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Piano
 Mitsuko
Ichimura has concertized extensively throughout
Japan and the US as a soloist and in collaboration with
other artists on stage and on television. She is known
for her huge coloristic range and lyricism. Ms. Ichimura
is founder and director of the Ichimura Music School in
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, where she produces strong
performers and professional musicians from enthusiastic
young pianists. ..... (read
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 Ksenia
Nosikova Called a pianist of “impressive
musicianship” and “refined sensibility and exquisite
pianism, fascinating to watch and hear” by the Boston
Globe and New York Concert Reviews, Ksenia Nosikova has
performed extensively as a solo pianist and chamber
musician in Europe, Russia, United States, Asia, and
South America. In the United States she appeared at
numerous concert ... (read
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 Thoman
Schumacher
Professor of Piano at Eastman from 1995 to 2008,
Thomas Schumacher studied at the Manhattan School of
Music and the Juilliard School, winning the highest
honors at both schools. His teachers include Fisher
Thompson, Robert Goldsand, Beveridge Webster, Adele
Marcus, Bernard Greenhouse, Rachmael Weinstock, Raphael
Hillyer, Raphael Bronstein, and Hans Letz. Thomas
Schumacher
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 Paul Wirth is a prominent figure
in the musical community of the Midwest. His unique combination of
masterful performing and teaching, along with an unassuming
personality have made him a much sought-after featured artist in
concerts, master classes, conventions, and lecture series. With BM,
MM and DM degrees in Piano Performance from Temple University and
Indiana University, he co-founded and is ..... (read
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Veda Zuponcic
Veda Zuponcic made her formal European debut in 1971 as
a recipient of the Martha Baird Rockefeller grant.
Critics in London, Vienna, Amsterdam and Berlin noted
her powerful and fluent technique, intelligent
interpretations, and her natural affinity for Romantic
composers. As a prizewinner in the Alfredo Casella
Competition she toured Italy, and since then Miss
Zuponcic has performed .... (read all)
Violin
Igor
Petrushevski is a violin professor at the Royal
Academy of Music - London. He is considered by many as
one of the leading violin teachers in the UK. His
students are winners of international competitions
including: P. I. Tchaikovsky, N. Paganini, M. Long-Thibaud,
Tibor Varga, Rodolfo Lipizer, Indianapolis, Tokyo,
Wieniavsky, Cologne, Heifetz, Sion, Postacchini, Joachim,
Britten, Caneti and Enescu. ... (read all)
Violin/Viola
Setsuko Nagata was invited to the US to study at the
Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy
DeLay and Ivan Galamian. Her musical gifts were quickly
recognized, and she was awarded the Fritz Kreisler
Award, the Naumburg Scholarship Award and prizes in the
Hudson Valley Competition and the Tibor Varga
International Competition. As soloist, Miss Nagata has
performed with the North Carolina ..... (read all)
Cello
 Viktor
Uzur has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician
in many countries in Europe, Asia and North America
including important concerts and collaborations with
composers such as Tikhon Khrennikov, Petris Vasks and
Lewis Nielson. His engagement as the principal cellist
and soloist with ARCO Moscow Chamber Orchestra brought
him many CD releases and international tours and his
performances, .....
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Conductor
Alexander
Timofeev is a prize-winning composer and pianist. His
compositions have taken top prizes in competitions and festivals in
England, Russia, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, Moldova as well as in
the United States. As a pianist, he won the Third Prize in the 2007 MTNA Competition held in Toronto, Canada. As the winner of the
Eastman School Concerto Competition, Alexander performed ....
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Dr. Lourin Plant holds a
Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wittenberg
University, Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts
degrees in Choral Conducting from the College
Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
He has served as the Assistant Director of the Chicago
Children's Choir (formally the nation's largest
children's choir organization), and has been on the
voice faculties of Sinclair College
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Theory
Kristen Weikum
currently serves as Organist, Choir Director, and Youth
Coordinator at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Virginia,
MN. She is a 1983 Cum Laude graduate from Luther
College, Decorah, Iowa. Weikum is a member of the
American Guild of Organists and is a member of the
Hibbing Musicale. She taught elementary music grades K-1
at the Mesabi East Elementary School from 2002-2009,
serves as accompanist for choirs and soloists, and has a
private studio
where she teaches piano students.
Accompanists
Alexander Timofeev,
Larisa Soboleva, Alexei Ulitin
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