The Players

2011-2012 Season

Carl Albach
Trumpet

Carl Albach is a native of Dallas, Texas and has been a freelance trumpet player in New York for more than 20 years. He performs regularly with Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and is principal trumpet with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Bard Festival Orchestra. Albach played lead trumpet on the Broadway cast albums of Candide, The Sound of Music, and the 2004 production of La Boheme. He also performed with Metallica at Madison Square Garden. As a soloist, Albach has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Europe, Japan, and the United States, playing Handel’s Suite for Trumpet in D, Shostokovich’s Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, Copland’s Quiet City, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Albach has a particular interest in authentic performance practices and regularly performs baroque and classical repertoire on a natural trumpet with the American Classical Orchestra.

Nancy Allen
Harp

Hailed by the New York Times, as “a major artist” following her New York recital debut in 1975, Nancy Allen joined the New York Philharmonic in June of 1999 as Principal Harpist. She maintains a busy international concert schedule as well as heading the harp departments of The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. In addition, Ms. Allen appears regularly with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In May 2000, Ms. Allen was featured in the Philharmonic’s United States premiere of Siegfried Matthus’ Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, with Music Director Kurt Masur and Principal Flute Robert Langevin.

Ms. Allen’s busy performing schedule includes solo appearances at major international festivals, and has featured collaborations with soprano Kathleen Battle, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and flutist Carol Wincenc. She has appeared on PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center with The Chamber Music Society, as well as with Ms. Battle, and has performed as a recitalist for “Music at the Supreme Court” in Washington, D.C. Ms. Allen’s recording of Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro with the Tokyo Quartet, flutist Ransom Wilson, and clarinetist David Shifrin received a Grammy Award nomination; she can also be heard on Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, and CRI.

Ms. Allen is a native of New York, where she studied with Pearl Chertok and undertook private studies on piano and oboe. The summer of 1972 took her to Paris, where she studied with Lily Laskine. During that same year, she entered The Juilliard School to study with Marcel Grandjany. In 1973, Ms. Allen won the Fifth International Harp Competition, in Israel, and was later awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Award.

A teacher for more than 20 years, Ms. Allen’s students hold positions in prominent orchestras around the world. She currently resides in New York with her eight-year-old daughter, Claire, who studies piano and cello.

Toby Appel
Viola

Toby Appel has appeared in recital and concerto performances throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Far East.

He has been a member of such renowned ensembles as TASHI, and the Lenox and Audubon Quartets. Appel has been a guest artist with the Vermeer, Manhattan, and Composers Quartets as well as a frequent guest with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and with jazz artists Chick Corea and Gary Burton.

Festival performances include those with Mostly Mozart (NY), Santa Fe (NM), Angel Fire (NM), Seattle (Wa), Bravo! Vail Valley (Co), Chamber Music Northwest (Or), and Marlboro (Vt), as well as festivals in England, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Greece. In 1975, Appel was featured in a CBS television special performing works commissioned by him for three violas, all played by Toby Appel. In 1980, Appel was the winner of Young Concert Artists International.

A most versatile artist, Appel has narrated performances including A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten, Ferdinand by Alan Ridout and Munro Leaf, Ode to Napoleon by Arnold Schoenberg, Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky, Masque of the Red Death by Andre Caplet and Edgar Allan Poe, and Facade by William Walton and Edith Sitwell. Appel is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio’s Performance Today.

Toby Appel entered the Curtis Institute at age 13 under the guidance of Max Aronoff. Appel is currently teaching on the viola and chamber music faculties at the Juilliard School in New York City. In addition, he is a visiting professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has also held professorships at the State University of New York, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the University of New Mexico, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has toured for the United States State Department and performed at the United Nations and at the White House. His chamber music and recital recordings can be heard on the Columbia, Delos, Desto, Koch International, Opus 1, and Musical Heritage Society labels.

Toby Appel lives in New York City with his wife, Carolyn and their son, Jordan.

Michelle Djokic
Cello, Artistic Director

Michelle Djokic is the Founding Artistic Director of the Concordia Chamber Players based in New Hope, PA., now in their 15th season. She has recently been 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. In the fall of 2008 she recorded the Piazzola Four Seasons as principal cellist with music director and violinist Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg. She also recorded the Trio for Trumpet, Cello and Piano by Eric Ewazen for Albany Records with the composer at the piano and Chris Gekker on trumpet.

In 1985 Ms. Djokic made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the New Jersey Symphony. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada and Europe to great critical acclaim. As a child she captured the Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artist Competition first prize giving her a debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 13. Other prizes include the Prince Bernard Award for Excellence in the 1989 Scheveningen International Cello Competition, the coveted People's Prize in the 1980 Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in Budapest, Hungary, first prize in the Chicago Civic Orchestra Competition, as well as first prize in the young artists competitions of the New Jersey Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Juilliard School Concerto Competition and the Aspen Festival Concerto Competition.

Her festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival, Banff Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Princeton Music Festival, Roycroft Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin College Music Festival, Northern Country Chamber Players, and the Mozart Festival. Active as a solo and chamber musician, Ms. Djokic has been invited to perform with the Emanuel Ax, Menahem Pressler, and Lynn Harrel as well as the Boston Chamber Players, American Chamber Players and the Northern Country Chamber Players.

Orchestral positions have included principal cellist of the Denver Symphony, Jupiter Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, McGill Chamber Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. A student of Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins, Ms. Djokic received both her Bachelor of Music degree and her Master of Music degree at the age of 20 from the Juilliard School of Music.

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Krista Feeney
Violin

Violinist Krista Bennion joined the Four Nations Ensemble in 2005. Equally at home on historical or modern instruments, she follows a varied career as concerto soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, recording artist and educator.

A founding member of the Ridge Quartet '79-'90, she toured four continents, won the Diapason d'Or and a Grammy nomination for recording with pianist Rudolf Firkusny, made the world premiere recording of John Adam's "Shaker Loops" (original septet version) and collaborated in concert with Benny Goodman. She has served as a guest leader and soloist of orchestras including the Boulder Bach Festival, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Elgin and Modesto symphonies, and has recorded and toured as guest leader of the London Classical Players, conducted by Roger Norrington. From '99-'06 Ms Feeney was the music director/concertmaster of the conductor-less San Francisco based New Century Chamber Orchestra. Currently she is a concertmaster for the Orchestra of St. Luke's, concertmaster of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. She is a member of the Loma Mar Quartet, DNA Quintet (the Loma Mar plus bassist John Feeney) and the Four Nations Ensemble.

Recent highlights include the world premiere of SolTierraLuna with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, a concerto by Terry Riley for violin and two guitars written for Ms Feeney and guitarists Gyan Riley and David Tanenbaum, a DVD of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Haydn's Symphonie Concertante with Louis Langree and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra, performing the legendary ballad Yesterday with Sir Paul McCartney and the Loma Mar Quartet at the Library of Congress last June, playing on the Library's Stradivarius instruments, and in December 2010, releasing the second CD in the critically acclaimed series Dragonetti's New Academy: world premiere recordings of chamber works by Domenico Dragonetti. The latest recording includes a recently discovered Divertimento for two violins, cello and bass by Joseph Haydn..

Feeney is a native of Menlo Park California. She studied violin with Clarice Horelick and Anthony Doheny. At 13 Feeney enrolled in the San Francisco Conservatory's Preparatory Division as a student of Isadore Tinkleman. She continued in the Collegiate Division studying with Stuart Canin and Isadore Tinkleman. At 15 she played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony. Later in concerti of Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi she soloed often with conductor Alexander Schneider and the Symphonies of San Francisco, St. Louis, the New York String Orchestra and the Brandenburg Ensemble. After studies in San Francisco she worked with Jaime Laredo at the Curtis Institute and coached with Felix Galimer and Mischa Schneider.

Ms Feeney plays a Leopold Widhalm violin from c. 1770. The instrument was a gift to Four Nations from Benjamin Diamond in honor of his father Hyman Diamond. The restoration was a gift from Jean Hamilton in honor of her parents, Marguerite Adelmann and James Phillip Hamilton.

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Timothy Harrell
Organ

Timothy W. Harrell is organist/choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church, Solebury, Pennsylvania. Mr. Harrell is a native of Portsmouth, Virginia. He earned a BS degree in organ performance from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, studying with Dr. Charles Vogan and a MM degree in organ performance and church music from Westminster Choir College where he studied with Joan Lippincott. He previously served as organist and director of music at Doylestown Presbyterian Church, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and organist/choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Mindy Kaufman
Flute

 “A lone piccolo intoning the arpeggiated theme of “Arirang” at the start of the orchestra's arrangement was able to do what soldiers and politicians could not “. *

The solo line featured Mindy Kaufman, solo piccolo and flutist of the New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the orchestra’s historic concert in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Ms. Kaufman joined the New York Philharmonic in 1979 at the age of 22 after earning a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with the legendary teachers Walfrid Kujala, James Galway, and Bonita Boyd. She came to New York after being a member of the Rochester Philharmonic for three years, a position she won at the age of 19.

Ms. Kaufman is an artist known for her extraordinary versatility
appearing both as piccolo and flute soloist under the direction of Music Directors Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, and Lorin Maazel.
During the 1989-1990 season, she performed as principal flute with the Milwaukee Symphony and recorded works by Dvořák and Kodály under the baton of Zdenek Macal.

A passionate chamber musician, Ms. Kaufman has performed on the New York Philharmonic Ensemble Series, Benifaio Music Festival, Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music, Brightstar Music Festival, Caramoor, and at the Grand Teton Music Festival and Colorado Music Festival. From 1986-2000 she was an Associate in Music Performance at Columbia University.  She can be heard playing Avner Dorman’s Piccolo Concerto on the Grammy nominated CD of his music. She has performed on over 40 film soundtracks.

*Associated Press 

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Julie Landsman
French Horn

Julie Landsman has recently completed her tenure as Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Prior to her appointment at the MET in 1985, she was Co-Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony and Principal Horn of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. While a freelance musician in the New York area, Ms.Landsman appeared regularly with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus. Among her numerous recording credits are performances with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus and Horn soloist on the Wagner Ring Cycle recordings with James Levine and the Metropolitan Orchestra, as well as numerous symphonic and operatic recordings with the MET.

Ms.Landsman's summers have included participation in the Marlboro Music School, Sarasota Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, and the faculty of the Aspen Music School.

She has been a soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Greenwich Symphony, the Rice University Orchestra, the Sarasota Festival Orchestra, and the Santa Fe Festival Chamber Ensemble.

A faculty member of the Julliard School since 1989, she has also taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, Purchase College, and Brooklyn College.

Julie Landsman is a graduate of the Julliard Music School where she was a student of James Chambers. She was a recipient of a Naumburg Scholarship. Her early studies were with Howard Howard and Carmine Caruso. Born in Brooklyn, she currently resides in Nyack, New York.

Anthony McGill
Clarinet

Anthony McGill, winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, currently serves as principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Prior to this position he was associate principal clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, following studies at the Curtis Institute with Donald Montanaro and at the Interlochen Arts Academy with Richard Hawkins. An experienced chamber musician, he has participated at the Marlboro Music Festival, Sarasota Festival, Tanglewood, La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, and Music@Menlo.

Since his solo debut in 1991, McGill has appeared with the Baltimore and New Jersey Symphonies, and with the Tokyo, Guarneri, and Avalon Quartets, and Opus One. He has been heard on Ravinia's Rising Star Series, toured with Musicians from Marlboro, performed at Carnegie Hall, and appeared at Lincoln Center as a member of its Chamber Music Society Two. Mr. McGill has also toured Japan with pianist Mitsuko Uchida and members of the Brentano Quartet, and has appeared in concert with cellist Yo-Yo Ma

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John Novacek
Piano

Pianist John Novacek regularly tours the Americas, Europe and Asia as solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist; in the latter capacity he has presented over thirty concerti with dozens of orchestras.

John Novacek’s major American performances have been heard in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Symphony Space, Washington’s The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center and Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Hollywood Bowl and Royce Hall, while international venues include Paris’ Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Musée du Louvre, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, as well as most of the major concert halls of Japan. He is also a frequent guest artist at festivals, here and abroad, including New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival and those of Aspen, Cape Cod, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Colorado College, Mimir, Ravinia, Seattle, SummerFest La Jolla, Wolf Trap, BBC Proms (England), Braunschweig (Germany), Lucerne, Menuhin and Berbier (Switzerland), Majorca (Spain), Sorrento (Italy), Stavanger (Norway), Toulouse (France) and Sapporo (Japan).

Often heard on radio broadcasts worldwide, John Novacek has appeared on NPR’s Performance Today, St. Paul Sunday and, as both featured guest composer/performer, on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He is also frequently seen and heard on television, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Entertainment Tonight and CNN International.

John Novacek is a much sought-after collaborative artist and has performed with Joshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz, Leila Josefowicz, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Truls Mork, Elmar Oliveira and Emmanuel Pahud, and, as well as the Colorado, Harrington, Jupiter, New Hollywood, St. Lawrence, SuperNova and Ying string quartets. He also tours widely as a member of Intersection, a piano trio that includes violinist Kaura Frautschi and cellist Kristina Reiko Coooper. Mr. Novacek has also given numerous world premieres and worked closely with composers John Adams, John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, George Rochberg, John Williams and John Zorn.

John Novacek took top prizes at both the Leschetizky and Joanna Hodges international piano competitions, among many others. He studied piano with Peter Serkin, Bruce Sutherland and Jakob Gimpel and chamber music with Jamie Laredo and Felix Galimir, and occasionally coached with Gary Graffman and Isaac Stern.

John Novacek’s own compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Pacific Symphony, The 5 Browns, Concertante, Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo, Harrington String Quartet, Ying Quartet, Millennium, Quattro Mani and The Three Tenors. He has recorded over 30 CDs, encompassing solo and chamber music by most major composers from Bach to Bartók, as well as many contemporary and original scores. Mr. Novacek records for Philips, Nonesuch, Arabesque, Warner Classics, Sony/BMG, Koch International, Universal Classics, Ambassador, Pony Canyon, Four Winds, Arkay, Virtuoso and EMI Classics. CD titles include Road Movies (2004 GRAMMY nomination as “Best Chamber Music Performance”), Great Mozart Piano Works, Spanish Rhapsody, Novarags (original ragtime compositions), Classic Romance, Hungarian Sketches, Intersection, Romances et Meditations and, with Leila Josefowicz, Americana (GRAMOPHONE: “Editor’s Choice”), For the End of Time, Shostakovich and Recital (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE: 5 stars/June 2005's chamber choice).

Daniel Phillips
Violin

Violinist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist and teacher. Born into a musical family, Mr. Phillips began violin studies at age four with his father Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He continued his professional training at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas, and has worked extensively with and served as teaching assistant to Sandor Vegh. As a winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1976, he performed acclaimed debut recitals in New York's Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street "Y." Mr. Phillips has performed as soloist with many of the country's leading symphonies, and appears regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto USA and the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England. He has toured and recorded in a string quartet ( for SONY) with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma.

Daniel Phillips is a founding member of the Orion String Quartet, which tours internationally. They have residencies at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and at the Mannes College of Music. Available on CD are the Mendelssohn Octet with the Guarneri String Quartet as well as an all- Dvorak CD with pianist Peter Serkin . A quartet written for them by Wynton Marsalis, called “At the Octoroon Balls” is also available on SONY . The Chamber Music of Lincoln Center presented the Orion Quartet in a cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets in six free concerts in May, 2000 each concert honoring a different children’s arts organization in New York City. They did Beethoven Cycles in Kansas City and Pittsburgh last season, and are doing the cycle this season at Indiana University in Bloomington and San Juan, Puerto Rico . In a year-long project,the quartet performed internationally in a unique collaboration with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company. Check out the quartet’s website, www.orionquartet.com, for a complete look at its accomplishments and busy touring schedule.

Robert Rinehart
Viola

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, he 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.

In addition to the Ridge Quartet's recordings on the RCA Victor Red Seal label - which earned Mr. Rinehart a 1992 Grammy nomination - his recording credits include a 1991 Grammy-winning chamber music collaboration with soprano Dawn Upshaw for Nonesuch.

Mr. Rinehart has also performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Brandenburg Ensemble, conducted by Alexander Schneider, and has been a participant in the Caramoor Festival, New York's Bargemusic series, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, and other chamber music festivals around the world. A San Francisco native, Mr. Rinehart attended the University of California at Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Curtis Institute of Music. In his spare time he enjoys reading, cooking and travel

Daniel Swenberg
Lute and Theorbo

Lutenist Daniel Swenberg concentrates on Renaissance and baroque performance practices--with special devotion to the role of basso-continuo playing and the instruments central to its practice: the theorbo/chitaronne, renaissance and baroque lutes, early guitars, and the gallizona/callichon.

He works regularly with ensembles: ARTEK, REBEL, Visceral Reaction, The New York Collegium, The Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Staatstheater Stuttgart, New York City Opera, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Stadtstheater Klagenfurt,Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, Les Violons du Roy, Piffaro, Spiritus Collective, Les Voix Baroques, Musica Pacifica, the Sejong Soloists, Les Voix Baroques, Apollo's Fire, and Lizzy and the Theorboys.

Recently, he has accompanied Renee Fleming at the MET, Carnegie Hall, and on Live from Lincoln Center, with the Mostly Mozart Festival, and was on staff at the inauguration of the Aspen Music Festival's baroque mini-festival.

He has received awards from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2000) for a study of 18th-century chamber music for the lute, and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to study in Bremen, Germany with Stephen Stubbs and Andrew Lawrence King, at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste.

He studied previously with Pat O'Brien at Mannes College of Music (New York City), receiving a Masters Degree in Historical Performance-Lute. Prior to his concentration on lutes, he studied Musicology at Washington University (St. Louis) and received a B.M. in classical guitar from the North Carolina School of the Arts

.Calvin Wiersma
Violin

Calvin Wiersma, violinist, has appeared throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He is currently a violinist with the Manhattan String Quartet. He has performed numerous solo recitals, including appearances in Boston, New York and Chicago and has appeared with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, The Concerto Company of Boston and the Lawrence Symphony, among others. He was a founding member of Meliora Quartet, winner of the Naumberg, Fischoff, Coleman and Cleveland Quartet competitions. The Meliora Quartet was the Quartet-in-Residence at the Spoleto Festivals of the U.S., Italy and Australia and recorded Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Cleveland Quartet on the Telarc label. Mr. Wiersma was also a founding member of the Figaro Trio. In addition to his extensive touring with the Quartet and Trio, Mr. Wiersma has been heard at the summer Chamber Music Festivals in Vancouver, Rockport, Portland, Crested Butte, An Appalachian Summer, and at Music Mountain, as well as the Aspen Music Festival. A regular performer on National Public Radio, his most recent project involved a series of broadcasts performing the complete Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas with the pianist Catherine Kautsky. In addition to his performing activities, Mr. Wiersma is classical co-ordinator for Culturefinder, the largest Internet address for the Performing Arts.

Carmit Zori
Violin

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 later, 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.

Since then Ms. Zori has appeared with a wide variety orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed throughout Latin America, Europe, Japan and Australia, where she premiered the Marc Neikrug Violin Concerto. Carmlt Zori's recital engagements include her critically acclaimed recital in New York City's Lincoln Center, as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, Boston's Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem.

An active chamber musician, Ms. Zori appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has performed as guest artist at New York's Chamber Music at the "Y" series, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the international Bruckner Festival in Austria, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the La Jolla Summerfest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the OK Mozart Festival, the Sitka Festival in Alaska and at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She has been a regular participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has been featured on many "Music from Marlboro" tours. Miss Zori is one of the musical directors of Bargemusic, New York City.

Ms. Zori's numerous honors include the Leventritt Foundation award, top prize in the Waiter W. Naumburg International violin competition and the Pro Musicus Foundation Award. Carmit Zori can be heard on various recording labels, including Arabesque, Koch International and Elektra-Nonesuch. A 1997 recording of works by Bartok, Harbison, Dahl and Parker was released on the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music label. Reviews described it as "a splendid disc ... exciting but polished"

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