Maria Bachmann
Hailed by The New York Times as "a violinist of soul and patrician refinement", Maria Bachmann has been a featured soloist around the world and has been profiled by Mirabella, Time Magazine, CD Review and New York Newsday as one of the premier artists of her generation. Ms. Bachmann has been honored by Musical America and New York Newsday as "Outstanding Artist of the Year". She has been soloist with Leonard Slatkin and The National Symphony at Kennedy Center, with The St. Louis Symphony, and she has performed recitals at Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, San Francisco's Herbst Theater, Merkin, Weill and Town Halls in New York, Boston's Jordan Hall, and at the Phillips Gallery and Library of Congress in Washington, DC. An eminent proponent of contemporary music, several of America's most prominent composers including George Rochberg, Leon Kirchner, Paul Moravec, and Sebastian Currier have written works for her. Acclaimed the "most exciting young violinist around" by New York Daily News, her diverse recordings range from the Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concertos on BMG/Conifer, to Lou Harrison's Suite for Violin and String Orchestra on Koch International Classics. Ms. Bachmann has also recorded for Argo, CRI, and the Connoisseur Society. Maria Bachmann studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian and Szymon Goldberg. She is on the faculty of Adelphi University in New York.
Alexis Pia Gerlach
Cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach enjoys an active career as a soloist and chamber musician, and has performed throughout the US, in Canada, Brazil, Israel, Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, France, India, China and Uzbekistan. She has collaborated as soloist with such conductors as Mstislav Rostropovich, James DePreist, and Peter Oundjian, and has appeared as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, and at numerous festivals including Marlboro, Caramoor, Piccolo Spoleto and Aspen. Ms. Gerlach's recordings of the Rachmaninoff and Franck Sonatas with pianist Fabio Bidini are released on the Encore Performance Recordings label. Recent solo performances include recitals at the La Jolla Chamber Music Society and the Caramoor Festival, concerto appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and the Charleston and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Gerlach studied with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School.
Jon Klibonoff
Jon Klibonoff has established a versatile career as orchestra soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad. His many awards include the Silver Medal of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, the Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianists Award, the Pro Musicis Foundation Award and First Prize at the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition.Presently a member of Trio Solisti, and Associated Solo Artists, Klibonoff has also appeared as a guest artist with numerous chamber music groups including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Shanghai, Miami and Lark String Quartets. For three seasons he was an artist-in -residence for the "On Air" radio series produced by WQXR classical radio in New York City. In recital, Mr. Klibonoff has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Mr. Klibonoff can be heard in collaboration with many instrumentalists including flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist David Shifrin and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. His many orchestral appearances include the Baltimore, Utah, Buffalo and Denver Symphonies. A graduate of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, He has been on the faculty of Hunter College in New York and Concordia College in Bronxville, NY.
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Trio Solisti
Trio Solisti brings together three of the most sought after artists of their generation, violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach, and pianist Jon Klibonoff. The members of Trio Solisti have performed at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, Shriver Hall in Baltimore, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Pick-Staiger Hall in Chicago, and throughout the United States as well as performing in 23 countries around the world. The members of Trio Solisti have been frequent guests of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and their collaborations have included performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, James DePriest, Dawn Upshaw, Richard Stoltzman, Gilbert Kalish, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, The Lark String Quartet, The American String Quartet, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
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Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
Kathryn Lockwood has been hailed as a violist of exceptional talents in reviews around the country. The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, ”...Lockwood played the vociferous viola cadenza with mahogany beauty and vivid character.” 2005 marked the release of Kathryn’s solo recital CD of Viola Music by Inessa Zaretsky, “Fireoptics”, which Strad declared “Lockwood is absolutely inside the music's idiom finding appropriate tonal shadings”.
Kathryn is a member of the internationally renowned Lark Quartet, and has been guest artist with ensembles such as Trio Solisti, The Muir Quartet, and Triple Helix, and has collaborated with artists Branford Marsalis, Cho-Liang Lin, and the Bill T Jones Dance Company. A native of Australia, Kathryn moved to the US in 1991 and captured solo awards at the Primrose International Viola Competition, and The Washington International Competition for Strings.
As a founding member of the Pacifica Quartet, she was heard live in residence on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and at The Ravinia Festival. She has recorded for Cedille records, including a collaboration with Guarneri String Quartet violist Michael Tree and for Arabesque and Bribie Recordings.
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Recent faculty positions include University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mason Gross School of Music at Rutgers University, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and in the past, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Interlochen Academy, Music Institute of Chicago, and National Music Camp in Australia. She earned her master's degree with Donald McInnes at the University of Southern California and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with Elizabeth Morgan.
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