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Performer Biographies
Anna-Lea Rebholz is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart. She is currently an exchange student at Manhattan School of Music, studying viola with Daniel Avshalomov. Born in Salzburg in 1996, she began playing the violin at the age of six. In 2010 she enrolled at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she studied with Brigitte Schmid. She was awarded a scholarship from the Erasmus Program to study with Matthew Jones at the Guildhall School of Music in London in 2016. She has toured in Germany, Austria, Italy, Romania, China, India, and Mexico, in both chamber music ensembles and orchestras. She has participated in master classes with Thomas Riebl and Roger Benedict. Since 2011, she has played a viola made by the distinguished violinmaker Georg Gerl of Bavaria.
Su Jin Kang was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1994. She spent her formative years in Auckland, New Zealand and in Chicago, U.S.A. Kang graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts in 2012 as a piano major and is currently enrolled at Manhattan School of Music pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Classical Composition under J. Mark Stambaugh. In 2012 Kang was selected by the CAA music department to perform as a pianist in the Academy’s 30th anniversary Gala concert at the Harris Theater in Chicago. Kang’s first musical composition was created after the 2011 Japanese tsunami. She collaborated with the Asian American Arts Society (?) to create a music video in memory of those who suffered in the catastrophe. Kang also collaborated with Indian musician and photographer Atsen Murry to raise awareness of the atrocious reality of human trafficking. That piece has been shown in several churches in India. Premieres of her compositions in the U.S and abroad include an Opera called “Trouble in Wigwam” at CAA, an experimental solo violin piece at the Musical Offering in Chicago, choral and piano works for the Moody bible Institute international chorale tour. Kang has been interviewed and published in the M.B.I newspaper, The Moody Standard, as the featured artist of the month to discuss her composition. Kang plans to further her education in classical music composition. She hopes to work as an artist and a teacher.
Hailed by the New York Times as “excellent” and praised for her “milky” tone by I CARE IF YOU LISTEN,Flutist Martha Cargo takes no prisoners, tackling collaborations ranging from site-specific dance to semi-structured improvisations inspired by giant metal sculptures. Martha trained at Oberlin, SUNY-Purchase, and Manhattan School of Music and works actively with Glass Farm Ensemble, Ghost Ensemble, and numerous other projects throughout New York City. She will release her debut solo album Love stories (Infrequent Seams) in May 2018. She currently works as Assistant to the Music Director at the Americas Society and regularly performs as a professional choral singer at St. Mary the Virgin. Soprano Xiaoyue Liu is a first-year Master’s degree student studying with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Xinghai Musical Conservatory. Xiaoyue Liu’s previous performing credits include Carmen (Frasquita), Die Zarberflöte (Second Lady) at Xinghai Music Hall, and The Sound of Music at Guangzhou Opera House. Ms. Liu won first prize in the Professional Group of Chinese Youth Art Festival and in the Chinese Division at the Asia International Art Exchange Competition. In addition, she has participated in a number of recitals and chamber music groups at Manhattan School of Music.
Lingyao Mu studied at the China Conservatory of Music, earning a bachelor’s degree in music education. In 2013, Lingyao won the Professional Group Silver Award at the Beijing Piano Festival. In August of 2016, she won Third Prize in the Rising Star group at the Second International Youth Pianist Competition and performed “The Rhythm: Chinese Piano Works Concert” in Tsinghua Meng Minwei Concert Hall. Lingyao attended the 2014 International Chinese Arts Festival in Singapore and wone the gold medal. She sang for one year with the Youth Chorus of the National Theater.
David Vazquez Jaramillo is a classical guitarist from Cuenca, Ecuador. He began his studies with Carlo M. García in Ecuador and is now studying with Mark Delpriora at Manahttan School of Music where he is finishing his sophomore year. David has performed in festivals in Ecuador and in masterclasses in Ecuador, Perú and U.S. with guitarists such as Pepe Romero, Oscar Ghiglia, Ana Vidovic and Marcic Dylla. His repertoire and musical interests include different genres and composers from Western classical music to south-American classical and folk music.
Martin Granda Vintimillastarted his classical guitar training at the age of 12 under the tutelage of Carlo Magno García in Ecuador, with whom he learned the basic foundations of this technique. He has participated in masterclasses with some of the most important guitarists in the world including Angel Romero, Pepe Romero, Ben Verdery, José Gregorio Guanchez and Eduardo Garrido. He is currently a junior at Mannes College of Music studying with Frederick Hand.
Majoring in piano performance, Humay Gasimzade earned her bachelor’s degree at Azerbaijan’s Baku Music Academy (2008-2012) in the studio of Adila Vekilova; her master’s degree in piano performance in the studio of professor Einar Rottingen at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway (2012-2014); and her Post Graduate Diploma in the studio of Professor Daniel Rohm at the Institute for Music and Dance of the University of Stavanger, Norway. Gasimzade is currently pursuing a master’s degree in contemporary music performance at Manhattan School of Music studying with Anthony de Mare, Peggy Kapmeier, and Chris Oldfather. Along with her studies she is teaching piano with the Distance Learning Program and accompanying the Contemporary Opera Ensemble at MSM.A native of Jakarta, Indonesia, pianist Janice Wijaya won the Gold award at the Asia International Piano Academy and Festival Piano Competition, where her performance of Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1 received accolades for its beautiful tone and sensitivity. She won the bronze prize in the Ananda Sukarlan Award International Piano Competition, and has won “Outstanding Performance” award from NYU’s Summer Intensive for her intelligent
and well-crafted interpretation. Ms. Wijaya appeared with the Jakarta Concert Orchestra performing Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Her repertoire also includes concerti of Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. Her primary studies at Manhattan School of Music are with André-Michel Schub, Van-Cliburn winner 1981. Ms. Wijaya’s piano quintet, coached by Daniel Avsholomov and Julia Lichten, has performed a range of repertoire such as quintets by Fauré, Brahms, Schubert and Shostakovich. Her quintet has appeared in Anton Nel’s masterclass, playing Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57. Following her graduation, Ms. Wijaya will pursue her ambition to record an album of Chopin Ballades and Prokofiev Sonatas.
Norwegian violinist Christopher Tun Andersen is currently studying with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinca Kopec in the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. He has been laureate and participant in several international violin competitions, including the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2015). He won second prize in the International Violin Competition in Wörthersee Austria (2007), First prize at the Jugend Musiziert competition in Germany along with the Europe Prize from the German Music Foundation (2007), and the Heifetz Prize in the International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition IV (2013). Christopher made his debut with the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra when he was 15 years old, under the direction of Alexander Kantorov. He performed as a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Minsk State chamber Orchestra, Berlin Symphonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra. In 2015, he was invited to play at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival
with Arve Tellefsen in Oscarshall. He performed the Brahms Quintet with Pinchas Zukerman at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival 2016. Christopher plays a violin built by G.B. Guadagnini (Milan 1753) kindly on loan by the Anders Sveaas Charitable foundation.
Toby Winarto was born in Los Angeles, California, where he started playing the violin at the age of four. In the summer of 2013, he began playing the viola full time with Eric Nowlin as his teacher. Following his entrance into the world of the viola, he was then accepted to the Phil and Eli Taylor Academy for Young Artists at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, as well as the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. During his time at the Taylor Academy and as a member of the TSYO, Mr.Winarto has performed in masterclasses for Teng Li, Ettore causa, Sharon Wei, and Peter Ounjian. He has also worked with members of the Toronto Symphony,
Montreal Symphony, the Canadian Opera company orchestra, the National Ballet of Canada orchestra, the National Ballet of Canada orchestra, the Linden String Quartet, the Tokai String Quartet, the Afiara Quartet, and the Formosa Quartet. Mr. Winarto is a student at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Samuel Rhodes. He has made many appearances as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player on the many stages at MSM as well as stages around the city such as the Stern Auditorium Perlman Stage at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center.
Born in 1966 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, violinist Zagisha Kamil studied at the Republican Music School for gifted children in the studio of Nina Patrusheva. Zagisha has performed with the Republican Orchestra of the Republic of Kazakhstan several times. Zagisha has participated in numerous voluntary and cultural events and is a winner of many competitions including “Astana Merei” International Violin Competition, San Bartolomeo 2011, Republican competition named after Wieniawski in Almaty. In 2014 she performed in Carnegie Hall as part of the “Youth Philharmonic Orchestra” project. In March 2016 Zagisha gave a solo recital in New York as part of “Shandelee Music Festival”. In December 2016, Zagisha had an opportunity to perform at the Permanent Mission of State of Kuwait for Mrs, Ban-Soon-taek, the first lady of United Nations. Zagisha Kamil is the distinguished recipient of the 2016-2017 Helen Airoff Dowling Scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music where she is pursuing her Bachelors of Music in Violin Performance in the studio of renowned
professor Lucie Robert.
Tzu-Wei Jack Huang , a Taiwanese cellist, is a graduate of the music program of Kaohsiung Senior High School. He is currently studying with Philippe Muller and pursuing his Bachelor’s degree at Manhattan School of Music with a President’s Award. His previous teachers were Stephen Geber, Moky Gibson-Lane and Leewen Dai. In the past few years, Tzu-Wei enrolled in several music festivals including the Performing Arts Institute at Wyoming Seminary, Hidden Valley Music Seminar in Carmel Valley, CA, and the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Serving as principal cellist of the Asian Youth Orchestra in 2015, Tzu-Wei toured eight major cities in Northeast Asia including Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei. He also participated in a documentary film In Search of Perfect Consonance¸ directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker, Ruby Yang. The film highlighted the 25th anniversary of the Asian Youth Orchestra and the inspiring spirit of young classical musicians. He was recently awarded the second prize in the East Coast International Competition in New York.
Tenor Ramon Gabriel Tenefrancia is a third-year undergraduate vocal performance major, pursuing his Bachelor of Music degree under the tutelage of Neil Rosenshein. Previous credits include, Gaetano Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux (Lord Cecil) with the West Side Opera Society, Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (Alfred) and Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Primo Soldato and Valetto). Ramon is a native of the Philippines, where he appeared regularly in several operas including Ned Rorem’s Three Sisters Who are not Sisters (Samuel), Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), Otto Nicolai’s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Mr. Ford) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos).Yibai Shao started piano lessons at the age of four with the famous composer and piano teacher Lisan Wang. Admitted to the Chinese Opera Art College and then the middle school affiliated with the China Conservatory of Music, she maintained high rankings all through school and won first prize in a piano competition in 2008. The following year she participated in a master class at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria and performed at the opening of the Fourth Beijing International Piano Festival. She continued her studies at the China Conservatory in the studio of American-Chinese pianist Pei Sun and at the Summit Music Festival in Purchase, NY, performing solo and chamber music, in the summers of 2011 and 2013. Ms. Shao served as rehearsal accompanist for The Knot, produced by China’s National Opera Theater, in 2012, and won prizes at the Hong Kong Chinese Piano Open Competition and in the Beijing division of the National Cadenza Piano Competition. Last year Ms. Shao earned a master’s degree in piano at Manhattan School of Music, studying with Marc Silverman. She is now pursuing a second degree at MSM, this
time in accompanying with John Forconi.Jamie Sampana is a second-year Master’s degree candidate under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell. At Manhattan School of Music she has appeared as Cendrillon in Cendrillon (Opera in brief). Previous credits include Carmen (Frasquita) with Lyric Opera of
the Philippines (Micaela) with The Eat, Sing and Travel People; and Once on this Island (Erzulie) with Trumpets Playshop. She also won previous competitions in the Philippines: (1st Prize) 1st Jovita Fuentes Voice Competition; (Opera Prize) National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA); (2nd Prize) Mga Awiting Pilipino (Folk Music) Competition for young Artists.
Spanish pianist Fabio Àlvarez combines musicality, great temperament and a talent for communication in his performances. Since studying with the French pianist Emmanuel Ferrer-Laloë in Musikene (Basque country, Spain) as an undergraduate, he has specialized in different fields such as contemporary piano, vocal accompaniment and chamber music. Recent solo engagements have taken him to France, Portugal, Spain and the U.S.A performing at various venues as a recitalist and soloist with orchestra. At the core of Fabio’s interests is the promotion of Spanish composers worldwide: he has already premiered several Spanish pieces for solo and chamber piano. Mr. Àlvarez is a Master’s student under the tutelage of the renowned concert pianist and pedagogue Phillip Kawin at Manhattan School of Music.Yadi Liang, born in China, began playing the piano at age 6. She has studied the China Conservatory of Music, as well as, the Beijing International Piano Festival. Yadi attended the Summit Music Festival in New York in 2011 and 2013, and in her junior year at China Conservatory, she received the first prize at the YAMAHA Music Scholarship Awards. Yadi Liang earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music in 2014, and then began her master’s degree studying with Dr. Arkady Aronov. Now she is pursuing her second master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music in Accompanying, studying with Dr. Heasook Rhee.
