Jennifer
Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional
boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of creative
improvisation. TheNew York Times has described her as a player
with "brilliance and command,"
and the Seattle Weekly applauded her performance with the words "intense,
spectacularly virtuosic play."
As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras
nationwide, and as a recitalist and chamber musician, she has
performed in venues such as the Library of Congress in Washington
D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Mozartsalle in Vienna,
and the RAI National Radio in Rome. In 2000, she was "Winner" of
the Artist International Award, leading to a debut recital in
Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Jennifer resides in New York City and is a prominent
fixture in its new music scene. Her versatility and skillful
performances has led her to premiere and record major works by
today's most influential composers like John Zorn, Christian Wolfe,
Lee Hyla, as well as some of the best creative musicians; Leo Wadada
Smith, George Lewis, Susie Ibarra, Raz Mesinai, and Erik Friedlander. She
is the violinist of the Fireworks New Music Ensemble and appears
as soloist and co-Concertmaster of SONYC (String Orchestra of New
York City).
Also a member of the Susie Ibarra Trio and the
John Zorn Chamber Ensemble, she has made appearances at the D’Maurier
Jazz Festival in Vancouver B.C., the Tampare Jazz Happening in
Finland as well as over a dozen other European jazz festivals,
and the Smithsonian and Guggenheim Museums. She can be heard
on TZADIK record label.
Jennifer is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Oberlin
Conservatory of Music.
www.jenniferchoi.com
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2002 Grammy-Nominee, violinist
and composer Gregor Huebner began studying
piano and violin at the age of six. In 1994 he moved
to New York to earn his MA degree in jazz piano/composition from
Manhattan School of Music and was bestowed with the "President's
Award."
As a member of "Tango Five", a group founded in 1985,
he performed at the World Exhibitions in Sevilla 1992 and Hannover
2000, the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, as well as Tango Festivals
in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in 1998. Together with the bandoneon
master Raul Jaurena, Mr. Huebner was a soloist with the
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the 1998 Tango Festival in Los Angeles.
From 1995 - 1999 Gregor was a member of "Philharmonia Virtuosi" and
the Chamber Orchestra of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1996
he joined Richie Beirach's group and recorded "The Snow Leopard" for "alfa
records". Since then, they recorded numerous CD's including "Round
About Frederik Mompou," which was nominated for the Latin
Grammy 2002. Mr. Huebner has appeared on Jazz festivals in
Kork (Ireland), Tiblisi (Georgia), Montreux, New York (JVC, Bell
Atlantic), Stuttgart (Jazz Open) and Porto (Portugal). He performed
at Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, the Berlin Philharmonie.
Frauenkirche in Dresden, Gewandhaus Leipzig and has traveled the
world including Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, Columbia, Mexico,
Hawaii, and Spain.
In September 1997, he recorded two of his compositions "New
York Stories" and "In Memoriam Bela Bartok" with
Richie Beirach and the Chamber Orchestra Philharmonia Virtuosi,
released by Mediaphon. "New York Stories" was also premiered
in April 2004 by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Most
recently, Mr. Huebner was commissoned by the International Bachakademie
in Stuttgart to compose and perform his latest work, Bach21
at the European Music Festival 2005 where he was named Composer
in Residence.
With his own group, the Gregor Huebner Quintet,
he has recorded two albums; "Panonien" and "Januschke's
time." And in 1998, he received the Jazz award from
the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
www.gregorhuebner.de
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From John Adams to John Zorn,
violist Ron Lawrence has performed and recorded
with many of new music's most exciting personalities. Besides
being a founding member of the Sirius String Quartet he
has performed extensively with
Cuartetango, Quartet Indigo, the Soldier String Quartet and the
Orchestra of St. Lukes. Other collaborators include Anthony Braxton,
John Blake, Bob Beldon, Anthony Davis, Regina Carter, Elliot Sharp,
James Blood Ulmer, Cassandra Wilson, Jonh Cale, and Eumir Deodato.
He has also recorded with Kathleen Battle, Robert Craft, Jonh Cage,
and Andre Previn. One of Ron's most exciting projects was
a journey to Alaska to record John Luther Adams multi-media spectacular,
Earth and the Great Weather --A Sonic Geography of the Arctic.
Despite a rigorous preformance schedule, he was able to break away
each evening to cross-country ski under the Northern Lights.
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Dave Eggar has performed
throughout the world as a classical and contemporary pianist, cellist
and composer including solo appearances in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln
Center (Avery Fischer Hall, Alice Tully Hall, New York State Theater),
the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, the Barbican Center Concert Hall
in London, The Paris Opera, The Aspen music Festival, Shinjuku
Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, and many others.
A champion of many styles of music, Mr. Eggar
has performed and recorded with artists and projects such as The
Who, Kathleen Battle, Sinead O'Conner, John Denver, Ornette Coleman,
Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, the New York
City Ballet, Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Jose Limon Dance Company,
the British Rock Orchestra, Pearl Jam, James Galway, and Leonard
Slatkin.
A graduate of the Juilliard School and Harvard
University, Mr. Eggar has received grants for his compositional
and improvisational work from the National Endowment for the Arts,
ASCAP, The Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Meet the Composer, the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Arts Midwest, Time Magazine,
Harvard University,
and the Geraldine Dodge Foundation. Mr. Eggar has premiered
works by eminent contemporary composers such as John
Cage, Frank Zappa, Charles Ives, Toshiro Mayazumi, Augusta Read
Thomas, Deborah Drattell, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, and has worked
closely with Milton Babbit on his compositions. Mr. Eggar has served
on the faculty of NYU, the Juilliard Pre-College Division, and
the Bowdoin Music Festival. He was awarded the
1997 SONY records award for excellence in the area of classical
music. www.daveeggar.com
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