Price Rubin - Classical

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Artist Type	Artist	Summary	Audio Sample
Piano	Sandra Shen	Sandra won first prizes in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, the Taiwan National Piano Competition, and the Peabody Frances M. Wentz Memorial Prize. In addition she has recorded 3 CDs, debuting with her Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto. Sandra currently teaches at the Brevard Music Institute, and previously taught at Southern Illinois University.
Vocal	Sara Galli	Winner of the International Cascina Lirica Competition. - 9/10 December Operatic Gala concert in Spain with orchestra sinfonica de Extremadura; - 12 February 2005, Aida, TheaterFreiburg (Germany); - Teatro Politeama di Lecce, Micaela in Carmen of Bizet (performances on 18, 20 March 2005) dir. M° Palleschi, regia F. Trevisan; - Concert in Carnegie Hall (Debut) on Sunday, March 27 2005 at 2 pm Beethoven, Messa in Do, conductor M° Jonathan Griffith; Mozart, “Ch’io mi scordi di te?” aria da concerto per soprano; - Gala-Concerts in Mexico on Friday October 14 and Sunday October 16, 2005 with the Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, conductor M° Tiboris; - Gala concert with I Virtuosi di Praga, 14 Novembre 2005, - Fresno Grand Opera House – Otello May 2005-11-04 - Palermo Symphony orchestra – july 25 – 30 2006
Jazz Piano	Sarah Jane Cion	Sarah Jane Cion was the 1st Place Winner of the internationally acclaimed 17th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition held in Jacksonville, Florida on November 11th, 1999. Sarah has performed with young and older jazz legends such as Clark Terry, Etta Jones, Anita O'Day, Della Griffin, Ralph Lalama, Alan Harris, Carmen Leggio, Dr. Lyn Christie, Bucky Pizzarelli, Don Braden, and many others.
Jazz	Sarah Jane Cion	Sarah Jane Cion was the 1st Place Winner of the internationally acclaimed 17th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition held in Jacksonville, Florida on November 11th, 1999. Sarah has performed with young and older jazz legends such as Clark Terry, Etta Jones, Anita O'Day, Della Griffin, Ralph Lalama, Alan Harris, Carmen Leggio, Dr. Lyn Christie, Bucky Pizzarelli, Don Braden, and many others.
Music Director	Scott Jackson Wiley	Scott Jackson Wiley is a conductor of wide experience in the symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire. His career has taken abroad him to Israel, Italy, Spain, Ukraine and Peru and he has guest conducted many orchestras in the New York area. Also a classical guitarist, with a degree and first prize awards from the Conservatory of Barcelona.
Vocal	Simona Bertini	Soprano. Cavalleria Rusticana in Torre del Lago Puccini Opera Festival 2002 Cavalleria Rusticana in teatro Civico di Sassari 2002 Verdi Requiem in Edmonton Symphony 2002 Don Carlos in Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Rovigo, Parma 2002 Verdi Requiem at Amsterdam Concertgebouw 2002 - 2003 Recital with Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico 2003 Aida in Cairo Opera 2003 Verdi concerts with Toscanini Fundation in Tokio, Osaka, Nagoya 2003 Trovatore in Gent 2003 Aida at Seoul Art Center, Korea 2003 Verdi concerts in the theatres of Ferrara, Ravenna,Reggio Emilia, Modena, Parma, Busseto with Toscanini Fundation 2003 Forza del Destino in Busseto Verdi festival on 2003 Mozart Requiem in Singapore with Singapore Symphony Trovatore in Prague Festival 2004 Masketball in Teatro Municipal do rio de Janeiro 2004 Don Carlos in Zagreb National Opera with Daniel Lipton conducting, jean Louis Grinda directing, Paata Burchuladze as Filippo II 2004 five concerts with Toscanini Fundation 2004 Otello in Ontario Opera Company with a cast from the Met 2004 St. Stanislaus - European premiere of the oratorium from Liszt in Wroclaw Cantans Festival - Wroclaw - Poland....and many other things 2004 Concrts with Toscanini Fundation in March 2005 in March - April she sing in Ottawa with Opera Lyra, Les Contes d’Hoffmann She just sang Mozart Requiem in june 05 at the Carnagie Hall of New York, and she will be back to sing in the Us premiere of the french version of Cherubini’s Medee, she will sing before in Katowice (Poland).
Orchestra	Sinfonia Varsovia	One of the greatest music ensembles ever assembled.	Listen to Audio Sample
Violin	Stephanie Chase	“One of the violin greats of our era” (Newhouse Newspapers), Stephanie Chase is renowned for her "rich, passionate tone, dead-true intonation throughout, and virtuosity galore” (Gramophone). Her triumphant performances at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow have led to concerts in twenty-five countries, a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and solo appearances with eminent orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and London Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, her performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto (with the Louisville Orchestra) was deemed a “Classical Act of the Decade” (December 2009) and the New York Times noted that "the fine violinist Stephanie Chase was an elegant soloist" with the American Classical Orchestra (November 2009). Ms. Chase offers an attractive and diverse repertoire of over 60 concertos, in “refreshingly stylish” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) interpretations featuring her “elegance, dexterity, rhythmic vitality and great imagination" (Boston Globe) as well as "stunning power" (Louisville Courier-Journal), "matchless technique and flawless intonation" (BBC Music Magazine).She is also a gifted music arranger whose "A Capricious CHASE" - her new version of Paganini's Caprice No. 24 for violin and orchestra - is a guaranteed hit with audiences. Stephanie Chase has collaborated with conductors that include Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Marin Alsop, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Her discography includes the world premiere of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on original instruments, which is recognized as "one of the twenty most outstanding performances in the work’s recording history” (‘Beethoven: Violin Concerto,’ Cambridge University Press).	Listen to Audio Sample
Cello	Stephen Framil	Distinguished as the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi since the Vietnam War, Stephen Framil has performed as concert soloist and chamber musician around the world: including Carnegie Weill & Avery-Fisher Halls (New York), Verizon Hall (Philadelphia), with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), Prague Concert Philharmonic, Volgograd Philharmonic (Russia), Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Manila Philharmonic Orchestra, Zaporozhye Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), Viêt Nam National Symphony Orchestra, Bombay Chamber Orchestra, Redlands Symphony Orchestra (CA), Nashville Chamber Orchestra (TN), Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, and the Hong Kong Chamber Music Society, among others. Stephen Framil is the Music Director/Conductor of CAMERATA PHILADELPHIA, and Artistic Director of the Port City Music Festival (NC).
Piano	Susan Merdinger	Susan Merdinger has been critically acclaimed throughout the United States and Europe. Her performances have been hailed as "spectacular," "exhilarating," "breathtaking," "tender and impassioned." She has toured Europe under the auspices of the International Concert Administration Foundation, appearing in renown concert halls such as Glasgow's Henry Wood Concert Hall and Holland's Diligentia Hall.

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