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Jupiter Players 2011-2012 |
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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. |
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| Stefani Allison Collins has won the 2008 concerto competition at the Cleveland Institute, the 2007 and 2009 MTNA strings competition, and second place at the Portnoy competition. In 2009 she made her Severance Hall and Aspen Music Festival debuts, performing Dohnányi’s Violin Concerto No. 2; and she has performed numerous times as soloist with the North Carolina, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Western Piedmont, Firelands, Tulare County, and Blue Ridge Symphonies. ~ www.stefanicollins.com |
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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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| 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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| Dimitri Murrath, a native of Brussels, is First Prize winner of the 2008 Primrose competition as well as laureate of the Tokyo Viola, ARD and Verbier Viola prizes. The Strad has noted that “Murrath has phenomenal technical ability…astonishing skill. He is a very accomplished musician indeed.” He has made his mark internationally as a soloist, in venues such as Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, and is also keen on performing new works. An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with Gidon Kremer, who invited him to his festival in Lockenhaus, Austria and to Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music project. ~ viola.typepad.com |
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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. ~ web.mac.com/dovsch |
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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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| 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. ~ www.bronwynbanerdt.com |
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| Mihai Marica, winner of the Irving Klein, Vina del Mar, and Salon de Virtuosi competitions, made his debut recitals at Weill and Zankel Halls with Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. He has performed as soloist with orchestras, in recitals, and at festivals; and is a member of the award-winning Amphion String Quartet. He began his cello studies at the age of seven at the Music High School in Cluj, Romania. Upon winning the Klein competition, its director Mitchell Sardou Klein exclaimed, “We just witnessed a future superstar. Mihai is a brilliant cellist and interpreter of music. His playing is spellbinding.” |
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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. ~ www.davidrequiro.com |
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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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| John Feeney is an orchestral, chamber, and session double bassist on the busy New York scene. He studied with Linda McKnight, then with David Walter as a scholarship student at Juilliard. In 1978 he won a medal at the Geneva Competition, and in 1980, was first prize winner of the Zimmerman-Mingus and Concert Artists Guild competitions. In 1979, he joined the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. John specializes in the violin-bass repertoire of Bottesini, playing with his wife, Krista Bennion Feeney. He also frequently plays chamber music and has appeared at major festivals such as Spoleto. |
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| 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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| 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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| Megan Emigh is a prizewinner of some of the world’s most prestigious flute competitions, including the 2009 Kobe International Flute Competition and the 2008 Jean-Pierre Rampal Competition. She studied for four years at the Juilliard Pre-College Division before going to Switzerland, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree with honors from the Basel Musik Akademie. Currently Principal Flute of the Symphony in C, Megan performs regularly as both a soloist and chamber musician with various ensembles. |
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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 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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