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ContentsWelcome page 2

Program page 3

Bios page 8

Orchestra members page 7

Inspiration and perfection through music performance and

eductionWelcome to the 2013 CICA

Summer Music Festival Concert The Chen International Culture and Arts Summer Music Festivalwas begun in Fayetteville by Thomas Chun-yu Chen in 2009. In 2013, Maestro Chen moved to the festival to Dallas after being impressed by the environment of visual and performing arts so prevalent in the small town. This year’s festival is CICA’s most ambitious to date, bringing guest artists and faculty from around the world to Dallas. CICA’s guest artists also serve to attract enrollment of students who will spend three weeks with the festival, receiving instruction from and at-tending master classes with these renowned musicians, often playing along-side them in concert as part of the festival’s educational initiative - which is the ultimate focus. Revenue derived from ticket sales to concert performanc-es also helps to fund the educational effort. This is a rare opportunity to hear some of the best players of our gener-ation in solo, chamber ensemble and symphony performances. In addition, you’ll have the thrill of being among the first to hear young players and ris-ing stars in the International Concerto Competition and the Sunday Student Recitals. The CICA Music festival is much more than a nightly concert series featuring renowned musicians. Every day from June 18 to July 7, children from kindergarten to college are taking intensive immersion courses in gui-tar, strings, harp, woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, voice and even com-position from some of the finest teachers available. Thomas Chen’s ultimate goal is to found a permanent music conservatory in Dallas that will continue to draw students and faculty from around the world. This year’s CICA students have the rare opportunity to study with members of the Eroica Trio and have classes with Sara Sant’Ambrogio, An-drey Ponochevny, Aisha Syed Castro. Dr. Tony Baker, Dr. September Payne, Dr. Shih-Peng Chang, opera and movie artist Dominika Zamara and other accomplished teachers and musicians.The 2013 CICA Music Festival is all about celebrating the world of music by giving the next generation of talent the opportunity to flourish and bring its own music to the world.They’re waiting in the wings for their time to come…so enjoy the music and celebrate with us. Your ticket purchase is rewarded twice – once with an evening of enjoyment, and again by knowing your helped support CICA’s educational mission to help young musicians develop their talents and pre-serve fine arts performance into the future.

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CICA Summer Music Festival 2013 Program

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CICA Summer Music Festival 2013 Program

July 15th, Monday 7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 1 “Romeo and Juliet” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Prokofiev, Sergei

Arsentiy Kharitonov -- Piano Violin Sonata No.5, Op.24 “Spring” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig van

Dr. Shih-Peng Chang --Violin Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig van

Dr. Gregory Maytan -- Violin, Dr. Carlton McCreery -- Cello, Arthur Hart -- Piano

July 16th, Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 2Aisha Syde Castro Violin recital (Arthur Hart - Piano accompanist)

Danse Espagnole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manuel de Falla El Primer Beso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julio Alberto Hernández Le Grand Tango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Astor Piazzolla Suite Populaire Espagnole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manuel de Falla Zapateado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pablo de Sarasate

Intermission Pampeana No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alberto Ginastera Habanera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pablo de Sarasate Estrellita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manuel Ponce La Campanella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Niccolò Paganini

July 17th, Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 3Recital by Music CICA Festival Faculty and Participants

Passages, for flute, trumpet and piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abraham Fabella Five Inventions for flute and C trumpet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .William Presser Serendipity “Miles from Home”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Stephenson

Dr. Brian Walker - Trumpet, Dr. Julee Walker - Flute, Luis Sanchez - PianoMore pieces will be added

Dr. Tony Baker - Trombone, Dr. John Irish - Trumpet, Dr. Howard Hilliard - Horn, Dr. Brian Walker ,Dr. Kevin Young

July 18th, Thursday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 4Andrey Ponochevny Piano Recital

(Tchaikovsky international compeition and 9 other international competition awards winner) Six Sonatas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Domenico Scarlatti Sonata No.7 in B flat major, Op. 83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sergey Prokofiev

Intermission Prelude in D minor; Fragments, Op. Posth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergei Rachmaninoff Andante (from Cello Sonata), Op. 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arcadi Volodos 6 Preludes:F sharp minor, Op. 23 No.1, B flat Major, Op. 23 No.2, D Major, Op. 23 No.3, G major, Op.32 No.5

G sharp Minor, Op.32 No.12, D flat Major Op. 32 No.13

Due to the nature of our performances, all programming may be subject to change

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July 22th, Monday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

CICA International Concerto Competition

July 20th, Saturday10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. Dallas Pianos

13520 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75244World Renowned Pianist Master Class

the master class will be given by Andrey Ponochevny(Tchaikovsky international compeition and 9 other international competition awards winner)

7:30 p.m. Brookhaven CollegeSymphony Concert 2

The Marrige of Figaro-Overturn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saint Saens Camille

Piano solo: Arsentiy Kharitonov Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dvorak, Antonio

Conductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

July 23th, Tueday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

CICA summer music festival students and faculty recital Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Opus 56b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johannes Brahms Danse Macabre .Op 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C. Saint-Saens Souvenirs op. 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Barber La Valse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maurice Ravel

Dr. Le Kang -- Piano, Dr. Mei Zhu -- Piano Serendipity “Miles from Home” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .James Stephenson Centennial Horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin McKee, Aspen Grove, Interlude-Alpenglow, Roaring Gunnison

Dr. Brian Walker --Trumpet Sonata in G Major “Hamburger” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allegretto Rondo

Dr. Julee Walker --Flute Beethoven piano trio Op. 70 “GHOST” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig van

Dr. Nanette Chen -- Violin, Dr. Carlton McCreery -- Cello, Arsentiy Kharitonov -- PianoJuly 24th, Wednesday

7:00 p.m. Hockaday SchoolCICA summer music festival students and faculty recital

Program: TBA

July 19th, Friday7:30 p.m. Brookhaven College

Symphony Concert 1 Concerto for 2 violins in D minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bach, J. S.

Violin solo: Nanette Chen, Shih-peng Chang Vivaldi 4 seasons Violin Concerto in F major, RV 293 “Autumn” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antonio Vivaldi

Violin solo: Nanette Chen Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin solo: Gregory Maytan Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dvorak, Antonio

Conductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

July 25th, Thursday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 5Gregory Maytan Violin Recital (Arthur Hart - Piano accompanist)

Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig van Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major (K 301) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Sonata in G minor, L 140 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Achille-Claude Debussy “Poème” (Chausson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amédée-Ernest Chausson

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Brookhaven CollegeCICA summer music festival students and faculty recital

Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frank, CesarDr. Nanette Chen -- Violin

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July 26th, Friday7:30 p.m. Brookhaven College

Symphony Concert 3 Vivaldi 4 seasons violin concerto, Op. 8 “Spring” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Antonio Vivaldi

Violin solo: Gregory Maytan Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 “Emperor” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Piano solo: Andrey Ponochevny Symphony No. 9 “From the new world”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dvorak, Antonio

Conductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

7:30 p.m. Brookhaven CollegeSymphony Concert 4

Overture from “The Magic Flute” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Arias

Soprano: Dominika Zamara Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 “Emperor” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Piano solo: Andrey Ponochevny Symphony No. 9 “From the new world”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dvorak, Antonio

Conductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

July 28th, Sunday6:30 p.m. Chase Oaks Church

Symphony Concert 5 Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Bach J.S. violin concerto for 2 violins in Dminor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bach J.S.

Violin solo: Nanette Chen, Shih-peng Chang Vivaldi 4 seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Antonio Vivaldi

Violin solo: Nanette Chen, Gregory Maytan Arias

Soprano: Dominika Zamara Beethoven violin concerto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Violin solo: Aisha Syed CastroConductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

July 29th, Monday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 7Sara Sant’ Ambrogio Cello recital (Arthur Hart - Piano accompanist)

Porgy and Bess Fantasy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Gershwin Requiebros Piazzolla, Oblivion Piazzolla, Libertango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cassado Gaspar Etude Op.25 no.7, Opus posthumous Nocturne, Polonaise Brillante Op.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frédéric Chopin Intermission Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Johannes Brahms

July 27th, Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. Dallas Pianos

13520 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75244Chamber Music Concert and Party

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Brookhaven CollegeExtraordinary Artists Concert 6

Sara Sant’ Ambrogio Cello recital (Arthur Hart - Piano accompanist) Porgy and Bess Fantasy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Gershwin Requiebros Piazzolla, Oblivion Piazzolla, Libertango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cassado Gaspar Etude Op.25 no.7, Opus posthumous Nocturne, Polonaise Brillante Op.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frédéric Chopin Intermission Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Johannes Brahms

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July 31th, Wednesday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 9 Arthur Hart Piano recital Polonaise op. 53 Ballade op. 23, Scherzo op. 37 Nocturne op. 27 no. 2 12 Etides op. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frédéric Chopin

August 1st, Thursday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Chamber Music Concert by faculty and participants String Sextet No.1 in B-flat, Op.18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beethoven, Ludwig van

Dr. Nanette Chen - Violin, Dr. Shih-Peng Chang - Violin, Dr. Gregory Maytan - Violin, Dr. Matthew Daline - ViolaDr. Marshall Fine - Viola, Dr. Carlton McCreery, Dr. Simona Barbu,Arthur Hart - Piano

Dr. Tony Baker - Trombone, Dr. John Irish - Trumpet, Dr. Howard Hilliard - Horn, Dr. Brian Walker, Dr. Kevin Young

August 2nd, Friday7:30 p.m. Brookhaven College

Symphony Concert 6 Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Cello concerto Op. 8 “Summer”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elgar, Edward

Cello solo: Sara Sant’ Ambrogio Symphony No. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schumann, Robert

Conductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

August 3rd, Saturday7:30 p.m. Brookhaven College

Symphony Concert 7 Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Cello concerto Op. 8 “Summer”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elgar, Edward

Cello solo: Sara Sant’ Ambrogio Intermission

CICA international Concerto Competition winner awardsConcerto Competition Winner Performance

Symphony No. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Schumann, RobertConductor: Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen

July 30th, Tuesday7:00 p.m. Hockaday School

Extraordinary Artists Concert 8Matthew McBride-Daline Viola recital

FAE Scherzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ludwig van Beethoven ”Marchenbilder”, Op. 113. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Schumann

Intermission Solo Sonata Op 25 No. 1 “Trauermusik” (Music of Mourning). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Paul Hindemith

Orchestra Members

August 3rd, Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. Dallas Pianos

13520 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75244Chamber Music Concert and Party

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Brookhaven CollegeCICA summer music festival students and faculty recital

Program: TBA

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Orchestra Members Violin

Dr. Gregory MaytanDr. Nanette Chen

Seula LeeLeah Greenfield

Wei-Chen HuangMonica Lee

Caleb Mallett Ellen Lee

Krista VisnovskyTzu-Ting YehPaulina Jeng

Jaclyn RuedisueliDr. Shih-Peng Chang

Aisha Syde CastroZo ManfrediHsin-Yu Shih

Cheng-Hsuan ChenChia-Ling WuMycah Kettner

Hillary OuJina Zhao

Shi-Yo (Jill) Chen

CelloDr. Carlton McCreerySara Sant’ Ambrogio

Dr. Simona BarbuBrooks Popwell

Rachel LinJuneho Kim

Elaine WhitmireMarilyn liuYo yo Wang Johnny Mok

Jenna WhiteheadChiala Lee

ViolaDr. Marshall Fine

Dr. Matthew McBride-DalineDr. Ellen Rose

Dr. Lon Lon KangChing-Han Lin

Tzu-Yu WuMaria Rusu

BassAubrey Reichman

Tyler Francis

FluteDr.Julee Walker

Dr. September PayneDonald Bohanon-Wiliams

Jason CouturierJessa Martinez

OboeDr. Susanna HilliardDr. Shannon Clardy

Clarinet Timothy Bagert

Luis LeonKyle Przybylski

BassoonPeter UtersteinBurton Fowler

French hornDr. Howard Hilliard

Matthew ProstHowell Travis

TrumpetBert Truax

Dr. Brian WalkerJohn Irish

Stephen Braack

TromboneDr. Tony BakerSteven Eckert

Rick Blake

TubaKevin Young

PercussionEmsley TimothyChase Kallemeyn

TJ Emsley

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BiosFestival Director, CICA Orchestra Con-ductor Thomas Chun-yu ChenMaestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen is an internationally re-nowned conductor, violinist, composer, and string instru-ments maker and designer. A native of Taiwan, Mr. Chen has served as a mem-ber of the presiden-tial string quartet, resident composer, and orchestra conduc-tor for the ministry of Defense Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan. Maestro Chen is the founder and the director of CICA international Music Festival and School. Each year over 35 International world-renowned classical performance artists perform under the directions of Maestro Chen, alongside the Core-Art International Chamber Orchestra and the CICA Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. As orchestra conductor and violinist, Maestro Chen directs and performs three to four seasons of concerts each year. He has performed and collaborated with many top sym-phonic performers in the world, including Sara Sant’ Ambrogio, Alexander Gil-man, Tao Fan, Lech Antonio Uszynski, Gregory Maytan, Erika Nickrenz, Julia Bushkova, Arsentiy Kharitonov, Shih-peng Chang, Susie Park, Arthur Hart, Alla Aranovskaya, Boris Vayner, Leonid Shukayev, Evgeny Zvonnikov, Dominika Zamara, Nanette Chen, Tony Baker, the Eroica Trio, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, and many other performing artists. Chen has a BFA degree in performance from Fu-Jen Catholic University, MM degrees in performance, a Suzuki Violin Pedagogy degree from Southern Illinois University and a MA degree in Music Education from Lindenwood University. He did postgraduate doctor-ate study for the DM program at Florida State University and the DMA program at the University of Memphis. A decorated violin-maker and stringed

instrument designer, Maestro Chen has received First Prize in String Quartet making and Tone Prizes in Violin and Viola from the VMAAI International Violin-making Competition. Maestro Chen, who has led research on violin making methodology for decades, is known for his development of a unique “crystallized” violin varnishing methodology that achieves extraordinary clarity, brightness, and tone. Maestro Chen serves as a competition judge for the “Eureka Springs Violin Makers Conference” held in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and “Dallas International Antonio Stradivari Violin Makers Confer-ence” held in Dallas, Texas which feature over 200 string instrument exhi-bitions. Maestro Chen has recently concluded a successful 2012 season of CICA Summer Music Festival consisting of 7 symphonic concerts, 12 extraordinary artists’ concert series’, 18 chamber music concerts and numerous other solorecitals performed by such leading musicians as the Eroica Trio, the St. Petersburn Quartet, Alexander Gilman, and Lech Uzsynski.Maestro Chen’s upcoming performances include conducting 7 symphony concerts and many violin performances in the 2013 CICA summer music festival in Dallas, Texas from July 15 to August 4th 2013, leading and conducting the Core Art Chamber Orchestra, directing the Taiwan Interna-tionalMusic Festival 2014 in Taipei Taiwan, and directing the Taipei 2014 International Jazz Festival.Dr. Tony BakerTony Baker is an alumnus of the Uni-versity of Minnesota and the University of Central Arkansas. After serving as an assistant professor at Ohio University and Kent State University, Baker went on to establish himself in the internation-al realm. Through being featured as a soloist in festivals and performances such as Grindavik Cultural Festival (Iceland), Festival International D’art Lyrique

(France) and Academie EuropeÎnne de Musique (France), Baker grew his solo repute. These achievements gained him the opportuni-ties to coach clinics and jazz workshops at places such as the University of North Texas Jazz Combo Clinic, the Redbud Jazz Festi-val, the Capital University Jazz week, as well as give master classes and guest performances at renowned schools such as Oberlin Conservatory, Cincinnati Con-servatory, University of North Texas and Ohio State to name a few. Baker’s fervor for the trombone militated his entrance into ensembles such as the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Gram-my-nominated Sounds of Blackness, the Kent Brass Quintet, the Woody Herman Band, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, among a plethora of others. Through his vast and multifarious pro-fessional experiences in the jazz as well as classical facets of music, Baker has been acclaimed as one of the best trombonists of his generation. Baker currently serves as a member of the Richardson Sym-phony Orchestra (TX), the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble in addition to being Professor of Trombone at the Uni-versity of North Texas College of Music.

Dr. Simona BarbuAn astounding cellist and educator, Simona Barbu began her musical studies at age seven, gaining public attention as a member of the leading string quartet from the Conservatory of Timisoara in her native Romania. She made her solo debut performing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Conservatory’s Symphonic Orchestra. Active throughout Europe and United States as a soloist and chamber musician, Barbu most recently appeared in Shang-hai, China. Also active as an orchestral

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musician, she has performed with the Memphis Sympho-ny Orchestra and Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orches-tra, and served as principal cellist with both the Eroica Ensemble in Mem-phis, Tennessee as well as the Starkville

Symphony Orchestra in Mississippi. Dr. Barbu graduated as the Music Conservatory valedictorian from Lynn University in Florida, continuing her studies in the master of music in cel-lo performance program at Southern Methodist University under the tutelage of Nathaniel Rosen and Christopher Adkins. Subsequently, Barbu earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Memphis where she studied with cellist Leonardo Altino. She has participated in festivals such as the Brevard Music Center, Masterworks, and the International Academy of Music in Castelnuovo di Garfagana, Italy, and performed in master classes for Timothy Eddy, Yehuda Hanani, Lynn Harrell, Carol Ou, Amit Peled, Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. During her doctorate studies, Barbu served as a faculty member at Mississip-pi State University, where she taught strings, coached string chamber ensem-bles, and conducted the orchestra. In 2011, Dr. Barbu was appointed Assistant Professor of Cello and Burgum Endowed Chair at the University of North Dakota, where she currently teaches cello, string bass, string methods and chamber music.

Julia BushkovaBorn into a family of renowned violinists in Moscow, Russia, Julia Bushkova be-gan study of the vio-lin at the age of five and made her concer-to debut at the age of fifteen in Poland. She graduated sum-ma cum laude from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

where she studied with Professors Zoria Shikhmurzaeva, Igor Bezrodny, Kon-stantin Adjemov, and Dmitri Shebalin of the Borodin String Quartet. During this time, she performed in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, and the former USSR, includ-ing concerts in Moscow’s Great Hall and the Palace of Congress. Acclaimed by Joseph Gingold as a virtuoso of high rank, Julia Bushkova has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras and in recital throughout the United States, in her native Russia, as well as Germany, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom, Poland, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, and Venezuela. The “Ann Arbor News” emphasized, her remarkable ex-pressiveness and an unusually large and beautiful tone... her dazzling cadenzas and extraordinary technical execution. These accurate depictions of her playing has landed her as one of Dallas’ finest vi-olin teachers, giving her opportunities to teach at Brzewski International Master Classes in Poland, Yellow Barn Music School, Weathersfield Music Festival, Niagara International School for Musical Arts (Canada), the International Acade-my of Music (Italy), among a myriad of other festivals around the globe. Ms. Bus-hkova’s students have gone on to attend the finest conservatories, including the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, New En-gland Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, Mos-cow Conservatory, and perform with well known ensembles and orchestras, such as Cavani String Quartet, Detroit Sympho-ny, Dallas Symphony, Toronto Sympho-ny, and New York Philharmonic. Bushkova currently serves as a violin professor at the University of North Texas College of Music.

Dr. Shih-Peng ChangMr. Shih-Peng Chang He has given numerous recitals through Taiwan, Japan, United States, and Europe. After received his MM degree from Peabody music conservatory, he is a DMA (Doctor of Music Art) candidate at the University of Maryland. Mr. Chang has received many awards, including first prize of Tai-

wan National String Competition, winner of The National Taiwan Normal University Most Outstanding Musi-cian Prize, and win-ner of The Taiwan National Culture Center Competition. During his time of United States, he also received the full scholarship from Aspen and Kent Blossom Music Festival. Mr. Chang is also member of Alexandria Symphony orchestra, Annapolis Opera Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Chang founded the Taiwan Home-land Chamber Orchestra, and has leaded the orchestra to perform in many countries. He had released several award winning CDs which presents the composi-tions by well-known Taiwanese composer Dr. Diau-Hua Lim. Mr. Shih-Peng Chang joined CICA Mu-sic School in 2006. He decided to contrib-ute his knowledge to our music education in order to help more students.

Dr. Nanette ChenNanette Chen started her musical educa-

tion at the age of six in her native coun-try, Taiwan. After graduating from Indiana University College of Music, she completed her doctoral degree at the University of Maryland under full

scholarship with High Distinction and was awarded PI KAPPA LAMDA. She has studied with many renowned violin-ists such as Lin Yao-ji in China, Daniel Heifetz and Guarneri Quartet, Henryk Kowalski in the US, and Ms. Su-Te Lee in Taiwan. Dr. Chen is in high demand as solo-ist, recitalist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She has performed, among others, under Robert Scholz, Felix Chiu-Sen Chen, Gustav König, Dr. Jan Popper, Lutz Herbig, and Peng

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Cao, with Taiwan’s leading orchestras including National Symphony Orches-tra, Taipei City Symphony Orchestra, Taipei County Symphony Orchestra, Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Normal University Symphony Orchestra, Fu-Jen Catholic University Symphony Orchestra, and Yin Qi Sym-phony Orchestra. Her numerous recital engagements include performances all over Taiwan and occasionally in Europe, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., and Hong Kong. She has appeared at many major music specials including Taipei International Music Festival, Composition Competition Debut, Hsin-Tien Temple Art Series. As a chamber musician, Ms. Chen fre-quently appears as a major artist-mem-ber of chamber groups including Kuan-Yu Ensemble, Rhapsodic String Quartet, Chopin Piano Trio, Taipei Ensemble of New Arts, New string Octet, and Taipei Ensemble Virtuoso, cooperating with visiting international musicians. At present, Professor Chen is the head of the Violin Teaching and Research De-partment at the National Taiwan Nor-mal University and also teaches at Taipei Municipal University of Education.

Dr. Shannon ClardyShannon Clardy, Adjunct Professor of Oboe, performs as principal oboist with the Little Rock Wind Symphony and has performed with the Pine Bluff Sympho-ny. While residing in Texas, she performed with the Arlington, Sherman, and Allen Symphonies. Her primary teachers include Eric Barr and James Hobbs. Dr. Clardy has performed under many notable conductors, including Frederick Fennell, Andrew Litton, Eduardo Mata, Keri-Lynn Wilson, H. Robert Reynolds, Gary Garner, Richard Giangiulio. In addition to her musical activities, Dr. Clardy is an active researcher in as-tronomy. Her primary research interest is the observation of the optical properties of X-ray binary systems. She is involved

in a NASA IDEAS grant to introduce astronomy activities to middle school and high school classrooms, allowing students access to a fully-automated research-grade telescope.

Arthur HartArthur Hart, graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and the Vienna Music Academy, has won numerous top prizes at international piano competitions. These have included the Juilliard Gina Bachauer Prize, the American Chopin Competition, the Maria Callas Prize in Greece, the Claude Kahn European Piano Award in Paris, and many others. On his debut at the New-port Music Festival, the New York Times noted him as, “unquestionably a name to watch for.” His marathon concert series’ have included the Thirty-Two Beetho-ven Piano Sonatas, Bach’s Complete Well-Tempered Clavier, and the Liszt Piano Transcriptions of Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies. An avid interpreter of contemporary music, he was awarded First Prize at the Vienna Music Acade-my’s Twentieth-Century Piano Music Competition. Also active as a composer throughout his career, he was given the Alban Berg Composition Award during his studies in Vienna. He has held posi-tions as Educational Music Director with Opera Carolina, and Artist-in-Residence for the St. Louis City Museum, and the International Piano Guild in West Palm Beach. Presently an accompanist at the University of Memphis, he has just released a CD named “One on One with Chopin”, and continues to compose.

Dr. Howard HilliardHoward Hilliard is a fifth generation Cal-ifornian where he studied at the Universi-ty of Southern California and received his Bachelor and Master of Music. At the in-vitation of principal conductor Zubin Me-hta, he was invited to play principal horn in Florence’s main orchestra, L’Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, for over

six years. As part of that orchestra he recorded on many of the major classi-cal labels as well as the original “Three Tenors” concert from Rome—the fastest selling classical CD of all time. After returning to the United States, Dr. Hilliard received his doctoral degree from the University of North Texas College of Music. His most recent concerto engagements in Texas include performances with the Garland, Las Colinas, San Angelo and Arlington symphony orchestras. Dr. Hilliard has performed as principal horn in numerous symphonies through out the United States, Europe and Latin America. Orchestras and wind ensembles he has performed as principal horn with include: “I Solisti Fiorentini”; “Solisti dell’Ensemble Cameristico Pistoiese”; “Orquesta Sinfónica de la UANL”; in Monterrey, Mexico, Boston Civic Sym-phony, North Shore Symphony, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas and Texas Wind Symphonies, Riverside County Philharmonic, West Side Symphony among others. He is currently the prin-cipal horn of the Garland, Las Colinas, San Angelo and Arlington symphony orchestras. Some of the conductors Dr. Hilliard has played principal horn for include: Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Guilini, Edu-ardo Mata, Andrew Davis, Leonard Slat-kin, Georges Prètre, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Thielemann, Myung-Wha Chung, Semyon Bychkov, James Con-lon, Frederick Fennell as well as Zubin Mehta. He has been a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science, which selects the “Gram-my” awards each year. In addition to being an active freelancer in the DFW Metroplex, he teaches French horn and trumpet, repairs brass instruments, does custom horn work and publishes both pedagogical articles and sheet music.

Dr. Sussana HilliardSusanna Newton Hilliard was born in

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England and raised in the Boston area. Her musical training began at the age of seven with the recorder. At eleven, she switched to the oboe. In high school, Susanna performed with both the New England Conservato-ry Youth Orchestra, under the baton of Benjamin Zander, and the Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble (M.Y.W.E.), un-der conductor Frank L. Battisti. In 1976 she had the honor of touring Russia with M.Y.W.E. It was at the age of 15 after attending the “Apple Hill” music camp in the New Hampshire countryside, that she was inspired to pursue a lifelong career in music. Susanna received her Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Performance from the New School of Music in Philadelphia un-der the instruction of Stevens Hewitt and Louis Rosenblatt. She was the recipient of the prestigious Robert Montgomery Memorial Award for leadership, a full merit scholarship. She played numerous chamber music concerts as a member of a student-organized oboe quartet and performed in several local symphonies, soloing twice in 1978 and 1979. She then traveled to Los Angeles, Cali-fornia, where she played with the Desert Symphony, the Peninsula Chamber Orchestra, and the Glendale Chamber Orchestra. Subsequently, she won a one-year position in the National Orchestra of New York in Manhattan, where she studied with Elaine Duvas, principal oboe of the Metropolitan Opera, and also performed with the New Amsterdam Symphony. During the next few years, while traveling at home and abroad, Susanna played in ensembles and orchestras in Boston, Los Angeles, and Florence, Italy. Her performances in Florence included the chamber groups Solisti a Fiato di Firenze and Solisti dell’Ensemble Camer-istico Pistoiese, and a unique recital at the historic Villa Corsi Salviati in Sesto Fiorentino. In 1994, Susanna and her family—

which now included two sons—moved to North Texas, where she launched her teaching career. She currently has a stu-dio of more than 45 students a week, and plays oboe and English horn regularly in three symphony orchestras: the Irving Symphony, Plano Symphony, and San Angelo Symphony. Susanna is a co-founder of the chamber music ensemble Mélange Musical.

Dr. John IrishJohn Irish is Professor of Music at Angelo

State University, San Angelo, Texas. In addition to his duties with the high brass studio, he directs ASU high brass ensembles. Prior to this position, he taught trumpet at Wittenberg Univer-

sity in Springfield, Ohio and at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. His career includes performances with the Southwest German Radio Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, among chamber orchestras, brass quintets, and a wide variety of dance bands and commercial projects. He currently holds the position of principal trumpet of the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and resides as founder of the jazz quintet, Jazz Concho. This university position follows a dis-tinguished career in the Air Force Band system in which he performed in all fifty states in addition to Canada, Mexico, and Western Europe. Dr. Irish was featured in 2005 as a guest artist in a series of master classes and as a soloist with an orchestra in Chihuahua, Mexico as well as performing a solo recital in Taipei, Tai-wan in 2010. In May 2011, he gave the world premiere of a new work for trum-pet by Australian composer, Brendan Collins at the 36th Annual Conference of the International Trumpet Guild in Min-neapolis. In the summer of 2012, he was asked to perform as Principal Trumpet in the orchestra of Opera Maya, touring with that group throughout the Yucatan

peninsula of Mexico. In addition to his passion to play mu-sic, Dr. Irish also enjoys writing about it. He has contributed to the Journal of the International Trumpet Guild as well as the Bandmasters Review, the Newslet-ter of the International Women’s Brass Conference and The Brass Herals.Irish completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Cincin-nati, College-Conservatory of Music; he earned the Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Texas at San An-tonio. Prominent teachers include Bert Truax, Alan Siebert, John Carroll, Vince DiMartino, and Dale Marrs.

Dr. Le KangA native of China, pianist Le Kang specializes in both Chinese and Amer-ican classical music and has performed these works widely in China and the United States. Le Kang earned a DMA degree from the Uni-versity of Colorado and a BM degree in piano performance from the prestigious Shanghai Conserva-tory, the leading music school in China.As a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and Shenzhen Piano Teacher Association (Shenzhen, P.R.China), Le Kang won a number of awards, including prizes in the “KAWAI” International Piano Competition, Pearl River Piano Competi-tion, ISMTA, Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Graduate Student Competition. She has served as juror for the China National Giant Cup Art Talent Contest; the Shenzhen Piano Open Competition; the TOYOMA Piano Competition, the Sonic Cup piano Open Competition; the Irmler Piano Competition and the Golden Sunflower Cup National Piano Competition in China. Le Kang is currently a Associate Pro-fessor at Shenzhen University. Many of her students are prize winners of various competitions including the Hong Kong-Asia Piano Open Competition; Irmler Piano Competition; Macau- Asia Piano

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Open Competition; TOYOMA Piano Competition; Hong Kong International Music and Arts Competition. And her students have been accepted by famous schools including the Manhattan School of Music.

Dr. Arsentiy KharitonovA prize winner of numerous national and international com-petitions, including the 1991 Sergei Rachmaninoff Competition (Rus-sia), 2003 “Slavic Music” Competition (Ukraine), Beetho-ven Piano Sonata Competition (Mem-phis, USA), and the Franz Liszt Interna-tional Piano Competition (Los Angeles, USA), Arsentiy Kharitonov has been heard in solo recitals and with orchestras in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Sweden, and the United States. He studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music of the famed St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, where his musical progress was immediate and astounding. Soon, he was giving solo recitals, which featured his own compositions and brilliant impro-visations in variety of musical styles in addition to the standard piano repertoire. Kharitonov’s first orchestral appearances in Russia have included solo performanc-es with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Theatre Youth Phil-harmonic Orchestra. Upon graduating from St. Petersburg, he moved to the University of North Texas - the largest music school in the United States. His major teachers have been Igor Lebedev of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and, in the United States, Nikita Fitenko, and Joseph Banowetz. Recently, Kharitonov recorded first CD of a series of music by Leo Ornstein, which has been released internationally by Toccata Classics (Lon-don, England).

Dr. Gregory MaytanGregory Maytan is on the faculty at Grand Valley State University (Allen-

dale, MI). Playing over 50 recitals a year, Maytan performs major pieces around the world—includ-ing major pieces such as Paganini, Bruch, Barber and Tchaikovsky violin concertos. More recently, Maytan has toured through Ne-vada, Indiana, Michigan, Sweden, China, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. An avid chamber musician, he has participated in the prestigious chamber music festival ‘Musikveckan’ in Junsele, Sweden; the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee; and the Sagatuck Chamber Music Festival in Sagatuck, MI. He has performed at venues such as Ravinia, Tanglewood and the Chicago Cultural Center. Recently he performed live on Chicago Public Radio. Maytan’s first CD, consisting of music from his native Scandinavia, was selected by The Strad as the top recital CD of April 2009 and highly praised by Strings Magazine and the American Record Guide. He has participated in the Internation-al Chamber Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, where he was a featured prize winner, and he has placed in the Swed-ish Royal Academy’s competition for post-graduate three years in a row. A sought-after teacher, he has presented master classes at Butler University (Indianapolis), the University of Tennes-see-Knoxville, the University of Neva-da-Reno, Northern State University-Ab-erdeen the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway, the University of North Texas-Denton, The University of Florida- Gainesville and the University of Wyoming-Laramie. Maytan has recently been involved in the musical ensemble Luna Nova and also maintains his position as concert-master of the Battle Creek Symphony. Maytan has also performed as concert-master and section leader for legendary conductors Kurt Masur and Christoph Von Dohnanyi. He earned his doctorate in violin

performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, where he studied with the renowned vio-linists Miriam Fried and Paul Biss. Other teachers include Igor Petruschevski (Lon-don), Federico Agostini (Bloomington) and Alexander Kerr (Bloomington). He is currently performing on the 1766 ‘ex-Loeb’ Nicolo Gagliano.

Dr. Matthew McBride-DalineMr. Daline enjoys an international career as a chamber musician and viola soloist. He began his studies on violin with Michele Auclair of the Paris Conserva-tory, and continued his studies on the viola with Marcus Thompson and Mar-tha Strongin Katz at the New England Conservatory. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from The Juilliard School where he was a Teaching Assistant for Karen Tuttle and his Master’s Degree from Yale University where he studied with Jesse Levine. Dr. McBride-Daline’s pursuit of a higher education has landed him the opportunity to work with venerable mu-sicians including Katherine Murdock and Lawrence Dutton. Daline made his debut in Carnegie Hall after winning he 1999 Artists International Competition. Since this performance, Daline has been invited to perform worldwide as a viola soloist. In terms of chamber music experience, Daline has performed in a multiplicity of chamber music festivals including The Banff Center for the Arts, the Spoleto Festival, the Verbier Academy, The Tanglewood Festival, among many oth-ers. More recently, Daline has held viola and chamber music master classes at Yale University, North Carolina School of the Arts, Yonsei University, Penn State, among other impressive conserva-tories across the globe. Daline’s musical versatility has granted her opportunities to perform in most of the major concert halls in North America including Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fish-er Hall and Carnegie Hall. Mr. Daline

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has recently performed as the Principal Violist of The Baton Rouge Symphony, Opera Louisiane, and with the Louisiana Philharmonic. In 2006 Mr. Daline started the Southern Viola Society which orga-nized events at Louisiana State Univer-sity. Mr. Daline performs on a Brescian Viola circa 1690.Dr. Carlton McCreeryCarlton McCreery, Professor of Cello, is

a native of Toledo, Ohio and began studying cello in the fourth grade. In high school, he served a principal cellist and soloist with the Tole-do Youth Orchestra. He went on to study

under Peter Howard at Bowling Green State University. Immediately after his college graduation, Mr. McCreery was appointed Principal Cellist of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He studied in Zurich, Switzerland with Gregor Piatig-orsky and at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Austria with Antonio Janigro. At the University of Michigan, he studied with Oliver Edell and conducting with Elizabeth A.H. Green. He had further cello study with such noted artists as Zara Nelsova and Lynn Harrell. His first academic appointment was at the age of 23 at Pittsburg State Univer-sity, where he was a member of the Res-ident String Quartet. He also served as a Professor at Southwest Missouri State University and the Lawrence Conserva-tory of Music. In addition to performing with the internationally acclaimed Cadek Trio, Mr. McCreery serves as Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Alabama. Mr. McCreery has concert-ized in China, South America, Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Switzerland and Boston, Washington, D.C. and New York.The Bucaramanga Vanguardia Liberal wrote that the per-formance showed “flawless interpretation and . . . refined beauty.” He dealt with the variety of moods with a high degree of virtuosity, said the Meridian Star and the Birmingham News said, Carlton Mc-Creery performed musically, with clean

intonation and flawless rhythm . . . Mr. McCreery recently completed his 33rd year on the Artist-Faculty of the Brevard Music Center, where he was Principal Cellist of the Brevard Music Center Festival Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Repertory Symphony Orchestra. Mr. McCreery owns several cellos, in-cluding a Scarampella and a Carl Becker (1930).

Dr. September PayneDr. Payne is Adjunct Flute Professor/Lecturer of Music History, Emeritus at SDSU, Grossmont and Mesa Colleges. She is a teaching/ performing faculty member of CICA International Sum-mer Orchestra & Chamber Music Festival in Dallas, TX, and Raffaele Trevisani’s Summer Flute Course in Milan, Italy. Former free lance positions include: Houston Symphony, San Diego Cham-ber Orchestra, Boston Opera, Banff Festival Orchestra, and Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet. As Director of Wind/Brass at California Institute of Music, conductor of SDSU Flute Choir and CYO Wind Ensemble, Dr. Payne recruited and mentored young orchestral musi-cians. She served as President to the SD Flute Guild and now as a flute mentor for NFA’s scholarship program. Currently, September (co-founder of SD Coastal Flutes) brings cutting edge projects & international artists to So. Cal. As a clinician and in her Music West Flute Studio, she teaches the traditions of her mentors of the French School of flute playing: Moyse, Rampal, Galway, Gilbert, Tipton, Buyse and Wincenc. “September is a mover and shaker in the world of Classical flute. She is a per-sonable expert in her field who produces great results. Many of her students from SDSU, Grossmont, Mesa, and Houston Colleges hold jobs in universities and or-chestras. She is someone every San Diego flutist should get to know”.

Dr. Kurakowa, Music Director, San Marcos College; formerly Grossmont College.

Andrey PonochevnyAndrey Ponochevny is a prize-winning pianist born in Minsk, Belarus on December 31, 1976. He graduat-ed at the Belarussian State Academy of Music in 2001, and soon afterward was awarded the Bronze Medal at the XIII Tchaikovsky competition. In addition to his success in Moscow, Ponochevny has won First Prize at the “Tomassoni International Piano Competition in Cologne”, Germany and First Prize at the “William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland.” His other competition achievements include top prizes in Prague, Warsaw (Chopin), Dub-lin (AXA), Moscow, Hong Kong, Riga (Latvia), Alexandria and New Orleans (Louisiana).Since then, he has toured extensively throughout the world, performing solo recitals at major historical venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City; Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; Preston Bradley Hall, Beethonvenhalle, City Hal in Hong Kong, Salle Alfred Cortot in Paris among others. Mr. Ponochevny has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony, Rogue Valley Symphony and the Illinois Symphony, Nashua Symphony, Warsaw Philhar-monic, Irving Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Plano Symphony, Tianjin Symphony, Xinjiang Philharmonic, Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schloss-festspiele and Belarusian State Sympho-ny. His concerts have been broadcast on WGBH Boston, WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago, WDR Cologne (Germa-ny), Kultura Minsk (Belarus), SIRTVS Ljubljana (Slovenia), ROROR Bucha-rest (Romania), AUABC Adelaide (Aus-tralia), DKDR Copenhagen (Denmark).

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Andrey Ponochevny has performed at several prestigious festivals such as Ruhr Klavier Festival and the Bonner Herbst, International Keyboard Institute and Festival (IKIF) in New York city, In-ternational Ludwigsburg Festival; Serie de los Nuevos Virtuosos in Puerto Rico, Bravissimo Festival in Guatemala city, Changchun International festival, China, Music in the Mountains, Durango, CO. He also holds several prestigious awards from China such as Outstanding Artist in China 2009 and 2011, Honorable profes-sor of Jilin College of Arts and visiting professor at the Beihua University. Mr.Ponochevny graduated from Belarussian Academy of Music where he received his Bachelor and Master degrees. He also holds his Artist Diploma from TCU, Fort Worth, where he studied with Dr. Tamas Ungar. He continued to refine his skills in the Artist Certificate Program at SMU in Dallas with renowned pianist Joaquin Achucarro. In addition to his concert schedule, he also teaches piano at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.

Dr. Ellen Rose Ellen Rose, a Juilliard School graduate,

since 1980, has served as Principal Viola of the Dallas Sympho-ny. She has per-formed with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Yo-Yo Ma in chamber music concerts and

has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Europe and South America. She served on The Aspen music faculty from 1989-2002 and currently teaches at Southern Methodist Univer-sity. Rose can be heard on two CDs on the Centaur Records label. She has given master classes at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has been a performer and guest speaker at the Viola National Congresses in Sweden and the U.S. She has written two books: EXTREME VIOLA (a scale book) and VIOLA EXCERPTS PLUS.

In January, 2010, she presented a world premiere of a viola concerto dedicated to her by composer, Margaret Brouwer, that was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony. In March of 2012, she recorded the concerto with Jaap van Zweden conducting members of the DSO. In 2010, she returned to Romania to do master classes and chamber music con-cert. In the summer of 2010, she joined the faculty of the Summer Institute in Budapest, Hungary. In November, 2012, she did a recital tour of China in Beijing, Shanghai and Kunming giving master classes at the Beijing Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as well as coaching string ensem-bles. In July, 2013 she will be giving master classes in Moscow before going to festivals in Romania and Hungary. As a philanthropist, she has worked with Children’s Medical Center of Dallas to raise money for the children’s cancer unit and has raised funds for The Nel-son Center for abused and abandoned children.. Her recital fee in Kunming, China was donated to the Kunming In-ternational Academy to buy instruments and create scholarships. She was also a volunteer counselor at the Dallas Preg-nancy Resource Center.

Sara Sant’Ambrogio(Eroica Trio)Grammy Award-winning cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio first leapt to international attention when she was a winner at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Violon-cello Competition in Moscow, Russia. As a result of her medal, Carnegie Hall invited Ms. Sant’Ambrogio to perform a recital that was filmed by CBS News as part of a nationally tele-vised profile about her. The New York Times described her New York debut as, sheer pleasure. In addition to the Tchaikovsky Medal, Ms. Sant’Ambrogio has won numerous international competitions, including The

Whitaker, The Dealey, Artists Interna-tional, Palm Beach awards as well as a Grammy Award for her performance of Bernstein’s “Arias and Barcarolles.” Sant’Ambrogio has been profiled in Strings, Glamour, Gramophone, Vogue, Strad, Elle, In Fashion, Bon Appetit, Detour, Travel and Leisure, Fanfare and Swing magazines, as well as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, on CBS, ABC, PBS, Fox, USA and CNN networks. Ms. Sant’Ambrogio has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as Atlanta, the Beijing Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Budapest, Chicago, Dallas, Moscow State Philharmonic, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Osaka Century Orchestra (Japan), St. Louis, San Francisco and Seattle; she has performed throughout the world at major music centers and festivals including Aspen, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Konzert Huset in Stockholm, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Musikverein in Vienna, Ravinia, Orchard and Suntory Halls in Tokyo and Great Mountain Festival in Korea. Ms. Sant’Ambrogio started cello stud-ies with her father John Sant’Ambrogio, principal cellist of the St. Louis Sym-phony, and at the age of 16 was invited on full scholarship to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music. Three years later world renowned cellist Leonard Rose invited Ms. Sant’Am-brogio to study at The Juilliard School; within weeks of arriving, she won the all-Juilliard Schumann Cello Concerto Competition, resulting in the first of many performances at Lincoln Center. Ms. Sant’Ambrogio is a founding member of the Eroica Trio. The Trio won the prestigious 1991 Naumburg Award, resulting in an acclaimed Lincoln Center debut and has since extensively toured the United States, Europe, Asia, the Mid-dle East, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1997 the Trio opened the “Distinctive Debuts” series at Carnegie Hall, and that year represented Carnegie Hall as the official chamber music ensemble in concerts worldwide. While touring the globe, Eroica has released eight celebrat-

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ed recordings for Angel EMI Classics Records, garnering multiple Grammy nominations. Sara Joined CICA Summer Music Festival as cello faculty and distinguished artist since 2012 and will serve as faculty and CICA 5th international concerto competition judge in 2013.

Bert TruaxBert Truax started playing trumpet when he was 7 years old, and soloed with the San Francisco Symphony when he was 13. After graduating from the Curtis Insti-tute of Music in1976, he won the job of Sec-ond Trumpet with the Dallas Symphony, where he played for 23 years. In 1985 he took a leave of absence to play a season as Second Trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He played Principal Trumpet with the Richardson Symphony from 2001 to 2009, and currently is Principal Trumpet of the Lewisville Symphony. He also performs with the East Texas and Wichita Falls Symphony orchestras. As a successful composer, Bert has been commissioned by the Dallas Sym-phony, the Dallas Bach Society, the West Point Military Academy, and New York Philharmonic Principal Trombon-ist Joseph Alessi.

Peter UntersteinPeter Unterstein is currently the contra-

bassoonist and utility bassoonist of the Fort Worth Symphony, a position he has held since 2000. He also serves as the principal bassoon of the Plano Symphony and the Ir-ving Symphony and is

in demand as a freelance player through-out the Dallas metroplex. He holds a Master’s degree from the Univeristy of Michigan where he studied with Richard Beene and an Artist Certificate from the Southern Methodist University where he

studied with Will Roberts of the Dallas Symphony. Additional teachers include Jeff Keesecker of the Florida State University where Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in bassoon as well as John Hunt of the Eastman School of Music and Trevor Cramer.Dr. Brian WalkerInstructor of Music at Southeastern teaches courses in Music Theory, applied Trumpet and is Director of the Southeastern Jazz Ensemble. He has completed trumpet performance degrees from Southeastern Oklahoma State University (B.M.), The Florida State University (M.M.), and the University of North Texas (D.M.A.). Dr. Walker has performed with many groups in the DFW region including the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Dallas Op-era, Plano, Allen, Arlington, Las Colinas, Irving, Garland, and Dallas Chamber Orchestras. He has also had the oppor-tunity to perform with the North Texas Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orches-tra, and the Grammy Nominated UNT One O’clock Lab Band. While at Florida State, Dr. Walker performed with the Tallahassee Symphony, Pensacola Sym-phony, New World Symphony, Tallahas-see Ballet, and Miami Opera Company to name a few. As a soloist, Dr. Walker has given recitals in Texas, Oklahoma, Missis-sippi, Georgia, Florida, Mytilene, Greece and performed throughout France. As a teacher, he has been a Teaching Assistant at The Florida State University and Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas. His private students have gone on to study at distinguished univer-sities such as: Michigan University, Jul-liard School of Music, Harvard Univer-sity, Yale University, Eastman School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Mu-sic and have been placed in a multitude of area youth orchestras, jazz ensembles and All-State groups. As a student, he has studied with Michael Miles, Iskander Akhmadullin, Christopher Moore, John Holt and Keith Johnson.

Dr. Walker is currently the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Tarleton State University.

Dr. Julee Kim WalkerFlutist Julee Kim Walker remains an active performer and pedagogue in the DFW and Texoma re-gions. She is the newly appointed Instructor of Flute at Texas A&M University. Prior to her appointment, she held teaching po-sitions at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Grayson County College, Eastfield College, and the University of North Texas as a Teaching Fellow. Ms. Walker received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Currently, she is a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) at the University of North Texas. Ms. Walker has served on the Board of Directors in the Texas Flute Society and the Oklahoma Flute Society, and is the Director of the Texas Summer Flute Symposium. As a versatile chamber musician, she has performed and recorded with the jazz chamber group, Evan Weiss Project , and with the rock band Oso Closo. Julee has also performed and recorded with the North Texas Wind Symphony under Eugene Corporon, where she can be heard on the Klavier Wind Project, GIA WindWorks and the “Teaching Music through Performance in Band” series from 2005-2009. She appeared as soloist with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in 2006, and has performed at the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, and the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles conventions. Overseas, she was flutist for the Austrian Ameri-can Mozart Academy Opera Festival in Salzburg, Austria for 3 seasons, and has performed as Principal flutist with the Franco-American Vocal Academy Opera Festival in Perigueux, France. In April 2012, she was featured soloist with the

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Southeastern Symphonic Winds, per-forming Joel Puckett’s “The Shadow of Sirius” for Flute and Wind Ensemble. Ms. Walker currently serves as the piccoloist for the South Arkansas Sym-phony and the Sherman Symphony Orchestras.

Dr. Kevin YoungKevin Young is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he began his music ca-reer playing trombone and tuba at the age of 11. After graduating from high school he attended Louisiana State University. His academic career was interrupted with his enlistment into the United States Army. He spent nearly nine years serving his country at four sep-arate duty stations. His assignments were to the 1st Calvary Division Band in Ft. Hood, Texas, 8th Army Band in Seoul, Korea, The United States Continental Army Band in Ft. Monroe, Virginia and the 389th Army Band (AMC’s own) in Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Mary-land. Kevin has performed extensively throughout the East Coast from Orlando, Florida to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has also performed as a free-lance musician outside of his military assignments with many chamber ensembles. Now out of the military, Kevin com-pleted both the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from L.S.U. Kevin is the Principal Tubist of the Rapides Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Louisiana Philhar-monic Orchestra, Dominion Brass Band and the Salt River Brass. He has been a semi-finalist in auditions for the United States Army Band, The United States Field Band, The Dallas Brass Quintet and The United States Military Acade-my Band. His playing has been greatly influenced by Dr. Joseph Skillen, Larry Campbell, Sam Pilafian, Pat Sheridan, Deanna Swoboda, John Manning and Robert Nunez.

Dominika ZamaraDominika Zamara was born on 11 Aug

1981 in Wroclaw (Poland). Though her first instrument was the piano, Dr. Zamara’s first musical passion was actu-ally singing. When she was a child she performed many religious solos during church masses and

also recorded several numbers for Polish Radio. Her professional singing classes started in Secondary Richard Bukowski School in Wroclaw where she studied under Professor Hanna Celejewski and grad-uated summa cum laude. After serving as a leading role in the play Sweeney Agonastis at the Jerzy Grotowski Theater and after receiving a scholarship from the Italian government, Zamara studied at the Italian Conservatorio in Verona and then finished her studies at the Music Academy in Wroclaw, receiving summa cum laude and becoming a Master of Fine Arts. Some of her more interesting works are her projects in collaboration with the venerable Polish artist, Witold Liszkows-ki. Together they pioneered new synthe-sized genres such as rock-opera, painting, theater, and dance. In more recent years, Zamara toured France during the Sacred Music Festival along with the notable organist, Fabrice Pitroise; she also toured internationally through Germany, Poland, Great Britain, and Switzerland, and Italy, where she sung for the Vatican and the Polonia Academy Awards. In 2011, she made her debut in Los Angeles, performing the leading role of Mimi in the opera “La Boheme” alongside famous actors Maria Newman and Chris Allport. She went on to act in the Mozart Festival in Salzburg and participated in the Stradivari Festi-val, singing in the Lodz Cathedral. At present Dominika resides in Italy and holds the position of Associate Professor of voice at the Certosa Italian Academy of music.

Dr. Mei ZhuMs Mei Zhu, pianist, has giving numer-ous performances in the US and Asia

where her intelligent and passionate performances have received wide acclaim. The Denver Post has described her play-ing as penetrating “beyond technical requirements to en-counter its emotional heart”. Her Mozart playing has been praised by Paul Badu-ra-Skoda as “intelligent” and “beautiful”. She won the first prize in the Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition, the first prize in the Zhejiang Professional Music Competition, Howard Lebow Music Award, Kent/Blossom Chamber Music Fellowship, Simms Piano Fellowship and many others. She has performed with Shanghai Symphonic Orchestra, UMass Orchestra, and Stony Brook Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with great musicians across the world, presenting numerous concerts, including those in the Weill Hall of Carn-egie, Reinberger Hall of Severance, Fine Arts Center at Amherst, Ludwig Hall at Kent, Harris Hall at Aspen, Berkner Hall at Brookhaven, Staller Fine Arts center at Stony Brook, Shanghai Concert Hall, etc. She could be heard on broadcasts by KAJX-91.5 FM, WKSU-89.7FM radio stations, and on the Springfield TV sta-tion. From 2003-2007, she has received chamber music coaching with Emerson String Quartet, Gilbert Kalish, Colin Carr, Pamela Frank, Frank Morelli, and Elain Bonnazzi. Born in Hangzhou, China, Ms Zhu received her Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Shanghai Conserva-tory of Music under Shiyu Zhou. She earned her Master’s degree in solo and chamber music from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she worked with Estela Olevsky and Nadin Shank, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Christina Dahl. Ms Zhu is now serving as associate professor and Deputy Head of the Piano Department of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music.

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