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PIANO
Sam Armstrong, Pianist, has performed across Europe, Asia and North America as recitalist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist. He has performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (as part of New Masters Series), the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea and made his New York solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in January 2009, as winner of the Nadia Reisenberg Recital Award. He recently made his South American debut with performances of the Schumann Concerto with the National Symphony of Ecuador conducted by Emmanuel Siffert and will make his solo recital debut at the Wigmore Hall in London in 2010 as an award winner of the Kirckman Concert Society.
His performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio, French Television, Radio Suisse-Romande/Espace 2, Radio New Zealand, Radiofusau Portugesa and WQXR New York. He also performed as concerto soloist with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra Nacional do Porto in Portugal. He has been a top prizewinner in national and international competitions including the Beethoven Society of Europe Competition in London (2003) and the Porto International Piano Competition in Portugal (2004). He was also laureate of the Epinal International Piano Competition in France (2001) and was recently among the last six pianists in the prestigious Concours Clara Haskil (2007) in Switzerland.
Sam was invited to Ravinia's Steans Institute (Chicago) for two summers (2006 & 2007) and has also attended IMS Prussia Cove in Cornwall as a student and as a class pianist. He attended their Open Chamber Music Session this past September. Sam recently completed his studies at Mannes College of Music in New York where for four years he was the only student of Richard Goode. There he earned a Master's Degree and Professional Studies Diploma and was awarded the Newton Swift Piano Award upon graduation. He previously studied with Helen Krizos for several years in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music, and he also worked with John O’Conor in Dublin. He also performed in masterclasses with Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Murray Perahia, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Stephen Hough and Mstislav Rostropovich. Sam is very grateful for invaluable support he has received from Aldeburgh Residencies, the Philharmonia Orchestra/ Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, MBF Music Education Fund, Mannes College, the Wingate Foundation and the Goldsmith Foundation.
Lily Friedman, Music Director, piano, was a founding member of The New York Piano Trio, winner of Artists International Competition and awarded a debut performance at Carnegie’s Weill Hall. She has been a participant in the Marlboro Festival, the Orono,Maine Festival and has performed in a large variety of chamer ensembles throughout the metropolitan are and New England, as well as in France and the former Soviet Union. Among the more notable performances have been the entire Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin with New York Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova, and the entire Beethoven oeuvre for piano and cello with Juilliard professor Andre Emelianoff. She is co-founder and Music Director of Summertrios, a chamber music organization which offers four one week residential programs to adult amateur musicians. It has served thousands of amateur musicians as well as having provided intensive training in chamber music for dozens of young professionals. She holds a Masters Degree from The Juilliard School where she was a student of Beveridge Webster and an ABD in the Doctoral Program at Teachers College of Columbia University. Independently, she studied with Irma Wolpe, and chamber music with Menahem Pressler, Arthur Balsam, Isidore Cohen, Rudolf Serkin, and Joseph Fuchs. She has been a performing participant in the Menahem Pressler Master Classes for the past 14 years.
Efi Hackmey, piano, has appeared in the United States and Europe, including concerts in Weill Recital hall at Carnegie Hall; Weiner Saal Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria; and Hochschule fur Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, Germany. In his native Israel, Mr. Hackmey has performed at the Recanati Auditoriujm, Tel Aviv Musieum of Art; the Jerusalem Music Center; and in concerts presented by the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society in Eilat. He was featured on Israeli TV Channel 2, the most popular TV channel in Israel, and on the "Voice of Music" channel of the israeli National Public Radio.
Mr. Hackmey is currently on the piano faculty at DePauw University School of Music in Indiana. He has taught at Indiana University Jacobs School of music as Associate instructor of piano and music theory. Mr. Hackmey received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with distinction from Tel Aviv University. During his studies in Tel Aviv he won the second prize in the Tel Aviv University Piano Competition. He is currectly a doctoral candidate in piano performance at Indiana University. His main teachers were Menahem Pressler and Pnina Salzman. He also worked with renowned artists including Emmanuel Ax, Lazar Berman, Charles Rosen, Janos Starker, David Zinman and Jaime Laredo.
Maya Hartman, piano, completed her DMA at SUNY-Stony Brook where she studied with Gilbert Kalish. Previous studies were with Menahem Pressler and Edward Auer. Recent performances include solo recitals at Steinway and Merkin Halls in New York City and on the Dame Myra Hess live broadcast concert series in Chicago. In fall of 2009 she performed Elliott Carter's Dialogues (2003) for piano and chamber orchestra as well as Milton Babbitt's "3 compositions for piano" in a concert celebrating Mr. Babbitt's 90th birthday. Festival appearances include the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove in England, the Mannes Contemporary Festival in New York City, Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival at the Yale Summer School of Music, and Kneisel Hall in Maine. Ms. Hartman is on the faculty at SUNY-Stony brook and at the Lucy Moses School in New York City.
David Oei, piano, was a soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic at the age of nine and has since performed with major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore Symphonies.Mr. Oei is the winner of five Interlochen Concerto Competitions and the Concert Artists Guild, WQXR Young Artists, Young Musicians Foundation and Paul Ulanowsky Chamber Pianists Awards. A perennial fixture on the New York City chamber music scene he has made guest appearances with the Audubon Quartet, Claring Chamber Players, Da Capo Chamber Players, New York Philharmonic Ensembles, St. Luke’s and Orpheus Chamber Ensembles and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Founding director of the Salon Chamber Soloists and a founding member of the Aspen Soloists, Festival Chamber Music and the Intimate P.D.Q.Bach,he is currently a member of Friends of Mozart and the Elysium and Ecliptica Chamber Ensembles besides enjoying a longtime collaboration with violinist Chin Kim and a more recent duo with pianist Helene Jeanney. A former regular artist at Bargemusic and Chamber Music Northwest, he has performed at various festivals including Caramoor, Sitka, Bard, Gretna, Seattle, Chestnut Hill, Dobbs Ferry, OK Mozart, Washington Square and Kuhmo (Finland). Mr. Oei is an Affiliate Artist of Innovative Music Programs, a company that develops and implements creative ideas with people in the visual and performing arts the world over.
His television credits include Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, CBS News Sunday Morning and the Today Show. He has recorded a wide range of chamber works for Delos, ADDA, Vanguard, CRI, Pro Arte, Arabesque, Albany, Grenadilla and New World Records. Mr. Oei was the Music Director and Production Advisor for Music-Theatre Group’s productions of Stanley Silverman and Richard Foreman’s Africanis Instructus and Love and Science. He was also the Music Director for the Sundance Theatre Workshop production of the Wallace/Foreman opera Yiddisha Teddy Bears. In the summer of ’07, he conducted the Washington Square Festival Chamber Orchestra in a Gershwin/Weill concert titled Music as Political Statement and he recorded the Strauss and Rachmaninoff Sonatas for cello and piano to help launch the Festival Chamber Music label using CD-60, the Steinway Grand featured in James Barron’s bestseller Piano. A very special project was his recent recording with Lutz Rath of The Lay of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke by Viktor Ullman for piano and speaker. In February 2010, he will produce his first duo CD with violinist Eriko Sato titled Five Not So Easy Pieces on his new label Prestissimo.
A former affiliated teacher at SUNY Purchase and the Volunteers Coordinator and Head Coach for Manhattan Special Olympics, Mr. Oei is a faculty member at Summertrios, Bennington Chamber Music Conference, Hoff-Barthelson Music School and the Mannes College of Music. He recently became pianist of Alaria, Mannes Extension Division’s ensemble-in-residence which has offered the Chamber Music at Mannes program a Weill Recital Hall series for over two decades. Mr. Oei lives in NYC with his wife,violinist Eriko Sato, and their pit bull mix, Jazz. Please visit www.davidoei.weebly.com Read more at www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oei
Noam Sivan, piano, combines composition, piano performance, live improvisation, and conducting in his career. Mr. Sivan has appeared throughout North America, Europe, and his native Israel. His compositional output includes over 40 works in operative, symphonic, and chamber genres. These have been commissioned and performed by Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Choreographic Institute of the New York City Ballet, Mannes Opera, Canandaigua Lake Music Festival, Talamus Voices with members of the Israel Philharmonic and many others.
As a pianist, his repertoire ranges from Mozart concertos--with newly composed cadenzas--to the Viktor Ullmann Piano Concert, the Asian premiere of which he performed with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Mr. Sivan's own Piano Concerto, which he premiered in the double role of soloist and conductor. His performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations encored by an original improvisation on the piece was recorded for TV and broadcast on the New Israeli Cultural Channel.
Mr. Sivan is one of the young pioneers in the revival of improvisation in classical music today. His improvisations have been praised and supported by musicians such as Richard Goode, Robert Levin, Charles Neidich, and Carl Schachter, and have been noted by the press--The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and others. Born in 1978, Mr. Sivan holds degrees from the Jerusalem Academy and Mannes College. He is a faculty member at Mannes College and at the Curtis Institute, where he founded Improvisation Workshops, and is a doctoral fellow at the Juilliard School. For more information, read www.noamsivan.com
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VIOLIN
Tom Chiu, violin, is noted for his contributions to new music as a pioneering violinist and composer-improviser. He has performed over 100 premiers worldwide by influential composers such as Virko Baley, Alvin Lucier, Somei Satoh, and Elliott Sharp, among many others. He has also worked closely with master improvisers David Chesky, David First, Oliver Lake, and Ornette Coleman, with whom he appeared at the Walker Art Center in 2005. His discography includes recordings on the Cambria, Chesky, Innova, Koch, Mode, and Tzadik labels. As founder of the FLUX Quartet, Chiu has helped bring a "renaissance to string quartet music" (Kyle Gann, Village Voice). In a mixed-media context, Chiu has collaborated with choreographers Shen Wei and Christopher Wheeldon, legendary soprano Jessye Norman, sound/video artist Phill Niblock, conceptual balloon artist Judy Dunaway, and director Lee Breuer from avant guarde theater troupe Mabou Mines. His numerous film credits showcase his creative versatility: as composer/improviser (Boris), solo violinist (Jocasta, Last Winter), voice-over artist (Chandai Chowk to China), and actor (The Man with One Red Shoe, with Tom Hanks). Chiu holds degrees in music and chemistry from Yale, as well as a Doctorate from Juilliard.
Philip Coonce, violin, holds a Doctorate from the Manhatan School where he was a student of Raphael Bronstein. He studied chamber music with Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Josef Gingold. He is Associate Concert Master of Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico and has been Concertmaster of the Spoleto Festival.
Erin Keefe, violin, who's honors include winning the 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 200th Schadt Competition, and the 2004 Corpus Christi International String competition, as well as winning as Silver Medalist in the Carl Nielsen and Gyeongnam (Korea) International Violin competitions. During the 2006-2007 season she performed the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poland, The Bartok Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Allentown Symphony, and led a performance of the Dvorak Viola Quintet in the opening night program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Ms. Keefe has appeared with the Emerson String Quartet, Roberto and Andres Diaz, Edgar Meyer, Wu Han, Richard Goode, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalish, William Preucil, and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has recorded Schoenberg's Second String Quartet with ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry and Jennifer Welch-Babidge for the Naxos Label; and the Bartok Contrasts and Dvorak Piano Quintet for Deutsche Grammophone. She has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival, Musica Menlo, Music from Angel Fire, Ravinia and other festivals. She was recently a member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two program.
Ms. Keefe holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a B. M. degree from the Curtis Institute. Her teachers included Ronald Copes, Ida Kavafian, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Jonathan Keren, violin, is an award-winner from the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress (2007), a recipient of ASCAP's Young Composers Award Prize (2004) and scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in violin and composition (1997-2003). He recently acquired a Masters degree in composition from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Milton Babbit and Samuel Adler. Mr. Keren's works have been performed at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City; the Louvre Museum in Paris; the Berlin Philharmonic Hall; the Tel-Aviv Museum, Jerusalem Music Center and the Tel-Aviv Opera House. His music has been performed by such artists as cellist Lynn Harrell, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the New Juilliard ensemble, and others.
Mr. Keren began his studies as a violinist with Chaim Taub. He participated in music festivals as an active modern music and chamber musician. Currently living in New York City, he performs with a number of classical, early music, and folk music groups, and is a co-founder of La Mela Di Newton Baroque Trio. As a violinist he has performed at Alice Tully Hall and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Opera House in Tel-Aviv and Teatro Comunale Modena in italy.
Christopher Lee, violin, holds a doctorate SUNY at Stonybrook, Masters Juilliard, student of Nathan Milstein and Joseph Fuchs; teaching assistant for Isidore Cohen; teaching assistant to Henryk Szeryng; former concertmaster The New Jersey Symphony; BBC Symphonia, London; Spanish Symphony Orchestra; guest concertmaster The Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, New York New Music Consort; soloist under Stokowski, Fiedler, Hugh Wolff; premiered Aaron Copland’s “Ballades for Violin and Piano” with Leonard Bernstein, piano; representation by Columbia Artists Management, Inc.; founding violinist of The New York Piano Trio.
Timothy Peters, violin, received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and his Master of Music Degree from Rice University. An avid chamber musician, Timothy is currently 2nd Violinist of the Degas Quartet. With this ensemble, Timothy has performed at the Library of Congress (on the “Ward” Stradivarius) and on Charlotte, Raleigh, and Chicago Chamber Music Series. Timothy was previously 2nd Violinist of the Brutini String Quartet, which made appearances at Carnegie Hall in the Stern Auditorium, on the Schneider Concert Series at the New School, and was a prizewinner at the 1998 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Other recent chamber music performances include Chicago’s Jewel Box Series, the Kimmel Center appearance and Seattle University residency with the Young Eight Octet, a recital on the Austin Chamber Music Series, and an appearance with the Enso Quartet in Texas.
An equally avid orchestral musician, Timothy has performed with the Houston, San Diego, and San Antonio Symphonies, as well as the Houston and Sarasota Opera Orchestras. Timothy has made many festival appearances including Breckenridge, Swannanoa, the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Seminar, Musicorda, Chamber Music at the Barn, and as Concertmaster at the Spoleto and National Orchestral Institute Festivals.
Timothy currently resides in Houston, Texas. His teachers have included William Preucil, David Updegraff, Kenneth Goldsmith, and James Buswell.
Emily Popham, violin, has been a featured soloist with the Starling Chamber Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indiana University. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Ravinia, Taos and Kneisel Hall Music Festivals and has participated in the Keshet Eilon Violin Mastercourse and the Prussia Cove International Musicians Seminar. Currently a pupil of Sylvia Rosenberg at Manhattan School of Music, Emily completed degrees from Indiana University and The Juilliard School. Previous teachers include Miriam Fried and Robert Mann. She was awarded the 1st Balsam Prize for Duos at Manhattan School of Music and performed with the MSMM Orchestra as winner of the Concerto competition.
Yuval Waldman, violin, (also conductor) made his debut as a solo violinist at the age
of 8. He gave his Carnegie Hall Debut in 1969 as winner of Jeunesses Musicales – Carnegie Hall International Competition. A graduate of The Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and The Juilliard School, he has performed worldwide as a violinist, conductor and chamber player. He is founding Music Director of the Madeira Bach Festival in Portugal and the Jefferson Music Festival at Kennedy Center; and principal conductor the New American Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded for Sony, Omega, Newport Classic and Angel Records.
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VIOLA
Amir Shiff, viola, was Principal Violist of the Philharmonia Hungarica of Germany; he has performed as soloist in Moscow’s “Great Hall”, in South Korea; in Germany, Israel, the Baltic States and the United States. He is the dedicatee of numerous compositions including Jan Rdzynski’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. He graduated from the New England Conservatory and was a student of Dorothy DeLay. He is an active teacher of violin/viola in his Englewood, NJ studio.
Kimberly Foster Wallace, viola, represents a new definition of classical musician in the 21st century through her creation of a portfolio career. As musician and educator,, she stresses creative career building that combines performance and entrepreneurial skills, and promotes this broad definition of career development through her own example. She is a strong advocate of rarely performed solo and chamber works featuring the viola, and strives to broaden the concert repertoire of the viola as a solo instrument. As entrepreneur, she has started her own businesses including a successful private teaching studio in Monmouth County, New Jersey, has organized and promoted her own recitals throughout New York City, and is currently developing a program to teach entrepreneurial skills to college music students.
Her performance career has led her through the Minnesota Orchestra and Albany Symphony, a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, and though orchestral tours of Japan and Russia. She is a dedicated soloist and chamber musician, and has performed as guest artist with the American and Elysium Chamber Ensembles, and most recently with the Alaria Chamber Ensemble at Weill Recital Hall. Other chamber music performances have been featured on international tours and also nationally on National Public Radio’s Performance Today series.
A passionate teacher and chamber music coach, Ms. Wallace is a faculty member of Summertrios, the Princeton Chamber Music Playweek and Monmouth University’s Summer String IN, where she coaches amateur chamber music enthusiasts during the summer session.. Through her multi-directional career path, Ms. Wallace hopes to serve as a catalyst for change and innovation by helping to redefiene music education within the musical community at large.
A native of Portland, Oregon, Ms. Wallace began her musical studies at the age of six.She studied with Geogre Taylor at the Eastman School of Music, and was granted a full scholarship to study with Jesse Levine at the Yale School of Music. Upon graduating from Yale, she was honored as the first recipient of the Georgina Lucy Grosvenor Prize. She lives with her husband, Ted, and Golde Doodle, Jasper, in New Jersey.
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CELLO
James J. Cooper III, cello, attended The Curtis Institute of Music as a student of David Soyer and Peter Wiley. He is Principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra as substitute cello. He also participates in the Philadelphia Chamber Music Series and the Post Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music cooncerts. He is principal cellist of The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra which has performed across Europe and in many South American countries. He has performed solo on the chamber music series at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Andrew Kim, cello, received M.M. from Yale University; teachers Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker and YoYo Ma; study with Tokyo, Juilliard, Cleveland and Emerson string quartets. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Mr. Kim was invited to study with Heidi Litchauer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria in 1975. In 1978, he came to the United States to study with the world famous cellist Aldo Parisot at Yale University. Upon graduating from Yale University, he became a member of the rising Essex Quartet which performed extensively throughout North America under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management. As an active chamber musician, Mr. Kim has collaborated with artists Alexander Schneider, Emanuel Ax, Joseph Kalichstein, Stanley Drucker, Lily Friedman, Ani Kavafian, and string quartets including the Tokyo, Cleveland, Emerson and Juilliard. He served as a teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard String Quartet and The Juilliard School and as a chamber music faculty member at the Arcady, Palisades Arts, Bay View and Summertrois Music Festivals.
Robert LaRue, cello, is a member, New York City Opera Orchestra at Lincoln Center. First Prize Winner, National Society of Arts and Letters Cello Competition (Mstislav Rostropovitch, jury chairman). Formerly, cellist of New England String Quartet: currently, member of Seraphim (contemporary music ensemble). Graduate of Curtis Institute, New England Conservatory, Juilliard School; also attended Indiana University School of Music. Teachers included Soyer, Greenhouse, Lesser, Starker, Tsutsumi, Parisot; chamber music with Mischa Schneider (Budapest Quartet), Felix Galimir, Menahem Pressler and Bernard Greenhouse (Beaux Artes Trio), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet), Rostislav Dubinsky (Borodin Quartet), Samuel Sanders.
Karlos Rodriguez, cello, made his solo orchestral debut at the age of thirteen to critical acclaim. He has since been an avid recitalist and chamber musician appearing at many of our important musical venues including Carnegie Hall (Isaac Stern Auditorium), Merkin Concert Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and Radio City Music Hall (Christmas Spectacular). Mr. Rodriguez has also had the honor of working with distinguished artists such as the Beaux Arts Trio, American, Cavani, Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, Miami, Orion, Tokyo, and Vermeer String Quartets; Janos Starker, Lynn Harrell and Steven Isserlis. His teachers have included Richard Aaron, Peter Wiley, and David Soyer. Karlos has also been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Irene Muir performance prize, Richard Lowellberg cello award, State award, Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation prize, Sphinx Competition and a William Randolph Hearst scholarship.
A love of dance paired with live music has led to his collaboration with the Thomas/Ortiz Dance Company, Freefall, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Chita Rivera. Karlos has attended and been a guest artist at the ENCORE School for Strings, Sarasota, Aspen, and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals, Cleveland Chamber Music Society, and the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Society. As a teacher he is on the faculty at Summertrios, the Sphinx Performance Academy-Walnut Hill School, and the Schneider Series-New York String Seminar. Mr. Rodriguez is the co-founder and Music Director of the Amagansett Chamber Music Festival and was recently featured by Hispanic International Television in an interview profiling a new generation of classical musicians. Having completed the national tour of CHITA RIVERA ‘The Dancer’s Life’, he is currently working on the Broadway productions of “Mary Poppins” and “The Little Mermaid” and is a member of the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra.
Brian Snow, cello, is a doctoral student in music at SUNY Stonybrook where he studies with Colin Carr. He has appeared as a soloist with the Crescent City Symphony (New Orleans), the Hartt Symphony and the Longy Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with Ricardo Morales, David Jolley, Christina Dahl and the Emerson String Quartet, and has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Taos Festival and others. He is first prize winner in the Paranov competition, the Denison Performing Arts Competition and the Emerson String Quartet Competition. He is a member of the New Haven Symphony, Orchestra New England, and principal cellist of the Waterbury Symphony.
Andrey Tchekmazov, cello, is a Grand Prize winner of the Vittoria Gui International Chamber Music Competition in Florence and Premio Trio de Trieste in Trieste, as well as Premio della Critica in Italy. Mr. Tchekmazov has performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Russia and Asia. His appearances include the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Osaka Symphony Hall in Japan, Brazil’s Sala San Palo, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall, etc.
Among his other prizes and awards are the Koussivitzky Competition, Stadt, and the Russian National Competition in Moscow. As a frequent performer with the Jupiter Chamber Players and Lyric Chamber Music Society in New York, and at the Phillips Collection in Washington, Andrey Tchekmazov has “impressed his audiences with big, warm tone and…Russian brand of virtuosity”-Strad, London-New York.