President | Jungeun Kim
A native of Seoul, Korea, pianist Jung Eun Kim has garnered acclaim from international audiences and critics alike for her outstanding performances, earning praised for her impressive combination of virtuoso technique and colorful musicality. As a winner of the Artists International Special Presentation Award, she made her New York recital debut in September 2001 at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall receiving highest acclaim.
Kim has participated in major international festivals, including the Mozarteum Music Festival in Salzburg and The Juilliard Festival in New York, and has performed at the Austrian Young Artists Concert in Austria. Her solo and chamber music engagements have included performances at prestigious venues such as Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, as well as concert venues in Europe and in Korea. >>more
Violinist Wei Tan holds the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where studied was under the tutelage of Stanley Bednar. She has also studied with Joey Corpus, and Weigang Li of the Shanghai String Quartet. As a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Tan has performed regularly in the United States as well as in China, Norway, Iceland, and Austria. She made her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in 2002.
Born into a family of musicians in Shanghai, Ms. Tan began her violin studies at the age of three with her father, Guo-Zhang Tan, and grandfather, Shu-Chen Tan. Her grandfather was a renowned violinist, an influential educator, and held the position of Deputy Director of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music between 1949-1984. At age thirteen, she made her public debut in a live concert performing Lalo Symphonie Espagnole as soloist on the Shanghai Radio Station. >>more
Solomon Mikowsky's students have won over 150 international piano competitions, including the Rubinstein in Tel-Aviv (three winners including 1st prize), Tchaikovsky and Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow, Van Cliburn (Special Award), Beethoven in Bonn (1st prize), Schumann in Leipzig (1st prize), Dublin, Vianna da Motta (two winners), Porto (two winners), Andorra (four winners including two 1st prizes), China International Competition (two winners), Panama (nine winners including three 1st prizes), Vina del Mar in Chile, Montreal (two winners), Cleveland, New Orleans (1st prize), Naumburg, Minnesota E-Competition (two winners), Hilton Head, World Competition in Cincinnati (three winners including 1st prize), Chopin Kosciuszko in New York (ten winners including eight 1st prizes), and more than twenty-five winners of the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition. >>more
Born into a family of well-known musicians in Shanghai, Weigang Li began studying the violin with his parents at the age of five and attended the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at age fourteen. Three years later, in 1981, he was selected to go to study for one year at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music through the first cultural exchange program between the sister cities of Shanghai and San Francisco. In 1985, upon graduating from the Shanghai Conservatory, Weigang Li left China again to continue his studies at Northern Illinois University and later studied and taught at the Juilliard School as teaching assistant to the Juilliard Quartet. Besides his parents, Mr. Li's teachers have included Shmuel Ashkenasi, Tan Shu-Chen and Isadore Tinkleman. >>more
American born conductor and violist, Amédée Williams has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Ireland, and Italy. He has been a participant in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute and was featured on a Young Artist Concert Series presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. nbsp; Mr. Williams is the author of Lillian Fuchs: First Lady of the Viola, a biography of a musician who was one of his teachers, and has contributed several articles for the new edition of the Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is one of the foremost experts on Eichner in America. Mr. Williams serves as president of The William Lincer Foundation and is also on the faculty of both Scarsdale High School and the Hoff-Barthelson School of Music. >>more
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