| Name:
| Rigo Murillo
| | Skills:
| Administrator, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Violinist
| | Phone:
| +1 (214) 703 8956
| | Address:
| Dallas, Texas, United States
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| | Violinist Rigo Murillo has earned a warm respect from his listeners and colleagues for his well-defined musical expression, vividly multicolored tone, and his clear, yet spontaneous musical eloquence. He captures his audience's imagination with a driving musical conviction. His exhilarating musical expression is able to engage even the youngest audiences.
Mr. Murillo has received honor degrees in violin performance and music education from The University of Southern Mississippi, where he was granted the McGraw Violin Chair Award. He also holds an Artist Diploma in violin performance from the Ollin Yoliztli Institute in Mexico City, where he studied with Sergei Gorbenko, the former concertmaster of the USSR Radio and TV Orchestra. In addition, he has performed in master classes with renowned artists such as Mayumi Fujikawa, Gregory Feigin, and Alexander Brussilowsky. Mr. Murillo has played as a member of the Pensacola Symphony, Meridian Symphony and Mississippi Opera orchestra, as well as concertmaster of the USM Symphony. Throughout his career, he has shared stage along with world-acclaimed artists as Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Jean Pierre Rampal, Doc Severinsen, and Ray Charles, among others. He has appeared as guest soloist with the Ollin Yoliztli Chamber Orchestra and is featured on several recordings of Jewish liturgical and folk music, as well as his own production, titled "My Heart's Music," his compilation of instrumental songs performed on violin.
Mr. Murillo is an active teacher member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, having studied Suzuki pedagogy with Michelle George and Paul Landefeld. He has been a faculty member at The University of Southern Mississippi Suzuki School, Bass Memorial Academy, Violinspire Suzuki Workshop in Hattiesburg, MS and the American Honor Orchestra Festival. Mr. Murillo's musical leadership has taken him to excel as music director of the USM Civic Orchestra, director of operations of the USM Symphony Orchestra, and music director at Mount Sinai Congregation in Mexico City. He is the founder of the Suzuki strings program in the Greenville (TX) public schools, where he teaches private and group violin lessons along with keeping a performing schedule in the Dallas-Greenville, TX area.
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| Name:
| Janet Carroll Murray
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1 (925) 932-4458
| | Address:
| 1268 Pine Street, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, CA 94596, United States
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| | A lifetime studying and performing musician,Janet Murray has been teaching piano and keyboards for seventeen years. Adults learn privately or in class settings and play formally in this country and abroad. Music ranges from classical to jazz to ragtime to folk tunes to Broadway and pop.
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| Name:
| Richard Myland
| | Skills:
| teacher (Trumpet, Cornet)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8995 4357
| | Address:
| Chiswick, London, United Kingdom
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| | Trumpet and cornet tuition available to all levels from beginner to advanced. Fees on application.
GBSM ABSM (teaching with distinction)
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| Name:
| Evelyn Nallen
| | Skills:
| Player, Soloist, Teacher (Recorder Player)
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| | Recorder-player Evelyn Nallen made her BBC debut at the age of nine, and her remarkable skills span early, baroque and contemporary music. She has had works written for her by David Bedford, Carl Rütti and Roxanna Panufnik, and has given concerts all over the world. She has played at the Wigmore Hall many times, the South Bank Centre in London, the Barbican, the Royal Albert Hall, on BBC TV and radio and in the USA, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
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| Name:
| William Malachi Nathan
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Player, Teacher, Writer
| | Phone:
| +1 (310) 738-7792
| | Address:
| 11684 Ventura Blvd Suite #469, Studio City,CA 91604, United States
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| | William Malachi Nathan was born in San Diego,California, USA. At the age of seven, he began to play the violin in elementary school; after experimenting with instruments he made himself. Then in junior high school, he progressed to the bass violin. In high school, he played the tuba and the baritone in the St. Augustine High School Marching Band and eventuallye to electric bass to play in various local R&B and jazz groups. While growing up,William studied the technique of the Double Bass violin at the Coady School of Music in San Diego,CA. He attended college at University of California, San Diego as a part-time student and faculty staff member.
From there, William moved to Los Angeles, California and began performing with such great artists as Ronnie Laws. He then moved on to collaborate with many greats like: Bennie Maupin, BlackByrd McKnight, Ray Johnson, King Ernest, Bobby Lyle, Mayuto Correa, Ndugu Chancler, Ellis Hall, Willie Bobo, Gabor Szabo, Alphonse Mouzon, Alex Ligertwood, formerly the lead vocalist for the Carlos Santana group, Rick Latham, a drummer who performs with Edgar Winter, Lovely Previn, violinist and the daughter of Andre Previn.
Willam Nathan has been involved with many enriching opportunities, such as The 75th Annual Academy Awards Show in the USA where he was privileged to perform onstage with Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones in their award winning song from CHICAGO,"I'll Move On", photo shoots with celebrities like Kenny G, musician spots on The Ally McBeal Show, and a movie, Three to Tango, and was featured on the Amiel Larrieux video: "Sweet Misery", shown nationwide on BET’s Midnight Love Videos. Ndugu Chancler (Drummer) is featured on one of William’s CDs titled "Black Mink Bass".William has presented his most recent producing-writing and arranging on his new released CD entitled: "I‘m The Man". William and his band "The Elements" has worked with many community projects such as: Summer Concerts, Los Angeles County Arts Commission Projects. As a first chair bass, William has performed in a production titled; "Body Language A Play" written by Michael Ajakwe Jr. for Patti LaBelle. William‘s most recent producing-writing and arranging is featured on his new released CD entitled: "I‘m The Man".
William Nathan and THE ELEMENTS is the featured Jazz- R&B- Blues Band on the JAMB PRODUCTIONS, INC. website at www.williamnathan.com. William has performed in many venues around the world and is currently promoting his own writing and recordings .William's speciality is making the music to be as unique as the event. William can be booked for performances thru JAMB's "I Wanna Book A Band" form located on his website. JAMB Productions Inc.Presents, "William Malachi Nathan", Bassist-Composer and Entrepreneur.
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| Name:
| Dominic Natoli
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Address:
| London, United Kingdom
| | Links:
|
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| | Dominic Natoli made his first public appearance at age five, and subsequently joined the Australian Boys' Choir, achieving success as a soloist. He later studied with renowned Italian Baritone Afro Poli, until he travelled to Vienna where he studied at the Vienna Conservatorium of Music, graduating with a first class honours Diploma of Opera. He has studied with Carol Blaickner-Mayo in Vienna and with Nicholas Powell, David Harper, and Ludmilla Andrew in London.
His numerous awards include first prize in the Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition; the prestigious Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship which he has been awarded twice; and an Arts Fellowship from the Queensland Government. He also holds degrees in Law and Economics.
Dominic's operatic engagements have been with numerous companies in Australia, Austria, Germany, France, USA, Ireland, and the U.K., including Opera Australia, Victoria State Opera, Opera Queensland, Holland Park Opera, Anna Livia International Festival, and English National Opera. His operatic repertoire includes Tamino, Don Ottavio, Idomeneo, the Steuermann, Loge, Ernesto, Nemorino, Edgardo, Don Josè, Ismael, Alfredo Germont, Riccardo, Cavaradossi, Prunier, Rodolfo, and Des Grieux.
His Oratorio performances include the Verdi Requiem, Haydn's The Seasons, Bach's St. John Passion, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Handel's Joshua and Messiah. His extensive concert repertoire encompasses lieder, French and Italian songs, and he makes frequent appearances on Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2. He records on CD with Vienna Modern Masters, Opera Rara and Chandos.
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| Name:
| Konrad Price Nelson
| | Skills:
| Player, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1 (801) 226 0405
| | Address:
| 75 E 600 N, Orem Utah 84057, United States
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|
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| | education California Intitute of the Arts The Curtis Intitute of Music Music Academy of the West
solo harpist Utah Symphony 1987 -1998 over 25 concerto appearances with that orchestra
Presently adjunct faculty and artist teacher in residence at Utah Valley State College
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| Name:
| Prof. Dimitri Nicolau
| | Skills:
| Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Writer
| | Address:
| Rome 00186, Italy
| | Links:
|
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| | Composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist and professor Dimitri Nicolau was born in Keratea (Greece) and naturalized Italian, he resides and works in Rome. Besides his musical studies in Greece and in France he has done researches in the vast field of popular music with particular interest in the Mediterranean and Balkan area. In 1967 his opposition to the regime of the Greek colonels got him political asylum from the Italian state.
Graduated also in cinematography in the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome (C.S.C ) he has practiced this profession for some years without yet interrupting composition, collaborating with different directors. He has frequented the faculty of Modern Letters in Rome University. Fundamental for his artistic formation is the relationship with the theory and the Collective Analysis of Massimo Fagioli in Rome.
From 1959, the year in which he begins to compose, he reaches today a catalog of over 290 compositions including 3 Operas, 5 Symphonies for large Orchestra, numerous Concerts for Soloist and Orchestra, many works for plucked string orchestra, for soloist and chamber ensembles, many works for Voice, ballet music. Besides that, he has composed sound tracks for cinema, television and radio, music and songs for infancy and over a 100 scores for the prose theater.
His music exploits masterly each instrument's (or voice's) potential, often with most unusual tone and playing techniques. Many of his works show an intense theatrical quality. His works have been performed at many musical centers throughout Europe, North Africa, U.S.A., Canada, Japan, China, South America, Australia. For the complete catalogue of his works please visit his site : www.dimitrinicolau.it
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| Name:
| Dimitri Nicolau
| | Skills:
| composer, conductor, teacher
| | Phone:
| +39 06 6893587
| | Fax:
| +39 06 6893587
| | Address:
| via Grottapinta 14, Rome 00186, Italy
| | Links:
|
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| | Dimitri NICOLAU Composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist and professor Dimitri Nicolau was born in Keratea, Attica. He also studied Modern Literaturre and Philosophy at Rome University, and Cinema technique at the Rome Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He has taugh harmony, composition and theatrical singing voice. His music exploits masterly each instrument (or voice) potential, often with most unusual tone colours and unusual playing techniques. Many of his works exhibit an intense theatrical quality. His works have been performed at many musical centres throughout Europe, North Africa, U.S.A., Canada, Japan, at Italian festivals like: "Incontri Musicali Romani", "Nuova Consonanza", "Danzaricerca", "Musica 900", "Nuova Musica Italiana alla RadioUno", "Il Politecnico Musica", "Teatro del Opera", "Rassegna Intern. di Musica Contemporanea", "Abruzzo Rossini Festival", etc., Also at festivals in: Greece, England, Poland, Holand, Spain Germany, France, Roumania, Sweden, Belgium, Egypt, U.S.A , Canada, Japan,Australia etc. .
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| Name:
| Michael Anthony Nigro
| | Skills:
| Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1 (562) 809 6818
| | Address:
| Long Beach 90715, United States
| | Links:
|
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| | Michael Anthony Nigro showed an interest in the guitar at an early age and began playing by the age of 12. After several years of lessons with local teachers and self-study, he attended the prestigious Indiana University School of Music where he graduated with his Bachelor of Music Degree in 2000 under the direction of Ernesto Bitetti. After moving back to his native Southern California, he attended California State University, Fullerton and earned a Master of Music degree under the tutelage of David Grimes. Mr. Nigro is presently in the Doctor of Music program at Claremont Graduate University studying guitar with Jack Sanders. Michael Nigro’s debut recording, “Homage to Piazzolla; Argentine Dances, Songs, and Rhythms,” is released on the label, Music & Arts. The American Record Guide stated, “Nigro has a big sound, a smooth tone, and sure-footed interpretive instincts.” He is currently recording a new CD, for the Music & Arts label, which will feature the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Antonio Lauro, Jorge Cardoso, and many other South American composers. As a performer and teacher, Michael has done concerts and masterclasses at many esteemed colleges and prominent guitar societies. In past tours, he has traveled through the Midwest where he performed at the Bloomington Indiana Classical Guitar Society, St. Louis Public Library Concert Series, Oklahoma Public Library Concert Series, and the Kansas Library Concert Series. In the Northwest he has performed at The Jefferson Guitar Society in Ashland, Oregon, Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, The Maple Valley Public Library in Seattle Washington. On the east coast he has performed at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and the Olin Arts Center at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. In his local Southern California, he has performed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach, The Long Beach Classical Guitar Society, several community colleges, and many other local churches and community events. In May-June 2007, Michael is booking his fourth tour and will be performing in California, Nevada, Utah, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. He will be performing his program titled, “Sounds of the South American Guitar.” Michael is an active member of the guitar community; he is co-founder of the Long Beach Classical Guitar Society, independent reviewer of Soundboard Magazine, and sought after teacher and performer. Michael is presently on the faculty at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California where he is the head of the guitar department.
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| Name:
| John Nock
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Player, Teacher (Play French Horn/ Wagner Tuba. Teach all brass, heory and arranging)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 8923 9583
| | Fax:
| +44 (0)20 8923 9583
| | Address:
| London, United Kingdom
| | Links:
|
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| | I work as freelance player,teacher and arranger in and around London. I have arranged for the London Symphony Orchestra horn section and the LSO Discovery department. I'm also resident arranger for to brass quintets. I play in a variety of ensembles, from big band to symphony, from pit orchestras to brass ensembles.
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| Name:
| Serge Ollive
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +36 30 470 26 74
| | Address:
| Köztarsasag Tér 2, Budapest 1081, Hungary
| | Links:
|
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| | Serge Ollive studied orchestra conducting with Jenö REHAK, Arie VAN BEEK, and Uros LAJOVIC. Specialist in the work of Gustav Mahler, his repertoire permit him to conduct also Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Puccini, Verdi, Beethoven...
Born in 1977, Serge OLLIVE begins his musical studies in 1995 at the National Conservatory of Marseille (France) where he studies organ in the classes of prof. Annick CHEVALIER-NADDEO (organ) and André ROSSI (improvisation). In 1998 and 1999, he gets Master degrees in musical theory, harmony and Counterpoint. In 2000, he obtains Master degrees in organ and improvisation. Then he perfects himself in the same conservatory and goes also in Lyon where he can follow courses of prof. Louis ROBILLIARD and prof. Jean BOYER. From 1997 to 2007, he was organist at the Cathedral of Gap (France). He made several concerts performances on this organ and is nowadays still regularly invited in the Gap's organ festival. Since 1998, he's invited to play in many festivals as soloist and also with choirs or orchestras. Today, he played more than 300 concerts in the whole France (Marseille, Sisteron, Valence, Montélimar, Grignan, Narbonne, Paris, Boulogne-sur-mer, St Omer, Lyon...) and also in Germany, Switzerland, England and Italy.
Attracted by orchestral music of the 19th and 20th centuries, Serge OLLIVE begins to study conducting with Jenö REHAK in 2000. In 2002, he's invited to conduct the Alpes-Provence Youth Orchestra in Gap (France). The commitee appoint him Musical Director the next year, in 2003. Chief conductor of this orchestra during 4 years, he has conducted large part of repertoire : Mahler : 1st, 4th, 9th symphonies, Kindertotenlieder; Liszt : Eine Faust-sinfonie, Les Préludes; Tchaikovsky : 5th symhpony; Brahms : 4th symphony; Ravel : Daphnis and Chloe; Puccini : La Bohème; Beethoven : 3rd symphony; and many others such as Mozart, Reger, Wagner, Grieg. Serge OLLIVE conducted his last concert with the Alpes-Provence Youth Orchestra in may 2007 with Verdi Requiem. In the same time he studies with Arie VAN BEEK in Clermont-Ferrand and improves in master-classes with Uros LAJOVIC (University of music and visual arts - Vienna). He conducted at this opportunity the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie of Konstanz (Germany) in Brahms 4th symphony. In 2006 and 2007, Serge OLLIVE teached conducting at the free-time University in Gap and also in private courses.
In 2006, he founds the vocal ensemble "Cantabile" and conducts a lot of sacred music of Duruflé (Requiem, motets), Liszt (Via Crucis), Fauré (Requiem)... He is still Musical Director of this ensemble and goes regularly in France to conduct concerts. Serge OLLIVE has also some creative activities in making transcriptions for organ, piano or orchestra of several repertoire works. He edit his scores himself and sell it by internet. Today, he sells 1000 scores a year in the whole world (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Austria, United States, Canada, Japan...)
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| Name:
| Hoyle Osborne
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +1 505-334-9716
| | Address:
| 122 North Mesa Verde Avenue, Aztec, NM 87410, United States
| | Links:
|
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| | Pianist specializing in Transcendental Ragtime & Salon Music. Unique and fascinating repertoire ranging from 19th Century American music through classic ragtime and Pan-American music to exquisite original compositions.
Transposition, transcription, and arrangement services. Professional-quality “typeset” music in the key where you want to sing. Most of my clients are singers of standard American popular songs and songs from musicals who find that the published music does not fit their voices. The charge for the service varies according to the length and complexity of the music. Transposition of a standard American popular song, along the lines of “Stardust” or “As Time Goes By” - about 4 pages of printed music - is $30. Contact Hoyle Osborne at music@hoyleosborne.com for details and quotes. See also www.hoyleosborne.com/services.html
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| Name:
| Leroy Osmon
| | Skills:
| Composer, Teacher (Composer)
| | Phone:
| +52 9-944-1695
| | Address:
| Calle 20 No. 487X47 Col. Sol Campestre, Merida, Yucatan 97000, Mexico
| | Links:
|
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| | Although born May 27, 1948 in Washington, Indiana, Leroy Osmon lived for 44 years in Texas. His early education was in the Texas Public School System, studying clarinet and alto saxophone in a school band. With no formal musical training in composition he entered Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas to study composition with Paul Holmes and orchestration with Charles Wiley. After completing his degree Osmon taught band in East Texas. He went on to complete his Master of Music at Sam Houston State University in composition (studying with Fisher Tull) conducting (Gary Sousa) and musicology (James Marks). While working on his DMA at the University of Houston, Osmon studied composition with Michael Horvit and conducting with Eddie Green. Osmon continues to receive commissions for all music genres, has received the ASCAP Standard Music Award for Composition eight times and the Medallion La Ville De Contrexeville (Contrexeville, France) twice. His works have been performed at every major music conference in the United States. His Symphony for Winds and Percussion was presented at the WASBE conference in Manchester, England. His music has been performed throughout Europe, Australia, Japan, Israel, and Mexico. Most recent published works for band are Christmas in the Netherlands, David's Lyre and March 104 . Chamber works include Music for Five Winds, Suite for Solo Cello, Modinha: For Debra, in May (solo cello) and Yiskor for Mezzo Soprano and Soprano Saxophone. The most recent work for chorus is Singing to the Heavens. Osmon is at this time exclusively published by RBC Music of San Antonio, Texas, however, he has works with TRN, SMC and Peer-Southern of New York. The most recent CD is The Music of Leroy Osmon Vol. II (University of Houston, Eddie Green Conductor - Mark Custon Recording Service). All program notes for the University of Houston CD series (Eddie Green Conductor) are compiled by Osmon. From the first Grainger CD (an internationally acclaimed three volume series of the band works of Percy Grainger), he has worked with Mr. Green on every project. The University of Houston 1998 CD, The Planets, received several Grammy nominations (including program notes). To be released in the near future is a book on the band music of Percy Grainger - Program Guide for the Band Works of Percy Grainger (RBC Music Publishing). Presently, he is working on several commissions, including another Ballet, a Concerto for Tuba, chamber (Romance for Violin and Small Orchestra and Trio for Alto Flute, Viola and Harp) and a new band composition commissioned for Blinn College in Texas, The Midnight Culmination of Sirius. Leroy Osmon formally retired in May 2000, but continues to compose (with over 100 works - 30 published) and teach at the Bach School of Music in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico where he lives with his wife, Dr. Cay Smith Osmon, and their cats, "Missy, Meow-Meow, and Baby."
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| Name:
| Anna Ouspenskaya
| | Skills:
| Accompanist, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
| | Phone:
| +1 (703) 262 7962
| | Fax:
| +1 (703) 262 7962
| | Address:
| 2376 Albot Road, Reston, VA 20191, United States
| | Links:
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| | Anna Ouspenskaya was born in Yaroslavle, Russia, into a family of professional musicians. Her father was a Principal conductor of Yaroslavl Philharmonic Simphony Orchestra, and her mother was a violinist at the same orchestra. Anna started her piano study at the age of six and a half. At the age of seven and a half she made her debut with the Yaroslavl Philharmonic playing Haydn's Piano Concerto in D Major. Entering her 5th grade Anna was accepted to the Moscow Conservatory Central Music school for Gifted Children, where she started studying with reknown Dr. Levin. She won several local competitions and honor scholarships as well as was for many years admitted into concertizing group of students who traveled throughout Russia playing solo and orchestral performances. She performed with such known conductors as Barsov, Ponkin, Golovchin, Niazy, and Yakovlev in both Russian capitals, Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as many of former Soviet Republics.
In 1989 Ms. Ouspenskaya was accepted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory where she earned her Masters degree. In 1991 she made her first trip to the United States, winning Second Prize in the Bach International Piano Competition in Washington, DC. Since that year Anna was coming to US every year to perform and give master classes which took her to 18 states. In 1993 Ms. Ouspenskaya was a finalist at the Bach International Piano Competition in Germany. She made her first CD in 1995 with Altarus records, and her second is on its way on Ramsey records due for release this summer. Both CDs represent Russian music: the 1st of Rodion Shchedrin and the 2nd of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
From 1996 to 1998 Anna Ouspenskaya lived and worked in Luxembourg at Dudelange Conservatory, also giving performances in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Scotland.
In 1998 Ms. Ouspenskaya moved to the United States. She is currently residing in Reston, Virginia, teaching at the Levine School of Music, pusruing a Doctorate at the Catholic University of America and concertizing in this area as well as other states and cities. She recently debuted with the Einstein Symphony Orchestra in New York City, performing the Saint-Saens Fourth Piano Concerto with Stephen Moshman conducting, and made her Kennedy Center debut in February 2002.
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| Name:
| Michał Pajewski
| | Skills:
| Player, Soloist, Teacher
| | Address:
| Stockholm, Sweden
| | Links:
|
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| | Michał Pajewski was born in Warsaw in 1983. He started playing the cello at the age of 10 under the guidance of his mother D.Pukownik. He continued studying with Prof. J.Andrzejczak in Bilbao (Spain). In 2003 he obtained a scholarship from the Government of Navarra and the Royal College of Music to continue his studies in London and after three years he graduated from that institution. He continued his studies, supported by the Doris Elsie Moss award, at Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he obtained his graduate diploma. In 2012 Michał graduated from the solo class of prof. Morten Zeuthen at the solo class at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. His previous teachers were A.Boyarsky, L.Gorokhov and prof.K.Michalik.
Michał won the first prize at the Hilarión Eslava competition, second prize at the international cello competition in Arquillos (Spain), obtained the Merit Diploma at the Torneo Internazionale di Musica and was Highly Commended at the RCM cello competition.
As a soloist, chamber music player and in different orchestras Michał has been performing in European concert halls such as St. Martin in the Fields and Barbican hall (London), Stockholm and Gothenburg Konserthuset, Hildasholm and Vadstena Castle (Sweden), Euskalduna concert hall (Spain), Karłowicz and Paderwski Music halls (Poland), Tivoli and DR concert halls and the old and new opera houses in Copenhagen, The Nordic House (Tórshavn) and HOF and Harpa concert halls in Island. Michał has also been performing for Spanish tv (canal 4) and Danish and Swedish P2 radio channels. Michał plays on an French cello made by A. Deblaye.
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| Name:
| Vanessa Paloma
| | Skills:
| Composer, Singer, Soloist, Teacher (Singer and play medieval harp)
| | Phone:
| +1 (310) 497 5137
| | Fax:
| +1 (310) 659 3736
| | Address:
| Los Angeles CA, United States
| | Links:
|
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| | A Colombian singer of passion and power. Her vocals soar and plunge into the depths of your heart and soul. Has performed throughout the United States, Israel, South America and the Orient. Her specialty is the interfase of tradition and contemporary expression. Performed with Long Beach Opera, Ensemble Nuance and Camerata Pacifica Baroque among others. Founding Artistic Director of the SYNERGY Ensemble and Flor de Serena.
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| Name:
| Ruchira Panda
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist, Teacher, Vocalist (NORTH INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC)
| | Phone:
| +91 33 22450783
| | Address:
| 122 C ANANDA PALIT ROAD, WEST BENGAL, KOLKATA 700 014, India
| | Links:
|
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| | Ruchira Panda……blessed with a voice which invites listeners down memory lane into the golden era of Hindustani classical music, is an ardent upholder of the Kotali Gharana. Mentored by her guru, Pandit Manas Chakraborty, whose careful attention, her own dedication and discipline, have propelled Ruchira to where she stands out with her excellence from most of her contemporaries, carrying on the legacy of the Kotali Gharana. Her cerebral approach to both classical and semi-classical forms of music witnesses her profound knowledge, versatility, an intelligent, modern outlook enabling her to create a universe of music, adored by the connoisseurs……
ABOUT RUCHIRA Ruchira, an outstanding vocalist groomed in the Kotali gharana has earned an enviable distinction amongst the younger musicians in the realm of Hindustani Classical Music. The competent upholder of this rich heritage was born in 1975 in high traditional family of educationalists, arts and music. She had the privilege of being initiated to this parampara and went under the protégée of the great maestro musician Pandit Manas Chakraborty, her one and only Guru. The master mind of her guru noted the quality of her gifted and rare voice and creative capabilities. Being a perfectionist and trend setter his strict and vigilant guidance moulded her musical genius into a unique blend of highest order. Her gayaki speaks out for her keen interest in aesthetics, spiritual awareness and serenity which is seldom found in modern days. She carefully keeps up with the purity and nuances of the Kotali gharana aligning with the multifarious gayaki of her Guru and his predecessors. The flawless manner in which she brings out the texture of the ragas and taans shows that a rigorous training, hard, and sincere labour has gone into her making as a vocalist and culminated her craftsmanship to what it is- perfect and finished to every detail. Her cognition and remarkable ability to execute intricate combinations of notes in rare ragas, specially her delineation of innovative sargams and taans confirm her eagerness to reach out to wider and wider dimensions. Her voice, the crest of a class can execute a total feast of melody and classicism in khayal, thumri and other semi classical forms. Her music is not only perfect craftsmanship but a rare blend of immaculate precision and emotive imagination, which takes the listeners into a peaceful journey through the unseen and unheard marvels of a new world. She craves for perfection and attains it with ease, the more she attains bigger becomes her reach, richer she becomes newer becomes her dimension. To her, Music is not only an art to perform but a love to live with - it’s a voyage towards eternity that can only be realized by feeling one and the same with Music.
HERITAGE The Chakraborty family of Kotalipara, Faridpur, of the then East-Bengal, is believed to have been drawn towards Indian Classical Music long time ago. One of the ancestors of the family is known to have received training from Seni Gharana and brought the trend. Tarapada Chakraborty’s father Late Pandit Kulachandra Chakraborty and his uncle Late Pandit Ramchandra Chakraborty had their training from Ustad Jahur Khan of Khurja Gharana. Ramchandra had the honour of being the Dwarpandit (court scholar) and the distinguished musician of the Maharaja of Natore. Thus, both the brothers had a wide contact with many leading musicians of their time and had a phenomenal collection of musical wealth. Having moved to Calcutta with this rich inheritance, Tarapada Chakraborty first took lessons from Late Pandit Satkari Malakar especially in Khayal and Tappa. Later, under the guidance of the Great Maestro Late Sangeetacharya Girijashankar Chakraborty, he acquired the distinguishing features of various Ragas, styles and traditional Dhrupad, Dhamar and Khayal bandishes of different gharanas mainly, Seni, Betia, Delhi, Gwalior, Rampur, Agra, Rangila, Jaipur and Kirana. Girijashankar being a pioneer of Thumri style of singing at that time gave Tarapada Chakraborty an intensive training on the Thumri style of Kirana and Beneras gharana as well. In fact, it is quite discerningly evident that Khayal received a rare authenticity and completeness in the heralding voice of Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty in his own way. Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty, the pioneer of this Kotali Gayaki is the legend adored all over India for his contribution towards Hindustani Classical Music. His worthy son Pandit Manas Chakraborty, now the reigning Khalifa of Kotali Gharana is the devout pursuer of various sources and streams of Indian Classical Music. Enriched by his keen interest in Indian Philosophical tradition of all the existing gharanas and having been exposed to the corresponding confluences in his family’s assertively partisan art of music focused his attention on the necessity of discarding in order to select and the necessity of differentiating in order to unite. The Maestro has boldly made the manifold moves of his style to manifest an integrated oneness of the eternal Indian ethos and by now, has initiated a new dynamics of allegiance to the human efforts towards life and its values. Thus, presenting the obscure reality of music in a tangibly graceful, elocutionary form with his undaunted kalabant gayaki, nayaki and majestic mijaaz has made him an ‘institution by himself’ in the international realm of Hindustani Shastriya Sangeet. His contribution in Indian Classical Music for the last fifty years is undoubtedly worth-mentioning and as a Guru he is great. The schooling of Indian Classical Music through the mentors of his family and the torchbearers established around the globe has already entered the seventh generation. Practically, Pt. Manas Chakraborty is the new trend-setter of this Kotali-gayaki. His co-efficiency has earned a unique style which although endures many diversities with that of his father’s proclamatory approach, but at the same time very convergent at the philosophical end and its manifestation reveals the ultimate shape of ‘Kotali Gayaki’.
WORK AND CONTRIBUTION… Ruchira, since her debut performance at the age of seventeen, has, over the years, been performing in a number of prestigious and reputed music conferences throughout India. Ruchira, presently a regular artist of All India Radio has been featured on a number of leading Television channels of India. Besides Ruchira is assisting her Guru in all major music-festivals and workshops throughout India. She has worked for a documentary as a playback-singer based on ‘traditional development of Thumri’ for the National Channel. For the last few years she is also engaged in giving basic and advanced training of Hindustani Vocal Music to the devoted learners of young generation. Ruchira, is one of the founders and now the general secretary of “PARAMPARIK-the tradition”, an organization created with the objective of upholding the traditional values and ingredients of the heritage of Hindustani Classical Music, while recognizing the changes that have occurred in social and cultural fields. “PARAMPARIK-the tradition”, organizing Classical music conferences with eminent artists and planning to organize more concerts for upcoming artists and workshops for the students of this field. The organization also extending its helping hand in the field of education, health, and society at large. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION … Ruchira, a post-graduate in Economics from Jadavpur University has already been the recipient of several awards and recognition in her starting days of musical career. She has stood first both in khayal and thumri in the Talent Search Contest organised by Dover Lane Music Conference/Academy in the year 1998-99 and received the prestigious Ustad Amir Khan Award as the best vocalist , HMV award as the best young talent of the year 1998-99 and Rotu Sen Memorial Award for thumri. Further, the Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has selected her for award of a scholarship in the field of Hindustani Music. Recently she has received Sangeet Kalaratna Award from Matri Udbodhan Ashram, Patna. PERFORMANCES … Ruchira has performed in almost all major music conferences throughout India. A selection from them is, Dover Lane Music Conference, Girija Shankar Music Conference, Anirban Sangeet Sammelan, Salt Lake Music Festival and Tarapada Music Conference. She has performed in music conferences organised by the West Bengal State Music Academy, Bharatiya Sanskriti Samsad and Sangeet Piyasi. She has even been invited to perform in the Sadarang Music Conference in Bangladesh.
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| | I'm 38 and have expirience in music production. I compose music with ethno influences but also classic and pop genre. My main instrument is guitar. I recorded three own CD-s in my home studio and I made mix and mastering in Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar.I cooperate with Sarajavo philharmonic orchestra and opera singers. I would like to cooperate with musician from hole world and make good international project. Please ,contact me for more details. Thank you!
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| | Gergana Panova studied dance-pedagogy, choreography and ethnology at the Institute for Musicpedagogy in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and dance and kinetography at the Folkwang-Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Essen (Germany). She has been soloist with the "Philip Koutev" ensemble. At the moment, she is working as a research scientist for Ethnochoreology at the Bulgarian Academy for Sciences (Sofia), as well as working at her PhD with scholarship at the University in Essen(Germany). She is a well known dance teacher in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium, and also teaches Bulgarian folkdances and rituals at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia) and at the Folkwang-Hochschule (Essen). She speaks German fluently and has a good knowledge of English.
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