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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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| Alexandra Osborne, a native of Sydney, Australia, made her debut at age eight at the Sydney Opera House. She has since appeared with all the major Australian orchestras and made her U.S. solo debut with the South Bend Symphony in 2004. An avid chamber musician, she has also appeared at music festivals, including Taos, Pan Pacific, and Kneisel Hall. Alexandra is a laureate of competitions in Australia, and was recently featured in Symphony magazine. |
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| Annaliesa Place has been called “the epitome of poise and intelligence” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She made her solo debut at age 12 with the Heidelberg Orchestra and has since appeared with orchestras throughout the U.S. She is also an active chamber musician and recently performed at the Laguna Beach Festival with Claude Frank, and was featured at the Kennedy Center as part of the National Symphony’s Beethoven Festival. Annaliesa is a member of Classnotes, a non-profit group that performs concerts in the public schools ~ www.annaliesaplace.com |
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| Christine Sohn, who lives in both London and New York, began playing the violin at age four. Four years later she continued her studies with Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard, then made her concerto and recital debuts at age nine at Lincoln Center and Aspen. She is also an alumna of Princeton, where she studied political economy and English literature. Christine made her London recital debut at Wigmore Hall under the sponsorship of Menuhin’s Live Music Now Foundation, and her London orchestral debut at the Purcell Room. She plays an 1845 Vuillaume, which was the concert instrument of Josef Suk. |
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| Melissa White, a First Prize winner of the Sphinx Competition (among others), made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2004 as guest soloist at the Sphinx Gala Concert. In addition to her appearances as soloist with orchestras, she is a recitalist and chamber musician, was a member of Disney’s Young Musicians Symphony, and has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today. Melissa’s hometown is Lansing, Michigan. |
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| VIOLA | ||
| Rose Armbrust is an avid chamber musician and has formed various chamber ensembles that have performed in and around New York and Philadelphia in venues such as Tully Hall. As a member of the Versailles Quintet, she received second prize in the Fischoff Competition. In January 2005 Rose was invited to perform with Itzhak Perlman at the Kennedy Center, and since September 2006 she has been principal viola of Symphony in C. Rose, a graduate of Juilliard, is currently studying at Curtis. |
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| 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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| Michael Klotz, violist of the Amernet String Quartet, is passionate about chamber music and has enjoyed participation at many leading music festivals in the U.S. and abroad with the Amernet Quartet and distinguished musicians of our time. He made his solo debut with the Rochester Philharmonic at the age of 17 and has performed as soloist with many other orchestras since then. Michael is Professor of Viola at Florida International University. He plays a 1619 Antonio and Hieronymus Amati on loan from Peter Kamnitzer of the LaSalle Quartet ~ www.amernet.com |
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| Max Mandel has always been involved in chamber music groups of great variety. His current affiliations include the FLUX Quartet, Caramoor Virtuosi, Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, the Kirby String Quartet, Metropolitan Museum Artists, and I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble. He recently played at the Smithsonian using instruments from their collection of Stradivari. Max, who is from Canada, plays a 1973 Giovanni Battista Morassi generously loaned to him by Lesley Robertson of the St. Lawrence Quartet ~ www.fluxquartet.com |
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| Robert Meyer has performed in chamber music and recital 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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| Eric Nowlin is an avid chamber musician and has played at Marlboro and Ravinia; he is also a soloist and recitalist. His numerous winnings include top prizes at the Irving Klein, Hellam, Naftzger, Juilliard and Corpus Christi competitions, and the Rachel Barton Grant for the advancement of young artists’s performance careers. An advocate of contemporary music, Eric is a founding member of Project One, which presents programs that explore the philosophical and cultural contexts of music today. |
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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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| Jessica Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who has spent several summers at Marlboro and toured with Musicians from Marlboro. While a student at Curtis, she was a founding member of the Grancino Quartet and participated in Isaac Stern’s International Chamber Music Encounters in Jerusalem and the 2001 Stern Memorial Concert at Carnegie Hall. Before joining the Daedalus Quartet, Jessica was a member of the Chester String Quartet, resident ensemble at Indiana University South Bend, where she served as Associate Professor of Viola ~ www.daedalusquartet.com |
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| CELLO | ||
| 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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| Bronwyn Banerdt made her Los Angeles Philharmonic solo debut in 2002. She has collaborated in chamber music with artists such as Midori, Steven Tenenbom, and Ronald Leonard, and in the spring of 2007, she served as cellist for the Biava Quartet. She is also principal cellist of the Haddonfield Symphony and frequently performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A native of LA, Bronwyn began her cello studies at age 5. She earned her BM from USC and currently studies with David Soyer at Curtis. Bronwyn plays a cello made by Mario Miralles in 1996 on loan from the Maestro Foundation. |
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| Margo Tatgenhorst Drakos, prizewinner of the Irving Klein and Fischoff competitions, is one of the most recognized cellists in America. She was cellist of the American String Quartet from 2002-2006; last season she served as principal cellist of the San Diego Symphony. Margo began her musical pursuits at age five when she sang on a White Castle commercial, resulting in numerous national radio and TV commercials ranging from McDonald's to Wonderbread. Margo has played at many music festivals and toured with Musicians from Marlboro. She is also founder of the string trio, Divertimenta, and plays a Vincenzo Postiglione made in 1891. |
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| Mark Kosower, widely regarded as one of the leading cellists of his generation, has won prizes at the Irving Klein, WAMSO and Rostropovich competitions, as well as an Avery Fisher Career Grant. His active career has included solo appearances with major orchestras in the U.S. and abroad, and performances with Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center. Mark is currently on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory, and is a co-principal cellist of the Bamberg Symphony in Germany. |
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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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| Caroline Stinson, winner of the Watkins Prize and the Hohnen Foundation Cello Competition, appears each season in Canada, the U.S. and Europe as soloist and chamber musician. This year she performs Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo with Pierre Boulez at Lincoln Center and at the Lucerne Festival in August, and will also perform as soloist with the Syracuse Symphony. She is a member of CELLO, the Contrasts Quartet, and Open End, which she founded with her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner. Caroline is from Edmonton, Canada. |
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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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| Joseph Bongiorno is a member of the New York City Opera and Mostly Mozart Orchestra, and principal bassist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra. He also plays with the Queens Chamber Band, Pierrot Consort, Maverick Concerts, and Spoleto Festival. In the world of commercial music, Joe has recorded the scores for more than 50 films, CDs and television shows. | ||
| 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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| OBOE | ||
| Robert Ingliss was principal oboe of the Jupiter Symphony for some 13 years, performing many concerti to critical acclaim. He is currently principal oboe of the American Symphony. He is also a member of An die Musik and Ensemble Sospeso, appears frequently with Orpheus and Speculum Musicae, and can be heard on dozens of record labels and film. Bob lives in the Upper West Side with his son, Muir, whom Jens Nygaard always adored. |
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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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| 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 Center ~ www.greatneckmusiccenter.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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| Cara Kizer, a native Texan, maintains an active freelance career in New York City, performing in a broad range of ensembles and genres. She has played with the New York Philharmonic and New York City Opera, recorded for major motion pictures, and served as Guest Principal Horn of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, she recently performed Richard Strauss’s Concerto No. 1 at Symphony Space and in 2005 won the International Horn Competition of America university division. |  |
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| Alana Vegter 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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| 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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| Adrian Morejon is a graduate of Curtis and Yale, and a prizewinner of the IDRS Fox-Gillet competition in Australia. He also has a Diploma in Harpsichord Performance from Curtis. Verbier, Graz, Banff, Norfolk and Spoleto U.S.A. are among the festivals he has participated. He has also played with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yale Philharmonia, and has been a member of the Iris Chamber Orchestra since 2002. Adrian is also a member of the Sospiro Wind Quintet. |
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| TRUMPET | ||
| (November 13) Louis Hanzlik serves as co-principal trumpet with the Riverside Symphony and Iris Chamber Orchestra in Memphis; performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Orpheus; and is a member of the Atlantic Brass Quintet. He is also an advocate of period instrument practice, most notably baroque trumpet. Committed to education, Louis teaches a program of study for brass students. His city of birth is Des Moines, Iowa ~ www.atlanticbrassquintet.com |
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| Matthew Wright is an active freelance artist in the New York area, equally at home in orchestras, jazz bands, and chamber groups. He has also given six separate solo recitals in 2007. Currently, Matthew commissions many works for solo trombone, heads a free improvisation ensemble, leads and composes for the ensemble Tromhattan Bonesmans, and runs a concert series in New Haven. He is an avid Yankee fan, backgammon player, and can solve the Rubik's Cube in under 75 seconds. |
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| PERCUSSION | ||
| (November 13) Charles Kiger was timpanist and percussionist of the Jupiter Symphony. He studied at Mannes and currently resides in Dumont, NJ with his wife, Evija (also a Jupiter Symphony alumnus). He maintains a busy schedule of performing and teaching in the New York area, encompassing many genres of music. He considers Jens Nygaard his most influential teacher. |
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