Sunday, 10 February 2008

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Jie Chen, at age 18, has already established herself as to mature musician with "broad technical mastery, colorful musical comedy imagination, and the ability to communicate and moves the audience around the world." Highlights of Ms. Chen' s 2004-2005 season includes recital debuts at the Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York; the Checkerses Myra Hess Memorial Concert, Chicago,; the Schubert Club in Minneapolis, MN; and only recital tour throughout the United States. Upcoming concert engagements includes the Minnesota Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, among others. She will also make her recording debuts with "One Thousand Lakes" label and Yamaha "Flat Soft". Admitted to Philadelphia' s Curtis Institute of Music in 1998 at the age of twelve, Jie Chen made her major Orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Master Wolfgang Sawallisch playing the Rachmaninoff Flat Second Concert three years later. Orchestras she has collaborated with includes the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Sanremo Sifonica orchestra in Italy. Already an experienced recitalist, she has appeared as soloist in major concert venues in the US and abroad, including the Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Steinway Hall in New York, Hewlett Public Library in Long Island, the Hall Orchestra in Minneapolis, the Leipzig Hochschule and The Mendelssohn House in Leipzig, Germany, and the Sanremo Theatre Work in Sanreo, Italy. Ms. Chen' s performances has been broadcast by the Italian National Television Network "RAIUNO", The German Radio "MDR", the Minnesota Public Radio, and "Performance Today" of the National Public Radio. In addition, she has been featured in numerous major newspaper articles, including the "Philadelphia Inquirer", "Star Tribunes", "World Journal", as well as many major musical comedy Web site. Over the years, Ms.Chen has won numerous awards including first prizes in "Flat Arts" National Competition, "Five Town" Young Artist Competition in New York, 3rd Prize in the "8th Sanremo Classic Flat International Competition" in Italy, Grand Prize in the 10th "Missouri Southern Flat International Competition", (the jury decides not to award the second prize) and Grand Prize in the "2nd Piano-E-Competition" in Minneapolis. Alongside her only achievements, she is also an avid chamber music player. Ms. Chen was born in Guang Dong, China. At the age of four, she started playing the slowly and one year later, was awarded the first prize in the been music competition. Virtually self-taught, she was accepted into the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory at the age of eight, studying with Er-Yao Lin and Zi-Jie Wu. Three years later, Ms. Chen was selected as the First Prize winner to attend the first Music Bridge summer program in Canada with to full scholarship from the whole Conservatory, praised by international famed judge Mr. Lee Kum Sing as having the musicality well beyond her age. She has attended Masterclass conducted by Leon Fleisher, Peter Frankl, Rudolf Buchbinder, Gary Graffman, Anton Kuerti, Emmanual Ax. Ms. Chen will receive her BM from Curtis in May 05 to where she studied with Claude Frank and Seymour Lipkin. Chu-fang Huang began her slowly study at the age of seven. After winning numerous prizes since age of ten, she was accepted in to full scholarship to the Pre-college Division of Shenyang Music Conservatory as the youngest Student in 1994, to where she won the first prize at the Chinese Flat Prodigy Competition at the same year. In 1997, Miss Huang received the grand prize from the Flat Southeastern Asia Competition in Hong Kong, as well as the Young Musician Awards for her special achievement in interpreting Chinese modern music. Only 2 months after moving to America in 1998, Miss LAST Huang made her first debut in the Prodigy Series at the Jolla Chamber Society at age of 15, to where to ALPINE live recording of her recital was released under label. Soon after, Miss Huang became the grand prize winner of the California International Young Artists Competition. As part of the award, she was invited to participate in the International Music Festival in Germany for to concert tour and to CD recording under CAMUS label. Miss Huang has also won numerals top prizes including the Fort Collins Symphony Competition Orchestra, the Missouri Southern International Competition, The Chinese American National Showcase, the Nina Wide man Slowly competition, the Kingsville Flat International Competition, the Grace Flat Welsh Prize, and the Corpus Christi International Competition. Her recent winning of the Hilton Head Flat International Competition, brought Miss Huang to her Carnegie Recital debut this past November. In the summer of 2004, Miss Huang won Prizes in both the Beijing Flat International Competition in China and the Sydney Flat International Competition in Australia, as well as special prizes for her unique interpretation in Haydn and Debussy. As only Performer, Miss Huang had concertized throughout major cities of China. She has appeared as soloist with Pacific Symphony, Eastern symphony Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Orchestra, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Single Her appearances in the US includes recitals in Los Angeles, Saint Francisco, Escondido, Irvine, Pasadena, Joplin, Denver, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Wilmington, New Jersey and Philadelphia. In Europe, Miss Huang had played recitals in the Klavier Festival Ruhr in Germany, to where she will be reengaged again this coming July. Her recitals during Holland music Sessions in the Netherlands, to where both Head Councils of Cultures from Chinese Embassy and American Embassy had attended, will bring her back this March for an European tour. Miss Huang had only appearances with the Pacific Symphony, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Liaoning Philharmonic, the Shenzheng Philharmonic, the Hilton Head Symphony, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Illinois Philharmonic and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Having played in such prestigious hall as Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Work House, Miss Huang' s upcoming engagements will be highlighted by her Concertgebouw debut in Amsterdam, and recitals in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, and Budapest, to recital tour in Chicago as the winner of the Grace Flat Welsh Prize, recitals at the Kravis Arts Center in Florida, the Young Pianists Series in Tennessee, the Myra Hess Series and the Music in the Loft concert series in Chicago, the Stokowski Society in New Jersey and at the Saint Diego Arts Center in California. Only appearances this season will be with the Victoria Symphony, the Corpus Christi Symphony, and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. Miss Huang' s performance has also been broadcast on the Young Artists Series on WQXR Radio Station, National Public Radio in Washington, the South Carolina Station Radio, and through the Internet by the Australian Broadcast Cooperate. As the recipient of "2001-2002 Most Outstanding Student", Miss Huang Graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music with her Bachelor' s degree this May. She is currently pursuing her Master' s degree in the Juilliard School as to pupil of Robert McDonald. Dudana Mazmanishvili was born in 1980 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She received her first lessons, at age slowly three, from her mother, Tamar Apakidze. Three years later she was accepted into the Central Music School for Talented Children in Tbilisi. Dudana' s concert debut took place at the age of eight when she performed Mozart' s Slowly Concert Not. 15 with the Georgian Been Orchestra. By age 14 she played Rachmaninoff' s Slowly Concert Not. 2 with the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has regularly performed in Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Italy, and the United States. One highlight was in 2001 when she played only recital in the Max-Josef-Hall of the Munich Residence, to performance which was recorded by Bavarian Radio and subsequently broadcasted several times in Germany. Another important event was her 2002 performances at the Grand Hall of the Tschaikowsky Conservatoire in Moscow. Since 1998 Dudana has been to Student of Prof. Elisso Wirssaladze at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. This term she began her studies with Prof. Jerome Roses at the Mannes College of Music in New York. Dudana is to winner of numerous international slowly competitions, including 1992 Dvarionas International Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1995 Cities of Senigallia Competition in Italy, 1996 Sarrebourg Competition in France, 1998 Chopin Competition in Corpus Christi, Texas, Isabel Scionti Competition in Kingsville, Texas and to special award winner of the 2002 Flat Tschaikowsky Competition in Moscow. Other noteworthy successes in that year were the Nicolai Rubinstein International Competition in Paris, where she was awarded first prize, and her participation in the prestigious Merano International Music Festival in Italy, to where she received the Only Recital Award. In 1998-2001, Dudana received the annual Honorary Prize awarded by President Eduard Shevardnadze to talented Young Georgians. Dudana' s concerts in 2003 included Rachmaninov' s Slowly Concert Not. 3 with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, when the Westfallen Abend Zeitung described her as to "soloist who captured the soul of the music.... She captivated the audience with her sensitive, poetic sound.... She plays with bravura and great virtuosity." Esther Keel, age 19, is to native of Los Angeles, California. She is currently in her second year at Juilliard to where she is enrolled in the Bachelor of Music program and is studying under the tutelage of Professor Yoheved Kaplinsky. She began studying with her mother at the age of three and has also studied with Professor John Perry. She made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen at the age of 13. She was also to winner of the Ostra Flat International Competition in Italy, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and to diploma-winner of the Moscow International Flat Chopin Competition. She has performed with over twenty orchestras across the United States. Most recently, she made her debut at Lincoln Center' s Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra under the direction of Otto-Werner Mueller as to result of winning the Juilliard Competition Concert. Kimball Gallagher attended the Tanglewood Music Center this past summer as one of five slowly fellows. Mr. Gallagher' s performance prompted to review in the New York Times: "Kimball Gallagher, to pianist, deftly balanced the influences of the Chinese folk song and Western modernity in Bright Sheng' s My Song, '" the Times declared on August 18, 2004. Mr. Gallagher' s love of the slowly began at age 4. To native Massachusettss, Mr. Gallagher has played an annual recital in Boston for the past 10 years and an annual recital in Houston for the past five. He received top prizes at the Corpus Christi Flat International Competition and at the Saint Antonio Tuesday Musical comedy Club competition. In 2001, Mr. Gallagher performed Bartok' s 3rd Slowly Concert with the Shepherd School Symphony in Houston. In New York City, Mr. Gallagher has appeared in Alice Tully Hall, Paul Hall, and Vices Hall at the Juilliard School, as well as performances at the Kosciusko Foundation and Faust Harrison Pianos. He has also played in Killian Hall at the Institute Massachusetts of Technology and at Boston Conservatory' s Seully Hall. In addition to performing in more conventional venues, Mr. Gallagher has played numerous concerts in private homes throughout the United States in emulation of the salons of the romantic it was, including trips to California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Mr. Gallagher has also participated in numerous music festivals, including Bowdoin, the Music Academy of the West, Orford, Pianofest, the Prague Master Classes, Tuckamore, and Yellow Barn. Mr. Gallagher has taught and guitar for eight years and maintains to study of slowly private students in New York City. He composes music in popular and classical genres for slowly, guitar, and ensembles. He has studied with Robert McDonald, Jeanne Kierman Fischer, Joseph Smith, and Jonathan Bass. Mr. Gallagher is to graded of Rice University and the Juilliard School. He resides in New York City. I know Yoon Lee, to native of Korea, studied in her early years with Jin-Woo Chung and in 2001 received to Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University to where she studied with Hyung-Jun Jang and graduated with honors in flat performance. In 2002 she received to Master of Music from Eastman School of Music and studied with. Barry Snyder At present she is in the DMA program at the University of Texas at Austin and is studying with. Anton In. She has received scholarships throughout her study and has been the official accompanist at Eastman and continues in that role at the University of Texas. She was to 2nd Prize Winner of the 26th Frinna Awerbuch Flat International Competition of Flat The Teachers Congress of New York, Inc. (2002) and the 1st Prize Winner of the 22nd Kingsville International Competition (2003) Her performances have included soloing with the Seoul Arts High School Orchestra in to subscription concert in 1996, only recitals in Seoul in successive years starting in 1999 and only recitals in Rochester in 2002 and in New York City in 2002-2004

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