| Name:
| Kuniko Kato
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Producer (Percussion Instruments)
| | Phone:
| +1 (615) 360 3343
| | Address:
| Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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| | KUNIKO KATO is the one of the most promising young percussionist in the world today. Specializing herself both in marimba and percussions, she studied under Keiko Abe for marimba, Yoshitaka Kobayashi and Kyoichi Sano for percussions at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Japan. While studying, she performed with Toho Gakuen Orchestra conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama as a soloist for "Concert for marimba and string orchestra" written by Akira Miyoshi.
After graduated from Toho She went to Europe by herself for further advancing music education and artist career. While she stayed in Europe she entered to Rotterdam Conservatorium in Netherlands and studied percussions further under Robert Van Sice where she was conferred "Cum Laude" for her graduation and at that time she was the only percussionist who have ever received this degree among all graduates.
Other than her solo works in Japan, Europe and U.S, she has been selected as an active member of Saito Kinen Orchestra by strong recommendation of Seiji Ozawa, Ensemble ICTUS (Belgium) and Ensemble NOMAD (Tokyo). Recently she has eagerly joined with the Yatsugatake Kogen Festival (directed by Toru Takemitsu), Saito Kinen Festival (directed & conducted by Seiji Ozawa) included U.S. Touring 2000, and Mito chamber orchestra(directed & conducted by Seiji Ozawa) included Europe touring 2001, ARS MUSICA Festival (Belgium), Oxford Festival (U.K.), etc.
Her Awards include 2nd prize in the 7th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition(1990) 2nd prize in International Leigh Howard Stevens Marimba Competition(1995) "Kranichstein Musikpreis" in the Darmstadt '(1996) She is an international endorsement artist of Pearl Musical Instrument & ADAMS Musical Instrument in North America, European Union and Japan.
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| Name:
| John Kersey
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist (Piano)
| | Fax:
| 4487 124 71778
| | Address:
| BM1867, London WC1N 3XX, United Kingdom
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| | John Kersey is the winner of many international awards for his work in music and is particularly known for his pioneering work in researching and bringing unknown nineteenth-century piano music to a wider public through concerts and recordings. He is author of a major series of première recordings called “Romantic Discoveries”, consisting of over sixty nineteenth-century works which are available on CD via his website. He has given the British concert and recorded premières of works by Alkan and S.S. Wesley, among others, and his work has been featured on American and Dutch radio.
In 2002, he was the first individual British winner of the Medal of Honour for Science and Art of the Austrian Albert Schweitzer Society, one of the most prestigious of European cultural prizes, which counts among its past recipients the distinguished American composer Richard Nanes. In the same year, John Kersey became the first non-German to win the Friedrich Silcher Medal in Bronze of the Friedrich Silcher Vocalists' Foundation, Hessen, Germany. He has received several international chivalric honours, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He has been awarded honorary fellowships from music colleges and societies of musicians in the UK, as well as several honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
His professional Purcell Room début at the age of seventeen led to invitations to give concerts in both the UK and continental Europe, and he has since performed not only as piano soloist and collaborative artist, but also as an organist and continuo harpsichordist. His current performing schedule includes both solo recitals in the UK and a series of concerts with the mezzo-soprano Sarah Tyler. In June 2005, the duo gave the public première of Jonathan Dove’s new song-cycle “All the Future Days” to poems by Ursula Vaughan Williams, and several more performances of the work are planned for the coming season.
John Kersey graduated with a dozen prizes as the top pianist of his year from the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Yu Chun-Yee and was later elected a Junior Fellow. As well as his work as a performer, he is also active as a music critic and educational consultant. For more information, please visit his website at www.johnkersey.org
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| Name:
| Dr.Bhaskar V. Khandekar
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Writer (same)
| | Phone:
| 0761-4002775
| | Fax:
| 0761-2490086
| | Address:
| Kalavardhan Academy, Near Jain Mandir, Agrawal Colony ,, jabalpur MP 482001, India
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| | India's First Music Therapist ,Dedicated to Music Therapy since 1993. First Ph.D. in Music Therapy.Hindustani Violinist , Musicologist .Dr.Bhaskar is not only a brilliant performing artist but also a eminent educationalist . Having more than 10 years Teaching Experience of classical music. Dr.Bhaskar has also given powerful play-back -music for many theatres and dramas entitling him as wonderful composer . He has given many successful Performances & Lec-Demos , and received wide appreciation all over India .
In his Second Phase - Dr.Bhaskar Khandekar is a very peculiar Astrologer and Gems Expert . His clinical approach and guaranteed Musical Remedies through horoscope , distinguish him as an authentic and extraordinary personality in this field . He had developed a 9 month Music Therapy Course for pregnancy period , so as to avoid psyco-somatic problems and to have a brilliant child. Activly , Dr. Bhaskar Khandekar is promoting and popularizing classical music through " KALAVARDHAN " Academy of Performing Arts Jabalpur .
He is also Director of RAASI "Research And Advance Studies Institute" ,where many research scholars are doing Ph.D. under his guidance . As a musicologist ,violinist and therapist Dr.Bhaskar is a eminent name of destinction and perfection making him pioneer of all his fields.
Dr.Bhaskar has obtained his Masters degree in Violin and had Ph.D. in very rare subject called " Music Therapy " from the reputed Indira Kala Sangeet VishvaVidyalaya Khairagarh .[C.G]. Apart from being a musician he is also master of Business Administration and hold the diploma for the same in 1984.
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| Name:
| Edmund Kimbell
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Singer, Soloist, Teacher, translator (Provide programme or singing translations of German texts.)
| | Phone:
| +1 773 935 1803
| | Fax:
| +1 773 935 9180
| | Address:
| 450 West Melrose Avenue, #222, Chicago, Illinois 60657-3818, United States
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| | Countertenor and pianist Edmund Kimbell is a versatile and multi-faceted artist who switches easily between voice and keyboard. As singer, his opera roles include the Czarevitch Feodor in "Boris Godunov" with the San Francisco Opera, Miles in Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" with the Sarasota Opera, and concert performances of the Page and Fourth Jew in "Salome and Amor" in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice," as well as numerous Amahls. Concert and recital appearances include Bernstein's "Missa Brevis" at the Grant Park Music Festival, Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" with the San Francisc Symphony Chorus, and Lieder recitals in California, Illinois and Canada.
As pianist, he performs both as soloist and as accompanist. Focusing on 19th and 20th century music, his repertoire ranges from Romantic Lieder through the lyric asceticism of Federico Mompou to the tumultuous "Fantasy Sonata" by contemporary prize-winning composer Michael A. Kimbell, which he has premiered. Mr. Kimbell frequently accompanies himself. He has also directed his own chamber arrangement of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" from the keyboard.
He can be heard (as boy soprano) in the world premiere recording of Daniel Kobialka's "Antiphony Across . . ." and as the voice of Young Bobbin in "Loom," an audio play produced by LucasFilm Games. His translations of two of the plays of the Austrian comic dramatist Ferdinand Raimund are published by Peter Lang. Side pursuits include theatrical lighting and sound design and intellectual property issues relating to the Internet.
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| Name:
| Francis Knights
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Conductor, Player, Teacher, Writer
| | Address:
| Cambridge, United Kingdom
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| | Francis Knights studied at London, Oxford and Nottingham universities, and has held research and teaching posts at the Royal Northern College of Music, Oxford University and the British Library. His research interests include cathedral music, manuscript sources, performance practice and early keyboard instruments; he is editor of 'Clavichord International' journal, and has published numerous articles and editions. As well as giving recitals on harpsichord, clavichord and organ, he directs the chamber choir Voces Angelicae and the period-instrument baroque ensemble Bach Collegium Oxford.
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| Name:
| David Korevaar
| | Skills:
| accompanist, composer, player, soloist, teacher
| | Phone:
| +1 203 866 4034
| | Fax:
| +1 203 866 4675
| | Address:
| 3 Sasqua Pond Road, Norwalk,CT 06855, United States
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| | David Korevaar's recent ventures have included his complete traversals of the two books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, along with traditional recital programs and chamber music and concerto appearances. His recently issued recording of the first book of the WTC can be ordered online at .
Born in 1962, Korevaar has studied with the eminent American virtuosos Earl Wild and Abbey Simon, as well as with the remarkable Paul Doguereau. Along with a strong interest in new music, he performs from a wide repertoire of standard works of the last 300 years, and loves to explore some less-known nooks of the literature as well. Frequent forays into turn of the century music by Faure and Reger, as well as exploration of the solo piano works of Hindemith, Dohnanyi and others has been a hallmark of his programming since his New York debut at Town Hall in 1985 -- which was greeted by an enthusiastic review in the late-lamented Musical America by Faubion Bowers.
Honors and awards have included top prizes from the Peabody-Mason Foundation, and the William Kapell Competition, as well as a special prize for his performances of French Music from the Casadesus Competition. He is a member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet, and for many years performed as a member of Hexagon, winners of the Young Concert Artists Award.
Korevaar teaches at the University of Bridgeport, the Westport School of Music, and is currently completing studies for his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at Juilliard.
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| Name:
| Edward Lambert
| | Skills:
| accompanist, composer, conductor, player, publisher, teacher, piano
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)70501 87765
| | Address:
| The Old Rectory Stables, Smannell, Andover SP11 6JW, United Kingdom
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| | Composer of contemporary 'classical' music, liturgical music, music for children and community performance, and also TV documentaries. Music performed at major UK venues - Huddersfield Festival, Bath Festival, London Opera Festival, etc. Modern, but not experimental; challenging but accessible. Also conductor and pianist.
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| Name:
| Kosmas Lapatas
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Composer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Address:
| Greece
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| | Prof. Kosmas Lapatas studied Piano, Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Composition, Music Technology and Music Therapy under world-renowned celebrities such as Dmitri Toufexis and Danae Kara (Juilliard), Thomas Kelly (Harvard), Craig Wright (Yale), Brian Robison and Michael Cuthbert (MIT), Clare Brooks (UCL), Bruce Miller (BAMSA), Robert Dennis (RID), Bobby Owsinski (BOMG), Marcos Alexiou, Ioannis Christofilos and Vassilis Dellios.
Prof Lapatas has attended piano, pedagogy and conducting masterclasses from Dmitri Toufexis & Eleni Traganas (Juilliard), George Hadjinikos (RNCM), Sontraud Speidel (HMK), Vera Nosina (GSMC), Eleonora Tkatch (MSTC) and Anastasios Symeonidis (MWV)
Prof Lapatas is a Teaching Artist in prestigious schools, colleges, conservatories and institutions, and has performed at prestigious concert halls and cultural centers.
He is the recipient of the 1st Prize Award in Piano Performance, the 1st Prize in Composition and the Classical Music Education Initiative Award. He has recorded more than 20 CDs with Classical, Film and Electronic Music. He is a member of AMS, DMO, EPTA, HeJMEC, IAC, ISPCI, ISPME, MPG, NAfME and NEMA
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| Name:
| David John Laugharne
| | Skills:
| accompanist, conductor, player, Musical Director (Theatre productions)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1222 707470
| | Address:
| 60 Purcell Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 3QN, United Kingdom
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| | David who comes from Penarth, Nr. Cardiff, graduated from the Welsh College of Music and Drama where he studied Music and Piano Accompaniment.
His credits as Musical Director include: Carousel, Dazzle, Guys and Dolls, Trial by Jury, HMS Pinafore, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Oliver, Broadway Genius!, South Pacific, the Irish tour of Side by Side by Sondheim and Wimbledon, a new musical premiered at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End.
During the summer of 1996 he worked at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, New York, USA, as Musical Director for Cabaret, Crazy for you, and Nine. His second working visit to the USA was in 1998 as tour accompanist to the Black Mountain Chorus of Wales.
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| Name:
| David H Lee
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Arranger, Player, Writer
| | Phone:
| +1 (719) 271 6410
| | Fax:
| +1 (719) 271 6410
| | Address:
| 6540 Templeton Gap Rd, Colorado Springs 80922, United States
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| | I have been playing keyboards for 17 years, and was part of the national piano players guild in 1996. I gave up classical to produce on a freelance basis. I can play in all keys, and can read music. If you need me to, I can play by ear also.
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| Name:
| Randa Lee
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Singer, Teacher (Voice and Electric Bass Instruction)
| | Address:
| 6511 Magnolia Ave., Riverside, CA 92506, United States
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| | Multi-award winning professional vocalist, electric bassist and entertainer. Offering vocal lessons, vocal coaching and electric bass lessons.
Classes held at Music Mike's music store 6511 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92506.
Contact by email: Randa@RandaLee.com
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| Name:
| Sandra Lynn Libby
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Teacher, vocal coach
| | Phone:
| +1 (530) 892 9048
| | Address:
| Chico, CA 95928, United States
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| | Sandra Libby began piano study at the age of four and began accompanying school choirs, local theatre and church services at the age of 12. In 1999, Sandra completed a Master's degree in keyboard accompanying at California State University, Chico. Directly following her degree she was appointed staff accompanist/lecturer at that same institution.
In 1999, Sandra was one of five American pianists chosen to study at the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz Austria where she studied with Professors Harold Heiberg and Eckart Sellheim. Sandra also studied with Caren Levine and Dr. Sylvie Beaudette while studying at CSU, Chico.
Sandra has a vast repertoire of art song and opera arias under her fingers as well as many instrumental accompaniments.
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| Name:
| Arthur A. Lukomyansky
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher
| | Address:
| Boston, MA 02135, United States
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| Name:
| Mark Lysaght
| | Skills:
| Accompanist,Arranger
| | Phone:
| +353 86 828 9741
| | Address:
| 16 Landscape Park, Dublin 14 14, Ireland
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| | Mark Lysaght is an Irish musician with many years experience playing guitar in a variety of styles - Irish traditional, blues, rock, folk and jazz.
Based in Dublin, Mark is acknowledged as a fine accompanist of traditional Irish music and he worked as a session musician on a number of CDs, playing both acoustic guitar and (Irish) bouzouki.
He is also very much at home playing electric guitar, mainly in a blues or rock setting. Mark is also an accomplished bass player and can be relied on to enhance any musical combination with his tasteful contributions.
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| Name:
| Angela Madjarova
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +359 899 102 711
| | Address:
| Buhovo, Bl 22, ap.23, Sofia 1836, Bulgaria
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| | Angela Madjarova is a graduate of the Bulgarian National Academy of Music in Sofia. Her international musical career began as a child, while she was playing in the Youth Symphony Orchestra "Pioneer" and had the chance to perform with some of the greatest musicians of the time, such as Maestro Lenard Bernstein, Katia Ricciarelli, Raina Kabaivanska, later with Emil Tchakarov, Julian Kovatchev, Gianlugi Gelmetti to accompany Agnes Baltsa, Nikolai Ghiaurov, Mirela Freni, Itzkah Perlman, Salvatore Accardo…
Mrs. Madjarova is a harp performer with an international presence, her repertoire consists of a wide range of different musical styles, from baroque and classic, through romanticism and impressionism, all the way to contemporary... She has performed as a soloist and a principal harpist of many different orchestras around the world: in Bulgaria, France, Spain, Germany, Egypt, Italy, Greece, Ex-Yugoslavia, Turkey, USA, Mexico, Thailand, China, Cyprus, Brazil… Mrs. Madjarova has made recordings of a number of solo harp pieces for the Bulgarian RTV, Sarajevo RTV, Mexico RTV as well as for Balkanton and Pentagon Classics publishing houses.
Her professional interests cover solo performances, chamber music with a large variety of formations, large scale orchestra projects. She would never miss an opportunity to take a new challenge keenly experimenting and exploring unknown artistic territories and enriching her knowledge of the music cultures of the world. Her deepest belief is that music is a means of achieving peace, beauty, inner harmony, intellectual and emotional development.
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| Name:
| Fabio Maffei
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Composer, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (piano)
| | Phone:
| + 41 1 252 41 43
| | Address:
| Zürich, Switzerland
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| | Fabio Maffei, an Italian native, was born in Yverdon (Switzerland) on 2nd October 1968. At the age of 4 he began to play the piano and from 1976 to 1985 he studied at the Conservatory of Lausanne, in the class of Anne-Marie Tabachnik. During several years he took proficiency and interpreting classes with the pianist Fausto Zadra, before carrying on his studies with the pianist Esther Yellin at the Heinrich Neuhaus Foundation in Zurich. From 1985 he privately studied composition with the Swiss composer René Gerber. He also studied orchestra conducting under Chen Liang-Sheng in Geneva and Michel Tabachnik. Fabio Maffei won several prizes at piano competitions. He performed in Switzerland and abroad, either solo or with orchestra. His "opus 1" (Divertimento for 7 wind instruments and piano) was first performed in 1988 in the Wiener Konzerthaus by the Vienna Virtuosi. In 1993 he won the special prize at the composing competition "Musique pour la Liturgie" of the "Procure Romande de Musique Sacrée" in Fribourg, and two years later the first prize for his work Le Petit Prince at the Competition for Young Composers of the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. His compositions (works for orchestra and chamber music) were performed in Switzerland, in Europe and in the USA. They were also broadcasted on radio and television. In 1996, Fabio Maffei was awarded by the Arts-Sciences-Lettres Society of Paris.
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| Name:
| Alfonso Marin
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher ( lute and theorbo player)
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| | Alfonso Marin, lute and theorbo Alfonso Marin began his musical studies in the “Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Tenerife” in the Canary Islands (Spain), and afterwards in the “Conservatorium van Amsterdam” were he continued his classical guitar and vihuela studies under the guidance of Lex Eisenhardt. In 1998, after his graduation he devoted himself entirely to the study of early plucked instruments as the lute, theorbo and vihuela, continuing his studies in the same conservatory for five more years with the prestigious lutenist Fred Jacobs. After his studies he continued with an intense concert activity as a soloist, vocal and instrumental accompanist as well as continuo theorbo player in many Dutch renaissance and baroque ensembles, orchestras and choirs like “Les Perruques de Amsterdam”,“Arion ensemble”, “The Royal wind consort”, “Nieuwe Opera Academie (DNOA), “Alkaan Emsemble”, “Musica del Seicento” , “Encore”, “4 bij 4”, “Doetinchemse Bach Vereniging” and “Kamerkoor Sjanton”, etc. He is a founder member and director of the renaissance ensemble “El Parnaso Lirico” with whom he performs regularly in Holland, Germany, France Belgium and Switzerland. Member of the Wolkestein Ensemble dedicated to medieval music with concerts in Holland and Germany. His collaboration with the soprano Valeria Mignaco is one of his most rewarding and fruitful musical activities, having performed with her in numerous recitals in Holland, Germany and Spain.
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| Name:
| Graham George Marshall
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1706 642139
| | Address:
| 7 The Woods, Sudden, Rochdale OL11 3NT, United Kingdom
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| | Born 1938 in Birmingham, UK. Graduated in music from Durham University 1960. Former Conductor of the Durham Colleges Light Opera Group and the Durham Colleges Orchestra, and part-time Lecturer in Music in the University of Durham. Founder and Conductor of the Rochdale Light Orchestra, UK.
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| Name:
| Jamsheed J Master
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher (Pianist Vocalist and Orchestral Arranger)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1273 699936
| | Fax:
| mobile: +44 (0)7961 171538
| | Address:
| 169 Hartington Road, Brighton BN2 3PA, United Kingdom
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| | Pianist and piano-vocalist available for all your music needs. Fully equiped with PA and sound, and can happily supply a piano too, Jamsheed Master has an impressive, 'by-ear' repertiore of over 3,500 songs.
As one of the UK's most sought-after pianists, Jamsheed has a busy and regular performance calendar throughout the year, which means his prices are very reasonable and his talents are ample to accomodate even the most bizarre musical requests!
For any more information, or to discuss how Jamsheed Master and Jamm Music can provide the perfect music solution for your event, just call or email. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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| Name:
| Manuel Matarrita
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +506 8313-8794
| | Address:
| San José n/a, Costa Rica
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| | osta Rican pianist Manuel Matarrita is currently one of the most active pianists in his country. He has played recitals, both as a soloist and as an accompanist, in the most important concert halls of his native country, as well as in places such as Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Colombia, Perú and the United States.
ince 2006, Matarrita has participated regularly as one of the official pianist of the "International Voice Competition Ciudad de Trujillo", which takes place annually in Perú. Manuel Matarrita holds a Bachelor of Music and a "Licenciatura" in Music from Universidad de Costa Rica. Afterwards, he obtained a Masters in Music from University of New Orleans and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Louisiana State University, all degrees in Piano Performance.
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