| Name:
| Voya Toncitch
| | Skills:
| Composer, Player, Soloist, Writer (international concert pianist, musicologist, composer, critic)
| | Fax:
| +356 21 44 16 24
| | Address:
| Malta
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| | TONCITCH, VOYA French international concert pianist, musicologist and composer. Numerous concerts, recitals, lecture-recitals on aesthetics and philosophy of contemporary music, piano master-classes worldwide, including France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Republic of Ireland, Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Malta, as well as in Africa, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, South America, USA (New York, Washington, D.C. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Ohio, California.) Has recorded for broadcasting companies in Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Far East and Australia. Has premiered works by numerous composers, including Jean-Louis Dhaine, Bozidar Kantuser, Yvonne Hédoux, Wolfgang Andreas Schultz, Barbara Heller, Mia Zabelka, Zbynek Mateju, Hyo-shin Na, Chan Ka Nin, Julian Yu, Reinhold Weber, Spiros Mazis. His musicological essays, all written in French, are published in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy and Canada. Some titles are quoted in reference works in encyclopaedias, The New Grove Dictionary of Music (Chopin, John Cage), Grove Dictionary of American Music (Cage), Das Grosse Lexicon der Musik Herder (Chopin), Guide to Reseurch Garland Publishing New York/London (Impressions sur impressionnisme), The Philosopher’s Index (“Philosophie de la musique contemporaine. Contribution à la recherche). His own compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir and solo instruments are published in Germany. Has sponsored scholarships to musicians from Third-World countries through competitions organized by French diplomatic and cultural services in India, Paraguay, the Philippines. Has organized International Composition Contest “Voya Toncitch Prize” in 1987, won by Lutz Glandien (Germany). Dedications by composers from France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, USA. Has founded in 1981 a music section at the French Cultural Centre / Alliance Française in Calcutta and in 1983 the Contemporary Music Library in Asunción, Paraguay. Painter with exhibitions in Paris, La Rochelle, Nantes and other French cities and in Singapore.
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| Name:
| Joe Townley
| | Skills:
| Soloist, Writer
| | Address:
| PO Box 50955, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90050, United States
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| | Joe Townley was already on his way to distinguishing himself as a pianist of stature, having won first prize in numerous Southland piano competitions, before a hand injury cut short a promising future. With a career as a concert pianist sidelined, Joe turned his creative instincts to writing. Yet it would be many years before he ventured to write a full-length novel. The result, an adaptation of one of his many screenplays, ¡°The Apocalypse Project¡± was published in 2000.
.In March 2002 his next novel, ¡°On Ghost Trails¡± was released. In it he introduces Trevor Langley to the literary world. Trevor is a private detective working out of Norfolk, Virginia who gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to help a beautiful young lady solve the riddle of some mysterious occurrences going on in her hometown near to Norfolk. Writer, Stephen M. Yarnell found On Ghost Trails to be an intriguing blend of mystery and the supernatural, calling it "a rollicking good ghost yarn.¡± In it you¡¯ll find drama, humor, and thrills and chills aplenty, including a slam-bang, hair-raising climax that is guaranteed to keep you turning pages into the wee hours¡all the elements that make reading mysteries a truly enjoyable experience.
But Joe didn¡¯t let the injury to his hand permanently derail his gifts as a pianist. A fifteen-year sabbatical from the keyboard allowed his hand sufficient time to heal to the point where he could practice for short intervals without aggravating the nerve damage done to his right index finger through a freak accident while practicing. From there it was only a matter of traversing the long, difficult road back to rebuilding his technique with painstaking hours of carefully designed finger exercises.
But the results appear to have paid off. Joe is back to playing with some of the technical facility that earned him accolades as a rising star of the music world. You, the visitor, can judge for yourself whether the results have been worth the journey. For selections from ¡°On Ghost Trails¡± and to hear Joe¡¯s piano artistry, click on the link to his personal web page to view him as he performs the piano music of Rachmaninoff. It is here that Joe gives us a poignant peek into what is¡ And what might have been.
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| Name:
| Jenefer Ruth Townsend
| | Skills:
| Player, Soloist, Teacher (flute soloist, band, player and orchestra + piano and theory teaching.)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)113 2191871
| | Address:
| 26 Cobden Terrace, Leeds LS12 5LE, United Kingdom
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| | I began the flute at the age of 7, and after taking grade 8 at 14, and my performance and teachers diplomas at the age of 18, and began my music degree at Leeds College of Music. I am now in my second year. At the college I have perfomed in many lunch-time recitals and some evening concerts. Last November (1998)I performed the Ibert Flute Concerto with the college symphony orchestra.
Also in connection with the college I have been given the chance to participate in scholarships. In my first year I won the Robert Tebb Scholarship, and this year I won the Rotary Club of Leeds Scholarship. As a result of this scholarship I will be performing at the Leeds Civic Town Hall on the 20th June, and at the Art Gallery on the 12t January, 2000. Other solo events include a recital at Michael House School, Heanor, Derbyshire on the 3rd July, and at Bakewell Parish Church on the 5th July.
Before coming to Leeds College of Music I played lead flute with Derbyshire County Youth Wind Band and Orchestra, and toured Israel and Holland with the wind band, performing the flute solo 'The Carnival of Venice'. Whilst in Holland in July 1998 I also came 2nd in the 'Purmerade International Youth Solo Competitions. I have also been teaching the flute for 6 years.
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| Name:
| John P. Tracy
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
| | Phone:
| +1 250 475 1860
| | Address:
| 860 Short St.,, Victoria v8x-2v5, Canada
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| | I was born in Toronto, Canada in 1954. I have NO formal musical training. I learned to play the "rock & roll" instruments (guitars, keyboards and percusion) by ear as well as teaching myself to read scores.After many "bands" formed then fell apart before the 2nd gig, I turned to songwriting as a means to put forth my feelings However, not everyone was comfortable with my "feelings" and I put my talent on hold while I "got a life". Well, one or two lives later and thanx to the computer age and midi I'm able once again to get my compositions down and also heard by the unsuspecting e-world!
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| Name:
| Wai Kit Ricky Tsang
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
| | Phone:
| (852) 92168600
| | Address:
| Apt 59 2325 Highbury Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States
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| Name:
| Alexander Tselyakov
| | Skills:
| Soloist, Piano
| | Phone:
| +1 (204) 571 6547
| | Fax:
| +1 (204) 571 6547
| | Address:
| 9 Parkland Place, Brandon R7B3V8, Canada
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| | Alexander Tselyakov was born in Baku in the former Soviet Union in 1954. From an early age, Alexander demonstrated a keen and devoted interest in music, undoubtedly influenced by his musician parents. By the time he reached his late teens, Alexander Tselyakov was studying at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Lev Naumov (custodian of the Heinrich Neuhaus methods that are credited with producing the extraordinary strain of twentieth-century Russian keyboard masters such as Gilels and Richter).
By the mid-1980s, Alexander was combining a busy teaching career at two Russian music institutes, as well as winning awards and being appointed concert piano soloist to the Byelorussian State Philharmonic Orchestra. His awards included prizes at the Tokyo International Piano Competition (1983) and at the famed International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1986). Critics in Russia considered him to be an excellent pianist with a profound musical intellect, both in solo repertoire and in concertos, in which he has performed under the batons of such legendary Russian conductors as Evgeni Svetlanov, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Vasily Sinaisky. Alexander Tselyakov has toured the world as a soloist and with orchestras in Japan, Germany, Italy, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Finland, the former Yugoslavia, Denmark, Netherlands, the United States and here in Canada, where he has so far embarked on seven cross-country tours.
In 1991, Alexander and his family left Russia for Israel. There, too, he made a tremendous impression, winning the Israel Piano Competition in 1993, and playing in recital for such dignitaries as the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Alexander has also performed for Mikhail Gorbachev). While in Israel, Alexander Tselyakov continued to win international prizes, two in Italy alone. In 1994, Alexander Tselyakov immigrated to Canada. He made his debut in Toronto in December 1994 to great acclaim. Recitals across the country soon started to materialize. The comments were always positive: “A phenomenal pianist”; “remarkable Russian-born master is our greatest pianist”; “one of the outstanding pianists living and performing in Canada today!”. That indescribable something extra was beginning to have its impact and continues to do so. Alexander Tselyakov is fast becoming an established, accomplished and respected special talent on the Canadian as well as the international scene.
"He ( Alexander Tselyakov) represents the best aspect of Russian pianism and all its attributes: Rich, warm, colorful tone production; wide dynamic range that verges from truly hypnotic pianissimos to thunderous-but-never harsh or violent fortissimos, steady-yet-flexible rhythm, a lucid, intellectualized, (but never dry or off putting) structural approach, and best of all a touchingly direct, unfussy musical approach, and a way of playing that produces everything he did with a minimum of fuss and fanfare. In other words, there are many well known aspects of the Russian style, and Mr. Tselyakov gratifyingly recalled the better aristocratic manner of those giants, Rachmaninoff and Moiseiwitsch. Tselyakov‚s robust, sonorous way effectively synthesized the emotional balance of Artur Rubinstein and the more highly-strung febrile quality of Horowitz"Harris Goldsmith, New York Concert Review, Spring 2003 . „Mastery of the large-scale performance (was) served by absolute technical security and great delicacy, (and) freedom”- Musical Opinion , UK (September- October Issue, 2002).
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| Name:
| Andriy Tsygichko
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +491796745249
| | Address:
| Simsonstr 2 / 713, Leipzig D-04107, Germany
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| | An Ukrainian Pianist, Prizewinner of National and International piano Competitions.
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| Name:
| Maria Tuturilova
| | Skills:
| Soloist, concert harpist
| | Phone:
| +43 664 6326779
| | Fax:
| +43 1 3692155; +359 2 9296107
| | Address:
| A-1190 Wien or BG-1336 Sofia, Austria
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| | The bulgarian harpist Maria Tuturilova was born in Sofia. She is one of the leadind young harpist of the concert scene today. At the moment she lives and works in Vienna. M. Tuturilova is a prize winner at the major harp competitions in Bulgaria, Moskva, Munich, World Harp Congresses in Prag (1999) and Geneva (2002),etc.
Repertoire: ° over 30 solo concerts with orchestra( from Baroc untill contemporary music) ° solo harp pieces ° chamber music : duo with violin, flute, gitarre, piano, organ, voice, chor
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| Name:
| Sarah Kay Tyler
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8785 3581
| | Fax:
| +44 (0)20 8785 7688
| | Address:
| 71 Innes Gardens, London SW15 3AD, United Kingdom
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| | Sarah Tyler is a lyric mezzo-soprano with wide experience of opera, operetta, oratorio, musical theatre, and concert works. She read Theology at King's College, London, whilst beginning singing training with Peter Harrison and Dorothy Richardson at the GSMD, and has subsequently studied with the late Elizabeth Ritchie and Meribeth Dayme. She now works with David Coussell and sings widely across London and the UK.
In recent seasons Sarah’s roles have included Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Idamante (Idomeneo), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte), Nicklaus/The Muse (The Tales of Hoffmann), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), the title roles in Cenerentola and Carmen, Preziosilla (The Force of Destiny), Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Giorgetta in Il Tabarro and The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd).
Sarah works in special collaboration with composer and condutor David Hoyland, under the banner of Porcupine Productions, for whom she created the role of the Narrator in Hoyland's The Christmas Story - A Nativity Opera in performance and recording in 2002/03 and premiered Night, a work for voice and clarinet in Southwark Cathedral in 2003.
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| Name:
| Margaret de Valois
| | Skills:
| Soloist (Clarinet)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 7265 8439
| | Address:
| United Kingdom
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| | Vibrant exciting clarinetist focussing on appealing to wider audiences. Solo appearances include Conway Hall, London churches and Warwick University.
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| Name:
| Cuong Hung Van
| | Skills:
| Soloist, Chamber Musician
| | Phone:
| +1 216 791 7672
| | Fax:
| +1 216 791 7672
| | Address:
| United States
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| Name:
| Tom Van den Eynde
| | Skills:
| Conductor, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| 0032/89 733604
| | Fax:
| 0032/89 733604
| | Address:
| Dorpsstraat, 11 bus 2, Gellik (Limburg) 3620, Belgium
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| | Tom Van den Eynde was born in Mechelen (Belgium) in 1980. He studied classical guitar, violin, piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatory of Mechelen. When he was fifteen he started taking private conducting lessons with Silveer Van den broeck.
At the age of eighteen, he went to the Netherlands (Conservatory of Maastricht) to continue his musical studies : orchestral conducting with Sir Jan Stulen and classical guitar with Cees Dirkx. After three years, he finished his guitar studies as a teaching and performing musician.
As a guitarist, he was finalist of a few national competitions and served as freelance-guitarist at the Royal Theater in Brussels. He also appeared as soloist in guitarconcerto’s with several orchestras. In 2001, he made his live debut for the dutch radio. Together with Edith Van Dyck, graduated flutist from Royal Academy London, he plays a lot of chambermusic. Their repertory goes from the early baroque tot latin contemporary music.
As a young conductor he has been working with the Filharmonic Orchestra of Mechelen, the Flemmish Symphony Orchestra, the Promenade Orchestra of the Netherlands (www.promenade-orkest.nl), the Symphony Orchestra of the Highschool of Music in Maastricht, the Plovdiv Sinfonie Orchester (www.plovdivphilharmonic.com), the Orquestra Sinfonica del Vallès (www.osvalles.com), the Brabant Orchestra (www.brabantsorkest.nl), Sinfonïetta Geleen, University Orchestra of Louvain (uso.studentenweb.org), the Avanti-kapel Maastricht, the Youth Orchestra of Limbourg and his own Hortus Instrumentalis. In June 2000, he conducted the Dutch première of Previns « Concerto for guitar and orchestra ». In September 2000, he also assisted his present teacher Jan Stulen in « Le jongleur the Notre-Dame », a church opera of Peter Maxwell Davies which was broadcasted by the Dutch radio and television. Tom joined in July 2001 the « Wiener Meisterkurse » with Sir Salvador Mas Conde. There he was one of the few applicants to conduct the « Plovdiv Sinfonie Orchester » at the final concert in Vienna. One year later, he conducted the “Orquestra Sinfonico del Vallès” in Barcelona during the International Conducting Course Igualada with maestro Antoni Ros Marba (July 2002). In August 2002, Tom made his debut with the Brabant Orchestra (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) conducting the Franck Symphony during the final concert of a masterclass with maestro Marc Soustrot. At the moment, Tom is serving as assistant-conductor of the Flemmish Symphony Orchestra and the University Orchestra of Louvain (Belgium). In september 2003, he will finish his conducting studies in Maastricht.
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| Name:
| Iris van Eck
| | Skills:
| Player, Soloist, Teacher, chamber Music
| | Address:
| United States
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| | Cellist Iris van Eck was born in the Netherlands to an artist painter (father) and a piano teacher (mother). She studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Jean Decroos (principal cellist in the Concertgebouw orchestra) & Rene van Ast before moving to the United States where she studied with madame Raya Garbousova.
She is a winner of the Edith Stein Concours in the Netherlands (on flute) and the Concerto Competition at Northern Illinois University (on cello). She also participated in master classes with Paul and Maude Tortellier at the Hochschule in Essen and in Luzern; at the Piattigorsky Seminar in Los Angeles, she studied with William Pleeth, Lyn Harrell, Misha Maiski and Jeffrey Solow and at the Cleveland Chamber music Seminar with Joseph Gingold and the Guarneri Quartet.
Iris van Eck is principal cellist for the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra and the Florida Classical Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with various orchestras in the United States & in Europe and is frequently heard on the chamber music circuit in South Florida and abroad. In She plays a beautiful French cello made by Bernardel Pere in 1831.
"Works for cello and piano by women composers" was recorded in September 2005 in Delft, the Netherlands, together with Dutch pianist Arielle Vernède. It was released by Eroica Classical Recordings (www.eroica.com) in December 2006 A recording of Faure’s complete works for cello and piano together with pianist Kemal Gekic is in the editing stages.Ms van Eck is the founder of the successful "Chameleon Chamber music series at the Leiser Opera center" in Fort Lauderdale.
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| Name:
| Sarah Lorraine van Veen
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +1 519 363 2043
| | Address:
| R.R.#3, Elmwood/Canada/Ontario N0G 1S0, Canada
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| | I have been playing piano since the age of six, and in the course of my life have also picked up the trumpet and the organ... I have played professionally for churches,weddings,concerts,business funcions - anything you can imagine. I am quite an accomplished accompaniest
I currently live in the Grey-Bruce region of Ontario, and am taking a year off from school (I've finished one year at the University of Waterloo), as I prepare to audition for entrance to the Wilfred Laurier University Music Program, with intention to achieve my Bachelor of Music Therapy - I would love to be able to practice my craft during this period of preparation
I already have my Grade 9 practical certificate with honours and my Grade 2 theory rudiments certificate from the Royal Conservatory of Music
Give a musician who wants to skip the factory a chance!:)
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| Name:
| Ivo Varbanov
| | Skills:
| soloist (Pianist)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8742 2394 / +44 (0)411 273 621
| | Fax:
| +44 (0)20 8742 2394
| | Address:
| 65, Bollo Lane, London W4 5LU, United Kingdom
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| | Ivo Varbanov was born in Pleven (Bulgaria) and started studying the piano at the age of six in his home town. In 1981 he moved to Italy and studied in Milan under the guidance of the well-known Hungarian teacher Ylonka Deckers until the time of his graduation in 1993.
From 1993 till 1995 he studied with the Russian pianist Sulamita Aronowsky. In 1996 the Rotary Foundation(USA) awarded him a two-years-scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Professor Frank Wibaut. He has played in masterclasses in Italy (Alexander Lonquich), France (Lev Naoumov), and England (Peter Katin and Barry Douglas).
He has performed with orchestras, solo recitals and given chamber music concerts in Bulgaria, Italy, the UK, Germany, France and Holland. In 1998 was released his first CD with piano works by M.Mussorgsky for Gega New Ltd.(worldwide distribution). The recording was higly praised in music magazines such as BBC Music Magazine, Kultura, Suono and HFN&RR. In 1999 he will perform as a soloist with the St.Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and the Sofia Soloists. He will also give solo, duo (with cellist Seeli Toivio) concerts in Italy, France, the UK, Bulgaria and Finland.
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| Name:
| Natasa Veljkovic
| | Skills:
| Soloist, Teacher, Chamber Musician ( Concert Pianist )
| | Phone:
| +43 6991 47 00 457
| | Address:
| Plattlgasse 8, Vienna A-1238, Austria
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| | Yugoslavia's no. 1 concert pianist, Natasa Veljkovic, was born in Belgrade in 1968, 2nd of april. She won the Prix Clara Haskil competition in 1985 and has been in charge of her own class of students as a professor at the University of Music in Vienna since 1993. She was herself admitted as a student at the age of 14 and took her final diploma with distinction at the age of 19. She continued studies at the Juilliard School, New York, with Rudolf Firkusny. Natasa Veljkovic is regarded as one of the most outstanding pianists for Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt of our time.
Natasa has been playing the piano since the age of 4 and began her international concert career at 7 with the Bach concerto in F minor. She won first prizes in 2 major international competitions in Italy before the age of 10. As already mentioned, Natasa Veljkovic won in 1985 the renowed Prix Clara Haskil competion in Vevey, Switzerland, and in 1990 she achieved 1st place at the World Music Masters in Paris.
Discography (commercial recordings): 1)Mozart, Ravel, Debussy und Papandopulo – Zagreb, 1986 JUGOTON, LSY 66257 - 2)Ravel, Chopin und Grieg – Belgrad, 1989 RTS-PGP, 230200 - 3)Schumann und Schubert – Belgrad, 1994 RTS-PGP, 430145 - 4)Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt und Franck – Belgrad, 1997 RTS-PGP, 430282 - 5)Liszt – Wien, 1998 ZULUS RECORDS, Z0598721 - 6)Mozart – Wien, 1999 ZULUS RECORDS, Z0599002 - 7)Bach, Mendelssohn und Haydn (Klavierkonzerte) orchestra: The Belgrade Strings „Dusan Skovran” conductor: Aleksandar Pavlovic – Belgrad, 2001 RTS-PGP, 431104 - 8)Despic – Belgrad, 2001 RTS-PGP, 431227 - These recordings can be obtained via D.I.MUSIC - http://www.dimusic.co.uk/zul.html
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| Name:
| Anna Verkholantseva
| | Skills:
| Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +43 6991 2222 444
| | Address:
| Vienna 1040, Austria
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| | Born in Moscow in 1973, Anna Verkholantseva entered the Central Music School, where she began her harp studies at a very early age. She then entered the Moscow Conservatoire where she studied with the legendary Vera Dulova. Anna has been a consistent winner at international competitions, beginning with the prestigious First Moscow International Harp Contest in 1997, on which occasion, as first prize-winner, she was awarded a concert harp donated by Salvi / Lyon&Healy.
Anna Verkholantseva has already become an international soloist of distinction. Promoted by the Victor Salvi Foundation, she made her international recital debut at London’s Wigmor Hall in 1998, and during the same season she appeared as a concerto soloist at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, when she was accompanied by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sergei Stadler. In 2000 she undertook an important concerto engagement in Tallinn with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Estonia, and in 2001, in Vilnius; she was a concerto soloist with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Saulus Sondetskis. Earlier this year she was a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Vienna, to which orchestra she has recently been appointed as principal harp. She plays duos and trios with Yuri Bashmet, with whose “Moscow Soloists” she was delighted to accept an invitation to play in the 2001 “December Nights” Festival held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. During the 2000-2001 season, she formed a very successful duo with violinist Alexander Trostiansky, and, sponsored by the Victor Salvi Foundation, they gave concerts in London (Covent Garden), Italy (Venice) and the USA (San Francisco, Chicago and also in New York, where they played et Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall). A wonderful CD of their recital programme was issued by Egan Records in 2001.
Critics have been unanimous in their praise of Anna Verkholantseva’s marvellous technique and her impressive artistry. She was honoured with the accolade of an invitation to play at the opening concerts of two succeeding World Harp Congresses, at Prague in 1999 and at Geneva in 2002 (with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande). She gave the world premieres of the Suite for Violin and Harp by Thomas Rajna, the Sonata for Harp and Violin by Valeri Kikta (with Alexander Trostiansky), the Concerto for Two Harps by V. Kikta (with Natalia Shameyeva), the Sonata for Harp and Viola (with Yuri Bashmet) – works commissioned by Victor Salvi.
Before taking up her present post in Austria with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Anna Verkholantseva was, in turn, principal harpist of the Moscow State Orchestra of Cinematography, the Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (conductor Alexander Vedernikov) and the orchestra of the Stadttheater in Bielefeld(Germany).
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| Name:
| Barton Viar
| | Skills:
| Composer, Singer, Soloist
| | Address:
| United States
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| | Well composed with outstanding time and care, Barton's music is classically centered, rooted in Memphis blues and is bright and airy with attractive complex melodies of extraordinary depth. The artist indeed combines extremely accurate guitar playing with wonderful keyboards and lush non-lyrical heavenly sensual female and male vocals provided either by Mimi and/or Barton.
All his influences are captured, from eastern spiritual, blues, southern rock, metal, rock-a-billy, blue-grass, Celtic and even hip-hop, using modern electric and ancient acoustic sting instruments. From the first note of his work, I was captivated by the simplicity and beauty of an extraordinary musician. Naturally roused tones are used to create a sound that is unique, otherworldly, and elegant. The resulting whole is an opulent, sensually arousing tapestry.
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| Name:
| Victor Victorino
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Conductor, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1-209-320-5717
| | Address:
| 10445 Tyke Dr., Stockton, California 95209, United States
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| | Masters in Church Music, Ecumenical Institute for Church Music, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany Employment Records: Organist, Cantor - St. Elizabeth Parish, Berlin, Germany 1994-2001 Director of Music and Liturgy - St. Elizabeth Parish, Rockville, Maryland, USA 2001-2002 Director of Music, Diocese of Kilmore, Ireland 2002-2007 Director of Music, Church of the Presentation of the BVM 2007- present
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| Name:
| Adolfo Vidal
| | Skills:
| Soloist (Pianist)
| | Phone:
| +1 305 859-8741
| | Fax:
| +1 305 859-8741
| | Address:
| 2201 South Miami Ave., Miami, FL 33129, United States
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| | Recognized as one of Venezuela’s most talented young pianists. Adolfo Vidal has been hailed as an "exciting and compelling pianist" (Surface and Symbol, Toronto). His appearances include performances in Europe, South and North America.
In 2001 under the supervision of Marietta Orlov and Andre Laplante, Vidal completed a 2-year, Artist Diploma Program, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. He participated in Masterclasses with pianists, John Perry, Robert McDonald, Claude Frank, Angela Cheng, Marc Durand, Julian Martin and Alan Walker, among others. During the Sarasota Music Festival 2001, Vidal worked with pianists Susan Starr, Robert Levin and John Perry.
Vidal holds a MM and BM from Florida International University in Miami where he studied with Kemal Gekic, Susan Starr, Gordon Roberts and Miguel Salvador. While in school many Masterclasses complimented his studies with pianists such as, Roberta Rust, Mark Zeltzer, Eleri Anjaparidze, Arthur Pizarro, Lorin Hollander, Boris Berezovski and Vladimir Feltsman.
Born in Venezuela and winner of two National Piano Competitions, Adolfo C. Vidal started piano studies at the age of 5 in the city of Santa Ana de Coro, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, under the French pianist Gerard Bourgogne. Further music studies were completed at the Maracaibo and Caracas Conservatories of Music with the Russian pianists Mikhail Antoshin, Igor Lavrov and Stanislav Pochekin. In 1990, another Bachelor of Music Education was earned from the “Cecilio Acosta” Catholic University in Venezuela. Currently, Vidal resides in the US Miami, where he is the Artistic Director of the ‘Teresa Carreño’ International Piano Competition and works closely with the American pianist Gordon Roberts, who has remained his teacher and mentor.
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