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The Jung Trio/Canada-Korea Hailed for its soul-stirring performances, The Jung Trio – sisters Jennie, Ellen, and Julie -“a spectacular group with wonderful musicality at their fingertips,” has established its status as one of the notable rising young ensembles of today. The trio has appeared in concerts all across North America as well as around the world. Winners of theGrand Prize at the 2002 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and the Bronze Medal at the 2002 Fischoff Competition, The Jung Trio has been featured in Strad, Strings, and Auditorium (Korea) magazines, in the Korea Times, as well as on the South Korean television program, A Classical Odyssey.
Born and raised in Toronto, they received their early music training In 2003, Jung Trio was invited by the Kumho Cultural Foundation to give a recital tour of Kenya and Mauritius, the first musical group ever to perform at the United Nations (UNEP) in Nairobi. Highlights from the past seasons include performances of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan in Kazan, Russia, in Los Angeles with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, and in Toronto with the Korean-Canadian Symphony Orchestra, engagements in Korea, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Toronto. The Jung Trio has appeared at numerous festivals including the Great Lakes, Norfolk, and Orford Chamber Music Festivals, Songfest, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, where they served as Trio-in-Residence in 1998. In the summer of 2007, Jung Trio was selected and featured as YAI Debut Artists in its annual International Laureates Festival, performing at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles.The sisters are equally at home performing individually as they are as an ensemble. Website: http://www.jungtrio.com
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| Stanislaw Drzewiecki, Poland/Soloist
Stanislaw began playing the piano at 4 years of age. A year later he began musical composition classes and made his solo debut in the Grand Hall of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Time featured Stanislaw in its “People to Watch” (October 2000). Silesian Tribune, one of the largest dailies in Poland, called him the Polish Mozart. At the age of 6 Stanislaw went on his first concert tour to Japan as a soloist with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, and the following year with the same orchestra he performed Haydn’s Concerto in Warsaw. Today his repertoire includes eleven piano concertos. Stanislaw has performed in prestigious halls of London , Vancouver ,Vienna , Stanislaw is a recipient of a Grand Prix Award in European Television in Alicante (2000) and a 10th Eurovision Grand Prix from Young Musicians in Bergen (2001). Stanislaw is the son of two distinguished concert pianists, Jaroslaw Drzewiecki and Tatiana Shebanova. Since 1985 he has attended Karol Szymanowski Music School in Warsaw where he studied with his mother. He has been awarded a scholarship by the Republic of Poland’s Ministry of Culture, by the Ewa Czeszejko-Sochacka Foundation, and by Netia Telekom S.A. In his spare time, Stanislaw is a dedicated model airplane builder, paints landscapes, skis, skates, plays Ping-Pong, writes books, and composes his own music. In 2002 he signed an exclusive contract with the Sony Music Entertainment Company. Stanislaw was a featured soloist with iPalpiti in Los Angeles in 2002, playing Chopin Concerto at the Zipper Hall, and in 2004 – in Shostakovich Piano Concerto. This summer he returns as a soloist in Mendelssohn’ Double concerto for violin and piano with violinist Sayako Kusaka – performing on tour in Poland and at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Born in 1979 to a family of musicians, Henri showed an early interest in the piano. At age twelve, he won the First Prize of the European “Young Soloists” Competition at Chateau Maisons-Lafitte and was immediately invited to perform the title-role in “Mozart, The Child” at the Grevin Theatre in Paris in the overall frame of the Mozart year. The following year he became a scholar at the Mozarteum Academie in Salzburg where he worked with Dmitri Bashkirov, a regular mentor ever since.From 1999 to 2002, a scholarship from the Isaac Albeniz Foundation allowed him to study at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid in the class of Dmitri Bashkirov whereupon Henri was presented to the Queen of Spain as the best piano student. Henri’s Third Prize at the Casagrande Piano Competition put him on the short list of musical performers. He has been invited by the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and by the festivals of Vorpommern-Mecklenburg and Hong Kong. He has given many recitals and performed as a soloist in France, Spain, Germany, England, Hungary, Rumania and Japan with such conductors as Jesus Lopez-Cobos and Andrey Boreyko. A fervent chamber musician, he has had the opportunity to collaborate with Marina Chiche, Julia Fischer, Tatiana Samouil and the cellist Alban Gerhardt.
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Dmitri Demiashkin,Mordovia/Switzerland
Dmitri is a graduate of the Central Music School of the famed Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. After receiving first prize in the International Competition Recontres Musicales de la Venoge in Lausanne, at the invitation and with the support of the Stiftung Lyra Foundation, he moved to Zurich in 1999 to pursue his studies at the Hochschule fur Musik, where he now studies with Homero Francesch. In May 2002, Dmitri won the Gold Medal over some 55 other competitors from all over the world at the Third International Russian Music Competition in San Jose, California. He made his North American debut in December 2002, playing the Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto with the Nova Vista Symphony in San Jose under the baton of Navrosh Mehta. He was re-invited to perform again in December 2003, with continuing engagements in California in 2004-05 seasons. |
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Amanda has been making her mark on the musical world since 1996, when she debuted with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as the youngest first prize winner in the history of the NJSO’s Young Artists Auditions. She returned to the stage with the New Jersey Symphony numerous times in subsequent seasons. Only two years later, Ms. von Goetz made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Isaac Stern Auditorium performing the Grieg Piano Concerto, and received a standing ovation. Subsequently, Ms. von Goetz has been invited to perform with Yuri Bashmet & the Moscow Soloists, the State Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg (Russia), the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Long Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Pops, and iPalpiti, amongst others.In addition, Ms. von Goetz has recorded television broadcasts for the Classic Arts Showcase, RTR (Russia), WNYE, WLIW, WNJN, and The Disney Channel. She has been showcased on Classical NJFM, WQXR and in 2004, her solo recital at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles was broadcast live on K-Mozart – Sundays Live! She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, and Steinway Hall in New York City. Other recent performances have taken her through The Republic of Georgia, Russia, Sweden, Germany, to the United Kingdom and across her home country of the United States, in venues including the Gordon-Bennett Hall at Ravinia, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, and the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in California. Highlights of Ms. von Goetz’s 2004-05 Season will include her debut at Philharmonic Hall, St. Petersburg (Russia), Bled Festival (Slovenia), as well as recital tours across South America and Spain. Ms. von Goetz has appeared at the prestigious Verbier Festival, the Van Cliburn Institute, Le Musicale de Tours in France and the Morris International Festival of the Arts, where she received the top award of “Young Artist ofthe Year.” After her appearances in concerts at the Young Artists International Laureates Festival 2004, she was honored with an award by the Beverly Hills Outlook publication in the “Soloist of the Year” category. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with some of the finest young musicians of her generation. Since the age of 16, Ms. von Goetz has given public speeches and interactive discussions to children ages K-12 in school assembly programs, which she believes is crucial to the development and endorsement of the Arts. In 2003, she assumed the role of Managing Director for a project entitled Life Between the Keys – an innovative concert event presented by the Juilliard School graduating piano class of 2004, exclusively showcasing the music of American composers. Additionally, Ms. von Goetz was recently appointed Personnel Director of the American Classics January 2005 recording project with NAXOS, due out for release later this year. Amanda completed her undergraduate training at The Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky. She has also taken masterclasses with Claude Frank, Vladimir Feltsman, Christopher Elton, Steven Kovacevich, and Gary Graffman. She has been coached by her mentor, distinguished pianist Alexander Slobodyanik, since the age of 12.
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Vassily Primakov, piano / iPalpiti soloist (Disney Hall, July 26)
Winner of the Silver Medal and Audience Prize at the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition, Mr. Primakov was awarded many special prizes, including the Cleveland International Piano Competition (1999), and Susan W. Rose Career Grant. Today he performs widely across the U.S. in solo recital and with orchestra, and is invited for appearances in the festivals including La Jolla Chamber Music Society and International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles. In March 2007, he made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with iPalpiti orchestra, performing Shostakovich Piano Concerto N 1. Born in Moscow in 1979, after early studies with his mother, he entered Moscow’s Central Special Music School at the age of 11. At the age of 15, Vassily won First Prize in the Rachmaninoff International Young Pianist Competition in Russia and First Prize in the Tschaikovsky Young Artist Competition in Russia. He then studied at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He came to New York to study with Jerome Lowenthal at The Juilliard School at the age of 17, where he won the prestigious William Petschek Piano Recital Award, which presented his debut recital at Alice Tully Hall. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 2002 and his Master’s degree in 2004, from Juilliard. Mr. Primakov’s first CD, an all-Chopin recording, is available on Tavros Records through www.tavrosrecords.com. Mr. Primakov is under Columbia Artists Management. Website: |
Alex Slobodyanik, Russia Gilmore Foundation Young Artist of the Year Award in 1996, Alex Slobodyanik is recognized by critics, audiences and his fellow musicians worldwide as a major figure among the new generation of pianists. His first compact disc has just been released on EMI Classics “Debut” Series to exceptional reviews.Next season engagements include appearances at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, Columbus, Ohio and Toronto under Maestro Valery Gergiev. He will also appear at the Concergebouw in Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London as a part of his tour of the British Isles as well as with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Last season he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, toured as soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and appeared in recital on the “Great Performers” series at New York’s Lincoln Center. Alex Slobodyanik has soloed with such orchestras as the National Symphony, Kirov Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Cincinnati Symphony, Simphonia National de Montevideo, Berne Symphony Orchestra, and Cologne Radio Symphony. Other concerto appearances have taken him to the symphony orchestras of San Antonio, Louisville, Richmond and Portland, In 1995, he toured South Africa with the National Symphony of Johannesburg and the Cape Town Symphony. His recital engagements have included London’s Wigmore Hall, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, UNISCO Hall in Paris, the Moscow Conservatory Hall, Meany Hall in Seattle and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Alex Slobodyanik has participated in many international music festivals including Ravinia, Lockenhaus, Marlboro, Musicales in Tours, France; and frequently appears in duo recitals and concerto performances with his father, pianist Alexander Slobodyanik.
Alex began piano lessons at the age of six with his mother, Natalia. Upon coming to the United States he resumed his musical studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Serbei Babayan.
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From 1999 until 2001, Daniel attended Hamburg’s Musikhochschule, where he studied with Albrecht Breuninger. After winning First Prize at the Hamburg Instrumental Contest in 1999, he was invited by the famous cellist David Geringas to perform in the Festival of Russian Music in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, where he shared stage with Bruno Canino and Ulf Hoelscher. As the first prize winner at the German competition “Jugend musiziert” (2001), he was invited to record for the NDR (North German Radio) and Berlin’s “Deutschlandradio”. In August of 2001 Daniel received a full scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where he now studies with Ms. Aranovskaya. Recent and future engagements include solo performances in Europe with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in the Tonhalle Zurich , Jena Philharmonic under Mika Eichenholz, (which booked him for an additional performance in December under Fabrice Bollon), Hamburg’s Mozart Orchester under the baton of Robert Stehli in the Musikhalle Hamburg, and in the US with Charleston and Auburn Symphonies. Recitals in well-known music series include “St.Petersburg Dagen” in Holland (celebrating the 300th anniversary of Daniel’s native city), Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tucson (where he also taught his own Masterclass), “Piccolo Spoleto” in SC, South Shore Music in CT and Davos International Music Festival of Switzerland, where the “Neue Zurcher Zeitung” praised “his noble tone”. Daniel is a recipient of special grants from the “Lyra” Foundation in Zurich, and “Die Zeit” foundation in Germany. He was invited to record for “Energia”, the new album of Jose Carreras, where he plays in a duet with a great tenor. As a prize-winner of the Deutsche Musikinstrumentenfonds contest in Hamburg, in 2002, Daniel Austrich was granted the use of a rare Andrea Guarneri violin from 1663. |
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Nabih received his Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Violaine Melancon, Herbert Greenberg, and Michael Kannen. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Active as an orchestral player, chamber musician, and soloist, Nabih is a member of the Haddonfield Symphony and continues to teach and perform in his native Jordan.
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Karina is the recipient of a National Foundation ARTS Award for outstanding achievement and promise, First Prize Winner of the National Society of Arts and Letters Violin Competition and the Friday Woodmere Music Club Competition, and a top prizewinner of the Stulberg String Competition and Karina has performed in Switzerland at the Verbier Festival, in Israel at Isaac Stern’s International Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters, Spoleto festival in Italy, and participated in prestigious summer programs in USA such as Taos Music Festival in New Mexico, Aspen Music Festival, Meadowmount and the Encore School of Strings. Karina has performed in the masterclasses of Igor Oistrakh, Ida Haendel, Miriam Fried, and David Cerone. At age fifteen, she was chosen to be a member of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, led by Jaime Laredo. Karina grew up in Manhattan, where she graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division and made her debut as soloist with orchestra in New York City at the age of twelve. 2005-2006 she was an Academy member of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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A review in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald praised “the full, sweet, seductive intensity of Chow’s sound”, and his performance alongside Ani Kavafian with the Columbia Festival Orchestra was hailed as “ornate and satisfying” by the Albany Times Union. His recent appearances as soloist have included performances with the Brampton Symphony, Columbia Festival Orchestra, and the CAST Philomusica Orchestra. He has performed in such venues as the Mozarteum in Salzburg, New York’s Staller Center for the Arts, and Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Center for the Arts. A prize-winner of the 2006 International Stepping Stone Competition in Quebec, he was a featured performer in numerous mid-western festivals. Recent recitals have included performances in the Dalhousie Faculty Chamber Series, St. Cecilia Concert Series and have been broadcast on CBC Radio. As a chamber musician, he studied with the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet and appeared in performances with Paul Biss, Christina Dahl, David Finckel, and Miriam Fried. In 2001, his string quartet was winner of the Indiana University Kuttner String Quartet Competition, and the quartet-in-residence for the 2001-2002. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the 2006-2007 season. Conrad joined iPalpiti in 2008.
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Julia Fedorova, Russia Yulia participated in number of international music festival performing as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. Currently,Yulia lives and studies in Germany at Saarbrucken Hochshule. In Russia, Yulia performed in major concert halls such as the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninov Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Maly Hall of Moscow Conservatory.
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Sasha is a two-time Grand Prize winner in the Virtuosi Jeunesse regional competition. Beginning in 2003, she successfully moved on the international arena, becoming a prize-winner in the 4th International Jeunesse Competition “Silver Bells.” She also received the 2nd prize in the competition of the International Association “Art and Education in the XXI Century,” as well as the Laureate Diploma in the chamber ensemble category in the same competition. In 2005, she received a First Prize in the 6th “Silver Bells” competition and as a result, toured Germany in November 2005 and Hungary in March-April 2005. It was during this time that YAI’s artistic advisor, violinist Gidon Kremer, heard Sacha’s playing and recommended her to participate in their programs. Sasha’s participation in this year’s Laureates Festival marks her first major outing in the “big” world.
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Currently, he is completing his training under the guidance of Prof. Mari Tampere – Bezrodny. Felipe has received tutoring from violinists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Mikhail Kopelman and Mauricio Fuks among others. In chamber music, he has worked with virtuosos such as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Luciano Berio, Walter Levine, Rainer Schmidt and Piero Farulli. He has given acclaimed recitals with the Orchestra of Spanish Radio and Television, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, and the “Freixenet” Chamber Music Orchestra of the Reina Sofia Music School, at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid and at the Palau de la M?sica Catalana in Barcelona. He has also made several recordings for SONY, the Spanish National Radio and for Spanish Television as well. Throughout his musical career, Felipe he has accumulated awards at the “Ciutat de Xativa” National Competition for Young Soloists (Valencia, 2003); the “III Villa de Llanes” International Violinists Award (Asturias, 2003); the “Primer Palau” (Barcelona, 2000); the “Festival International for Youth Orchestras” (Murcia, 1997); the “Ruperto Chapi” Award for Young Interpreters (Alicante, 1996); the “Guadamora” International Chamber Music Award (Cordoba, 2000); and the “Juventudes Musicales” Permanent Award for Chamber Music (Toledo, 1999). In April 2004, he was the grand-prize winner of the 2nd “Joaquin Rodrigo” International Music Competition (Violin), and also was given the best J. Rodrigo Works Performance Prize and the Best Spanish Clasificated Prize. He also received 4th prize in the “Tibor Varga” International Violinists Award 2004 (Switzerland). Of special note are the awards received from Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain to the best string quartet for 1998/99 and 1999/00 (first violin) at the Music School Reina Sofia. Recently, Felipe has collaborated with the UBS Verbier Orchestra, under the supervision of maestros James Levine, Cristoph Von Dohnany and Yuri Temirkanov, and with artists Barbara Hendricks, Thomas Quasthoff, Marta Argerich and Yuri Bashmet to name an important few. Felipe is a member of the Malaga Philarmonic Orchestra and Principal Violinist of the City of Birmingham Symphony.
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Juan Gonzalez, Venezuela
From 2003-2006 he continued his education in London with Yossi Zivoni at the Royal College of Music, and at the Royal Academy of Music, also holding a position of Assistant Concertmaster of the Opera de Bauge, France. Juan currently divides his professional life between Germany and Great Britain, as a 1st violinist in chamber orchestra Britten Sinfonia, KammerAkademie Potsdam and Esemble Oriol Berlin. From 2003 he is a Member of the quartet ‘Bolivar Soloists.’
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Born in Romania in 1986, she began playing violin at the age of 6, at the Music Highschool in Baia Mare, under Prof. Ludovic Gebe. From 2000 – 2004 she continued at the “George Enescu” Music Highschool in Bucharest, with Prof. Mihaela Tomescu. Currently in the last year of her studies at the National Music University in Bucharest, Nora was “Erasmus” award recipient for the academic year of 2006 – 2007 at the Musikhochschule Koeln with Prof. Mihaela Martin. Nora took part in master classes of Liviu Ghitea, Sherban Lupu, Semion Yaroshevich and Alexandru Tomescu. As an iPalpiti member with iPalpiti Artists International since 2004, Nora toured the USA, Slovenia, Austria and Israel, performing in prestigious concert halls of Mozarteum
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Natalija Isakovic, Serbia Winner of national competitions in Serbia since 1996, she has performed over twenty solo concerts in major halls in the country. In 2006, she received a First Grand Prize at the Petar Toskov International Competition, and Second prize at the Remember Enescu International Violin Competition in Romania. As the recipient of the Special Artist Prize from Young Artists International, she will be a member of iPalpiti on tour in Poland and in the International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles. |
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| iPalpiti “Junior” Elena Kawazu, violin soloist/USA ” …a small girl playing an equally diminutive violin, played the Mendelssohn concerto with a strong personality and dramatic sense” -The Strad (2008) In 2007 Elena won the 2nd prize and a special award at the 5th International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists as the youngest contestant, and was the youngest Top Prize Winner and a special award recipient of the IBLA International Grand Prize Competition. The youngest contestant ever to advance to the semi-final of the 2008 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition for Young Violinists, she has been a winner of top prizes and awards in numerous international and national competitions. Despite her young age, Elena already has performed in Japan, Portugal, Italy, Germany, and England. Recently her performance was featured on WFMT radio and she has received media attention abroad. Her engagements this year include NY debut at the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in April, and solo recital concert tour in the United States. In July 2008 she will perform solo with acclaimed iPalpiti orchestra of international laureates at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, selected as a first-time iPalpiti “Junior”. Elena was invited to take part in BBC documentary “The Science of Talent,” and by the RDF Media Group in London to be featured in a 3 part series for Channel 4, one of the major British broadcasters, about classical music and young musical talents. Recently she was named a 2008 Davidson Fellow Honorable Mention in the field of Music toward improving the lives of others by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development for her project, “If I Could Touch Your Heart.” |
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Carolina Kurkowski Perez, Colombia/Germany Since her debut in the National Theater of Coburg at the age 5, Carolina has been performing as a soloist in Colombia, Japan, at the Liesborner music festival, in the Cologne Philharmonie among artists like the Alban Berg quartet and Sir Peter Ustinov, for the 10th anniversary of the Cologne Philharmonie. A regular soloist with the Jugendsinfonieorchester der Rheinischen Musikschule Koln, she performed An active participant in summer festivals, Carolina performed chamber music with artists like Renaud Capucon, Gautier Capucon, Emmanuel Pahud and Gerard Causse. She was concertmaster of the youth symphony orchestra of Cologne, and as a member of the Gustav Mahler orchestra toured under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Award recipient of the Jurgen Ponto Stiftung and the Stiftung of Art and Culture Dusseldorf, Carolina received a French instrument from the 11th competition of the German Music Instrument Fund.
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Sayako Kusaka, violin/iPalpiti soloist (Disney Hall, July 26)
She is the 1st Prize winner at the 21st Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Italy, received Silver Medal at the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy (where she also won the Best Performer Caprice Award), and Third Prize at the 8th Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition in Finland. Other awards include 1st Prize at the Neaman International Violin Competition in 1995, top prize at the Michelangelo Abbado International Violin Competition, and 4th Prize at the 3rd Pablo de Sarasate International Violin Competition. In her native Japan, she received a 1st Prize at the 69th Japan Music Competition, as well as numerous national awards. Sayako soloed internationally with Tokyo Symphony, Kirov Orchestra, Japan, Osaka and Kansai Philharmonics, with Geidai Symphony, and in recitals in St. Petersburg, Italy, Israel, Germany. Born in 1979 in Japan, Sayako graduated from the Tokyo National Fine Arts University under Professor Takashi Shimizu, continued with Eduard Schmieder in Europe and USA, graduating from his class with Artist Certificate and Master Degree from the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, and with Rainer Kussmaul in Germany. In 2001 Sayako was selected by Young Artists International and since, was featured in its annual International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles as a soloist with iPalpiti Orchestral Ensemble of International Laureates under direction of Eduard Schmieder in 2001, 2002, in 2006 on tour in Israel, and in 2007, at the Carnegie Hall and at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. She also was a leader of chamber music concerts in Schubert’s String Quintet, Strauss Piano Q Quartet, and Dvorak Piano Quintet. Her 2001 recordings of Mendelssohn’ Double Concerto with Alex Slobodianik and Currently she resides in Berlin where she is a concertmaster of the Koncerthausorkester Berlin and performs as a soloist.
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| Isabelle Lambelet, Switzerland She also participated in master classes with such violinists as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Eduard Schmieder, and Hermann Krebbers. Miss Lambelet has won several prizes and competitions, including First prize at the Swiss Youth Competition, First prize at the Elyse Meyer Competition in Hamburg, a special prize at the Concours As a soloist, Miss Lambelet appears with many orchestras, including the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Lausanne, Neues Orchester Basel, Hamburger Orchestergemeinschaft, Junge She created the world premiere of Laurent Mettraux 2nd concerto, which was dedicated to her and made many television- and radio broadcasts as well. Selected by Young Artists International in 2004, Isabelle was featured in solo and chamber ensembles, and since then performed on tour as an iPalpiti member at prestigious venues like the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Carnegie Hall in New York. In September 2008, Isabelle was invited to be part of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a series of concert in Vienna, under the baton of Claudio Abbado.
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Maria Machowska, Poland
As an 8-year-old Maria gave a concert in the Vatican, playing for Pope John Paul II. A Winner of numerous national competitions, in 2003 Maria received third prize in the Ninth H. Wieniawski International Young Violinist’s Competition, and most recently became a laureate of the Wieniawski International Violin Competition. Maria is a holder of grants from the National Fund for Children and the Talent Promoting Foundation of Ewa Czeszejko-Sochacka, and the recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Art. In 2005 she was selected as a finalist in the Mozarteum Festival in Salzburg. She has been a member of iPalpiti since 2004. |
| Mari-Liis Pakk, Estonia
Mari-Liis has participated in many national and international competitions. As the First Prize winner in the European String Teachers Association competition (2003), she was invited to perform a solo program in the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris during the ESTA conference. She is a two-time winner of a full scholarship from International Holland Music Sessions. She has performed solo with orchestras in Estonia, and with the Meadows Symphony in Dallas as the winner of the concerto competition. As a soloist and chamber musician, Mari-Liis has performed in Finland, Germany, Holland, Austria, France, Israel, and the U.S. A member of iPalpiti since 2006, she took part in the first International Chamber Music Festival in Eilat, and performed in Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and Carnegie Hall in New York. |
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A Third Prize-winner at the 5th International Louis Spohr Violin Competition in Weimar in 2007, she also received iPalpiti Prize for the participation in the iPalpiti International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles. Marie has also received top prizes at the International Music Competition “Alpen-Adria Marcosig” for violin in Gorizia, Italy, and at the International Music Competition of Citta Di Pietra in Ligure, Italy in violin and piano. She also received 1st and 2nd prizes in the National Competition for Young Musicians “Jugend Musiziert” between 1996 and 2000. Ms. Radauer-Plank has been a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO) from 2003 to 2005. In December 2008, Marie-Stephanie was a soloist with iPalpiti in Vevey, Switzerland. |
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Yulia Sakharova, Moldova Graduate of the Central Special Music School at the famed Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Yulia attended Oberlin College’s Conservatory of Music where she served as concertmaster of the Oberlin Orchestra. She was a founding member and first violinist of the Erato String Quartet, winning First Prize in the 2001 Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition. Recipient of the Louis Kaufman Prize for Outstanding Performance in Chamber Music three years in a row, she was a First Prize winner in the International Competition for the Music of Eastern and Central Europe, Top Prize in the Olga Koussevitzky Competition for Strings, and a Laureate of the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition. While attending the Juilliard School (graduating with Masters Degree in 2006), she soloed with numerous orchestras and performed in recitals, including Alice Tully Hall, the Bosendorfer New York Show Room, Steinway Hall. She is featured on the 2005 Naxos release Left at the Fork in the Road of world-premieres by award-winning composer Sean Hickey, who in 2006 composed “Ampersand” for violin and piano dedicated to her. She also recorded Rachmaninoff’s Elegiaque Piano Trios on Tavros Records. Currently she mentors with Glenn Dicterow at the Manhattan School of Music and is on the violin faculty at the Newark School of the Arts. Member of iPalpiti since 2004, Yulia has been featured in broadcasts on WQXR, KMZT, and Cleveland’s WCLV and has appeared at such festivals as the Music Academy of the West, Festival International de Colmar, the Verbier, Keshet Eilon, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music, and Bowdoin. The October 2003 issue of Strad commented on the “conviction and intensity” of her performance, as well as the “pleasing delicacy of [her] phrasing.” The French L’Alsace noted her “incredible temperament” and her “very fine
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Vassily Primakov made his New York concerto debut in May 2004 at Alice Tully Hall with Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto, and a New York Times review exclaimed that it was a “fiery performance…with bold, expressive phrasing and dramatic commitment that brought the audience to its feet.” Audience uproar has become a hallmark of Primakov performances, which incorporate dazzling, nearly superhuman passion with sensitive poetry. Vassily Primakov began his U.S. career after capturing First Prize in the 2002 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. His debut recitals in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York at the 92nd Street Y, in Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., and at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Lincoln Center immediately brought him rave reviews.
Yulia, born in Russia in 1978, attended College of Moscow Conservatory from 1993-1997 where she earned an Artist Diploma. She continued her studies at the famed Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory from 1997-2002 where she was a recipient of the Boris Yeltsin Scholarship. Yulia studied with professors Sergei Girshenko, Irina Kandisky and Ulrika Direck. In 1997, Yulia won first prize at Moscow Chamber Music Competition. After that, in 1999, she won the Special Prize on Caltanissetta Chamber Music Competition.
Nora Hapca has won awards in 20 national and international competitions,including second Grand Prize at the “Remember Enescu” International Competition in 2003 and the Special Artist Prize from Young Artists International in 2004 and 2005. As a soloist, Nora has soloed with numerous Romanian orchestras, and has given concerts and recitals in Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, and Romania, and in France. In May 2006, she was invited to represent her country in the “National Music Students Festival” in Kyoto, Japan.
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Born in California, 10-year-old Elena Kawazu has made her orchestral debut at age 9 with Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany, performing the Mendelssohn Concerto, and later appeared with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Born in Salzburg, Austria in 1986 Marie-Stephanie Radauer-Plank began her violin studies in 1990 at the music school of Salzburg teacher Paula Zamastil, and continued at the University Mozarteum Salzburg from 1996 to 2005 with Professors Benjamin Schmid and Lukas Hagen. Since 2005 she has studied violin with Professor Ulf Schneider of the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hannover, and has taken master classes with noted violinists and pedagogues.
Yulia Sakharova made her solo orchestral debut with the Moldavian Symphony Orchestra at the age of 8. Her early career included several concert tours representing the Vladimir Spivakov Charity Foundation, as well as solo performances with many orchestras. She has performed on tours throughout Russia, Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and Venezuela. 
