The Players

2008-2009 Season

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Maria Bachmann

Violin

Maria bachmann A violinist who combines outstanding musicianship with dazzling technical command, a tone of exceptional purity, and a magnetic stage presence, Maria Bachmann has been the subject of critical accolades worldwide from the very beginning of her career. The New York Times has hailed her as “a violinist of soul and patrician refinement,” and The Boston Globe has similarly praised Ms. Bachmann as being “astonishing in every musical and technical regard.”

David Cerutti

Viola

David Cerutti

David Cerutti thrives on a diverse musical life encompassing chamber music, recording, orchestral and solo performances, as well as composition. A resident of New York City, he is core and principal violist with St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and appears regularly in the US and abroad with groups such as Orpheus and The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Kenneth Cooper

Fortepiano

Kenneth Cooper

Harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist and conductor Kenneth Cooper is one of the world's leading specialists in music of the 18th century, and one of America's most exciting and versatile performers. He is famous for his improvisations, which enable him to revive a long-forgotten 1 8th century art, lending extraordinary authenticity to his performances.

Michelle Djokic

Cello, Artistic Director

Michelle Djokic 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.

Frank Huang

Violin

Frank Huang 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.

Jon Klibonoff

Piano

Jon Klibonoff

Jon Klibonoff has established a versatile career as orchestra soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. His many awards include the Silver Medal of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, the Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianists Award, the Pro Musicis Foundation Award, , and a Solo Recitalists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Anthony McGill

Clarinet

Anthony McGill 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

Rinehart

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.

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 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.

Players in the 2001-2002 Season

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Players in the 1999-2000 Season