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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, (read all...) |
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Sally O'Reilly is known throughout the music world as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. Professor of Violin at the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, she studied with Ivan Galamian at Curtis Institute and with Josef Gingold at Indiana University, where she was his assistant. Later she (read all ...) |
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Montreal native Céline Leathead joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1994 after being a member of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and associate concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony. At Orchestra chamber concerts, she has played music by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorák, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann (read all ...) |
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Te-Chiang (Bacco) Liu, is a native of Taiwan. Mr. Liu started the violin at age of six, and was awarded the top prize at the Taiwan National Violin Competition in the Youth Division in 1996. Mr. Liu was accepted by the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia to study with renowned Australian Teacher, Carmel Kaine (read all...) |
| Elisabed Gegeshidze, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra |
VIOLIN/VIOLA
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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 (read all...) |
VIOLA
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Luke Hubbard is the principal violist of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, a faculty member of the Northern Lights Music Festival, and an active musician and teacher in the Twin Cities and upper Midwest region. He will receive his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in May 2013. (read all ...) |
CELLO
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Mira Kang, principal cellist of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, has performed throughout South Korea, the Northeastern US and Germany as a recitalist and chamber musician. She started her first public concert at the age of 16 as a guest artist of (read all ...) |
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Katja Linfield, who joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1990, is an active chamber musician and proponent of contemporary and lesser-known works. At Sommerfest 2007 she was featured in Tan Dun’s Elegy: Snow in June for solo cello and four percussionists; at Sommerfest 2008 she performed John (read all ...) |
DOUBLE BASS
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Roberto Pineda began studying the double bass at age 14 at the Victoriano Lopez Music School; where he won a silver medal at the Victoriano Lopez solo competition in 1997. In 1999 he was offered a music scholarship at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), where he obtained a master’s (read all ...) |
