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About
the Artists 2010-2011
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Violinist Toby Appel has appeared in recital and concerto performances all over the world. He has been a member of such renowned ensembles as TASHI and the Lenox and Audubon quartets and guest artist with the Vermeer, Manhattan, and Composers quartets, as well as with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and jazz artists Chick Corea and Gary Burton. Festival performances include Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Angel Fire, Bravo! Colorado, and Marlboro. He is a regular commentator for National Public Radio’s Performance Today. Mr. Appel currently teaches viola and chamber music at the Juilliard School and has held professorships at the State University of New York, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of New Mexico. He has toured for The United States State Department and performed at the United Nations and the White House. He can be heard on the Columbia, Delos, Desto, Koch International, Opus 1, and Musical Heritage Society labels.
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Hailed as “one of the most exciting young string quartets in America” (The Washington Post), the Avalon String Quartet has established itself as a leading chamber ensemble. Formed in 1995 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Quartet came to the fore after participating in Isaac Stern's Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in 1997, subsequently appearing in the Stern Chamber Music Encounters in Jerusalem and making a Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall in 2000. The quartet won First Prize, the Channel Classics Prize, and the Rockport Chamber Music Festival Prize at the 1999 Concert Artists Guild Competition, which led to the critically acclaimed recording Dawn To Dusk, and top prize in the ARD Competition in Munich. Following residencies at the Juilliard School and at Indiana University South Bend, the quartet is now in residence at Northern Illinois University, a position formerly occupied by the venerated Vermeer Quartet. They have performed in many major halls, including Alice Tully, the 92nd Street Y, and Carnegie Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington; Wigmore in London and Herculessaal in Munich as well as the Caramoor, La Jolla, Ravinia, and Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart festivals. Dedicated educators, they have taught at the Interlochen Quartet Institute and at the Britten-Pears School in England. The Avalon has been featured in live performances and conversation on Chicago's WFMT-FM, New York's WQXR-FM and WNYC-FM, National Public Radio's Performance Today, Canada's CBC, Australia’s ABC, and France Musique. |
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Violinist Yehonatan Berick, soloist, recitalist, chamber musician (violin and viola), and pedagogue, was a prizewinner at the 1993 Naumburg Competition and a recipient of the 1996-97 Prix Opus. He has performed with the symphony orchestras of Quebec, Winnipeg, Jerusalem, and Haifa, and the Israel, Cincinnati, Montreal, and Manitoba chamber orchestras. He has played recitals with such pianists as James Tocco, Louis Lortie, Stephen Prutsman, and Michael Chertock, and collaborates with artists including members of the Guarneri Quartet, and cellists Peter Wiley and Stephen Isserlis. Berick’s festival credits include Marlboro, Ravinia, Seattle, Great Lakes, Vancouver, El Paso, Maui, and Bowdoin; and he is a frequent guest performer with Close Encounter With Music. A member of Musicians from Marlboro, the Lortie-Berick-Lysy Piano Trio, and the Huberman String Quartet, he can be heard on recordings on the Summit, Gasparo, and Helicon labels. Currently Professor of Violin at the University of Michigan, his studies were at Tel Aviv University’s Music Academy and at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He plays on a violin by Honore Derazy Pere made in 1852 and a viola by Stanley Kiernoziak made in 2003. |
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Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, founded and led by Misha Rachlevsky, has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's leading ensembles.
Founded in 1991, the orchestra, comprising some of Russia's finest young string players, has carved a niche for itself under the creative baton of its founder and music director Misha Rachlevsky. Whether it is the highly-acclaimed CDs or its mesmerizing concerts, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin's warmth and high energy create addictive performances that stay with listeners long after the last note has been played.
In addition to an active schedule of presenting concerts and festivals in Moscow, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin tours regularly in North and South America, Europe and the Far East.
With seventeen years of excellence under its belt, a devoted audience in its home base, Moscow, an awards-winning CD catalog of over thirty CDs and an increasing demand for performances internationally, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin enthusiastically continues its busy schedule of concerts, festivals, recordings and touring.
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Michael Chertock has collaborated successfully with conductors such as James Conlon, Jaime Laredo, Keith Lockhart and Andrew Litton. In 2001, Chertock stepped in at a moment's notice to perform Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under Maestro Conlon. His 2003 performance on the Cincinnati Symphony's recording of Petrouchka with Paavo Jarvi turned in rave reviews in Gramophone and American Record Guide. Chertock's additional orchestral appearances include performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, l'Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal, and the Toronto Symphony. He has toured Asia with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, and with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops. In 1994, he released his first CD on the Telarc label, a collection of his original arrangements of music from movies entitled Cinematic Piano. Chertock went on to record three more discs with Telarc: Palace of the Winds, Christmas at the Movies, and Love at the Movies, all praised for their classic, original arrangements and exquisite technical facility.
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David Parson Dance Soloists
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Pavel Gintov was born on January 14, 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine. Since 1990 untill 2001 he studied in Kiev Central Music School with Iryna Barinova. Since 2001 till 2006 he studied in Moscow State Conservatory with Professor Lev Naumov and Daniil Kopylov. In 2008 he obtained Master of Music Degree at the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a full scholarship and stipend student. Now he is doing his Doctoral studies at the Manhattan School of Music, and he is studying with Professor Nina Svetlanova. |
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Violinist Cordelia Hagmann appears frequently as a chamber musician, recitalist and concertmistress in Europe and the U.S. She won top prizes at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition in 2004 with the Moirae Trio in Winterthur and Zurich in her native Switzerland. Currently based in New York, she has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall, as well as the Tonhalle in Zürich and KKL in Luzern, the Tel Aviv Conservatory, and the Jerusalem Music Center. As a soloist she has performed with orchestras such as the Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Temple Symphony Orchestra among others, and has been heard on Swiss National Radio. She received a Performer Diploma with Miriam Fried at Indiana University in Bloomington where she was a member of the Moirae Piano Trio under the guidance of Menahem Pressler. |
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Artur Kaganovsky recently made his New York concerto debut at Carnegie Hall with members of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera orchestras under the baton of Alan Gilbert. |
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Jonathan Keren, composer, arranger and violinist is a recipient of awards from ASCAP and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in violin and composition. His works have been performed in Denmark, England, Germany, Spain, Korea, Japan, Russia; at Carnegie’s Weill Hall; at the Rose Theatre in Lincoln Center; the Louvre Museum in Paris; the Berlin Philharmony Hall; and at the Tel-Aviv Museum, Jerusalem Music Center, and the Tel-Aviv opera house in his native Israel. His music has been performed by Lynn Harrell, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and by the Fountain Chamber Music Society, of which he is Composer in Residence. His cello concerto, commissioned by the New Juilliard Ensemble, received its premiere at Alice Tully Hall, and in 2004 he represented Israel in the ACL (Asian Composers League) young composers’ competition in Tokyo. Other commissions have included the Jerusalem Music Center, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Israeli embassy in Denmark and the prestigious Keshet-Eilon violin master course. As a violinist he has participated in festivals in Germany, Slovenia and the Spring Festival for contemporary music in St. Petersburg. He received his Master’s degree in composition from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Milton Babbit. During his service in the Israeli Army as member of the “outstanding musicians” unit, he arranged more than 50 pieces for chamber and vocal ensembles, all performed by military bands and the Israel Defense Force Education Corps Orchestra, as well as in concert halls. Following his service he studied composition with Reuben Serroussi, and with Samuel Adler at Juilliard. Mr. Keren performs with a number of classical, early music and folk music groups in New York, and is a co-founder of the ExTempo Baroque Players and La Mella Di Newton.
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Internationally acclaimed pianist Walter Ponce has performed around the globe as a soloist with orchestras, in solo recitals and chamber music. He has been heard in every major city of North and South America, as well as concert halls in Europe, Japan, Korea, and Africa. Born in Bolivia, Walter Ponce's musical beginnings took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended the National Conservatory. There he met Alberto Ginastera, whose notable piano sonata was part of Ponce's New York City debut recital on the series "Introductions" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Ponce has participated in festivals at Ravinia, Marlboro, Caramoor, Aspen, Sintra and Evora in Portugal, Tangiers in Morocco, and Cervantino and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. He has performed with the Cleveland, Audubon, American, and Lenox quartets and has made guest appearances with Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society. In contemporary music, he has given the world premieres for more than two hundred works, including those by Hugo Weisgall, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, William Bolcom, and Morton Gould. Composers Paul Reale and Ezra Laderman have written piano concertos specifically for Ponce. Mr. Ponce came to the United States with a Fulbright grant which continued for an unprecedented four years. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Mannes College of Music, and Master of Science and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Juilliard where was one of three students chosen to play and study with Vladimir Horowitz (1967). At the Marlboro Music Festival, he was coached in several chamber works by Rudolf Serkin. After 24 years at the State University of New York at Binghamton, he joined the Department of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles, as Professor and Head of the Piano Area. |
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Misha Rachlevsky, conductor
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Jennifer Rivera, mezzo soprano |
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