As a most accomplished pianist he is a welcome sight on any concert stage and should be ranked among the best pianists of our time." Arkady Aronov gained a reputation throughout Russia as an outstanding interpreter of baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary music for the keyboard. He has a vast repertoire, including more than forty five complete recital programs and twenty four piano concerti. In addition to playing literally hundreds of recitals (over 1000), appearing as guest soloist with numerous orchestras and on radio and television throughout Russia's major cities, he presented four historic series of twenty concerts, embracing the music of three centuries in the Leningrad Concert Hall. Arkady Aronov was the first to perform the music of leading contemporary Russian composers and many of them wrote some works in consideration of his artistic individuality. He also debuted some Western compositions in Russia; his performance of Aaron Copland's Sonata won the praise of the composer, for whom Mr. Aronov gave a special performance in Leningrad. Dr. Aronov has written numerous scholarly works, including "Dynamics, Articulation and Tempi in Beethoven's Piano Compositions," and edited two collections of piano works by the Russian avant-garde. He was also the founder and editor of a series of volumes for students, "Contemporary Composers for Youth." Arkady Aronov studied piano with the renowned Savshinsky at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of Music in Leningrad. In 1960 he was appointed Professor of Piano at the same Conservatory and held the position until 1977. In 1977 Arkady Aronov emigrated to the United States where he has received unanimous critical acclaim for his appearances in major concert halls in New York. The distinguished member of the Piano Faculties at the Mannes College of Music since 1977 and Manhattan School of Music since 1984, he conducts two big piano studios. More than two hundred of his students from twenty five countries graduated the schools with Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degrees. Many of them won top prizes at various international and national piano competitions, successfully work at the prestigious music schools and universities both in United States and abroad. In addition to his full time positions in New York Dr. Aronov also conducts Piano Master Classes in USA, Italy, France, Spain, Russia, People Republic of China, India, Taiwan, The Philippines, Hong Kong.

After emigrating to the USA in 1979, Mr. Briskin continued to pursue an active performing career. As a soloist and a member of the Emelin Trio he has performed in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Venezuela and S. Africa. Mr. Briskin is a founder and artistic director of the Summit Music festival. Presently he serves on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the Music Conservatory of Westchester.

Tatyana is Artistic Director of Chamber Music Foundation of New England, the Russian American Music Association, a faculty of Puigcerda Music Festival in Spain, as well as the Founder and Director of the Annual Celebration Composer’s Anniversary Extravaganza at New England Conservatory Jordan Hall since 1991. Critically acclaimed for her performances as soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Dudochkin concertized extensively throughout former Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Spain, Italy, and Holland. Her solo performances with Kiev Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Opera Theater Chamber Orchestra, and Early Music Chamber Orchestra of Lithuania received high acclaim for her remarkable instinct and interpretation of music. Ms. Dudochkin has been an Artist in Residence at the Rockport Music Festival, Spring at Prague Festival, Lithuanian Early Music Festival ,Hampton Music Festival and many others. Tatyana has recorded extensively on the Melodia label, performed and recorded on WGBH, WBUR, "Voice of America,” “Morning Pro Musica,” Washington National Public Radio, Continental Cablevision: “In Performance,” and many recordings Live from Jordan Hall. Tatyana is a winner of the Grand Medal at the prestigious Early Music Festival-Competition in Lithuania, as well as numerous awards including Ukrainian Chamber Music Competition, All-Union Music Competition , Ukrainian National Music Competition , Early Music Festival-Competition in Lithuania, National Music Competition at Tallinn, Estonia. She continues to pursue excellence in her multifaceted career. Tatyana is sought after to perform, teach and coach chamber music in festivals in Nova Scotia, Spain, Italy, New York and many others. Ms. Dudochkin often accepts invitations to teach master classes at Conservatories in Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Italy and Holland. A great number of Tatyana’s students are prize winners at International, National and World Piano Competitions. Ms. Dudochkin received many Recognitions of Outstanding Teacher Awards from International Young Artist Competition in Washington D. C, International Piano Competition in Cinigalia (Italy), Montreal (Canada) MMTA, NEPTA, Spain, World Piano Competition (United States) and Young Virtuosos at Carnegie Hall. Tatyana is also well known for her lecture recitals and teacher workshops. She has served on the jury panels of a number of national and international competitions in Spain, Ukraine, and United States. Ms. Dudochkin was entered into the American Teachers directory, honoring the most respected teachers in the United States.
 

She frequently performs with the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society and Armstrong Chamber Concerts and is the Artistic Director of the Fabbri Chamber Concerts in NYC. She has been critically acclaimed a “composer’s dream pianist.” Her growing discography includes Kupferman’s “The Moor’s Concerto for piano and orchestra” with the Moscow Symphony, his “Sonata on Jazz Elements” and “Piano Quartet” by Faure. She was selected for “Critic’s Choice” in 1992 and 1997 by Ongaku no Tomo, a prominent Japanese music magazine. She has been an adjudicator for the national competitions of Piano Teachers National Association of Japan, New Jersey Music Teachers Association and the NY Debut Competition of the Leschetizky Association (NY).

His teachers have also included Gary Graffman, Artur Balsam, and John Perry. Professor Kawin has taught master classes throughout the U.S., Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, China, and Australia. His recent concerts in Australia, under the auspices of Master Performers, are his sixth tour of that country. He was twice guest professor at the Moscow Conservatory International Summer School and the London Piano Festival, and for the past eight years, has been in residence at the PianoSummer international institute at SUNY-New Paltz. His most recent classes/lectures include the Cliburn Institute, Seoul National University, International Academy of Music in Italy and Russia, and at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas. He is a Steinway artist.

...a recipient of the Arthur Rubenstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award. Mr. Kent made his New York recital debut at Weill Hall in 1989 and has been featured on radio stations WQXR, WNYC, and WFUV.Chamber music has been an important part of Mr.Kent ’s concert life, most recently with the Damocles Trio which he co-founded in 1996 with violinist Airi Yoshioka and cellist Sibylle Johner.
 

Ms. Kim also completed a Masters Degree in Music Therapy at New York University. Ms. Kim’s performances include concerts with a number of symphony and chamber orchestras in Seoul, New York and Philadelphia, including the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and numerous recitals in East Asia, Europe and the U.S. While attending the Julliard School, Ms. Kim won numerous competitions including the Landstown Piano Competition. She has performed at Sarasota Music Festival in Florida, Nice Music Festival in France, Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine and the Salzburg Mozartium Music Festival in Austria. She taught at the Bloomingdale School and the School for Strings in New York City. Ms. Kim currently teaches at the Inje University, University of Ulsan, Baeksok Conservatory and the Seoul Christian University.
 

She has performed on premiere stages all over the world, including Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York as well as in major halls in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles,and San Francisco.She has recorded for Deutche Grammaphone, EMI, Sony,and Philips and gives master classes all over the world. Since 1987 she has been a professor of the Moscow Conservatory (chamber ensemble).
 

He studied at the famous Moscow Conservatory in the renowned class of Professor Yakov Zak. After graduation Igor Lazko became a soloist of Leningrad Philharmony. After his official nomination as Piano Professor at the Belgrad Music Academy, he recorded the complete Partitas and the Goldberg-Variations by J.S.Bach as well as works by Tchaikovsky and other composers. In 1985 Igor Lazko performed the almost complete works of J.S.Bach at the International Music Festival in Nanterre, France. Numerous concert tours took him to France, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and the United States. He founded the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition (1996) and that of the Russian Conservatory Alexander Scriabin (2001) in Paris. Presently, he is Piano Professor at the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Fresnes and at the Russian Conservatory Alexander Scriabin in Paris.
 

As a pianist and chamber player, Flora Lu Kuan has appeared as soloist with the Denver Symphony and the Portland Symphony and has collaborated with the Colorado Quartet and members of the New York Philharmonic. She has been featured on the Connecticut and Maine Touring Artists Programs, the Arcady International Music Festival in Maine, and is cited in Who’s Who of American Keyboard Artists. She has performed in Lincoln Center, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and in colleges throughout the Northeast. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado and holds a Masters of Music from Peabody Conservatory and a B.A. from Cornell University. Her principal teachers include Nadia Reisenberg, Walter Hautzig, and Malcolm Bilson. She has served as Associate Director of the Arcady International Music Festival in Maine and as National Vice President of the College Music Society.
 

Following this she moved to New York where she studied with Morey Ritt and Arkady Aronov. She holds Bachelor of Music degree from Queen’s College, CUNY and MM from the Manhattan School of Music. Additional studies were with George Pappastavorro and Ledia Dvorgetz. Fang Luo is the winner of Anna Bernstein Memorial Award, and has appeared in concerts in USA and China, solo recitals, as well as a soloist in chamber music and orchestra events. Besides teaching at the China Conservatory, she has been visiting professor of piano at Shandong University at Weihai since year of 2002 and been adjudicator in national competitions and festivals. Her students have top honors at many national piano competitions. She is a cofounder and Secretary General of Goodway National Piano Competition in Hangzhou.
 

He is the First Prize winner of several International Piano Competitions and in 1996 he made his New York Recital Debut at the Carnegie Recital Hall. As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed throughout Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, England, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, and the United States. Mr. Mainolfi appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, as well as in South Africa and his recent performances include recitals in Geneva, Bern, Munich, Hamburg, Milan, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Cologne. In April 2003 he made his Berlin Philharmonic Debut in duo with cellist Mattia Zappa which was broadcast live in Europe. He records for the label Ducale, Lyra Classica, Deutschland Radio, DRS, Rai 3, Radio Espace 2. Currently he is Program Director of the International Academy of Music that takes place in Italy every summer and he is Chamber Music Supervisor at the Summit Music Festival.
Duo Zappa.Mainolfi: www.zappamainolfi.com
 

...throughout the former USSR, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. A former professor at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, Dr. Monastirsky is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Dr. Monastirsky has been a professor in the piano department at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem since 1991.
 

He concertised in major halls in Europe and the US as both pianist and conductor and developed an affinity for chamber music. He has performed with world-class artists and collaborated with major orchestras such as the NY Philharmonic, Baltimore, and Indianapolis. Mr. Natochenny’s students have won international competitions. He is on the faculty of The Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes School of Music, and the City University of New York. In 1990, he created a unique music forum for the most creative artists of all generations, the Meranofest International Music Festival and Academy, which maintains world wide recognition. He has recorded for “Edizione Meronofest” and “Marquis Classics” and received the JUNO Nomination for the best classical disc of 1994. Both Italian and German TV has made portraits of Lev Natochenny and he has been aired on WQXR, SNYC RAI, Italian Radio, and Television Network.
 

...Competition in Vienna in 1985, the Paloma O ’Shea Competition and the Tokyo Competition. Since his childhood he has always been in touch with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He was a pupil of the famous Central Music School of the Conservatory, where his teacher was Yu Levin, and later he was a student of the Conservatory under Prof.S.Dorensky. He graduated from the Conservatory in 1987 and is a professor there now; he also frequently teaches in the USA, Ireland, and Germany.
 

...South Hampton Chamber Music Festival, Amati Festival and Bard Festival in New York State. He also performed at the Moscow Conservatory Rachmaninov Hall and Sviatoslav Richter Museum. He has been featured in Russian and American radio and TV stations and premiered compositions by Hayes Biggs and Alexander Zhurbin. Mr. Pakman has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music working as an associate teacher with M-me Nina Svetlanova and teaching at the Pre-College Division. He is also on the faculty at the Montclair State University, where he initiated the MSU-Moscow Conservatory study abroad program. He has judged numerous auditions and competitions. Several of his students have won piano competition awards.
http://www.msmnyc.edu/precollege/faculty/#Pakman
 

His recordings of the three Liszt Piano Concerti, Totentanz, Hungarian Fantasie, Wanderer Fantasie etc. was nominated for the 23rd International “F. Liszt” Record Grand Prix du Disque/National Culture Foundation of Hungary, 1998. During his 30-year association with the late John Cage, Pierce made the landmark recordings: John Cage, Works for Prepared Piano Volumes I, II, III, IV on the WERGO Critical Edition Series. In 2004 Mr. Pierce won the IBLA Foundation Award for Contemporary Music. He has adjudicated numerous piano competitions and served on the board of the International Fulbright Commission. In May 2007, Mr. Pierce was the assistant music director for the American premiere of the new opera “The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz” by composer Eric Salzman and librettist Valeria Vasilevski at Symphony Space’s Wall-to-Wall Opera Festival.
 

...orchestras as St. Petersburg Symphony, St. Petersburg Capella Orchestra, and Narva Symphony Orchestra with conductors Victor Yampolsky, Hans Peter Franck, Alexander Chernushenko and others. Ms.Seregina has conducted master classes at many conservatories and summer music festivals. Currently, she is Professor of Piano at St.Petersburg Conservatory.
 

...from Queen’s College, CUNY under the tutelage of Morey Ritt and Master of Music Degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Constance Keene and Solomon Mikowsky. He also studied and coached with other eminent artists such as Arkady Aronov, Ledia Dvorgetz, George Pappastavorro, Gyorgy Sandor, Martin Canon, Geoffrey Simon and Tamas Ungar. Winner of numerous awards at competitions held in China and U.S, he has appeared in many concerts both in the U.S. and China in solo recitals and as soloist with orchestra. Besides teaching at China Conservatory, Mr. Sun also served as a frequent adjudicator in national competitions and festivals. His students have top honors at many national and international competitions. He has been visiting professor of piano department at Shangdong University at Weihai since 2002 and offering master classes around country. He is a cofounder and Chief Inspector of Goodway National Piano Competition in Hangzhou.
 

Although Viardo represents the “Russian School,” he clearly is not a typical Russian musician, a fact recognized even in his homeland. Born in the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Naumov. Soon after, vying with sixty-six of the best pianists from twenty-one different countries, Viardo carried off the top prize in the Fourth Quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He now holds the position of Artist-in-Residence at the University of North Texas where he has established the Viardo Fellows Foundation, committed to providing the highest quality musical artist training.