Mainly Mozart 2013 Season Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nancy Laturno Bojanic December 6, 2012 (619) 239-0100, ext. 301. nlaturno@mainlymozart.org. www.mainlymozart.org



Mainly Mozart Announces Expanded 2013 Artistic Leadership Team & Programming for San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival's 25th Anniversary Year

Mainly Mozart Founder and Music Director David Atherton to Retire after 2013 Festival Expanded Artistic Leadership Team

Exciting New Series include Mozart & the Mind, Evolution, and Mainly Mozart Chamber Players, Plus - Free Community Events! As Mainly Mozart approaches its 25th year, it does so as a changed organization. Founded in 1988 by Music Director David Atherton and Executive Director Nancy Laturno Bojanic, the two-week Festival has exploded into an intense, diverse, two-month celebration of Mozart's music, his genius, his innovation and the quality of music-making the organization's namesake represents.

A new team of artistic leaders join Founding Music Director David Atherton who announced his plans to retire after the 2013 Festival, and Founding Festival Orchestra Concertmaster William Preucil. The Festival now consists of a series of festivals-within-the-Festival, with Mainly Mozart favorite, world-renowned pianist Anne-Marie McDermott curating the 2013 Spotlight Series chamber music concerts January - June, with three programs during the Festival at The Auditorium at TSRI; Mainly Mozart principal cellist and founding Artistic Director of The Boston Chamber Music Society, Ronald Thomas heading the new Festival Chamber Players; San Francisco-based composer/pianist Stephen Prutsman devising the innovative Evolution series, with concerts at Anthology in downtown's Little Italy; and UCSD researcher Tim Mullen administering the ground-breaking exploration of the music-brain effect, Mozart & the Mind.

"This redefined Mainly Mozart is a result of three years of intense strategic work funded by a prestigious grant awarded by The James Irvine Foundation," said Alexandra Pearson, Mainly Mozart Board Chair. "Our new Artistic Leadership Team, under the guidance of founding Executive Director Nancy Bojanic, is connecting Mozart and his music to the 21st century and to our community in exciting new ways. Mainly Mozart is at an important juncture after 25 years and this model of diversified artistic leadership promises to inspire new levels of musical excellence. There is nothing more thrilling than embracing the artistic sensibilities of a team of musical visionaries and looking toward the future of Mainly Mozart as a leader in the musical community. We are looking to broaden the scope of musical presentations that we offer to the public by widening the spectrum of our artistic vision. Our desire is to deepen and enhance our relationship with the San Diego community and to position Mainly Mozart as one of the most unique and dynamic Festivals in the country."

Three new series, in addition to Mainly Mozart's Festival Orchestra and Spotlight chamber music concerts, make up the two-month Festival, set for May 10 - June 22: Mozart & the Mind - Exploring the Music-Brain Effect; Evolution - Celebrating Today's Innovators; and Festival Chamber Players, featuring members and soloists of the Festival Orchestra.

"We have a proud 25-year history, but it is a new Mainly Mozart that people will see in 2013," said recently-elected Board President Jack McGrory. "Our new artistic leadership model is cutting-edge, and our programming in 2013 is going to turn heads. We're firmly committed to the classics and to great music played by great musicians. But now we also want to look at Mozart from other angles, including what today's innovators are doing. Mozart is more than the music he wrote. He's innovation and genius and excellence. All of those qualities will be reflected at our 25th Anniversary Festival."

Music Director David Atherton will retire from the organization he founded in 1988, after the 2013 Festival citing the need to spend more time with family in Europe. The 2013 San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival will be his last as music director. "Our 25th Anniversary in 2013 will be the biggest, best Mainly Mozart Festival we have ever produced and the triumph of David Atherton," said Founding Executive Director Nancy Laturno Bojanic. "What a legacy he has created. The orchestral concerts - now and in the future - are at the core of our Festival, featuring concertmasters and principal players from the nation's leading orchestras. And we have so many exciting new ventures in store for music lovers, all informed by the standard of quality David has always tirelessly demanded. I can't wait for audiences to experience all that we have in store for the Festival in May and June 2013."

"I look forward to my 25th, and final, Festival in which we welcome back many of our best loved artists to play a mixture of well-known classics and some unusual, stimulating pieces," said Maestro David Atherton.

Mainly Mozart offers year-round programming (Spotlight Series: January-April; The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival: May-June; Club Amadeus: chamber music in private homes throughout the year; year-round educational enrichment for over 20,000 school children and unique social events) - all in service to our mission: to connect today's and tomorrow's passionate music lovers to the genius and innovation of Mozart and the Masters, to world-class musicians, and to each other.

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2013 San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival May 10 - June 22, 2013

Festival Orchestral Programming Announced June 2013 David Atherton, Founding Music Director & Conductor William Preucil, Founding Concertmaster

Maestro David Atherton in his farewell season with The Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, with founding Festival Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil leading his colleagues of concertmasters and principal players from the nation's leading orchestras, will take the stage at Rancho Santa Fe's Village Church on Saturday, June 8, in a concert that features Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal players Nathan Hughes (oboe), Anthony McGill (clarinet) and Julie Landsman (horn - retired) with Los Angeles Philharmonic principal bassoonist Whitney Crockett, performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 297b. Also on the program is Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C minor and Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.

The opening orchestral performance of Mainly Mozart's 25th Anniversary Season will serve as the centerpiece for Mainly Mozart's Annual Gala celebrating the tremendous impact the organization has had in the community. Chaired by JoAnn Kilty, an auction and reception will precede the full-length concert and be followed by a patron dinner with the artists. Ticket prices range from $125-$500.

On Thursday, June 13, Maestro Atherton and the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra will return to their home in downtown San Diego, the historic Balboa Theatre, to perform the remaining four orchestral concerts (June 13, 15, 20, and 22). The June 13 concert features William Preucil, Cleveland and Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestras' concertmaster, with New York Philharmonic Principal Violist Cynthia Phelps. The two will perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 364, a work they performed together at Mainly Mozart's first Festival on the outdoor stage of the Old Globe Theatre in 1989. Also on the program, Francaix' "Mozart new-look" on Serenade from Don Giovanni, and Weber's Symphony No. 1 in C, J. 50.

On Saturday, June 15, the Orchestra will perform Lutoslawski's Dance Preludes, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A featuring Anthony McGill and Mozart's Concerto Rondo in D with the Orchestra featuring pianist and Mainly Mozart Spotlight Curator Anne Marie McDermott. Making her Mainly Mozart debut, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg will lead the Orchestra from the violin in Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, closing with Peter Heidrich's Happy Birthday Variations in recognition of Mainly Mozart's 25th year.

The following Thursday, June 20, Maestro Atherton and the Orchestra will be joined by pianist Anton Nel performing Mozart's piano Concerto No. 21, which he performed at the first Mainly Mozart Festival in 1989. Also on the program are Mozart's Five Contradances, Fauré's Pavane, Poulenc's Mouvements Perpétuals, and Schubert's 3rd Symphony.

On Saturday, June 22, the Festival concludes as the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra says farewell to its founder, Maestro David Atherton. The evening includes Mozart's "London" Symphony No. 1, Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto featuring pianist Adam Neiman, Tchaikovsky's Elegy in G from Hamlet, and Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41. After the June 22nd performance, Mainly Mozart will host a gala celebrating Maestro Atherton at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. Tickets for this gala celebration, chaired by Reinette Levine, Esther Nahama and Honorary Chairs George and Founding Mainly Mozart Board Member Martha Gafford, begin at $250.

For the first time, all Orchestral dress rehearsals at The Balboa Theatre (June 13, 15, 20, 22) will be open to the public. No ticket is required.

Balboa Theatre four-Concert orchestral packages range from $80-$320. Single tickets for concerts at the Balboa Theatre go on sale Friday, January 25, 2013, and range from $24 to $85.

The Los Angeles Times calls the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, "Mainly Astounding! Its distinguished orchestra - including important first-desk players - from symphonic ensembles around the United States, performs with high energy and stunning precision; its string and wind components are polished and blended to a shine, and their dynamic range is broad, their command of detail exquisite."

Spotlight - Festival! Chamber Music and New! Mozart & the Mind The Auditorium at TSRI (formerly The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium) May 10 - June 1, 2013

Anne-Marie McDermott, Curator of Chamber Music Tim Mullen, Mozart & the Mind Artistic Partner

One month before the Orchestra takes the stage, the 25th Anniversary Mainly Mozart Festival kicks off with chamber music May 10 and 11 in La Jolla at The Auditorium at TSRI (the Scripps Research Institute) when renowned pianist and Spotlight Curator Anne- Marie McDermott takes the stage with pianist Stephen Prutsman. The San Francisco-based Prutsman is also the newly-appointed Artistic Partner for Mainly Mozart's innovative new series, Evolution. McDermott and Prutsman will perform Mozart's Sonata in D for piano, four hands; Mozart's Sonata in C for piano, four hands; Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini for Two Pianos, Gershwin's original An American in Paris for Two Pianos, and Milhaud's Scaramouche Suite for Two Pianos. The New York Times praised Stephen Prutsman's "rhythmic freedom, warm colorings and jazzy spontaneity." Gramophone Magazine said of McDermott, "we have waited a long time for a pianist of this stature."

"Mainly Mozart is at an important juncture after 25 years. Its model of diversified artistic leadership promises to inspire new levels of musical excellence. Nothing is more thrilling than embracing the artistic sensibilities of a team of musical visionaries, while looking to the future as leaders in the musical community. We will broaden the scope of musical presentations through innovative, contextual and multi-disciplinary offerings. Our desire is to deepen and enhance our relationship with the San Diego community and to position Mainly Mozart as one of the most unique and dynamic Festivals in the country."

Spotlight - Festival continues on Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18, as Mainly Mozart welcomes for the first time, the St. Lawrence String Quartet performing Selections from Bach's "The Art of the Fugue," Haydn's String Quartet in F minor, and Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 4 in E minor.

On Friday, May 31, a sextet of Mainly Mozart artists takes the stage, with a concert that repeats on Saturday, June 1. Featuring violinist Stefan Jackiw, violist Che-Yen Chen, cellist Ronald Thomas, clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester (appearing for the first time with Mainly Mozart), horn player Julie Landsman, and pianist Anna Polonsky, the ensemble's program includes Mozart's Piano Trio No. 6 in G, Haydn's Trio for Horn, Violin and Cello, Novacek's Four Rags for Two Jons, and Dohnányi's Sextet in C, Op. 37.

New in 2013, Mainly Mozart introduces the ground-breaking series Mozart & the Mind, pairing music-brain researchers with musicians in performances, lectures and exhibitions that explore both the neurobiology of music and the role of music in important cognitive issues such as Alzheimer's, autism, ADHD, Parkinson's Disease and early development.

"The series is unique in that it integrates science and art, with events that interweave cutting- edge scientific discourse with live musical performances and aesthetically engaging audiovisual demonstrations," said Tim Mullen, UCSD researcher and Mainly Mozart Artistic Partner for Mozart & the Mind. We'll explore fascinating topics that include the role of music in therapy and rehabilitation; musical training's role in improving brain function; how advances in cognitive neuroscience and neuro-technology can open new possibilities for musical expression; what brain structures underlie rhythm and music perception and more. We want audience members to walk away from a Mozart & the Mind event thinking 'Wow, not only did I learn something new and fascinating about the brain and its relationship to music, but I learned something useful and relevant to me, my friends or my family. And I had fun!'"

An interactive "Brain-Music Exposition" where attendees, scientists, and artists interact around a series of exhibits and installations exploring the brain-music connection is central to the new program. Among the many exhibitions will be the opportunity for audience members to strap on the latest in wearable brainwave imaging technology and within seconds see a 3-D representation of their own neural activity, with a guided tour from a neuroscientist.

Each Friday night Spotlight - Festival concert features a free pre-concert music-brain lecture for ticketholders at 6:00 p.m., preceding a wine and cheese mixer, also included in the $55 ticket price. On each of the three Spotlight Saturday evenings, an interactive Mozart & the Mind performance takes place at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6:30 p.m. by The Brain-Music Expo. Mozart & the Mind tickets are $25 each, with The Brain-Music Expo included in the price of that ticket.

Argentinian-born Tim Mullen, Mozart & the Mind Artistic Partner, obtained B.A.s in Computer Science and Cognitive Neuroscience (summa cum laude) from UC Berkeley. At Palo Alto Research Center he developed novel applications of wearable brain-computer interface technology for human-computer interaction. He obtained the M.S. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego where he is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Neural Computation. The recipient of multiple fellowships, his research includes modeling neural connectivity dynamics in the human brain in an attempt to shed light on computational mechanisms underlying cognitive tasks (i.e., language and error processing) as well as disorders such as epilepsy. Mullen is a firm believer in translating theoretical results into practical application. He is actively involved in advancing open-source scientific software (i.e., EEGLAB and SIFT), wearable neurotechnology, and brain-computer interfaces. An avid musician, Mullen has also developed numerous new- media installations and performances that invite the participant to explore intricate relationships among mind, matter, and music. On Friday, May 10 award-winning composer, producer and sound designer Richard Warp will present a free talk at 6:00 p.m. entitled "HeadSpace: Neurotechnology in Composition", exploring the use of wearable brain-imaging technology to create immersive audio-visual environments which respond in real time to thoughts, moods, expressions and emotions.

On Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 p.m., in a program entitled In Sync: Music, Synchrony, and Attention ethnomusicologist, performer and composer Dr. Alexander Khalil, with computational neurobiologist Dr. Victor Hugo Minces, will address the role of musical training in improving focus and treating attention disorders. Drs. Khalil and Minces will explore this topic in an exciting evening of cognitive neuroscience, interactive visualizations and live Gamelan performance by the Giri Nata ensemble.

The following Friday, May 17, Dr. Scott Makeig, founding director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at UCSD, presents a free talk at 6:00 p.m. entitled The Basis of Musical Feeling: Pitch, Pulse, and Affective Listening. He will demonstrate how a web of notes contained in a single musical tone underlies our emotional perception of music. With musician and cognitive scientist Grace Leslie, he will show new research that uses full-body motion capture and mobile brain imaging to explore how musical pulse conveys feeling.

On Saturday, May 18 at 5:30 p.m., in Music and Aging: Exercise for a Well-Tempered Mind, Drs. Nina Kraus (Hugh Knowles Professor at Northwestern University) and Adam Gazzaley (founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UC San Francisco) discuss how aging impacts hearing, memory and brain function as well as music's role in toning the brain for auditory and cognitive fitness throughout life. Audience members will witness groundbreaking research illustrated through fascinating demonstrations, including live, cutting-edge 3-D visualization of brain activity.

In the third and final weekend, on Friday May 31, Dr. Barbara Reuer, recognized internationally for her expertise in music-centered wellness and music therapy, leads a free pre-concert discussion at 6:00 p.m., with audience participation, on Music Therapy: Ancient Practice, Beat of the Future. Drawing on over 35 years of clinical, entrepreneurial, and educational experience, Dr. Reuer will take the audience on a journey that demonstrates the power of music to heal and maintain health and to transform lives, including those diagnosed with neurological disorders and diseases such as autism, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's.

Closing Mozart & the Mind on Saturday, June 1, Drs. Aniruddh D. Patel (Tufts University) and John Iversen (UCSD Institute for Neural Computation) join forces with prize-winning percussionist Aiyun Huang of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology - Montreal in a program entitled Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: A Dialog on Neuroscience and Percussion at 5:30 p.m. In an exciting hour of world-class percussion performance and cutting-edge neuroscience, this dynamic trio will engage each other and the audience, exploring topics such as the neurobiology of musical rhythm, the interplay of music and memory, and the influence of music on early brain development and in restoring brain function.

Three-concert Spotlight - Festival packages at The Auditorium at TSRI start at $138. VIP Subscribers receive priority seating upgrades and an invitation to Mainly Mozart's Spring Luncheon at Piatti La Jolla with Spotlight artists. VIP Subscriptions to Spotlight - Festival are available for $250 ($100 tax-deductible). Single tickets are $55. Saturday night Spotlight single tickets bought together with $25 Mozart & the Mind tickets are $75. Mozart & the Mind series price is $69 for all three concerts, and includes the Music-Brain Expo. A three-Saturday series including both Spotlight and Mozart & the Mind is $200 or $300 for a full-series VIP subscription.

The Auditorium at TSRI, formerly known as The Neurosciences Institute, has been home to Mainly Mozart's chamber music since 1996.

New in 2013! Mainly Mozart Festival Chamber Players Ronald Thomas, Artistic Partner June 2 - 18, 2013 San Diego and Carlsbad

Also new in 2013, Mainly Mozart will unveil Mainly Mozart Chamber Players, headed by Festival Orchestra principal cellist Ronald Thomas, founding Artistic Director of the Boston Chamber Music Society.

"With this chamber music series we will not only be including members of the stellar Mainly Mozart Orchestra and its extended family of superb musicians, but will also strive to connect the repertoire of this series with the repertoire of the orchestral series," said Thomas. " With many given composers, there are endless, fascinating relationships between works written for chamber groups and for orchestra that can delineate developmental progress, stylistic contrasts or similarities, the use of certain keys for particular characters, particular periodic interests in a given instrument, interesting transcriptions, and so much more. These concerts will certainly stand on their own regarding their excellence and excitement. But, those who also attend both the orchestral and chamber music series will be rewarded with the experience of gained insight and entertainment in the juxtaposition of the orchestral and chamber works chosen for any given program. For me, just making these programs has been highly entertaining and enlightening."

The new Chamber Players series consists of six concerts divided between two new Festival venues - three 2:00 p.m. Sunday matinees at the 210-seat Schulman Auditorium in Carlsbad and three Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. at The Timken Museum in Balboa Park. Each hour- long 7:00 p.m. concert at the Timken is followed by a reception with the artists hosted by the Museum. "We are delighted to host the Mainly Mozart series in our unique venue," said Timken President Tim Zinn. "In this way the Timken can continue to be the source of "art energy and fun" in Balboa Park."

Sunday, June 2 in Carlsbad, violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Anna Polonsky play a recital featuring Lutoslawski's Partita for Violin and Piano and Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2. On Sunday, June 9, Los Angeles Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour, cellist Ronald Thomas, Metropolitan Opera principal oboe Nathan Hughes and Los Angeles Philharmonic principal bassoon perform Francaix's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano and Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Opus 36, for piano trio (in a transcription by the composer. Closing the three-concert series on Sunday, June 16, is Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster Erin Keefe, with New York Philharmonic principal violist Cynthia Phelps; cellist Ronald Thomas, cello and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra principal clarinetist Joshua Ranz performing the Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat andFauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15.

The Timken Museum series opens Tuesday, June 4 with an all-Mozart program of Preludes and Fugues K. 404a, Nos. 1-3 (Mozart/Bach) and String Quartet No. 22 in B flat, K. 589 performed by violinists Stefan Jackiw, and Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violist Che-Yen Chen and cellist Ronald Thomas. The following week, Tuesday, June 11, brings another all-Mozart program of his Duo for Violin and Viola in B Flat, K. 424 and Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 featuring violinists Martin Chalifour and Harumi Rhodes, violist Che-Yen Chen, cellist Ronald Thomas and Metropolitan Opera principal clarinet Anthony McGill. The final Chamber Players program on Tuesday, June 18 features Schubert's String Quintet in C, D. 956, considered one of the greatest works in the chamber music repertoire performed by Erin Keefe and Houston Symphony Concertmaster Frank Huang, violins; New York based violist Mark Holloway, Ronald Thomas and San Diego Symphony principal cellist Yao Zhao.

Chamber Players tickets are $25 for Carlsbad matinees and $35 for concerts at The Timken Museum, which includes the Timken post-concert reception.

Also New in 2013! Mainly Mozart Celebrates Today's Innovators With Evolution at Anthology supper club Stephen Prutsman, Artistic Partner June 6 - 19, 2013

Also new in 2013, Mainly Mozart launches Evolution - an innovative high-energy series that recognizes today's innovators - with three June performances at Anthology Supper Club in Little Italy on June 6, 12 and 19 as well as concerts at Vista Hill's Stein Education Center for which serves children and young adults on the autism spectrum, and in Tijuana.

Evolution is led by San Francisco-based composer-pianist Stephen Prutsman, "Evolution is a short series within the umbrella of The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival that is inspired by the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Mozart's music," said Prutsman. "Taking quintessential Mozartian qualities - such as 'innovation" or "generousness" or "innocence" - Evolution looks to explore the music and genres of other composers and performers who share these values in music, though they belong to lands, times and musical languages different from Mozart's own."

Tickets to Evolution will go on sale after details are announced in December.

In addition to series-specific packages, memberships are also available for Club Amadeus, Mainly Mozart's aficionado group. Members receive six tickets with preferred seating for 2013 concerts, three members-only concerts at private residences, and acknowledgement as a Mainly Mozart supporter.

Memberships are $1,000 per person per year, $300 of which is tax-deductible.

Club Amadeus "Deluxe" (at $1,500 per year) allows members 15 concert tickets and 4 members-only concert events. For all ticket inquiries, contact Mainly Mozart's Box Office at (619) 46-MUSIC (466-8742).

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San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival 2013 25th Anniversary Concert and Event Details



Friday & Saturday, May 10-11, 2013 The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium has become The Auditorium at TSRI (The Scripps Research Institute)

Friday 6:00 PM HeadSpace: Neurotechnology in composition - free lecture by Richard Warp 6:30 PM Wine Reception (included in concert ticket price) 7:30 PM Spotlight concert - McDermott/Prutsman 8:45 PM Artist "Talk-Back"

Saturday 5:30 PM In sync: Music, synchrony, and attention - Presentation by Drs .Alexander Khalil and Victor Minces with the Giri Nata Ensemble 6:30 PM Free Music-Brain Exposition in the Courtyard 7:30 PM Spotlight concert - McDermott/Prutsman 8:45 PM Artist "Talk-Back"

Anne-Marie McDermott, piano and Stephen Prutsman, piano Mozart Sonata in D for Piano, four hands, K. 381 Mozart Sonata in C for Piano, four hands, K. 521 Lutoslawski Variations on a Theme of Paganini for Two Pianos Gershwin An American in Paris for Two Pianos Milhaud Scaramouche Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 165b



Friday & Saturday, May 17-18, 2013 The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium has become The Auditorium at TSRI (The Scripps Research Institute)

Friday 6:00 PM The Basis of Musical Feeling: Pitch, Pulse, and Affective Listening - free lecture by Dr. Scott Makeig, Ph.D. 6:30 PM Wine Reception (included in concert ticket price) 7:30 PM Spotlight concert - The St. Lawrence String Quartet 8:45 PM Artist "Talk-Back"

Saturday 5:30 PM Music and aging: Exercise for a well-tempered mind - Drs. Nina Kraus and Adam Gazzaley. 6:30 PM Free Music-Brain Exposition in the Courtyard 7:30 PM Spotlight concert - The St. Lawrence String Quartet 8:45 PM Artist "Talk-Back"

The St. Lawrence String Quartet Bach Selections from "The Art of the Fugue" Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2



Friday & Saturday, May 31 - June 1, 2013 The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium has become The Auditorium at TSRI (The Scripps Research Institute)

Friday 6:00 PM Music Therapy: Ancient Practice, Beat of the Future - free lecture by Dr. Barbara Reuer 6:30 PM Wine Reception (included in concert ticket price) 7:30 PM Spotlight concert - Jackiw, Chen, Thomas, Ballester, Landsman, Polonsky 8:45 PM Artist "Talk-Back"

Saturday 5:30 PM Rhythm, music, and the brain: A dialog on neuroscience and percussion Drs. Aniruddh D. Patel, John Iversen, and Aiyun Huang 6:30 PM Free Music-Brain Exposition in the Courtyard 7:30 PM Spotlight concert - Jackiw, Chen, Thomas, Ballester, Landsman, Polonsky 8:45 PM Artist "Talk-Back"

Stefan Jackiw, violin; Che-Yen Chen, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello; Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet; Julie Landsman, horn; Anna Polonsky, piano Mozart Piano Trio No. 6 in G, K. 564 Haydn Trio for Horn, Violin and Cello, Hob.IV:5 Novacek Four Rags for Two Jons Dohnányi Sextet in C, Op. 37



Sunday, June 2 - Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad 2:00 PM Stefan Jackiw, violin; Anna Polonsky, piano

Lutoslawski Partita for Violin and Piano Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2



Tuesday, June 4 - Timken Museum, Balboa Park 7:00 PM Stefan Jackiw and Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violins; Che-Yen Chen, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello Mozart/Bach Preludes and Fugues K. 404a, Nos. 1-3 Mozart String Quartet No. 22 in B flat, K. 589

Sunday, June 8 The Village Church, Rancho Santa Fe Mainly Mozart Gala Performance 5:30 PM Auction and cocktails 7:00 PM Orchestra concert with intermission 9:00 PM Black-tie dinner with Orchestra (JoAnn Kilty, Chair)

Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra David Atherton, conductor; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Whitney Crockett, bassoon; Julie Landsman, horn

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 297b Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21



Sunday, June 9 - Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad 2:00 PM Martin Chalifour, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Whitney Crockett, bassoon;

Francaix Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Opus 36 (in a Transcription by the Composer)



Tuesday, June 11 - Timken Museum, Balboa Park 7:00 PM Martin Chalifour and Harumi Rhodes, violins; Che-Yen Chen, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello; Anthony McGill, clarinet

Mozart Duo for Violin and Viola in B Flat, K. 424 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581

Thursday, June 13 Balboa Theatre, Downtown 10:00 AM Open Rehearsal (Free) 7:30 PM Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra David Atherton, conductor; William Preucil, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Timothy Pitts, double bass

Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni, K. 527 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 364 Francaix "Mozart new-look" on Serenade from Don Giovanni Weber Symphony No. 1 in C, J. 50



Saturday, June 15 Balboa Theatre, Downtown 10:00 AM Open Rehearsal (Free) 7:30 PM Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra David Atherton, conductor; Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

Lutoslawski Dance Preludes Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 Mozart Concert Rondo in D, K. 382 Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires



Sunday, June 16 - Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad 2:00 PM Erin Keefe, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Ronald Thomas, cello; Joshua Ranz, clarinet

Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15



Tuesday, June 18 - Timken Museum, Balboa Park 7:00 PM Erin Keefe and Frank Huang, violins; Mark Holloway, viola; Ronald Thomas and Yao Zhao, celli

Schubert String Quintet in C, D. 956



Thursday, June 20 Balboa Theatre, Downtown 10:00 AM Open Rehearsal (Free) 7:30 PM Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra David Atherton, conductor; Anton Nel, piano

Mozart Five Contradances, K. 609 Fauré Pavane, Op. 50 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467 Poulenc Mouvements Perpétuals Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200

Saturday, June 22 Balboa Theatre, Downtown 10:00 AM Open Rehearsal (Free) 7:30 PM Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra David Atherton, conductor, Adam Neiman , piano

Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E flat "London", K. 16 Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102 Tchaikovsky Elegy in G from "Hamlet" Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C "Jupiter", K. 551 9:30 PM Closing Night Gala Silver Anniversary Celebration - Honoring Maestro David Atherton's 25 years at the U.S. Grant Hotel



BIOGRAPHIES



Mainly Mozart 2013 Spotlight-Festival Artist Bios

(In Order of Performance Date)



Anne-Marie McDermott (Spotlight Series Curator) is a consummate artist who balances a versatile career as soloist and collaborator, and whose repertoire choices are eclectic, spanning from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin to Kernis, Hartke, Tower and Wuorinen. With over 50 concerti in her repertoire, Ms. McDermott has performed with many leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Hong Kong Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and Baltimore Symphony among others. Ms. McDermott has toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi. In addition to her many achievements, Anne-Marie McDermott has been named Artistic Director of the famed Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music, was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. In addition to The San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival, Ms. McDermott regularly performs at festivals across the United States including Spoleto, Sante Fe, Mostly Mozart, Newport, Caramoor, Bravo, Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, Music from Angelfire and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, among others.

JAN 11, 2013

Yura Lee (violinist/violist) received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2007 and enjoys a career that spans almost two decades, taking her all over the world. Her musical integrity and her compelling artistry were praised by both the critic and some of the most respected artists of today. As a soloist, she has appeared with many major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and many others. At age 12, Ms. Lee became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the "Performance Today" awards given by National Public Radio. Ms. Lee received numerous international prizes, including the first prize and the audience prize at the 2006 Leopold Mozart Competition (Germany), the first prize at the 2010 UNISA International Competition (South Africa), and top prizes in the Indianapolis (USA), Hannover (Germany), Kreisler (Austria) and Paganini (Italy) Competitions. As a chamber musician, Ms. Lee regularly takes part in the Marlboro Festival, Salzburg Festival, Verbier Festival, Caramoor Festival, Ravinia Festival, Kronberg Festival, Aspen Music Festival, among others. Ms. Lee is currently a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, as both violinist and violist. Ms. Lee teaches at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. This is Ms. Lee's first appearance with Mainly Mozart.

Cynthia Phelps (viola) is principal violist of the New York Philharmonic. An active soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, she is the recipient of many honors and awards, capturing first prize in both the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Washington D.C., International String Competition. As winner of the 1988 Pro Musicis Foundation Award, she has presented recitals in Paris, Rome, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington D.C., as well as in Alice Tully Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, and St David's Hall in Cardiff, Wales. She has been a featured soloist on St. Paul Sunday Morning, Radio France, RIA in Italy and WQXR in New York City. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "eloquent and powerful....a master of her instrument", she has also been featured on the MacNeil LehrerNewsHour, and CBS Sunday Morning. Active in chamber music, Ms Phelps has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Boston Chamber Music Society, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and New York's Bargemusic Series and the festivals of Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Seattle, La Jolla, Prussia Cove, Naples, Cremona, and Scheleswig-Holstein. As a member of the Zukerman and Friend's Ensemble, she has regularly appeared in South America, Israel, and Germany. She has also toured with Music from Marlboro, and recorded on the labels of the Marloboro Recording Society, Polyvideo, Nuova Era, Virgin Classics and Covenant Records. Affiliated with Mainly Mozart since it began in 1989, Ms. Phelps will be featured during both the Spotlight Series and with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra.

Peter Wiley (cello) enjoys a prolific career as a performer and teacher. He is a member of the piano quartet, OPUS ONE, a group he co-founded in 1998 with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinist Ida Kavafian and violist Steven Tenenbom. Mr. Wiley attended the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of David Soyer. He joined the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1974. The following year he was appointed principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. From 1987 through 1998, Mr. Wiley was cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio. In 2001, he succeeded his mentor, David Soyer, as cellist of the Guarneri Quartet. The quartet retired from the concert stage in 2009. He has been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, nominated for a Grammy Award in 1998 with the Beaux Arts Trio and, in 2009, with the Guarneri Quartet. Mr. Wiley participates at leading festivals including Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, OK Mozart, Santa Fe, Bravo! and Bridgehampton. He continues his long association with the Marlboro Music Festival, dating back to 1971. Mr. Wiley teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and Bard College Conservatory of Music. Mr. Wiley appears regularly with Mainly Mozart's Spotlight Series.

FEB 1, 2013

The Szymanowski Quartet, was founded in Warsaw in 1995 and has developed into one of the most exceptional international string quartets of its generation. The Quartet's extraordinarily high standard has been confirmed by numerous awards and distinctions. The ensemble is a regular guest at internationally renowned festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein and Rheingau, Mozartfest Würzburg, Bregenz and Schwetzingen, Niedersächsische Musiktage as well Lockenhaus, London, Cheltenham, Bath and Perth. The Quartet's concerts take them throughout the work with performances in at major concert halls such as New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Vienna's Musikverein, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Louvre in Paris and Konzerthaus in Stockholm. Regular tours to North America have brought appearances in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Vancouver and Montreal. The Szymanowski Quartet studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover with their teacher and mentor Hatto Beyerle. They continued to refine their performances working with Isaac Stern, Walter Levin and the following quartets: Amadeus, Emerson, Juilliard and Guarneri. Since 2000, they have been "Quartet in Residence" Musikhochschule Hanover. The Szymanowski Quartet first performed with Mainly Mozart's Spotlight Series in 2010.

MAR 15, 2013

Tara Helen O'Connor (flute) is a charismatic performer sought after for her unusual artistic depth, brilliant technique and colorful tone in music of every era. Tara debuted with Mainly Mozart as part of the Spotlight Series in 2012, and followed that up by playing a concerto in June 2012 with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra under David Atherton. A current artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tara is also a member of the woodwind quintet Windscape, the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble, Talea Ensemble and is the flute soloist of the world renowned Bach Aria Group. Tara performs regularly with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto USA, Chamber Music Northwest and Music from Angel Fire. A 2001 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and two time Grammy nominee, Tara has appeared on A&E's Breakfast for the Arts and Live from Lincoln Center. She has recorded for Deutsche Gramophon, EMI Classics, Koch International and Bridge Records. In addition to teaching at the Bard Conservatory, Tara is professor of flute at Purchase College Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Music Program, and teaches summer master classes at the Banff Centre in Canada. An avid photographer, she has photo credits in Time Out, Strad and Chamber Music America magazines. Tara lives with her violinist husband Daniel Phillips on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Peter Kolkay (bassoon) was recently named an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He performs numerous times seasonally at Alice Tully Hall, and enjoys regular engagements at the Bravo! Vail Valley, Music from Angel Fire, Music Mountain and Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festivals. Called a "star ascendant" by San Francisco's Classical Voice and "stunningly virtuosic" by The New York Times, bassoonist Peter Kolkay claimed First Prize at the 2002 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2004 and the 2006 Carlos Surinach Prize from BMI in recognition of "outstanding service to American music." His vibrant career encompasses solo and collaborative performances, premiering new works, engaging with the standard repertoire and frequent recording projects. Current highlights include recitals at Merkin Concert Hall and BargeMusic in Brooklyn and the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos of Panama; concerto engagements with the South Carolina Philharmonic, Waukesha Symphony and Greater Grand Forks Symphony; as well as debut performances at the Spoleto USA Festivals (the latter including chamber music and Vivaldi's A minor bassoon concerto). 2013 marks Mr. Kolkay's first appearance with Mainly Mozart.

Anton Nel (piano) appeared as soloist in the very first Mainly Mozart concerts in 1989, and has been a regular guest ever since. First prize winner in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Nel enjoys a remarkable and multifaceted career that has taken him across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. He made his European debut in France in 1982, and in the same year graduated with highest distinction from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He came to the US in 1983, receiving his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Cincinnatia. A prizewinner at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition in England, he also won several first prizes at the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition. Highlights of Mr. Nel's nearly four decades of concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. (He has an active repertoire of more than 100 works for piano and orchestra.) As recitalist he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection in New York, at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Internationally he has performed recitals in major concert halls in Canada, England (Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London), France, Holland (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), Japan (Suntory Hall in Tokyo), Korea, and South Africa. He was appointed to the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in his early twenties, followed by professorships at the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan, where he was chairman of the piano department. In September 2000, Anton Nel was appointed as the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Piano and Chamber music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches an international class of students and heads the Division of Keyboard Studies. In 2001 he was appointed Visiting "Extraordinary" Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and continues to teach master classes worldwide.

APR 5, 2013

Steven Copes (violin) leads a diverse and enthusiastic musical life as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. He joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as Concertmaster in 1998, and has led the orchestra from the chair in several highly acclaimed, eclectic programs.He has performed as soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the Colorado Symphony, the Sao Paolo State Symphony, and The Knights. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Copes has performed at festivals and concert series such as Aspen, Boston Chamber Music Society, Bridgehampton, Caramoor, Cartagena, Cello Plus, Chamber Music Northwest, Charlottesville, Colorado College, El Paso Pro Musica, Four Seasons, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, La Jolla Summerfest, Mainly Mozart, Marlboro, Mozaic, Norfolk, Piccolo Spoleto, Salt Bay Chamberfest, Santa Fe, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Skaneateles, Styriarte, Sweetwater Music Weekend, and at other festivals across the globe. He co-founded the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Colorado as well as Accordo, a new chamber group based in the Twin Cities, now in its fourth season. As guest Concertmaster, Mr. Copes has toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and performed in the same capacity with the Baltimore Symphony, London Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony. He has taught and coached at the New World Symphony in Miami, Colorado College Summer Festival, National Orchestral Institute in Maryland, and at Western Michigan University, Indiana University, University of Minnesota, and Roosevelt University in Chicago. A native of Los Angeles, he holds degrees from The Curtis Institute and Juilliard. Mr. Copes first performed with Mainly Mozart Spotlight Series in 2011.

Arnaud Sussmann (violin) has quickly established a reputation as a multi-faceted and compelling artist, earning the highest praise from both critics and audiences alike. In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009, and has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia, in renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Smithsonian Museum and the Louvre Museum. He has recently appeared with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Chamber Orchestra, Nice Orchestra, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, El Salvador National Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and presented recitals in cities around the world including New York, Memphis, Chicago, Panama City, San Salvador, London, and Paris. In addition to his solo career, Mr. Sussmann is a dedicated chamber musician. He was invited to join the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two program for the 2006-2009 seasons and continues to appear with CMS on tour. A resident of New York City, Mr. Sussmann was born in Strasbourg, France, and holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from The Juilliard School. He studied with Boris Garlitsky and Itzhak Perlman, who chose him to be a Starling Fellow, an honor qualifying him as Mr. Perlman's teaching assistant for two years. Mr. Sussmann first appeared with Mainly Mozart's Spotlight Series in 2010.

Efe Baltacigil (cello) became the Philadelphia Orchestra's Associate Principal Cellist in 2003, and in 2011 won the job as Principal Cello of the Seattle Symphony. The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "Baltacigil is a highly individualized solo artist. His gorgeous sound, strong personality, and expressive depth suggest an artist about to have a major career." Mr. Baltacigil won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, was also awarded The Peter Jay Sharp Prize in 2005 and the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize 2006.. He appears at Carnegie's Zankel Hall in Richard Goode's Perspectives series and gives performances at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Mayville State University (ND), and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society. Mr. Baltacigil has performed the Brahms Sextet with Pinchas Zukerman, Midori and Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall for Isaac Stern's memorial, and participated in Mr. Ma's Silk Road Project. He has also appeared as soloist in the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and is a member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two. Mr. Baltacigil was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He started studying the violin at the age of five and changed to the cello at the age of seven. He received his Bachelor's degree from Mimar Sinan University Conservatory in Istanbul in 1998 and an Artist Diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2002, where he studied with Peter Wiley and David Soyer. He was the recipient of The Curtis Institute's Jacqueline DuPré Scholarship. 2013 marks Mr. Baltacigil's first appearance with Mainly Mozart.

Alessio Bax (piano) has been praised for creating "a ravishing listening experience" with his lyrical playing, insightful interpretations and dazzling facility. First prize winner at the Leeds and Hamamatsu international piano competitions and a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, he has appeared as soloist with over 90 orchestras, including the London and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, Dallas and Houston symphonies, the NHK Symphony in Japan and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. Among the esteemed conductors with whom Bax has worked are Marin Alsop, Sergiu Commissiona, Alexander Dimitriev, Vernon Handley, Jacques Lacombe, Jonathan Nott, Vasily Petrenko, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Dimitry Sitkovetsky and Christopher Warren-Greene. Festival appearances have included London's International Piano Series (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Verbier in Switzerland, England's Aldeburgh and Bath festivals, and the Ruhr Klavierfestival, BeethovenFest and Schloss Elmau in Germany. He has performed recitals at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and music halls in Rome, Milan, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Washington, DC. Bax's new solo recording, Rachmaninov: Preludes and Melodies (Signum Classics), was selected as a "Critics' Choice 2011" by American Record Guide. He performed Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata for maestro Daniel Barenboim in the PBS-TV documentary Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass, available as a DVD box set on the EMI label. At age 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of his hometown, Bari, Italy, and after further studies in Europe moved to the United States in 1994 to study with Spanish pianist Joaquin Achucarro. He resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, with whom he appeared at Mainly Mozart's Spotlight Series in 2012.

APR 26 and 27, 2013

Susanna Phillips (soprano) has attracted special recognition for a voice of striking beauty and sophistication. Following critically-acclaimed performances of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, Susanna Phillips begins the 2009-10 season with a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Pamina in the celebrated Julie Taymor production of Die Zauberflöte conducted by Bernard Labadie. She will also appear with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore. She debuts with Fort Worth Opera in Don Giovanni as Donna Anna and sings with Opera Birmingham as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro. She can be seen in concert with the Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop in the Mahler Fourth Symphony and Mozart concert arias and with the Alabama Symphony for their New Year's Eve Gala. She will also make her New York solo recital debut in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall under the auspices of the Juilliard School and will appear in recitals throughout the US. Her continually expanding concert repertoire has been showcased with many different prestigious organizations. She performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic as part of their annual "Composer's Festival" under Alan Gilbert, and she also sang Beethoven's Mass in C and Choral Fantasy for her Mostly Mozart Festival debut at Lincoln Center and at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York under Kent Tritle. She sang Mozart's Mass in c with the Huntsville Symphony, Dvorak's Stabat Mater with the Santa Fe Symphony, Brahms' Deutsches Requiem with the Santa BarbaraSymphony, and appeared opposite baritone Wolfgang Holzmair in Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch at New York's Weill Recital Hall and under the auspices of the Vocal Arts Society of Washington, DC. Other recent concert and oratorio engagements include Carmina Burana, Mahler's Fourth Symphony, Mozart's Coronation Mass, the Fauré and Mozart Requiems, and Handel's Messiah. Ms. Phillips made her Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and Rob Fisherwith the New York Pops. Ms. Phillips is a winner of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, and was awarded grants from the Santa Fe Opera and the Sullivan Foundation. Additionally, Ms. Phillips was the first prize winner of the American Opera Society Competition and the Musicians Club of Women in Chicago.

Paul Neubauer (viola) is distinguished by his exceptional musicality and effortless playing. He is one of this generation's quintessential artists. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he is the chamber music director of the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma and artistic director of the "Chamber Music Extravaganza" in Curaçao. His recording of Joan Tower's Purple Rhapsody, commissioned for him by seven orchestras and the Koussevitsky Foundation, was recently released by Summit Records. A two-time Grammy nominee, he recorded a disc of works by Schumann with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and he has also recorded three pieces that were composed for him: Wild Purple for solo viola by Joan Tower; Viola Rhapsody, a concerto by Henri Lazarof; and Soul Garden for viola and chamber ensemble by Derek Bermel. His recording of the Walton Viola Concerto was recently re-released on Decca. He has appeared with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He gave the world premiere of the revised Bartók Viola Concerto as well as concertos by Tower, Penderecki, Picker, Jacob, Lazarof, Suter, Müller-Siemens, Ott, and Friedman and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College. Mr. Neubauer has been an Artist of the Chamber Music Society since 1989.

David Shifrin (clarinet) is one of only two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since the award's inception in 1974, Mr. Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator. Mr. Shifrin has appeared with the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras and the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Detroit and Denver symphonies among many others in the US, and internationally with orchestras in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In addition, he has served as principal clarinetist with the Cleveland Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra (under Stokowski), the Honolulu and Dallas symphonies and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and New York Chamber Symphony. Mr. Shifrin has also received critical acclaim as a recitalist, appearing at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City as well as the the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. A sought after a chamber musician, he collaborates frequently with such distinguished ensembles and artists as the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson String Quartets, Wynton Marsalis, and pianists Emanuel Ax and André Watts. An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, David Shifrin served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004. He has toured extensively throughout the US with CMSLC and appeared in several national television broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center. He has also been the artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon since 1981. In addition to the Avery Fisher Prize, David Shifrin is the recipient of a Solo Recitalists' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Music Academy of the West. At the outset of his career, he won the top prize at both the Munich and the Geneva International Competitions. Mr. Shifrin resides in Connecticut with his wife and is the father of four children - Henry, Olivia, Sam and William.

MAY 10, 2013

Anne-Marie McDermott - see Ms. McDermott's biography above.

Stephen Prutsman (piano) moves easily from classical to jazz to world music styles as a pianist and composer, Stephen Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground in the music of all cultures and languages. As a composer, Stephen has written and arranged works for many of the world's leading classical performers and ensembles. In the early 1990s Stephen was a medal winner at the Tchaikovsky and Queen Elisabeth Piano Competitions, received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and has performed as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras on international concert stages. In his teens and early 20s he was the keyboard player for several art rock groups including Cerberus and Vysion, and was also the music arranger for a nationally syndicated televangelist program. From 2004-2007 Stephen was Artistic Partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra where he led concertos from the keyboard, conducted works of living composers, arranged music for world music collaborations, and composed several new works for the orchestra. In 2009 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Cartagena International Festival of Music, South America's largest festival of its kind, programming and curating concerts with themes ranging from Mozart and Bach celebrations, to eclectic evenings of folk and popular music, to hybrid programs fusing art and dance music of multiple musical dimensions. A father of an autistic son, Stephen is involved in several projects whose missions are to create enjoyable artistic or recreational environments for children on the autistic spectrum and their families.

MAY 17, 2013

The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) is established as among the world-class chamber ensembles of its generation. Its mission: bring every piece of music to the audience in vivid color, with pronounced communication and teamwork, and great respect to the composer. Since winning both the Banff International String Quartet Competition and Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1992, the quartet has delighted audiences with its spontaneous, passionate, and dynamic performances. Alex Ross of The New Yorker magazine writes, "the St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection." Whether playing Haydn or premiering a new work, the SLSQ has a rare ability to bring audiences to rapt attention. They reveal surprising nuances in familiar repertoire and illuminate the works of some of today's most celebrated composers, often all in the course of one evening. John Adams was inspired to write works expressly for the quartet after hearing them in concert. His "String Quartet," written for the SLSQ, was premiered by the quartet in January 2009. In spring 2011, the quartet will premiere a new work by Osvaldo Golijov, also composed for them. This forthcoming work (co-commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts and Carnegie Hall) is expected to build on the success of their previous collaboration, which culminated in the twice-Grammy-nominated SLSQ recording of the composer's Yiddishbbuk (EMI) in 2002. SLSQ maintains a busy touring schedule. The 2010/11 season includes two trips to Europe with concerts in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Finland and Estonia. In North America, SLSQ returns to Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, New York and Philadelphia in addition to concerts in North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Florida, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma. During the summer season SLSQ is proud to continue its long association with the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the quartet's founding in Canada, SLSQ in 2009 commissioned five Canadian composers and performed their work across the country. They also have active working relationships with numerous other composers, including R. Murray Schafer, Christos Hatzis, Ezequiel Viñao, Jonathan Berger, Ka Nin Chan, Roberto Sierra, and Mark Applebaum.Since 1998 the SLSQ has held the position of Ensemble in Residence at Stanford University. This residency includes working with music students as well as extensive collaborations with other faculty and departments using music to explore a myriad of topics. Recent collaborations have involved the School of Medicine, School of Education, and the Law School. In addition to their appointment at Stanford, the SLSQ are visiting artists at the University of Toronto. The foursome's passion for opening up musical arenas to players and listeners alike is evident in their annual summer chamber music seminar at Stanford and their many forays into the depths of musical meaning with preeminent music educator Robert Kapilow.

Violist Lesley Robertson is a founding member of the group, and hails from Edmonton Alberta. Cellist Christopher Costanza is from Utica, NY and joined the quartet in 2003. Violinists Geoff Nuttall and Scott St. John both grew up in London Ontario; Geoff is a founding member and Scott joined in 2006. Depending on concert repertoire, the two alternate the role of first violin. All four members of the quartet live and teach at Stanford, in the Bay Area of California. "Celebrating 20 years, this grouphas matured and deepened without losing its freshness and edge."--The Globe and Mail, April 2009.

Geoff Nuttall (violin) has been hailed by the New York Times as "intensely dynamic" with "stunning technique and volitality," violinist Geoff Nuttall began playing the violin at the age of eight after moving to London, Ontario from College Station, Texas. He spent most of his musical studies under the tutelage of Lorand Fenyves at The Banff Centre, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Toronto, where he received his bachelor of arts.

Scott St. John (violin) is a violinist in the St. Lawrence String Quartet and Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University. The SLSQ performs over 100 concerts worldwide every year. The foursome regularly delivers traditional quartet repertoire, but is also fervently committed to performing and expanding the works of living composers. This season sees them performing new works by both John Adams and Osvaldo Golijov.

Lesley Robertson (viola) is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School, Lesley Robertson, viola, hails from Edmonton, Alberta and currently lives in California where, along with the St. Lawrence String Quartet she is Artist- in-Residence at Stanford University.

Christopher Costanza (cello) has enjoyed a varied and exciting career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher for over two decades. A winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and a recipient of a prestigious Solo Recitalists Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Mr. Costanza has performed to wide critical acclaim in nearly every state in the U.S., and in Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, and Hungary.

MAY 31 and JUNE 1, 2013

Stefan Jackiw (violin) is recognized as "one of the best and most interesting young violinists heard in a long time" (Chicago Sun-Times), captivating audiences with playing that is "striking for its intelligence and sensitivity" (Boston Globe). Jackiw has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, among others, has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Marin Alsop, Andrew Davis, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Hannu Lintu, and is also an active recitalist and chamber musician. In the 2012/13 season, Jackiw makes his Carnegie Hall recital debut in November, when he performs Stravinsky, Brahms, Strauss and a world premiere work by David Fulmer with pianist Anna Polonsky in Weill Recital Hall. Beyond Carnegie, Jackiw performs recitals throughout the U.S. this season. In 2011/12, Jackiw debuted with the Atlanta Symphony and the Rotterdam Philharmonic and enjoyed return engagements with the Chicago Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and the Rochester Philharmonic. Jackiw performed several high profile chamber music recitals, working with pianists Jeremy Denk, Orli Shaham, Joyce Yang, Anna Polonsky and violinist Gil Shaham, among others. This past summer, Jackiw appeared at a number of music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival and Seattle Chamber Music Society. Jackiw made his European debut in London in 2002 to great critical acclaim, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Benjamin Zander. His sensational performance was featured on the front page of London's Times, and The Strad reported, "A 14-year-old violinist took the London music world by storm." Jackiw has also performed abroad with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra of Ireland, the Seoul Philharmonic, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. In North America, Jackiw has appeared with the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Seattle Symphonies, the orchestras of Philadelphia and Cleveland, and the New York Philharmonic. He has performed in numerous festivals and concert series, including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, and Caramoor International Music Festival, the Celebrity Series of Boston, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Washington Performing Arts Society and the Louvre Recital Series in Paris. He is a regular participant at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music and Bard Music Festivals. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, as well as an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. In 2002, the young artist was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. He makes his home in New York City.

Che-Yen Chen (viola) has been described by The Strad Magazine as a musician whose "tonal distinction and essential musicality produces an auspicious impression," Taiwanese violist Che-Yen Chen (also known as "Brian Chen") has established himself as a prominent recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician. He is the first-prize winner of the 2003 William Primrose Viola Competition, the President Prize of the 2003 Lionel Tertis Viola Competition, and he recently distinguished himself by qualifying for the Principal Viola positions of both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony. He has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad in venues such as Alice Tully Hall Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jordon Hall, Library of Congress in D.C., Kimmel Center, Taiwan National Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Snape Malting Concert Hall, among numerous others. A founding member of the Formosa Quartet, the Amadeus prize winner of the 10th London International String Quartet Competition, Mr. Chen is an advocate of chamber music. He has been a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two, the Jupiter Chamber Players, ADCA, and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro after three consecutive summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. A participant at the Ravinia Festival, Mr. Chen was featured in the festival's Rising Star series and the inaugural Musicians from Ravinia tour. Other festival appearances include the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, International Viola Congress, Mainly Mozart, Chamber Music International, La Jolla Summerfest, Primrose Festival, Bath International Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, Taiwan Connection, Incontri in Terra di Siena, Emilia Romagna Festival, and numerous others. Mr. Chen has also taught and performed at summer programs such as Hotchkiss Summer Portal, Blue Mountain Festival, Academy of Taiwan Strings, Interlochen,Mimir Festival, and has given master-classes at the Taiwan National Arts University, University of Southern California, University of California, Santa Barbara, and McGill University. Mr. Chen began studying viola at the age of six with Ben Lin. A four-time winner of the National Viola Competition in Taiwan, Mr. Chen came to the U.S. and studied at The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School under the guidance of Michael Tree, Joseph de Pasquale, and Paul Neubauer. Mr. Chen had served on the faculty at Indiana University-South Bend, where he taught viola and chamber music. Mr. Chen is currently teaching at San Diego State University, UC San Diego, McGill University in Montreal, and holds the Principal Viola position of the San Diego Symphony.

Ronald Thomas (cello) enjoys an active and varied career as performer, teacher and artistic administrator. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of the Boston Chamber Music Society, Principal Cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Chestnut Hill Concerts in Madison, CT. He has appeared as soloist and in recital with orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center both at Alice Tully Hall and on tour. Other appearances include the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Bravo! Colorado Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Blossom Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Festival, La Musica, Music@Menlo, Sarasota Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Music in the Mountains, Yale at Northfolk Festival, and the festivals of Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and others. While he was a member of the Boston Musica Viva and the Aeolian Chamber Players, he gave premières of countless new works. Mr. Thomas is the recently-appointed Artistic Partner for Mainly Mozart's new, June Chamber Players series.

Jose Franch-Ballester (clarinet), a native of Moncofa (Valencia, Spain), is one of the most promising clarinetists of his generation. In 2008 he received the highly coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2007 he was one of a handful of participants selected for a Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with Emmanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman, and one of the year's "most prominent emerging soloists", as selected by the American Symphony League Magazine. As First Prize winner in both the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and the Astral Artists 2004 National Audition in Philadelphia, he has joined the roster of both organizations and performed countless concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. "He is a natural onstage... played with technical wizardry and tireless enthusiasm."- The New York Times. Mr. Franch-Ballester is a member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2 in New York, with which he has recorded Bartok's Contrasts for Deutsche Grammophon. Mr. Franch-Ballester is in demand at numerous festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest, the Skaneateles Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Usedomer Musikfestival, and Verbier Festival. He graduated in 2000 from the Conservatoy Superior of Music "Joaquín Rodrigo" of Valencia and then he entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Donald Montanaro.

Julie Landsman (horn) has been a frequent and beloved guest of Mainly Mozart over the years. She is retired after 25 years as Principal Horn chair with the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Landsman Prior to her appointment with the MET Orchestra, she was Co-Principal horn with the Houston Symphony. She has toured throughout the world with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus. Ms. Landsman's recording credits include the Ring Cycle with the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by James Levine, where she was the featured horn soloist. In addition to her work with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, other summer appearances have included The Marlboro Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Julie Landsman is on the faculties of The Juilliard School and Bard Conservatory. Many of her students are in prominent positions throughout the United States. A graduate of Juilliard, her teachers have included James Chambers, Howard Howard, and Carmine Caruso.

Anna Polonsky (piano) is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, and many others. Ms. Polonsky has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, David Shifrin, Richard Goode, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, Anton Kuerti, Peter Wiley, and Fred Sherry. She is regularly invited to perform chamber music at festivals such as Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Bard, and Caramoor, as well as at Bargemusic in New York City. Ms. Polonsky has given concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall's Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two during 2002-2004. In 2006 she took a part in the European Broadcasting Union's project to record and broadcast all of Mozart's keyboard sonatas, and in the spring of 2007 she performed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium to inaugurate the Emerson Quartet's Perspectives Series. Anna Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with the renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master's Degree from the Juilliard School. Polonsky was a recipient of the 2003 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, and of the 2011 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. With the violist Michael Tree and clarinetist Anthony McGill, she is a member of the Schumann Trio. Polonsky also collaborates in a two-piano duo with her husband, pianist Orion Weiss. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College.

Mainly Mozart 2013 Mozart & the Mind Participant Bios

(In Order of Presentation Date)

MAY 10

Richard Warp, M.Mus., is an award-winning composer, producer and sound designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a Masters' degree in Composition from Goldsmiths' College, University of London, where he studied with Mick Grierson and Michael Young, and moved to the US from England in 2006. He has written for numerous chamber ensembles and soloists including the Del Sol String Quartet, the Cecilia String Quartet, Stas Venglevski, Sqwonk and Citywinds, as well as working with dancers, filmmakers and scientists. Over the past few years, he has developed a particular interest in the cognitive basis of musical perception, and has collaborated on projects with several neuroscientists to develop Brain-Computer Music Interfaces that explore not only the technological capabilities of such systems, but that seek to better contextualize their output for the audience. His works have been performed across the US and in Europe. Warp is also active as a producer, with surround sound as his medium of choice, and has produced a number of 5.1 albums under the New Spectrum (NYC) label, including Michael Bernier's "Leviathan" (2011) and the first-ever surround sound recording of Luigi Nono's "la Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura', performed by celebrated violinist Miranda Cuckson and Chris Burns, as well as capturing live surround recordings for contemporary ensembles including Fractal, New Monsters, Gratkowski/Brown/Winant and others. He is a current member and West Coast chapter co-founder of the Manhattan Producers' Alliance.

MAY 11

Alexander Khalil, M.F.A., Ph.D., is an ethnomusicologist, performer, and composer. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in music composition from California Institute of the Arts and completed his doctoral degree in Critical Studies and Experimental Practices at the University of California, San Diego in 2009. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the oral and written musical tradition of the last remaining chanters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul, Turkey. He has also been deeply involved in the study of traditional musics in Indonesia, China, and Japan over the past two decades. Currently, he is a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Cognitive Science at UCSD where he is, in collaboration with Victor Minces and Andrea Chiba, conducting research on music, timing, and cognitive development.

Victor Hugo Minces, Ph.D., was born in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After graduating from high school he studied at the fine arts academy "Prilidiano Pueyrredon", where he focused on painting an sculpting, activities that he carries on to this day. After three years of intense commitment to the arts he was enthralled by the intellectual challenge of physics, studying physical sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. After a short period of applied math research in Grenoble, France, he was accepted in the graduate program in Computational Neurobiology at the University of California, San Diego, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2010. His thesis focused on how the brain processes sounds in states associated with wakefulness and sleep, as well as extensive theoretical work on the statistics of neural coding. During his studies he was a very active member of the Neurosciences Outreach Program, frequently visiting inner city schools to share with the children his sense of wonder for nature and his passion to understand it. After obtaining his Ph.D. he became interested in using the skills acquired during his Ph.D. to benefit society at large, and to integrate his scientific, artistic, and educational interests, the association with Alexander Khalil and Andrea Chiba in the Gamelan project proved to be the perfect venue for this synergy.

Giri Nata Ensemble, San Diego's only Balinese gamelan ensemble, was founded in 2002, having developed from gamelan music classes held at the Museum School, a local charter school. The ensemble, made up of both former and current Museum School students, as well as other local musicians, has performed Balinese gamelan music and dance throughout southern California. The ensemble was given the name Giri Nata, which means "mountain sage," by Dr. Nyoman Wenten in honor of the late Robert E. Brown, former president of the Center for World Music, whose efforts were instrumental in its founding.

MAY 17

Scott Makeig, Ph.D., graduated from UC Berkeley with an individual major B.A., 'Self in Experience.' After teaching piano for a few years, he completed an MA in music theory exploring the bases of interval affect, then came to UCSD for its Ph.D. program in experimental music theory. Taking the scientific opportunity literally, he apprenticed during his graduate career with UCSD Neurosciences department founder Robert Galambos, researching rhythmic brain patterns in response to sounds and music. After a decade of applied research on automatic detection of drowsiness from brain electrical patterns, he joined the Salk Institute to work on deciphering human brain electrical patterns using computers, then moved to UCSD in 2002 as research scientist and founding director of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, now housed in the San Diego Supercomputer Center on campus where over 50 staff, students, and faculty work on finding and applying direct links between human brain electrical patterns, behavior, and experience. A lifelong amateur musician and composer, at a 2010 international Brain-Computer Interface research meeting in Carmel Makeig and colleagues premiered a suite for brain and instrumental trio which he composed to demonstrate the possibility of reading subtle musical feelings from high-density recordings of the brain electrical patterns of a 'brainist' performer and giving them musical expression. At home he works on playing Bach suites on violin and piano, interspersed with Irish fiddle tunes.

MAY 18

Nina Kraus, Ph.D., Hugh Knowles Professor, (Communication Sciences; Neurobiology & Physiology; Otolaryngology) at Northwestern University, directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Kraus investigates biological bases of speech and music. She investigates learning-associated brain plasticity throughout the lifetime in normal, expert (musicians), clinical populations (dyslexia; autism; hearing loss) and animal models. In addition to being a pioneering thinker who bridges multiple disciplines (aging, development, literacy, music, and learning), Dr. Kraus is a technological innovator who roots her research in translational science.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed clinical residency in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at UC Berkeley. He is the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the UC San Francisco, an Associate Professor in Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, and Principal Investigator of a cognitive neuroscience laboratory. His laboratory studies neural mechanisms of perception, attention and memory, with an emphasis on the impact of distraction and multitasking on these abilities. His unique research approach utilizes a powerful combination of human neurophysiological tools, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). A major accomplishment of his research has been to expand our understanding of alterations in the aging brain that lead to cognitive decline. His most recent studies explore how we may enhance our cognitive abilities, and/or prevent them from declining in various neuropsychiatric conditions, via engagement with custom designed video games. Dr. Gazzaley has authored over 70 scientific articles, delivered over 250 invited presentations around the world, and his research and perspectives have been consistently profiled in high-impact media, such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Discover, Wired, PBS, NPR, CNN, and NBC Nightly News. Recently, he wrote and hosted the nationally televised, PBS-sponsored special "The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley". Awards and honors for his research include the Pfizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Award, the Ellison Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging, and the Harold Brenner Pepinsky Early Career Award in Neurobehavioral Science.

MAY 31

Barbara Reuer, Ph.D., MT-BC, is known internationally for her expertise in music-centered wellness and music therapy. A graduate from the University of Iowa, she is Founder and Director of MusicWorx, a consulting agency based in San Diego, CA, and has more than 35 years of clinical experience in schools, convalescent facilities, retirement homes, hospices, medical and psychiatric hospitals, corrections facilities, substance abuse and eating disorders programs, health spas, as well as teaching at community colleges and universities. More recently, she has established Resounding Joy, Inc., a non-profit organization to provide supportive and healing music environment for adults and children who are homebound or have special needs. Major areas of Dr. Reuer's current professional involvement are in the area of music therapy program and job development in San Diego County including an international music therapy internship program. In addition to her clinical work, she provides workshops and seminars (wellness, community building, stress management and pain management) nationally and internationally for health care professionals, educators and corporate clients. She has authored and co-authored several books and articles. Public notice of her work extends from recognition in publications to the Lifetime network show, New Attitudes, and the UCSDTV Health Matters: Music and the Mind. She has been interviewed in print media and television at the local, national and international levels. Dr. Reuer is a 2008 Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative Awardee for excellence in pain management. She has served as President of the National Association for Music Therapy and is recipient of the American Music Therapy Association's national Professional Practice Award in 2000 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. In 2006, she was awarded by her peers the Betty Isern Howery Award, at the Western Regional AMTA conference, the highest award for professional contribution in the field of music therapy in the region.

JUNE 1

Aniruddh D. Patel, Ph.D., received his B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. in biology from Harvard. He is currently on the faculty at Tufts University, in the Psychology Department. His research focuses on how the brain processes music and language, especially in what the similarities and differences the two reveal about each other and about the brain itself. He has pursued this topic with a variety of techniques, including neuroimaging, neuropsychology, behavioral studies, theoretical analyses, acoustic research, and comparative studies of nonhuman animals. His research has appeared in numerous journals including, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Acoustical Society of America, Music Perception, and many more. He has published "Music, Language, and the Brain" (2008, Oxford Univ. Press), which has been called "an intellectual tour de force" by Nature and a "major synthesis" by Dr. Oliver Sacks and received the 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He is past president of the US Society for Music Perception and Cognition.

John Iversen, Ph.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist studying music and the brain. After undergraduate studies in Physics at Harvard, John received graduate degrees in Philosophy of Science and in Speech at Cambridge, and received a Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science from MIT. After a fruitful decade at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, he is currently at UCSD at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience. His work has focused on the study of rhythm perception and production in music and language, spanning behavioral and neuroscience approaches. His work has addressed the role of culture in rhythm perception, whether rhythm perception is specially tied to the auditory sense, and brain mechanisms involved in generating the perceived beat in music. Increasingly he is directing this work towards applications to medicine and education. He is currently directing the SIMPHONY project at UCSD, a longitudinal study of the effect of music training on children's brain and cognitive development. Woven through this work is a desire to understand how we actively shape our perceptions of the world. John draws from a background in physics and neuroscience and a life-long interest in percussion, which currently finds expression through Japanese Taiko drum performance with San Diego Taiko, a group that he co-founded in 2004.

Aiyun Huang, D.M.A., enjoys an ever-evolving musical life as soloist, chamber musician, researcher and teacher. She was the First Prize and the Audience Award winner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 2002. Her past highlights include performances at the Weill Recital Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra's Green Umbrella Series, LACMA Concert Series, Holland Festival, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Agora Festival in Paris, Banff Arts Festival, 7éme Biennale d'Art Contemporaine de Lyon, Vancouver New Music Festival, CBC Radio, La Jolla Summerfest, Scotia Festival, Cool Drummings, Montreal New Music Festival, Centro Nacional Di Las Artes in Mexico City, and National Concert Hall and Theater in Taipei. She is a founding member of Canadian trio Toca Loca with pianists Gregory Oh and Simon Docking. Aiyun has commissioned and championed over 100 works in the last two decades working with composers internationally. She is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in Montreal. In May 2012, Mode Records released Save Percussion Theater featuring Aiyun Huang and friends documenting the important theatrical works in the percussion repertoire. Currently she leads research project Memory in Motion to study memory in percussion ensemble playing. Born in Kaohsiung, a southern city of Taiwan, Aiyun holds a DMA degree from the University of California, San Diego. Between 2004 and 2006, she was a Faculty Fellow at UCSD. Currently she is the Chair of the Percussion Area as well as director of the McGill Percussion Ensemble at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Mainly Mozart Chamber Players 2013 Artist Bios (In Order of Performance Date)



Ronald Thomas (Artistic Partner, Chamber Players) en joys an active and varied career as performer, teacher and artistic administrator. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of the Boston Chamber Music Society, Principal Cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Chestnut Hill Concerts in Madison, CT. He has appeared as soloist and in recital with orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center both at Alice Tully Hall and on tour. Other appearances include the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Bravo! Colorado Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Blossom Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Festival, La Musica, Music@Menlo, Sarasota Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Music in the Mountains, Yale at Northfolk Festival, and the festivals of Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and others. While he was a member of the Boston Musica Viva and the Aeolian Chamber Players, he gave premières of countless new works.

JUNE 2

Stefan Jackiw (violin, Chamber Players) See Mr. Jackiw's biography above.

Anna Polonsky (piano, Chamber Players) See Ms. Polonsky's biography above.

JUNE 4

Stefan Jackiw (violin, Chamber Players) See Mr. Jackiw's biography above.

Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu (violin, Chamber Players) enjoys a versatile international career as an orchestral soloist, a recitalist and a chamber musician. She has been featured with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in her native country, as well as with such European orchestras as the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra. As solo recitalist and chamber musician, Wu performs regularly in Asia, Europe and North America, at such prominent venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, among many others. Artists with whom she has collaborated include Gary Graffman, Kim Kashkashian, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Midori, Ralph Kirshbaum, William Preucil, Thomas Quasthoff, and members of the Alban Berg, Guarneri, Tokyo and Vermeer string quartets. Wu appeared as guest violist-her second instrument-with the Orion String Quartet during their 2009 tour of Asia. Wu's festival collaborations include the Marlboro Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Music@Menlo, Verbier Festival and Academy, and she has served as a chamber music coach at the ENCORE School for Strings. 2011-12 season highlights include appearances with Musicians From Marlboro, Caramoor Rising Stars, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and a residency at the Hotchkiss School Summer Chamber Music Program. Wu's media appearances feature performances on NPR's "From the Top," on WHYY TV and Radio in Philadelphia, as well as numerous on-air interviews with Philharmonic Radio Taipei and IC Broadcasting of Taiwan. She has been spotlighted on Taiwan's TVBS Television and in the September 2004 issue of Marie Claire Taiwan. Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu received her bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008, which awarded her the Milka Violin Artist Fellowship. In 2010 she graduated from the USC Thornton School of Music, with awards for excellence in both solo string instrument performance and chamber music. Wu's teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Ida Kavafian, Victor Danchenko, Steven Tenenbom, and Midori Goto. She joined the Thornton School faculty in 2011 as an Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Chamber Music. Among Wu's many honors and awards are the Gold Medal in the 2003 Stulberg International String Competition and third prize in the Odessa International David Oistrakh Violin Competition. She has been praised by Taiwan's Liberty Times for "capturing the spirit of the music astonishingly." Wu performs on a 1734 Domenico Montagnana violin.

Che-Yen Chen (viola, Chamber Players) See Mr. Chen's biography above.

Ronald Thomas (cello, Chamber Players) See Mr. Thomas' biography above.

JUNE 9

Martin Chalifour (violin, Chamber Players) began his tenure as Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1995. The recipient of various grants and awards in his native Canada, he graduated with honors from the Montreal Conservatory at the age of 18 and then moved to Philadelphia to pursue studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1986 Chalifour received a Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow; he was a laureate of the Montreal International Competition the following year. Since then he has concertized extensively, playing hundreds of concerto performances from a repertoire of more than 50 works. He has appeared as soloist with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Neville Marriner, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Outside the U.S., he has appeared as a guest soloist with the Auckland Philharmonia, the Montreal Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, and the Malaysian Philharmonic, among others. Chalifour began his orchestral career in 1984 with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, playing as Associate Concertmaster for six years. Subsequently he occupied the same position for five years in the Cleveland Orchestra, where he also served as Acting Concertmaster under Christoph von Dohnányi. While in Cleveland, Chalifour taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a founding member of the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio. Chalifour is a frequent guest at several summer music festivals, including the Sarasota Festival and the Mainly Mozart Festival since 1989. Maintaining close ties with his native country, he has returned there often to teach and perform as soloist with various Canadian orchestras, most recently with the Vancouver Symphony in the 2010/11 season. Martin Chalifour is a professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. He records for the Yarlung label; his latest album was released in September 2011, and features solo music composed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky, as well as Mozart and Lutoslawski concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Ronald Thomas (cello, Chamber Players) See Mr. Thomas' biography above.

Nathan Hughes (oboe, Chamber Players) See Mr. Hughes' biography below.

Whitney Crockett (bassoon, Chamber Players) See Mr. Crockett's biography below.

Kevin Fitz-Gerald (piano, Chamber Players) enjoys a versatile performing career as recitalist, orchestra soloist, and chamber musician. His performances have garnered international acclaim and he has been recognized for his "hypnotically powerful and precise" pianism and "dynamic and distinguished" interpretations. His concert tours and performances have taken place in major concert halls, universities, and concert organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Australia, Mexico, South America, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. Notable venues include Carnegie Recital Hall (New York), The Mormon Tabernacle (Utah), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto), Place des Arts (Montreal), Izumi Hall (Osaka), Suntori Hall (Tokyo), National Gallery (Kingston), and Town Hall (Melbourne). He has appeared with several Canadian and American orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Canadian Chamber Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Los Angeles Cameratta, Utah Chamber Orchestra, and the Mormon Tabernacle Orchestra at Temple Square. Recent orchestral performances have included concerti by Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, Balakirev, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Berg, and Scharwenka. In constant demand as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Hagai, Shaham, Patrick Gallois, Stephen Isserlis, Anne Akiko Meyers, Richard Stolzman, Alan Civil, Camilla Wicks, Midori, Eudice Shapiro, Milton Thomas, Karen Tuttle, Donald McInnes, Ronald Leonard, the Bartok, St. Petersburg, and St. Lawrence String Quartets. For many years, Fitz-Gerald was studio pianist in summer programs for some of the leading artist teachers of our time, including William Primrose, Lillian Fuchs, Zara Nelsova, Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Zoltan Szekely, Lorand Fenyves, and Marcel Moyse. He regularly performs two-piano and four-hand recitals with Bernadene Blaha, appearing at prestigious festivals, conventions, music teacher's symposiums, and concert venues throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Blaha/Fitz-Gerald Duo has performed extensively throughout Canada under the auspices of the Piano Six program, the Canada Council Touring Office, and the Cross Country Classics program. Fitz-Gerald also enjoys an international reputation as a teacher, presenting masterclasses and lecture-symposiums throughout the world. In addition to his position as Professor of Piano Performance and Collaborative Arts at the USC Thornton School, Fitz-Gerald is also a regular visiting artist teacher at the Banff School of Fine Arts, a frequent masterclass teacher at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, the Aria International Summer Institute in Indiana, as well as visiting faculty at many other national and international music festivals and institutions throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Born in Kelowna, British Columbia, Fitz-Gerald was a full scholarship student at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where his principal teachers were Marek Jablonski, Robin Wood, and Alma Brock-Smith. In addition, he has worked extensively with Menahem Pressler, John Perry, Gyorgy Sebok, and Leon Fleisher. He has won several prestigious competitions, grants, and awards, including the Du Maurier Search for the Stars, CBC National Radio Auditions, and the Young Artists' National Piano Competition.

JUNE 11

Martin Chalifour (violin, Chamber Players) See Mr. Chalifour's biography above.

Harumi Rhodes (violin, Chamber Players) has been performing extensively with some of the most prestigious musicians worldwide. Having just completed her residency at Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II, she has also joined the Boston, Philadelphia, Minnesota, and Seattle Chamber Music Societies. Some of her recent solo engagements include performances in the 2007 Vermont Mozart Festival featuring Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Harumi has also participated in several Musicians from Marlboro tours. As an avid supporter of contemporary music, Harumi had a solo violin piece dedicated to her by composer Benjamin Lees. She has also recorded Milton Babbitt's Sixth String Quartet and most recently performed at Zankel Hall in a tribute to George Perle. Harumi received degrees from the Juilliard School, studying with Ronald Copes and Earl Carylss, and the New England Conservatory, studying with Donald Weilerstein, where she received the Gunther Schuller Award.

Che-Yen Chen (viola, Chamber Players) See Mr. Chen's biography above.

Ronald Thomas (cello, Chamber Players) See Mr. Thomas' biography above.

Anthony McGill (clarinet, Chamber Players) See Mr. McGill's biography below.

JUNE 16

Erin Keefe (violin, Chamber Players) became concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra in September 2011. She has established a reputation as an artist who combines exhilarating temperament and fierce integrity. Among other major distinctions, including the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006, Ms. Keefe received the Pro Musicis International Award and Grand Prize in the Valsesia Musica International Violin Competition, both in 2009; the 2007 Torun International Violin Competition; the 2006 Schadt Competition; and the Corpus Christi International String Competition in 2004. She was the Silver Medalist in the Carl Nielsen, Sendai (Japan), and Gyeongnam (Korea) International Violin Competitions, resulting in performances and re-engagements in the US, Europe and Asia. Among the leading chamber musicians of her generation, Ms. Keefe joined the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center during the 2010-2011 season; previously, from 2006 to 2009, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two program. Ms. Keefe has appeared as soloist at the New York City Ballet and with the New Mexico Symphony, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic, and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra. She has given recitals throughout the US, Austria, Germany, Korea, Poland, Japan, and Denmark, and made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2010. Ms. Keefe has collaborated with many of today's leading artists, including the Emerson String Quartet, Roberto and Andrés Díaz, Edgar Meyer, Gary Graffman, Richard Goode, David Shifrin, David Soyer, Colin Carr, Leon Fleisher and William Preucil. A native of Northampton, Massachusetts, Erin Keefe earned a master of music degree from The Juilliard School and a bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music. Her teachers included Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, Philipp Naegele, Brian Lewis, and Teri Einfeldt. She and her husband, cellist Andrey Tchekmazov, live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Cynthia Phelps (viola, Chamber Players) See Ms. Phelps' biography above.

Ronald Thomas (cello, Chamber Players) See Mr. Thomas' biography above.

Joshua Ranz (clarinet, Chamber Players) is principal clarinet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He originally joined the orchestra in 1999 as second clarinet, served as acting principal clarinet for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons and won the audition for principal clarinet in 2008. On LACO's 2008 European tour, Josh was featured prominently with mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova in performances of Mozart's aria from the opera La Clemenza di Tito, "Parto, ma tu ben mio," in LACO's concerts in the Italian city of Treviso; Hanover, Hamburg and Berlin in Germany; and in Paris, France. In December 2010, he performed the Copland Clarinet Concerto with LACO at Alex Theatre and Royce Hall. Josh is also a member of the Pacific Symphony, and in March 2006, he played principal clarinet on their European tour. He has filled in as principal for the LA Opera and Hollywood Bowl orchestras, as well as the New West, Santa Barbara and Santa Monica symphonies, and has performed with the San Diego and Colorado symphonies and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since 2004, Josh has performed regularly with the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, California serving as principal clarinet in the summer of 2011. He also performed as principal at the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, Oregon. In the summer of 2009, he performed in Maine for the Bay Chamber Concerts series with a roster of all-principal wind players from top orchestras around the country. He performed with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in western New York during the summers from 2001-09. He has performed with Chamber Music Palisades, Capitol Ensemble, Jacaranda and numerous other chamber music programs throughout Southern California. In addition to his performances, Josh has recorded with LACO and the Pacific Symphony and is active in the television and motion picture industry. He is prominently featured in LACO's 40th anniversary release in the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with music director Jeffrey Kahane as soloist. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1999, Josh was a member of the Honolulu and San Jose symphonies. He was a fellow and a faculty member of the Aspen Music School and Festival and a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has played recitals at the International Clarinet Association Convention and has performed with the New York Woodwind Quintet at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Josh is on faculty at Biola University. Originally from New York, Josh attended Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He went on to receive his Bachelor's degree at Harvard College, majoring in music composition and analysis. He then received his Master of Music at the Yale School of Music, where he studied with David Shifrin. Josh and his wife, oboist Lelie Resnick, have two sons, Jonah, born in October 2006, and Nathan, born in November 2009.

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Erin Keefe (violin, Chamber Players) See Ms. Keefe's biography above.

Frank Huang (violin, Chamber Players) First Prize Winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition, Frank Huang has established a major career as a violin virtuoso. At the age of eleven, he performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in a nationally broadcast concert and has since performed with orchestras throughout the world, including the Cleveland Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Saint-Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Hannover, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra and the Genoa Orchestra. He has performed on NPR's Performance Today, Good Morning America and CNN's American Morning with Paula Zahn. Mr. Huang's first commercial recording, comprised of Fantasies by Schubert, Ernst, Schoenberg and Waxman, was released on Naxos in the fall of 2003. He has had great success in competitions since the age of fifteen with top prize awards in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Indianapolis International Violin Competition. He also received Gold Medal Awards in the Kingsville International Competition, the Irving M. Klein International Competition and the D'Angelo International Competition. Recent concerts include debuts in Wigmore Hall, (London) Salle Cortot, (Paris) Kennedy Center, (Washington) Herbst Theatre, (San Francisco) and also his second recital in Alice Tully Hall (New York), which featured the world premiere of Donald Martino's Sonata for Solo Violin. In addition to his solo career, Mr. Huang is deeply committed to chamber music. He has attended the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia's Steans Institute, The Seattle Chamber Music festival, and the Caramoor Festival, and frequently participates in Musicians from Marlboro tours. He was also selected by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be a member of the prestigious Chamber Music II program. Before joining the Houston Symphony, Mr. Huang held the position of first violinist of the GrammyR Award-winning Ying Quartet and was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Huang began his tenure as concertmaster of the Houston Symphony in 2010, and is also on the faculty at Rice University and the University of Houston. He teaches during the summers at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Texas Music Festival, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea. Mr. Huang performs in a trio with pianist Gilles Vonsattel and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, and also serves as the concertmaster and leader of the Sejong Soloists, a conductorless chamber orchestra based in New York.

Mark Holloway (viola, Chamber Players) is an active chamber and orchestral musician, both within the United States and abroad. He received his diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Michael Tree, and a B.M. Summa cum laude from Boston University. Notable festival appearances include the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia, Music from Angel Fire, Sarasota, Banff, and Taos. Mr. Holloway was principal violist of the New York String Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center orchestra, and was a member and guest principal violist of the Portland Symphony (Maine) and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He has played at Bargemusic, New York's 92nd Street Y, live on Boston's WGBH, on National Public Radio's "Performance Today", and with the Boston Symphony, Boston Musica Viva, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He currently plays as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, and the American Symphony, where he has appeared as principal violist. Hailed as an "outstanding violist" by the American Record Guide, Mr. Holloway has appeared at Caramoor, with the Boston Chamber Music Society, Richmond Festival of Music, Festival Mozaic, Jupiter Chamber Players, Concordia Chamber Players, and the Brandenburg Ensemble. Later this summer he will return to the International Musicians' Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, Musique de Chambre à Giverny, in Normandy, France, and Musikdorf Ernen, in Switzerland. He is a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two.

Ronald Thomas (cello, Chamber Players) See Mr. Thomas' biography above.

Yao Zhao (cello, Chamber Players) principal cello of the San Diego Symphony, is one of the youngest Chinese principal cellists of a major symphony orchestra in the world. Zhao also dedicates himself to the education of youth in the arts by teaching at the Idyllwild Arts, and Idyllwild Arts Summer Festival, where he is an alumnus. Since winning a top prize of the First Chinese National Cello Competition in 1987, Mr. Zhao has been a finalist in more than a dozen competitions, awards and honors. He was hailed in the New York Concert Review as "a superb cellist with intense and sensuous sound," and described by the Los Angeles Times as "being able to handle the most intricate musical works with unblinking ease and expressive zeal," Mr. Yao Zhao performs with a rare and captivating dynamism that has already secured him a successful career as an artist. Zhao is a busy musician, performing more than one hundred and seventy concerts per season at renowned concert halls in more than 40 cities around the world. Some of these have included Konzarthaus in Vienna, KKL in Lucerne, Gasteig in Munich, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Esplanade in Singapore, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He has frequently been invited to perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, and the Shanghai Festival Orchestra. Some of his summer festival appearances have included the Grand Teton Festival and the Ojai Music Festival and the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea and Japan. His successful solo debut at the Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall is one of his career highlights. His achievements and generous contributions to music performance and education have been recognized and highly commended by the City of Los Angeles. Born in Beijing, Mr. Zhao began his studies on the cello and piano at the age of four under the instruction of his father, a distinguished cellist. He made his first concert appearance at the age of five, and solo debut in the Beijing Concert Hall at age nine. That same year, he was also accepted to the China Central Conservatory of Music. Mr. Zhao was personally chosen by the renowned pedagogue Professor Eleonore Schoenfeld to venture to the United States and continue his education on full scholarships at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in 1991.

Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2013 Biographies

Maestro David Atherton (Founder and Music Director) studied music at Cambridge University where his operatic conducting aroused much interest from the national press. In 1967 Sir Georg Solti invited him to join the music staff of the Royal Opera House, London, and the following year, at the age of 24, he became the youngest conductor ever to appear there. In his twelve years as Resident Conductor he gave over 150 performances with Covent Garden, including a highly successful visit to La Scala, Milan. As a guest conductor he returns there frequently, his most recent engagements having been new productions of operas by Ravel, Stravinsky and Meyerbeer. Other recent performances include Tosca, Wozzeck and Salome for Canadian Opera, The Makropulos Case (in New York) and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and many new productions for English National Opera including Turandot, The Love for Three Oranges, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Peter Grimes and Billy Budd, a work he has championed with the San Francisco and Metropolitan Operas. He returns to the Met on a regular basis having also conducted The Barber of Seville, Peter Grimes and new productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Death in Venice. David Atherton was co-founder of the London Sinfonietta in 1967 and as its Music Director, gave the first performance of many important contemporary works. The Sinfonietta, widely regarded as one of the world's leading chamber orchestras, has made countless recordings with him, including highly praised collections of works by Schoenberg, Janacek and Weill. His work in the recording studio has gained an Edison Award, many Grammy Award nominations and the sought-after Grand Prix du Disque. He has also been honoured with the Serge Koussevitsky Critics' Award and the Prix Caecilia. Of his recording of Tippett's opera King Priam, for which he was given the coveted International Record Critics' Award, generally regarded as the world's top recording prize, the composer wrote in his autobiography: "Some artists will show insight into my vision: an example would be David Atherton's conducting... But then, Atherton is a conductor of genius." He became the youngest conductor in the history of the BBC's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and subsequently appeared in thirty contiguous seasons. He travels widely, in particular to the USA where he regularly visits the leading North American orchestras, notably those in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Montreal, New York, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. Other recent engagements have taken him to Australia and Japan as well as to the Czech Republic (to open the Prague Spring Festival), Sweden, Finland, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy and Germany (to open the Berlin Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra). From 1980 to 1987 he was Music Director of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and he returns to California each summer to direct the Mainly Mozart Festival, which he founded in 1989. He has also held titled positions with the BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, as well as devising and conducting festivals in London featuring the complete works of Ravel, Stravinsky, Webern and Varèse with the London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera House. From 1989 David Atherton was the Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. On his retirement from this position in 2000 and in recognition of his services to the music of Hong Kong, he was awarded the OBE and made the orchestra's Conductor Laureate.

William Preucil (Founding Concertmaster Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) became concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra in April 1995 and has appeared regularly as a soloist with the Orchestra in concerto performances at both Severance Hall and the annual Blossom Festival. Prior to joining The Cleveland Orchestra, Mr. Preucil served for seven seasons as first violinist of the Grammy-winning Cleveland Quartet, performing more than 100 concerts each year in the world's major music capitals. Telarc International recorded the Cleveland Quartet performing the complete cycle of Beethoven's 17 string quartets, as well as a variety of chamber works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms. From 1982 to 1989, William Preucil served as concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, after previously holding the same position with the orchestras of Utah and Nashville. During his tenure in Atlanta, he appeared with the Atlanta Symphony as soloist in 70 performances of 15 different concertos. Composer Stephen Paulus's Violin Concerto was written for, and dedicated to, Mr. Preucil, who premiered it and then recorded it for New World Records with the Atlanta Symphony and conductor Robert Shaw. Mr. Preucil also has made solo appearances with the symphony orchestras of Detroit, Hong Kong, Minnesota, Rochester, and Taipei. Mr. Preucil regularly performs chamber music, as a guest soloist with other orchestras, and at summer music festivals. His North American festival performances have included Santa Fe, Sarasota, Seattle, and Sitka, with international appearances in France, Germany, and Switzerland. Each summer, he serves as concertmaster and violin soloist with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra in San Diego. Mr. Preucil also continues to perform as a member of the Lanier Trio, whose recording of the complete Dvorák piano trios was honored as one of Time magazine's top 10 compact discs for 1993. The Lanier Trio also has recorded the trios of Mendelssohn and Paulus for Gasparo Records. Actively involved as an educator, Mr. Preucil serves as Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and at Furman University. He previously taught at the Eastman School of Music and at the University of Georgia. William Preucil began studying violin at the age of five with his mother, Doris Preucil, a pioneer in Suzuki violin instruction in the United States. At 16, he graduated with honors from the Interlochen Arts Academy and entered Indiana University to study with Josef Gingold (former concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra). He was awarded a performer's certificate at Indiana University and also studied with Zino Francescatti and György Sebök.

Nathan Hughes (Principal Oboe, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) he is Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and is a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School. He previously served as principal oboe of the Seattle Symphony and as associate principal oboe of the San Francisco Symphony. In addition, Hughes has performed as guest principal oboe of the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics as well as the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Baltimore. A prolific chamber musician, Hughes has performed with the Met Chamber Ensemble as well as with the Philadelphia and Seattle Chamber Music Societies. He has also made appearances at the Aspen, Bridgehampton, Lucerne, Marlboro, Salzburg, Santa Fe, Sarasota, Spoleto, and Tanglewood festivals. As a soloist, Hughes has been featured in numerous concertos with orchestras such as the Seattle Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Mainly Mozart Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Orchestra, and Verbier Festival Orchestra. He holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. The Seattle Times praised Nathan Hughes' "beautiful tone and perfectly judged flowing phrases."

Anthony McGill (Principal Clarinet, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) has quickly earned the reputation of being one of classical music's finest solo, chamber and orchestral musicians. The Chicago Tribune remarked on Anthony McGill's "splendid technique," noting that "the audience gave McGill a prolonged standing ovation, richly deserved." Before joining the MET Orchestra in 2004, he served as associate principal clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for four years. With the MET Orchestra, McGill frequently performs in Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium, as well as Zankel and Weill Halls with the MET Chamber Ensemble. He can be seen and heard on the Live in HD broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera. He is principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. On January 20th 2009, McGill performed "Air and Simple Gifts" by John Williams with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. In 2000, McGill was a winner of the highly prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and has also appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and The Curtis Orchestra. This season he will appear with the Peabody Orchestra, The New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. As a distinguished chamber musician, McGill has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, Sarasota Festival, La Musica, Tanglewood, Music@Menlo, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Festival and the Interlochen Music Festival. He is also a member of the newly formed Schumann Trio with violist Michael Tree and pianist Anna Polonsky. McGill has collaborated with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman and Gil Shaham, as well as world-renowned string quartets including the Guarneri, Tokyo, Shanghai, Miami, Miró and Daedalus quartets. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a chamber and orchestral musician with artists including the Brentano String Quartet, Musicians from Marlboro, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mitsuko Uchida, Marina Piccinini and Barbara Sukova. McGill has appeared on Performance Today, NPR's St. Paul Sunday, Ravinia's Rising Star Series, on the Mr. Roger's Neighborhood television show and at Lincoln Center as a member of Chamber Music Society Two. McGill attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Curtis Institute of Music. His former teachers include Donald Montanaro, Richard Hawkins, Larry Combs, Julie DeRoche, David Tuttle and Sidney Forrest. In high demand as a teacher, McGill currently serves on the faculties of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music Precollege. In addition he has given master classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, University of Michigan, Stony Brook University, Temple University, UCLA, University of New Mexico and the Manhattan School of Music. McGill is a Leblanc and Rico Artist.

Whitney Crockett (Principal Bassoon, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Bassoon in April 2010 as one of Gustavo Dudamel's first appointments. He came to Los Angeles after 12 years as Principal Bassoon of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine. Prior to his work in New York, Crockett held the same position with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Earlier in his career, he held Principal Bassoon posts with the Florida Orchestra, the South Florida Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacionál of the Dominican Republic. As a soloist, Crockett has appeared with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the Bellingham Festival orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. He has performed regularly on the MET Chamber Players series at Carnegie Hall, and he has recorded, performed, and toured extensively with the New York Kammermusiker double reed ensemble. In recent summers Crockett has performed with the Super World Orchestra of the Tokyo Music Festival, as well as at the Bellingham Festival of Music, Instrumenta Oaxaca in Mexico, and the San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival. He has also appeared at the Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bridgehampton, and Cape Cod chamber music festivals. A respected pedagogue, Crockett serves on the faculties of the Juilliard and Manhattan schools of music, as well as the Académie de Verbier in Switzerland. He has also served on the faculty of McGill University and has given master classes at numerous institutions, including the Domaine Forget in Québec, the Curtis Institute, the Puerto Rico Conservatory, and many universities across the United States. A native of Miami, Whitney Crockett began his bassoon studies with Michael Finn and Luciano Magnanini. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Stephen Maxym.

Cynthia Phelps (Principal Viola, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) See Ms. Phelps' biography above.

Julie Landsman (Principal Horn, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) See Ms. Landsman's biography above.

Timothy Pitts (Principal Bass, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) has distinguished himself as one of the most versatile double bassists of his generation. As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, he has been heard in many of the world's greatest concert halls. Mr. Pitts' orchestral career began as a member of the Cleveland Orchestra after which he was appointed principal bass of the Houston Symphony, a position he held for seventeen years. Mr. Pitts also served as principal double bass of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra under the direction of John Williams. An active chamber musician, Mr. Pitts has appeared as a guest artist with Bay Chamber Concerts, the Mainly Mozart Festival, Boston Musica Viva, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and the Skaneateles Festival in New York as well as with the Los Angles Piano Quartet and the St. Lawrence, Jupiter, and Vermeer Quartets. He has collaborated with such artists as Menahem Pressler, Arnold Steinhardt, Christoph Eschenbach, Heinz Holliger, Robert McDuffie, and Roberto Diaz. As a member of the Houston Symphony Chamber Players, Mr. Pitts toured Germany and Japan, and appeared at Chicago's Ravinia Festival. Mr. Pitts has appeared as soloist with the Houston, Greenville, Savannah, Albany, and Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestras. In April of 2006, Mr. Pitts gave the United States premiere of John Harbison's Concerto for Bass Viol with Hans Graf conducting the Houston Symphony. A dedicated educator, Mr. Pitts has presented master classes at the National Orchestral Institute, the New World Symphony, Boston University, Indiana University, the Glen Gould School, and the Pacific Music Festival. His students can be found among the ranks of the world's finest ensembles. Formerly on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory, Mr. Pitts is currently a Professor of Double Bass at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. For three weeks each summer he teaches and performs at the Montecito Music Festival in Montecito, California. During the summer, he is on the artist faculty of the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, in residence at China's Central Conservatory of Music.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (Violin Soloist of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) is recognized for her electrifying performances, fearless interpretations and musical depth that have established her as one of the leading violinists of our time. After a triumphant first season as Music Director of the NEW CENTURY Chamber Orchestra (NEW CENTURY), Nadja leads this 19-member string orchestra in four subscription series for the 2009-10 season, including the world premier commission of Bolcom's Romanza violin concerto. On August 11, 2009, Nadja's record label, NSS Music, releases "Together," her first recording collaboration with NEW CENTURY. Nadja appears during the 2009-10 season as soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Austin Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and San Antonio Symphony. She is joined once again by pianist and collaborator Anne-Marie McDermott for recitals throughout the season. A powerful and innovative presence on the recording scene, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg started NSS Music in 2005. This record label continues to grow, with the most recent release being "Together," Nadja's first recording collaboration with NEW CENTURY. "Together" includes Impressions by Clarice Assad, which was given its world premiere by NEW CENTURY in 2008; Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, and Gershwin's Bess You Is My Woman Now from Porgy and Bess arranged for string orchestra, both with Nadja as soloist; and Bartók's Romanian Dances arranged for string orchestra. "Together" follows NSS Music's previous recording, "Originis Live from Brasil," released in April 2009, a recording which honors the Italian heritage of Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Brazilian heritage of her collaborators, guitarists Sérgio and Odair Assad. The NSS Music label also features Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg's "Merry" (a compilation of Christmas favorites, performed by Nadja and friends), "Nadja" (Tchaikovsky and Assad, violin concertos), "Live" (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Anne-Marie McDermott), as well as "Love, All That It Is" (NSS Music's first jazz album featuring The Clarice Assad Trio), Anne-Marie McDermott's "Bach" and John Cerminaro's "John Cerminaro, A Life of Music." Additionally, she has over twenty releases on the EMI and Nonesuch labels. Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg's exceptional artistry is paired with great musical intelligence which, along with her unique personality, have served her well in numerous environments-on camera, in a commercial for Signet Bank, hosting a Backstage/Live from Lincoln Center program for PBS, appearing in the PBS/BBC series The Mind, even talking to Big Bird on Sesame Street. She was the subject of the 2000 Academy Award-nominated film, Speaking In Strings, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Released in theaters nationwide and subsequently premiered on HBO's Signatures channel in 1999, this intensely personal documentary on her life is available on VHS and DVD through New Video. The CD of music from the film was released in 1999 by Angel/EMI. Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg has appeared on ABC's prime time comedy Dharma & Greg in 2001, and she has also been interviewed and profiled on CBS' 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II, and Sunday Morning; CNN's Newsstand; NBC's National News and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; A & E's Artist of the Week with Elliot Forrest; Bravo's Arts & Minds and The Art of Influence; PBS' Live from Lincoln Center, The Charlie Rose Show, and City Arts. On the publishing front, Nadja: On My Way, her autobiography written for children discussing her experiences as a young musician building a career, was published by Crown Books in 1989. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's professional career began in 1981 when she won the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. In 1983 she was recognized with an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 1988 was Ovations Debut Recording Artist of the Year. In 1999 she was honored with the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, awarded to instrumentalists who have demonstrated "outstanding achievement and excellence in music." In May of that same year, Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg was awarded an honorary Masters of Musical Arts from the New Mexico State University, the first honorary degree the University has ever awarded. An American citizen, Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome and emigrated to the United States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music. She later studied with Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School.

Anne-Marie McDermott (Piano Soloist of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) see Ms. McDermott's biography above.

Adam Neiman (Piano Soloist of the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) is hailed as one of the premiere pianists of his generation, praised for possessing a truly rare blend of power, bravura, imagination, sensitivity, and technical precision. With an established international career and an encyclopedic repertoire that spans nearly sixty concerti, Neiman has performed as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Belgrade, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Slovenia, Umbria, and Utah, as well as with the New York Chamber Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C. A highly-acclaimed recitalist, Neiman has performed in most of the major cities and concert halls throughout the United States and Canada. His European solo engagements have brought him to Italy, France, Germany, and Japan, where he made an eight-city tour culminating in his debut at Tokyo's Suntory Hall. An avid chamber musician, Neiman became a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II in 2004. He frequently participates in the major chamber music festivals of Belgrade, Caramoor, Croatia, Korea, Macedonia, Manchester, Montenegro, Moritzburg, San Diego, Seattle, Skaneateles, Telluride, Tokyo, Vail, Vancouver, as well as New York's Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players series. In addition to the Mainly Mozart Festival reengagements include concerts at the Moritzburg Festival in Germany, Seattle Chamber Music Festival (at both the Winter Interlude and Summer Festival), and the Telluride MusicFest. Clavier Magazine wrote, "Adam Neiman gave a performance that rivaled those of many artists on the concert stage today...his playing left listeners shaking their heads in disbelief." Two-time winner of Juilliard's Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Neiman received the Rubinstein Award upon his graduation in 1999, the same year in which he received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. He served on the chamber music faculty of the Manchester Music Festival in Vermont during the summers of 2009 and 2011, and he taught on the piano faculty of the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea in 2010.

Anton Nel (Piano Soloist, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra) See Mr. Nel's biography above.

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