Pianist John Jensen is a musician of great diversity and accomplishment, who combines the virtuosity of a fine classical musician with the imagination of a great jazz pianist. He is an avant-garde keyboard player who masters the most complex and esoteric styles. Referring to Mr. JensenOs New York debut recital performance of Charles IvesO mammoth O`ConcordOL Sonata, New York Times critic Raymond Ericson said, O`A first-rate performance of a great work. He has recorded Founding violist of Fry Street Quartet, Russell Fallstad has performed and recorded internationally in venues including Carnegie Hall, Aspen Music Festival and the Jerusalem Music Center and has performed with notable colleagues Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, and Donald Weilerstein. As a principal player in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Russell performed under the batons of world-renowned conductors Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, and Sir Georg Solti with summer seasons in the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. RussellOs eclectic musical interests have marked his trajectory as an artist. An active performer in the new music scene, Russell debuted many performances of new works at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Chicago, and with the Cube Ensemble. He also enjoyed performing on period instruments and bows with renowned Baroque ensembles ApolloOs Fire and Ars Musica. Cellist Scott Ballantyne's New York debut, before a sold-out house at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, was described by critic Robert Lenz as 'one of the most impressive events I have seen in over thirty years of concert going'. Born in California in 1960, Scott Ballantyne joined the Utah Symphony at age of 15, often appearing with them as soloist. Leonard Rose invited him to attend the Juilliard School of Music. Ballantyne himself joined the Juilliard faculty upon graduation, and his own students are now members of the world's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. He enjoys an international reputation as a soloist and recitalist, with a vast repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to 21st-century composers such as Levy, Tavener and Tan Dun. He has been featured soloist on the Metropolitan Museum's Pianist Gail Niwa began piano studies with her mother and made her orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 8. She earned her Bachelor and Masters degrees at the Juilliard School. Niwa won high praise for her debut at Alice Tully Hall, her recitals at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and at Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium. She has soloed with the Chicago Symphony, the San Luis Obispo Symphony, the California Philharmonic, the Utah, Memphis, Fort Wayne, Augusta, Columbus, Reno, Evanston and Grant Park Symphonies and has given recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, at Kennedy Center, and in Athens, Montreal, Seoul, and St. Louis. She has toured Scandinavia and the Far East. Niwa was the first woman ever to win the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, also garnering the Audience Prize and the Chamber Music Prize. Ms. Niwa also won major prizes in the International Chopin Competition, the Mae Whitaker Competition and the Washington International Competition and the prestigious Best Accompanist Award at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition for Violinists in Moscow and has soloed with the Kammergild Chamber Players, the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Highland Park Strings and the Ocean State Chamber Players. Pianist John Novacek has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Leila Josefowicz, Emmanuel Pahud, Lynn Harrell, Julius Baker, and Kristina Cooper & Laura Frautsch, given numerous world premiers, and worked closely with composers John Williams, George Rochberg, and Lalo Schifrin. John studied piano with Peter Serkin, Bruce Sutherland, and Jacob Gimpel, chamber music with Jamie Laredo, and Felix Galimir, also often coaching with Gary Graffman and Isaac Stern. Grammy-nominated Novacek regularly tours North and Central America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and China as both recitalist and concerto soloist; having performed over 30 different concerti with dozens of orchestras. Venues include Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Hall, Weill Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, UCLAOs Royce Hall, Ambassador Auditorium, Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Theater des Champs-Elysees (Paris), and Wigmore Hall (London), the Lucerne Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival (Lincoln Center), Wolf Trap, SummerFest La Jolla, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Stavanger (Norway) International Chamber Music Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Switzerland), and Ravinia. often heard on syndicated programs such as NPROs Performance Today, The Record Shelf, First Hearing, and St. Paul Sunday, and heOs been a featured performer on many television shows including Tonight Show and Entertainment Tonight. 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. Dutch pianist Robert Moeling has performed to critical acclaim in Holland, Luxembourg, France, and the U.S. appearing as soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Denver Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Mirecourt Trio and members of the Fine Arts Quartet. His recordings include solo and chamber works of Brahms and Willem Pijper and the complete Debussy preludes for the Music and Arts, Koss Classics, Erasmus, and Projects labels. A frequent guest on National Public Radio, he has also been broadcast by WFMT Chicago, Wisconsin Public Television, Iowa Public Radio and Television, and Kansas Public Radio and Television. He has performed with the Amsterdam Chamber Society, Chamber Music International/Dallas, Anchorage Winter Classics, the Piatigorsky Foundation and the festivals of Groningen, Sitka, Estes Park, Anchorage, and Park City. Robert Moeling is a graduate of the Rotterdam Conservatory and pursued graduate studies at Indiana University as a Fulbright-Hays grant recipient. Among his mentors are Istvan Hajdu, Luba Edlina, Rostislav Dubinsky, Menahem Pressler, Gyorgy Sebok, and Josef Gingold, for whom he served as studio pianist. Click on artist's name for full bio. Monte Belknap's performing career spans 30 years with notable solo performances and accomplished mentors. He won the International Starling Violin Competition in Aspen, Colorado in 1989. This honor awarded full scholarship to the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, where he earned his BM and MM degrees in violin performance as a student of Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy Delay. Cellist Stephen Balderston participates in clinics, chamber music concerts and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has performed solo works and chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Menahem Pressler, Gil Shaham and Pinchas Zukerman, and appeared twice as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has been a featured artist at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, Bargemusic in New York City, the Affinis Music Festival in Japan. Additionally, he has participated in the OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the International Music Festival in Shanghai, China. In August 2001, he served as Principal Cello at the Grand Teton Music Festival. Balderston began his cello studies with Gabor Rejto in his native southern Californi a and earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Lynn Harrell. He joined the DePaul University School Of Music faculty in 2003, after 10 years as Assistant Principal Cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From 1983-1993 he was a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, performed as soloist under Leonard Slatkin and was an artist-in-residence at Washington University. Pianist John Jensen is a musician of great diversity and accomplishment, who combines the virtuosity of a fine classical musician with the imagination of a great jazz pianist. He is an avant-garde keyboard player who masters the most complex and esoteric styles. Referring to Mr. JensenOs New York debut recital performance of Charles IvesO mammoth O`ConcordOL Sonata, New York Times critic Raymond Ericson said, O`A first-rate performance of a great work. He has recorded Armen Ksajikian began his professional career at the age 12 with the National Philharmonic of Abkhazia in the former Soviet Union. Since his 1976 arrival in the United States, he has established himself as a vital contributor to nearly every aspect of the musical life of Los Angeles. He is admired for his artistry and beloved for his generosity and wonderful sense of humor. Ksajikian has performed as principal or soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber, Opus Chamber and Hollywood Bowl orchestras, among others. He has toured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York and Europe, and with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to Japan and Brazil. He has also played with most symphonies in the Southland, and with the orchestras of many international ballet companies as well as the LA Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin. Ksajikian has appeared at the Colorado, Banff, Venice Film and Oregon Bach music festivals, among others. In 2003, he performed ShostakovichOs Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Orquestra Sinf(TM)nica do Teatro Nacional de Brasflia at the Rio International Cello Encounter. Cellist Anne Francis made her debut at age 10 at the Inaugural World Cello Congress. Winner of the Darius Milhaud Performance Prize and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, she has performed from Carnegie Hall in New York to a Maori Longhouse in New Zealand, Ms. Francis can be heard in recordings of O`The NPR CellosOL. Other collaborations have included pianists Wu Han, Joseph Kalichstein, and Mischa Dichter, and with violinist Donald Weilerstein on New YorkOs famed Schneider Series. Her tour of the Balkan States as a O^Carnegie FellowO (sponsored by the US State Dept. and Carnegie Hall) led to the European premiere of Marc ScearceOs O`Y2KOL and performances in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and Slovenia. Ms. Francis commissioned a piece from composer Ryan Beard, and works with leading composers Donald Erb, Bernard Rands, and Ned Rorem. Ms. Francis is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she was assistant to Paul Katz. Born in Belgium, cellist Thomas Landschoot began studying the cello at age 6 with his father and performs virtually the entire standard cello repertoire, as well as works by contemporary composers such as Witold Lutoslawski, Kristof Penderecki and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Several composers have dedicated their works to him. Mr. Landschoot has played numerous recitals in Europe, the United States and Asia, both as a soloist and in chamber music settings. He is a founding member of the Chamber Ensemble Bloomington in Japan, the Taman Trio in Europe and the Trio du Soleil in the US. He recently performed with the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, Prima la Musica, Tempe Symphony and the Orchestra of the United States Army Band. His performances have been broadcast in Europe, Japan and the United States and recordings are available on Summit, Organic and Centaur Records. Ms. Airi Yoshioka, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and winner of the Juilliard School's Concerto Competition, has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Her orchestral credits include performances with the American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. She was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble. Ms. Yoshioka came to the United States at age 12 and studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, where she received the Branford College Arts Award and an M.M. from The Juillliard School. The O`freedomOL and O`brillianceOL (New York Concert Review) of violinist Rebecca McFaul has fashioned performances that O`glide through with a dancerOs graceOL (Charlotte Observer). Founding member of Fry Street Quartet, Rebecca has toured North and South America, the Balkan States and Europe, including Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, and Israel as soloist and chamber musician. Her collaborations with historyOs great artists began at the age of 15 with Leonard Bernstein and continued with many others including Eugene Lehner and Alexander Schneider. More recently Rebecca has performed with luminaries Misha Dichter, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Joseph Kalichstein, and Wu Han. Violinist William Fedkenheuer began his studies at age four at the Conservatory of Music at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Making his solo violin debut with the Calgary Philharmonic in 1994, William went on to receive a Bachelor of Music from Rice UniversityOs Shepherd School of Music. WilliamOs touring in the United States has included performances at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall Presents, San Francisco Performances, and the National Gallery. Abroad, he has performed at the American Academy in Rome, Fountainbleu, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, the Taipei National University of the Arts, and in Austria at the famed Esterhazy Castle for the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt. Cellist Scott Ballantyne's New York debut, before a sold-out house at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, was described by critic Robert Lenz as 'one of the most impressive events I have seen in over thirty years of concert going'. Born in California in 1960, Scott Ballantyne joined the Utah Symphony at age of 15, often appearing with them as soloist. Leonard Rose invited him to attend the Juilliard School of Music. Ballantyne himself joined the Juilliard faculty upon graduation, and his own students are now members of the world's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. He enjoys an international reputation as a soloist and recitalist, with a vast repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to 21st-century composers such as Levy, Tavener and Tan Dun. He has been featured soloist on the Metropolitan Museum's 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 late husband, violinist Charles Libove, including recent recitals in New York and Cremona (Italy) featuring virtuoso works for violin and piano. Cellist Jeffrey Solow's multi-faceted career embraces performances as recitalist, soloist with orchestra and chamber musician, as well as teaching, writing and lecturing on a variety of cellistic topics and arranging and editing music for the cello. Two of his many recordings were nominated for Grammy Awards. Solow's concerto appearances include performances of more than forty different works with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic (on subscription series and at the Hollywood Bowl), the Japan Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the American Symphony (with whom he also recorded). He has presented recitals throughout the US and in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Central and South America and has been guest artist at many national and international chamber music festivals. As a young artist, Violist Leslie Harlow participated in master classes with William Primrose, Paul Doktor, Donald McGinnis, Heidi Castleman and Nabuko Imai. Ms. Harlow has performed in chamber music with violinists Andres Cardenes, Glenn Dicterow, Bill Preucil, Shlomo Mintz, Elmar Oliveiri, Paul Rosenthal, Charles Castleman, Charles Libove, Arturo Delmoni, Joseph Silverstein, Oleh Krysa, Philippe Djokic, Scott Yoo, Manuel Ramos, violist Paul Neubauer, cellists Fred Zlotkin, Jeffrey Solow, Stephen Balderston, Yehuda Hanani, Scott Ballantyne, Mark Kosower, Denise Djokic, pianists Gail Niwa, John Novacek, John Jensen, Doris Stevenson, Michael Gurt, Robert Moeling and many other of the finest musicians of this era. Her primary teachers were Marna Street, Susan Schoenfeld, Paul Doktor, and violinist Harry Shub with additional lessons with Heidi Castleman, Donald Wright and Francis Tursi. Chamber coaches included Felix Galimer, Samuel Rhodes, David Soyer, Paul Doktor, Charles Castleman, Robert Sylvester and Julius Baker. Following graduation from Juilliard, Ms Harlow founded the Park City International Music Festival, the festival continues as UtahOs oldest classical music festival, having presented over 550 concerts. Ms. Harlow has recorded as principal violist and soloist for film scores including the movies O`Murder in the FirstOL and O`Surviving Picasso.OL While studying in New York, she performed chamber music and recitals in New York City and at the Skaneateles Festival. Ms. Harlow has also appeared as guest artist with the Sitka Festival (Alaska), Lyrica Series (New Jersey), Piatigorsky Foundation (New York), and Bargemusic (New York) as well as performing chamber music for the International Clarfests in Baltimore, Texas, Utah and Vancouver (Canada). She has performed on tour in Europe with the Juilliard Orchestra and the Utah Symphony. Cellist Stephen Balderston participates in clinics, chamber music concerts and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has performed solo works and chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Menahem Pressler, Gil Shaham and Pinchas Zukerman, and appeared twice as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has been a featured artist at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, Bargemusic in New York City, the Affinis Music Festival in Japan. Additionally, he has participated in the OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and the International Music Festival in Shanghai, China. In August 2001, he served as Principal Cello at the Grand Teton Music Festival. Balderston began his cello studies with Gabor Rejto in his native southern Californi a and earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Lynn Harrell. He joined the DePaul University School Of Music faculty in 2003, after 10 years as Assistant Principal Cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From 1983-1993 he was a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, performed as soloist under Leonard Slatkin and was an artist-in-residence at Washington University. Clarinetist Russell Harlow is one of the nationOs premiere solo and chamber clarinetists. In 1996 Mr. Harlow performed the New York Premiere of the Ramiro Cortes Trio (written for him), along with the Brahms Quintet, at CarnegieOs Weill Hall in New York City. In addition to performances in Utah with the Park City and Autumn Classics Festivals, Contemporary Music Consortium and Sonolumina Orchestra, Mr. Harlow has performed with the Sitka and Anchorage Fall Classics Festivals (Alaska), the Amsterdam Chamber Players, the Puerto Rico Clarinet Festival, the Ars Nova, Lyrica and Piatigorsky Foundation concerts in New Jersey and with the Leonore Trio and Bargemusic in NYC. He attended both UCLA and USC before joining the Utah Symphony at the age of 21. He studied with clarinetists Gary Foster, Mitchell Lurie, Harold Wright and violinist Charles Libove, and was coached in chamber music and attended the master classes by cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Mr. Harlow is featured on recordings with flutist Laurel Ann Maurer, the Mirecourt Trio, the Park City Music Festival and the Utah Symphony. Russell Harlow has performed for International Clarinet Association events worldwide, also giving lectures on clarinetists of the past century. Mr. Harlow serves as Associate Principal Clarinet for the Utah Symphony and has recorded solos for major filmscores. He founded and directed UtahOs Nova Series until he joined the Park City International Music Festival as Co-Director in 1986. Since securing the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2000, the Fry Street Quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to Sarajevo and Jerusalem, beginning its international career in 2002 as cultural ambassadors to the Balkan States, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the U.S. Department of State. This tour featured the European debut of J. Mark ScearceOs O`Y2K,OL commissioned for Fry Street with a grant from Meet the Composer. Subsequent international appearances have included the ProQuartet Academy at Pont-Royal, France, the Prague Chamber Festival and Trutnov Autumn Festival in the Czech Republic and Kulturvereinigung OberschYNtzen in Austria. Fry StreetOs collaborations have included performances with pianists Misha Dichter, Wu Han and Joseph Kalichstein, and performances this season with Cleveland Quartet founding cellist Paul Katz and pianist Robert McDonald. Other memorable collaborations include performances with the Mendelssohn String Quartet at the 92nd St. Y, Donald Weilerstein at the New School in New York, and with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Ursula Oppens, violinist Nurit Pacht, and soprano Toni Arnold as the quartet-in-residence with New York CityOs Alliance Fran?ais. Violinist Philippe Djokic is one of Canada's leading soloists and chamber musicians. He received his musical training at the Juilliard School where he studied with the great violin pedagogue, Ivan Galamian. He was awarded the Fritz Kreisler Prize by Juilliard and has won major prizes at the Jacques Thibauld (Paris, 1975), Sibelius (Helsinki, 1977), Vaclav Huml (Zagreb, 1977) and Paganini (Genoa, 1982) Competitions.. He is also a former first prize winner of the CBC Young Artist Competition. He has performed throughout Europe and North America as soloist with major orchestras. His recording of the Delius violin concerto was given a five-star rating by BBC Magazine. Charles Castleman has been soloist with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai. Medalist at Tchaikovsky and Brussels, his Jongen Concerto is included in a CD set of the 17 best prize-winning performances of the Brussels competitionOs 50-year history. Charles Castleman has conducted master-classes in Kiev, London, Montreux, Salzburg, Vienna, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, Vancouver, and over 50 U.S. Universities. He is founder/director of THE QUARTET PROGRAM, in its 39th season. At the age of 14 violinist Manuel Ramos entered the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City, and later continued his studies at Indiana University. Ramos frequently performs in chamber music festivals in the United States and Mexico, and has toured South America, performing in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay. In addition, he has given recitals in Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. Several of his solo appearances with Mexican orchestras have been televised throughout Mexico and Latin America. Violinist Rebekah Johnson gave her first public performance at the age of six on a CBS television special. By the time she entered Juilliard at age sixteen as a student of Ivan Galamian, she was already a seasoned soloist who had toured widely throughout the U.S. and Europe. In addition to being a very busy chamber artist, she is concertmaster of Musica Viva and the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey and appears regularly on series at Lincoln Center and at such festivals as Spoleto and the Grand Teton Music Festival. Paul Rosenthal began playing the violin at the age of three. He studied with Dorothy DeLay and Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and with Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern California. In 1972, Rosenthal founded the Sitka Summer Music Festival which continues to attract musicians and audiences from many countries and is recognized as one of the outstanding chamber music festivals in the United States. He also directs the festivalOs affiliated Autumn Classics and Winter Classics series in Anchorage. As soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Rosenthal has performed with orchestras from Alaska to New York and in recitals and chamber music series in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Holland, Scotland and the Bahamas. Taras Krysa was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a musical family and began his formal studies as a violinist at the Moscow Conservatory. After moving to the United States in 1989, Mr. Krysa continued his studies at Indiana University and Northwestern University earning masters degrees in both violin performance and orchestral conducting. As a violinist, Mr. Krysa has held positions with the New World Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestras. Monte Belknap's performing career spans 30 years with notable solo performances and accomplished mentors. He won the International Starling Violin Competition in Aspen, Colorado in 1989. This honor awarded full scholarship to the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, where he earned his BM and MM degrees in violin performance as a student of Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy Delay.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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