... At 14, she attracted notice in London when she appeared as soloist in the Brahms Concerto under Sir Henry Wood's direction at a Proms concert. During World War II, she gave many concerts for Allied troops. In 1940 she became a naturalized British subject. In 1946-47 she made her first tour of the U.S. Although she lived in Montreal from 1952 to 1989, she made annual tours of Europe, and also appeared regularly in South America and Asia, including a tour of China in 1973 as soloist with John Pritchard and the London Philharmonic From 1991 she was also active as a teacher. In 1982 she was awarded the Sibelius Medal. Her career was the subject of the CBC-TV documentary IDA HAENDEL: A VOYAGE OF MUSIC in 1988. In 1991 she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She published the autobiographical volume WOMAN WITH VIOLIN (London, 1970). Haendel's virtuoso technique, ably complemented by a thoroughgoing musicianship, has won her admirers in both the concerto and recital repertoires. Her extensive concerto repertoire embraces scores from Bach to Walton.

...Efrem Zimbalist, a student of the legendary Leopold Auer. At the age of nine, Rosand gave his recital debut at the Chicago Opera House. The following year the young prodigy made his orchestral debut performing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has appeared with the major American and European orchestras under such distinguished conductors as Rostropovich, Reiner, Kondrashin, Steinberg, Leinsdorf, Bernstein, Skrowaczewski, Slatkin, Maazel and Blomstedt. Rosand has recorded extensively: the complete Beethoven and Bach sonatas, numerous concertos, specializing in 19th-century Romantic masterpieces, and acclaimed shorter works with orchestra by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Lalo, Saint- Saens, Chausson, Wieniawski, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sarasate and Ysaye. Rosand is currently The Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

This victory led to his performance on Nicolo Paganini's own Guarneri del Gesú instrument, a privilege shared by only a handful of artists in history. Subsequent triumphs at the Montreal International Violin Competition (Grand Prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, led to appearances with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, the Far East, North and South America. Mr. Berlinsky has performed in such major venues as Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Berlin Schtatspiellhaus, the Munich Herkulessaal, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Bonn Beethoven Hall, and Le Place des Arts in Montreal among others. Since coming to the United States in 1990 as the winner of the renowned Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Berlinsky has performed hundreds of concerts and given recitals in more than forty states throughout the USA. He has also performed in Australia, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Uruguay, Colombia and Peru. His extensive performance schedule has taken him to the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Newport Music Festival, the Settimane Musicale in Stresa, Italy, as well as appearances at the Ambassador Foundation in Pasadena, the Fiddle Fest at Alice Tully Hall, and the 92nd Street Y – and a South American tour with the Prague Chamber Orchestra. Recent highlights include performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Toronto, Brott Festival Orchestra, Utah, Virginia, Kalamazoo, Miami, San Antonio, and West Virginia Symphonies, and with I Musici de Montreal in Canada and the United States, as well as appearances at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico and festivals in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Taiwan and Costa Rica. Born in Petersburg into a family of musicians, Mr. Berlinsky began studying the violin with his father. At a very early age he appeared as soloist with the St. Petersburg Symphony and the Moscow Philharmonic. His most important teacher in Russia was Mikhail Bezverkhny. He studied at the Music School for Gifted Children with L. Ivaschenko, B. Sergeev and B. Gutnikov. Later he attended the Moscow Conservatory where he received his Bachelors and Masters degrees studying under Victor Tretiakov, E. Chugaeva and N. Latinsky .After graduation he was invited to work with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School. Mr. Berlinsky's Pavane CD recital “Live at Waterloo” recorded in Belgium and his latest recording "Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher" on Helicon Records have won critical acclaim. Dmitri has been on the faculty of Michigan State University since 2001. His former students have won important international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky, Menuhin, and Tibor Varga, and have assumed positions in orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Berlinsky is the founder of a new string ensemble, “International Chamber Soloists,” which brought together advanced string players at the MSU School of Music. They perform regularly and recently participated in the Costa Rica International Festival 2005 with the opening concert at the National Theatre in San Jose.
 

In 1964 he won the National Violin Competition in the former Soviet Union and in 1971 became Co-Concertmaster in the Moscow Philharmonic. Emigrating to the West in 1973 Mr. He has performed with Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman and Janos Starker. His chamber music partners include such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, and Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman and Christopher Hogwood, Joshua Bell, Ralph Kirshbaum, Cho-Liang Lin and Paul Neubauer. H is recordings include Voces Americanas” (which was nominated for a Grammy Award), the Shostakovich Violin Sonata with Tatiana Yanpolsky , and the solo part of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with musicians from the Boston Symphony. His most recent recording entitled “A Road Less Traveled” was released to critical acclaim on the Eroica label. Mr. Borok has taught at the Tanglewood Music Center; the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Italy; the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland; Royal Conservatory and Academy of Music in London, Conservatoire de Paris and the Academy of Music in Prague; and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnessin Academy in Moscow. In 2005 he was invited to teach at the famous Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He currently serves on the faculty of the University of North Texas.
 

Julia Bushkova was born into a family of renowned violinists in Moscow, Russia. She began study of the violin at the age of five and made her concerto debut at the age of fifteen in Poland. She graduated with highest honors in performance and teaching from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she studied with Professor Igor Bezrodny. During this time, she performed extensively in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and the former USSR, including concerts in Moscow's Great Hall and the Palace of Congress. Since her arrival in the United States, Ms. Bushkova has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras and in recit al throughout the United States as well Europe, South America, and South Africa. She has been a featured performer on such television and radio stations as WBLV and WIAA Public Radio, WGVU-TV (Michigan), WFMT (Chicago), KOTM-FM and KGRS-FM (Iowa),WRUV-FM (Vermont), as well as nationwide on NPR's Performance Today. Most recently, Ms. Bushkova has been heard in performance in Venezuela, Italy and Belarus.
 

... In 2006, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia... Dr. Chow earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Indiana University's School of Music, studying with Miriam Fried. He went on to complete his DMA from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, having studied under noted violinists Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Philip Setzer, and later pursued further post-doctoral work with Eduard Schmieder at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Chow was a laureate at the 2006 International Stepping Stone Competition in Quebec. He has also been a feature performer at the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, the American Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and was selected as the David G. Whitcomb Foundation's Young Artist of 2003. His recent appearances as soloist have included performances with the Brampton Symphony, Scarborough Philharmonic, and a collaboration between members of the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the UTS Chamber Orchestra under the baton of maestro Ruben Gazarian. He has performed in such venues as the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Qingdao Music Hall in China, New York's Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) and Staller Center for the Arts; UCLA and Disney Hall in LA, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio and George Weston Recital Hall, and recent recitals have included performances in the St. Cecilia Concert Series, and the University of Toronto's Hart House Sunday Concert Series, and have been broadcast on CBC Radio. Dr. Chow is also an active chamber musician, having studied extensively with the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet. In 2001, his string quartet was grand-prize winner of the Indiana University Kuttner String Quartet Competition, granting the group the honor of performing as the quartet-in-residence for the 2001-2002 season. He has also appeared as a member of the prestigious iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra since 2008. For the 2010 season, he will be making his Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut alongside flautist Samantha Chang and pianist Ellen Meyer. Dr. Chow has served as jury member and adjudicator of various Canadian competitions and is a frequent presenter of masterclasses in Canada, the United States, and Asia. As the teacher of one of the leading precollege private violin studios in Canada, his students have won many important national and provincial competitions, earned top honors and medals at the Royal Conservatory of Music and other Canadian institutions, and are sought out as performers in recitals and galas throughout Ontario. Students of his current class include members of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, and have made solo debuts with orchestras such as the Canadian Sinfonietta, Koffler Chamber Orchestra, and Sherbrooke Orchestra.
 

Prior to his emigration to the West he enjoyed a distinguished solo career, appearing with orchestras and in recitals throughout the U.S.S.R. and abroad. Since then, he has performed as a soloist in the United States, Canada, Europe and South America to high critical acclaim while developing an immensely successful teaching career. His students have won major awards and competitions and appeared with concerts and recitals on all continents. Among his many successful students there are concert masters of various orchestras, first violinists of major string quartets, members of major orchestras and various conservatories. Recognized as one of the leading teachers of today, he is currently on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. In addition to these duties, he participates as a jury member of major international competitions. Mr. Danchenko also continues to conduct master classes in the USA, Canada, Japan, South America, Israel, and Europe, where he remains in great demand.
 

...At 12, he had his first solo appearance with the State Philharmonic Orchestra and since, has performed regularly with orchestras of Kazakhstan, frequently touring major cities of the former Soviet Union. Vladimir Dyo won first prize in the National Competition of Kazakhstan (being the youngest participant at 14), and was a recipient of a President's stipend awarded by the State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Other awards include the New Names International Program (Moscow, Russia) and Dubna's Foundation of Arts for "sincere and artistic" performance, the International Charitable Foundation "Meerim", and the Tuesday Musical Club in San Antonio, Texas. He has appeared in various international music festivals as a soloist and, chamber musician, including the Graduates of the Moscow Conservatory, the Ost-West Musikfest, Prague-Wienna-Budapest, the Mozarteum, the Cliburn Institute, the iPalpiti International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles, and has been invited to give master classes and perform in the International Music Festival in Seoul, Korea. As a soloist and the concertmaster of the State Chamber Orchestra "Academy of Soloists" Dyo has extensively toured throughout Europe, Asia, and former USSR. After graduation from the National Academy of Music in Astana, Dyo subsequently joined its faculty. In 2002 Vladimir Dyo moved to the United States to study with Professor Eduard Schmieder, receiving an AD and MM from the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas. Currently, Vladimir Dyo pursues a DMA at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is also an assistant of Dr. Schmieder, and a faculty member in the string department.

...They are routinely accepted, with scholarships, to the world’s premier music conservatories. Ms. Faidley has been further described as “…fiercely yet compassionately committed to her students, to her colleagues, and to the art of music.”

Ms. Faidley became adjunct faculty at the Hartt School before the age of 30, reflecting her devotion to the art of violin pedagogy. She holds a Master of Music degree in violin performance and pedagogy from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and was inducted into the professional music fraternity, Pi Kappa Lambda, which honors integrity, superior music performance, and academic success.

She won the prestigious Melissa Tiller Memorial Prize for graduate performance and while still a student at Peabody, joined the faculty of both the preparatory and conservatory divisions after serving as a teaching assistant to her mentor, Shirley Givens. Besides Givens, her major pedagogical influences include Ivan Galamian, Joseph Gingold, and Shinichi Suzuki. She also studied with such masters as Daniel Heifetz, Yuri Masurkevich, Christian Teal, and Qing Li.

In addition to her studio at the Hartt School, Ms. Faidley is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music: Precollege Division and the Summit Music Festival, New York’s premier summer chamber music institute. She has been invited to teach and give master classes in Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, Norway, and Africa, and has provided private lessons in pedagogy to major violin performers and teachers throughout the United States.

Ms. Faidley shares her passion for teaching through her writing. She has published several essays in the American Suzuki Journal and is currently writing a book on the art of pedagogy titled What Happened to the Nurture? The book reflects her teaching philosophy, which seeks to empower the entire, unique person as the foundation of the musician. She generously makes time to mentor her students through auditions, competitions, and performances and stays in touch with them between and beyond studio lessons.

Her talent has placed the versatile Ms. Faidley onstage with many orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, and the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Faidley’s violin, a generous gift from several patrons, was crafted by Lorenzo Ventapane in 1835 and is pictured in Four Centuries of Violin Making by Cozio Publishing.

Mr. Kalinovsky has also performed and taught at numerous festivals including the Olympia Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin, the Heifetz Summer Music Festival, and the Perlman Summer Music Program. He is a graduate of the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Mr. Zukerman and Patinka Kopec. Currently Mr. Kalinovsky is on faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, the Aaron Copeland School of Music, and Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artist Program in Canada. He has recorded with Centaur Records and has upcoming engagements in New York, Nashville, Nova Scotia, and will be performing in recital tours in India and Germany.
 

and the New York-based Allegro Chamber Ensemble, with whom she appeared in several of Europe's musical capitals. Ms. Khimm performed with the Korean Symphony Orchestra of New York in the Mozart Bicentennial Series at Lincoln Center. She is a former member of the Laurentian String Quartet, and performs frequently in duo recitals, including programs in the U.S. and Asia with her teacher, legendary violinist Aaron Rosand. Christina Khimm has served on the faculties of Hoff-Barthelson School of Music and the Westchester Conservatory of Music since 1990; she is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music. Since 1996, she has served as both outreach director and faculty member at the Summit Music Festival at Manhattanville College; in the summer of 2000, she served on the violin faculty at the St. Petersburg in Russia Music Festival and at the Castelnuovo di Garfagnna Music Festival in Italy in summer of 2003. Ms. Khimm has 2 CD's currently available in the Sohn & Arktor labels with performance of Schnittke, A. Foote, Grieg, Vivaldi, and Mozart Sonatas.
 

Top prizes include the Concours International de Musique de Montréal, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Paganini Competition, and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Mr. Kim's debut recording of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in g minor with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia), under the baton of Paul Freeman, and the Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D Major with pianist David Oei, was released on the ProArte/Fanfare label. His second CD (Mendelssohn C minor, and the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio with the "Starr-Kim-Boeckheler Piano Trio") was released on the Mastersound label, and his most recent CD (the Glazunov and Tchaikovsky Concertos) was recorded and released by Intersound/Fanfare label in the fall of 1995. "Virtuoso," "musically assertive," "rich, golden tone" and "perceptive" are words of critical acclaim describing Mr. Kim's performing. Mr. Kim is the recipient of the Nan-Pa Prize awarded by the Nan-Pa Foundation in Korea, which is one of the highest honors given to a Korean-born musician. He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and, subsequently from the Juilliard School where he received the Petschek Award, and won the Concerto Competition which led to the performance of the Glazunov Concerto with the Juilliard Philharmonia in Lincoln Center. He also teaches at the Mannes College of Music in New York. His major teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and Josef Gingold.
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...Seoul Philharmonic, Sofia Soloists, Sejong Soloists, and many other prestigious international orchestras and ensembles. Ms. Kim has also won numerous competitions such as Philadelphia Orchestra and Tibor Varga. Ms. Kim gave her New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1998 as a recital winner from the Korea Music Foundation. She graduated from Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Prof. Aaron Rosand, and graduated from Juilliard School, studying with Prof. Glenn Dicterow, and received doctorates degree at the State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook with a full scholarship studying under Prof. Lazar Gosman. Ms. Kim is an active performer in both solo and as a chamber musician. She was a member of International Sejong Soloists, and currently Ms. Kim is a professor at the college of music, Yonsei University.
 

Recently he performed as a soloist with Miami Symphony and Boca Symphonia. Michael Klotz is the violist of the Amernet String Quartet. An avid performer of the chamber music repertoire, recent appearances on violin and viola include concerts in New York at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Museum of Modern Art and the Kosciuzsko Foundation, which included a live broadcast on WQXR-FM. Additionally, he has been heard in prestigious halls in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Rochester, and Mexico. Michael Klotz has performed at leading festivals such as Caramoor, Newport, Skaneateles, Music Mountain, Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, where he was a faculty member from 2005-2008. He prizes his association with the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. In December of 2003 he was invited by Maestro Jaime Laredo to perform with distinguished alumni of the Seminar in Carnegie Hall. Some of Michael Klotz teachers include Zvi Zeitlin, Lewis Kaplan and Toby Appel. In 2002, Michael Klotz became one of the few individuals to complete the Master of Music degree in both Violin and Viola Performance from The Juilliard School, where he was a recipient of the Maxwell Gluck Fellowship and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship. HIs students are currently attending the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Instiute of Music, Indiana University, and Yale. They are winners of national and international competitions. One recently won a position in the Atlanta Symphony. Klotz performs on a 1619 Anonio and Hierinymus Amati viola graciously on loan from Peter Kamnitzer of the LaSalle Quartet.

Ms. Kopec completed her MM and BM at The Julliard and studied with Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and William Lincer. She has performed at Aspen Music Festival, Carnegie Recital Hall, Town Hall, Down East Festival (NY), Killington Music Festival, and the Southern Vermont Festival. She was formerly artist in residence with the Andreas Quartet (viola) for 10 years and was on the faculties of Queens College, Interlochen Arts Academy, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY Purchase, Thurnauer School of Music at the JCC of the Palisades (NJ), and Hoff-Barthelson Music School. She has given Master Classes in Tel Aviv, Prague, Shanghai, Miyazaki (Japan), Ottawa, and the US. Her students have placed in international competitions such as the Menuhin, Stolberg, and the Young Concert Artist and many of her students now hold teaching positions.

In 1976 he was appointed first violin of the Borodin String Quartet and played with this renowned ensemble for 20 years. After emigrating to the United States, he joined the Tokyo String Quartet as first violinist and became Professor of Chamber Music at Yale University. Presently, Mr. Kopelman is Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and has recently formed a new quartet, the Kopelman String Quartet.
 

Also served as a mentor to the Junior String Program of the National Arts Center Young Artists Program in Ottawa, Canada. Ms. Kravitz is a recipient of number of prizes and awards including first prize in the 5 Town Music & Art Foundation String Competition, Long Island, NY; Winner of the String Orchestra of the Rockies Concerto Competition, in Missoula, Montana; First place at the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Instrumental Competition. She was20the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships for gifted young musicians. A winner of the Virtu Foundation Scholarship Competition, Ms. Kravitz currently plays on a contemporary viola made by luthier Raymond Schryer. Festival appearances include The Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago; the Young Artists Program of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada; the Perlman Music Program's chamber music workshop in Shelter Island and the Keshet Eilon violin master-course in Israel. An active recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Kravitz performed in such venues as the National Arts Center, Ottawa; the Bennett-Gordon Hall in Chicago; the Jerusalem Music Center (concerts nationally broadcasted on the Israeli national radio); Felicja Blumental Music Center, Tel Aviv; Interchurch Center, New York City. As an orchestra member, she performed under the baton of such conductors as Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, George Manahan, Pinchas Zukerman, Philippe Entremont and Jean-Claude Casadesus. In the season of 2008-2009 she was invited to join the viola section of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, as a participant of their Institute of Orchestral Studies. Born in Israel, Tali Kravitz began violin lessons at the age of seven. She played in master classes with Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tree, Robert Mann, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Ivry Gitlis and Pamela Frank. Among her chamber music coaches are Lawrence Dutton, Andre-Michel Schub, Sylvia Rosenberg, Isidore Cohen and Ruth Laredo.
 

...She has won prizes in the Enescu Violin Competition (Romania) and in the Shostakovich Chamber Music Competition (St. Petersburg). She has performed on Moscow Radio and TV programs. While at Indiana University, Ms. Lipkina began to study viola with Atar Arad and made her viola debut in the Dubinsky Quartet later that year. She has since participated in festivals as both a violinist and violist including Marlboro, Norfolk, Grand Teton, Rauma (Finland), Waterloo (Belgium), and Musique et Amitie (Switzerland) festivals, among others. Ms.Lipkina performed with chamber orchestras such as St.Luke's Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and SONYC and made several tours in Japan with NY Symphonic Ensemble.She is a sought after chamber music and a recording artist and frequently performs as a member of various ensembles and orchestras, including her own Manhattan Counterpoint Ensemble, The Little Orchestra Society, and American Composers Orchestra. Ms. Lipkina is also a committed and devoted teacher. She opened a private studio in Manhattan and has been on the faculties of the music department New York University School of Education and the Children's Orchestra Society. She is also conducting regular master classes and workshops, and adjudicating music competitions. Recently Mr. Lipkina joined the faculty of the International Summer Music Academy "Music in Regensburg", Germany.
 

He studied at the Juilliard School and Princeton University and is currently on the faculty of Manhattanville College.

...Artistic Director of Raudaskyla International Master Classes as well as a Founder and Director of Camerata Caprice chamber orchestra, cooperating with projects of Pinchas Zukerman. Aside from authoring numerous articles, she has written a book introducing Tatyana Pogozeva’s particular Russian method of teaching violin playing to children. She continues her International career as soloist and chamber musician.

Her awards and honors are numerous- the third prize in The Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, the first prize in Corpus Christi Young Artist Competition, Grand Prix in the Korean Broadcasting System Competition, and the first prize and three other special prizes in The Washington International Competition are among others. She has performed as soloist with the Manhattan Chamber Sinfornia, Kharkov Philharmonic orchestra, Janacek Chamber Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul National Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Philharmonic Orchestra, and St. John Smith Square Orchestra. She has performed extensively as a soloist and a chamber musician throughout Korea, Japan, Australia, Europe, and USA. Her CD, in which she plays works by Beethoven, Dvorak, Schubert, and Schumann, is frequently heard. Currently, she is a faculty member of The Korean National University of Arts.

An ardent champion of new music for the violin, Janet Packer has in recent years commissioned and premiered works for violin and piano by Vagn Holmboe, Edwin London, Mary Mageau, Juan Orrego-Salas, and Gardner Read; for solo violin by Andrew Imbrie; and for violin and orchestra by Vittorio Rieti and William Thomas McKinley. She is President of Pro Violino Foundation, Inc., whose mission is to support the creation and dissemination of contemporary violin music. Ms. Packer's Centaur Records CD, featuring first recordings of works for violin and piano by Charles-Marie Widor, is receiving critical acclaim. She can also be heard as soloist in Vittorio Rieti's Serenata for Violin and Small Orchestra (1932) on CRI, in Gardner Read's Five Aphorisms for Violin and Piano (1991) on Northeastern Records, and in William Thomas McKinley's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jerzy Swoboda on MMC. Nationally recognized as a distinguished educator, Janet Packer is chair of the string department of the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has been a member of the violin faculty for thirty years. She gives frequent master classes at universities, music schools, and string seminars, and has been interviewed on National Public Radio and television. Her students, introduced to advanced concepts of analysis and historical style, have won competitions on state and national levels. Janet Packer's major orchestral appearances include performances with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony of Panama, Rochester Philharmonic, and Boston Pops Orchestra. Her recent performance schedule took her to concert halls in eight states, including recitals in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston. In June 2006 she toured China, giving performances in Fuzhou and teaching at the Shanghai Conservatory and Beijing Central Conservatory. In August 2006, she performed Frank Martin's Violin Concerto with the National Symphony of Panama. Janet Packer performs on a 1697 Carlo Giuseppe Testore violin.

She has also appeared with the Princeton Symphony, Philadelphia Virtuosi Orchestra, Key West Symphony, Greenwich Symphony and New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Peres has appeared with jazz bands of the famous saxophonist David Sanborn and the legendary R&B artist Ray Charles, playing with them at the Winter Garden of New York City and the White House in Washington D.C. Elena Peres holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Rutgers University and Masters in Orchestral Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. She studied with Glenn Dicterow and Arnold Steinhardt, and was a recipient of the graduate fellowships and merit awards in both schools. Her early training was with Jefim Scholnik in Kiev Music School and later with Ariana Bronne at MSM. Currently, Elena Peres is an orchestra director at the Roosevelt Middle School and the West Orange High School.

the National Federation of Music Clubs Award and was cited by 'Musical America' as a 'young artist of the year' and a 'talent to watch'. Ms. Radicheva has made numerous radio and television appearances, including WQXR, Radio France International, BRT. She has recorded for Balkanton and Musical Heritage Society, including an album of all four sonatas for Violin & Piano by Bulgarian composer Parashkev Hadjiev. She gave the world premier of his third and fourth violin sonatas, which were written for and dedicated to her. Bulgarian-born, Ms. Radicheva is the recipient of the "Premiere Prix" Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music& Drama, London, England, The Dame Myra Hess Trust Award, and has received both her Bachelor and Master degrees from The Juilliard School. Ms. Radicheva studied with Dorothy DeLay, Felix Galimir, Yfrah Neaman, and through the years has had the guidance of Lord Yehudi Menuhin. A noted pedagogue, Ms. Radicheva is invited regularly to adjudicate international music competitions and to conduct violin and chamber music master classes in the US and abroad. Her former affiliations have included the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, England, Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music, and New York University.

Maria Radicheva is an Artist Faculty at Manhattan School of Music in New York.

“ …one of the most gifted violinists of /her/ generation”
– La Repubblica, Rome, Italy“

… violinist of extraordinary and exceptional quality”
– Yehudi Menuhin 

...where she won the Kranichsteiner Prize. Following this she broadcast as a solo artist on all the major radio stations throughout Europe. Now living in the UK, Jacqueline is one of the very few soloists performing on both modern and baroque violin. She plays an exceptional and rare violin made by Andrea Amati in Cremona in 1570. The partnership has received high critical acclaim, most recently with the Violin Sonatas of JS Bach, all of which are being recorded for ASV. In addition to her performing career, Jacqueline is a dedicated teacher and attracts an international following of advanced students. Formerly Head of the String Department at Birmingham Conservatoire, she is now Head of Strings at the Guildhall School. She is regularly asked to adjudicate major competitions and give masterclasses nationally and internationally, including annual visits to The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute in the USA. Her Andrea Amati violin has been financed with kind help from N.W.Brown and Company.

...Schmieder has performed in such prestigious halls as Cite de la Musique in Paris, Crown Hall in Jerusalem, Grand Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, Disney Concert Hall, and other major concert halls worldwide. He has collaborated with such musicians as Ida Haendel, Brooks Smith, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura-Parker, Erick Friedman, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Ron Leonard, Maria Kligel, Atar Arad, John Perry, Dame Diana Andersen, Fou Ts'ong and many others. He was a founding member and artistic director of the Venice International Violin Institute and the Moscow Trio.

In 1996, Eduard Schmieder performed a recital in Genoa on Paganini's famous Guarneri del Gesu "Il Cannone" violin which is only given for the performances to exceptional virtuoso violinists. On this rare occasion, it was a posthumous International Peace Prize ceremony given by the Italian government to Yitzhak Rabin.

One of the most highly regarded violin pedagogues of his generation, Eduard Schmieder holds the Temple University Carnell Distinguished Professor of Violin in Philadelphia. Prior to his appointment at Temple University, he was Distinguished Algur H. Meadows Chair of Violin and Chamber Music in the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas (1990-2006), and tenured professor of the violin at the University of Southern California, the position formerly held by Jascha Heifetz. Students of professor Schmieder are winners of top prizes at the most prestigious international competitions, have established careers as soloists, chamber musicians, and hold leading positions in orchestras in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

He is a recipient of American Cultural Specialist Award from United States Information Agency (1999), and throughout the years received numerous awards for his accomplishments as a Musician and Teacher and recognition for his invaluable contributions to culture. Most recent awards include: Proclamation from the City of Beverly Hills for his accomplishments as a Musician and Teacher and recognition for his invaluable contributions to culture; Certificate of Commendation from the City of Los Angeles for providing the world with cultural enrichment; Honors by Holland Music Sessions for 15 years of contribution to the culture of The Netherlands; 25th anniversary Durfee School of Music in Houston, TX for outstanding contribution as artistic advisor; Lifetime Achievement in Music Education, Russian American Center, Dallas, TX; Irving Symphony Orchestra honor dedication, City of Irving, TX; Diploma de Excelenta, Remember Enescu Foundation, Romania; Conductor of the Year -Beverly Hills Outlook Awards in 2003 and 2005. In 2006 he received President's Associates Faculty Award at Southern Methodist University - only a 12th such recipient in the history of the university and the first ever in the Meadows School.

Eduard Schmieder's recent performing highlights included recitals in St. Petersburg and in Paris, a solo with Meadows Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, conducting Jerusalem Symphony in Liturgica Festival series, Wroclaw Orchestra Ricordanza in Poland with Mme. Ida Haendel as violin soloist, and conducting at the Tokyo Festival and Martha Argerich Festival in Japan. The founder and music director of iPalpiti chamber orchestra since 1991, he conducted iPalpiti to sold-out and critically acclaimed performances in prestigious venues such as Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Mozarteum Grosse Hall (Salzburg), Nikkei Hall (Tokyo), Disney Hall (Los Angeles), YMCA Jerusalem, Carnegie Hall (New York), and is invited as ensemble-in-residence to festivals in Slovenia, Israel, Carinthia, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, and Japan.

Dr. Schmieder has taught master classes in virtually every foremost conservatory in the world. He has been performing, teaching, and conducting at international music festivals in Canada, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, and other countries. In the United States he has worked in music festivals at Aspen, Interlochen, Musicorda, Idyllwild, and Summit in New York. Since 2004, he is on the faculty at the Mozarteum Summer Academie Salzburg. He frequently represents the United States as a jury member at leading international competitions including Queen Elisabeth, Sibelius, Paganini, Sarasate, Lipizer, and ARD. In 2003, he was invited and accepted the position as Artistic Advisor to the Sarasate International Violin Competition in Spain. He is also an Artistic Advisor to the Foundation "Remember Enescu" in Romania.

He has been written about in books by Henry Roth "Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to 21st Century" and Margaret Campbell "The Great Violinists," as well as three featured articles in The Strad magazine.

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"Among (violin pedagogues) I consider to be of elite caliber I would, without hesitation, include the name of Eduard Schmieder. He is a born educator who possesses the rare ability to blend the finest precepts of modern Western violin pedagogy and musicianship with the virtuoso proclivities of the brilliant Soviet school. Equally important, he has intimate knowledge of and respect for the great violinistic traditions of the past, which further contributes to the extraordinary scope of his cognition."
-Henry Roth, Music Critic, The STRAD, Author of books "Great Violinists in Performance", "Violin Virtuosos, From Paganini to the 21st Century", and other.

". He elicits great dynamic from the orchestra.altogether, all the participants are wide awake and in fact, honor and wait anxiously for the conductor's wishes. predominant excitement brought out by Schmieder."
--Eberhard Iro, Review on Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Landshuter Rathausprunksaal

"Eduard Schmieder is a distinguished musician. his coming in Bucharest was an inspiring one. connected musical life from here to the world standards."
-- Fred Popovici, Romania Liberia

".conductor Eduard Schmieder elicited a lively pulse.the ensemble was particularly noteworthy for its unity of purpose and blend. It was as if the musicians' hearts were beating to the same buoyant rhythm.lustrous, polished tone and graceful phrasing."
-Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times (2007)

"..rich sonorities [of iPalpiti] audibly took the audience's breath away - especially whenever concertmaster Peter Rainer, whose technically immaculate tone throughout the night was sweet and thrilling, had a few bars to play - showed that iPalpiti had charms to soothe a hall well filled with music lovers of all ages.
-STRINGS Magazine (2005)

". a serious and resourceful podium personality."
--Daniel Cariaga, Los Angeles Times

". The virtues of Mr. Schmieder as a sensitive and true musician inspired the players to create a very deep and emotional interpretation which kind of magnetized all its sensual harmonies and well phrased performance. This was a concert which could be titled as "pearls of music" from any point."
- Ora Binur, Ma'ariv Jerusalem Daily

Heifetz, Milstein, Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Francescatti – they all come to mind,” Sergiu Schwartz has performed on three continents as a soloist with over 200 orchestras, including Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, Sarajevo Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Bern Symphony, Hungarian Chamber Orchestra, Polish National Radio and TV Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Chicago Grand Park Festival Orchestra, in collaborations with conductors such as Sergiu Comissiona, James Judd, Peter Maag, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Bruno Weil. He has appeared at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Kennedy Center, Barbican Hall, Queen ElizabethHall, and Wigmore Hall. Mr. Schwartz regularly conducts master classes in the US, Europe, Israel, and Canada, and his students have been prizewinners in national and international competitions. He serves as a juror at major international violin competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Oistrakh, Szeryng. He has recorded for Vox, Gega, Naxos, Arcobaleno, Romeo Records, Nonesuch, and CRS Records. Mr. Schwartz holds the Turner Distinguished Faculty Chair in Violin at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. This is his third summer at Summit.

...She also received a special award at the 16th Overseas Delegation Competition, the music prize of the 13th Bunka-Broadcasting Station and the Critic's prize in Germany in 1985. At various times in her career, Ms Tatsumi played with the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, the Symphony Orchestra des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, the Halle Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and others under such conductors as Eliahu Inbal, Zdenek Macal, Gerd Albrecht and Hiroyuki Iwaki. In 1982, she performed Isang Yun's violin concerto with the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt as its world premiere. CDs by Ms Tatsumi have been released by Camerata Tokyo of Japan. In 1986 she gave recitals and master classes in Beijing and Shangai music conservatories as a guest of the Chinese Ministry for Cultural Affairs. She has also given master classes at the following institutions : California University, Hochschule fur Musik Mozarteum in Salzburg, Wien University, Graz University and Hochschule Musik Zurich. Ms Tatsumi has taught summer courses at International Music Academies in many parts of the world such as France, Portugal and Japan. She has also served as a jury member in several international violin competitions, Mozart, Wienieawsky, Oistrakh,and Monaco. She taught at Hochschule des kunste Berlin and she is now the head professor of the string department of Toho Gakuen School of Music Tokyo, the music Director of Courchevel International Music Academy in Kasama, Japan and Violin Festa Tokyo at Suntory Hall.

In 1980 Ms Tseitlin was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the arts and made her NY debut at Alice Tully Hall. She has appeared with the Montreal Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Liege Philharmonic and the San Diego Symphony among others. She has toured the world performing and has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Duchesne and CAMUS and in 1985 she was awarded the Zzymanovski Prize for her performances and recordings of Karol Szymanovski’s music. Ms Tseitlin has a passion for teaching as has taught at the California Institute of Music in San Diego with many of her students winning top prizes.

...the Composer’s Union String Quartet. In 1975 he emigrated to the US with his wife Irina. In 1978 he became the Artistic Director of the New Mexico Music Festival in Taos and in 1987 he became Artistic Director of the Batiquitos Festival in San Diego. He has been closely associated with Lord Yehudi Menuhin and was appointed Executive Director of the International Institute of Music. He successfully directed the Institute in Italy, Germany and Portugal. In 1990 Mr. Tseitlin founded the California Institute of Music in San Diego where he has been teaching violin and viola as well as conducting and coaching.

In 1996, Mr. Vitenson began studying with Sergiu Schwartz at the Harid Conservatory. Subsequently, he was awarded top prizes in international violin competitions, including "Premio Paganini" (Italy, 1998) and Pablo de Sarasate (Spain, 1997) and First Prize in the 1998 Citta d'Andria International Violin Competition (Italy). Mr. Vitenson is the winner of the 1999 Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition and First Prizewinner at the 2000 National Society of Arts and Letters Violin Competition. He is also both a two-timer winner of the Harid Conservatory Concerto Competition and a two-time recipient of the Harid Conservatory's Joseph Gingold Award for Excellence (1998 and 2000). Mr. Vitenson's recent engagements have included appearances as a soloist with all major orchestras in Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra; the Padova e Venetto Orchestra on tour in Brazil, the National Uzbekistan Orchestra, the Aspen Music Festival Symphonia Orchestra, the Harid Philharmonia and the Harid Chamber Strings. Mr. Vitenson has participated in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout Israel, the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe. As a member of the Kinneret Piano Trio, Mr. Vitenson was invited to participate in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in 1995. After receiving his Bachelor degree from Harid Conservatory School of Music at Lynn University, Misha Vitenson was a student of Joel Smirnoff at the Julliard School, where he received a Master of Music Degree. There he appeared as a soloist with the Julliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Hugh Wolff. In the fall of 2002, Mr. Vitenson joined the Amernet String Quartet and the faculty at Northern Kentucky University as an Artist-in-Residence, teaching both violin and chamber music. Currently, he is Artist-in-Residence at Florida International University.

...been broadcast on various radio and television stations. Currently, Mr. Watson is on the faculty of the Music Conservatory of Westchester and is a string teacher in the Clarkstown Public Schools in New City, New York. He is also currently principal second violin with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra