Cadenza Musicians Directory
Instrumental Soloists

Name: Guennadi Pereverzev
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: 2(02)3377119
Address: 4,Amin El-Raffai Str, Dokki,, Cairo, Egypt
Links: E-mail
 
Name Guennady Pereverzev Occupation viola player Date of birth 01.11.1966 Nationality Russian Marital status married

Employment 1995-present Cairo National Symphony Orchestra( viola co-principal) 1992-1994 Moscow Municipal Opera Theater "Novaia Opera"(viola-solo) 1998-1992 National Chamber Orchestra of Nizhny Novgorod Philharmony (principal)

Education 1986-1992 Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoir (Russia) 1981-1986 Stavropol State Music College(Russia) Awards 1990 USSR Competition of Chamber Ensembles(2nd Prize)

Skills makes and repairs string instruments and bows Recent concert activities 30.05.2000 American University Cairo (3 Beethoven's string quartets) 20.08.1999 Stavropol Museum(Mozart trio e flat majorBrahms,2 sonatas) 12.08.1999 Stavropol Philharmonic (Mozart Sinfonia concertanta, solo viola)

 

Name: Thomas Piercy
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Clarinetist: soloist & teacher)
Phone: 917-825-3478
Address: 602 10th Avenue, New York, New York 10036, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Clarinetist Thomas Piercy. Visit www.thomaspiercy.com or www.myspace.com/thomaspiercy.com for more information.

 

Name: Anastasia Pike
Skills: Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Praised for her “outstanding musical talent,” conservatory-trained harpist Anastasia (“Anna”) Pike has been delighting audiences including European royalty, senators, congressmen, legislators, and celebrities for years. She has performed on national television and in venues including Baltimore’s Lyric Opera House, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and New York’s Lincoln Center. She has also performed with members of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Symphony (Norway), the City of London Sinfonia, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the English Philharmonic, Europa Galante, the London Mozart Players, L’Orchestra des Champs Elysees, and the Metropolitan Opera.

In addition to her career as a concert harpist, Anna is also an award-winning pianist, and maintains a private studio of both piano and harp students. Anna has 4 degrees in music, and has studied at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the University of Maryland School of Music, the Juilliard School, the MasterWorks Festival - London, and upon personal invitation to the Salzedo School. Her primary instructors were the late Grammy award-winning Cleveland Orchestra principal harpist Alice Chalifoux and former National Symphony Orchestra harpist Jeanne Chalifoux.

As a musicologist, Anna has conducted research from Maine to India, and has interviewed artists including Pierre Boulez, Alice Chalifoux, Evgeny Kissin, and Leonard Slatkin. She has written for the American Harp Journal, Salem Press, and U25. Anna divides her time between New York City and Washington, D.C./Baltimore, and teaches at Columbia University. She performs on a mahogany Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp.

 

Name: Pepron Pilibossian
Skills: Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher
Address: Huntington Beach 92649, United States
Links: E-mail

 

Name: Denis Vladimirovich Plutalov
Skills: Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
Phone: 1-336-765-6302
Fax: 1-336-765-6302
Address: 2291 Brecknock Dr., Winston-Salem, NC, , United States
Links: E-mail
 
Born on May 17, 1976, Denis Plutalov started playing piano at the age of six. After graduating from Tambov Music School no. 1, he continued his education at the rachmaninov College in Tambov. An alumni of the Russian Gnessins Academy of Music in Moscow, Denis Plutalov inheroted the best traditions of the old Russian piano school. He was the best pupil of Prof. Maria Gambaryan (1995-1999), whose school in turn was going back to Franz Liszt through Constantin Igumnov, and Prof. Igor Nikonovich (2000-2001), pupil and son in law of legendary Vladimir Sofrnitsky. In 2002 Plutalov received an invitation to continue his graduate studies in the United States with the renowned pianist and pedagogue Prof. Eric Larsen. In 2004 Denis Plutalov received his Master of Music degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts and now receives his Professional Artist Certificate before getting into doctorate

Prizes and Diplomas: 1st Prize, All-Russian Piano Competition in Togliatti, Russia(1993); 2nd prize, International Piano Competition in Ostuni, Italy (1993) Diploma. 1st international Rachmaninov youth Competition, Tambov (1994), Rachmaninov Prize of tambov (1993, 1994) Diploma, 1st International Franz Liszt Competition, Wrozlaw, Poland (1999) Winner, Concerto Competition of NCSA, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (2003)

Festivals and appearances include: International Rachmaninoff festival in Tambov and Ivanovka, Russia; Keyboard festival at Lander University, SC, USA Plutalov performed at the Grand and Small Halls of the Gnessins Academy and at the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. In addition to his achievemnets as a pianist, Plutalov is also a skilled musicologist and a great specialist on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. He's an honorary member of the Dutch Willem mengelberg Society and the International Shostakovich Asoociation. He wrote several significant works on Rachmaninov and Shostakovich's music.

His piano repertoire embraces all styles of piano music: Bach, Scarlatti Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, debussy, ravel, Prokofiev, Scriabin and many others. Plutalov one of the rare pianists who performs all the piano works of Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov. His performances gained him worldwide recognition as a versatile and charismatic personality.

 

Name: Daniel Pollack
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +1 310 556 3901
Fax: +1 310 286 2350
Address: 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1040, Los Angeles, CA 90067, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Pollack's critically acclaimed concert career has taken him worldwide across five continents, where he appears in major music centers as soloist with orchestras or in recitals. He is much in demand on juries of top-level International Piano Competitions. He has been on the visiting faculties of The Juilliard School and Yale University, and holds a resident position at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

 

Name: Davide Polovineo
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Polovineo David, piano)
Phone: 0861-240631
Fax: 0861-240631
Address: Via dei Tribunali, Teramo 64100, Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Dopo il debutto al teatro comunale di Imola con una performance dedicata a Max Reger nel 1997, alla sala dei concerti dell’università Innsbruck e alla sala dei concerti di Marsiglia sempre nello stesso anno, con recensioni positive da parte delle testate giornalistiche, Davide Polovineo si presenta nella scena concertistica ponendo attenzione al repertorio romantico e post-romantico tedesco maturato durante gli anni di studi accademici in Italia e in Austria conseguiti con il massimo dei voti e curati da Tiziana Cosentino, Sergio Cafaro, Felix Ayo, Fausto di Cesare, Martin Alben, Paul Badura-Skoda, George Sandor.

Contemporaneamente agli studi musicali ha affiancato gli studi umanistici a Fermo e a Padova conseguendo al Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo nella sede di Padova-Santa Giustina la licenza, e il dottorato ad honorem alla Lincoln University degli USA in psicologia del pensiero evolutivo con una tesi-dissertazione su Eric Gans e sull’estetica sacrificale.

Affianca all’attivita concertistica solistica e cameristica, anche l’attività didattica. Come docente ordinario dal 1998 al 2001 ha svolto corsi di perfezionamento e master sul pianismo schubertiano e schumanniano all’Arts Academy di Roma e all’Università di Innsbruck. Ha seguito la preparazione di molti allievi che sono risultati vincitori a concorsi nazionali e internazionali o hanno conseguito titoli accademici e diplomi nei conservatori italiani, austriaci e francesi. E’ invitato come membro di commissione in importanti concorsi nazionali e internazionali ( tra l’altro al Concorso Internazionale di esecuzione musicali F.Liszt dell’Arts Academy di Roma) e nei conservatori per esami di diploma in pianoforte. E’ stato direttore artistico del Concorso di esecuzione musicale Roma Giubileo 2000 a Villa Torlonia –Roma ed attualmente è direttore artistico del Concorso Internazionale di esecuzione musicale “Città di Teramo” giunto alla VII edizione ed organizzato dall’Istituto Europeo di Musica sede di Teramo.

Ha effettuato la registrazione nel 2003 dell’intera opera pianistica di E.Satie e in particolare degli inni dell’ordine di Rosa Croce per diverse radio ed emittenti francesi e inoltre ha pubblicato per l’editrice Vaticana uno studio comparata tra le fonti bibliche ebraiche e la religione di Zaratustra. E’ membro e socio della Societè pour le Lettre di Parigi e della European scholarschip di Londra e Upsalla.

 

Name: Carles Pons
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Guitar)
Phone: +34 943 632019
Address: Iparralde 12 1º E, Irun 20304, Spain
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Look thos web: http://teleline.terra.es/personal/ponscar/carlespons.html

 

Name: Hristo Popov
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Violinist Hristo Popov brings a tremendous experience to the concert stage. After his orchestra debut at the age of nine he has performed in Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, and the United States as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He is a founding member of Trio Casalmaggiore and has been playing with them since 1998. Mr. Popov began his musical education in Bulgaria at the school for gifted children “Dobrin Petkov” in he city of Plovdiv. However, he has completed most of his education in the United States of America. He is a graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy, Oberlin College, and Kent State University. His teachers include Todor Pelev, Michael Tseitlin, Oleh Krysa, Daniel Mason and Taras Gabora. Mr. Popov is a prizewinner at the Kozian International Violin Competition, Silver Medallist at the California Young Artist Competition, winner of the Grand Prize at the International Institute of Music (Germany, USA), first place at the American String Teachers' Association Chamber Music Competition. Mr. Popov has appeared as a guest artists in numerous festivals such as Park City International Music Festival, Plovdiv Chamber Music Festival, Sofia Summer Chamber Music Festival among others. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Summer Workshop for Strings. Mr. Popov has performed in major Performing Arts Centers in the United States such as Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - Los Angeles, Severance Hall - Cleveland, and John F. Kennedy Center - Washington D.C. Mr. Popov performs over 20 violin concerti and a wide variety of recital programs. He is as proficient in performing music from the standard repertoire as he is in performing new music. American composer Thomas Janson has written works especially for him. Mr. Popov has appeared on TV stations in Bulgaria, Mexico, and United States. Currently, he serves as the Concertmaster of Opera Circle, Cleveland. “…Provided the score with chamber music refinement…” The Plain Dealer , Ohio “Deep, Expressive, and Mature” Musical Horizons , Bulgaria “…proved to be a true virtuoso…he fascinated the audience with his warm Bohemian magically sweet tone and unsurpassed brilliance!” Kultur am Ort , Germany

 

Name: Enzo Puzzovio
Skills: Player, Soloist
Phone: +44 (0)1522 512753
Address: The Orangery, Ancaster Avenue, Lincoln LN2 4AY, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
A professional musician since 1984, I specialise in historic plucked instruments: lute, cittern, colascione, orpharion as well as hurdy-gurdy.

As Enzo, I am one half of Duo Piccolo e Grande playing Italian baroque sonatas on mandolino and hurdy-gurdy, accompanied by theorbo. As Dante Ferrara, I play for costumed special events and concerts using my huge repertoire of late Tudor and Jacobean entertainment. This includes a 1-hour solo comedy show based around Henry Purcell.

I have recorded seven albums, the most recent three being solo (as DF). My TV appearances are numerous and my most recent session was for the film 'The White Princess' - a Tudor drama by Philippa Gregory.

My performances have taken me across the world. Beyond Europe, I have played in Western Australia and California.

 

Name: Helen Radice
Skills: Player, Soloist (Harpist, Flute and Harp Duo)
Phone: +44 (0)794 155 9049/+44 (0)20 7704 1599
Address: Flat 3, St Peter's Church, 40 Devonia Road, London N1 8LJ, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Helen Radice graduated with a first from Oxford in 2000. Since then she has been following postgraduate studies in harp performance at the Royal College of Music, where she gained a distinction in her postgraduate diploma (solo/ensemble recitalist). At Oxford she was awarded the Gibbs, Vaughan Morgan & Quigley prizes and the Charles Oldham Prize 2000. Last year she won the audience vote in the Thames Valley Young Musicians Platform and was rated "outstanding" at the Oxford Music Festival.

Helen has a flute and harp duo, with Catherine Goodman. They specialise in themed recitals; two recent projects have been Regency flute & harp and music by film composers. These recitals are accompanied, where appropriate, by detailed programme notes explaining the ideas, themes and key issues behind the programming. Sample notes are available on Helen's website.

Helen's freelance orchestral work includes Northern Sinfonia, St Endellion Festival, Kentish Opera, National Musicians' Symphony and London Philharmonic Youth. She has light music experience, with the Thursford Christmas Spectacular band. She also has a cabaret duo with the baritone Ben Newhouse-Smith.

 

Name: David Reiland
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Soloist
Phone: +32 495 200352
Address: rue des Martyrs 50 , Arlon 6700, Belgium
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Juozas Rimas (oboe)
Skills: Soloist (oboe, English horn, professor)
Address: Zirmunu 12-34, Vilnius 2051, Lithuania
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The number one oboist in Lithuania from the very beginning of his career, Professor of woodwinds in the Lithuanian Academy of Music Juozas Rimas has been playing the oboe for almost 40 years. However, he is totally unknown abroad. Setting aside the objective factor of the oboe being a relatively unpopular instrument, there was one serious reason to that: the oboist had to mature under the yoke of the hostile Soviet authorities that didn't allow him to study, perform or record CDs in the West, although he still managed to give hundreds of concerts, radio and television performances on the socialist side of the iron curtain, perform with Gidon Kremer, Genady Rozhdestvensky, all major Lithuanian orchestras, record 5 solo LPs and premiere more than 40 Lithuanian and foreign authors' works, some of them written specially for him. Juozas Rimas' repertoire is virtually unlimited: from modern jazz to Bach, from Mozart to contemporary Lithuanian composers, from well-known compositions for the oboe to the ones that no one ever played on this instrument. Pedagogic activity doesn't impede the oboist from keeping up his skill and now he is in top form, planning to show his art beyond the borders of his minute fatherland.

More information and free sound files are available at my web site.

 

Name: Garry Roberts
Skills: composer, player, soloist, teacher, writer
Phone: +44 (0)1744 730375
Address: 190 Fleet Lane, St Helens Merseyside wa9 2rj, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Guitar Tuition tired of playing the same old licks, don`t seem to be getting anyware! Give me a call! Jazz, Country, Rock, Blues, all styles. Individual tuition reasonable rates Merseyside area call 01744 730375

 

Name: Meg Rodgers
Skills: Soloist, Instrumentalist (Harpist)
Phone: +1 (269) 429 6377
Address: Stevensville, MI, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Meg Rodgers received her Master of Music degree in Harp Performance from Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Music degree from DePauw University. She also studied in Vienna with Adhelaide Blovsky-Miller, harpist for the Vienna State Opera. Other teachers include Alice Chalifoux at the Salzedo Harp Colony, Suzann Davids, and Liz Cifani.

Meg currently performs with the Laporte County Symphony, the South Bend Symphony, and the Rockford Symphony (IL). She has free-lanced for 14 years throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois playing for weddings, receptions,and also corporate events for companies such as Lenox, Honeywell, and Commonwealth Edison. Meg also serves as Artist in Residence for St. Joseph Public Schools.

 

Name: Lizary Rodriguez-Rios
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher (Harpist, Flute and Harp Duo)
Phone: +1 (303) 915 1590 (USA)/787-755-7551 (Puerto Rico)
Fax: +1 (978) 215 4565
Address: Colorado 80302, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Chamber performer and soloist, Lizary Rodriguez Rios, has the distinction of being the first Puerto Rican harpist to earn a doctoral degree in music, subsequent to which she earned two postgraduate degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, Spain. She has performed at numerous venues and festivals in Puerto Rico including the prestigious Casals Festival. An active performer, she toured with Grammy nominated international harp ensemble, HarpFusion, performing in the Czech Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia and Russia.

Rodriguez Rios has been a prizewinner in several international music competitions such as the “Cita di Padova” in Italy and the International Music Tournament in Marseille, France.

 

Name: Ben Roels
Skills: Soloist, pianist
Phone: +32.3.825.57.60
Address: Jozef Hertogslaan 12, Antwerp 2610, Belgium
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Belgian pianist Ben Roels (°1968) studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and continued his education with Leon Fleischer (Master class Germany), Eliane Rodrigues (Belgium) and Lionel Bowman (South-Africa), Aldo Ciccolini (France/Paris) He obtained the “Diplôme Supérieur de piano” at the “Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot” in Paris where he studied with the French pianist and famous Liszt interpreter France Clidat.

He was prize winner in the “Concours International des Jeunes Solistes” in Lille, France, and won the “O. Van Puyvelde contest” in Ghent, Belgium in the same year. He made his concert debut with Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano concerto and presently offers an extended concerto repertoire including Mozart, Van Beethoven, Liszt, De Greef, Tchaikovsky, Shostakowitch and Gershwin. In recitals he often plays works from “forgotten” composers such as Arthur De Greef (Belgian pianist/composer and pupil of Liszt). Liszt mainly influences Ben Roels’ repertoire. The virtuosity, sensitivity and lyric aspect of Liszt’s music fit very well with the personality of this pianist.

Ben Roels performed in Belgium (Festival of Flanders, Centre of fine Arts Brussels “Palais des Beaux Arts Henry Le Boeuf Hall, deSingel Antwerp), The Netherlands, France, Germany, the U.S.A. and South Africa. He made guest appearances for the Belgian Classical Radio “Klara”. His CD “Liszt Revisited” was recorded in South Africa and released by Senzanome in Brussels in 2006.

“Roels’ Liszt interpretations are extraordinary with an outstanding technique and an unheard deep expression…” (Lionel Bowman, pianist) “Ben Roels is undoubtedly ranked among the most talented and promising Belgian pianists of his generation…” (Alain Roeland, conductor). “Ben Roels’ playing was so intense he kept the audience quiet, a real achievement during wintertime…” (D. Clotman, journalist). “In perfect grace and transparency, never sentimental, Ben Roels gave a first-class Liszt-interpretation…” (Die Speyer Zeitung, Germany). “An amazing sound in forte passages and controlled virtuoso playing, Ben Roels gave an interpretation with fascinating tension…a maximum musical and physical performance…” (Speyerer Tagepost).

 

Name: Erik Ronmark
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Concert Saxophonist)
Address: Sweden
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Swedish saxophonist Erik Rönmark came to the United States in 1996 to continue his musical education. To date, Rönmark has commissioned over 20 works by emerging composers but has also worked closely with established names such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Betsy Jolas, Terry Riley, and Karen Tanaka.

An accomplished chamber musician, Rönmark is the First-Prize winner of both the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. As a soloist or an orchestral saxophonist he has performed with the Windsor, Ann Arbor, Aberdeen (SD), and Sundsvall (Sweden) Symphonies. In 2000, Dr. Rönmark received the prestigious American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Award for establishing valuable relationships between Sweden and America.

As an educator and performer, Rönmark has given recitals and masterclasses in the United States, Canada and Europe and can be heard as quartet saxophonist on the Equilibrium label. He is currently in the process of recording an album for saxophone and strings to be released in 2006.

Dr. Rönmark received his D.M.A. from The University of Michigan where he studied with the renowned saxophonist Donald Sinta. He received his B.A. (Summa cum laude) from Northern State University (SD) and his M.M. from Bowling Green State University (OH). Dr. Rönmark was most recently the saxophone instructor at the University of Windsor, Canada.

 

Name: Bobby Rootveld
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Manager, Player, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher, Writer, actor, comedian
Phone: +31-743841718
Address: Tusveld 71, Bornerbroek 7627 NW, Netherlands
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Bobby Rootveld(1981) is a guitarist, composer, actor/comedian & producer from the Netherlands. He studied classical guitar with his father Fred Rootveld and with Louis Ignatius Gall (at the conservatory of Enschede), former student of Andres Segovia. Bobby is a member of Duo NIHZ (guitar and recorder combined with theatre) and The Guitar Company (guitar-trio). He plays multiple string & percussion-instruments. Bobby Rootveld has his own record-label which specializes in cabaret, comedy, classical music & 'popmusic with an edge'. He's also on stage as a comedian in cabaret-shows. As an actor he has played some small rolls in movies. Bobby Rootveld followed masterclasses with Jim ten Boske, Yves Storms, Reinbert Evers, Richard Pilkington, Massimo Laura, Edith Leerkens, Ullrich Steier, Theo Willemze, Henk Olden, Karel de Rooij (Mini & Maxi), Lyz Day and Jim Johnson. There are cd's and dvd's available with Bobby Rootveld as a musician/comedian.

 

Name: Benita Rose
Skills: Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
Address: 377 Stearns Road, Mansfield CT 06250, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Benita Rose, pianist, has performed throughout the United States, Brazil, and Latvia as soloist, accompanist or chamber musician. She has been soloist with the Willimantic Orchestra and the Connecticut String Orchestra. As soloist with the U.S.Coast Guard Band, her performance was heard on over 200 NPR radio stations on Martin Goldsmith's program "Performance Today". Ms.Rose has served as a judge for various piano competitions throughout the state of Connecticut. She has been a scholarship student at the University of Connecticut and the Hartt School where she received the prestigious Parker award and received her Master of Music degree. Her teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro, Joseph Villa and Louis Crowder. She has also received coaching from Ilana Vered and Menahem Pressler. Many of her piano students are prize winners. Ms.Rose is founding member of the Hop River Chamber Players in Andover, Connecticut.

 

 


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