2009-2010
Season
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Cyrus Beroukhim
Violin
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Cyrus' 2005-06 season included Concerto performances with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in Bern, Switzerland. As a laureate of the Music Academy of the West, he presented a nationally broadcasted recital in Santa Barbara. As a recipient of the Mitzi Foundation Scholarship, he has performed numerous recitals in Taiwan, where he'll return this year as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble |
Melvin Chen
Piano
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Mr. Chen's performances have been featured on radio and television stations around the globe, including KBS television and radio in Korea, NHK television in Japan, and NPR in the United States. Solo recordings include Beethoven's Diabelli Variations on the Bridge label, praised as “a classic” by the American Record Guide, and a recording of Joan Tower's piano music on the Naxos label. Recordings of the Shostakovich piano sonatas and Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice were released in 2007. |
Catherine Cho
Violin
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Catherine Cho is recognized for her remarkable virtuosity, combining technical mastery of her instrument with an extraordinary and distinctive musicality. Praised by The New York Times for her "sublime tone", she has appeared worldwide as soloist with many orchestras and chamber ensembles as well as in recital, including the National Symphony Orchestra in DC.
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Michelle Djokic
Cello, Artistic Director
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Michelle Djokic is the Founding Artistic Director of the Concordia Chamber Players based in New Hope, PA., now in their 12th season. She is currently also the cellist for Quartet San Francisco. Residing in the San Francisco Bay area since 2004, Ms. Djokic served as Assistant principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony from 2005-2007. In 2008 she won a position with the New Century Chamber Orchestra. |
Mark Holloway
Viola
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Mark Holloway is a violist for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and a chamber musician sought after within the United States and abroad. He has appeared at such festivals as the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia, Music from Angel Fire, Banff, Taos, Mainly Mozart, Caramoor, and the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has played chamber music in France, Switzerland, Russia, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. |
Yoon Kwon
Violin
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Yoon Kwon plays with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and is the youngest first violinist for that orchestra in history. As soloist, Ms. Kwon has appeared abroad with such orchestras as the Cologne Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic (its 100th season opening gala), Orquesta Sinfonica de Teatro Colon (Argentina), Euro-Asian Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Istanbul State Symphony, and Mexico State Symphony Orchestra to name a few.
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Jesse Mills
Violin
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Grammy-nominated violinist Jesse Mills enjoys performing music of many genres, from classical to contemporary, as well as composed and improvised music of his own invention. In 2004, Mills made his professional concerto debut with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra conducted by Nicholas McGegan in a unique partnership with Salsa trombonist, Jimmy Bosch.
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Todd Palmer
Clarinet
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"Mr. Palmer's playing is artful and elaborately nuanced with a dark soulful tone that is often compelling - a performance of rapt, meditative intensity."
The New York Times
Todd Palmer is distinguished by a virtuosity and ebullient stage presence that have brought him a most successful concert career. |
Daniel Panner
Viola
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Daniel Panner is the Principal violist of the New York City Opera and violist with the Mendelssohn String Quartet. He enjoys a varied career as a performer and teacher. He has performed at music festivals in Marlboro, Tanglewood and Aspen and has collaborated with members of the Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri and Juilliard String Quartets. |
Robert Rinehart
Viola
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Robert Rinehart joined the New York Philharmonic's viola section in September 1992. Mr. Rinehart has an extensive background in chamber music; as a founding member of the Ridge String quartet, be toured extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America beginning in 1979. The quarter was featured on all of New York's major chamber music series as well as the Spoleto, Schleswig-Holstein and Helsinki festivals. |
James Wilson
Cello
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James Wilson has appeared in America’s Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, Casal’s Hall in Tokyo, and the Sydney Opera House. As recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed at music festivals around the world such as the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the City of London Festival, the Deutches Mozartfest in Bavaria, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. |
William Wolfram
Piano
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Tall and powerfully built, pianist William Wolfram has a technique to match. While he is able to summon torrents of sound for the grandest moments in the Romantic literature, he is also able to produce the subtlest gradations in volume and inform soft passages with the most persuasive, lambent tone. Well able to match the best-publicized piano virtuosos of the day (and with none of their musical distortions), Wolfram has won ringing reviews for his live performances.
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Carmit Zori
Violin
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Firmly established in her native Israel as an important young musician, violinist Carmit Zori was chosen at age 13 by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to perform on the international television special "Music from Jerusalem". Two years Inter, at the recommendation of Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern, she came to the United States to study at the Curtis institute of Music, where her teachers included Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo, and Arnold Steinhardt. |
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