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| Cellist/composer/conductor Dan Barrett has played extensively for PBS, particularly as cellist for many of their featured documentaries, such as "The Great Depression," and Ric Burns' "The Way West" and "The History of New York." His solo credits include the Radio France Festival, The Gulbenkian Festival(Lisbon), the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and WQXR, as well as recordings of solo works of Iannis Xenakis (Mode and Vanderberg labels) and for the renowned Irish ensemble Cherish The Ladies, on RCA. Other credits include onstage cellist in James Joyce's "The Dead" on Broadway, Orchestra of St. Luke's, NYC Opera, the American Ballet Theater, Philomusica, Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Sirius Quartet, and principal positions for the STX Ensemble, the Connecticut Grand Opera, the SEM Ensemble and the Crosstown Ensemble. His compositions have been performed by The Absolute Ensemble, The Absolute Chamber Players, the West Virginia Symphony, the NY Mandolin Orchestra, the North/South Consonance, and on NPR. He has conducted the New York Bach Ensemble, James Joyce's "The Dead" on Broadway, the Ethos Ensemble, the Composers Concordance Ensemble, and the Absolute Chamber Players on the Kostabi Series. His television appearances include features with the rock group Third Eye Blind and appearances on Saterday Night Live and the Rosie O'Donnell Show. Dan has recorded extensively for Windham-Hill, Shanachie, RCA and Mode record labels. | ||||||||||||||||
| International Street Cannibals Artistic Director Franz Hackl is trumpet player for the ensemble B3+, founder and director of the OutreachAcademy in Austria, and is well known in Austria as a producer and promoter. | ||||||||||||||||
| Composer/guitarist/rapper Gene Pritsker has written over three hundred compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music, songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles, etc. All his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hiphop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble who have recently released a cd on Col-legno Records. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Adelaide Symphony, The Athens Camarata, Brooklyn and Berlin Philharmonic. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated such Hollywood movies as 'Perfume, Story of a Murderer' and 'The International'. The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, Fall 2001, described Pritsker as "dissolv[ing] the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Other organizations he is associated with include: Composers' Concordance, Absolute Ensemble, The international Street Cannibals. Some of Gene Pritsker's music is published by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers music and recorded by: Col Legno, Enja, Eutrepe, Wergo and Capstone record labels. | ||||||||||||||||
| Alan Good has worked with Martha Graham, Mel Wong, Pauline Koner, and Kenneth King, in 1978 joining Merce Cunningham. Since 1994 he has created his own work, and has danced in the companies of Tere O'Connor, Wally Cardona, and Sasha Waltz. Having widely presented his dance in Europe and Australia, he performs in the US at such venues as DTW, Danspace, WAX, Dance Now, Chashama, Barnard College and Temple University; he has also appeared in the January 2005 issue of Dance Magazine. A recipient of support from the US State Department, The Puffin Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pro Helvetia and the Goethe Institute, he has taught ballet companies in Beijing, Paris, Sofia, and Munich. His own company, alangooddance, was formed in 2000. http://www.alangooddance.com | ||||||||||||||||
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| David Taylor appears regularly with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, and the St. Lukes Chamber Orchestra. He is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College. He currently, as well, performs with The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, The Charles Mingus Big Band, Eos Orchestra, The NY Chamber Symphony, The Michelle Camillo Band, Areopagitica (a bras s trio in residence at Mannes College), The Bob Mintzer Band, the Daniel Schnyder/David Taylor/Kenny Drew Jr. Trio, and the brass trio B3. | ||||||||||||||||
| Dan Cooper was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated at Horace Mann, Columbia, NEC, and Princeton; principal teachers include John Heiss, Steve Mackey, and Paul Lansky, and Cooper’s chief mentor was Otto Luening. In 2000, Cooper was the Aaron Copland composition fellow at Tanglewood, where he composed and produced incidental music tracks for several acclaimed Shakespeare and Company productions. In 2004, Cooper’s “Hawthorne Fanfare and Meditation” was premiered at Ozawa Hall, at a gala event featuring Mike Wallace, Jane Fonda, David Strathairn, and Marisa Tomei. As a multi-instrumentalist specializing in 7-string bass guitar and also flute with electronics, Cooper has performed all over the world, perhaps most notably as a member of singer Ute Lemper’s trio, including performances at Town Hall, Joe’s Pub, The Blue Note, Davies Hall, Chicago Theater, Massey Hall, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Staatsoper Berlin, and Bunkamura Orchard Hall, plus broadcasts on NBC, Bravo, BBC, Radio France, and RAI. Cooper endo rses Overwater bass guitars of Carlisle, U.K. Cooper’s music has been recognized with awards, commissions, premieres, recordings, showcases and residencies from Albany Records, Albany Symphony, Artists International, ASCAP, B3+, Cary Trust, Circadia, Electro-Music, Empire State Youth Orchestra, Engine 27, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, International Street Cannibals, Majestic Brass, Meet The Composer, NARAS, New York New Music Ensemble, Palisades Virtuosi, and Sweet Plantain, among others. Cooper is currently on the faculty of the State University of New York/FIT, where he has created new courses in American Music, European-Classical Music, and Latin-American & Caribbean Music. Since 2005, he has also taught Music and Literature classes at the Greenwich House Senior Center. | ||||||||||||||||
| Of the work of Arthur Kampela, whose work will see a premiere this fall with the New York Philharmonic, The New York Times has written: "Extraordinary... fascinatingly inventive." Winner of the 1995 International Guitar Composition Competition (Caracas, Venezuela) and winner of the 1998 Lamarque-Pons Guitar Composition Competition (Montevideo, Uruguay), he is internationally recogn ized both as composer and virtuoso guitar player. He has received commissions and awards, from the New York Philharmonic, the Koussevitzky Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation Rio Arte Foundation and fellowships from the Brazilian Government (CNPq) and Columbia University. Some recent achievements include: Premiere of "Happy Days," for flute and electronics at the Slam Festival in Seattle; "Elastics II" for flutes, guitar and electro-acoustic sounds and "Percussion Study V" for viola alla chitarra" and electroacoustic sounds at the Museu of Modern Art of Strasbourg, France by the Linea Ensemble; Premiere of "Antropofagia" at the ISCM 2006 (World Music Days) by the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Wiek Hijmans on electric guitar. Presentation of "Layers..." and "Exoskeleton" by the Linea Ensemble, from Strasbourg in their "Champs Libres" series (2006) in a "Kagel - Globokar - Kampela" program; Debut of “Percussion Study IV” for solo viola (played “alla chitara”); "KLANG," trio for Bass clarinet, harp and percussion played by Speculum at Merkin Hall NYC; Series of concerts/shows with his new music band at Schwaz (Austria), Strasbourg, Satalla and The Cutting Room (NYC), Escritório de Música (São Paulo), Morelia Guitar Festival and UNAM (Mexico) among other places; Festival Archipell in Switzerland with his piece "Quimbanda" for electric guitar; "Sonidos de las Americas" at Carnegie Hall, NYC ; guest composer for the "AVANTI" Ensemble, Helsinki; Helsinki Biennial with Bridges" for viola played by Paul Silverthorne; "Phalanges" for harp solo by Anne Bassand at the 'Kammermusiksaal des Kongresshauses', Zurich; Festivals 'Synthese' (Switzerland), 'Aquila'(Italy) and at the 'ICMC' (Canada) with his piece "TEXTORIAS" for computer-generated guitar, etc. Most recently, pianist Pianist Jenny Lin recorded his 'tour-de-force' "Nosturnos" on her CD "The Eleventh Finger" released by Koch label. His compositions have been performed at Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, Mannes College, 92nd Street Y, and Americas Society. He has toured extensively with his band Mexico City, São Paulo, Strasbourg and at the Outreach Festival, in Schwaz, Austria. Kampela received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying with Mario Davidovsky and Fred Lerdahl; he has worked closely, in Germany, with Brian Ferneyhough. | ||||||||||||||||
| Called by Rene Laanen of USA Trombone Online “one of today’s finest trombonists” Sam Blaser was born and raised in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. As jazz trombonist, and composer, he’s released several CDs: AebyBlaser Quartet, "Rêves…”(2004), Pieces Of Old Sky(with the Samuel Blaser Quartet;Clean Feed Records), a solo CD, Solo Bone(SLAM Productions, UK); and the debut Braff Blaser album, YaY,(Fresh Sound New Talent). Mr. Blaser has worked with the prestigious Vienna Art Orchestra, The European Radio, The Zagreb Jazz Festival, and The Big Band “Tribute to Oscar Peterson” tour in 2005. A recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States, he’s also received the Benny Golson Prize, the J. J. Johnson Prize, and prizes at the Fribourg Jazz Festival. Dividing his time between New York City and Berlin, Mr Blaser can be heard in ensembles such as the Braff/Blaser duo, Malcolm Braff & TNT, Animal Forum, Peter van Huffel & Sophie Tassignon, and the Ravitz/Blaser. |
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| A prolific composer with over 350 works for all media, Dary John Mizelle (Composer, trumpet, trombone) has taught composition, orchestration, computer music, music theory, music history, and world music at University of South Florida, Oberlin College Conservatory, Sonavera Studio of Sonic Arts and Purchase College SUNY where he served as Chair of the composition program. Dr. Mizelle's works were presented in a 25-year retrospective concert at Symphony Space in 1988 to critical acclaim, where he was compared with Ives,Cage,Messien, Bartok, and Xenakis. He is listed in Baker's International Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Groves Dictionary of American Music and Musicians, and Who’s Who in America. He invents and builds electronic and acoustical instruments and makes sculptures, and visual arts in various media. His works are published by Composer Performer Edition, Lingua Press and Mizelle Music: they are recorded on the Furious Artisans, Lumina, Irida, and Nataraja labels.Visit his web site | ||||||||||||||||
| John Clark has performed and recorded with a wide range of groups such as: Leroy Jenkins, Speculum Musicae, McCoy Tyner, the Aspen Wind Quintet and George Russell. In 1982, he was winner of the Downbeat Critics' Poll, and in 1986 receive the NARAS Award for Most Valuable Player in the recording field. His compositions and arrangements have been performed and/or recorded by: the Pugh-Taylor Project, the Aspen Wind Quintet, Imani Winds, Meridian Arts Ensemble, McCoy Tyner Bi g Band and the Gil Evans Orchestra. John has also written a book, Exercises for Jazz French Horn. John Clark is Professor of Horn at the Conservatory of Music, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase. | ||||||||||||||||
| The works of Daniel Schnyder comprise symphonies, instrumental music, operas, oratorios, a concerto for20chamber orchestra, various orchestra pieces, numerous chamber music works and many CD productions with jazz compositions and cross-over-related music with Arab, Latin-American and African musicians. Daniel Schnyder is composer in residence of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under Andreas Delfs and regularly writes music for the New York ‘Absolute Ensemble’ under Kristjan Jaervi. In 2004/05 he works as composer in residence for the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and as consultant for Absolute Ensemble N.Y.C. and various festivals with respect to special music projects ranging from classic, jazz to ethnic music. Daniel Schnyder’s ‘Bass Trombone Concerto’ in New York, Schnyder produced a CD of this concert which won the Grammy Nomination 2002. His latest releases include the Jazz album Da Skale (TCB records) together with Kenny Drew jr. and Zoom In (Universal) with the Carmina Quartett (first recording of the ‘3rd String Quartet’) and Arab percussion. As saxaphonist, Daniel Schnyder plays regularly as soloist with orchestras and jazz bands and holds master classes in composition, improvisation and arrangement internationally. Most of his jazz compositions have been released by enjarecords – more than 12 CDS ranging from trio to big band, symphonic music and jazz: www.enjarecords.com |
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Critically acclaimed pianist Taka Kigawa has earned outstanding international recognition as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber music artist since winning First Prize in the prestigious 1990 Japan Music Foundation Piano Competition in Tokyo, and the Diploma Prize at the 1990 Concurs Internacional Maria Canals De Barcelona in Spain.The New York Times has referred to him as "a pianist with a thoroughly contemporary sensibility", and has termed is playing as possessing "a thoroughly contemporary sensibility"; Steve Smith of Time Out New York has called him ""Ever-adventurous"; and of him The New Yorker has said, “Kigawa is a young artist of stature.” He has performed as a recitalist and soloist in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Paris, Milan and Barcelona, with appearances in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kosciuszko Foundation, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Salle Gaveau in Paris, and Plau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. tours in Japan, appearing in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagano and Kyoto, both as a recitalist and a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music groups. He has been a featured artist on many television and radio networks throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Receiving high honors, as well, in composition and conducting, he furthered his studies at Juilliard, where he earned his Master of Music degree, and was recipient of the distinguished Alexander Siloti Award. Mr. Kigawa currently lives in New York. |
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| Michiyo Suzuki trained with Charles Neidich at Purchase College Conservatory where she received her MFA degree; she received her doctorate(DMA) at SUNY Stony Brook. An active recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Suzuki, in 1996, made her at Carnegie Hall debut; she is, as well, a specialist contemporary repertoire. She is a member of the Grammy nominated Absolute Ensemble, and is featured on several recordings with Absolute Ensemble, ST-X Xenakis Ensemble USA, AFMM Orchestra and is featured soloist on "9 Stellar Pieces" by Robert Martin (Furious Artisans.) | ||||||||||||||||
| Krista Bennion Feeney is the co-concertmaster of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and the Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco. Her quartet, the Loma Mar Quartet, has recorded works which Paul McCartney had written expressly for the quartet. Her solo credits include appearances with St. Luke's, as well as with the San Francisco, St. Louis and Elgin symphonies. She has recently premiered Terry Reilly's SolTierraLuna with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra. | ||||||||||||||||
Javier Diaz has performed with the the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Symphony, NY Chamber Symphony, Hilliard Ensemble, and New Jersey Symphony; as Afro-Cuban drummer with Donna Summer, Lazaro Galarraga, Angel Figueroa, Candido Camero, Pedro Martinez, Los Acustilocos, Panamerican Jazz Band, The Ethnix, and the New York World Music Institute. He has taught Afro-Cuban seminars at the Peabody, U.S.C., and Juilliard, the latter where he now teaches seminars. His works have been comissioned by the Aspen Festival, NYU and USC. He holds his MM from Juilliard.
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| Noted for her interdisciplinary collaborations and hailed as “our leading exponent of the avant-garde flute” (Kyle Gann, Village Voice), Margaret Lancaster has premiered over 100 pieces and has built a large repertoire of new works composed specifically for her that employ extended techniques, dance, drama, multi-media and electronics. Performance highlights include Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Ibsen Festival, Santa Fe New Music, Whitney Museum, Edinburgh Festival and Festival D’Automne. She has recorded on New World Records, OO Discs, Innova, Naxos and Tzadik, and was selected for Meet the Composer’s New Works for Soloist Champions project. An amateur furniture designer and avid tap dancer, Lancaster performs solo and chamber music concerts worldwide and acts in Lee Breuer’s OBIE-winning Mabou Mines Dollhouse. www.margaretlancaster.com | ||||||||||||||||
| Dubbed by Pierre Boulez as "an instrumentalist without peer", Linda Wetherill has been principal flutist with the orchestras of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Boulez' IRCAM Ensemble Intercontemporain of the renowned Centre Pompidou for International Acoustical Research(Paris), the latter at where Linda was resident flutist, and had collaborated and premiered works with major composers from the world over. A faculty of Adelphi University, Linda has previously held posts as lecturer of contemporary music at Bosphorus University (Istanbul), the French National Conservatory, Philadelphia University of the Arts, Turkish Universities in Izmir, Ankara, and Istanbul. www.LindaWetherill.com | ||||||||||||||||
| Pianist, composer, songwriter and arranger Matt Herskowitz has distinguished himself in several musical genres. His 2007 solo piano release, Matt Herskowitz Plays Gershwin, recieved a nomination for Quebec's prestigious Prix Opus; his solo release, Gabriel's Message, was nominated for Québec's prestigious Félix award in 2007. His recording of Glazunov's 2nd Piano Concerto with I Musici de Montreal for Chandos Records in 1998. The recording was hailed by Strad Magazine as “by far the best recording on disc.” Matt recently premiered his piano concerto, Undertow, with Absolute Ensemble at the Bremen International Musikfest in Bremen, Germany. His Chorale and Variations on a Theme of Dave Brubeck, which he performed with the Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal in 1998 for Radio-Canada broadcast; Serial Blues, he recorded with Absolute Ensemble for Enja Records in 2000. With his group MaD Fusion he's performed at major festivals, including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Etnafest music festival in Italy, the Rhino Jazz Festival in France, and the Hamburg and Bremen international music festivals in Germany, Their debut recording, Forget Me Not, received wide critical acclaim, and was also nominated for Félix award in 2005. In 2007, Barry Manilow invited Matt and his trio to join him on release for Hallmark, In The Swing Of Christmas, nominated for a Grammy award for Best Traditional Pop Album. Matt is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. | ||||||||||||||||
| Trumpet player/ composer Thomas Gansch hails from Austria, and is well in Europe for his work with the ensemble "Mnozil Brass"; he's played, as well, in the Vienna Art Orchestra, and has his own jazz group, "Gansch & Roses". www.ganschandroses.com, www.mnozilbrass.at | ||||||||||||||||
| John Feeney is principal bass of the Orchestra of St Luke's, a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and a member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players. He has performed dou ble bass concerti with such orchestras as the American Symphony and St Luke's, in engagements at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall. Gregor Kitzis (Violin & viola). Gregor Kitzis has performed and recorded with The Orchestra of St. Lukes, New England Bach Festival, Concordia and Bang On A Can's Spit Orchestra, new music groups including Speculum Musicae, Ensemble 21, North/South Consonance, Essential Music, The Group For Contemporary Music, and the Xenakis and S.E.M Ensembles. TV appearances include Jay Leno and Saturday night Live. |
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| Violinist Lynn Bechtold lives in NYC and is also a writer for West View, a W. Village monthly newspaper . You can find out more info about her at www.violynn.net or www.myspace.com/violynnnyc | ||||||||||||||||
| President of the boxing gym, Gleason's Gym, Bruce Silverglade has been president of the Metropolitan Amateur Boxing Federation, chairman of the National Junior Olympic Committee and a member of the National Selection Committee. He has promoted fights for such international attractions as Arturo Gatti, Vinny Pazienza, Mark Breland and Zab Judah. | ||||||||||||||||
| Peter Krysa began his violin studies with his father, reknowned Russian violinist Oleh Krysa. Mr. Krysa has been heard in recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, The Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Wigmore Hall. He been a member of the Leontovych String Quartet and the Geister Trio; he has also collaborated in recital with pianists Vladimir Feltsman, Dmitri Rachmanov as well with members of Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Montreal Symphony Orchestras. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Lake Winnipesaukee Music Festival. | ||||||||||||||||
| Over the past thirty years, Leo Grinhauz has performed throughout the Americas as a soloist, recitalist and ensemblist. Leo enjoys a “secret” voice-over career in Spanish and English for radio and television. His favorite role in real life is Papa to his daughter, Lily. | ||||||||||||||||
| Luis Gabriel Zaragoza received his BFA from the National School of Dance of Mexico (NSDM), receiving also a BA in Philosophy, and an MFA in Dance Education; he is presently on faculty there .Besides being on scholarshop forMerce Cunningham, he was a member of the MarthaGraham Ensemble. Among his instructors are Anna Sokolow, Jeff Duncan, TimWengerd, Jim May and Betty Jones. In 1990 he received the award of Best Dancerof the Year and in 1999 he received the award of Best Choreographed Solo forNijinsky, El Ojo de Dios from Asociación Danza Mexicana. In 1991 La UniversidadNacional Autónoma de Mexico granted him the Artistic Creative Award.Hedancespresently with the Sokolow Theater Dance Ensemble,Dankmeyer Dance Company,Whitney Hunter dance, Nilas Martin Dance, and Errol Grimes DanceCompany. | ||||||||||||||||
| Dancer Fiona Evans undertook her studies at Boston Conservatory, graduating in 2001. She has performed with Jill Sigman and studies with Marjorie Mussman and Christine Wright. | ||||||||||||||||
| While at Oberlin College, Amanda Mottur was a member of the Aicha Bellydance Troupe under the direction of Adriane Dellorco, and has studied extensively with Kaeshi of Bellyqueen, Elena Lentini, Mimi Fontana, Morocco and Tarik Sultan. Besides work within the modality of Egyptian Cabaret, Amanda has studied ballet, modern, American Tribal Style, balinese dance and mime. She has performed at Tagine Gallery, L'Orange Bleue, Mamlouk, Dandana, Sahara East, and Aldiwan. | ||||||||||||||||
| Lutz Rath - Cellist--Narrator. Artistic director of the Washington Square Festival; Hilo Chamber Music Festival, Hawaii; Frequences de Perpignan, France; cellist : Orchestra of St. Lukes, Ecliptica Ensemble for Forbidden Music, Chamber Music Conference of the East, Bennington College. Narrator: compositions by V.Ullmann, R. Strauss, F. Liszt, J. Sibelius, A. Schoenberg, T. Picker, and R. Schumann. | ||||||||||||||||
| Hanako Yamagata, piano, is a native of Tokyo. She received her Master's of Music from Manhattan School of Music. She is a frequent performer with the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York City. | ||||||||||||||||
| Djembe player Julian Kampela started lessons at age 3 at Djoneeba Dance and Drum Studios, NYC, under both Djoneeba and Vado, masters of West African drumming. At 10 years old, he attends the Cathedral School; he presently trains with afro-cuban/classical percussionist Javier Diaz, a veteran of Pierre Boulez's ensemble. A member of the International Street Cannibals since its inception, he often performs with his father's various ensembles, and performs regularly at The Cathedral St. John the Divine. His other interests include hockey, skiing, playstation 3 and horseback riding. | ||||||||||||||||
| Robert Wolinsky - Keyboardist Robert Wolinsky is a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Boston Chamber Music Society, and Philomusica. He has over forty recordings to his credit including Bach concerti on harpsichord for DGG, EMI, Telarc and Arabesque labels. | ||||||||||||||||
| Andy Stein can be heard weekly on National Public Radio in the "house band" of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He has recorded with Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne and Frederi ca Von Stade, has written an opera with libretticist Garrison Keillor, and his works for violin and orchestra have been performed by Joshua Bell, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Pamela Frank, Cho-Liang Lin. | ||||||||||||||||
| Jay Elfenbein is the director of the Ivory Consort, principal bassist with the New York Collegium, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Washington Bach Consort (D.C.), and a featured gamba soloist at Kennedy Center. His career spans both classical and popular musical worlds, has played bass and gamba with a range of artists such as Yo Yo Ma, Judy Collins, Paul McCartney, Lou Rawls, Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Hogwood, Dave Brubeck, Chris Potter, and Anthony Braxton, and plays early instruments on Paul Simon's gold CD You're the One. | ||||||||||||||||
| Bassist Mat Fieldes has collaborated with Joe Jackson, John Cale, Ornette Coleman, Steve Vai, Peter Erskine, Paquito D'Rivera, Kristjan Jarvi, Joe Williams, Arturo Sandaval. Recent appearances include Dream Engine for song-writer Jim Steinman, performances with the Gorillaz at the Apollo theater, and with hip-hop legend Jay-Z at Radio City Music Hall in 2006. In 2001, he performed on Joe Jackson’s album, Symphony, which won a Grammy for “Best Pop Instrumental”. Mr. Fieldes is solo bassist for Absolute Ensemble, which won the German Record Critic's Award for its album Mix, and which received a Grammy nomination for 'Best Small Ensemble' for its album Absolution; recent collaborations include recordings and touring with Joe Zawinul. As soloist, he's performed Turnage's concerto Blood on the Floor, at Miller Theater, NYC(2001), and with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra(Adelaide, Australia)(2004); with the same ensemble he has premiered Gene Pritsker0s concerto for electric and acoustic bass, Lost Illusion. He is currently member of the Herskowitz-Rozenblatt Project(HRP). and and has performed with New Jersey Symphony, Continuum, Second Generation Productions, and Jose Limon Dance Company. Mr. Fieldes has an MM from Juilliard. | ||||||||||||||||
| Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York City. A member of Grammy Award winner Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz Trio, Mike has also collaborated with Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall, Zakir Hussain, Marcel Khaliffe, Goran Bregovic, Michael Doucet, Kayhan Kalhor, Bruce Molsky, Simone Dinnerstein, Dawn Upshaw, Jan Vogler, and has recorded with Lenny Kravitz and Joe Zawinul, among many others. He has played on “Late Night with Conan O'Brian”, NPR's “St. Paul Sunday Morning”, “Regis and Kelly”, VH1, and with Yo-Yo Ma and Allison Krauss on the CBS “Early Show”. Mike has worked with Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, The Knights, The Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, yMusic, Bassam Saba's New York Arabic Orchestra, and a duo with Chinese Pipa virtuoso, Yang Wei. In addition, he has played, frequently, with the Flux Quartet, Argento Ensemble, and the BQE Project. In Germany, Mike has played the World Premiere and recorded Gregor Hubner's Cello Concerto No. 1, which showcases Mike's non-traditional and improvisational abilities. As composer, Mike writes extensively for the Mike Block Band, and has had his pieces performed at the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the MATA Festival. Mike is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mike's former cello teachers include Richard Aaron, Joel Krosnick, Darrett Adkins, and Carter Enyeart | ||||||||||||||||
| Greta Feeney (Soprano) - American soprano Greta Feeney was most recently heard as Marzelline in Fidelio with the San Francisco Opera. Other credits include appearances with St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the New Century Chamber Ensemble, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. | ||||||||||||||||
| Daniel Hague - (Bass) Daniel Hague has appeared with the Arizona Opera as D'Agnus in Rossini's La Donna del Lago and as Colline in Boheme, and at the Schuber t Opera as the Commendatore and as Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor). He has done Bassilio and Colline at Opera Theatre of CT, as well as and other roles at the Sanibel Festival, Bronx Opera and the Opera Orchestra of New York. | ||||||||||||||||
| President of the boxing gym, Gleason's Gym, Bruce Silverglade has been president of the Metropoli tan Amateur Boxing Federation, chairman of the National Junior Olympic Committee and a member of the National Selection Committee. He has promoted fights for such international attractions as Arturo Gatti, Vinny Pazienza, Mark Breland and Zab Judah | ||||||||||||||||
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