Park City International Music Festival Chamber Artist Roster

These Artists Will Perform and Serve as the Faculty for the Young Artist Institute

	`Russell Harlow`, clarinetist, has appeared with the Anchorage Autumn Classics, the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society, with the New Jersey Lyrica Music Series, the International Clarinet Convention, the Ling Concert Series in Kansas, Music From Ouray (Colorado), and with the Florestan Trio. Mr. Harlow is a native of Los Angeles where he studied with Gary Foster and Mitchell Lurie. Mr. Harlow founded the Nova Chamber Music Series in Salt Lake City before moving to Park City as Co-Director of the Park City Music Festival. In addition to solos on Utah Symphony recordings, Mr. Harlow has recorded the Cortes Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, and with the Mirecourt Trio and the Allegria Wind Quintet. He is featured soloist on television and movie soundtracks including Year of the Comet,Sandlot and Surviving Picasso.
	`Laurel Ann Maurer`, flutist, has won awards from the Chautauqua Institution, the Seattle Young Artists Festival and the National Orchestra of New York. Ms. Maurer is a native of Seattle, Washington, and has performed on radio and television throughout the United States. Appearing at Weill Recital Hall, the 92nd Street ³Y², the Arcady Music Festival and the Colden Center for the Performing Arts, Ms. Maurer was selected by composer Otto Luening to perform as concerto soloist on a Luening Retrospective Concert. Ms. Maurer has performed and studied with Julius Baker and in the masterclasses of Jean-Pierre Rampal and the late Marcel Moyse. Ms. Maurer has record several CD¹s of American solo works and will represent Utah on the Millineum Concert Series at Kennedy Center with a concert broadcast live on the Internet.
	`Arturo Delmoni`, violinist, soloist and conductor, is a frequent concerto soloist with the Jupiter Symphony of New York. Mr. Delmoni began his studies at age four with Dorothy DeLay. As a Naumberg Scholarship student, Mr. Delmoni studied with Miss DeLay, Ivan Galamian and with Josef Gingold at the Meadowmount School and in the master class of Jascha Heifetz. He has taken honors in the Dealey, Flagler, Vina Del Mar and Leventritt Competitions. Mr. Delmoni appears with international music festivals, is a founding member of the Boston Artists¹ Ensemble, and frequent guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society. Mr. Delmoni records for the John Marks label.
	Philippe Djokic, violinist, a native of France, received his musical training at the Juilliard School as a student of Ivan Galamian where he won the Fritz Kreisler Prize. Mr. Djokic was a major prize winner in the Jacques Thibaud, Sibelius, Vaclav Huml and Paganini Competitions. Mr. Djokic has appeared as soloist with the Montreal, Detroit and Quebec Symphonies, the O.R.T.F. in Paris and the Zagreb Philharmonic. Currently Associate Professor of Violin at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, he is a regular guest performer with festivals in Montreal, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Utah. Mr. Djokic has recorded the Delius Violin Concerto with the Nova Scotia Symphony on the CBC Record label.
	Rebecca Johnson, violinist, member of the Leonore Trio and frequent performer with the Teton Music Festival. Ms. Johnson's photo and bio will be included at the next update.
	Charles Libove, violinist, recorded the Ravel and Debussy Quartets while a member of the Paganini Quartet and won the first Enesco International Violin Competition in Bucharest. As leader of the legendary Beaux-Art String Quartet, Mr. Libove was recipient of the first Naumberg Chamber Music Award. He has performed with the Paganini Quartet, Philharmonia Trio, the Marlboro Trio and with the Juilliard Quartet. The Duo recently released a compact disc containing the Ravel Second Sonata, Tzigane, and a sonata by Frank Bridge. Mr. Libove has performed with festivals worldwide including Aspen and Spoleto, and has served on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, American University, the State University of New York and New York University.
	Leslie Blackburn-Harlow, violist, is Founder/Artistic Director of the Park City International Music Festival. Ms. Harlow earned a masters degree in viola from the Juilliard School and serves as Principal Violist for the Ballet West Orchestra. Ms. Harlow¹s solo and chamber music performances in festivals and recitals throughout the country including recent world premieres of the David Carlson ³Quantum Quartet² and Frank Ezra Levy Piano Quartet. This season Ms. Harlow performed as guest artist with the Piatigorsky Foundation, the Leonore Trio, the Ling Concert Series and the Sitka Summer Music Festival. Ms. Harlow is featured as soloist on the soundtracks of numerous films including ³Murder in the First² and ³Surviving Picasso² and serves on the chamber music faculty at Brigham Young University. She has performed on tour in Europe with both the Juilliard Orchestra and the Utah Symphony.
	Scott Ballantyne, cellist, studied with Leonard Rose and has served on the Juilliard and Cleveland Institute faculties. He recently performed at Avery Fisher Hall for Mostly Mozart and Schubert Cello music in Paris for a ballet written for him. Other solo appearances include Tokyo's Bunkamura, Alice Tully Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, and with the New Jersey Philharmonic, Eastern Music Festival, the Utah Symphony, and the Little Orchestra Society orchestras. Formerly principal cellist of the Mostly Mozart Festival and the American Ballet Theater, he is currently first cellist in New York's Little Orchestra Society, associate principal of the New York Chamber Orchestra and the cellist of the Leonore Trio. He has recorded for Nonesuch, EMI, and Phillips, and the Frank Ezra Levy Cello Concerto for SoundMaster.
	A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music,cellist `Evan Drachman` has performed recitals in India, Great Britain, Sweden, Italy and Canada, toured as soloist with the Chinese-American Symphony and given recitals in Hong Kong and Macau. In 1994 Mr. Drachman performed with the Odessa Philharmonic in Odessa and Kiev and in 1997 with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich, at the World Cello Congress II in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Drachman also studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the New England Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers were Stephen Kates, Laurence Lesser, Luis Garcia-Renart and William Pleeth. He has also studied and performed at music festivals in Aspen, Yale ,the Banff Center (Canada), Prussia Cove (England), and the Cennina Music Festival in Italy. Mr. Drachman performs frequently for the Sitka (Alaska) Summer Music Festival.
	`Mark Kosower`¹s cello studies began at age 11Ž2 with his father, the cello professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and his performance career began at the age of four. At seven he began performing concertos with symphony orchestras. As a soloist, Mr. Kosower has appeared with many U. S. orchestras including Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Milwaukee and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Solo recitals include Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Milwaukee, San Francisco, St. Paul, Washington D.C., at the Aspen Festival, and Ravinia¹s "Rising Star Series". Mr. Kosower¹s awards include First Prize in the Seventh Irving Klein International String Competition where he was the first winner ever to gain a unanimous vote by all nine judges. In 1994, Mr. Kosower also won the WAMSO Young Artist Competition, again the unanimous winner of the Grand Prize which resulted in a solo appearance with the Minnesota Orchestra on its subscription series. Mr. Kosower studied at Indiana University with Janos Starker and serving as Mr. Starker¹s assistant.
	Gayle Smith, cellist, started playing the cello at age nine and studied with Pablo Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico, later performing in his master classes at both the University of California and the Marlboro Festival. Following study with Gregor Piatigorsky at USC, she studied at London¹s Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. Ms. Smith began her career after becoming a finalist in the 1970 International Tchaikovsky Competition, giving recitals in Vienna, London and New York at Alice Tully Hall. Performance tours include the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Mexico. Ms. Smith has served on the faculties of the University of Utah, University of California at Irvine, Brigham Young University and is currently on the facutly of Utah Valley State College.
	Robert Moeling, pianist, received his Performing Artist Degree from the Rotterdam Conservatory and a Fulbright-Hays Grant for study in the United States. Mr. Moeling soloed with the Milwaukee and Cedar Rapids Symphonies and the Denver Chamber Rotterdam Conservatory Orchestras and with the Sitka Festival in Alaska and the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society. He has also appeared on National Public Radio, WFMT Chicago, Wisconsin Public Radio and Iowa Public Radio and Television. Mr. Moeling records for Koss Classics, the Erasmus and Music and Arts Labels, and his recordings include the complete piano and cello works of Mendelssohn, piano trios by Glinka, Arensky and Smetana, the complete Beethoven piano and cello works and the complete piano trios by Brahms.
	Nina Lugovoy, pianist, has performed with Lincoln Center¹s Mostly Mozart Festival and festivals in Claremont and Ojai, California; Vineyar, San Francisco; the International Music Institute, Spain; in Yugoslavia; Cardiff, Wales; Stratford, Ontario; and Spoleto, Italy. She has appeared on the PBS and CBS Networks, and has recorded recitals for the CBC in Canada and BBC in England. Following her Carnegie Hall debut as a child prodigy, she was awarded a scholarship to the Curtis Institute. She is currently on the faculty of New York University. Ms. Lugovoy has performed and recorded extensively with her husband, violinist Charles Libove, including recent recitals in New York and Cremona (Italy) featuring virtuoso works for violin and piano.
	Doris Stevenson, pianist, is Artist in Residence at Williams College, teaching Williamstown, Mass., and New York City. She has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops, in recital at Weill and Alice Tully Halls and as collaborative partner with Gregor Piatigorsky and Ruggiero Ricci. A founding member of the Sitka Music Festival in Alaska, she participates in the Marin MusicFest and Chamber Music/L.A.. Ten years on the piano faculty of USC, she was pianist for the master classes of Gregor Piatigorsky. She studied at the University of Southern California with John Crown and Gwendolyn Koldofsky and has recorded the Brahms Cello/Piano Sonatas with Nathaniel Rosen for John Marks Records and ³Orientale² for the Northstar label.
	John Jensen , pianist, has numerous recordings to his credit. Most recently, he has recorded "Tre Ricercari" by Martinu, with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for London Records. Mr. Jensen's solo recordings include the piano music of Aaron Copland and Paul Reale, and the piano sonatas of Charles Ives, as well as a solo jazz compact disc. Mr. Jensen received his musical training in Southern California, studying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky and John Crown on piano and Ingolf Dahl and Halsey Stevens in composition. As a member of the Mirecourt Trio, he has made seventeen recordings.
	Charles Castleman, violinist, garnered top prizes in the Tchaikovsky, Brussels and Leventritt Competitions and has soloed with orchestras world-wide. Mr. Castleman is professor of violin at the prestigous Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. In 1970 he founded the Quartet Program where promising string players from across the country converge to study and perform chamber music. Mr. Castleman has performed worldwide with festivals including the Marlboro, Saratoga, Juneau and Vienna Festivals, and performed and taught in Shanghai, China in 1991. Mr. Castleman has numerous recordings to his credit, both as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. In his youth Charles Castleman was renowned as both a child prodigy and a "whiz kid", and holds a degree from Harvard University in science.
	Steven Masi, pianist, will be joining the Festival for the first time this year. Mr. Masi is a founding member of the Leonore Trio. Mr. Masi's bio and photo will be added soon.
	Louise Vickerman, harpist, will be joining the Festival for the first time this year.Ms. Vickerman serves as Principal Harpist for the Utah Symphony.