...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.

... 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 Philharmonic Hall, the Munich Herkulessaal, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Bonn Beethoven Hall, Le Place des Arts in Montreal, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires among others.

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, Bratislava Festival, as well as appearances at the Ambassador Foundation in Pasadena, the Fiddle Fest at Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y.

This season he performs with Russian National Orchestra at the Arts Square Festival in St.Petersburg, Prague Radio Symphony at the Budapest Spring Festival, Orchestra de Chambre Français in New York, Russian Chamber Philharmonic on European Tour, Directs and performes with "International Chambers Soloists" at the Fontana Arts Festival and San Francisco Concervatory and WMP Concert Hall in New York. He gives recital in US, Korea, Italy, Mexico, and Russia.

Recent highlights include performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Toronto, Montreal Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Quebec, Utah, Virginia, Kalamazoo, Miami, San Antonio, and West Virginia Symphonies, Seoul Philharmonic, New Jersey Philharmonic, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Weimar Staatskapelle, Berlin Staatskapelle, Gent Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonia Siciliana, UNAM Symphony in Mexico City, I Musici de Montreal in Canada and the United States, South American tour with the Prague Chamber Orchestra,as well as appearances at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico and festivals in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Taiwan and Costa Rica.

His playing was featured in Emmy-Award documentary "Life on Jupiter" and "New York Canvas".

Dmitri has been Artist Teacher and Professor at the College of Music at the Michigan State University. His students have won important international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky, Menuhin, Tibor Varga, William Byrd and have assumed positions in orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

In high demand as a teacher Mr.Berlinsky has taught and given Master Classes in Europe, Asia, Canada and in US at the Chautaqua Festival, Summit Music Festival in New York, Festival Internacional de Campos do Jordão in Brazil, International Academy of Music in Italy, Music in the Mountains Colorado, Schlern Festival,Instrumenta Verano in Mexico, University of South California in Los Angeles, Temple University in Philhadelphia, DePaul and Roosevelt University in Chicago, Western Michigan University, Weber University in Utah, and UNT in Texas.

Mr. Berlinsky is the founder of the chamber orchestra "International Chamber Soloists" and Artistic Director of "Southampton Arts Festival" in Long Island, New York.

Mr.Berlinsky has been recipient of many awards including SONY, Juilliard, YCA and Bagby Fondations. For several years he played on the famous "Yusupov" Stradivarius - the same instrument David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan played.
 

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.
 

... Pianist Cordelia Höfer, University Mozarteum Salzburg. Further chamber music partners are violinist Raimund Lissy and Solo violist Tobias Lea, both members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Regina Brandstätters CD "Solo for two violins" recorded with Raimund Lissy, Tobias Lea and Cordelia Höfer, produced by VMS-Music, won the Austrian ORF Radio Pasticcio–Prize 2009. Brandstätter teaches at the University for Music and dramatic arts in Graz since 1995. She is leading a very successful violin class for young students, many of them have won first prizes at national and international violin competitions. She is teaching since 2005 at the well known Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg/Austria.

 

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.
 

... recorded six CDs, performed recitals and concerts in over 30 countries, and has been frequently invited to give master-classes in the United States, Mexico, South America, New Zealand, China and Japan.

In September of 2009, Mr. Chudnovsky joined the adjunct faculty of the Catholic University of America and, in the summer of 2010, the faculty of the San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival in Mexico. His private studios in the greater DC area have produced students who have won admission to the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Central Music School in Moscow, the Mannes College of Music in New York, and to Catholic University. Mr. Chudnovsky’s students have also won top prizes and been finalists at such prestigious area competitions as the W.P.A.S. Feder Competition, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s Feuer Competition, the U.S. Army Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition, the Lions of Virginia Bland Music Scholarship Competition, the Potter Violin Company-Gretchen Hood Competition, the James C. Macdonald Arts Competition, the Owings Mills Young Artist Competition, the Young Artists’ Awards of Gaithersburg and the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Competition.

Mr. Chudnovsky continues to be sought out as a juror for local, regional, and international competitions. In November 2012, he is slated to serve as a member of the jury at the XVI Curci International Violin Competition in Naples, Italy and, in June 2011, at the National Federation of Music Clubs national biennial competition. He also has the honor of co-chairing the Potter-Hood competition and of having served as a judge of the state level of the MTNA violin competition.

Mr. Chudnovsky’s students have performed as soloists with orchestras in the greater DC area, have been regularly chosen for principal seats in the greater DC area’s top youth orchestras, such as the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, the American Youth Philharmonic and the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra and have successfully auditioned for Maryland’s All-State and All-County orchestras. In recital, they have performed in Russia, Bulgaria, and in the DC area at such prestigious venues as the Embassy of the Russian Federation and the Embassy of the Ukraine, as well as in special appearances before His Majesty, the King of Norway and before His Excellency, the Ambassador of Romania.  

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.
 

… Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the White House. 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.

Please visit www.elizabethfaidley.com for more information.

… Performing extensively as featured soloist and chamber musician, he has been concertizing throughout the United States, Austria, Belgium, England, Germany, South Korea, Lithuania, Russia, and his native France. Mr. Fluchaire was invited to solo with the Camerata Lysy Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Hunter Symphony, New York Repertory Orchestra, Manhattanville College Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Bronx, The French Philharmonia Orchestra, Bachanalia Orchestra, Arctic Chamber Orchestra, University of Alaska-Anchorage Sinfonia Orchestra and the Affetti Chamber Orchestra. His most recent concerto tour, performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto throughout Alaska, was reviewed as "a world-class performance […] technical and artistic perfection."

Olivier Fluchaire was fortunate to perform on many occasions alongside his mentor, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, notably in J.S. Bach’s concerto for two violins and with members of the Guarneri, American, and Emerson string quartets. He has recorded for VOX label and his performances were broadcasted on France 3 Television, Bronxnet Television, the BBC Television, National Educational Television, Radio France, MDR Leipzig, "The Listening Room with Robert Sherman" WQXR-FM and National Public Radio.

Highlights for Mr. Fluchaire's 2012-13 season include performances of the Sibelius, Mendelssohn and Beethoven violin concerti as well as Bill Whelan’s double concerto for violin and fiddle. He will also perform chamber music on numerous concert series and record for MSR Classics label.

As an avid teacher, Olivier Fluchaire serves on the violin, viola and chamber music faculty at Hunter College, CUNY (New York, NY), Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY) and the College of Staten Island, CUNY (Staten Island, NY). During the summer, he teaches and performs at Summit Music Festival (Purchase, NY), Saverne Music Festival (France) and the Affetti Festival (Anchorage, AK) where he also serves as Associate Music Director.

Olivier Fluchaire studied with Daniel Phillips, Patinka Kopec, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Guen En Shen and Jacques Ghesthem. He is graduate of the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in London UK, completed his Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees, on a merit scholarship, at the Manhattan School of Music and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree, as a recipient of a New York Times Fellowship, at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.

Olivier Fluchaire performs on a rare violin by Andreas Gisalberti made circa 1720 in Parma, Italy.

… from Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music in the violin class of Prof. Masao Kawasaki. Krasi has made broadcasts for Bulgarian National Television and Radio, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, WNYE Radio, New York, and has also concertized in Spain, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and the USA. She performed intensively and recorded with Plovdiv State Philharmonic and Opera Theater, Stara Zagora State Opera, AMDA Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta-Sofia Orchestra, and others. She performed with the Brooklyn College Orchestra, Manhattan Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble du Monde, The Forte String Quartet, Bulgarian Piano Quartet and Trio "BG". She was a violin instructor for young students at Brooklyn College String Project and the Carroll School (P.S.58) String Program. Mrs. Ivanov currently teaches violin and viola at the Empire State College, SUNY; Brooklyn College Prep Center for Music Theatre and Dance; International festival for Strings, OH; Rondo Music Festival, VT and her private studio in Brooklyn. She is presented by BV Artists International. More info at: www.BVArtistsInternational.com.

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.
http://www.chinkim.com
 

...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.
 

… in Germany, the National Arts Center in Ottawa and the Jerusalem Music Center, often collaborating with today's leading artists.

Currently a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, as well as the Thurnauer School of Music, Tali Kravitz has also been on the faculty at the Summit Music Festival in New York and the National Arts Center Orchestra Young Artists Program Precollege in Canada.

As a recognized emerging young artist, Tali Kravitz has been invited to the Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Summer Music Institute of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada the Perlman Music Program's chamber music workshop in Shelter Island in New York and the Keshet Eilon violin master-course in Israel; and, in 2010, was one of the participants of the Kronberg Academy'’s "Chamber Music Connects the World" in Germany, where she performed in chamber music and ensembles with Gidon Kremer and Franz Helmerson. Additional collaborations have included performances with Mikhail Kopelman, Timothy Eddy, Dmitri Berlinsky, Timothy Cobb, Boris Slutsky, Nicholas Mann, Daniel Epstein and David Geber, among others.

With a burgeoning schedule as a recitalist and a chamber musician, Ms. Kravitz has been presented on stages throughout the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center, Trinity Church's Concert at One series, Yamaha Artists Services, the Liederkranz Club and the Calhoun Performing Arts Series in New York; the Bennett-Gordon Hall in Chicago; the Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel - where her performances were nationally broadcasted on Israeli National Radio; and the Israel Embassies both in Washington D.C. and Ottawa, Canada. She has also appeared as soloist with the String Orchestra of the Rockies in Montana.

Throughout her career, Tali Kravitz has been a frequent recipient of prizes and awards, among which are the First Prize at the 5 Town Music & Art Foundation String Competition (Long Island, NY); First Prize at the String Orchestra of the Rockies Concerto Competition (Missoula, Montana); First Place at the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Instrumental Competition (NY); and was the winner of the Virtu Foundation Scholarship Competition. Ms. Kravitz is also a recipient of the Career Grant from the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships for gifted musicians.

Tali Kravitz holds a BM and a MM from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied in the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program, under the guidance of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec. In master class settings, Ms. Kravitz has profited from the guidance of Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tree, Robert Mann, Kim Kashkashian, Atar Arad, 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.

Ms. Kravitz plays a 1767 Massaguer viola kindly loaned to her by the Ravinia Festival.

...competitions. From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Littley taught chamber music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and from 2000 - 2004 was Artist-in-Residence at Northern Kentucky University. She currently serves as Artist-in-Residence at Florida International University, where she teaches violin and chamber music
 

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.

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.

…traditions in Osaka Prefecture, he left for France to study at Conservatoire National Superieur Musique de Lyon and graduate with the highest grades in 1994.

Kazuhiro Takagi studied music further at Sothern Methodist University in 1995 and Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts in 2000 via Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists organized by Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan.

The history of his major awards and honors includes winning a prize at Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels for 1997, the third prize at Geneva International Music Competition in 1998 (no first prize was awarded for the year) and the first prize as the first violinist of "eusia string quartet" at Fischoff National Music Competition in Indiana State, USA for 2001.

Kazuhiro Takagi has been very widely recognized and highly evaluated as an excellent artist in Japanas well, including his winning the National Arts Festival New Artist Award sponsored by Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Osaka Cultural Festival Grand Prize in 2005 and the Recorded Work Award, Audio Category at the 19th Music Pen Club Japan in 2007.

In recent years, he has been performing well beyond the boundaries of his original music career as a violinist of "A Hundred Birds," house music orchestra band, led by DJ YOKU and "tokyo.panda," a music unit with a hip-hop keyboardist, Kazutake Takeuchi, while making a new wave in the Japanese music arena. Kazuhiro Takagi also frequently performs at fashion and apparel show events such as Fukuoka Love & Collection and Banana Republic Show.

As an active soloist, he has ever played with a number of domestic and overseas orchestras includingOsaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestraand Wuerttembergische Philfarmonie Reutlingen in Germany.

Having served as a concert master of Civic Orchestra of Chicago conducted by Daniel Barenboim and a solo concertmaster of Wuerttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in Germany, Kazuhiro Takagi has been offered to perform by a number of orchestras all over Japan.v For a chamber music domain, as well, based on his experience of performance at NagaokakyoChamber Ensemble in Kyoto conducted by Yuko Mori, who has been one of his music masters, he has been a leader of Lilis Chamber Orchestra.

In recent years, Kazuhiro Takagi has been invited for several times to judge at the Music Competition of Japan, which is supposed to be the very highest standard of classical music competition in Japan.

Currently Kazuhiro Takagi has been actively performing as a concertmaster of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, a solo concertmaster of Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, a member of NagaokakyoChamber Ensemble in Kyoto, a member of Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka, a leader of Lilis Chamber Orchestra and a violinist of "A Hundred Birds" and "tokyo.panda."

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

… as a soloist in many ways from... recitals to working with the orchestra, sharing with Zhu about the ideas and philosophy of music has brought a result of today’s performance which...feel more mature ..." (translated from Spanish) by Actividad Cultural of R. O. Chile, among the many others.

Jeremy Zhu is co-chair of the Strings Department, full-time faculty member in violin and chamber music, Eastman Graduate Students Internship Program and Eastman Summer Program at Eastman School of Music/ECMS. He teaches from young students to professional musicians and performs regularly as soloist and chamber musician in Eastman's Concert Series, Washington Square Concerts; Geneva Concert Series by Geneva Concerts Inc., etc. He also teaches private lessons, master classes and gives lecture recitals from the States including Nazareth, Elmira, Roberts Wesleyan College and Allendale-Columbia School, etc. to overseas including China, Austria, and Germany.

From 2004-08, Jeremy Zhu was Professor in violin and chamber music at the Roberts Wesleyan College; also taught SUNY-Brockport, etc. Previously, Jeremy Zhu performed and lectured massive concert projects in China, including Shanghai Spring Music Festival, honored and broadcasted via the mass media by official organizations.

In the recent summer, Jeremy Zhu has performed a recital in the historical concert hall – Immanuelskirche in Wuppertal-Germany with pianist Gerald Fauth-Professor of University of Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy", Leipzig; also collaborated with pianist George Kern-Professor of the Mozareteum in Salzburg, among the other internationally acclaimed musicians. He was also appointed as Professor of violin and chamber music in the Summer Music Academy held at the University of Music and Dance-Cologne among the artist faculty from distinguished music schools around the world. His students were also invited as Distinguished Young Artists to perform in the recitals as a part of the Euro Arts Music Festival in Germany.

The Graduate Award took Jeremy Zhu to Eastman School of Music, where he earned a master degree in Performance and Literature. He earned a bachelor's degree from his hometown Shanghai. He studied with Charles Castleman, John Celentano, Hung Yunglai and Yuan Peiwen, also extensively studied and had master classes with Donald Weilerstein, Peter Salaff, James Dunham, Zvi Zeitlin, Jean M. Barr, Malcolm Bilson and baroque violinist Carlo Novi among the others.

Jeremy Zhu's students have received prizes, awards in national and international solo and chamber music competitions, and gained recognitions in music festivals and major institutes; solo with major orchestras, have performed recitals and led chamber ensembles in the major concert halls; premiered works and recognized by today’s leading composers; become the faculty members of universities; join the major orchestras; have been interviewed and TV/Radio broadcasted among the major press and mass media world-wide.

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