Leslie Blackburn-Harlow, violist and Founder/Director of the Park City International Music Festival, earned her masters degrees from Texas Tech University and The Juilliard School in New York City. At Texas Tech Ms. Harlow won the Student Concerto Competition two years in a row, performing works by Bloch and LoPresti on tour. She placed in the top three in the Viola Concerto Competition at The Juilliard School out of 43 violists competing. During her student years Ms. Harlow also performed as guest artist in music festivals including the Skaneateles, Eastern Music Festival and Missouri Symphony Society Festival. Upon graduation from Juilliard, Ms. Harlow moved to Utah and founded the Park City Music Festival. Ms. Harlow¹s solo and chamber music performances in festivals and recitals include the world premieres of the David Carlson ³Quantum Quartet² and Frank Ezra Levy Piano Quartet. In recent years she has performed as guest artist with the Piatigorsky Foundation, the Leonore Trio, the Elements String Quartet, the Ling Concert Series and the Sitka Summer Music Festival and is soloist on the soundtracks of numerous films including ³Murder in the First² and ³Surviving Picasso². Formerly Principal Violist for Ballet West, Ms. Harlow is currently performing with the Utah Symphony and has performed on tour in Europe with both the Juilliard Orchestra and the Utah Symphony. Ms. Harlow is also founder/director of the Park City Film Music Festival. Scott Ballantyne, cellist, studied with Leonard Rose at Juilliard School, and while a student, appeared as soloist with orchestras in the U.S., Brazil, Canada and Mexico. He joined the faculty of Juilliard and his students populate orchestras and ensembles including the New York and Seoul Philharmonics, the Lark Quartet and the Carnegie Chamber Players and are rising young soloists such as Jennifer Combs and Sun-ju Kim. Recent solo appearances include a sold-out concert at Alice Tully Hall described by critic Robert Lenz as "One of the most impressive events I have seen in over 30 years of concert going." He gave the world premieres and recorded the cello concerti of Frank Levy and Ernst Levy. and recently performed in Iceland, the Beethoven Triple with the Atlantic Chamber Symphony (Lukas Foss, conductor), toured in Europe and Asia. He also received the prestigious Morgan Foundation Career development award, returned to Tully Hall as soloist in Tan Dun's "Crouching Tiger Concerto" and premiered Jack Gottlieb's Fantasy for Solo Cello, which he will record for the Naxos label. As cellist of the Leonore Trio (Steven Masi, piano, Rebekah Johnson,violin), he tours widely, is heard frequently in the U.S. on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" series and has also been featured in broadcasts in Europe. The Leonore Trio has recorded music of Levy, Schubel, Kauder and Sheng for OPUS ONE. Cellist Ellen Bridger began her musical studies at the age of 7 in Baltimore at the Peabody Institute. After receiving the Bezazian Award at Oberlin Conservatory, she pursued further study with George Neikrug in Boston and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Other awards include winner of the Music Teachers National Association Competition, Ourstanding Musician Award at Interlochen, Atlanta Symphony Youth Auditions winner and Outstanding String Player Award at Boston University. A versatile soloist and ensemble artist, she has soloed under Joseph Silverstein in Boston and Ling Tung at the Grand Teton Music Festival, has served for fourteen years as Principal Cellist for Ballet West, has performed as soloist on over 100 film and television broadcast scores, has appeared on tour and in recordings as soloist with popular music groups including Air Supply and Kurt Bestor and serves as Principal Cellist and soloist for all Utah¹s many commercial studio orchestras. Ms. Bridger has performed with the Utah Symphony, as Principal Cellist for Opus, the Utah Chamber Orchestra and with the Nova Series and as member of the Nova String Quartet and recently in chamber performance with Utah Symphony conductor/pianist Keith Lockhart and members of the Utah Symphony. Arturo Delmoni, violinist, has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including the St. Louis, Dallas, Spokane, El Paso, Glendale, and Tuscon Symphonies; the California Chamber Symphony; the Rhode Island, Brooklyn, Boston, Omaha, and Kansas City Philharmonics; and the Boston Pops. As a chamber musician, he has performed with illustrious colleagues such as Pinchas Zukerman, Elmar Oliveria, Emanuel Ax, Nathaniel Rosen, Jon Kimura Parker,Jeffrey Kahane, and Dudley Moore. Born to Italian parents living in New York, Delmoni received his first violin lessons at age four, and soon came to the attention of Dorothy DeLay of the Juilliard School. His public career had already begun with recitals and a network television appearance when he entered Juilliard as a Naumburg Scholarship student. He continued his studies with Miss DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and with Josef Gingold during summers at the Meadowmount School. After graduation from Juilliard, Mr. Delmoni studied with Jascha Heifetz at the University of Southern California's Institute for Special Musical Studies, and with Nathan Milstein. He also took honors in the DeLay, Flagler, Vina del Mar, Kennedy-Rockefeller, and Leventritt Competitions. Mr. Delmoni is a favorite artist of the audiofile set and regular records and tours as a guest artist throughout the world. Mr. Delmoni¹s numerous solo recordings appear on 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. Curtis Institute of Music graduate Evan Drachman, cellist, 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 he performed with the Odessa Philharmonic in Odessa and Kiev and with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich. Mr. Drachman studied at the Peabody and New England Conservatories and with 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 Summer Music Festival. Russell Harlow, clarinetist, is Co-Director of the Park City International Music Festival and, in recent seasons, has appeared with Anchorage¹s Autumn Classics and the Sitka Festival in Alaska, the Amsterdam (Holland) Chamber Music Society, New Jersey¹s Lyrica Music Series, as featured artist at the International Clarinet conventions in Texas and Utah, as guest artist with the Muir String Quartet, the Ling Concert Series in Kansas, Colorado¹s Music From Ouray, and with the Leonore and Florestan Trios. Mr. Harlow, a native of Los Angeles, studying there with Gary Foster and Mitchell Lurie, and later with Harold (Buddy) Wright. Mr. Harlow is an official Yamaha Artist and is working with the Yamaha Corporation on a new clarinet design. In addition to solos on Utah Symphony recordings, Mr. Harlow has recorded the premiere recording of the Ramiro Cortes Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, a work written for him while he was director of the Nova Series in Salt Lake City, and with the Mirecourt Trio and the Allegria Wind Quintet, works by Meyer Kupfermann and Leo Sowerby. He is featured as soloist on television and movie soundtracks including ²Year of the Comet²,³Sandlot² and ³Surviving Picasso². Mr. Harlow is a featured artist at the 2003 International Clarinet convention and will lecture and moderate a panel discussion as part of his contribution to the convention. 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, and recently completed a recording session as pianist with the Minnesota Orchestra and a compact disc of contemporary works with flutist Laurel Ann Maurer. Rebekah Johnson began violin studies at age 3 and gave her first public performance 2 years later on CBS television playing the first solo in Bach's Double Violin Concerto. Shortly after that she won the Minneapolis Young Artist Competition. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard where she studied with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. Ms. Johnson tours as soloist and chamber musician and performs regularly at music festivals including the Grand Teton Music Festival, Spoleto, Park City International Music Festival and the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival. She has premiered works of Lukas Foss, Aaron Kernis, Philip Glass and John Adams. Recent solo performances include a tour of Africa as part of the "Eclipse of the Sun" festivities, a New York debut recital at Carnegie¹s Weill Recital Hall, soloist in New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's Bach Festival along with Jaime Laredo and Vladimir Feltsman. Ms. Johnson is the violinist of the Leonore Trio with Scott Ballantyne, cellist and Steven Masi, pianist. 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. This compact disc is currently recommended in the top 100 classical recordings to buy by the American Record Guide. Mr. Libove has performed with festivals 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. 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 recorded recitals for the CBC (Canada) and BBC (UK). 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. Laurel Ann Maurer, flutist, has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has recorded extensively in the United States and Europe and has released CD's on the CRI, Albany, Soundspells and 4-Tay labels. Ms. Maurer commissions and premiers new works and has been awarded prizes and grants from the National Association of Composers-USA, the National Flute Association, the National Orchestra of New York, the Chautauqua Institute and the Utah Arts Council. Her principal teacher, Julius Baker, has stated that she is "One of our outstanding and gifted flutists." Steven Masi, pianist, holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Sasha Gorodnitzki. Mr. Masi appeared in a series with the Atlanta Symphony that the Atlanta Journal hailed as ³A Triumph.² He has toured with the New Symphony Orchestra of London, the Southwest German Radio Orchestra and the American Symphony, in the U.S. and Europe. Steven Masi has presented recitals across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia and has appeared in New York¹s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera. His career has included performances at the Casals Festival, the Aspen Festival, the Chattauqua Festival, the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, the Detroit Bach Festival, and the Manhattan School of Music Summer Festival in Taiwan. He toured the U.S. with the both the Bonn Woodwind Quintet and the Odyssey Chamber Players and is a member of the renowned Leonore Trio. He has given world premieres of works by American composers including Justin Dello Joio and Frank Ezra Levy. Steven Masi has recorded for the Aulos label,RAI-Italy, Southwest German radio, West German radio, and South German radio. Gail Niwa, pianist, won high praise for her recent recitals at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, on the Allied Arts Piano Series, and at the Ambassador Auditorium's Gold Medal Series in Pasadena. She also received outstanding reviews for her solo appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performing the Schumann Piano Concerto with Sir Georg Solti conducting. Ms. Niwa has won major prizes in the International Chopin Competition, the Mae Whitaker Competition, the Washington International Competition. amd is the first woman to have won the First Prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. An outstanding ensemble player, Ms. Niwa won the prestigious Best Accompanist Award at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition for Violinists in Moscow. She has been featured soloist with the Kammergild Chamber Players, the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Highland Park Strings and the Ocean State Chamber Players. Ms. Niwa can be heard with violinist David Kim on recordings for the Musical Heritage Society, SKC and Teldec labels and with bassonist Bruce Grainger on the Centaur label. Manuel Ramos, violinist, has soloed with orchestras throughout the U.S. and Latin America including Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Mr. Ramos' solo appearances have been televised nationally in Mexico and throughout Latin America. He performs with the St. Louis Symphony and in past seasons has been assistant concertmaster of the Pittsburgh and San Diego Symphonies and concertmaster of the Mexico City Philharmonic. Mr. Ramos performs in festivals in Park City, Utah, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, San Antonio, Texas, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The Missouri Arts Council selected has him as an artist on their solo and recitalist-touring program. Mr. Ramos is a faculty member of the Webster University Community Music School in St. Louis, and among his students have been semi-finalists in the Sphinx Competition, Emerson Scholarship awardees to Interlochen, and winners of local concerto competitions. 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.