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Arto Tuncboyaciyan
Armenian percussionist and vocalist, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, was born in 1957 in Galataria, a town outside Constantinople. He is the youngest child of an Armenian family, with its roots in Anatolia. His professional career began at the age of 11 and has continued for 27 years. As a result of his collaboration with his brother, he has worked with numerous important artists and has participated in many concerts and tours. In 1981 he moved to the United States, with the belief that he would be able to be successful as the musician he wanted to be, without giving up his ideas and personal ideology. “Tears of Dignity” was his first peronal album. He has collaborated with some of the most important musicians of the past decades, including Joe Zawinul, Al Di Meola, Chet Baker, Dino Saluzzi, Marc Johnson, Marc Cohn, Bob Berg, Arthur Binthe, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and Eleftheria Arvanitaki. He has played with the Winter and
Summer Solstice Celebrations since his first appearance with Paul Winter
at the 1998 Summer Solstice Celebration, and he has frequently joined the
Consort as percussionist at other concerts. His debut US album, “Every
Day Is a New Life,” has been released by Living Music. Tuncboyaciyan can
also be heard on the Living Music album, “Journey With the Sun.”
Eroica Quartet
Peter Hanson violin
The Eroica Quartet has astonished audiences with its radical interpretations of some of the best-known music of the nineteenth century. The Quartet was formed in 1993 by four of Britain's leading period instrumentalists, committed to performing music of the Romantic period and to rediscovering the style of its performance. They passionately believe that greater freedom of expression can be found in a thorough immersion in the performance styles of the past. The group aims to bring new perspectives to a familiar repertoire and to re-introduce forgotten masterpieces. The Quartet has played for many UK organizations, and appeared on an Open University music study video, rehearsing and performing. In 1997 they gave a series of six concerts for the City of London Festival, performing the op.18 quartets as part of a complete Beethoven cycle; and in the autumn of that year they gave three concerts at the Nuits Romantiques festival in and around Aix-les-Bains in France. Last year the Quartet gave concerts for Early Music Wales, at the universities of Lancaster, Sheffield, and Cardiff, and at the Amersham Festival. The Quartet has a strong and enquiring relationship with Dr.Clive Brown, a leading expert in the field. In particular they have worked together on the expressive implications of bowings and fingerings found in mid-nineteenth-century editions. One of the most influential interpreters of the time was Mendelssohn's friend, the leader of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Ferdinand David. For their recent recording of Mendelssohn quartets the Eroica Quartet has had access to a signed first violin part containing his unpublished bowings and fingerings. They have studied extensively many old editions and from these have developed their own style of performance. Three members of the Quartet appear as principal players in John Eliot Gardiner's orchestra. They were involved in his much acclaimed Beethoven symphony cycle, and have also recorded Schumann's entire orchestral works. The Quartet has embarked upon a series
of recordings for Harmonia Mundi USA, starting with a disc of Mendelssohn
quartets which has been released. During the spring of 1999 they made their
next recording, of Beethoven quartets, which was launched in March, 2000.
Their next recording is a disc of Schumann quartets.
Lang Lang
Catapulted into the global classical music spotlight after a chance performance at the 1999 Ravinia Festival, this 17-year-old virtuoso has performed with orchestras from Houston to Hong Kong. Lang Lang's program includes Handel's
Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430; Brahms’ Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor,
Op.5; Granados’ “Goyesca”; Tchaikovsky’s “Kumka” (“Scene Rustique Russe”),
Op 59; and Balakirev’s “Islamey” (“Fantasie Orientele”).
Chiu-Tze Lin
Ms. Chiu-Tze Lin has been a long-time conductor of the AT&T Bell Labs Sinfonia in Holmdel, New Jersey, developing corporate as well as community interest in orchestral performance. Lin has also been the music director of the Princeton Presbyterian Church for the past seven years, where she has directed choirs and orchestras in major oratorios by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Pergolesi, and John Rutter. Chiu-Tze Lin is also the featured artist in a CD as a solo pianist and conductor, with vocals from the Westminster Choir College. As a concert pianist, the New York Times has acclaimed Lin for her “strong technique…a hearty tone that sounded big and unforced...[which] provides the greatest musical pleasure.” She is a Steinway artist who has performed in Asia, Europe, and across the United States. Lin has appeared as a touring soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony. She has also been a guest artist in an interview and performance on National Public Radio. Lin has just released her second CD, which features the works of J. S. Bach for the solo piano. Conference Music, Page 3----------> |
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