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Edwin Huizinga
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A frequent guest artist for performances and studio recordings by rockbands and jazz musicians, Edwin Huizinga plays Classical, Baroque and modern repertoire in venues from China to Panama to Canada.
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Jay Oh
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At the age of 14, Jay Oh earned his first international recognition as a First Prize winner at the 1996 Young Concert Artists International Competition in New York.
Jay Oh has gone on to perform extensively in recitals throughout most of the major cities in the U.S. including Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Washington D.C, San Francisco, Dallas, and New York. He has also performed in cities around the world, including Berlin, Frankfurt Vienna, Lyons, Paris, London, Vancouver, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Lima, and Beijing. In 2003, Oh made his New York debut with a recital at Carnegie Weill Hall.
Oh has made numerous solo appearances with various orchestras worldwide, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the direction of Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Janet Packer
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Janet Packer has established a unique career as a concert violinist and educator. Her performances demonstrate a mastery of a wide range of musical styles. As soloist with orchestra, recitalist, and recording artist, Ms. Packer’s musical intelligence and personality have won the accolades of audiences, critics, and musical colleagues.
An ardent champion of new music for the violin, Janet Packer has in recent years commissioned and premiered works for violin and piano by Vagn Holmboe, Edwin London, Mary Mageau, Juan Orrego-Salas, and Gardner Read; for solo violin by Andrew Imbrie; and for violin and orchestra by Vittorio Rieti and William Thomas McKinley. Ms. Packer’s Centaur Records CD, featuring first recordings of works for violin and piano by Charles-Marie Widor, is receiving critical acclaim.
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Salvatore Accardo
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Accardo having recorded just about everything on all the major labels, arguably stands alone as one the greatest musical virtuosos of all-time!
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Violin |
Irina Muresanu
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Hailed as “…not just a virtuoso, but an artist”, Irina Muresanu has won international acclaim as an outstanding young soloist, recitalist and chamber musician having already achieved top prizes in numerous international violin competitions.
Click links to watch YouTube videos of Irina
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 63
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Violin |
Robert Atchison
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With a career that has been at the very top of international music making Mr. Atchison has been described by the UK press as “a national treasure”.
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Violin |
Stephanie Chase
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“One of the violin greats of our era” (Newhouse Newspapers), Stephanie Chase is renowned for her "rich, passionate tone, dead-true intonation throughout, and virtuosity galore” (Gramophone). Her triumphant performances at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow have led to concerts in twenty-five countries, a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and solo appearances with eminent orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and London Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, her performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto (with the Louisville Orchestra) was deemed a “Classical Act of the Decade” (December 2009) and the New York Times noted that "the fine violinist Stephanie Chase was an elegant soloist" with the American Classical Orchestra (November 2009).Ms. Chase offers an attractive and diverse repertoire of over 60 concertos, in “refreshingly stylish” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) interpretations featuring her “elegance, dexterity, rhythmic vitality and great imagination" (Boston Globe) as well as "stunning power" (Louisville Courier-Journal), "matchless technique and flawless intonation" (BBC Music Magazine).She is also a gifted music arranger whose "A Capricious CHASE" - her new version of Paganini's Caprice No. 24 for violin and orchestra - is a guaranteed hit with audiences.
Stephanie Chase has collaborated with conductors that include Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Marin Alsop, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Her discography includes the world premiere of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on original instruments, which is recognized as "one of the twenty most outstanding performances in the work’s recording history” (‘Beethoven: Violin Concerto,’ Cambridge University Press).
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Violin |
Linda Rosenthal
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Violinist Linda Rosenthal performs throughout North America, Europe and Asia in recitals, as soloist with orchestra and as a chamber musician. She is Artistic Director of the annual Juneau Jazz & Classics festival in Juneau, Alaska, where she makes her home. Linda has commissioned and premiered over a dozen works in the past decade, including pieces for solo violin, electric violin, violin and narrator, and a concerto for violin and big band. She has recorded five solo CDs and will soon release her sixth.
Linda plays on a violin made in 1772 in Turin, Italy by J.B. Guadagnini.
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Rodrigo Puskas
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Winner of several national and international competitions, Puskás has performed in over 20 countries as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He has appeared in concerts and recitals in major festivals and concert halls around the world, including the Saint Huber Festival of Belgium, the Nagano and Yokosuka festivals in Japan, Young Artist International in Los Angeles, and performed in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
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Hartmut Ometzberger
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Hartmut Ometzberger is a distinguished violinist with very much his own voice. “When he plays the violin, he sings.” “He truly understands the concept of breath in music.” “ Incredible display of energy!” These are some descriptions of Hartmut Ometzberger’s playing. He is very active and equally comfortable as a solo violinist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, violin teacher or ‘simply’ introducing the joy of music to young people. His individual sound and musical ideas resonate with his audience.
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