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Anthony Aibel
Anthony Aibel is known for excelling in many
diverse areas of the arts. He is active
professionally as a writer, editor, teacher,
conductor, instrumentalist and composer. He is the
Managing Editor and a writer for New York Concert
Review, and he has been published in The New York
Times. Mr. Aibel was the conductor for the
Grammy-nominated recording Area 31. He regularly
guest-conducts The Los Angeles Youth Orchestra, and
he is the founder and director of The Bands of New
York in Manhattan, an after school music program
where he works regularly as teacher, performer and
composer. Mr. Aibel was the conductor for the
10,000th concert of the National Symphony Orchestra
at The Kennedy Center, and he was the
founder/conductor of The Mentoring Orchestra, a
group that combined members of the New York
Philharmonic with talented young musicians. Mr.
Aibel made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut at the
age of 21, and he is the only Juilliard graduate to
have had three majors in music.
Howard Aibel
Howard Aibel, a winner of the Busoni and Naumburg
Awards, has given Master Classes and performed
worldwide. He has made several recordings and
has taught at the North Carolina School of the
Arts and Juilliard.
Barrett Cobb
Mezzo-soprano Barrett Cobb has performed as
soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra,
the National Chorale, the Sine Nomine Singers and
Baroque Orchestra, the AIMS Orchestra, and the
Orchester Landesteater Dessau. Opera roles she has
performed include Azucena, (Il Trovatore), Dryade, (Ariadne
auf Naxos), Marcellina, (Le Nozze di Figaro), Marthe,
(Faust) and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) Her singing
has been described by Bernard Holland in the New
York Times as “deeply moved and moving.”
Ms. Cobb has served as principal flutist with
numerous orchestras, including The Jupiter Symphony,
The American Chamber Orchestra, The Royal Winnipeg
Ballet Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfonica de
Colombia. She was a founding member of the Quintet
of the Americas, with whom she performed extensively
under the auspices of Columbia Artists. She has
appeared as soloist in concerti with the Westchester
Chamber Orchestra, The American Chamber Orchestra,
the Nashville Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfonica
de Colombia, among others. Ms. Cobb holds a Bachelor
of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a
Master of Musical Arts Degree from Yale University.
Edith Eisler
Edith Eisler, violinist, teacher and chamber music
coach, also writes regularly for Strings Magazine,
E-Pulse, Andante.com and Amazon.com.
Timothy Gilligan
Timothy Gilligan has written for various
newspapers and The Piano Quarterly magazine. He is a
pianist and was a founding member of the Rosamunde
Chamber Players as well as an artistic administrator
for both orchestras and opera companies. He started
Timothy Gilligan Artists Management in 1993.
Harris Goldsmith
Harris Goldsmith is a pianist, and he has written
for many major publications including The New
York Post, Musical America, Hi-Fidelity, Opus
and Strad.
David La Marche
David La Marche is conductor and Music Administrator
for American Ballet Theatre. He is also an active
pianist and composer and has recently premiered
a song cycle for soprano based on texts of Edna
St. Vincent Millay.
Harry Saltzman
Harry Saltzman is one of those rare native New
Yorkers who has spent his entire creative life in
the city of his birth. In 1962, after earning his MA
in musicology from the University of California at
Berkeley, he returned to New York and joined the
faculty of Brooklyn College. During his 37 years at
the college, Professor Saltzman conducted the
College Chorus, Chorale, Chamber Chorus, Collegium
Musicum, and the Conservatory Orchestra. In 1968 he
founded the Sine Nomine Singers, a chamber chorus
that was in the forefront of the early music
movement. Allen Hughes of the NY Times said: “If
there is any chorus in New York that can sing
Renaissance music as well as the Sine Nomine
Singers, this listener is not aware of it.” Their
recordings appear on the Turnabout and Newport
Classic labels. With the Sine Nomine Singers Baroque
Orchestra, they presented the first U.S. performance
with period instruments of Handel’s oratorios “Jephtha”,
“Theodora,” “Hercules,” “The Choice of Hercules,”
“Alexander’s Feast,” and “Israel in Egypt” (complete
three part version.) In 2009 he made his operatic
debut, conducting Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” with
the Brooklyn Repertory Opera.
Dr. Rorianne
Schrade
Dr. Rorianne Schrade is a prize winning pianist, teacher and adjudicator. She has taught in Philadelphia and New York, including at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College. Her recordings have been enthusiastically received, as have her numerous performances as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra. |
Dr. Araxie Altounian
Dr. Araxie Altounian is a pianist, publisher,
author and musicologist. She won the Gold Medal
in piano performance at the Ecole nationale
de musique et d’art dramatique de Val
de Maubuee, France. She is Music Director of
the Markham Music Festival and is a faculty
member at the Euromusic Centre of Music Studies
in Markham, Canada.
Jeffrey Biegel
Jeffrey Biegel, pianist, performs works of the
standard repertoire as well as new peices for
solo piano and concerti. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
and Charles Strouse, have written concerti for
Mr. Biegel, as well as works in progress by
Lowell Liebermann and Richard Danielpour. His
website is www.cyberecital.com.
Peter Coraggio
Peter Coraggio is a pianist and a prolific
writer. His series The Art of Piano Performance in
Illustrated Form is published in Japan by the Chopin
Publishing Company and in the United States by Neil
A. Kjos Music Company. A series of piano study
guides written in collaboration with Joseph Bloch
have recently been published in Japan.
David Dubal
David Dubal is a pianist, painter, and a teacher
at the Juilliard School. His weekly radio program
on WQXR has a large and loyal following and
is heard worldwide on the internet. He is the
author of several books including The Essential
Canon of Classical Music with 60 drawings
of the composers by Mr. Dubal himself, and Evenings
with Horowitz with a CD of Horowitz talking
to Dubal. Mr. Dubal also wrote and narrated
the DVD the Golden Age of The Piano.
James R. Leeds
A graduate of The Manhattan School of Music,
Columbia Teachers' College and NYU, with degrees
in composition and music education, James Leeds
(b.1946) was a piano pupil of Howard Aibel,
Robert Goldsand and Raymond Lewenthal, and studied
composition with Ludmila Ulehla, Benjamin Lees
and Nicolas Flagello. Leeds is an ardent admirer
of 20th century French music.
Jon J. Murakami
Jon J. Murakami is a heavily active
member with Cartoonists Across America & The world. He has worked on various comic books
promoting literacy, antismoking, the arts, and
music.
Harlow Robinson
Harlow Robinson is the author of Sergei Prokofiev:
A Biography (recently reissued with a new foreword
and afterward by Northern University Press)
and the translator and editor of Selected Letters
of Sergei Prokofiev (Northern University Press).
He teaches at Northeastern University in Boston.
Dr. Alicia Zizzo
Dr. Alicia Zizzo’s work on George Gershwin’s
lost and unpublished manuscripts has been hailed on
four continents and in hundreds of publications
internationally. She is an acknowledged world
authority on the classical piano music of George
Gershwin. Her work has been published by Warner
Bros. Publications and is available worldwide.
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