SOLOISTS AND CONDUCTORS
SOLOISTS & CONDUCTORS Currently he teaches trombone at DePaul University. Charlie has many solo and teaching appearances throughout the world. In April 1991 he gave the world premiere of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto for Bass Trombone with the CSO under Daniel Barenboim, which was commissioned by the Orchestra for its centennial. In September 2006, he and the CSO premiered Chick a’ Bone Checkout, a new concerto for the alto, tenor and bass trombones and orchestra, written by trombonist and composer Christian Lindberg. Charlie and his wife, Alison, have several commissioned song cycles for soprano, trombone and piano written by the American composer Eric Ewazen and performed for many European and U.S. audiences. He has two sons - Mark, who is studying Journalism at Mizzou, and Gary, who is at New Trier High School. As a part-time athlete, Charlie is an avid swimmer and a member of the Evanston Masters Swim Team. He comments, “As time passes, I realize that I must keep doing it, so that I can KEEP doing it!”
JOYCE YANG, piano Pianist Joyce Yang came to international attention in 2005 when she won silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest contestant at 19 years old, she also took home the awards for Best Performance of Chamber Music and of a New Work. A Steinway artist, in 2010 Yang received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Yang has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, and the Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, among many others, working with such distinguished conductors as James Conlon, Edo de Waart, Lorin Maazel, Peter Oundjian, David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Bramwell Tovey, and Jaap van Zweden. She has appeared in recital at New York’s Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum, Washington’s Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Symphony Hall, and Zurich’s Tonhalle. In 2015/16, Yang embarked on a steady stream of debuts, returns, and chamber music concerts. She reunited with the New York Philharmonic under Tovey for a five-date engagement of Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and made her New Jersey Symphony debut with Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 in an evening celebrating the orchestra’s season finale and Music Director Jacque Lacombe’s last concert with the orchestra. She also performed and recorded the world premiere of Michael Torke’s Piano Concerto, a piece created expressly for her and commissioned by the Albany Symphony.
INA ZDOROVETCHI, harp Hailed as “hypnotizing”, Ina Zdorovetchi has established a reputation as one of the leading harpists of her generation, having performed as soloist with orchestras in Europe, North America, and the Middle East, as recitalist in Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, World Harp Congress, American Harp Society National Conference, and as recording artist for SONY, Naxos, Albany Records, WGBH Radio-Boston, Israeli Broadcasting Authority, and Moldova National TV. Ms. Zdorovetchi is the recipient of a number of awards, including Second Prize (Ist Prize not awarded), Chamber Music Prize and Propes Prize at the 17th International Harp Contest in Israel, First Prize at the Bucharest International Competition, Second Prize at the Paris International Harp Competition, “Outstanding Achievement in Chamber Music” Award from the Fischoff National Competition, “Henry Cabot Award for extraordinary commitment of talent” from the Boston Symphony Orchestra Players Committee, and other honors. Currently, Ms. Zdorovetchi is the principal harpist with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Opera Boston, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and is also on the faculty at Boston Conservatory, Wellesley College and New England Conservatory Pre-College. Other teaching engagements include invitations to Brevard, Vianden and Saarburg International Festivals, masterclasses at Indiana University (South Bend), Chapman University (CA), American Harp Society Chapters in Washington (DC), Syracuse (NY), Los Angeles (CA), and the Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. In addition,she is the founder and artistic director of the Boston Harp Festival, an elected member of Pi Kappa Lambda - The National Music Honor Society, and past-president of the American Harp Society Boston Chapter. Ms. Zdorovetchi holds degrees from New England Conservatory (Performance Diploma), Boston University (Master of Music), The Boston Conservatory (Bachelor of Music, Summa Cum Laude) and is an alumna of the Tanglewood Music Center (2003 and 2004). Prior to moving to the US, she studied at Bucharest Academy of Music (Romania), and “C. Porumbescu” Lyceum of Music in her native Chisinau, Moldova, completing a double major in piano and harp. She studied under the tutelage of harpists Ann Hobson Pilot, Cynthia Price-Glynn, Ion Ivan-Roncea, and Ana Mahonina, and was mentored for 10 years by the great piano professor Larisa Jar.
Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1986, Yang received her first piano lesson from her aunt at age four. In 1997 she moved to the United States to begin studies at the pre-college division of The Juilliard School. After winning the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Student Competition, she performed Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with that orchestra at just twelve years old. Yang appears in the film In the Heart of Music, a documentary about the 2005 Cliburn Competition. She lives in New York City.
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