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Jupiter Players 2010-2011 |
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| Lisa Shihoten, winner of the Grand Prize at the Marcia Polayes National Violin Competition and the Nakamichi Concerto Competition, Lisa made her debut in 1995 performing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the Juilliard Orchestra under Kurt Masur. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has appeared at the Aspen, Verbier, and Ravinia festivals, and at Caramoor’s “Rising Stars” series. We think of Lisa as our Most Valuable Player. |
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| VIOLA | ||
| Maurycy Banaszek, from Warsaw, Poland, is a recipient of numerous violin, viola and chamber music awards. As a founding member of the Elsner String Quartet, he has played in such venues as Carnegie, Wigmore Hall, and the Gewandhaus. He performed with the Amadeus String Quartet for their 50th Anniversary Gala concert in London, and was also chosen by Gidon Kremer to participate at the World Festival in Kronberg, Germany, where he performed with the Guarneri String Quartet. |
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| Mark Holloway, has played at Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, and with the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has also played principal viola for the New York String Orchestra and American Symphony, and he substitutes with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, and on Broadway. Mark, who began playing the viola at age 8, is a graduate of Curtis, where he studied with Michael Tree, and of Boston University. He plays a viola made in 1941 by Ladislav Kaplan of South Norwalk, Connecticut. |
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| Robert Meyer has performed in chamber music and recitals throughout the United States and abroad. As violist of the Arianna Quartet, he collaborated with members of the Tokyo, Juilliard, and Vermeer Quartets, and was featured on the cover of Chamber Music Magazine. A proponent of new music, he was a founding member of the New Fromm Players, a contemporary music ensemble in residence at the Tanglewood Music Center. Robert studied at the Manhattan School of Music, University of Michigan, and Rice University in Houston, Texas. |
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| Dov Scheindlin, acclaimed by the New York Times as an “extraordinary violist” of “immense flair,” was until recently violist of the Arditti String Quartet, winner of the 1999 Siemens Musikpreis in Munich. The Quartet’s extensive concert schedule brought him to some 28 European countries. He was also a member of the Penderecki String Quartet and the Mendelssohn String Quartet (as acting violist). Born in Montreal, Dov was raised in New York City. |
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| Jennifer Stumm, hailed as “outstanding” by The Strad, has won top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild, William Primrose, and Vriendenkrans Conceurs competitions. She has performed as soloist and recitalist at the Kennedy Center, Wigmore and Tully Halls, and on Ravinia’s “Rising Stars” series. As a chamber musician she performs with the London-based Aronowitz Ensemble; she has also played at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Aldeburgh and Verbier festivals. Jennifer is a native of Atlanta, and plays a 1767 Mantegazza viola ~ www.aronowitzensemble.co.uk |
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| Ani Aznavoorian is one of the premier cellists of her generation. Among her winnings are prizes from the Julius Stulberg, Paolo (Finland) and Bunkamura competitions, and she was also named a Presidential Scholar of the Arts. In 2001 she substituted (to critical acclaim) for Natalia Gutman on 12 hours notice in 3 performances of the first Shostakovich Cello Concerto. Her playing is indeed “breathtakingly lovely” Naples Daily News. Ani is a member of the Corinthian Trio, and she plays a cello made by her father Peter Aznavoorian. Chicago is her hometown. ~ www.aniaznavoorian.com |
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| Yves Dharamraj is a Franco-American who enjoys performing as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is a founding member of the prize-winning Moët Trio and Amaranta Quartet, and has played with Itzhak Perlman and Misha Dichter, and appeared with Miriam Fried on tour with Musicians from Ravinia. Yves also belongs to Ne(x)tworks, a cutting-edge group of performing composers, and has toured with Yale Cellos. His winnings include prizes won at the Ima Hogg, Irving Klein, and Juilliard competitions. He began his cello studies at the age of four and is a graduate of Yale (cum laude with degrees in history and music). Yves plays an 1842 Vuillaume cello. |
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| David Requiro, First Prize winner of both the 2006 Irving Klein and Washington string competitions, is emerging as one of America’s most promising young cellists. His accomplishments include a première performance of Tan Dun’s Elegy: Snow in June for cello and percussion at the Aspen Music Festival and the completion of the first half of the cycle of Beethoven’s works for cello and piano at the Phillips Collection, with future cycles scheduled. A native of Oakland, California, David is cellist of the Kashii String Quartet. |
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| Inbal Segev, from Israel, made her debuts with the Israel and Berlin Philharmonic (Zubin Mehta conducting), and has won the Casals, Paulo, and Washington competitions. She devotes much of her time to chamber music and has played in the Banff, Ravinia and Seattle festivals. Her recordings of Boccherini and Beethoven sonatas are released by “Opus One” and a solo CD of Jewish music by Vox. Inbal plays an 1845 Gaetano Rossi made in Milan ~ www.inbalsegev.com |
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| DOUBLE BASS | ||
| Kurt Muroki, a native of Maui, Hawaii, is winner of the Aspen, New World, and Honolulu Symphony Young Artists competitions. He is bassist with such groups as Speculum Musicae, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Concertante, Marlboro, and BargeMusic, and was a member of Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center. Kurt has also performed with the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, and Colorado Quartets, and with pianists Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida ~ www.muroki.com |
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| Stephen Sas has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad with ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also participated at many festivals, including Spoleto (Italy), Evian (France), Aspen, Tanglewood, and Mostly Mozart. A native of New York City, Stephen received his Doctorate from Juilliard, where his original doctoral dissertation delved into the history of double bass performance practice from 1500 to 1900. |
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| FLUTE | ||
| Barry Crawford was principal flute of the Jupiter Symphony. The Southampton Press has called his playing “superb,” admiring “his tone, his phrasing and breath control, and the joy-giving communicative quality of his playing.” He has performed in Spoleto and with Mostly Mozart, in Tunisia and Poland, and with pianist Peter Serkin on U.S. tours. |
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| Winnie Lai, from Taiwan, began playing the oboe at age 9. She is graduate of Juilliard and a prizewinner of the Taiwan, Spotlight and Idyllwild competitions. Winnie is a member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra and has performed at Aspen and Marlboro, and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. |  |
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| CLARINET | ||
| Vadim Lando, who was born in Kiev, was principal clarinet of the Jupiter Symphony. A winner of top prizes in the CMC Canada, Yale, and Stony Brook competitions, he has been praised by The New York Times for his “consistently distinguished” and “vibrant, precise virtuosic playing.” His concerts have been broadcast on NPR. Vadim runs his own music school, the Great Neck Music Conservatory ~ www.greatneckmusicconservatory.com |
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| Karl Kramer, from Norway, was principal horn of the Jupiter Symphony. His winnings include top prizes from the American Horn and Nordic Horn competitions. He is a member of the Dorian Quintet, a founding member of Concerts in the Heights, and a faculty member at Rowan University in New Jersey. He also performs as artist-member and guest artist at festivals. |  |
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| Alana Gartrell is a member of the Carnegie Hall Academy, where she recently performed its premiere of the Ligeti Horn Trio. She has played in both orchestral and chamber music settings with Spoleto USA, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Verbier, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Aspen under the batons of such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson-Thomas and Herbert Blomsted. Alana, a Chicago native, is a recent graduate of Juilliard and lives in New York. |
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| BASSOON | ||
| Gina Cuffari is a founding member of the prize-winning Scarborough Trio, which gave its New York debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in 2003. She performs frequently with orchestras such as Orpheus and the Opera Orchestra of New York, plays with the contemporary ensemble Alarm Will Sound, and performs live music to silent films with the BQE Project at Lincoln Center. She is also on the faculty at NYU and Western Connecticut University ~ www.scarboroughtrio.com |
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