Described as "a masterful pianist" by The NY Times, Arthur Greene has a vast discography and serves on the piano faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
A “gifted and versatile pianist” (San Francisco Chronicle) and GRAMMY® Award winner, Ukrainian pianist Nadia Shpachenko serves as professor of music at Cal Poly Pomona University.
Consistently praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her country’s national treasures.
Described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as an "aristocrat of the piano," Italian pianist Luigi Carroccia has won numerous prizes in international competitions and was a semifinalist at the 2015 Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.
Hailed as “a startlingly subtle and visionary pianist” with “a rare blend of charm and mastery,” Croatian pianist Aljoša Jurinić is currently a visiting artist at MIT where he is investigating the biomechanics of piano playing.
With an innate aptitude for the piano's vast repertoire, this season's "rising star" Vladimir Rumyantsev stands out for his exceptional virtuosity.
Born in 1932, Jerome Lowenthal continues to fascinate audiences, who find in his playing a combination of youthful intensity and eloquence born of life-experience. Mr. Lowenthal has taught at the Juilliard School for over 30 years and at the Music Academy of the West for 42 summers.
"Israeli-American pianist Shai Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry and creative insight. In addition to his frequent solo appearances with orchestras here and abroad he is widely sought after by colleagues for his versatility and collaborative spirit."
-Los Alamos Daily Post
Antonio Oliveira: Portuguese pianist Antonio Oliveira earned his Master’s degree at The Hartt School as a pupil of Luiz de Moura Castro and has served as piano faculty at the Conservatório de Música do Porto since 2002
"Her piano sound rich and resonant, dark and confident throughout. This was one of the most striking performances in NY this entire season"
-The New York Sun.
Consistently acclaimed for his exquisite tonal beauty and superb artistry, Boris Slutsky emerged on the international music scene when he captured the First Prize at the 1981 William Kapell International Piano Competition. Mr. Slutsky serves as Professor of Piano at The Yale School of Music
"Javor Bracic is a pianist who possesses a deep, genuine musicianship and an outstanding technique that serves the great music he chooses. He honors both listener and composer with his intelligent, committed interpretations, and he offers a thoughtfully constructed program with elegance and humility."
-New York Concert Review
“Thank heaven for Ann Schein…what a relief it is to hear a pianist who, with no fuss, simply reaches right into the heart of whatever she is playing - and creates music so powerful you cannot tear yourself away."
-The Washington Post
"Her piano sound rich and resonant, dark and confident throughout. This was one of the most striking performances in NY this entire season"-The New York Sun.
Laureate of international piano competitions in Kiev and Rome. He regularly performs in the concert halls of Europe, in recitals and with orchestral accompaniment. His performances inaugurated the Schuman Parade and the opening of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Żelazowa Wola.
"Jose Ramos Santana who established his career as an interpreter of Spanish Music is indeed extraordinary in his performance, which excites our desire to repeat this auditory experience".
Hong Kong Hi Fi Review magazine.
"In both works Vladimir Valjarevic, who teaches at the Mannes School, was an outstandingly responsive partner, a superb tonalist and alive to Brahmsian drama.”
Dennis Rooney
The Strad
Award-winning Pianist JingCi Liu now joined KNS Classical with her first recording project “Portrait of Beauty .” It has been praised for her “choice of pieces and performance made a fresh perspective on truly outstanding music by women composers within a span of several centuries. There are lots of emotional stories, twists, and rollercoasters in this beautiful and unusual album.”-Vyacheslav Gryaznov
A native of Ukraine, Pavlo Gintov has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by the Illinois Entertainer, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Fanfare Magazine. Following his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12, Mr. Gintov has been touring throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the US.
“The superb keyboardists were co-artistic director Roman Rabinovich and Evren Ozel, who in his second season as a “Rising Star” has earned a permanent place in the ChamberFest firmament. Facing each other at twin Steinways, the two played as one, deftly coordinating pearly runs and expressive dynamic changes..”
- Published by ClevelandClassical.com, June 17, 2022
“All of 17, pianist Kate Liu is a veteran of at least eight competitions, an appearance on PBS’s “From the Top at Carnegie Hall” and numerous high-profile concerts.” - The Washington Post, November 28, 2011
"One of the most talented Polish pianists of his generation, Piotr Alexewicz is a two-time winner of the Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2017, 2020)..” - Teatr Wielki
"Jay Hershberger is an exceptional and thoughtful artist.” - Michael Barone, Minnesota Public Radio
“Gil Kalish’s piano serves as a grounding force, or a familiar memory, that keeps reappearing amid the different textures introduced by Sō Percussion. And Dawn Upshaw’s voice is a brilliant instrument that brings the words to life with warmth and directness.” - BBC Radio 4's John Wilson
“Angela Cheng is quite simply one of the best Mozart concerto players around: her sound is invariably transparent and marked by delicacy of feeling. That it always carries, even in a large hall like the Orpheum, is a bit of inexplicable magic.” - Vancouver Symphony, VANCOUVER SUN
Lewin scaled the heights as soloist in Brahms Concerto No. 1... He brought a combination of elegance and muscle to the first movement..the second theme was golden-toned, stately, perfectly balanced. Read full review here.
- Boston Classical Review, Jonathan Blumhofer
“Trained in Rio and at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, de Moura Castro must have been fortunate in his teachers—he himself went on to establish a wide-ranging career as an educator, primarily in the U.S.—because there's a Golden Age sensibility behind his playing that can't help but remind me of Shura Cherkassky, among others.” Henry Fogel
The Fryderyk Chopin Society of Connecticut & New Britain Museum of American Art Presents
Praised for her "rich and resonant sound" and her ability to "make music speak" pianist Angelina Gadeliya leads a rich musical life as a soloist, chamber musician, new music expert, and educator. Her work with the NYC-based Ensemble Connect and the Decoda ensemble has frequently brought her to the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School, and her recent performances include solo and chamber recitals in Germany, South Korea, China, Israel, Abu Dhabi, France, Mexico, Spain, and Ukraine.
She has released highly acclaimed recordings on the Labor Records and Naxos labels. She is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, The Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, and holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University. Ms. Gadeliya serves as Coordinator of Keyboard Studies and Assistant Professor in Residence of Piano at the University of Connecticut and is also on the piano faculty at the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy. Ms. Gadeliya is the Co-Artistic Director of the Connecticut Bach Festival and Competition and also serves as the Vice President of the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Connecticut.
For more information, please go to www.angelinagadeliya.com.
Mihai Tetel began his musical studies in his native Romania at the famed George Enescu Music School. Settling in Canada in 1979, he attended the University of Toronto, The Juilliard School, and the Mannes College of Music. Mr. Tetel was a winner of the 1987 Artists International Competition which awarded as its prize a New York recital debut at Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Montreal Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Sao Paulo Symphony in Brazil, and the Thessaloniki Symphony in Greece.
As a recitalist, he has performed in Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Hungary, Japan, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. Prior to his appointment at the Hartt School in 2007, Mr. Tetel has been on the faculty of Ball State University and the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto and has served as Director of the Alberta College Conservatory of Music in Edmonton. He has released recordings on the Tristan, Beneficence, and the RCA-Red Seal label.
For more information visit: www.antonmiller.com
Since giving his Carnegie Hall concerto debut, American violinist ANTON MILLER has appeared throughout the United States and abroad as a soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, and pedagogue. Mr. Miller has performed over fifty violin concertos with a number of orchestras on four continents. Mr. Miller has also been concertmaster for a number of orchestras including almost thirty years with Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey Festival Orchestra. He was also concertmaster for an Argentinian tour of the American Ballet Theatre. He has made a number of recital and chamber music tours to Europe with performances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Greece and England. A long time resident of the East Coast, Anton has performed more than a hundred chamber music concerts and recitals in the New York City area.
Performances have included such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall. Anton's complete discography can be found on Dorian, Jericho, Full House, Hugo, Naxos, Klavier and MP2 Records. Anton Miller holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Indiana University. He is currently Professor of Violin at The Hartt School. He previously has been on the faculty of New York University, the Oberlin Conservatory, Lawrence University, and Swarthmore College.
•Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 (transcribed for violin and piano by Camille Saint-Saëns)
•Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8
I. Allegro con fuoco
II. Scherzo vivace
III. Adagio sostenuto
IV. Finale allegretto
•Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2 (transcribed for cello and piano by David Popper)
•Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo
III. Largo
IV. Finale. Allegro
Pianist David Korevaar performs a Chopin recital, with selections from the incomparable Etudes, the First Ballade, the Berceuse and other favorites. Korevaar’s performance of the First Ballade has been described as “revelatory” (Gramophone), his performance of the Berceuse “the best I’ve ever heard” (Fanfare).
"Lindsay Garritson is an exception pianist whose sweetness and modesty belie her impregnable technique and keen intelligence. Stephen Wigler met this shy but far from retiring young artist in New York to discuss her new album of works by Australian composer Carl Vine."
-International Piano
Praised by the New York Times for her “passionate and insightful” playing, Renana Gutman has performed across four continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and collaborative artist. She played at venues like The Louvre Museum, Grenoble Museum (France), Carnegie Recital Hall, People’s Symphony Concerts, Merkin Hall (New York), St………
"...a heady, memorable evening, with impeccable musicianship reminding us that you can play it again for the first time." - Ben Nyberg, The Mercury, Manhattan, KS, May, 2015
"His apparently unperturbable demeanor at the keyboard affords him a justified air of true musical authority..." -Leslie Howard, pianist, pedagogue, and president of the jury, London Liszt Society Competition
