| 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:
| 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:
| Brenda Lynne Leach
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Teacher
| | Fax:
| +1 617 227 6240
| | Address:
| c/o Harvard University, HDS 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge 02138, United States
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| | Conductor, Brenda Leach, has performed concerts in France, Germany, England, Israel, Russia, Bulgaria and the USA. She has been a featured artist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and at numerous music festivals including Madara Festival(Bulgaria) Sochi Festival (Russia), and Interlochen (USA).
Maestra Leach is in demand as a guest conductor. Recently she conducted the St. Petersburg Camerata, Novgorod Philharmonic Orchestra, Kaliningrad Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Varna State Philharmonic and the Shumen State Philharmonic. Her performances have received critical acclaim.
Ms. Leach is currently the Artistic Director/Conductor of the Boston Chamber Orchestra. She also serves on the faculty at Harvard University where she directs the Harvard Classical Orchestra and the Harvard Schola Cantorum. She is at home with a wide range of repertoire.
Brenda Leach holds a Doctor of Music Arts from the Eastman School of Music and completed post-graduate studies in orchestral conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music (Russia). She studied conducting with Maestro Alexander Polishchuk and Sir David Willcocks.
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| Name:
| Alan Lechusza
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher, Writer, multiple woodwind performer/composer (multi-woodwind performer/composer)
| | Phone:
| +1 (619) 895 4302
| | Address:
| 4603 Santa Monica Ave., San Diego/CA 92107, United States
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| | Multi-instrumentalist and composer Alan Lechusza is quickly gaining ground as one of the new woodwind players/improvisers to watch. His versatility on all the woodwind instruments (western and non-western aero phones) and his vast knowledge of genres, both as an improviser and as a studio musician, has led him to be in high demand. Alan has premiered numerous works by Wadada Leo Smith, Will Ogden, Christopher Adler, Vinny Golia, Anthony Davis, James Newton and more. He has performed and toured in Europe, Canada, Japan and all around the United States with soNu, Ark Ensemble, Arcanum, Quarteto Nuevo, The Aulos Saxophone Quartet and The Charles Owens Saxophone Quartet, to name only a few. Alan's work as a composer is always in high demand as he is able to combine subtle and heavy textures onto a sonic canvas which is both enlightening and challenging for the listener and performer alike. He has received numerous world premiers and commissions as well as having compositions performed at the 13th annual World Saxophone Congress (Montreal, Canada), North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) and an excerpt from his ongoing opera 'TRAPA' at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival (Denmark).
Alan Lechusza performs with the following ensembles: The Alan Lechusza Quartet Christopher Adler/Alan Lechusza Duo Quartetto Nuevo ARCANUM Carolyn/Alan Lechusza Duo other ensembles include: Vinny Golia Large Ensemble MAD TRIO The Christopher Adler Trio The Michael Vlatkovich Ensembles
Alan Lechusza is represented by Black Phone Records. Please check the website: www.blackphonerecords.com for more information.
Please contact Alan Lechusza directly at: alan@blackphonerecords.com
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| Name:
| Roman Leontiev
| | Skills:
| Conductor
| | Phone:
| 79110181528
| | Address:
| POBox-241, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
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| | Roman Leontiev , Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, is regarded as one of the preeminent conductors of his generation.
Born in 1963, he graduated from the special musical school of the Glinka Novosibirsk Conservatory of Music - one of the most famous music schools in Russia. In 1981 he began to study conducting at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. He graduated in 1986, and has continuied his conducting education at Novosibirsk Conservatory (Prof. Arnold Kats, People's Artist of Russia). Upon his graduation from Novosibirsk Conservatory of Music, Mr. Leontiev was accepted to the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music (1991–1999) as a pupil of the famous Professor Ilya Musin, in his postgraduate class.
These honors led Leontiev to become engaged to conduct in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, and to participate in the variety of the European festivals. The critical acclaim of these engagements led to Mr. Leontiev being invited to conduct in Western Europe and throughout Russia. Mr. Leontiev's additional engagements included other performances in Germany, Finland and Sweden.
Maestro Leontiev's first professional acclaim was received in 1985 when he was the Prize Winner of the International Moscow Festival. For his participation at the Festival he was awarded the USSR Government Medal. This success was followed in 1986 when Maestro Leontiev was awarded a Special Award at the Third Annual Russian National Folk Music Festival and Competition. At the mid-1990s Leontiev started the Tchaikovsky St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, comprised by the graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, and he became its Music Director and Conductor. The orchestra toured successfully to Finland, Serbia and Latin America, participating in the festivals and various International projects. In 1997 Roman Leontiev became the Prize Winner of the International Conducting Competition in Pereno (Switzerland-Austria). He was also awarded the Special Prize for the best performance of the contemporary compositions. After this success he was engaged to conduct the Symphonica Toscanini, which followed by engagements in Hungary with the Radio and Television orchestra (Hungary). His conducting career brought him to the North of Europe and the U.K. In 1997 he made a successful debut with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, which was soon followed by concerts in the D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Philharmonics Grand Hall, conducting the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra "Klassika". The other engagements were with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. The concert with the Mariinsky Theatre was dedicated to his Professor and Maestro Ilya Musin. From 1997 till 2012, Maestro Leontiev has been in the position as a regular conductor of the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra "Klassika". With this orchestra he has performed the complete L. van Beethoven's symphonies cycle which was met with critical acclaim, the rare performed cycles of the of Russian and foreign composers. He was the first conductor who presented many contemporary compositions to St. Petersburg public . These compositions were also recorded by Mr. Leontiev in St. Petersburg. During 1999-2000 season, he was the conductor of the "St. Petersburg Opera" Theatre. During 2001 -2006 has conducted more than 100 ballet productions in the UK during the tour of the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre. In 2002 keeps the position of the Principal guest conductor of the Youth-West Symphony in Germany. From 2004 appears with the one best Russian orchestras- Russian Philharmonia (Moscow), conducts leading orchestras all over Russia - Novosibirsk Philharmonics, Ekaterinburg Philharmonics,Tomsk Philharmonics, Volgograd Philharmonics, Barnaul Philharmonics, symphony orchestras of Rjazan, Tula, Sochi and many others. Regular guest conductor of all the St. Petersburg orchestras - State Symphony orchestra of St. Petersburg, Governor Orchestra, State Hermitage Orchestra, State St. Petersburg Capella Orchestra, Youth Philharmonic of St. Petersburg and others. Works with the singers of Mariinsky Theatre in the various concert halls of St. Petersburg. Mr. Leontiev's engagements with the "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg Symphony orchestra led to the "Tchaikovsky" orchestra engaging Mr. Leontiev as a Principal Guest conductor in 2001. In 2002 Maestro Leontiev was named Music Director of the "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg Symphony orchestra. He was among the founders ( 1999) of the "Cultural Initiative Foundation" which goal is to support the young composers of St. Petersburg. In 2003 conducted the world premier of the work "Vladimirskaya Square" in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the foundation of the City of St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2012 Mr. Leontiev led the "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg Symphony orchestra in its inaugural trans-continental tour of the USA in co-operation with the Columbia Artists Management with totally 46 concerts.
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| Name:
| David Lloyd-Howells
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Writer, campaigner
| | Address:
| United Kingdom
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| | Composer, Poet, Arts Campaigner, Born Cardiff Educated Universities London York Wales. Walford Davies Prize winner. Sonic Art music performed France, Canada, Germany, USA, Russia, Austrailia, Brazil UK. Film music, opera Earth Dream, symphonic and ensemble genre. Biog. Who's Who in Music, archive National Library of Wales. Email for biographical and catalogue listing
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| Name:
| Simon St. John Locke
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (French horn and Wagner Tuba)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1332 670101
| | Address:
| 116 Morley Road, Derby DE21 4QX, United Kingdom
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| | Very experienced french horn player and teacher. MMus and BA (Hons) in Musical Performance.
Played with many ensembles including London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Grenadier Guards Band and many West End productions.
Available for playing, teaching and Conducting. All musical challenges welcomed.
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| Name:
| Juan Carlos Lomónaco
| | Skills:
| Conductor (Conductor of The National Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, The Mexico Philadelphia Ensemble and The Ollin Yoliztli Symphony Orchestra)
| | Phone:
| 52 56 45 41 05
| | Fax:
| 52 56 30 59 51
| | Address:
| Periférico Sur 4091, Y7-6, Mexico City 14140, Mexico
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| | Juan Carlos Lomónaco graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music where he studied conducting with Otto-Werner Muller. He has also studied conducting with Charles Bruck at The Pierre Monteux School, as well as Enrique Diemecke and Marc David. From the age of 17 he has formed and conducted various music groups. At the age of 23 he made his debut with The National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, where he had been Assistant Conductor for two years. He also has conducted The Lima Philharmonic in Peru, The Sherbrooke Youth Symphony Orchestra in Canada, and extensively in his country, Mexico: The Mexico City Philharmonic, The UNAM Philharmonic, The Queretaro Philharmonic, The Chávez Symphony, Guanajuato Symphony, Xalapa Symphony, among others. Mr. Lomónaco was Assistant Conductor at The Domaine Forget Academy of Music in 1994.
An accomplished violinist, Mr. Lomónaco began his violin studies at the age of 6 with Vladimir Wolfman, continuing them at the Vida y Movimiento Music School and the Montreal University with Vladimir Lanzman. He also has been a member of prestigious orchestras, serving in some of them as concertmaster.
Juan Carlos Lomónaco won The Presser Music Award in order to take The Curtis Ensemble to lead a trip to Mexico and record a music CD. He received the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes scholarship for four years. Founder and Music Conductor of The Mexico-Philadelphia Ensemble which performed at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Corcoran Gallery in Washington for the Mexican Embassy.
Currently, Mr. Lomónaco is Music Director of The National Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and The Ollin Yoliztli Symphony Orchestra, teaching and conducting majors in both schools.
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| Name:
| Edward Ludvigsen
| | Skills:
| Administrator, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Manager, Player, Singer, Teacher, Writer, Visual Artist
| | Phone:
| +1 203 789 0452
| | Address:
| 55 Warren Street 3A, New Haven 06511, United States
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| | Edward Ludvigsen is a composer, performer, and artist from New Haven, CT. His output ranges from electronic to improvisatory to chamber and orchestral music. He has performed in all sorts of bands, ensembles and big bands, contemporary music groups, and improvisation groups. Edward studied at the Hartt School, where his teachers included James Sellars, David Macbride, Douglas Jackson, and Alex Farkas.
Currently, there are two recordings available of music by Edward Ludvigsen. "Weddings," a collection of vocal music; and "Installation.Sound.1," a set of primarily electronic works, which coincides with a sculpture and sound installation project of the same name. Edward's visual art output consists of digital photography, painting, and installation work.
Edward is a co-founder and the executive director of Goo Rilla Music, a non profit performing arts organization started in 2000 with fellow composers Istvan B'Racz and Joseph Di Ponio.
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| Name:
| Karl Kenneth Lutgens
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1 954 661 9577
| | Address:
| 701 NW 19th Street #409, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, United States
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| | Graduate of The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The University of Florida. Flutist with The Hollywood Symphony, North Miami Beach Symphony, Florida Wind Symphony, and various chamber music ensembles. Winner of many State, National, and International Music Awards.
Frequent clinician, conductor, and soloist of The Florida Flute Association.
Teach students of all ages and levels.
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| Name:
| Philip Mackenzie
| | Skills:
| Conductor
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)118 9700 816
| | Address:
| 14 Jubilee Close, Pamber Heath RG26 3HP, United Kingdom
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| | Philip is currently Principal Conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Crimean State Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked with Manchester Camerata and his 2004 recording with them “Great British Recorder Concertos” (Recorder: John Turner) was described by Gramophone Magazine as “first class” and was “highly recommended” by the Penguin CD guide.
With Victoria Opera North West, Philip made the first complete recording of The Maid of Artois by Balfe. It was extremely well received by Radio Three’s Saturday morning CD review, being voted as “audience favourite” This year Philip will make the premiere recording of Vladimir Wimmer’s Opera Dybuk in Prague. In addition to his recording work, Philip has broadcast on television and radio in the UK and abroad. He has commissioned many new works, most notably those composed by Alastair King.Recently Philip has given concerts with Steven Isserlis, Steven Varcoe, Raphael Wallfisch, Ian Pace and Janis Kelly and has directed ‘speaking soloists’ such as Griff Rhys Jones, Matthew Kelly, Jilly Cooper, Sir Clement Freud, Edward Fox and Joanna David.
As a freelance conductor, Philip has worked with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Bombay Chamber Orchestra, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Pardubice Chamber Orchestra, the Manchester Concert Orchestra, the Bath Philharmonia and the Kwa Zulu Natal Symphony Orchestra. In 2002 Philip took the Amadeus Orchestra to Bombay at the invitation of the British Council and in 2005/6 and again in 2006/7 to China at the invitation of the Chinese Government.Philip is the recipient of an honorary doctorate for artistic services given by the President of Ukraine following his premiere performance in that country of Elgar’s First Symphony.
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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:
| Ananta Makhal
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Violinist
| | Address:
| 68/1 Glory Appartment, Behala Pallysree Pally, M.I.D. road., Kolkata 700060, India
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| | Mr. Ananta Makhal was born in Calcutta and presently he is in his mid-seventies. He is a principal violinist, educationist and conductor of western classical music. He is one of the most senior musicians and pioneer of western classical music culture of today’s India. He grew up at Oxford Mission Boarding School, Calcutta. He began learning violin under the guidance of Father Theodore Matheson, British educationist and administrator of his school; he later pursued his professional Western Classical Music Course (practical and theory) under the supervision of venerated violinist Mr. Stanly Gomes and acclaimed Pianist / Composer Professor John Cooper.
Mr. Makhal began his professional career during 1960s as a violinist of Calcutta Symphony Orchestra (C.S.O) and Conductor / Teacher of Oxford Mission School Orchestra (O.M.S.O). He later became the soloist of Calcutta Youth Orchestra and The Conductor of Calcutta Chamber Orchestra. He led the second violin section as a principal violinist and represented India through Delhi Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades. He is one of the co-founders of Oxford Mission School Orchestra, which was one of the very few school symphony orchestras of India at that time. He later started introducing his students to The Indian Navy Band and Delhi Symphony Orchestra. He also been invited to lead a concert tour as a conductor with Oxford Mission School Orchestra at several cities of United Kingdom and had the privilege to perform at the prestigious venues like St. Paul’s Cathedral, Canterbury, The Yehudi Menuhin School, Princes Margaret School, Chartwell and London B.B.C. Radio etc. at1984.
He contributed most of his time for the school where he belongs to and produced hundreds of qualified musicians every year. Many of his students today are internationally known practicing musicians. As a professional musician, Mr. Makhal has had an amazing journey with a simple life style and he remembers the immortal moments of his life, when he had the honor of working with Legendary and World Famous Musicians like Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Larry Adler, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Bream, Daniel Barenboim, Gerhard Mantel, Einar Jeff Holm, Zigmondy, Alfredo Campoli, David Woodcock, Shankman, Ms. Barbara Peterson Cackler, Dimiter Karaminkov, William Kempff and many more including Indian Music Maestro Mr. Salil Chowdhury.
Mr. Makhal has had many opportunities and exclusive offers to leave Oxford Mission School and Calcutta to pursue a more glamorous life in aboard, but he found his peace and glory only in teaching children and enriching their life with music at The City of Joy.
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| Name:
| Michael Rupam Makhal
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Violinist
| | Address:
| Lotus Enclave, Flat No. 205, Yellareddyguda, beside R.B.I. Quarters,, Hyderabad 500073, India
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| | Mr. Michael Makhal is a western classical violinist and a music composer. He is educated on western classical music from ABRSM (London Board). Michael was born in Calcutta but presently settled in Hyderabad. He is son of a famous Violinist and Conductor ‘Mr. Ananta Makhal’. Michael represents India in the field of Western Classical Music through Delhi symphony Orchestra and also associated with esteemed organizations like Neemrana Foundation, Calcutta School of Music, Bangalore School of Music, A.P. Film Industry etc. On the other hand, Michael has formed a Small Western Classical Music Orchestra to perform the immortal compositions of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc. The orchestra includes highly professional and renowned musicians from all over the country and available for prestigious events.
Michael has begun his professional career at his teen-age and has performed at almost all the major cities of India. He is currently working for many renowned music directors of South India and as well as for the development of Western Classical Music at Hyderabad and other places of India. Michael is presently at his youth but have come a long way, he had the privilege to share the stage with World Famous Musicians like Yoshikazu Fukumura, Hikotaro Yazaki, Tatsunobu Goto, Dr. Paul Carlson, Frederic Ligier, Frederic Poilvet, Ms. Aude Priya Wacziarg, Jasmin Martorell, Philippe Desandre, Jean-noel Cabrol and many more including Indian Music Maestros like Music Director ‘M.M.Keeravani’, Mandolin ‘Srinivas’ and Flutist ‘Nagaraju’ etc. One of Michael’s noted performances was, representing India through Delhi Symphony Orchestra at Japan (Tokyo), during an International event called Asia Orchestra Week, on the prestigious stage of ‘Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall’.
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| Name:
| Harry J Marenstein
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Player
| | Phone:
| +1 (917) 698-7796
| | Address:
| Brooklyn, NY, United States
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| | Associate Music Director and Associate Conductor of New York's Musica Bella Orchestra since 2003, conductor & violinist Harry J. Marenstein holds a Master of Music Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His teachers have included Harold Farberman, Carl Topilow, and Louis Lane, former Resident Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony. He has participated in masterclasses with such noted conductors as Zdenek Macal, Daniel Lewis, Kenneth Kiesler, George Manahan, Apo Hsu, and Larry Rachleff, as well as composers Thea Musgrave and Richard Wargo.
While at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Marenstein appeared on the podium of several of its orchestras, its opera theater, and many smaller ensembles. Highlights include the Cleveland premiere of Conrad Pope’s Summer Sketches, Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, and a live radio and Internet broadcast from Cleveland’s Tower City Celebration.
An active proponent of new music, particularly that of American composers, Mr. Marenstein currently serves as Resident Conductor of Forecast Music, and has performed and recorded with Anti-Social Music, both New York-based composer collectives. Other recording projects include Gal Ziv’s "Iyov" for Soprano, Baritone, String Quartet, and Drum Loop, and Peter Gilbert’s Introduction and Passacaglia for Orchestra. He also holds the position of Chamber Music Coordinator with the Brooklyn Heights Music Society.
In addition to his work in the U.S., Mr. Marenstein has appeared with Bulgaria’s Pleven Philharmonic and Varna State Symphony.
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| Name:
| Ovidiu Marinescu
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +1 302 762 0515
| | Fax:
| +1 302 762 0515
| | Address:
| 1452 River Rd., Wilmington 19809, United States
| | Links:
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| | Romanian cellist Ovidiu Marinescu, one of the outstanding musicians of his country, was chosen to play at Carnegie Hall for Romanian President Constantinescu on a recent visit to the United States. Soon after, he made his debut with the New York Chamber Symphony in Beethoven's Triple Concerto. With recent performances in Merkin Hall (New York), Moscow Conservatory and The Ethical Society in Philadelphia, as well as a residency at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (CA), Marinescu is very active as a performer. To his critically acclaimed first recording "Fiesta Latina", this year he will add a recording of the complete Miaskovsky cello works with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Kenneth Boulton.
Marinescu has performed at festivals in Luzerne, Bayreuth, Chautauqua, Orlando and Brasov, as well as at the New Hampshire Music Festival. Active as a chamber musician, he has performed over 150 concerts with Adirondack Ensemble, with which he also shared a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Grant awarded by Chamber Music America. He is also the cellist and founding member of Trio Casals. Marinescu has been increasingly in demand as a conductor. In 1997, Marinescu was appointed conductor of the Goppisberg Festival in Switzerland and Music Director of the Manalapan Orchestra in New Jersey, and this summer he conducted both the Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra at the Wyoming Seminary. Marinescu has also led the Bacau and Brasov Philharmonics in Romania.
A product of the illustrious Romanian National Academy of Music, he won first prize and Music Critics' Award in the George Dima Cello Competition. In the United States, he studied with Wolfgang Laufer at the University of Wisconsin, and with Orlando Cole, at Temple University. Marinescu has been honored in Romania with invitations to perform with many renowned orchestras including "Transylvania" Philharmonic of Cluj and the orchestras of Iasi and Brasov. In addition, he has toured with Bucharest Symphony and next season he will make his debut with Bucharest Philharmonic. Ovidiu Marinescu feels a strong commitment to expanding the cello repertoire by making transcriptions of works such as Mozart violin concerti and in supporting the composition of new music. He has commissioned and performed many new works, among which are those of Lawrence Moss and Jae-Wook Kim, as well as those of his brother, Liviu Marinescu. In December of 2000, Mr. Marinescu premiered with the Newark Symphony a new work for cello and orchestra, "Anecdote," by Hilary Tann.
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| Name:
| Christopher Marshall
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor
| | Address:
| Charlotte Court House, VA 23923, United States
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| | Born and raised in the states, I started music when I was 6. I have since been avidly composing for band, orchestra and various ensembles.
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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:
| Francisco Jose Martin-Jaime
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +34607857795
| | Address:
| Paco Miranda 15, 2C, Malaga 29013, Spain
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| | Born in Malaga (Spain) in 1970, studies piano, violin, composition and conducting in Malaga, Barcelona and Munich. Schoolar of Octav Calleya, Antoni Ros-Marba, Salvador Mas and Albert Argudo, has enhanced his skills as conductor with Hermann Michael and Helmut Rilling, and also received advice from Jesus Lopez-Cobos and Miguel A. Gomez-Martinez.
In 1997 is awarded with the Intl. Composition Prize Reina Sofia of Spain, given by the Ferrer-Salat Foundation and delivered by the Queen Sofia of Spain to the composer for his "Erstes Klavierkonzert" (first piano concerto). In 1997 is also awarded with the Prize for the Best Musical Labour of the City Council of Malaga.
His compositions have been performed in several countries with many different soloists and orchestras. His Klavierkonzert was premiered in Madrid by the Orquesta de Radio y Television Española with M. L. Cantos (piano) and M. Galduf (conductor). M. L. Cantos premieres his second piano concerto ("Zweites Klavierkonzert"), commisioned by the Stiftung Musica Española-Schweitz and first performed in Baden (Switzerland). Jesus Lopez-Cobos premieres Martin-Jaime's tone poem "Astarte" in 1999 at the Intl. Music Festival of Granada. Later "Astarte" has been included in the repertoire of the Orquesta Filarmonica de Malaga, which first performed and also recorded it. The OFM has first performed many symphonic compositions of Martin-Jaime, as "Mars", "Don Quijote" (both commisioned by the Andalusian Government), "Palas Atenea" (commisioned by A. Rahbari), etc. Martin-Jaime compositions have been played around the world, in the Netherlands ("Shadow"), Germany (different compositions), Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Croacy, Serbia, Romania, Japan, Israel, USA, etc. On March'09, Fedoseyev will conduct Tchaikovsky Symphonic Orchestra and M. L. Cantos with Martin-Jaime's Erstes Klavierkonzert in Moscow.
As conductor, Martin-Jaime was the youngest conductor licensiated at his time, with maximum honour, in Conservatorium of Barcelona. He has had the honour to conduct may important orchestras, as O. Eduard Toldra (Barcelona), Orquesta del Liceo (Barcelona), Orquesta del Conservatorio de Musica de Barcelona, Orquesta Filarmonica de Malaga, Orquesta de Camara Ciudad de Malaga, etc. In 2003 Martin-Jaime gets the Camerata de Opera de Malaga as titular conductor. Also founds the Orquesta Clasica de Malaga in the same year. Is principal invited conductor of the Teatro Lirico Andaluz and, since 2004 is Professor of orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Malaga, where is also the titular conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Conservatorium.
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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
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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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