...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.

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Ms. Faidley Solars has won several competitions in different states, and she has performed many concerti with orchestras, including ones by Wieniawski, Bach, and Beethoevn. Ms. Faidley Solars has held contracts with several symphony orchestras, and she has played with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Her teachers have included Shirley Givens, Daniel Heifetz, Yuri Masurkevich, Christian Teal, and Qing Li. Ms. Faidley Solars acted as Shirley Givens’ teaching assistant for two years. She has taught pedagogy for the Peabody Conservatory as well as acted as the Assistant to the Director of the Young People’s String Program. She has been on the faculty of the Peabody Institute since 2003, the Thurnauer School of Music since 2007, and the Manhattan School of Music, Precollege Division since 2007. Her students have won competitions in their music schools as well as internationally. Ms. Faidley Solars is also gaining recognition for her pedagogy teaching, and she gives private seminars in all areas of pedagogy frequently.
 

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.
 

As concertmistress of the Korean Symphony of New York and the New York based Allegro Chamber Ensemble she has performed at Alice Tully Hall and in several of Europe’s musical capitals. She frequently performs in duo recitals with her teacher, legendary violinist Aaron Rosand and has studied under Dorothy DeLay, Raphael Bronstein, Ruggiero Ricci and Frances Magnes. Ms. Khimm is presently on the faculties of the Hoff-Barthelson School of Music, the Music Conservatory of Westchester, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes College of Music. Other Music Festivals include St. Petersburg and the Castelnuovo di Garfagnnain. Her second CD is available through Artkor, Ltd.
 

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.
 

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.

Later he also became a Prize winner in J. Thibaut competition in Paris (in 1971) and in Competition of String Quartets in Liege, Belgium (in 1972). Sergey Kravchenko toured extensively throughout Russia and abroad. He played and gave master classes in Germany, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, South and North Korea, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Belgium, Luxemburg, Brazil, Finland, Israel, USA, Australia. Since 1972 he has been teaching violin at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, where he started as Leonid Kogan's assistant and then became a full-time Professor. From 1996-2001 he was the Dean of Orchestral Faculty. Many of his students are winners of international competitions: V. Igolinsky, V. Mullova, A.Lukirsky, S. Krylov, I.Gaisin, A.Kagan, J.Ko, N. Sachenko, A.Stepanenko, E. Stembolsky, O. Shurgot, N. Kozhuhar and others. He is a member of jury at many prestige International competitions: Tchaikovsky competition, Brahms competition, Oistrakh competition, Enescu competition, Lysenko competition and others. Sergey Kravchenko has made numerous recordings in Russia, Germany, France, Italy and other countries. He is also an author of several methodic books for violin. For his outstanding achievements Sergey Kravchenko was awarded an honorary title: "Distinguished Artist of Russia".
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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.

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 

Mr. Rosenberg has been the director of the Red Sea Music Center in Eilat since 1998.

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.

...Casals made such an impact on DS that the well known American musician FG exclaimed- "DS is a typical representative of the Odessa-Moscow-Jerusalem-NY violin school!" For DS music is not only a profession but a lifestyle... It is a means of communication with people, as varied and individual as the artists with whom she collaborated. They include Martha Argerich, Misha Maisky, Berezovsky, Gililov, Imai, Rudin, Geringas, Drobinsky, Rabinovitch, Shafran, Laredo, Schneider, Affanasiev, Bashmet to name but a few. It was recently released her recording with Martha Argerich including works by Schumann, Debussy and Franck with excellent critics from some of the most important musical magazines. Performance and pedagogical activities have naturally complemented each other, and she holds Professorship at Vienna University, where she continues to explore music and life with her students. The great majority of her students are prize winners of international competitions, and hold leading positions with major orchestras and chamber ensembles all over the world. She also gives master classes internationally. The repertoire of this violinist envelops music from baroque sonatas to Argentinean Tangos where the defining link in this extensive chain of works is her love for each of them and a desire to radiate this love to her audiences.

Since 1974, Benzion Shamir is primarius of the Daniel Quartet. From 1975, he lives in the Netherlands, where he is second concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Benzion Shamir is professor violin and chamber music at the Rotterdam Academy of Music. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in the U.S. and in various European countries.

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 the famous festivals, among them: ”Saint-Petersburg musical spring”, “Musical Olympus”, International festival of S. Gubaidulina’ music, Sakharov’s festival in Nizhniy Novgorod, “Russian club”(Switzerland), “Copenhagen musical spring” (Denmark), Russian festival in San-Fransisko (USA) and others. V. Vorona is the first performer of three sonatas by Hendel, unknown before, Concert piece for violin and the orchestra by Lyapunov, Concertino for violin and chamber orchestra by Vainberg, “Dedication” for chamber orchestra and “Oriental Capriccio” for violin and orchestra (first performance in Russia), by A Karamanov. Within the activities of the Foundation “Russian Performing Art” organized realizations of many prominent actions and performs that became outstanding events of musical and cultural life.

...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

...South America and Asia. He is a professor at the Richard Strauss Conservatory. As a member of the Glinka String Quartet, he became a prize-winner at the Liege International Competition. In 1995, he recorded a CD which was produced by the Bavarian Broadcasting Company.