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Name: Devon Carpenter Haupt
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher (Harp and Soprano Voice)
Phone: +1 (877) HARP 578
Address: 322 East Colfax, South Bend, IN 46383, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Raised in Jacksonville, Illinois, my musical training began at a young age with piano and voice lessons. I began harp study during high school at the age of 15. My first harp teacher was Alice Spero Keene, the professor of harp at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Subsequent teachers include Beatriz Martin-Ruiz of the University of Illinois and Suzann Davids of Valparaiso University.

After attending Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois for two years, I transferred to Valparaiso University in Indiana where I graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and in 2005 with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (History Concentration). While at Bradley, I sang with the Chorale and Community Chorus, played harp for a performance of George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children" with the New Music Ensemble, and appeared as a soloist in the Prism concert series. I was fortunate to be able to tour Poland and the Czech Republic with the Bradley Chorale. At this time, I also began teaching beginning harp students and performed at events in Peoria and the surrounding areas.

At Valparaiso University, I was a member of the Chorale and Orchestra, touring with both groups throughout the United States. I gave vocal solo recitals in January of 2001 and April of 2003. As a harpist, I also accompanied the VU Chorale for their Christmas recording “Christ Child: Songs of the Nativity,” available from VUCA Media, and the Kantorei choir for Christmas Vespers services. I was a member of the pit orchestra for Valparaiso University's production of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" in 2001, and for the Memorial Opera House production of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 2005.

Currently, I am active as a freelance harpist working throughout the Midwest, performing at numerous weddings, fundraisers, funerals, corporate functions, and other events. I am also a founding member of Glissando Harps, a harp ensemble that provides music for all occasions.

 

Name: Doug Haywood
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Player, Singer, Teacher, Producer, Recording engineer (Sings, Plays Bass and Guitar exeptionaly, Teaches Voice and Works as a Producer for mainly singer songwriters.)
Phone: +1 (303) 926 9870
Address: po box 661, lafayette CO 80026, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Exeptionaly skilled producer/arranger.

Over 30 years experience.

Worked with Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Mason Williams, Warren Zevon, The Dillards, Linda Rondsadt, and George Harrison to name a few.

 

Name: Struan Hellier
Skills: Teacher (Guitar (Jazz/Rock/Blues styles))
Address: Shropshire, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
As a full time educator I teach jazz, rock and blues guitar in the Shrewsbury area of England. See my website for further information about me.

 

Name: Colin Gordon Henson
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Teacher
Phone: +44 (0)1227-265575
Address: 36 Gosselin Street, Canterbury, Kent CT5 4LQ, United Kingdom
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Name: Frank Augustus Hood
Skills: Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
Phone: +1 (619) 295 6296
Address: 1910 Robinson Avenue, #11, San Diego, CA 92104, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Frank is currently a music major at San Diego State University finishing a Bachelor of Music degree in piano. He is affiliated with the San Diego State University Adams' Project which is a professional performance venue showcasing the university's talented music students and faculty. Recent engagements with the Adam's Project have included performing for the San Diego State University President, Dr. Stephen Weber, as well as the San Diego State University Alumni Association. This consummate performer is also the current pianist for Second Church of Christ, Scientist in San Diego, CA. Frank also performs regularly at area retirement communities with San Diego vocalist Linda McCue, offering a pleasant blend of light classical music and show tunes. His unique and entertaining musical blend of classical and pop is sought after as music for area weddings, private parties, and other special engagements. During the summer of 2002, Frank was Director of Music and Staff Pianist at Camp Wah-Nee in Torrington, CT. Before transferring to San Diego State Univesity to finish his Bachelor of Music degree, San Diego Mesa College awarded Frank the EFK Music Award for dedication to music and outstanding academic achievement.

Many San Diegans are enjoying piano lessons with pianist Frank Hood! Lessons are custom-tailored to suit each student's desires and tastes in music. Twice a year, a small informal piano recital is given where students have the option to participate and perform their latest masterpieces in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere in Frank's home.

 

Name: Graeme Hopson
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Teacher, Music Copyist
Phone: +44 (0)7715 933077
Fax: +44 (0)161 928 8020
Address: 5 Woodfield Road, Altrincham WA14 4ET, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Middlesbrough in 1980, Graeme began composing from the age of 12. His music soon attracted local attention, where he won several competitions.

Wider aclaim was to come in 1996 when he was a finalist in the St. Mary’s Young Composer of the Year Competition and in 1999 when two of his pieces were performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London, as part of the National Music for Youth Festival, and broadcast on BBC Radio Cleveland. He was a finalist in the Ensemble 11 international Young Composers’ Competition 2002.

Graeme studied at the University of Huddersfield with Patric Standford and at the Royal Northern College of Music under Paul Patterson, where he graduated with a Masters' Degree in Composition. Graeme lives and works in North-West England as a freelance musician.

 

Name: Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
Skills: Singer, Soloist, Teacher (mezzo-soprano/alto soloist and ensemble singer, voice teacher, workshop facilitator.)
Address: New York City, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, was born in Belfast, N. Ireland. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London before moving to the U.S. She is a member of the vocal quartet Anonymous 4.

She is also a soloist specializing in early and new music and was featured on the Grammy award-winning album 'Calling All Dawns'

She has been a guest soloist with many ensembles including The Washington Bach Consort DC, Bach Sinfonia DC, Carmel Bach Festival, Sonnambula, Parthenia, Ensemble Modern Frankurt, Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris, Continuum and American Opera Projects.

Jacqueline is also a voice teacher. She holds an M.A. in Music from Columbia University Teachers College and is currently a Doctoral candidate and a Teaching Fellow at The Juilliard School New York.

 

Name: Robert Howard
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher (Bassoonist)
Phone: +44 (0)20 7328 4220 / +44 (0)7790 516167
Address: 8 Wells Court Cambridge Avenue Kilburn Park, LONDON NW6 5TH, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
ROBERT HOWARD (b. 1977) is a composer from Merseyside, England, now living in London. Robert studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Birmingham University and currently at Goldsmiths College, University of London (PhD) with Philip Cashian. He has composed a wide variety of (primarily) instrumental works, from solo pieces to orchestral works. Robert's music has been played by various ensembles including BCMG, Gemini (Family of Man, Dual Form), City of London Sinfonia (The Island, SPNM shortlisted 2000), Goldsmiths Sinfonia (Promenade, SPNM shortlisted 2001), the Kreutzer Quartet, Concillium Brass Ensemble, IXION (Lines on A Walk II conducted by Michael Finnissy) and by soloists such as Simon Limbrick and Stephen Gutman. In 1999 his String Quartet No.1. won the Gregynog Young Composers' Award of Wales and his piano music has won first prizes at several music festivals.

Robert also has a keen interest in composing for amateurs; he has composed extensively for fellow students, for several youth orchestras on Merseyside and most recently in the series of pieces titled Promenade and Lines on A Walk. These have been widely performed and recorded by several COMA ensembles. Robert is also a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths College, and bassoonist and conductor. He is currently Chair of the Forum London Composers Group. Robert's Promenade IV was published and recorded by Forum as part of their Re:Sound pack and his music is distributed by Incalcando Contemporary Music Publishing (www.incalcando.com). Future projects include a work for large orchestra inspired by the John Piper Baptistry Window in Coventry Cathedral.

 

Name: Louisa Hunter-Bradley
Skills: Player, Publisher, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +61 (0) 417 344 828
Fax: +61 3 9572 4313
Address: PO Box 19, Chadstone Shopping Centre 3148, Australia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Louisa Hunter-Bradley has performed extensively in Australia with groups such as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia Classical Players, Melbourne Chorale Ensemble, St Michael's Uniting Church Choir, Baroquerie and most predominantly as the Artistic Director of Past Echoes. While studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Louisa studied voice with Emma Kirkby, Celeste Gattai, Paul Esswood and Ian Partridge and recorder with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen. Louisa is currently studying with Stephen Grant and is a guest artist with e21, Q Vocal Ensemble, Gloriana and The Palestrina Project. Oratorio performances include, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Faure’s Requiem, Purcell’s The Tempest, Mozart’s Vesperae Solemnis, Coronation Mass and Mass in C minor.

Louisa is the Artistic Director of Past Echoes, a Melbourne based group of specialist early musicians performing music mostly of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Programs and venues for their concerts are wide ranging, and festival performances include: Melbourne Autumn Music Festival, Ballarat Organs of the Goldfields, Ballarat Winter Festival, Melbourne Proms, Sacred Heart Early Music Festival and Monash Lunchtime Concerts.

Louisa is also a leading performer of Australian contemporary music for recorder and voice alike. Her debut cd, Ephemera (and other works written by Robin Bradley) has been praised by many, both for her incredible musicianship and interpretation. This cd and sheet music of the same music is available through themusicsource@pastechoes.com.

 

Name: Mark Izzard
Skills: Teacher (Guitar and Bass tutor)
Phone: +44 (0)1908 505479
Address: 9 Culmsotck Close, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK4 2BH, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
I have been playing guitar for around about 20 years. Although a Bass player first and foremost, I wanted to write songs to contribute to the band I was playing in at the time. So I learned to play the guitar and have been writing ever since. I have performed in bands playing rhythm and lead, but most of my playing is done in my home studio. Having recorded most styles of music, I would like to pass on that knowledge via Cadenza.

 

Name: Adrienne Jacobs
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Violinist)
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
American-born violinist and violist Adrienne Jacobs enjoys a career as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. To date, she has been heard on stages across Europe and the United States.

As Associate Concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony and substitute violinist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Adrienne performs regularly on the symphonic stage. Recently Adrienne participated in an Eastern European tour as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Kammerorchester under the direction of Heinrich Schiff, highlighted by an appearance at the prestigious Prague Spring Festival.

Since her solo debut at age 13, Adrienne has performed as soloist with many of Southeastern Michigan’s orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on two separate occasions. However, her passion for recitals and chamber music has lead her to collaborate with many of the DSO’s members as well as Pinchas Zukerman. Notably, Adrienne was the Grand Prize winner of both the 1998 and 1999 American String Teachers’ Association Michigan Chamber Music Festival Competition which lead to many subsequent performances across Michigan including a performance at Rackham Auditorium presented by the University Musical Society of Ann Arbor. Also an avid performer of music from the Baroque, Adrienne has performed and coached with members of Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire, and Edward Parmentier.

Adrienne received her M.M. from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and her B.M. with Honors from The University of Michigan. She plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin made in 1706.

 

Name: Zoran Jancic
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +381658991444
Address: FU Knjeginje Ljubice10, Nis, Yugoslavia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Zoran G. Jancic-pianist ...was one of last staff to continue teaching (at Sarajevo's Music Academy) despite of the war. At great personal risk he gave a recital during the siege of Sarajevo.

 

Name: Paul Austin Janes
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
Phone: +44 (0)161 434 1137
Fax: +44 (0)161 434 1137
Address: 3 Arthog Road, Manchester M20 6HR, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Winchester in 1968, Paul Janes is one of the finest British pianists of his generation, whose performances have been consistently praised for their profound sensitivity and intellectual understanding, beauty of sound and technical brilliance.

Paul studied from 1986 to 1991 with Renna Kellaway at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was awarded all the College's major prizes. He has won numerous other awards,including scholarships from the Countess of Munster and Ian Fleming Trusts, and prizes in many international competitions, including Dudley, Terni (Italy)and Glasgow.

He has performed at many of Britain's major concert halls, including the Royal Albert Hall (London), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester) and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He has played concertos with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Worthing Symphony, Lakeland Sinfonia and City of Glasgow Philharmonic. Conductors he has worked with include Yan Pascal Tortelier, Leonard Slatkin, Richard Hickox, Martyn Brabbins, James Loughran and Barry Wordsworth. Paul is equally at home in solo and chamber music recitals, having appeared at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham International Festival and Lake District Summer Music. He took the solo piano role in the BBC Phiharmonic's 1995 Proms performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka, where his performance was hailed by the press as 'dazzling'.

Paul is one the finest teachers in the UK and has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music since 1994.

 

Name: Yoris Henryk Jarzynski
Skills: Arranger, Conductor, Manager, Player, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +5687355981
Address: Chile
Links: E-mail
 
Yoris Jarzynski has studied with Philippe Hirschhorn, Viktor Libermann, Igor Oistrakh, Tibor Varga, and M. Beswekhny.

He has been invitated on many international festival in all the world. Yoris performs frecuentally as soloist an gives master-claces.

 

Name: Maia Kristine Jasper
Skills: Soloist, Teacher, Chamber musician
Phone: +1 (323) 559 1571
Address: Los Angeles CA, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Los Angeles native Maia Jasper began her violin studies at age 8 in 1989. Since then, she has appeared as concerto and recital soloist in France, in the Netherlands, and on both American coasts in such venues as Los Angeles’ Zipper Hall and Music Center, the Cité Intérnationale des Arts in Paris, Music Hall in San José, the Bergen Ruinekerk (Holland), and Yale University. She has received awards from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts, the Young Musicians Foundation, the Colburn Foundation, and the Maestro Foundation.

Maia received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in May 2003 from Yale University, where she was awarded the Master’s Prize for her contribution to the musical life of her college. While an undergraduate, she served as the youngest member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, in which she held the Jeanet S. Curtis Chair. She spent her junior year at the Paris Conservatoire as a scholarship student of Gérard Poulet.

Maia is committed to bringing not only artistic integrity but also relevancy to art music in contemporary society. She recently gave the U.S. premier of Constantinidis’ “Folk Suite” and the West Coast premier of Periklys Koukous’ Violin Sonata in San José. At the 2004 Los Angles Philharmonic International Gala, she performed music of Piazzolla alongside her teacher and Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. She served as concertmaster of and soloist with the Timothy Dwight Chamber Players, Yale’s contemporary music ensemble. For two years she hosted her own radio program, Listening to the Guys Who Invented Music, on WYBC New Haven, AM 1340. An avid chamber musician, Maia will perform sextets with the Ysaye String Quartet when the group performs in Los Angeles this October. As first violinist of the Sonus Quartet in 2003 – 2004, she participated in the Juilliard Quartet Seminar, the Yehudi Menuhin Emerging Artists Seminar, and the Banff Centre Quartet Residency. Other chamber music performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, KCSN, KKGO, and KUSC. She is also developing a taste for early music, performing as baroque violinist with Los Angeles’ early music ensemble Musica Angelica and as leader of the Thornton Early Music Ensemble. She was recently awarded a generous scholarship to support her studies with renowned baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock.

Maia has participated in mastercourses with Ruggiero Ricci, Janos Starker, and the Ysaye, Juilliard, Alexander, and Takacs Quartets. At the International Holland Music Sessions, she worked with Gyorkgy Pauk and Hermann Krebbers. Other festival appearances include the ENCORE School for Strings and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. Her former teachers include Pamela Frank, Kyung Yu, Paul Kantor, Robert Lipsett, Michelle Kim, Camille Avellano, and David Russell. She is currently completing her Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she is a student of and teaching assistant to Martin Chalifour and is the school’s first Colburn Fellowship recipient.

 

Name: Thomas "tj" Johansen
Skills: Teacher (Music Technology Tutor)
Phone: +44 20 8342 8891
Fax: 44 7990 564 964
Address: 145c Crouch Hill, London N8 9QH, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
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Name: Angharad Wyn Jones
Skills: Player, Teacher
Links: E-mail
 
I am currently studying the harp at the Royal Academy of Music London,scholarship based with Prof.Skaila Kanga and I've been playing for 15 years.

Won numerous solo competitions such as the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1998, Llanrwst Harp Festival 1997 and 2000, the Cerdd Dant Festival 2000 and 2001, Young Musician of the year North Wales 1998, 2001 and 2002.

In the summer of 2004 I toured the Uk and New York with Sir Elton John as principal harpist. Played with numerous orchestras such as the National Youth Orchestra of Wales (principal for 2 years), Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra, Royal Orchestral Society to name a few.

 

Name: Dewi Ellis Jones
Skills: Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Timpani + all things Percussion)
Phone: +44 (0)1248 714740
Address: 56 Y Wern, LLANFAIRPWLL, Isle of Anglesey LL61 5AQ, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Marimba/Percussion soloist, orchestral and band musician. Have van will travel. Own a 5 octave Adams marimba, Orchestral set of 5 timpani and most other devices that can be hit, kicked, shaken or stirred (non-animate objects only). Access to various other odd percussion instruments.

MA in Performance and LRSM Percussion Performance. Currently working towards PhD in Performance and Composition. Studying with Simone Rebello and Dr Pwyll ap Sion.

I play or have played with numerous orchestras and Brass Bands e.g. Ensemble Cymru, Welsh Chamber Orchestra, Welsh Sinfonia, Beaumaris Silver Band (Soloist). Numerous television appearances as soloist

Percussion tutor at University of Wales, Bangor and at William Mathias Music Centre, Caernarfon. Sponsored by S4C (Channel 4 in Wales)

 

Name: Saida Kafarova Ganjetsian
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Soloist, Teacher
Address: Canada
Links: Website     E-mail
 
As a winner of the Artists International Special Presentation Recital Award, Saida Ganjetsian Kafarova performed her Carnegie Hall debut recital in June 2000. Dr. Jerome Starr commented, "In my time I have heard all the great - Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninov. You are top rank. Artistry, poetry, soul of the highest order."

Ms. Kafarova was born in Azerbaijan to a musical family of Armenian descent. Her mother was a noted cellist and her aunt a well-regarded composer and pianist. In 1983 Ms. Kafarova won the top prize at the prestigious First Chamber Music Festival in Baku, and in l985 she was awarded a special prize at the Caucasus Piano Competition. A frequent performer with the Azerbaijan Philharmonic and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, she has toured many parts of the former Soviet Union and has performed in Canada, Germany, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway. She was invited to perform for his Honor the German Ambassador and for his Honor the British Ambassador in Istanbul. In March 2001 she was chosen as a finalist to perform at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Ms. Kafarova has premiered several works by contemporary composers for solo piano and for piano and orchestra. On this continent, she has been named Music Ambassador of Nova Scotia, Canada, and has performed frequently with the New Brunswick Symphony. On numerous occasions, she has been featured live on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television.

The upcoming performances include appearances with the Temple Symphony and Austin Civic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Peter Bay. As a pedagogical grandchild of the Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Medtner, Dr. Kafarova continues her research on the composer’s pedagogy. Her unique dissertation’s topic was on the composer’s Works for Two Pianos, op.58

 

Name: Babis Kanas
Skills: Composer, Teacher
Phone: 2104517561
Address: Rediadi 1, Piraeus 18539, Greece
Links: E-mail
 
Babis (Charalambos) Kanas was born in 1952 and grew up in N. Faliron, near Piraeus. Son of the sea-painter Antony Kanas, he showed interest and love for music, already from his childhood. In 1969 he entered the Athens Conservatory where he studied harmony with Menelaos Pallandios and flute with Urs Ruttiman. He graduated from both studies with distinction, in 1977 and 1980 respectively. Meanwhile, he stydied counterpoint, fugue and composition with Yannis A. Papaioannou. Later, in collaboration with Costas Clavvas, he practiced the style and orchestration of modern music. At that time he registrated his titles of study (Kentrikon Odeion, 1994: Diploma of Composition with distinction and First Prize). His writing is mostly contrapuntal, although his main purpose is the outmarking of melodic elements. His style is characterized by a balancing on the limits between extended- and multi-tonality which is usually achieved by the use of multi-note chords, as well as antique and/or ethnic modes.

His up-to-now works include solo and chamber music, choral music, works for orchestra with and without soloist(s), as well as many songs, musik for the theatre and radio. Most of them are often performed in Greece and abroad (Tchech Rep., Hungary, Austria, Holland, Bulgaria, Ukrainia, Italy, Switzerland, Belgique, France, USA, Canada), performed and broadcasted by the Greek Radio, twice awarded by composition prizes and edited on CD records. He has had comissions by the Athens Music Hall, the A. Onassis Foundation, the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, the Organization for the Cultural Capital of Europe, the Athens State Orchestra and the Union of Greek Composers where, he has been a member of the Administrative Board. B.Kanas is a professor in Athens Conservatory and elsewhere, and Artistic Director of Melantheion Odeion in Rhodes. He has been a flute performer in orchestras and solo recitals.

 

 


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