2007-2008
Season
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Charles Abramovic
Piano
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Charles Abramovic has won critical acclaim for his international performances as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with leading instrumentalists and singers. Mr. Abramovic performs regularly with such artists as Midori, Sarah Chang, Robert McDuffie, Viktoria Mullova, Kim Kashkashian and Jeffrey Khaner. His recording of the solo piano works of Delius for DTR recordings has been widely praised. |
Michelle Djokic
Cello, Artistic Director
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Michelle Djokic is the artistic director and inspiration of the Concordia Chamber Players. "Djokic is indisputable when playing melody. Her sense of delivery and her mastery of technique have an instinctual rightness about them.”, hailed a critic of the Denver Post. Ms. Djokic made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of thirteen. |
Eric Ewazen
Piano
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Eric Ewazen was born in 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio. Receiving a B.M. At the Eastman School of Music, and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from The Juilliard School, his teachers include Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner and Gunther Schuller. He is a recipient of numerous composition awards and prizes. His works have been commissioned and performed by many soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras in the U.S. and overseas. |
Chris Gekker
Trumpet
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Chris Gekker is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Maryland School of Music. He has been featured as soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. After performances of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 and the Christmas Oratorio at Carnegie Hall, the New York Times praised his "bright virtuosity" and described his playing as "clear toned and pitch perfect." |
Mark Holloway
Viola
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Mr. Holloway’s current activities include playing as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony, where he has appeared as principal violist, Orpheus, with whom he has also played on tour, and Broadway’s “Les Misérables.” He was principal violist at Tanglewood and has played chamber music at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Angel Fire, Sarasota, Prussia Cove, Banff and Taos festivals. |
Frank Huang
Violin
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First Prize Winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition, Frank Huang has now embarked on a major career as a violin virtuoso. At the age of eleven he performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in a nationally broadcast concert and has since performed with orchestras throughout the world. |
Anthony McGill
Clarinet
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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. |
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. |
Diane Walsh
Piano
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Pianist Diane Walsh regularly performs solo recitals, chamber music and concertos worldwide. Her recent engagements include the Bartok Concerto No. 3 with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Strauss Burleske with the Syracuse and Delaware symphony orchestras, the Berg Kammerkonzert with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City and Mozart Concerto No. 24 with David Zinman at the Skaneateles Festival. |
Peter
Winograd
Violin
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As first violinist of the American String Quartet, Peter
Winograd performs in annual chamber music tours of North America,
the capitals of Europe and at the Aspen Music Festival. He
has recorded extensively with the quartet, including a recent
release of the complete string quartets of Mozart on the Musical
Heritage Masters label. |
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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