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Cellist Michelle Djokic is Founder and Artistic Director of the Concordia Chamber Players. Since its inception in 1995 this series has brought together the brightest talents of the chamber music world in thoughtful and adventurous programming with their performances broadcast regularly on WWFM in Princeton, NJ. Concordia Chamber Players commissioned "Obrigado", Quintet for mandolin and string quartet by young Brazilian superstar, Clarice Assad, which received its world premier in the spring of 2011 with Mike Marshall on the mandolin. Michelle joined pianist, John Novacek at the 2011 Festival Mozaic for the world premier of Novacek's "Singular Piece" for cello and piano commissioned by the Seattle Commissioning Project. Her recording with Quartet San Francisco entitled "QSF Plays Brubeck" earned a 2010 Grammy Nomination in Best Classical Crossover. In 2007 she became a member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra with whom she released the highly acclaimed recording "Together" in 2009. Upon moving to Northern California from the East Coast in 2005 Michelle served as Assistant Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Symphony for two seasons.
Her greatest passion is chamber music collaborations with her colleagues around the world and sharing in the development of young musicians. Previous concert seasons have included collaborations with Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Festicamara in Medellin, Colombia, Ensemble Matheus of France, Princeton Festival, Mainly Mozart, Music in the Vineyards and the Mozaic Festival.
Michelle made her debut as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 12 and made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the New Jersey Symphony in 1985. She was awarded the coveted People's Prize in the 1981 International Casals Competition and the Prince Bernard Award for Excellence at the Scheveningen International Cello Competition in addition to capturing first prize in numerous young artist competitions in the US.
Michelle received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from The Juilliard School as a student of Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins.
Toby Appel has appeared in recital and concerto performances throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Far East. He has been a member of such renowned ensembles as TASHI, and the Lenox and Audubon Quartets. Mr. Appel has been a guest artist with the Vermeer, Manhattan, and Alexander Quartets, as well as a frequent guest with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and with jazz artists Chick Corea and Gary Burton. Festival performances include those with Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Angel Fire, Bravo! Vail Valley, Chamber Music Northwest, and Marlboro Music Festival as well as festivals in England, France, Korea, Germany, Italy, Finland, Colombia, and Greece. In 1975, Mr. Appel was featured in a CBS television special performing works commissioned by him for three violas, all played by Toby Appel. In 1980, Mr. Appel was the winner of Young Concert Artists International.
Toby Appel entered the Curtis Institute at age thirteen under the guidance of Max Aronoff. He is currently on the viola and chamber music faculties at the Juilliard School in New York City. Other teaching has included professorships at the State University of New York, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Yale School of Music. He has toured for the United States State Department and performed at the United Nations and at the White House. Mr. Appel is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio's Performance Today.
Sam Bevan is a bassist, composer and arranger currently residing in Queens, New York. His musical life began in Oakland, California with classical piano lessons at the age of four. Sam's adoption of the electric and acoustic bass followed periods playing jazz piano, singing professionally and getting a BA in French.
Following his university studies, Sam established himself as one of the most in-demand and creative bassists in the Bay Area canvassing a large musical landscape where jazz, funk, folk, African and Afro-Cuban disciplines intermingle. He was equally sought after as an arranger producer and MD since his overall musical concept is informed by a composer's ear for melody and dynamics.
Throughout his professional life, Sam has had the opportunity to work with a wide range of artists including: David Grisman, Roswell Rudd, Joshua Redman, vocalist Kenny Washington, Stacey Kent, Tierney Sutton, Jim Kweskin, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Peter Apfelbaum, Meklit Hadero, Joe Craven, Zigaboo Modeliste, Joe Locke, Mark Levine, Jacqui Naylor, Jesus Diaz, Fito Reinoso, Louie Romero, Karl Perazzo, Carlos Caro, Jackie Rago, The VNote Ensemble, Marco Granados, Matt Flinner, Scott Nygaard, Roberta Donnay, Lisa Engelken, Industrial Jazz Group, Mamadou Sidibe, Mads Tolling, Monk's Music Trio, the Kin, Stevie Coyle, Nathan Clevenger Group, New Pickle Family Circus, Bjorkestra, Fil Lorenz Orchestra and the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.
"Bay Area jazzman Bevan is a bassist for all occasions, as his quintet session bounces easily from hard-bop to groove-oriented jazz rock. It's Bevan's combination of tone, swing and chops that makes this line so fine." JD Constantine, Guitar World's Bass Guitar
"Articulate, focused and highly musical, Bevan's sense of melody and rhythmic thrust showcase his talent. Tight arrangements and well conceived writing goes to show that Bevan is a multi-dimensional artist with much to offer." Randy McElligot, Jazzreview
Violist Molly Carr, praised for her "ravishing sound" (STRAD) and her "passionate talent and beautiful poise… all in one package" (AVS), was a top Prize Winner in the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition. As winner of the 2010 Juilliard Viola Concerto Competition, Ms. Carr made her New York Concerto debut with the Juilliard Orchestra under Xian Zhang in Alice Tully Hall. She is the recipient of top prizes and major scholarships from the Davidson Institute, the Virtu Foundation, ASTA, NFAA-ARTS and The Juilliard and Manhattan Schools of Music.
An avid soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, Ms. Carr has appeared across the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel and Asia. Her 2014-15 concert season includes solo and chamber performances in Brussels, Malaga and Jaen, as well as New York, Sarasota and Washington, D.C. She is currently an artist of the Marlboro Music Festival and has performed at Ravinia's Steans Institute, Music@Menlo, the International Musicians Seminar and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove (Cornwall, UK), Bari International Music Festival (Italy), Mozartfest (Wurzburg, Germany), Nevada Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Yellow Barn Music Festival, YAP Ottowa, and the Perlman Music Program. She has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Carter Brey, Peter Wiley, Ida Kavafian, Pamela Frank, Donald and Alisa Weilerstein, the Orion Quartet, the American Quartet, and the Attacca Quartet, performing at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Chicago's Symphony Center, Princeton's McCarter Theatre, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel. She is a former member of the Serafin Quartet, whose 2013 NAXOS recording of Jennifer Higdon's Early Chamber Works featured Ms. Carr's performance of the Viola Sonata. She performs regularly with the New York-based Omega, Solisti and Salome Chamber Ensembles, and has toured Korea with the Sejong Soloists.
A native of Reno, Nevada, Ms. Carr holds a B.M. and M.M. from the Juilliard School, having studied with Heidi Castleman, Steven Tenenbom, and Pinchas Zukerman. She is on the Viola Faculties of The Juilliard precollege program and the Academia Internacional de Música IVAN GALAMIAN in Málaga, Spain. Ms. Carr is the founding and artistic director of Project: Music Heals Us, a new series of chamber music and outreach concerts on the Connecticut Shoreline. www.projectmusichealsus.com
Philippe Djokic is one of Canada's leading soloists and chamber musicians whose career has brought him recognition throughout Canada and abroad. Having completed his studies at The Juilliard School, he subsequently won several prizes at major international competitions, most notably, the Nicolo Paganini and Jacques Thibauld international violin competitions. This led to many recital tours and appearances with orchestra.
His performances have been heard on CBC Radio and in recordings for the CBC and Naxos labels. He has an active career as chamber music performer, and has performed at important international festivals in Dubrovnik, Munich, Ottawa, Colorado and Alaska. He has been invited to give masterclasses at several prestigious institutions, among them, Northwestern University, the Glenn Gould School and the Domaine Forget Academy. Several of his former students currently hold positions in Canada's major orchestras and leading music schools. Philippe has been professor of violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Novas Scotia since 1975, and performs on a rare Guarnerius violin made in the year 1740.
Acclaimed for his performances in both Europe and the US, Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana is enjoying a diverse international career of concerto and recital appearances as well as a wide array of collaborations as a chamber musician. Praised by Gustavo Dudamel as a "remarkable talent," The Boston Globe recently called him "a very special violinist." Performances this past season included Brahms Concerto under Gustavo Dudamel as well as his debut with the Madrid State Orchestra under Victor Pablo in the Spanish National Hall. Francisco also made his debuts with Pacific Symphony and the State Chapella of Saint Petesburg, Russia and made a return appearance with the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, under its music director Pablo Mielgo.
Francisco is starting a three year project as the new artist in residence for the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra. Other engagements for the 2015-2016 season include concerto performances with the Guanajuato Symphony (Mexico), the Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio under Carlos Izcaray and debuts with Maryland, Dana Point and Irvine Symphonies. Recital appearances include returns to Carnegie´s Weill Recital Hall, the March Foundation in Madrid, Bedford Series in New York and a recital tour in Japan. Fullana will also appear in two "Musicians from Marlboro" tours, performing chamber music in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress and the Kimmel Center, as well as a return to the Jupiter Chamber Series in New York.
Highlights of past seasons have included a Mendelssohn Violin Concerto performance under the late Sir Colin Davis and Bayerische Philarmonie as well as concerto appearances with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, both presented by Lyra Foundation. Francisco has also appeared with the Vancouver Symphony and the Spanish Radio Television Orchestra. Other concerto engagements have included performances with "El Sistema" Symphony Orchestra, Hof Symphony, Extremadura Symphony, Atlantic Symphony and many others. His music has been heard in concerts halls all over the world: Spain, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Venezuela, Israel, Argentina, Italy, Portugal, South Korea and Japan; in front of distinguished audiences that have included the King and Queen of Spain.
He has appeared on some of the world´s finest stages, including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall´s Weill Recital Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spanish National Hall and Seoul Arts Center. Francisco has been conducted by distinguished artists such as Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Poppen, Alondra de la Parra, Adrian Leaper, Salvador Brotons, Pablo Mielgo, Luis de Pablo, Álvaro Albiach, Justin Brown, Philippe Bender, and many others.
As the recent First Prize winner of the 2015 Munetsugu International Violin Competition in Japan, he was awarded the loan of the 1697 "Rainville" Stradivari violin. Francisco was also awarded all four special prizes, including the Audience and Orchestra awards.
The First Prize winner at the 2015 Pro Musicis International Awards and the 2014 International "Johannes Brahms" Violin Competition in Austria, Fullana was also the First Prize winner at the 2006 Pablo de Sarasate National Violin Competition and a multiple prizewinner at the 2014 "Henri Marteau" International Violin Competition. Other prizes include First Prize of the 2012 American Protégé International Competition, 2012 First Prize and Audience Award at the Atlantic Symphony Concerto Competition, First Prize at the 2010 TIM "Torneo Internazionale di Musica" and First Prize at the "Julio Cardona" International Violin Competition, as well as the Maria Paula Alonso Award.
Francisco is a very active chamber musician and is a founding member of Quartet Senza Misura as well as part of the artist roster of Marlboro Music. He has appeared in festivals such as Yellow Barn, Da Camera Society, Perlman Music Program and Jupiter Chamber Players, alongside members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Takacs and Cleveland Quartets. He has also performed with renowned artists Mitsuko Uchida, Nobuko Imai, Viviane Hagner and Charles Neidich, among many others. Since 2013, he is the concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, where he obtained Bachelor and Master degrees with Don Weilerstein and Masao Kawasaki, he is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the University of Southern California under the renowned violinist Midori Goto. Francisco started violin with Bernat Pomar in his hometown of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and is also a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, where he studied with Manuel Guillén.
Since 2013, Francisco has been a recipient of the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He performs on the 1697 "Rainville" Stradivarius, kindly on loan from the Yellow Angel Foundation of Japan.
Grammy nominated pianist, SUSAN GRACE has performed solo and chamber recitals, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Korea, India and China. She has also performed in the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg, St Paul Chamber Orchestra's new-music series Engine 408, Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Grand Teton Festival, the Cape Cod Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, Music at Oxford, and the Helmsley Festival in England. She is a member of Quattro Mani, an internationally acclaimed two-piano ensemble with pianist Steven Beck. Recent appearances have included the Austin and Alabama Symphonies, Colorado College and Subculture in New York City. This past spring they appeared at Bargemuisc and later this year will be performing at National Sawdust, both in NY. Two new recordings of the duo will be released by Bridge Records this fall.
Ms. Grace has recorded for Bridge Records, the Belgium National Radio, WFMT in Chicago, the Society of Composers, Wilson Audio, Klavier International and Klavier Music Productions. Her latest recording on the Bridge label of Stefan Wolpe's violin and piano music was listed in the London Sunday Times as one of the top ten Contemporary recordings of 2015. She was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category.
Ms. Grace is Associate Chair, Artist-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer in Music at Colorado College. She is also music director of the renowned Colorado College Summer Music Festival, now in its 32nd season. She has been awarded the Christine Johnson Professorship of Music beginning in the fall of 2014. In June 2014, Mayor Steve Bach and the city of Colorado Springs presented Ms. Grace with the Spirit of the Springs award for her work with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. She is a Steinway Artist.
Praised as "extraordinary…" and "a formidable clarinetist" by the New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Ms. de Guise-Langlois performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, Ensemble ACJW, the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia, McGill University Symphony Orchestra, at Music@Menlo and at the Banff Center for the Arts. She is a winner of the Astral Artists' National Auditions and was awarded the First Prize in the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition; she was additionally a First Prize winner of the Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, and was the recipient of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Award. An avid chamber musician, Ms. de Guise-Langlois joined the roster of Chamber Music Society Two in 2012 and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro. She has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia and Boston Chamber Music Societies, 92nd Street, and Chamber Music Northwest among many others. She has performed as Principal Clarinetist for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New Haven and Stamford symphony orchestras and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin. She has completed her fellowship at The Academy-A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute, and is currently Adjunct Professor of clarinet at Montclair University.
An artist defined by the critics as "tender, lyrical, loaded with personality" (Atlanta Journal Constitution, Pierre Ruhe), violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez is also recognized for drawing "the sweetest, most sonorous tone" (Washington Post, Charles T. Downey). In September 2009, Juan-Miguel won the First Prize at the 16th International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria, adding to other top prizes won at the National Canadian Music Competition, and the 9th National Sphinx Competition in 2006, presented by JPMorgan Chase. As a featured guest soloist, Juan-Miguel has appeared with the Atlanta, Seattle, Colorado Symphonies, as well as the Rochester Philharmonic and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Performances in recent seasons have brought Juan-Miguel on tour throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, Canada and the United States. In 2010, he was honored with the medal of the National Assembly of Quebec.
Juan-Miguel has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Kim Kashkashian, Gérard Caussé, Nicolas Dautricourt, Misha Dichter, the Weilerstein trio, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Stanley Clark and Paquito D'Rivera to name a few. Recent festival and program appearances as guest artist and teacher include the Festival Pablo Casal (Prades, France), the Festival Des Arcs (France), the Amalfi Coast Music Festival (Italy), Festival Des Graves (Bordeaux, France), Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (South Africa), the Salzburg Festival, the Brevard Summer Institute, the Mozaic Festival, Festicamara (Colombia), Montreal Jazz & Panama Jazz Festivals and Musica Mundi International Festival (Belgium).
A dedicated chamber musician, Juan-Miguel is the newest member of the legendary Fine Arts Quartet and a founding member of the Harlem Quartet with whom he performed from 2006 to 2012. Juan-Miguel is also a founder and member of the "Trio Virado" (Flute, Viola, Guitar) as well as the "Boreal Trio" (Clarinet, Viola, Piano), both specializing in the creation of new repertoire. From 2005 to 2010, he was also an active member of the I Palpiti orchestra, a cast of international laureates forming a world class string orchestra based in Los Angeles.
On radio airwaves and television broadcasts, Juan-Miguel has been heard and seen on nationally-syndicated programs throughout Canada, and the United States including NBC's Good Morning America, The Today Show and the Telemundo Network. His discography includes four quartet CDs, released on the Naxos, Cedille records, the White Pine and Navona labels as well as multiple collaborations on various other labels including the album "Hot House" playing alongside Chick Corea and Gary Burton for which they won a Grammy, as well as Norah Jones' album "Broken Little Hearts". 2015 saw the release of Trio Virado's debut album, "Mangabeira", featuring music by Piazzolla, Leo Brouwer and original music by Sergio Assad.
His strong commitment to educate and engage new audiences all around the globe has brought him to reach young musicians and various communities through art convoys in South Africa and Venezuela, various music festivals in South America and outreach projects in Europe and North America. In the Fall of 2016 Juan-Miguel was appointed to the faculty of the prestigious Royal Academy of Music (London) as Professor of Viola.
Juan-Miguel Hernandez was born in Montreal, Canada in 1985 and began studying the violin at age seven, then switched to viola at age twelve under the tutelage of Jean McRae. He received his Bachelor degree from the Colburn Conservatory in 2010 studying with Paul Coletti and Graduate Diploma in the Professional String Quartet program in 2012 with Paul Katz at the New England Conservatory, working privately with Kim Kashkashian and Dimitri Murrath. He also worked before Pinchas Zukerman, Roberto Diaz, Paul Neubauer, Karen Tuttle, Steven Dann, James Dunham, Barbara Westphal and Robert Vernon.
Juan-Miguel plays a beautiful 2008 Miralles viola from Altadena CA.
Violist Mark Holloway is a chamber musician sought after in the United States and abroad. He has appeared at prestigious festivals such as Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Taos, Music from Angel Fire, Mainly Mozart, and the Boston Chamber Music Society. Performances have taken him to far-flung places such as Chile and Greenland, and he plays regularly at Musique de Chambre à Giverny in France, Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. He also frequently appears as a guest with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus. Mr. Holloway has been principal violist at Tanglewood and of the New York String Orchestra, and has played as guest principal of the American Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Camerata Bern, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at Bargemusic, the 92nd Street Y, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and on radio and television throughout the United States and Europe, most recently a Live From Lincoln Center broadcast. Hailed as an "outstanding violist" by American Record Guide, and praised by Zürich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung for his "warmth and intimacy," he has recorded for the Marlboro Recording Society, CMS Live, Naxos, Music@Menlo LIVE and Albany labels. An artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mr. Holloway was a student of Michael Tree at The Curtis Institute of Music and received his bachelor's degree from Boston University.
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, 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. Jolley is currently a member of the virtuoso wind quintet Windscape; the Trio Valtorna, with violinist Ida Kavafian and pianist Gilles Vonsattel; and Trio 101-New York, with trumpeter Joe Burgstaller and trombonist Haim Avitsur. Jolley was for five years a member of the Fleisher-Jolley-Tree-O, with violinist Michael Tree and pianist Leon Fleisher. He was 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 orchestra, Jolley has appeared with symphonies across the U.S., including Detroit, Rochester, Memphis, San Antonio, Phoenix, Florida West Coast, New Mexico, and Vermont. Internationally, he has appeared with the National Symphony of Brazil in Rio de Janiero, the Kamerata Orchestra of Athens, the Israel Sinfonietta, and the Israel Kamerata in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Jolley most recently performed with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra in Enschede, where he performed Joseph Swenson's Horn Concerto, "The Fire and the Rose."
Jolley's 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 Jolley premiered with Orpheus at Carnegie Hall. Other memorable works composed for 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 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.
He has performed in many summer festivals, including Marlboro, Sarasota, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Bowdoin, and the Music Academy of the West. Jolley has six solo recordings under the Arabesque label, including Mozart Concerti and Strauss Concerti with the Israel Sinfonietta. Jolley is on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Mannes College of Music, and Queens College-CUNY.
Hailed for her "magnetic, wide-ranging tone" and her "rock solid technique" (Philadelphia Inquirer), violist Ayane Kozasa enjoys a career that spans a broad spectrum of musical personas. A violinist turned violist, she was inspired to dedicate herself to the alto clef when she discovered the beauty of playing the viola part in string quartets during her undergraduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her commitment to pursue a life in viola led to a graduate degree from the Curtis Institute of music as well as a further masters degree from the esteemed Kronberg Academy Masters School in Germany.
Ayane's solo career took off when she won the 2011 Primrose International Viola Competition, where she also captured awards for best chamber music and commissioned work performances. Following the competition, she joined the astral artists roster and became a grant recipient from the S&R Foundation, an organization recognizing and supporting young aspiring artists of all mediums. Her international solo opportunities have been a platform to unearth seldom heard works and commission new pieces, an aspect of viola playing that she loves. Most recently, she commissioned a work by Brooklyn composer Paul Wiancko for viola and cello, which she premiered in Washington DC at the S&R Foundation.
Chamber music has also been a vital part of ayane's musical career, and her interests have led her to appearances at numerous festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival, The Kingston Music Festival, and The Ravinia Festival. She is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet, the 2014-16 quartet-in-residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and prizewinner of the 2015 London Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. The quartet has proved to be a multi-faceted group, commissioning and touring works by world renowned composers such as Caroline Shaw, Yvgeniy Sharlat, Paul Wiancko, and Gabriella Smith.
From 2012 to 2016, Ayane served as the principal violist of The Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia. She is also a member of the Iris Orchestra, and has played with notable ensembles such as the Jupiter Chamber Players, The Philadelphia Orchestra, A Far Cry, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Ayane is deeply grateful for the mentorship she received from her past teachers, Nobuko Imai, Kirsten Docter, Roberto Diaz, Misha Amory, and William Preucil. Outside of music, she loves to bake pastries, create fonts, run long distances, and visit the ocean — all interests that fuel her musical creativity.
Born in Brussels, Belgian violist Dimitri Murrath has made his mark as a soloist on the international scene, performing regularly in venues including Jordan Hall (Boston), Kennedy Center (Washington), Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall (London), Kioi Hall (Tokyo), the National Auditorium (Madrid), and Théâtre de la Ville (Paris).
A first prize winner at the Primrose International Viola Competition, Dimitri Murrath has won numerous awards, including second prize at the First Tokyo International Viola Competition, the special prize for the contemporary work at the ARD Munich Competition, and a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation. In 2012, he was named laureate of the Juventus Festival, an award recognizing young European soloists. He is a recipient of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
With repertoire extending from Bach to contemporary music by Ligeti, Kurtag and Sciarrino, Murrath is particularly keen on performing new works. He has taken part in the Park Lane Group New Year Series in London to great critical acclaim, as well as commissioned, given the world premieres, and recorded several solo works.
An avid chamber musician, Murrath is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has collaborated with Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Richard Goode, Gidon Kremer, Menahem Pressler, Mitsuko Uchida, and members of the Mendelssohn, Takacs, Guarneri, Cleveland, Jerusalem, and Juilliard String Quartets.
Festivals include IMS Prussia Cove, Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists, Verbier Festival, Caramoor Rising Stars, Chamberfest Cleveland, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Juventus Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival.
He has performed concertos with orchestras including Orchestre National de Lille, Toho Gakuen Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic and London Mozart Players.
Dimitri Murrath began his musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School studying with Natalia Boyarsky, and went on to work in London with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He graduated with an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian.
He is on the viola faculties of New England Conservatory and Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Dimitri Murrath participates in the Music for Food project, which raises awareness of the hunger problem faced by a large percent of the population, and gives the opportunity to experience the powerful role music can play as a catalyst for change.
"(…) the warm and noble tome of Mr. Murrath's viola glowed fiercely – for me the highlight of the concert." New York Times
Pianist John Novacek regularly tours the Americas, Europe and Asia as solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist; in the latter capacity he has presented over thirty concerti with dozens of orchestras.
John Novacek's major American performances have been heard in New York City's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Columbia University's Miller Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Symphony Space, Washington's The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston's Symphony Hall, Chicago's Symphony Center and Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Hollywood Bowl and Royce Hall, while international venues include Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Musée du Louvre, London's Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, as well as most of the major concert halls of Japan. He is also a frequent guest artist at festivals, here and abroad, including New York City's Mostly Mozart Festival and those of Aspen, Cape Cod, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Colorado College, Mimir, Ravinia, Seattle, SummerFest La Jolla, Wolf Trap, BBC Proms (England), Braunschweig (Germany), Lucerne, Menuhin and Berbier (Switzerland), Majorca (Spain), Sorrento (Italy), Stavanger (Norway), Toulouse (France) and Sapporo (Japan).
Often heard on radio broadcasts worldwide, John Novacek has appeared on NPR's Performance Today, St. Paul Sunday and, as both featured guest composer/performer, on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He has also been seen and heard on television, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Entertainment Tonight and CNN International.
John Novacek is a much sought-after collaborative artist and has performed with Joshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz, Leila Josefowicz, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Truls Mork, Elmar Oliveira and Emmanuel Pahud, and, as well as the Colorado, Harrington, Jupiter, New Hollywood, St. Lawrence, SuperNova and Ying string quartets. He also tours widely as a member of Intersection, a piano trio that includes violinist Kaura Frautschi and cellist Kristina Reiko Coooper. Mr. Novacek has also given numerous world premieres and worked closely with composers John Adams, John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, George Rochberg, John Williams and John Zorn.
John Novacek took top prizes at both the Leschetizky and Joanna Hodges international piano competitions, among many others. He studied piano with Polish virtuoso Jakob Gimpel at California State University, Northridge, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude. Subsequently, he earned a Master of Music degree from New York City's Mannes College of Music, where his instructors were Peter Serkin in piano and Felix Galimer in chamber music. Mr. Novacek's coaches in composition included Frederick Werle, Aurelio de la Vega and Daniel Kessner.
John Novacek's own compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Pacific Symphony, The 5 Browns, Concertante, Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo, Harrington String Quartet, Ying Quartet, Millennium, Quattro Mani and The Three Tenors. He has recorded over 30 CDs, encompassing solo and chamber music by most major composers from Bach to Bartók, as well as many contemporary and original scores. Mr. Novacek records for Philips, Nonesuch, Arabesque, Warner Classics, Sony/BMG, Koch International, Universal Classics, Ambassador, Pony Canyon, Four Winds, Arkay, Virtuoso and EMI Classics. CD titles include Road Movies (2004 GRAMMY nomination as "Best Chamber Music Performance"), Great Mozart Piano Works, Spanish Rhapsody, Novarags (original ragtime compositions), Classic Romance, Hungarian Sketches, Intersection, Romances et Meditations and, with Leila Josefowicz, Americana (GRAMOPHONE: "Editor's Choice"), For the End of Time, Shostakovich and Recital (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE: 5 stars/June 2005's chamber choice).
Violinist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and teacher. A graduate of Juilliard, his major teachers were Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, Sandor Vegh and George Neikrug. He is a founding member of the 29-year-old Orion String Quartet, which is in residence at Mannes College of Music and performs regularly at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Available on recording are the complete quartets of Beethoven and Leon Kirchner. Highlights of the season include tours with pianist Peter Serkin and a European tour that included Wigmore Hall. He appears regularly at the Spoleto USA. Since winning the 1976 Young Concert Artists in 1976, he has been an emerging artist who has performed as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Yakima symphonies.
This season marks his concerto debut with the Yonkers Symphony. He appears regularly at the Spoleto USA Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Music Festival, and has participated in the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England since its inception. He also serves on the summer faculties of the Banff Centre and the Heifetz Institute. He was a member of the renowned Bach Aria Group, and has toured and recorded in a string quartet for SONY with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma. He is a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, Bard College Conservatory, and The Juilliard School. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor on Manhattan's upper west side.
Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, and many others. Ms. Polonsky has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, David Shifrin, Richard Goode, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, Anton Kuerti, Peter Wiley, and Fred Sherry. She is regularly invited to perform chamber music at festivals such as Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Bard, and Caramoor, as well as at Bargemusic in New York City. Ms. Polonsky has given concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall's Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two during 2002-2004. In 2006 she took part in the European Broadcasting Union's project to record and broadcast all of Mozart's keyboard sonatas, and in the spring of 2007 she performed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium to inaugurate the Emerson Quartet's Perspectives Series.
Anna Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with the renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master's Degree from The Juilliard School. Polonsky was a recipient of the 2003 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, and of the 2011 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.
With the violist Michael Tree and clarinetist Anthony McGill, she is a member of the Schumann Trio. Polonsky also collaborates in a two-piano duo with her husband, pianist Orion Weiss. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College. She is a Steinway Artist.
A violinist praised as playing "gorgeously" and with "gracefulness and easy rapport" (The Boston Globe) Emily Daggett Smith is emerging as one of the most compelling artists of her generation. Her recital and chamber music performances have taken her across the United States, Europe, South America and Asia, and she has been described as playing with a "very beautiful tone" (The Gathering Note) and "irrepressible élan" (The Seattle Times).
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Smith performs regularly at numerous festivals and series around the country such as the Concordia Chamber Ensemble, Festival Mozaic, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Mainly Mozart Festival, Ravinia's Steans Institute, and the Seattle Chamber Music Society. She has shared the stage with many renowned musicians including current and former members of the Cleveland, Emerson and Juilliard String Quartets, as well as pianists Claude Frank, Joseph Kalichstein, and Gilbert Kalish. Her performances have taken place at some of the world's greatest halls including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Vienna Konzerthaus, and have been featured on PBS's national broadcast Live from Lincoln Center, NPR's From the Top, Classical King FM in Seattle and WWFM The Classical Network in New York and Pennsylvania.
As a soloist, Ms. Smith made her New York concerto debut at the age of 21 in Alice Tully Hall, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra and conductor Emmanuel Villaume. Since then she has performed concerti with many orchestras including Iris Orchestra, Festival Mozaic Orchestra, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Classical Players. Growing up in the Boston area, she has also appeared as soloist with various orchestras in New England including a performance at the Hatch Shell in Boston as part of the Landmark Orchestra Series. As a concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra she has worked with many renowned conductors including Michael Tilson-Thomas, Leonard Slatkin and Nicholas McGegan.
In addition to performing the masterpieces of the 17th through the 20th century, Emily is also a strong advocate of new music. She has premiered dozens of new works, including the world premiere of Dan Visconti's Silvertone which was commissioned for her debut recital in Chicago at the Music in the Loft series. As the founding first violinist of the Tessera Quartet, she has worked closely with composer and pianist Lowell Liebermann, performing his Piano Quintet with the composer at the piano, and has recorded a world-premiere album of Harold Brown's complete works for String Quartet on Albany Records. She is currently working on performance practice research on Kaija Saariaho's Graal Théâtre (1994).
Despite her busy performance schedule, Emily is dedicated to education and maintains various teaching and outreach activities. She served on the Violin faculty of the undergraduate department of Stony Brook University and has given masterclasses and educational outreach performances wherever her violin takes her. One of the most rewarding musical experiences of her life was teaching, giving masterclasses, and performing with young musicians in the la Red music program in Medellin, Colombia over two consecutive years. Her teaching style is one that blends and deepens the traditions of her great teachers Soovin Kim, Joel Smirnoff, Laurie Smukler, Masuko Ushioda, and Donald Weilerstein, with a deep understanding of what it takes to be a well-rounded musician in the 21st century.
Ms. Smith has received numerous awards and scholarships. She is a winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the SYLFF Fellowship, the Brockton, Newton and Waltham Symphony Concerto Competitions, and the Gold Medal at the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition in the junior division. Ms. Smith holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, and as a recipient of the prestigious Staller Scholar Award, she is in the final stages of the Doctor of Music and Arts degree at Stony Brook University. She plays on a Johannes Cuypers violin and a Vuillaume bow, both generously donated by Dr. Marylou Witz.
One of his generation's extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has made a name for himself as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging ambition, individuality and drive — "a remarkable musician" in the words of the Washington Post and one "who refuses to set himself limits" in those of France's Télérama. The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has performed with some of the leading lights in jazz; as a leader, he has crafted a discography already striking for its breadth and depth, ranging from probing solo improvisation and intimate duets to trio albums rich in their melodic allure. Tepfer's acclaimed Sunnyside/Naïve album Goldberg Variations / Variations saw the pianist performing J.S. Bach's masterpiece as well as improvising upon it to "build a bridge across centuries and genres" as the Wall Street Journal put it. New York magazine called the album "elegant, thoughtful and thrilling," while DownBeat declared it "one of the more audacious, accomplished recordings of 2011."
Tepfer's newest release is Small Constructions — an album of duets with multi-reed player and Kneebody co-founder Ben Wendel, released on Sunnyside Records in March 2013. A set of songs without words, Small Constructions is a multi-tracked, multi-layered production featuring Tepfer and Wendel playing multiple instruments in multiple styles, extending from fresh versions of Monk tunes to pieces based on Handel and Messiaen motifs, from a standard given an artful makeover to originals that underscore the duo's melodic flair.
Tepfer, whose mother was an opera singer and grandfather a jazz pianist, began classical piano studies at age 6 at the Paris Conservatoire-Paul Dukas. The young musician took a circuitous route to a jazz career, first earning a bachelor's degree in astrophysics from Scotland's University of Edinburgh. He played extensively on the jazz scene in college and even enjoyed a brief stint as an opera conductor. After graduating in 2005 from Boston's New England Conservatory, where he completed his masters under the guidance of Danilo Perez, Tepfer moved to New York and quickly became an in-demand player, performing with such innovators as Steve Lacy, Paul Motian, Bob Brookmeyer, Joe Lovano, Ralph Towner, Billy Hart and Mark Turner. Tepfer was introduced by Martial Solal, one of his mentors in France, to Lee Konitz. The veteran saxophone luminary and the young pianist hit it off at once, sparking a partnership that would yield duet performances on both sides of the Atlantic and the 2009 Sunnyside album Duos with Lee. Described as "a benchmark of human potential" by Jazz Inside, the Tepfer-Konitz album embodies the notion of jazz as an artistic exchange across the generations, comprising mostly freely improvised pieces.
The Village Voice described Tepfer's Goldberg Variations / Variations this way: "In a ballsy move that resounds with an unabashed yen for balance, the insightful pianist concocts a freeprov ditty for each of Bach's most famous miniatures. On the classical side, the 60 tracks are a blend of grace and power. On the jazz side, they're built with daring and élan. It's easy to respect both." The prelude to Tepfer's Bachian explorations was his solo Twelve Free Improvisations in Twelve Keys (DIZ, 2009), an engaging, absorbing album rooted in some of his earliest musical explorations. Considering the contemplative reveries of this pianist, DownBeat said: "Tepfer has the ability to disappear into the music even as he's making it."
Tepfer's first two trio albums — Oxygen (DIZ, 2007) and Before the Storm (DIZ, 2005) — saw the pianist in league with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Richie Barshay, longtime confreres with close rapport. Allying high instrumental finish to tight arrangements, the albums ranged from Tepfer's irresistible, ever-lyrical originals to ingenious versions of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and Joe Henderson's "Inner Urge" — and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." It was such music-making that led Time Out London to say: "Tepfer is among the most accomplished and imaginative of the new wave of players emerging across the pond. He specializes in a rippling style that builds complex melodic layers of ideas… A piano star."
For his third trio album — Five Pedals Deep (Sunnyside, 2010) — Tepfer convened a new, galvanizing partnership with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Ted Poor. Whether on originals of great beauty by Tepfer (including some solo interludes) or covers of a Jacques Brel tune and "Body and Soul," it was the sound of surprise that the pianist was after with this album. According to The New York Times, Tepfer's Five Pedals Deep "lays out something like a personal manifesto\'85 Mr. Tepfer unfurls his lyricism in great silvery arcs." All Music Guide described the album as "inventive" and "intense," while Stereophile simply judged it "beautiful." All About Jazz singled out Tepfer's tune "I Was Wonderin' " for its brand of playful sophistication, with "its hints of swing, rock, and even classical\'85 there simply to service the nuanced shading of the piece."
Tepfer's playing — whether performing with Lee Konitz at the Village Vanguard or leading his trio at the Jazz Standard, going solo with his complete Goldberg Variations / Variations at New York's Le Poisson Rouge or playing in an all-star Bud Powell tribute at Birdland — is always a mix of the gorgeous and the vivacious, lyricism balanced with swing, freedom with cohesion. The New York Times has called him "a pianist of exceptional poise who is drawn to the deeper currents of melody."
All-around, Tepfer is "one of the moment's most adventurous and relevant musicians," according to New York magazine. He was voted a Best New Artist in JazzTimes in 2010 and a Rising Star in DownBeat in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Among his awards are the first prize and audience prize at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition, first prize at the 2006 East Coast Jazz Festival Competition, and first prize at the 2007 competition of the American Pianists Association. He has been named a Cultural Envoy of the U.S. State Department, with travels to Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Czech Republic. He has also lectured and led master classes from London to Warsaw to Seoul. Tepfer was commissioned by the Prague Castle Guard Orchestra to compose a concerto for symphonic wind band and improvising piano; the kaleidoscopic result, The View from Orohena, had its premiere at the Prague Castle in 2010.
Tepfer will have a new trio album out on Sunnyside in early 2014. The pianist is also going into the studio to record a duo album with bass great Gary Peacock, and in a collaboration further afield, Tepfer is teaming with young singer Yanet Valdes for sessions in Cuba with Bata drums.
Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist and composer, is a two-time Grammy Award-Winner. As a former nine year member of both Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke's band, Mads has spent most his professional life touring internationally. Since 2007 Mads has lead his own group, Mads Tolling Quartet. "The Playmaker"released in the fall of 2009, features Stanley Clarke and jazz greats Russell Ferrante & Stefon Harris. A brand new MTQ album: "Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty – Live at Yoshi's" was released in May, 2012. Mads has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, and his recordings have received rave reviews in Downbeat Magazine, Strings Magazine, Washington Post & San Francisco Chronicle. He has performed with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron & Paquito D'Rivera.
For nine years in Turtle Island Quartet, Mads spent most of his professional life on the road or in the recording studio. In '06 and '08 as part of Turtle Island Quartet Mads won two Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover album with the recordings "4+Four" and "A Love Supreme – The Legacy of John Coltrane." Mads has received Denmark's Sankt Annae's Award for Musical Excellence as well as grants from Queen Margaret, Sonning Foundation and the Berklee Elvin Jones Award.
In 2007 Mads Tolling started his own trio and immediately recorded the album "Speed of Light." The following year the trio expanded to a quartet. In it are some of the top Bay Area musicians, including Mike Abraham on guitar, George Ban-Weiss on bass and Eric Garland on drums.
Mads Tolling Quartet has performed all over the U.S including Yoshi's San Francisco & Oakland, Herbst Theatre, Russian River Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens, Grass Valley Performance Arts, Blues Alley in Washington DC and Monterey Jazz Festival. MTQ will tour nationally and internationally in '13-'14.
Mads grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark and moved to the U.S. at the age of 20 to pursue jazz studies. He studied under violinist Matt Glaser, and he graduated summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2003. While still attending Berklee, the renowned jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty recommended Mads to join Stanley Clarke's band. Since then, Mads has performed more than one hundred concerts with Clarke worldwide, including the Newport Jazz Festival and the Hollywood Bowl and appears on Clarke's album: "Toys of Men."
Besides his activities as a performer, Mads Tolling is an accomplished composer. In addition to his original writing on his two most recent albums, Mads arranged one of his compositions for saxophonist Joe Lovano and string orchestra. Of his three prior recordings of original material, one features the legendary pianist JoAnne Brackeen. Mads has recorded with vibraphonist Dave Samuels, appears on RMB singer Teena Marie's recording "La Dona" and on jazz vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway's "At Last."He has additionally contributed numerous arrangements and compositions to Turtle Island Quartet's repertoire. In 2014 Mads has been commissioned by Music Director, Michael Morgan to write a Violin Concerto for Oakland East Bay Symphony. Performance to take place in spring, 2015.
Mads has been a thriving force in the educational aspects of jazz and improvisation. He has been active as a Yamaha clinician and has been involved in workshops, coachings and master classes throughout Canada and the U.S. Since 2010 Mads has been on faculty at Berkeley's Jazzschool Institute mainly focusing on spreading the knowledge of jazz and groove
oriented styles to string players of all ages.
In his spare time Mads enjoys tennis, golfing and hiking. In 1999, together with his father, he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Canadian violist Sharon Wei is a dynamic and varied musician, establishing herself as one of the most respected violists on the scene today. She has appeared throughout North America, Europe and Asia. She has been guest principal violist of the Cincinnati Symphony, Canadian Opera Company and Ensemble Matheus. Sharon has played chamber music with Lynn Harrell, Gary Hoffman, Claude Frank, James Levine, Peter Frankl, Joseph Silverstein, the St Lawrence Quartet and Amernet Quartet and appeared at festivals including Marlboro, Verbier, Curtis Summerfest, Scotia Festival and Prussia Cove.
Sharon co-founded Ensemble Made in Canada which won a CBC rising stars award. Sharon has been the recipient of grants through the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council. She has toured under the auspices of Debut Atlantic and Prairie Debut.
Sharon was on the faculty at Yale and Stanford and is currently Assistant Professor of Viola at Western University. Sharon has created a course for performance majors in which students learn important off-stage initiatives such as networking, concert production, grant writing, website design, and managing finances.
American pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg International Piano Competitions, a bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and finalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Wolfram has appeared with many of the greatest orchestras of the world and has developed a special reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. In all of these genres, he is highly sought after for his special focus on the music of Franz Liszt and Beethoven and is a special champion for the music of modernist 20th century American composers.
His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. He has also appeared with the San Francisco, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, Seattle and New Jersey symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington D.C.), the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony, the Columbus Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Grand Teton and San Luis Obispo Mozart festival orchestras, among many others. He enjoys regular and ongoing close associations with the Dallas Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the San Diego Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra in the United States.
Internationally recognized conductors with whom he has worked include Andrew Litton, Jerzy Semkow, Mark Wigglesworth, Jeffrey Tate, Vladimir Spivakov, Gerard Schwarz, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jeffrey Kahane, James Judd, Roberto Minczuk, Stefan Sanderling, JoAnn Falletta, James Paul, and Carlos Kalmar.
Abroad, Wolfram has appeared with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the RTE Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (Dublin), the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, the Warsaw, Moscow, and Budapest Philharmonics, the Capetown and Johannesberg symphonies of South Africa, L'Orchestre de Bretagne, and the National Symphony of Peru.
An enthusiastic supporter of new music, he has collaborated with and performed music by composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Kenneth Frazelle, Marc Andre Dalbavie, Kenji Bunch, and Paul Chihara. His world premiere performance of the Chihara re- orchestration of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Andreas Delfs, was met with great critical attention and acclaim.
Wolfram has extensive experience in the recording studio. He has recorded three titles on the Naxos label in his series of Franz Liszt Opera Transcriptions and two other chamber music titles for Naxos with violinist Philippe Quint (music of Miklos Rosza and John Corigliano). Also for Naxos he has recorded the music of Earl Kim with piano and orchestra – the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland behind him. For the Albany label, he recorded the piano concertos of Edward Collins with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
In print and other media Wolfram was the focus of a full chapter in Joseph Horowitz's book, The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. On television, he was a featured pianist in the documentary of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, William Wolfram resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Firmly established in her native Israel as an important young musician, violinist Carmit Zori was chosen at age 13 by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to perform on the international television special "Music from Jerusalem". Two years later, at the recommendation of Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern, she came to the United States to study at The Curtis Institute of Music, where her teachers included Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Since then Ms. Zori has appeared with a wide variety orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed throughout Latin America, Europe, Japan and Australia, where she premiered the Marc Neikrug Violin Concerto. Carmit Zori's recital engagements include her critically acclaimed recital in New York City's Lincoln Center, as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, Boston's Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem.
An active chamber musician, Ms. Zori appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has performed as guest artist at New York's Chamber Music at the "Y" series, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the international Bruckner Festival in Austria, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the La Jolla Summerfest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the OK Mozart Festival, the Sitka Festival in Alaska and at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She has been a regular participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has been featured on many "Music from Marlboro" tours. Miss Zori is one of the musical directors of Bargemusic, New York City.
Ms. Zori's numerous honors include the Leventritt Foundation award, top prize in the Waiter W. Naumburg International violin competition and the Pro Musicus Foundation Award. Carmit Zori can be heard on various recording labels, including Arabesque, Koch International and Elektra-Nonesuch. A 1997 recording of works by Bartok, Harbison, Dahl and Parker was released on the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music label. Reviews described it as "a splendid disc … exciting but polished".
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Earlier this year, eight LAPD officers who shot 103 bullets at two Hispanic women they mistook for one black man, hitting one of the women twice, were simply given "extra training" as punishment. A sheriff's deputy in South Carolina who shot a 70-year-old man because he mistook the man's cane for a rifle was told his actions were "an appropriate response to what he reasonably believed to be an imminent threat to his life." And in Albuquerque, police officers shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man as he turned away from them, which police chief Gordon Eden said was "justified."//


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It's as if we as humans go through our whole lives trying to avoid the inevitable, the one certain thing we will all experience. We swallow, shoot up and inflict our bodies with endless cures just to make our moments last just a little bit longer.
Roman. A man, a soldier who was giving up in the middle of his fight. Here he was, dying. Day by day his sickness invaded further into the deep, unseen crevices of his body. And he starred up at me, a small hint of a smile of his thin face. The warm tears fell from my eyes as I tried to strain a smile in return.
"Thank you Margo," he whispered.
I couldn't hold it in for a second longer. My body folded in the stiff chair and I began to cry. My body convulsed with sobs and it felt as if my brain had completely crashed. Only hushed anguished moans came from my lips as I tried to keep my ocean of sadness contained. I closed my eyes tightly as the walls closed in around us and when I opened them again, I couldn't breathe. I gasped for air and my hands went white trying to grasp the arms of the chair for some kind of stability, normalcy.
It felt as if hours had passed before I could bring myself to look at the worn down body in the bed next to me. Roman was still there, gazing back at me with his strained smile.
"Why are you crying?" he asked.
I scoffed in complete disbelief.
"Because…" I thought for a minute. I wanted to believe that him dying was the one thing tearing at fibers of my being but instead, it was much, much stronger. "Because I love you. I have since we first spoke. And I have this crazy feeling that I always will."
My eyes met his intense stare once more and his smile fell. In all the years we had known each other that was the first time I had seen him genuinely distraught. His chin began to tremble and he quickly turned away from me.
Roman licked his lips multiple times before he let his tears slip down his cheeks.
"I know," he finally said. "Just please know that what you have given me these last five years is something I could have never imagined. You…Margo, have been such perfection in my mad world. I wouldn't know passion, love and grief if it weren't for you." He dried the salty drops on his face before looking at me again. "I love you so much."


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Saturday, June 4, 2016
Tiny Little House Of Cool
Posted by Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness at 4:11 PM
5 comments:
- Debra She Who Seeks said...
Charmingly old-fashioned, this one!
- June 4, 2016 at 4:25 PM
- Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...
I think of HELL ON WHEELS and how this would be a great little home.
- June 4, 2016 at 5:17 PM
- DrGoat said...
Spiffy little house. PS Finally passed the kidney stone. Never fear Cal, it would take more than a stone to get rid of me. Plan to be with you as long as I'm above ground. Meet friends like you only once in a lifetime. And thanks Debra, appreciate your thoughts and will do my best to live up to your kind thoughts. It's amazing that one can form a bond with people you have never met in person. Things like that
are what makes life so surprising and worth sticking around for.
- June 4, 2016 at 6:22 PM
- Debra She Who Seeks said...
Hey, good news, DrGoat! I hope you never had another one of those damn things!
- June 5, 2016 at 7:10 AM
- DrGoat said...
Knock on wood, Debra.
- June 5, 2016 at 11:56 AM
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INTRODUCTION: Sracoidosis is classically associated with secondary amyloidosis (AA type) induced by the chronic indolent inflammatory process of sarcoid. There is sparse literature on the co-existence of primary amyloid (AL type) with sarcoidosis. We report a case of a 60 year old lady with history of pulmonary sarcoidosis who presented with dysphagia and was found to have AL type esophageal amyloidosis.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 60 year old woman with a 15 year history of stage 2 pulmonary sarcoidosis on low dose oral prednisone presented with progressive dysphagia, weight loss and failure to thrive. Her primary care physician treated her for gastro-esophageal reflux initially. But when the symptoms persisted she was referred to a gastroenterologist. An esophaogastrodudenoscopy was done which showed smooth velvety appearance in the lower third of the esophagus. Biospy with Hand E stain followed by congo red staining confirmed the presence of amyloid deposition the submucosal and muscularis layers of the eosophagus. Serum protein electrophoresis and urine protein electrophoresis showed M spike with immunofixation demonstrating IgG kappa light chain monoclonal proteins. Bone marrow biopsy did show a clonal plasma cell expansion. Patient expired 5 years from the initial diagnosis of amyloidosis due to restrictive cardiomyopathy.
DISCUSSION: In sarcoidosis the most frequently involved organs are the lungs and the hilar lymph nodes.The pathogenesis between AL amyloidosis and active sarcoidosis is not clear. A few prior reports suggest a coincidental association between cardiac sarcoidosis and AL amyloidosis. There is no evidence of direct relationship between active untreated sarcoidosis and development of AL amyloidosis , however the likely cause of amyloidosis in our patient appears to be active sarcoidosis.
CONCLUSIONS: Further studies are needed to establish if indeed there is a common triggering etio-pathogenic agent to our clinical observation of overlapping pulmonary sarcoidosis and primary amyloidosis. Given the latency of 15 years between the diagnosis if sarcoidosis and amyloidosis the question remains whether there was an ongoing exposure to the triggering agent.
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First off the way the flag is being displayed shows a country in distress. Is this very far off? I don't think so.We should be able to FLAG 'Coolmind' for his disrespectful representation of our nation's flag.
Maybe he should learn from Jane Fonda's incredibly bad judgment and apologize to Americans now.
Instead of being young and dumb and not appreciative of how good you have it, be mature and be respectful of the opportunities you are afforded by the representation of that flag.
Secondly, you are unregistered and obviously clueless, Coolmind happens to be female.
Thirdly, this GREAT country of ours affords us the right to FREE SPEECH, her statement is WELL PROTECTED, it isn't FREE SPEECH EXCEPT WHAT OFFENDS, no it is FREE SPEECH.
Fourthly, One of the great things about being a true patriot is that we CAN QUESTION OUR GOVERNMENT and OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ENCOURAGED THIS!
So, go back to history class, be offended all you want, but to "ban" someone for expressing their opinion that this country is in distress, well HOW VERY UNAMERICAN OF YOU!


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text: Selma had always been a picky eater. She tossed aside her veggies at dinner, and only ate apples or bananas on the rare occasion. But ever since her mother's kind new friend had been bringing them all sorts of tasty foods, she'd been enjoying every meal of the day. He always brought the freshest and the best quality, and even tried to get her mother to eat healthier. Her mother had never been a slim woman, but this didn't seem to bother her. She was a divorced housewife with two young children, and a developing addiction to Xanax, and she regularly ate in her depression and anxiety. Selma was oblivious to her mother's mental problems however, and she took such a liking to her new Uncle Ahmed, that even when him and her own mother were having a dispute, she always took his side. She never realised how serious their disputes were, giggling at the man's comical rage, the likes of which she had only seen in cartoons. For a long time, she thought he was only playing when he became furious. Her brother Max always took the confident man's side as well, looking up to him as the only father-figure in the young boy's life. He was coming to their apartment regularly a few months after the divorce. So regularly in fact, that he had began establishing his own rules in the household. One such rule was that her mother stop drinking coffee. This seemed like an odd rule for Selma, and she disregarded it as a silly game the man was playing. She was surprised when he threw out her mother's coffee jar, but she assumed her mother had decided she didn't like coffee anymore. After all, Selma could never understand why adults needed that bitter drink every morning anyway. The next day however, her mother sent down Max to the nearby shop, 'Friends', ironically run by quite unfriendly people. She instructed him to buy her some coffee, but keep quiet about it the next time Uncle Ahmed came over. The boy did as he was told, even helping his mother hide the new jar. Selma had observed all this from the sidelines, the motive behind all the secrecy passing right over her head. Nevertheless, the very next time her beloved Uncle Ahmed came over, she watched her mother carefully, trying to keep herself to the same guidelines that her brother had been given. She never figured out how the man found the coffee, but he did. And thus began the first fall-out in a long, desperate chain of fall-outs between him and her mother. The dispute didn't start off slowly, and then eventually grow into a full-scale fight. No. It simply exploded. One minute, Selma was giggling at the man's strange, angry tone, even trying to further fuel what she thought was just a game, by telling him what her mother had instructed her brother with. Her giggles were snatched out of her throat when the front door was slammed, and her mother's sobs filled the silent echo that the after-math of the dispute had left. She had seen him put away the coffee jar, and to her, it all seemed like some kind of strange game. But all she needed was to hear the shaking of her mother's voice as she cried into her hands in despair. In that moment, the brutal reality came crashing down on her. This wasn't a game. For the next few days, Selma struggled to understand what had happened. She tried to work it through inside her 7 year old mind, but every time she thought she was beginning to understand, her mother's voice cut her chain of thought. At times it was full of rage. Other times it was only a whimper, like a lost child tired of looking for their guardian in the crowd. Selma found the frame of Uncle Ahmed's picture cracked down the middle. Her mother had thrown it at the wall. This was enough for Selma to make a decision, in her young, innocent mind. It was time to stop taking his side. She took a piece of paper, and a pen, having learnt in school that what you write in a pen, can never be erased. With her mother's angry sobs in the background, Selma began to write. "I hate you. I'm sorry.. But you broke my mother's heart." This was enough. She had made a decision, and she had wanted to somehow bring this decision to life. This piece of paper would be hidden well, never to be seen by anybody. No one else had to know. Her brother did not seem concerned with what was happening around him. Even at a younger age, he had spent a large amount of time playing computer games. Selma had seen videos of her brother, just two years old, and already playing Jazz Jack Rabbit, without even looking down at the keyboard. She had been told their father is an engineer, and even though she wasn't sure what that meant, she knew it must've had something to do with her brother's love of computers. Her father had always brought home thick magazines full of pictures of computers and other electronics. She now looked for these magazines, thinking what a good hiding place they would be for her secret paper. Unable to find a single one, she went to ask her mother of their whereabouts. She found her mother mopping herself up, putting the room in order, and then asking her to bring a new frame for her from Selma's collection of Disney princess pictures. They were the same size as Uncle Ahmed's picture. Selma, though confused by her mother's sudden change in attitude, did as she was told. Belle lost her frame, and her mother stood the confident young man's photo back up on the nightstand. After nearly two weeks of the silent treatment from him, her mother finally managed to apologise to him enough times for him to consider forgiving her. To Selma, it was incomprehensible why someone would go into such a blind rage over coffee, but her mother seemed to be fine with it all, and so Selma ripped he paper apart, deciding that if her mother was all better, then there was no reason to hate Uncle Ahmed anymore. She even spent the morning of that weekend's Saturday making origami stars of all colours, having been told that it was his birthday that day. In Selma's young mind, there was nothing she could imagine that could possibly ruin a birthday. Especially not a birthday cake..


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Tomorrow marks the Season 2 finale of Game of Thrones and I couldn't be more excited. If you've read any of my previous posts then you know I've been a long time lover of George R.R.Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. I started reading them when I was in the seventh grade, which is most definitely to young for them (hey I was mature for my age!), so I've been waiting half my life for another book to come out. While there seems to be a minimum of a four year wait in between books the conception of the HBO series provided a nice balm to sate my appetite for this series.
*Spoilers for Season 2 ahead*
Despite having read the books and knowing all the secrets and plot twists that will come in the HBO series I am still eagerly anticipating tomorrow's finale. I have an idea how they might end this season (pure speculation on my part, but I consider it a well educated guess) and if I'm right then viewers (who haven't read the books) will be in for a big shock. At this point everyone's fates are a little bit crazy, so let's re-cap.
- Arya Stark escaped her captivity at Harrenhal (Along with Gendry and Hot Pie) thanks to help from the enigmatic Jaquen H'ghar.
- Jon Snow has been captured, along with the Half-hand, by wildlings. Bran, Rickon, Hodor, and Osha are hiding out in the crypts of Winterfell.
- Theon Greyjoy is being an idiot (who has also declared himself Prince of Winterfell).
- Bran, Rickon, Hodor, and Osha are hiding from Theon in the crypts of Winterfell.
- Robb Stark has confessed he doesn't want to marry a Frey girl and is in love with another woman, whilst putting his mother Catelyn on house arrest for freeing Jaime Lannister.
- Jaime is being escorted by Brienne of Tarth (much to his chagrin) back to Kings Landing to be traded for Sansa (and Arya in theory).
- Sansa is still trapped in Kings Landing with the evil Lannisters after refusing the Hounds drunken offer to take her with him when he leaves during the battle of Blackwater.
- Cersei got extremely drunk during the siege and ranted about how she should've been born a man and almost committed suicide (if only) along with killing Tommen.
- Tyrion was gravely injured in the Battle of the Blackwater and nobody knows whether he'll live or die.
- Joffery is still a spine-less mini-masochist… also still King (well one of them anyway).
- Stannis (another King) attacked Kings Landing and almost won until Tywin Lannister showed up with his army and the Tyrells.
- Dany's dragons have been stolen and are being kept in the House of the Undying and the Mother of Dragons is not a happy camper.
Are you excited for the season finale? Any predictions? Is Tyrion dead or alive? Why didn't Sansa go with the Hound? Will Dany get her Dragons back? Will Theon discover Bran and Rickon's hiding place? Will someone ever kill Joffery?


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Oct. 28, 2007
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The UAB women's soccer team fell to the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, 1-0, Sunday afternoon in a Conference USA match at West Campus Field. The contest also marked the final home game of the season for the Blazers.
The loss snapped UAB's (8-7-1, 4-3-0 C-USA) four-game winning streak and also marked the first win for Southern Miss (8-9-0, 4-4-0 C-USA) over the Blazers since the 2000 season.
"Southern Miss deserved to win the game," said UAB head coach Paul Harbin. "They wanted it more. Southern Miss played with a desire to win the game and they had the willingness to do what it took to win."
The Blazers and the Golden Eagles battled to a 0-0 tie at halftime, with UAB gaining an 11-3 advantage in shots during the first half.
The lone score of the game came during the 65th minute when Southern Miss' Bianca Ontiveros netted an unassisted goal to break the tie and give the Golden Eagles the 1-0 win over UAB.
The Blazers held a whopping 21-4 advantage in shots, including 7-1 in shots on goal. Freshman Justine Hartigan paced UAB with six shots on the day, while senior Jill Porto put up three and seniors Sally Palmer and Katie Henricks, along with sophomore Danya Barsalona, added two each.
Renee Hrapmann tallied two of the Golden Eagles' four shots, while Ontiveros and Amy Skeet accounted for one apiece.
Anna Fiser grabbed seven saves while earning the win in goal for Southern Miss. Redshirt freshman Kate Blankenship received the loss in goal for the Blazers.
"We had a lot of shots," said Harbin. "But, we just didn't have that finishing mentality. This is the third Sunday in a row that we have come out flat. The other games, we found a way to turn that around. Today, we didn't do that. We seemed to be flat the whole game.
"We would get the ball forward and make the final pass. But, when we made that final pass, we didn't have anyone there in position to finish it. We just weren't assertive enough today."
UAB will conclude its 2007 regular season schedule with a pair of road games next weekend. The Blazers will begin with a match at East Carolina on Friday at 3:00 p.m. ET, followed by the regular-season finale at Marshall on Sunday, with kick off scheduled for 1:00 p.m. ET.