Yuri Kim
MM and BM, Mannes College of Music. Professional studies, Mannes College of Music. Piano studies with Nina Svetlanova, Edward Aldwell, Vladimir Feltsman, and Alexander Edelman. Analysis with Carl Schachter. Chamber music with Felix Galimir.
Profile:
Soloist, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, New York Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Round Top Festival Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Buchon Philharmonic, Taipei National Philharmonic, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and International Sejong Soloists. Collaborations with conductors such as Yoel Levi, Heichiro Oyama, and Vladimir Feltsman.
Recitals at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Amnesty International at Mannes, and in Kuala Lumpur, under the auspices of his royal highness Sultan Salahuddin of Malysia. Appearances at Aspen Music Festival, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Round-Top Festival, Shendlee Music Festival, Merano Festival (Italy). Collaborations with pianists Oxana Yablonskaya, Vladimir Feltsman and David Oei, violinists Kyung Wha Chung and Victor Danchenko, cellist Suren Bagratuni, and regular concert partner of tenor Nils Neubert.
First prize, Virginia National Competition. Recipient, Artists International Distinguished Artists Award and Uris Brothers Foundation award. Solo and orchestral performances in the United States, Europe and Asia. Recorded for Well-Tempered Productions (National Public Radio Award). TV appearances on Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning feature on Channel 13’s City Arts and on NBC’s Today Show, as well as concert broadcasts on KBS in Korea. Radio appearances on NPR and WQXR, as well as in Korea, Malaysia and Russia. Keynote Speaker, 2009 Korea Daily News Education Symposium.
Taught at the New Paltz Piano Institute, Special Music School of America, Summit Music Festival, Festival de Musica Clasica in Puigcerda (Spain), Bizier Music Festival (France), and Duxbury Music Festival. Faculty, International Academy of Music (Italy and Russia), Burgos International Music Festival (Spain), and the Beethoven Institute at Mannes.
MM and BM, Mannes College of Music. Professional studies, Mannes College of Music. Piano studies with Nina Svetlanova, Edward Aldwell, and Vladimir Feltsman. Chamber music with Felix Galimir. Analysis with Carl Schachter. Faculty, Mannes College since 1999.
Irina Morozova
MM, Manhattan School of Music. Diploma, St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Diploma, Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music. Studies with Arkady Aronov and Vladimir Shakin.
Profile:
Solo appearances with South Carolina Symphony, Irving Symphony, New American Chamber Orchestra, Solano Symphony, and Berlin Radio Symphony. Recitals throughout the United States, Russia, and Europe. Top prize winner, San Antonio International Piano Competition, New Orleans International Piano Competition, Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, and Artists International Auditions. Faculty, Special Music School of America. Piano faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1997.
Jerome Rose
Graduate, Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School. Studies with Leonard Shure, Rudolf Serkin, and Adolph Baller.
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Grand prize winner, International Busoni Competition. Appeared with London Philharmonic, London Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic. Performances with Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, Vienna Symphony, and Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Soloist with Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Houston, Milwaukee, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. Has appeared with conductors Christian Thielemann, Robert Spano, Hans Vonk, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Sergiu Comissiona, and David Zinman. Fulbright Scholar in Vienna. Author of series For the Young Virtuoso. Recorded complete Schumann sonatas, Kreisleriana, Liszt concerti, complete Chopin ballades, and last three Beethoven sonatas for Monarch Classics; Chopin sonatas for Sony; and Schubert sonatas for Medici Classics. Has given master classes at schools worldwide, including Moscow Conservatory, Chopin Academy, Franz Liszt Academy, Munich Hochschule for Musik, and Toho Conservatory. Piano faculty, founder, and director, International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes, held every summer in New York City. Faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1995.
Victor Rosenbaum
MFA, Princeton University.
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Performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Russia at venues including Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Collaborations with artists including Leonard Rose, Arnold Steinhardt, Robert Mann, and Cleveland and Brentano String Quartets. Festival appearances include Tanglewood, Rockport, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Kfar Blum (Israel), and Musicorda. Recording of Schubert on Bridge Records. Presenter of master classes and lectures on pedagogy and interpretive analysis. Faculty of New England Conservatory of Music (chair of Piano Department for more than ten years), Longy School of Music (director and president, 1985-2001), International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College, Musicorda. Faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 2004.
Phone Number/Extension:
617-254-9956
Thomas Sauer
BM, The Curtis Institute. MM, Mannes College of Music. DMA, City University of New York. Studies with Jorge Bolet, Edward Aldwell, and Carl Schachter.
Profile:
Recording for Musical Heritage Society, Musicians Showcase Recordings. Member, Mannes Trio. Collaborations with Midori, Misha Amory, Colin Carr, and the Brentano and Juilliard Quartets. Appearances at Lincoln Center, Library of Congress, Princeton University, Yale University, Oxford University, and Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels) and with Berlin Philharmonic. Piano faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1993.
Ju-Ying Song
DMA, MM, The Juilliard School; BA in Music and BS in Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University. Principal teachers: Jerome Lowenthal, Jean-François Antonioli, and Alexei Golovine.
Piano, Chamber Music, Artistic Advisor for Chamber Music
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Numerous awards include Pro Piano Artist of the Year, Pro Musicis International Award, Grand Prize at Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition, $25,000 Christel Award from American Pianists Association, Sudler Prize for outstanding achievement in the arts from Stanford University, and Petschek Award, Juilliard’s highest honor awarded to a pianist. Has appeared in concert in New York at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall in Mostly Mozart Festival; in Paris at Théâtre de l’Athénée and Salle Cortot; in Washington, D.C., at National Gallery and Kennedy Center; and in Taipei at Taipei National Concert Hall. Performed Mexican premiere of Clara Schumann’s piano concerto on four days’ notice. Discography on the Pro Piano label includes a recording of Debussy's etudes, awarded a Diapason d’Or in France and named as a "desert island selection" by Gramophone magazine; works by Liszt and Busoni; and premieres of works by the Argentine composer Ezequiel Viñao. Her recording of piano music by Jiang Wenye was selected by celebrated film director Hou Hsiao-Hsien for his movie Café Lumière, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Taught at Oberlin Conservatory and Hunter College. Master classes in France, Taiwan, and the United States. Currently artistic director of Classics Abroad’s summer Paris Piano Program at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. Faculty, Mannes College, since 1999.
Phone Number/Extension:
212-842-8413
Nina Svetlanova
Studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Heinrich Neuhaus.
Profile:
Festival and masterclass appearances include Vienna and Salzburg (Austria); London and Bath (Gr.Britain); Weimar, Mannheim and Karlsruhe (Germany), Marienbad (Czech Republic); Kuhmo, Vasa and Suolahti (Finland); Barcelona and Girona; Newport Festival and Shandelee Music Festival (United States); as well as Israel, Thailand, Korea, and the Philippines. Has adjudicated international competitions in United States, Spain, and Korea. Appearances on WQXR. Recordings on the Melodia, Russian Disc, and Electrecord labels. Published music reviews for Russian Press in France, U.S., and Russia. Featured in Clavier magazine and in Piano Education Guide: The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA. Faculty, Catholic University, Washington DC, 1977-78; Manhattan School of Music since 1983. Piano Faculty, Mannes College of Music since 1976.
Profile:
First prize, Claude Debussy International Piano Competition, France, and International Piano Competition of Senigallia, Italy. Performances in Europe, the United States, and eastern Asia. Major festivals include Spoleto, Italy; Mai Musical in Bordeaux, France; and Salzburg Festival, Austria. Has recorded for RCA, Koch International, Arcadia, Elan, and Gega New. Piano faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1995.
BM, Moscow State Conservatory College, BA, SUNY at Purchase, MM, Mannes College of Music (Performance Prize, Concerto Competition winner). Piano studies with Richard Goode. Chamber music with Felix Galimir and Claude Frank. Composition with Robert Cuckson.
Profile:
Solo and orchestral performances in the United States, South America and Russia. Collaborations with Miro, Cavani, Cassat, Phedrus and Biava Quartets. Performances at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. Broadcasts on WNPR, WNYC, WCQS. Awards: Meet the Composer Foundation Commission 2000, ASCAP Annual Composition (1999 –2004). Recordings on Barbi Records. Pianist and Composer-in-Residence, Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, Asheville, NC. Artistic Director, Phoenix Chamber Music Series, NY. Piano Faculty, Mannes College The New School for Music, since 1999.
ETERI ANDJAPARIDZE
Email:
andjapae@newschool.edu
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Pianist Eteri Andjaparidze has performed on the world’s most prestigious concert series in solo and collaborative recitals and as guest soloist with major orchestras and leading conductors. Highlights of her international festival engagements as an artist and faculty have included Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, International Keyboard Festival and Institute in New York, Mannes College Yearlong Festival, NYU Summer Piano Intensive, Round Top Festival-Institute, PianoSummer at New Paltz, Los Angeles International Piano Symposium, Piano Festival Northwest, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Festival International de Colmar, Duszniki-Zdroj International Chopin Festival, White Nights, Russian Winter, Neuhaus Piano Festival, and Autumn Tbilisi Music Festival to name a few. Her discography on Naxos, Marco Polo, and Melodiya labels includes Grammy and Deutsche Schallplattenpreis nominated solo albums.
Andjaparidze is currently teaching on the piano faculties of Mannes College the New School for Music and NYU Steinhardt, and is Visiting Professor at Foshan Liu Shi-Kun Music & Art School in China. She has served as Head of the Keyboard Programs and Professor of Piano at DePaul University in Chicago, the State University of New York, the Moscow Tchaikovsky and Tbilisi State Conservatoires, and conducted master classes worldwide. A Steinway Artist, she is founder and artistic director of “The United Sounds of America” music festival and the AmerKlavier Studio, the first piano performance studio named to the International Steinway Artists roster.
Born to a musical family in Tbilisi, Georgia – her father, Zurab Andjaparidze, the leading tenor with the Bolshoi Opera and mother, pianist Yvetta Bachtadze, a student of Alexander Iokheles from Konstantin Igumnov’s piano lineage – Andjaparidze studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire with Vera Gornostaeva, a student of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus. She was the youngest participant to receive Fourth Prize at the Fifth Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow and the first Soviet pianist to win Grand Prix at the Montreal International Piano Competition. Her awards include the International Friendship Order, Georgian Order of Honor, and People's Artist of Georgia title.
JEREMY DENK
Email:
denkj@newschool.edu
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One of America’s most thought-provoking, multi-faceted, and compelling artists, pianist Jeremy Denk is the winner of a 2013 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year award. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and London, and regularly gives recitals in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, and throughout the United States.
In 2014-15, he launches a four-season tenure as an Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; makes debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra under Susanna Mälkki and the New York Philharmonic led by Esa-Pekka Salonen; appears as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony; and performs Bach concertos with Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London and on tour throughout the US. Future engagements also include his appearances at the BBC Proms, London's Wigmore Hall, and his recital debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In 2014 Denk served as Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival, for which, besides performing and curating, he wrote the libretto for a comic opera. The opera will be presented by Carnegie Hall in the 2014-15 season. To coincide with the release of his second Nonesuch Records album, Bach: Goldberg Variations, Denk opened the 2013-14 season with performances of the “Goldbergs” in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, and went on to perform them as part of the Barbican's season in London. The album reached number one on Billboard’s Classical Chart and was featured in “Best of 2013” lists by the New Yorker and the New York Times. Other season highlights included his return to Carnegie Hall with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, and appearances at the Tanglewood Festival playing the Goldberg Variations and with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Last Summer, he also appeared on tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra playing Bach.
Jeremy Denk has earned degrees from Oberlin College, Indiana University, and the Juilliard School. He lives in New York City, and his web site and blog are at jeremydenk.net.
SIMONE DINNERSTEIN
Email:
dinnersa@newschool.edu
www.simonedinnerstein.com
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American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. NPR reports, “She compels the listener to follow her in a journey of discovery filled with unscheduled detours . . . She’s actively listening to every note she plays, and the result is a wonderfully expressive interpretation.” The New York-based pianist gained an international following because of the remarkable success of her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which she raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many "Best of 2007" lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker.
The four solo albums Dinnerstein has released since then – The Berlin Concert (Telarc), Bach: A Strange Beauty (Sony), Something Almost Being Said (Sony), and Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias (Sony) – have also topped the classical charts. Dinnerstein was the bestselling instrumentalist of 2011 on the U.S. Billboard Classical Chart and was included in NPR’s 2011 100 Favorite Songs from all genres. In spring 2013, Simone Dinnerstein and singer-songwriter Tift Merritt released an album together on Sony called Night, a unique collaboration uniting classical, folk, and rock worlds, exploring common terrain and uncovering new musical landscapes. Dinnerstein was among the top ten bestselling artists of 2014 on the Billboard Classical Chart.
In February 2015, Sony Classical released Dinnerstein’s newest album Broadway-Lafayette, which celebrates the time-honored transatlantic link between France and America and includes Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Philip Lasser’s The Circle and the Child: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, written for Dinnerstein. The album was recorded with conductor Kristjan Järvi and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra by Grammy-winning producer Adam Abeshouse.
Dinnerstein’s performance schedule has taken her around the world since her triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in 2005 to venues including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and London's Wigmore Hall; festivals that include the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen, Verbier, and Ravinia festivals, and the Stuttgart Bach Festival; and performances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony.
Dinnerstein has played concerts throughout the U.S. for the Piatigorsky Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. She gave the first classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system when she played at the Avoyelles Correctional Center, and performed at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in a concert organized by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to her community, in 2009 Dinnerstein founded Neighborhood Classics, a concert series open to the public hosted by New York public schools which raises funds for the schools.
Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin. She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio. Simone Dinnerstein lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son. She is managed by Ekonomisk Mgmt and is a Sony Classical artist.
VLADIMIR VALJAREVIC
Email:
ValjareV@newschool.edu
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The critics have praised Vladimir Valjarevic for his “caressing legato,” “silk-on-velvet seductiveness” (Fanfare Magazine), “beautiful lyricism and . . . wide variety of tones and colorings, perceptively applied with care” (All Music Guide). He has also been called “an outstandingly responsive partner and superb tonalist” (The Strad). Some of Valjarevic’s solo and chamber performances include appearances at the National Center for the Performing Arts and Tsinghua University in Beijing, Sumida Triphony Chamber Hall in Tokyo, Leiszhalle in Hamburg, Conservatory Hall in Geneva, Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Berlin, Concert Hall ""Bulgaria"" in Sofia, Conservatory of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Manchester Music Festival in Vermont, the Southwest Virginia Festival for the Arts, French and Swiss Embassies in Washington, D.C. In New York, he has performed at Bargemusic, “Concerts at One” at Trinity Church, “Meet the Virtuoso” at the 92nd Street Y, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Yamaha Salon, The United Nations, and the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, among others. Committed to exploration of the contemporary repertoire, Valjarevic has worked under the direction of various composers and took part in numerous world premieres, including the compositions by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Dick Hyman with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra at the Southwest Virginia Festival for the Arts. In addition, he performed in the European premiere of Cage’s dance drama “Four Walls” in Berlin and then Hamburg. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has won numerous prizes at National Competitions in the former Yugoslavia as well as at the “Citta di Stresa” and “Citta di Marsala” International Competitions for the Young in Italy. He has recorded for Labor Records, Romeo Records, Centaur Records, and MSR Classics.
Valjarevic teaches piano at Mannes College The New School for Music (College, Prep, MannesNext divisions) and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. At Mannes Prep, he is the head of the piano department. He was the teaching assistant to Pavlina Dokovska for over a decade and still continues close collaboration with her, in teaching and performance. Valjarevic lectures on piano literature and piano pedagogy at both schools. He conducts piano master classes semi-annually under the auspices of Southwest Virginia Community College. In the summers, he serves on the piano and chamber music faculties at the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy in China, where he is the coordinator of the chamber music program. In addition, he teaches at the Round Top Festival in Texas, International Institute for Young Musicians in Kansas, “Pianophoria!” summer music festival at Hunter College and The Center for Musical Excellence (CME) Festival, both in New York City. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valjarevic received his initial music education in Tuzla as a student of Planinka Jurisic-Atic. He came to New York City on a scholarship from the Mannes College of Music, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors, garnering the Marian Marcus Wahl Performance Award at graduation. His principal teachers were Pavlina Dokovska and Vladimir Feltsman. Valjarevic received a doctoral degree from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he was a student of Susan Starr, and a recipient of the Saldarini Scholarship Award. Upon graduation, he was presented with the Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award for Excellence in Keyboard Studies. After winning a Fulbright Scholarship and Swiss Arts Government Grant, Valjarevic studied at the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland under the tutelage of Pascal Devoyon. While in Geneva, he received chamber music instruction from Jean Jacques Balet and clavichord lessons from Nicole Hostettler at the Centre de Musique Ancienne.
Website:
www.vladimirvaljarevic.com
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