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2008 Silver Medalist |
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Gracieux Trio (formerly known as Vuillaume Trio) was founded at Stony Brook University in January, 2003. Since their founding, the trio has been featured at the Emerson Festival, the Ackerman Series and Steinway Hall in NYC. In 2004, the trio was presented in its New York Debut as a winner of Artists International’s Chamber Music Award at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall to a sold-out performance, and receiving highest acclaim. The trio has been annually invited to perform at various concert halls including the Tsuda Hall in Tokyo, which performances were broadcast live and received highest critical acclaim. During the 2007 concert season, the Gracieux Trio’s schedule includes recitals at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City (sponsored by the Artist International Winners Alumni Series) and the Oji Hall in Tokyo. The trio has been studying with members of the Emerson String Quartet, Wu Han, Gilbert Kalish, Ani Kavafian, Colin Carr and Christina Dahl. From left to right – Yuiko Arai, cello; Ryoko Arai, violin; and Gloria Shih, piano. |
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N-E-W Trio has won grand prize at the 61st Coleman National Chamber Music Competition and first prize at the second Plowman National Chamber Music Competition (where they also won the Audience Prize). Their 2008 season includes two performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., including a performance alongside the Naumburg award-winning Biava String Quartet and violinist Itzhak Perlman. The trio has been presented by the Juilliard School-Chamber Music series at Alice Tully, the Bangor Symphony, the Kneisel Hall Music Festival, and Bösendorfer New York. The Trio's members are pursuing graduate degrees at the Juilliard School and work closely with pianists Joseph Kalichstein, Seymour Lipkin and clarinetist Charles Neidich. The group’s members have collaborated in performance with Cho-Liang Lin, Jane Coop, Andrew Dawes, Bonnie Hampton, Kathleen Winkler, and the Juilliard String Quartet. Committed to the music of the twenty-first century, the trio commissioned and premiered Juilliard School composer Michael Stephen Brown's second piano trio in March, 2007. From left to right—cellist Gal Nyska, pianist Julio Elizalde, and violinist Andrew Wan. |
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ViM was awarded the Gold Medal at the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competitions, America's premier educational chamber music competition, where they were also the youngest group among all competitors. In the 2005/06 MTNA Collegiate Chamber Music Competition, ViM won the New York State and Eastern U.S. Divisional auditions en route to capturing First Prize in the National Finals. Since their formation in the fall of 2003, ViM has appeared in numerous international saxophone events, including those of the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA), and the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium. ViM made their Washington debut at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater in May, 2007. They have appeared with the Eastman Wind Ensemble in Pulitzer Prize winning composer Michael Colgras's Urban Requiem for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble. ViM's members, all recent graduates from the studio of Chien-Kwan Lin at the Eastman School of Music, are, from left to right—Dimitrios Kostaras, tenor saxophone; Michael Matlock, alto saxophone; Richard Miserendino, baritone saxophone; and Kristin Rarick, soprano saxophone. |
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All four members of
Credo Quartet
studied at the Moscow State Conservatory with Tatiana Gaydamovich
and Alexander Bonduriansky. The Quartet won first prize in the
international Taneev Chamber Music Competition in Kaluga, Russia
(2002). They also won 2nd prize, the Audience
Choice Award, and a Special Jury Prize at the 13th
International Brahms Competition in Austria. In spring 2007
the International Union of Musicians and Chamber Music Association
awarded them the Gaydamovich grant for “achievement in chamber
music performance.” In addition to numerous concerts
throughout Russia, the four took part in the Harbin Summer Music
Festival in China. They were invited to participate in the
International Summer Academy in Vienna in August, 2007, where they
performed in live concert for Austrian Radio. Their 2008 schedule
includes concerts in Vienna and Zurich and a tour with the Moscow
Philharmonic to Switzerland and Belgium. From left to right
– Asya Sorshneva, violin; Darya Filipenka, viola; Natalia Zlobina,
piano; and Alexandra Budo, cello. Disqualified due to non-compliance with the Competition rules. |
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