Ushikubo made his orchestral debut at age ten with the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra in Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside conductor Teddy Abrams. A recipient of the prestigious Davidson Fellow Laureate Award in 2014, Ushikubo was named a Young Steinway Artist and won the 2017 Hilton Head International
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She has sung with the LA Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Charlotte Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Favorite concert works include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St. John Passion, and anything by Mozart or Handel. She collaborates
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Following his portrayal of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times proclaimed “Ramsay brought a passionate intensity to the role that matched the fire of Dessay’s riveting Lucia.” Of his Canadian debut in Verdi’s Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto
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In 2023-2024, Ms. Semerdjian returns to Tacoma Opera to make her role debut as the title role in Carmen. On the concert stage, she appears in Verdi’s Requiem with Symphony Tacoma and for the Masterworks Concert Series with Symphoria. In 2022-2023, Ms. Semerdjian sang Ambassador to Space in Derrick Skye’s Song of the Ambassadors at
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Hix is a sought-after performer of concert and orchestral works with over 75 oratorio, cantata, and concert roles in his repertoire. In 2019 he was awarded 3rd Place in the American Prize Competition for Oratorio and Art Song Performance. Past concert and oratorio solo engagements have included Mendelssohn’s Elijah, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, B
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In the 2023-2024 season, Gene is invited to return to the Bach Society of St. Louis and Washington Bach Consort to sing the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John’s Passion. He also joins Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra to perform Handel’s Messiah, which he will perform again in Birmingham at Cathedral Church of the Advent in 2024. Gene’s 2022-2023 season
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In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Wool makes a return to the Defiant Requiem Foundation in recital, singing a world premiere of Jewish-American composer Gerald Cohen’s new song cycle. Last season featured an appearance with OnSite Opera and the Defiant Requiem Foundation as the Trommler in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis at Zankel Hall, the proceeds of which benefitted Holocaust Survivors. The mezzo was also
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Ms. Fabian begins the 2023/2024 season with a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a concert with Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek), then appears as Gilda in Rigoletto with Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera, the Soprano Soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Zerlina in Don Giovanni
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Leonard Bernstein’s enduring musical, West Side Story, opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 1957. The text by Stephen Sondheim (after A. Laurents) is based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the feuding Capulets and Montagues now represented by two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, and the scenario removed from Verona to the streets of Manhattan.
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Few would deny that the violin concertos of Beethoven and Brahms stand at the pinnacle of the genre. It is also true that Beethoven’s work served as a model for Brahms, resulting in many clear points of contact between the works.
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Dvořák’s symphonies, particularly nos. Seven, Eight, and Nine (“From the New World”), the Cello Concerto, and the orchestrated version of his Slavonic Dances are his most frequently performed symphonic works. To this list may be added the one exception among his five symphonic poems, the Carnival Overture.
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As Music Director of Symphoria, the successor to the Syracuse Symphony, Lawrence Loh has helped to build a 21st century model of a modern symphony orchestra. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that
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After concluding her Lincoln Center fellowship in New York City, she earned the jobs of Miss New York 2018 and Miss America 2019. In September of 2021 Nia released her EP, “Extended,” which featured her RnB songs, and her orchestra piece, “Chrysalis Extended,” which has nearly 4 million views on her TikTok profile. In February
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As a solo classical bassist, Mr. Meyer can be heard on a concerto album with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff featuring Bottesini’s Gran Duo with Joshua Bell, Meyer’s own Double Concerto for Bass and Cello with Yo-Yo Ma, Bottesini’s Bass Concerto No. 2, and Meyer’s own Concerto in D for Bass.
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1952 he attended the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston where years later he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Since 2001 he has held the Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance and is a founding faculty member since 2009 of the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee directed
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Ms. Cann’s 2022-23 season includes an appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as part of the Rock My Soul festival, return engagements with the Cincinnati and New Jersey symphonies, and debut performances with the Baltimore, National, New World, Seattle, and Utah symphonies. She makes her debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony
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Russ Carson came by his passion for the banjo honestly: his father has made handcrafted banjos and played old-time fiddle and banjo since the early 1970’s. As a result of the never-ending live music played around him while growing up, Russ started playing bluegrass at age 10, and has been an avid student and performer
Ricky struck his first chords on a mandolin over 60 years ago, and this 15-time Grammy Award winner continues to do his part to lead the recent roots revival in music. With 12 consecutive Grammy-nominated classics behind him, all from his own Skaggs Family Records label (Bluegrass Rules! in 1998, Ancient Tones in 1999, History
“Her technique is flawless, and she has a sense of melodic shaping that reflects an artistic maturity,” writes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Stradreports, “She seems entirely comfortable with stylistic diversity, which is one criterion that separates the run-of-the-mill instrumentalists from true artists.” In addition to her dynamic performing career, Lee was recently appointed to the faculty of the
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Originally from Milwaukee WI, USA, Mr. McKinney graduated from the University Of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied voice with soprano Marilyn Taylor and tenor Glenn Siebert, Conducting with Maestro James Allbritten, and composing with Kenneth Frazelle. Whilst in school Mr. McKinney was the recipient of the Helen Odom scholarship, the Music
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