when she won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Koh has been heard with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. Also a prolific recitalist, she appears frequently at major music centers and festivals. Highlights of her 2011-12 season include a recital of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin presented by Columbia University’s Miller Theatre in New York, and performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Saint Louis, Seattle and Toronto symphonies. She collaborated with pianist Shai Wosner in recitals in Denver and Kansas City, and joined pianist Benjamin Hochman in Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Piano and Violin with the Asheville Symphony. She also recently became the first female to perform the solo violin role of Einstein in the Canadian premiere of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach in Ann Arbor and Toronto, presented in celebration of Glass’s 75th birthday.
Ms. Koh is passionate in her effort to expand the violin repertoire and has established relationships with many of today’s composers, regularly commissioning and premiering new works. In 2009, Ms. Koh debuted “Bach and Beyond,” a series of three recitals that explore the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas to works by modern day composers and new commissions. The first recital in the series, “Bach and Beyond Part I,” connects Bach’s Partitas Nos. 2 and 3 to works by Ysaÿe, Saariaho, Carter, and Salonen with a video commission by Tal Rosner. “Bach and Beyond Part II” will premiere in the 2013 season and will feature a new work for solo violin by Phil Kline and Bartók’s Sonata for solo violin, bookended by Bach’s Sonata No. 1 and Partita No. 1. This season, Ms. Koh also launches a new project called “Two x Four,” which celebrates the relationship between teacher and student through music. Named for two violinists and four works, Ms. Koh will be joined by Jamie Laredo, her former teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music, in performances of works for two violins and orchestra by Bach, Philip Glass, and newly commissioned pieces by composers Anna Clyne and David Ludwig. In May 2012, Ms. Koh and Mr. Laredo will perform Bach’s Double Concerti and Ludwig’s new work with the Delaware Symphony, a lead partner in the commission.
Ms. Koh brings the same sense of adventure and brilliant musicianship to her recordings as she does to her live performances. Her latest CD releases include “The Singing Rooms,” a concerto for violin with chorus by Jennifer Higdon released by Telarc, “Rhapsodic Musings: 21st Century Works for Solo Violin,” and a Grammy nominated album featuring Higdon’s “String Poetic” both released by Cedille.
Also a committed educator, Ms. Koh has been praised for her performances in classrooms around the country under her “Music Messenger” outreach program, now in its eighth year. She is an alumna of the Curtis Institute, where she worked extensively with Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimir.
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Pianist Hanchien Lee has established herself as a successful soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Since her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age sixteen, she has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia, appearing at venues such as Steinway Hall in New York, Academy of Music, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, and has given recitals at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Muhlenberg College Piano Series, Hillman Performing Arts Center, Texas International Piano Festival, Basilica San Pietro in Italy, Centro Cultural del Antiguo in Spain and Taipei Convention Center in Taiwan. She has appeared as soloist with the American Elite youth orchestra, Plainfield Symphony, Taiwan National Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Perugia and Poland’s Capella Cracovienses Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Lee is the recipient of the prestigious Chi-Mei Scholarship and Clara Ascherfeld Award. She has won first prize at the Russel C. Wonderlic Piano Competition and top prizes at Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition and Yamaha Piano Competition.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Lee has performed in many highly respected music festivals including Sarasota, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Prussia Cove International Music Seminar and Music Academy of the West. She is also a member of the prize-winning quartet that was winner of the Yale School of Music Chamber Music Competition and performed at Stony Brook University, Muhlenberg College and Montana University, where she also conducted a master class.
Hanchien Lee was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music at age eleven where she studied with Claude Frank and Eleanor Sokoloff. Following graduation from Curtis, Ms. Lee continued her studies at Yale University with Claude Frank, earning both a Master’s degree and an Artists’ Diploma. She holds a doctoral degree at the Peabody Conservatory of John Hopkins University where she was under the tutelage of with Boris Slutsky. Ms. Lee has also studied with such esteemed pianists as Gary Graffman, Richard Goode, Jerome Lowenthal and Fou T’song. She currently serves as a piano faculty at the Peabody Preparatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
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Cellist Priscilla Lee, a 2005 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, began music studies at the age of five and made her solo debut in 1988 at the Southwestern Youth Music Festival. Ten years later she made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto. She has also appeared as soloist with the American Youth Symphony, the Crossroads Chamber Orchestra, the Palisades Symphony and the Saddleback Chamber Orchestra. She is a recipient of the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Scholarship and the John Williams Scholarship from the Young Musicians Foundation and also received the Los Angeles Philharmonic's prestigious Bronislaw-Kaper Award. She has participated in master classes for Bernhard Greenhouse, Lynn Harrell and Gary Hoffmann.
Ms. Lee made her New York chamber music debut in 2003 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a member of the Grancino String Quartet. She collaborated with Arnold Steinhardt in Philadelphia and Boston to celebrate Human Rights Day, performing Messian's "Quartet for the End of Time." She participated in the opening concert at Zankel Hall in New York City with John Adams and premiered Osvaldo Golijov's "Ayre" with Dawn Upshaw in Zankel Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston and most recently at the Barbican Center in London. This past year, Ms. Lee has been on two “Musicians from Marlboro” tours.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Lee has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, Bargemusic, the Caramoor "Rising Stars" series, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Taos School of Music, Moritzburg Festival concerts in New York, the Dawn Upshaw/John Harbison and Emerson String Quartet workshops at Carnegie Hall, and Music from Angelfire, N.M.
A native of California, Ms. Lee studied with Ronald Leonard at the Colburn School of Performing Arts and in 1998 went on to the Curtis Institute of Music to study with former Guarneri String Quartet cellist David Soyer. She recently received a master’s degree in music from the Mannes College of Music where she studied with Timothy Eddy. She has been chosen to be a member of Chamber Music Society Two for the 2006-2008 seasons. Priscilla is a founding member of Trio Cavatina, with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute and violinist Harumi Rhodes.
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Jasmine
Lin began violin studies at age four. Since then
she has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra,
Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay, Evergreen
Symphony of Taiwan, and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan,
and in recital in such cities as Chicago, New York, Nova Scotia,
Rio de Janeiro, and Montevideo. She was a prizewinner in
the International Paganini Competition and took second prize in
the International Naumburg Competition. The New York Times
describes her as an "unusually individualistic player" with "electrifying
assertiveness" and "virtuosic abandon".
As a chamber
musician, Ms. Lin has been a participant of the Marlboro Music
Festival and the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia,
and has toured extensively in the United States as part of the
Chicago String Quartet, in China as part of the Overseas Musicians,
and in Taiwan as a member of Taiwan Connection Music Festival. She
has been an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University and
DePaul University and was a faculty member of the Taos School of
Music in New Mexico.
Ms. Lin is a founding and current
member of the Formosa Quartet, which won first prize in the 2006 London International
String Quartet Competition. The
Formosa's critically-acclaimed recording of works by Mozart, Debussy, Wolf
and Schubert on the EMI Debut Series was released in January 2006. The
quartet performs in major venues around the world including the Chicago Cultural
Center, the Library of Congress, Caramoor Festival, Cornell University, Maui
Classical Music Festival, Taipei's Novel Hall, BBC In Tune, and Wigmore Hall.
Ms.
Lin is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She
gave her New York debut in Merkin Hall, where the program included her poetry
set to music. Her poem "The night of h's" received Editor's
Choice Award from the International Poetry Foundation, and her poetry/music presentations
have been featured in Chicago, at Cornell University in Ithaca, and on radio
in Taipei, and have resulted in collaborations with composers Dana Wilson,
David Loeb, and Thomas Oboe Lee.
In the 1999-2000 season, Ms. Lin was
Second Assistant Concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In
addition to her activities with the Formosa Quartet, she is a member of Trio
Voce with cellist Marina Hoover and pianist Patricia Tao, as well as a member
of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, whose Composer Perspectives series won the
ASCAP award for adventuresome programming. She
received a Grammy nomination in 2007 as part of CCM's Grammy-nominated CD of
works for winds and strings by Mozart. She is on the faculty at Roosevelt
University and a proud native of Chicago.
Ayano
Ninomiya’s second New York recital took place at Merkin
Concert Hall in October 2008 and garnered this praise: “Her
technique is equal to all challenges, secure, effortless and unobtrusive;
her tone is lovely, pure, and variable in color and intensity” (New
York Concert Review). Also chosen for the 2009 Young Performers
Career Advancement program by the Association of Performing Arts
Presenters, she performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
in January 2009. Gail Niwa, piano
Gail Niwa's "brilliant insights" and "power, eloquence and striking sound color" have made her an audience favorite throughout the world. Ms. Niwa won high praise for her New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall, and her recitals at Orchestra Hall in Chicago on the Allied Arts Piano Series and at the Ambassador Auditorium's Gold Medal Series in Pasadena. She also received outstanding reviews for her solo appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in February 1995, performing the Schumann Piano Concerto with Sir Georg Solti conducting. Among her recent solo engagements are performances of the Brahms Concerto #2 with the San Luis Obispo Symphony and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with the California Philharmonic. She has been soloist with the Utah, Memphis, Fort Wayne, Augusta, Columbus, Reno, Evanston and Grant Park Symphonies and has given recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Washington's Kennedy Center, and in Athens, Montreal, Seoul, and St. Louis. Anna Marie Petersen, viola
Violist Anna Marie Petersen joined the Philadelphia Orchestra immediately upon graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music. Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan was a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, winners of the grand prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. During his 11 years with the quartet, he performed coast-to-coast in the United States and Canada, in Japan, Hong Kong, and Panama, and across Europe. The quartet has been in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University, where Mr. Ramakrishnan maintains a teaching studio. In 2011, he formed the Horszowski Trio with violinist Jesse Mills and pianist Rieko Aizawa. Mimi Stillman, flute
Internationally acclaimed flutist Mimi Stillman has performed as soloist with orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Spartanburg Philharmonic, and Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez, and as recitalist and chamber musician at venues, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Verbier Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Bard College, and Princeton University. Burchard Tang, viola
Burchard Tang began his musical studies on the violin at the age of 3 and, at 16, switched to viola , studying with Choong-Jin Chang, principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He continued his musical education at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Joseph de Pasquale, former principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Upon graduation, he was appointed to the viola section of the Philadelphia Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Mr. Tang has appeared at many of the country’s top festivals, including Marlboro, Ravinia, Music from Angel Fire, Seattle and Caramoor. He has toured with Music from Marlboro, and the Brandenburg Ensemble. As the winner of the 1992 Albert M. Greenfield student competition, Mr. Tang appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also appeared with the Temple University, and Temple University Music Prep Orchestra, where he presently is on faculty, teaching viola and chamber music. Natalie Zhu, piano
The recipient of both 2003 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, pianist Natalie Zhu is a winner of Astral Artistic Services' 1998 National Auditions. The Philadelphia Inquirer heralded Astral's recent presentation of Ms. Zhu in recital as a display of "emotional and pianistic pyrotechnics." The recital was later broadcast on National Public Radio's "Performance Today." |
