Concerts

  • Sarah Carrier

    Sarah Carrier, flutist, has received praise from the New York Times for combining "thoughtful musicality with virtuosity in her alternately energetic and delicate account of a flute line laden with light multiphonics and unusual timbres." As a founding member of Syzygy New Music Collective, (hailed as "one of 2009's most promising groups" by Sequenza21) she has premiered numerous works, and has made appearances on television and radio.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Parhelion_Trio/

  • Maria Carolina Cavalcanti

    Specialized in chamber music, flutist Maria Carolina Cavalcanti integrates the groups GNU (Modern and Contemporary Music), Ventos do Rio (Flute trio), Impressons Quartet (Instrumental Popular Music), Duo Americas (Flute and Guitar) and Ensemble Jocy de Oliveira ("Revisitando Stravinsky" - 2010 and its DVD - 2011). Performed at Brazilian Biennial of Contemporary Music, at Preludio 21 series, etc. Premiered several pieces of today's music, some of them dedicated to herself. Recorded and preformed in the release concerts of CD "Sem Espera", by composer Sergio Roberto de Oliveira at Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, London and Manchester. Has a BA in Flute and is Master in Music at UNIRIO, both courses under the orientation of flutist Laura Ronai.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Maria_Carolina_Cavalcanti/

  • Andrea Christie

    Canadian pianist Andrea Christie is an active soloist, chamber musician and teacher with a passion for new music. She has been a member of NYC-based contemporary ensembles and performed in new music concerts by Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players,Mimesis Ensemble, Opus Nine Ensemble, and the International Festival of Contemporary Performance at Mannes. As a recipient of numerous fellowships, Ms. Christie has participated in summer festivals at Tanglewood Music Center, the Mozarteum, Academy Prag-Wien-Budapest and Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Parhelion_Trio/

    • Jasmin Bey Cowin

    Jasmin Bey Cowin, was born in Germany and received her Bachelors Degree in harp and education at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Karlsruhe. She arrived in the USA on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of Houston. After returning to Germany she was offered a scholarship at Rice University where she concentrated on her harp and orchestral studies.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Jasmin_Cowin/

  • Bruce Curlette

    Dr. Curlette is an active performer who has been featured on national venues such as the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium and the national conference for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Bruce_Curlette/

  • Michelle McQuade DeWhirst

    Michelle McQuade Dewhirst received a BM in horn performance from Ithaca College and completed the A.M. and Ph.D. in music composition at the University of Chicago.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Michelle_McQuade_DeWhirst

  • Shiau-uen Ding

    A native of Taiwan, pianist Shiau-uen Ding is a rising presence on the new and electro-acoustic music scenes, and an original and energetic performer of traditional solo and chamber repertoire.

    Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame for Shiau-uen Ding

  • Jenny Greene

    Jenny Greene A native of Washington State, Jenny Greene has been performing since childhood. After studying voice at Central Washington University, she gained professional experience in Seattle (Maria - Sound of Music, Hodel - Fiddler on the Roof, and Mary Jane - Big River) before heading to New York City in 2008.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Jenny_Greene/

  • Beth Griffith

    "An extraordinary American soprano, Beth Griffith sang with a focus and presence ... a Texan, recently returned to the United States after a 20-year career in Germany. It is our good fortune" --Mark Swed Los Angeles Times

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Beth_Griffith/

  • Kenji Haba

    Kenji Haba is a guitarist who is exclusively sensitive to timbres in appreciating and expressing the beauty of guitar. Haba believes that the guitar is the perfect instrument to express his musical ideas because of its beautiful tones and its countless timbres. Recently, he has been focusing on impressionistic music, especially that of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Toru Takemitsu.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Kenji_Haba/

  • Aya Hamada

    Harpsichordist and pianist Aya Hamada is an active concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and continuo player. Currently she plays principal keyboard for the New York Symphonic Ensemble and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Aya_Hamada/

  • Claudine Hickman

    Claudine Hickman (New York City), began her piano study at an early age with her father, Thames Hickman, a student of Rosina Lhevinne at the Juilliard School.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Thomas_Piercy_Claudine_Hickman/

  • Riko Higuma

    Pianist Riko Higuma has performed and collaborated with legendary artists such as Albert Markov, Neil Rosenshein, Aaron Rosand, Cho-Liang Lin, Alan Gilbert, Steven Tanenbom, Dora Schwarzberg, and Timothy Eddy. She was a top-prize winner at the Jacob Flier International Piano Competition and was one of the Young Artists at the Van Cliburn Piano Institute, where she appeared with the Fort Worth Symphony. Individually and as the pianist of the acclaimed Zodiac Trio, Ms. Higuma has performed around the globe, including the LaJolla Music Society Summerfest, Summit Music Festival, Russian River Chamber Music, Festival c’est pas classique, and most recently at the Festival Radio-France Montpellier. Ms.Higuma studied with Phillip Kawin at the Manhattan School of Music and with the Ysaye String Quartet at the Paris Conservatory.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Wonki_Lee_Riko_Higuma/

  • Conway Kuo

    Conway Kuo, violist and violinist, is a native of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School. He is currently the Associate Principal Second Violin of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and also a Section First Violinist with the New York City Opera Orchestra.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Conway_Kuo/

  • Sooyun Kim

    Winner of a Georg Solti Foundation Career Grat, flutist Sooyun Kim made her prize-winning debut at age ten with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She has appeared with the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Seoul National Philharmonic, the New Amsterdam Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the New Jersey Symphony orchestras. In 2010 she became the first American since 1964 to win a top prize at the ARD International Music Competition. Ms. Kim completed her studies at the New England Conservatory with flutist Paula Robison. In 2007, she was named one of Korea's Young Leaders of Tomorrow by the Korean Central Daily News in recognition of her achievement and contributions to the arts. Ms. Kim is a member of Chamber Music Society Two.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Bateira_Trio/

  • Wonki Lee

    Korean saxophonist Wonki Lee was born in Tokyo and began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. He has distinguished himself as a remarkable saxophonist with his instrumental prowess and keen artistic grasp. He was the first Korean selected as a semi-finalist in the Adolphe Sax International Competition. As an active concert saxophonist, he performs a wide range of music, including solo premieres and chamber music. Wonki made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 2008 and has performed at the Metropolitan Museum, Merkin Concert Hall, Time Warner Building, and Macys. His concerto recording was broadcasted on a WQXR. He won 1st prize for MTNA Young Artist NY State Competition, and 3rd prize for the LISMA International Music Competition. Wonki exclusively uses YAMAHA Custom EX saxophones.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Wonki_Lee_Riko_Higuma/

  • Suzanne Mueller

    Cellist Suzanne Mueller is a graduate of both the Pre-College and College of The Juilliard School. She is a founding member of CROSS ISLAND, a cello/piano/clarinet ensemble , and of the guitar/cello duo Mueller & Russo.

  • Daniel Mihai

    Daniel Mihai studied with the Maestro Ladislau Csendes. He has attended MBA courses in the Faculty of Performing Art, with the objective of improvement and assimilation of all knowledge related to contemporary music.

  • Crystal Gloria Medina

    Equally at home with chamber and solo repertoire, clarinetist Crystal Gloria Medina has performed across both coasts of the United States. Past solo appearances were made with Ensemble 212, Costa Contra Chamber Orchestra, and UNC Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Medina, a passionate chamber musician, was a two timeawardee of the Lilian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition, and a fellow in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Medina is a member of Ensemble 212 and Opus Nine Ensemble.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Parhelion_Trio/

  • Satoshi Okamoto

    Satoshi Okamoto was an assistant principal double bassist in the San Antonio Symphony for eight years and a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra for a year before joining the New York Philharmonic in September 2003. He received his master's degree from The Juilliard School, and a bachelor's degree from Tokyo University of Fine Arts. An eight-time Aspen Music Festival participant, he won the festival's bass competition twice, in 1993 and 1997. He also became a finalist of the International Society of Bassist Solo Competition in 1997, and the Izuminomori International Double Bass Competition in 2001. His teachers include Philharmonic Principal Bass Eugene Levinson, Paul Ellison, Al Laszlo, Bruce Bransby, Yoshio Nagashima, and Osamu Yamamoto

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Bateira_Trio/

  • Tom Piercy

    Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His performances have been described by critics as "passionate," "pulling out all the stops," by the New York Times as "brilliant," "playing with refinement and flair" and "evoking a panache in the contemporary works."

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Tom_Piercy/

  • Alyssa Reit

    For more than 30 years Alyssa has worked as an independent performer, composer and arranger. She completed her Bachelors and Master's degrees at the Juilliard School as a student of the late Marcel Grandjany.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Alyssa_Reit/

  • Peter Reit

    Peter Reit is Professor of Horn at Purchase College, State University of New York, and also on the faculty at Vassar College.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Peter_Reit/

  • Juan Maria Solare

    Composer and pianist Juan Maria Solare was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1966 and has lived in Germany since 1993. He studied with Maria Teresa Criscuolo, Fermina Casanova, Juan Carlos Zorzi and Francisco Kropfl (Bs As), Johannes Fritsch, Helmut Lachemann and Hans-Ulrich Humpert. Solare was the last pupil of Mauricio Kagel. He obtained scholarships from the DAAD, the foundation Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung (Baden-Baden) and the Kunstlerhauser Worpswede. Currently, Solare teaches piano at the Musikschule Bremen, tango music at the Universitat Bremen and Composition and Arrangements at the Hochschule fur Kunste in Bremen.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Juan_Maria_Solare/

  • West Point Woodwind Quintet

    The West Point Woodwind Quintet of the West Point Band is made up of members of the Concert Band. The group performs at many different events, such as military social functions, school presentations, and formal recitals. The West Point Woodwind Quintet has supported the United States Recruiting Command with tours of high schools and colleges to promote Army bands and audition prospective candidates. These tours have taken the quintet to Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, New Jersey and Florida.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/West_Point_Woodwind_Quintet/

  • Marina Toshich

    Marina Toshich was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia) in 1968. She became involved with music at an early age and had the unique opportunity to learn folk songs of Sarajevo's multi-ethnic cultures including Serbian, Muslim, Croatian and Jewish. Marina enhanced her knowledge of Israeli folk music and Middle Eastern music at the Bar Ilan University, and further developed her art and musical skills. She graduated at "Rubin" - Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, at Arabic Music Department. Marina's first book for oud learning was published by Mel Bey in USA in 2009. She plays oud in The New Andalusian Orchestra, Ensemble Golha of Persian music, "The End of The West" and in "Gipsy Han" ensemble of world music

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Marina_Toshich/

  • Sophia Yan

    Sophia Yan born in Queens, New York, is an American classical pianist. Yan is prizewinner of the International Concert Alliance Competition and a laureate of the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. In addition, she is a two-time winner of the Music Teachers National Association Competition (Eastern, NJ), and prize-winning alumnus of the 2004 New York Piano Competition.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Sophia_Yan/

  • ZENTRIPETAL - Lynn Bechtold, violin and Jennifer DeVore, cello

    Zentripetal made it's debut in 2006, when violinist Lynn Bechtold and cellist Jennifer DeVore decided to explore the violin/cello duo repertoire and to premiere new works for the combo. They have been playing together since they were students at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

    http://www.voxnovus.com/featuring/15_Minutes_of_Fame/Zentripetal/