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Alessio Bax, from Bari, Italy, is a poetic and sensitive pianist with a brilliant technique. First Prize winner of the Leeds and Hamamatsu piano competitions as well as the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Alessio plays with “control and eloquence, innate understanding of the work’s logic and impetus and those additional magical ingredients—weight of sound, clarity of detail and absolute conviction in his conception of the music” The Independent. “He successfully combined authority and poetry” The Daily Telegraph ~ www.alessiobax.com |
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Stephen Beus, winner of the 2006 Gina Bachauer competition and Vendome Prize, has been described by the Fort Worth Star Telegram as a pianist of “artistic instinct and natural charisma.” The fourth of eight children, Stephen was born and raised in Othello, Washington and began his piano studies at age five. Four years later he made his orchestral debut playing the Mozart Concerto K. 488. His recordings are on the Endeavor Classics and Harmonia Mundi labels ~ www.stephenbeus.com |
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| Dror Biran is one of Israel’s most admired and gifted pianists. His playing has been described in Die Bleed as “powerful, but also beautiful and sensitive, brilliant but full of artistry, seductively lyrical but intensely dramatic at the climaxes.” The Plain Dealer added, “his fortissimos crashed and roared, but next to them came pianissimos that whispered seductively...he has technique to burn and uses it effectively....” His superb tonal control combined with interesting phrasing and voicing has won him consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences. Born in Israel, Dror is a top prize winner of the Cleveland and Ciurlionis competitions, among others. ~ www.drorbiran.com |
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| Michael Brown, a winner of the Gina Bachauer, Mieczyslaw Munz and Chopin competitions, has been hailed as “polished” and “committed” by the New York Times. As a chamber musician, he has appeared at Ravinia, Pianofest in the Hamptons and Tanglewood. Michael is also a composer and has won ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award, among others. His Four Miniatures for piano were aired on David Dubal’s WQXR show “Reflections from the Keyboard” ~ www.michaelbrownmusic.com |
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Canadian pianist Lucille Chung made her debut at age ten with the Montreal Symphony, and was subsequently invited by Charles Dutoit to be a featured soloist with the MSO Asian Tour in 1989. That year she also won First Prize at the Stravinsky Piano Competition. Her recording of the complete piano works by Ligeti and an all-Scriabin CD have won acclaim. A two-piano works volume was recorded with her husband, Alessio Bax. Lucille is fluent in French, English, Korean, Italian, German, and Russian ~ www.lucillechung.com |
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Alon Goldstein is “truly a jewel” Reutlinger Generalanzeiger. It hasn’t taken long for the Israeli pianist to achieve the kind of success predicted for him by Leon Fleisher, Zubin Mehta and Claudio Abbado. He made his orchestral debut at age18 with the Israeli Philharmonic; since then, his technical prowess and musical intelligence have earned him both critical acclaim and enthusiastic ovations. In recent seasons, Alon has performed with such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. ~ www.alongoldstein.com |
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Ilya Itin, a profound musician, is winner of the Leeds, Gina Bachauer, Robert Casadesus, William Kappel, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, and Bunkamura competitions. Critical acclaim has come from many parts of the world, including the Daily Telegraph, which noted his “rare and exciting artistry” and “superb technique”; Der Standard Wien, which called him “The perfect pianist”; Washington Post, which heard “A delicious and rare talent”; and Le Figaro, which stated, “He plays marvelously with all his body and his soul: a very great pianist and musician.” Ilya was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Russia. ~ www.ilyaitin.com |
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Inga Kapouler is a pianist with a beautiful sound. A native of Riga, Latvia, she is winner of the Rubinstein, Gina Bachauer, and Five Towns competitions. Inga teaches at the Lucy Moses School and Special Music School at the Kauffman Cultural Center. |
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Elizaveta Kopelman has been praised for “her great interpretive ability and formidable technique.” She has played critically acclaimed debut recitals at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall, and her concerti appearances have been with the London Philharmonic at the Barbican Centre and the Iceland Symphony, among others. Elizaveta is also an avid chamber musician and performs regularly with her father Mikhail Kopelman. Moscow is the city of her birth. |
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| Maxim Lando made his Jupiter debut at age 6. He has already been featured twice as a pianist on Cablevision’s “Spotlight On Long Island.” Maxim played his first solo recital at the age of 5 at a nursing home in Massachusetts in honor of his great-grandmother Mae Borisy. In addition to music, he loves reading, biking and video games. |
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Seymour Lipkin won the Rachmaninoff Piano Competition at age 19 and has appeared with the top 5 American orchestras—New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago. “Technically his pianism far outshines Schnabel, while he is more consistent than Backhaus, more exciting than Arrau, plays with more tonal beauty than Brendel” American Record Guide. He has also collaborated and toured with many great artists, among them Jascha Heifetz and the Guarneri Quartet. Seymour Lipkin is artistic director of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival ~ www.seymourlipkin.com |
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Adam Neiman, who is recognized as an artist of rare depth, sensitivity and virtuosity, is a Grammy nominee and winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Young Concert Artists, Gilmore Young Artist Award, and Silver Medal at the Alessandro Casagrande competition. He is featured in the documentary, Playing for Real, in which Jens Nygaard and Jupiter also make a brief appearance. Adam is a member of Chamber Music Society II of Lincoln Center and the Corinthian Trio. He was born in Hayward, California ~ www.adamneiman.com |
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Roman Rabinovich made his Israel Philharmonic debut under the baton of Zubin Mehta before his 11th birthday, and he performed with the orchestra and Mr. Mehta again in 1999 and 2003. The Palm Beach Daily News recently noted, “Rabinovich has full technical command of the piano and plays with a great deal of sensitivity.” Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Roman now lives in Israel. He is also an award-winning artist, and his work will be exhibited at our Jupiter concerts. ~ www.romanrabinovich.net |
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| Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of uncommon breadth. Winner of a 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as the Naumburg, Geneva and Honens competitions, his repertoire ranges from Bach’s Art of the Fugue to Xenakis. As soloist and chamber musician, the Swiss-born American pianist displays a musical curiosity and sense of adventure that has gained him many admirers. Featured in the spring 2008 issue of Esquire as one of several ground-breaking classical musicians, Gilles has shown significant interest in expanding the conventional classical concert experience. The New York Sun noted, “The big news is that Vonsattel is a superb pianist...he produced a pure and singing tone...everything, always, was in balance.” ~ www.gillesvonsattel.com |
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William Wolfram, winner of the William Kapell, Naumburg, and Tchaikovsky competitions, is recognized as an artist who combines powerful Romantic instincts with a truly formidable command of the keyboard. Millions have seen him on public television, where he was prominently featured throughout the documentary of the 1986 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. The noted piano authority Joseph Horowitz in his book, The Ivory Trade, characterizes him as a polished Romantic virtuoso, worthy of comparison to the young Van Cliburn and Vladimir Horowitz. |
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| Shmuel Ashkenasi has been called a “genuine talent and profoundly gifted” by The Vienna Express. He toured the Soviet Union twice and concertizes every year in Europe, Israel, and the Far East. He has performed with major orchestras such as the Boston, Chicago, and National Symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich, Rotterdam, Geneva, and Stockholm. He has appeared with distinguished conductors, including Stokowski, Boehm, Kempe, Leinsdorf, and Kubelik; and he has collaborated with artists such as Rudolf Serkin, Thomas Hampson, Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, and Menahem Pressler. As first violinist of the Vermeer Quartet, he received five Grammy Award nominations and has gained a reputation as one of the world’s outstanding chamber musicians. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ashkenasi gave his first public performance at the age of eight, and is winner of the Merriweather Post and Tchaikovsky competitions, and was a finalist in Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth competition. |
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| Anton Barakhovsky is a laureate of numerous competitions, most notably the Tchaikovsky, Hannover, and Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York. He is currently First Concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and performs as soloist with such conductors as Wolfgang Sawallisch. Highlights of his career include performances of the complete Piano Quartets of Brahms with Leon Fleischer in Paris, a recital at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome for Pope John Paul II, and his collaboration with violinist Vadim Repin in 1999 for a CD, recorded live at the Louvre and released by Erato to critical acclaim. Anton was born in Novosibirsk, Russia. |
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Dmitri Berlinsky is head and shoulders above the average competition winner, a violinist with a beautiful tone, his own character, and tremendous musical finesse. “Berlinsky shone. He exuded the confidence and poise of a young Valentino. There was no shortage of brilliance, and his verve was a source of delight” The Washington Times. Dmitri is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia and a winner of the Paganini, Montreal, Tchaikovsky, Queen Elisabeth, and Young Concert Artists competitions. ~ www.dmitriberlinsky.com |
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| Vadim Gluzman, who was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, is one of the most inspiring and dynamic artists playing today. Winner of the Henryk Szeryng, Tibor Varga, CIEM Geneva, Corpus Christi, and Klein competitions, he has “a delectable high range, a glorious tone, dexterity and drama to burn” The Columbus Dispatch. Vadim plays the 1690 ex-Leopold Auer Stradivari, on extended loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He pays special tribute to Jens Nygaard on his website, www.vadimgluzman.com |
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| Katie Hyun first performed as soloist at the age of 12, and has since performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony and Dallas Chamber Orchestra, among many others. A winner of numerous awards and competitions, she has appeared on the television program Good Morning, Texas and on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. She has also collaborated with prominent artists, and is a founding member of the award-winning Amphion String Quartet, and a founder and director of the Quodlibet Ensemble, a baroque chamber group. |
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| Stefan Jackiw, born of physicist parents, is winner of the 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is now one of the most significant artists of his generation, capturing audiences with his poetry and purity, combined with an impeccable technique. In 2007 he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in the Concerts in the Parks series and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood. For the opening of Zankel Hall he was the only young artist invited to perform, alongside Emanuel Ax, Renée Fleming, Evgeny Kissin, and James Levine. An active recitalist and chamber musician, Stefan is a founding member of the Tessera Quartet ~ www.stefanjackiw.com |
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| Mark Kaplan, internationally acknowledged as one of the leading violinists of his generation, has played with nearly every major American and European orchestra and juggles a busy performance schedule around the world as both a soloist and a chamber musician. In addition, he performs with his own Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio, and is currently a professor of violin at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He plays a Stradivari made in 1685, named after the Marchese Spinola, whose family owned it for several generations. Photo Courtesy of Indiana University. |
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Misha Keylin, winner of the Hannover, Paganini, Sarasate, and Vina del Mar competitions, comes from St. Petersburg, Russia. “His playing was consistently vital, his dynamics well articulated and his penchant for lyricism definitive” Strad. Allan Kozinn of the New York Times adds, “Keylin displays a gorgeous, rounded tone and a distinctively Russian phrasing style…. His nuanced readings fully convey the operatic impulse that drives the violin writing, and he has the technique to sail easily through the virtuosic flourishes.” ~ www.keylin.com |
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Mikhail Kopelman is renowned for his style of immense grace and beauty combined with a flawless technique. He has performed in a dizzying array of venues throughout the world as first violinist of the Borodin String Quartet for two decades and Tokyo String Quartet for six years. He now leads the Kopelman Quartet, a string quartet in the very best style and tradition of the old Russian School. For more than 15 years Mikhail Kopelman was closely associated with Sviatoslav Richter in numerous performances and recordings. Born in Uzhgorod in the former Soviet Union, he won Second Prize at the Jacques Thibaud International Competition, and in 1995 he received the Royal Philharmonic Society Award and the Concertgebouw Silver Medal of Honor. |
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Anne Akiko Meyers has earned praise for her impassioned music-making, technical brilliance and compelling stage presence. Her insightful interpretations of both traditional and contemporary repertoire attract worldwide critical acclaim that includes the New York Times, which hailed her artistry as “playing that flows from the heart” and music that was “unspooled with impressive refinement, emotional freedom and tonal depth.” Born in San Diego of American and Japanese heritage, Anne now makes her home in New York City and plays a Stradivarius made in 1730 ~ www.anneakikomeyers.com |
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Stefan Milenkovich is recognized internationally for both exceptional artistry and his life-long commitment to humanitarianism. Winner of the Indianapolis, Paganini, Tibor Varga, Queen Elisabeth, Yehudi Menuhin, and Young Concert Artists competitions, he has performed for President Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II, and at the age of 16, played his 1000th concert in Monterrey, Mexico. Stefan was appointed a “Child Ambassador” and received the 2003 “Most Humane Person” award in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the city of his birth. He is member of the Corinthian Trio ~ www.milenkovich.com |
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| Misha Vitenson, a native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is a top prize winner of several competitions, including the Paganini, Sarasate, and Citta d’Andria violin competitions. Misha is currently First Violin of the Amernet String Quartet and Artist-in-Residence at Florida International University. |
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Xiao-Dong Wang has been called the most talented violinist ever to emerge from China. He began his studies at age 3 with his father, concertmaster of the Shanghai Symphony; he then studied with the renowned teacher Zhao Ji-Yang at the Shanghai Conservatory. At ages 13 and 15, he won the Yehudi Menuhin Competition; he is also winner of the First Prize and special Szymanovski Prize in the Wieniawski-Lipinski International Competition. Xiao-Dong has soloed with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic in London and the Sydney Opera Orchestra, and is a founding member of the Concertante Chamber Players. |
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Cynthia Phelps enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and Principal Violist of the New York Philharmonic. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer states that she has “one of the richest, deepest viola timbres in the world.” Cynthia is First Prize winner of both the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Washington International String Competition, and is recipient of the Pro Musicis International Foundation Award. Under the auspices of this philanthropic organization, she has appeared as soloist in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Rome, and Paris, as well as in jails, hospitals and drug rehab centers worldwide. A native of Southern California, Cynthia is the fourth of five girls, all of whom are musicians. |
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| Paul Neubauer’s exceptional musicality and effortless playing distinguish him as one of this generation’s quintessential artists. Balancing a solo career with performances as an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Paul at age 21 was the youngest principal string player in the New York Philharmonic's history. He is also the Orchestra and Chamber Music Director of the OK Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. |
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| Eric Kim, one of today’s leading cellists, commands incredible technique with deep musicality—there are few who have such a musical color spectrum as Kim. He made his debut at age 15 with the Chicago Symphony and has a diverse career that includes performances worldwide as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist. As a chamber musician, he has performed with such artists as Emmanuel Ax, Joshua Bell and Cho-Liang Lin; and at Pinchas Zukerman’s invitation he performed with him at the Mostly Mozart, Schleswig-Holstein and Verbier festivals. He is currently on the faculty at Indiana University. |
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| Suren Bagratuni, Silver Medalist of the 1986 Tchaikovsky competition and First Prize winner of Italy’s Vittorio Gui competition, has been described as “A cellist of uncommon attainments” by the Boston Globe and “phenominally gifted” by Strings magazine. He has since earned praise for his performances worldwide, playing with such orchestras as the Moscow Philharmonic under the baton of Gergiev, Boston Pops, and Weimar Staatskapelle, to name a few. Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Suren began his music studies at age seven, and by age 14 played the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto with the Armenian State Radio Orchestra. He currently teaches at Michigan State University. ~ www.surenbagratuni.com |
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Frank Morelli is one of the most influential bassoonists in the United States today. The Miami Herald has hailed his breathtaking virtuosity, and Gramophone has proclaimed his playing “a joy to behold.” The Orpheus recording, Shadow Dances, which features his playing, won a 2001 Grammy Award. Frank, who has made 9 appearances in Carnegie Hall as soloist, was the first bassoonist awarded a doctorate by Juilliard. He is member of the renowned quintet, Windscape ~ www.morellibassoon.com |
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The voice of baritone Anton Belov has been described as “rich and mellifluous” by the New York Times, while the Philadelphia Inquirer called him “an emerging star.” A native of Moscow and Juilliard graduate, he is a first-place winner of 8 vocal competitions, including the George London, YCA and Met Opera Auditions. His numerous U.S. appearances have earned him critical acclaim for portrayals of characters as diverse as Count di Luna, Don Giovanni, Escamillo, Count Almaviva, Doctor Malatesta and Eugene Onegin. Equally at home with opera, oratorio and concert repertoire, he has performed over 50 recitals in venues such as Carnegie Recital Hall and Kennedy Center. A specialist in Russian lyric diction, he is also author of numerous books on the subject. ~ www.antonbelov.com |
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