Raphael Bell is principal cello of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Antwerp, Belgium, and co-founder and co-Artistic Director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival in his hometown in Virginia. He has performed as a chamber musician at celebrated venues such as Wigmore Hall, Cologne Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Alti Hall (Kyoto), the Berlin …
Violinist Timothy Summers is co-director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, which he also co-founded in 2000, and is second violinist of the celebrated Orpheus String Quartet. A member of the first violin section of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2009, he has performed with the orchestra on violin, viola, and mandolin. As a chamber …
Praised by the NY Times for her “impressive musicality, a crisp touch and expressive phrasing”, Japanese pianist Rieko Aizawa has performed throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe, including Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. On the recommendation of the pianist Mitsuko Uchida, thirteen-year-old Rieko was brought to …
Among the most compelling singing actresses of our time, the admired black American soprano, Roberta Alexander, enjoys international renown for her riveting, incisive characterizations, miraculous vocal and dramatic range. She was reared in a musical family. She studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1969 to 1971, receiving M. Music in 1971, …
Cellist Edward Arron is rapidly gaining recognition worldwide for his elegant musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Earlier that year, he performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos with Yo-Yo Ma and the Orchestra of …
Pianist Alasdair Beatson is highly regarded as a distinctive and sincere musician, equally adept in solo and chamber repertoire. This year sees his fourth solo recital at Wigmore Hall, concerto appearances with the Poznan Radio Chamber Orchestra “Amadeus”, the Scottish Ensemble and Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the release of his second solo CD, which features piano …
Annette zu Castell studied with Wilhelm Melcher in Stuttgart, with Magdalena Rezler in Freiburg and with Simon Fischer at the Guildhall School of Music in London. She also studied chamber music with the Melos Quartet in Stuttgart and the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne. In London she studied baroque violin with Mica Comberti. She …
Violinist Steven Copes leads a diverse and enthusiastic musical life as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. He joined the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Concertmaster in 1998, and since then has led the orchestra from the chair in several highly acclaimed, eclectic programs. He also appears frequently as soloist with the SPCO, performing concerti …
Violist Nicholas Cords is strongly committed to the advocacy and performance of music from a very broad historic and geographical spectrum. His busy touring schedule has led him in recent years to Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Cologne Philharmonie, and the Library of Congress. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the …
Jonathan Gandelsman’s musical voice reflects the artistic collaborations he has been a part of since moving to the United States 14 years ago. Through his work with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Bono, Osvaldo Golijov, Suzanne Vega, James Levine, Mark Morris, Alim Qasimov and Fargana Qasimova, Nigel Kennedy, Martin Hayes, Christina Courtin and Jenny Scheinman, Gandelsman …
Matthew Hunt began his musical education as a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral. He later studied at the Guildhall School in London, and in Paris with Pascal Moraguès. Now much in demand as a soloist and chamber musician, Matthew has performed at venues around Britain and abroad, including the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and St. John’s, …
A winner of the Georg Solti Foundation Career Grant, flutist Sooyun Kim made her prize-winning debut at age ten with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010, she became the first American to win a top prize at the ARD International Music Competition since 1964. Ms. Kim was also awarded a Special Prize for the best …
Since his concerto debut at the prestigious Ravinia Festival in 2004, two-time Grammy-nominated violinist Jesse Mills has established a unique career, performing music from classical to contemporary, as well as composed and improvised music of his own invention. The Washington Post claimed, “Mills played [Messiaen] as if he’d just received it from some distant, vast and …
A native of the Pacific Northwest, David Quiggle studied at the Vancouver Academy of music, the New England Conservatory and the Cologne Hochschule fur Musik. In 1992 he settled in Spain, where he held the position of Principal Viola in the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia (La Coruña), and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Radiotelevision Española (Madrid). …
Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is a member of the Daedalus Quartet, winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. With the quartet, he has performed coast-to-coast in the United States and Canada, in Japan and Panama, and across Europe on a tour developed by the European Concert Halls Organization, which also provided for a Carnegie …
Grammy-nominated violist Melissa Reardon is a versatile performer whose playing spans all genres of the viola literature. A First Prize Winner of the Washington International Competition, and the only violist win top prizes in consecutive HAMS International Viola Competitions, Melissa’s playing has been described as “elegant,” and “virtuosic”(Classical Voice). Melissa received the prize for “best …
Violinist Sharon Roffman, prizewinner in the 2003 Naumburg Foundation International Competition, made her solo debut with the New Jersey Symphony in 1996. Since then, Ms. Roffman has forged a unique career equally sought after as a soloist, chamber musician and music educator throughout the United States and abroad. Ms. Roffman made her Carnegie Hall debut …
French violinist Aki Saulière is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studied with David Takeno. She continued her studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Karajan Akademie in Berlin, and later in master classes with Georgy Kurtag, Yuko Mori, and Ferenc Rados. As a founding member of the Capuçon Quartet …
Byron Schenkman performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and as harpsichordist and artistic director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. A recipient of the Erwin Bodky Award from the Cambridge Society for Early Music, Schenkman has recorded more than thirty discs of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertoire, including recordings on historical instruments from the National Music Museum …
A keen chamber musician, Emma Schied was awarded a scholarship to study with Celia Nicklin, Douglas Boyd and Christine Pendrill at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she graduated with First Class Honors. She won many prizes including Her Royal Highness Princess Alice Prize, the Leila Bull Prize, the Maklin Bursary, and the …
For the past twenty years, cellist James Wilson has performed to the delight of audiences throughout the world. Championing musical works from all periods, Mr. Wilson performs on Baroque as well as modern cello with repertoire ranging from the late-17th century to new works especially written for him. As recitalist and chamber musician, he has …