The 32 Pianists

Here are brief biographies of the 32 pianists who are collaborating on the Northport Art Coalition's unique event, 32 Pianists in performance of The Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach.
 

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 Joe Patrych Joseph Patrych is a freelance classical music record producer and engineer. He owns Patrych Sounds studios in The Bronx, NY, a high end recording and production studio. He is also an avid collector of piano recordings, both live and commercial. He has also worked as a free lance producer at RCA/BMG, Nonesuch and many other record labels. He was the co-producer and co-host of Concert Grande, a radio program devoted to the piano and piano music that aired on WFUV-FM, for 17 years, and was involved in many other aspects of radio production. In spite of his appearance today, he does not usually appear in public as a pianist!
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 Aglaia Messina Aglaia Messina is well known as one of Long Island's busiest and most sought-after performers of chamber music.  In her career of more than twenty years, she has collaborated with many of the area's leading instrumentalists and singers in an extensive representation of the chamber music repertoire, from all historic periods. 

Ms. Messina studied at the Athens Conservatory in Greece and also at Hofstra University under Morton Estrin.  She has performed at the 92nd Street Y, the Bruno Walter Auditorium of Lincoln Center, the Weill Recital Hall, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Jacksonville Arts Auditorium in Florida. 

Ms. Messina also maintains a demanding schedule of private students at her home in Huntington.  She is currently studying harmony and receiving coaching from the renowned artist Lawrence Schubert.
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 Chip Smith Chip Smith grew up in Northport where he studied piano with William B Goldberg.  He is married to Lynn Goldberg with whom he has three children.   He works as a film editor in Manhattan.
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 Carol Lutker Born in Indiana, Carol  began piano lessons at age 7 with Muncie teacher Bertha Burton Maier.  A resident of the Northport-Centerport area for almost 25 years, Carol has been a student of Larry Schubert, noted concert pianist and teacher, for twelve years.  Her love of music is primarily classical, although she occasionally listens to 70's rock, jazz and world music.   Preparing for this event was particularly interesting, since the Lutkers have recently moved into a new house in Northport, and Carol had to practice in an empty, dark and cold house for several weeks until they could move in.  Now she often practices with the sound of workers' hammers in the background, and looks forward to the day the house is "finished".
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 Steven Pidd Steven Pidd was born in 1981.  He lived in California and started piano lessons at the age of 3.  He moved to New York and studied with Remy D'Espozito and Lawrence Schubert.  He went to Crane School of music for a year as a piano performance and vocal music ed. major.  There he studied with Dr. Olga Gross.  He plans to graduate college with a teaching degree and work as a choral director/music theory teacher at the high school level.
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 Jean Vandersall Jean Vandersall was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  She studied piano in New York with Hedwig Rosenthal, Thomas Richner, and Dora Zaslavsky.  A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, she was a member of the faculty there for eighteen years.  She received the Harold Bauer Award from the Manhattan School of Music and was a finalist in the National Music League competition.  Her New York debut was in Town Hall.  She has appeared as soloist with symphony orchestras in Pennsylvania and Long Island, NY, and has given numerous solo recitals in Pennsylvania and Long Island.  She has played at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C. and at Colby College and the Farnsworth Museum in Maine.  She maintains an active teaching studio on Long Island and appears frequently as a chamber music participant on Long Island.
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 Elizabeth C. Caserta Elizabeth (Betty) Cella Caserta was a piano pupil of Clemence Strohl of Huntington, Jewel Bethany Hughs and Edwin Hughes of New York City prior to her studies with Leon Kushner at Manhattanville College (B.Mus.), Santos Ojeda, Robert Pace, and Martin Canin at Columbia University (M.A. in Music and Music Education). Mrs Caserta teaches piano, has taught school music, and has performed, mostly on Long Island, as piano soloist, duo-pianist, and accompanist.  She has sung (alto) in choruses and select groups in New York City and Long Island and is a member of her church choir.  She has worked as a volunteer in community arts, arts in education, church, and college alumni affairs.  For her efforts promoting the arts she has recieved a Distinguished Alumni in the Arts award from Manhattanville College and has been featured by the Huntington Township Branch of the American Association of University Women in the "Local Women in the Arts" series.  Mrs. Caserta and her husband, who reside in Lloyd Harbor, have a daughter and son and are creating a new business. 
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 Edith Auner Edith Lowe Auner, pianist,  received a Masters Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and holds a Bachelors degree in Piano Performance from The Colorado College.  She studied with Abraham Stockman, Thomas Stumpf and Edith Oppens, and has had master classes with Gabriel Chodos, Leonard Shure, and Victor Rosenbaum.  Ms. Auner attended the Aspen Music Festival, Chamber Music Maine and  studied at the Conservatoire de Monaco. Winner of the University of Chicago Concerto Competition, she has also performed concertos with the West Islip Symphony, the DuPage Symphony Orchestra and the Lake Forest Symphony.  In addition to maintaining a large private piano studio, she is very active throughout the Northeast as a soloist, chamber music player and accompanist.   Ms. Auner has been director of the Pre-College Music Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1997.
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 Fiona McLennan Fiona McLennan was born in Sydney, Australia, and began playing piano at age 9.  She studied under John Elliott, who fostered in her a love of music, and who encouraged performance through Sunday afternoon soirees. Fiona moved to New York in 1987, where her second piano teacher, Isabella Eredita Johnson, rekindled a love of piano performance.  In between practising, Fiona is a business executive, working in Manhattan.  She is married and has an 8 year old daughter.
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 Russell Karpp From the time Russ began taking piano lessons in Oyster Bay, New York at age 7, the only one who would listen to him play was his dog, Kelly. When Kelly died, he decided to become a lawyer.  (Now no one will listen to him.) No less a factor in his choice of career was his discovery, soon after matriculating at the University of Rochester, that students at the Eastman School practice substantially more than 45 minutes a day.  Although he has not taken piano lessons since his last teacher at Eastman insisted on scheduling his lesson for 10 a.m. -- well before his fingers were awake for the day -- he still plays just often enough to annoy his wife, Sandy, his son, Sam, and his daughter, Mara.
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 Remy D'Esposito Remy D'Esposito works in the Northport Schools, teaching General music and directing the choirs at Northport Middle Shool. He began teaching in the NYC school system, teaching band in LIC, Queens.  He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Queens College, where he studied composition with Hugo Weisgall and Henry Weinberg. He plays both the piano and the saxophone professionally, and especially loves playing jazz and classical music.  He and his wife, Rosanne, are the proud parents of three boys, Remy, Nicholas, and Joseph.
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 Donna Gorelick Donna was born into a musical family. Her dad (Harry Richman) was an instrumental music teacher for over 40 years. She began playing the piano before the age of three and was the accompanist for her elementary school choruses at the start of first grade. She was  a featured soloist for an All City Festival at the age of 10, accompanist for the Westchester County choral festival while in junior high school, and received a piano scholarship to the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati where she obtained  a degree in Piano Performance. She received a Master of Arts in Music Therapy from New York University and was employed as a Music Therapist for over 10 years at Kings Park Psychiatric Center. She changed careers and decided to take over her dad's "business". For the past ten years she has been teaching music to students at Northport Middle School. She resides in Centerport with her husband Jerry, and children Jeremy and Sara. 
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 Julian West Film Director
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 Barbara Meister Pianist Barbara Meister made her Town Hall solo debut in 1964.  Critics at that time praised her "intelligent approach and ready technique" (New York Herald Tribune).  After a subsequent Carnegie Recital Hall program, Raymond Ericson of the New York Times called her "an intelligent, unassuming and appealing artist." 

Ms. Meister has been equally successful in the chamber-music literature.  A violin-piano sonata recital she gave with Jesse Ceci in Town Hall was greeted as an "occasion of superior music-making" by Peter Davis of the NY Times, who cited the performances' " easygoing charm," and the violinist's "beautifully focused singing and the pianist's elegantly poised accompaniments (which) served the music with honor." 

Centaur Records has released two CDs by Barbara Meister: one of five sonatas by Haydn (H. XVI #34, 48, 40, 32 and 50), and one of the piano music of Carl Nielsen.  A double CD of Meister's interpretations of the "Songs Without Words" and "Rondo Capppricioso" of Felix Mendelssohn will be released shortly by the same company. 

Since 1980, when her book on "Nineteenth-Century French Song" (Indiana University Press) first appeared, Meister has also been a highly respected musicologist.  The MLA called this book "one of the most interesting and lucid in the field," and deemed it "worth its weight in gold."  She has since written four additional books on music. 

Meister has been a guest soloist with the Mount Vernon Symphony and the Reston, Virginia Festival Orchestra. 
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 Maiko Yasuda Born is Osaka, Japan, Maiko Yasuda began her musical activities--which included piano and composition--at the age of six.  At the age of ten she began private studies with Hitomi Okamoto.  She graduated from Osaka College of Music where she studied with Ruriko Kikuchi,  who is a winner of Busoni International Piano Competition in 1980 and also winner of Palpma O'Shea International Santander Piano Competition. Ms. Yasuda  gave numerous concerts in Japan, both solo recitals and concerts with instrumentalists and singers, and the Kanazawa piano duo concert in Kobe in 1994. She also performed in a benefit concert in Osaka for the Kobe earthquake victims in 1995. 
  Ms. Yasuda taught music and student ensembles in the Osaka school system for five years. She led several award winning student ensembles including the gold medal in the Junior High School of Music Brass Band Competition in Osaka, 1992, 1993, in addition to first place in the Junior High School Music Choral Competition in Osaka.  In addition, she directed innumerable students in school festivals. 
  She came to the United States to continue her studies in music performance in 1995.  She received a Master of Arts degree in piano performance from The Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in 1998.  There she studied with Gerald Robbins and received scholarships and numerous awards for her performances including The Discimus Ut Serviamus Music Award  in 1996, Senior Chamber Music Live Award in 1997,  the Discimus Ut Serviamus Music Award in 1998 and Senior Chamber Music Live Award in 1998. She also gave several solo recitals in the New York City in 1997 and 1998. In addition, she received honorable mention in the Artist's International Competition in 1998 twenty-sixth Annual New York Debut Award Audition. Paul Rutman who is professor of music at Hartford University and the music director of the Brazil Music festival.  She is currently working as a music director of Yasuda & Brown Music studio and giving private lessons and master classes in Long Island where she lives; she also works as a choral pianist in Huntington High School. Ms. Yasuda will be performing at Christ & St. Stephen's Church in Manhattan on June 10. 
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 Christine Dore Pianist Christine Doré enjoys an active and varied career as a chamber musician, accompanist, soloist and teacher. She has been called a "reliable accompanist" (The Washington Post) with "wide interpretive capabilities" (The Long-Islander.) She received her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory and her Masters from New York's Mannes College of Music. Ms. Dore has twice toured Eastern Europe. Closer to home, she has performed in Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, as well as in such NY venues as Weill Recital Hall and Lincoln Center. Ms. Dore is the founder and Artistic Director of the Music At Greenlawn concert series and a founding member of both the Long Island Chamber Players and the Halcyon Piano Trio. She serves on the chamber music faculties of the Stony Brook pre-college music program and the Stony Brook Summer Music Festival.
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 Vladimir Polezhayev Vladimir Polezhayev is a pianist and composer, who graduated from the St.Petersburg Conservatory (Russia). Piano soloist, arranger, conductor with Moscow Radio/TV Orchestra (1982-1990). Since coming to New York at 1990,he and his family have appeared on both TV and Radio, while giving many performances in the Metropolitan NY area. He has composed more then 60 pieces for orchestra and arranged more than 600 songs, all of which have been performed in concerts and on TV/Radio. He has performed extensively on tour in the former USSR and Europe. In 1987/1988 he toured the USA as a pianist, appearing in major cities. Presently he and his family reside in Sea Cliff (LI, NY) where he teaches piano privately, also playing for churches and synagogues. Music published in Russia and in the USA.
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 Isabel Schwartz Isabel Berg Schwarz was brought up in the Bronx, N.Y. She began her piano studies at the age of 4 1/2 with Belbina Brinina at the Greenwich House School.  At the age of 8, she was admitted to what is now known as the Juilliard Pre-College Division studying there with Ben Jones and later, Frances Mann.  She received her B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Juilliard as a scholarship student of Edward Steuermann and eventually performed in New York City's Town Hall as a Concert Artist Guild winner.  Isabel is about to retire from a career as a music teacher in New York City Schools.  She also teaches piano and performs both as a soloist and in duo-piano recitals with her husband, Lawrence.   Isabel has also been active for many years as an advocate for the developmentally disabled.  Her son, Lenny, resides in the group home on Franklin Ave. and also volunteers at the Northport Library. 
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 Kathryn Heuzey "I have lived with my family for the last fifteen years in Cold Spring Harbor where I work as an artist, primarily as a painter. I show locally and in museums and shows in the U.S.  I grew up in Glen Cove, New York and first studied music formally as a voice major at Skidmore College. Graduated  ' 71.  I continued my vocal studies up to the present. I now study with Ron Meixell of Northport.  I am a mezzo soprano.  I first studied piano in 1972 with Hugo Goldenzweig at Turtlebay School of Music.   I also teach art privately and adult education." 
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 Bryan Reeder Bryan Reeder is a 15 year-old freshman at the Northport High School.  He started studying piano with Isabella Eredita when he was in second grade.  During middle school Bryan became interested in jazz and he now also studies jazz piano with Mike Capobianco.  Bryan is the pianist in the Nassau-Suffolk Jazz Band and in the Northport High School jazz ensemble.  He also performs locally at Borders Bookstore, Cinema Arts Skyroom, and Northport Village.
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 Jeanine Briefel Jeanine Bryan Briefel has appeared as a guest performer on WNYC-FM's Around New York and WQXR's Listening Room.  She was the recipient of a special award for career advancement from the Ford Foundation and was educated at the Manhattan School of Music in New York from which she received her Master of Music degree, Columbia University, the Aspen Music School and Ball State University in Indiana.  She has performed at the Locust Valley Library as part of the Town of Oyster Bay's Distinguished Artist Series, and has been featured in Portland Oregon's Old Church Noonday Concert Series, and New York City's Donnell Library Sunday Afternoon Concerts.  In addition she has appeared  in concert series in many Long Island libraries and cultural centers.  She has received two grants to perform concerts through Nassau County's Office of Cultural Development.  Her articles on music have appeared in Clavier Magazine and The Instrumentalist.  Ms. Briefel is presently a consultant for the New York State Council on the Arts and a board member of the Sea Cliff Arts Council.  She lives in Sea Cliff with her husband and three children where she teaches piano and works as a free lance musician. 
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 Frances C. Roberts Frances C. Roberts is the founding conductor of the Long Island Philharmonic Chorus and the Long Island Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra.   She received her undergraduate education at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, studying piano with James Ball, and choral music with Helen Hosmer, Carl Druba and Brock McElheran.  Extensive accompanying opportunities, as well as concerto performance  led her to pursue a Master of Music from Boston University, where she studied with Bela Nagy, Abraham Kaplan and Allen Lannom, and accompanied for Roman Totennberg and Chloe Owen.  Subsequently, she studied with Alton Jones in New York, and accompanied at the Metropolitan Opera Studio and for the Gregg Smith Singers.  Since then, she accompanied at the Metropolitan Opera Studio and for renowned conductors for Margaret Hillis and Donald Neuen. 
    As an advocate for the arts as a means to understanding among peoples, and the spirit of community which is inherent in the choral organizations she champions, Mrs. Roberts has founded, and continues to conduct three large choral organizations.  In 1979, she was asked to form an adult chorus for the Long Island Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Christopher Keene. 
   This chorus has performed most of the major choral repertoire, and continues to thrive, with a membership of 200 singers.  Most recently, their performance of Mahler's "Resurrection  Symphony" was critically hailed as "beatific." In 1990, Mrs. Roberts became the Founding Music Director and Conductor of the 120 voice Long Island Masterworks Chorus.  This organization continues to present concerts at the highest level, and has commissioned and performed two new major choral works - one a benefit for Breast Cancer Research, and the other a Memorial to Survivors and Victims of the Holacaust.  The Long Island Masterworks Chamber Choir makes it's debut on April 29, 2001.   In 1994, Mrs. Roberts was asked by citizens from the township of Brookhaven to begin a choral festival.  After 6 successful years there, she has moved on to found The Long Island Choral Festival and Institute - a summer Music Festival which draws singers from all over Long Island as well as from dozens of states.  Workshops are offered for graduate credit, taught by distinguished clinicians and conductors from across the country.  The week of rehearsals and performances are capped off by a gala concert at the Tilles Center. 
    Her commitment to the arts and their importance in our lives was recognized by the Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs as she completed six years of service on the Citizens Advisory Board, and by the Long Island Philharmonic.  She has also been honored by the State University at Potsdam Crane School of Music as outstanding alumnus in the professional field.  Most recently, she was honored as "Woman of the Year in the Arts" by Women on The Job. 
    Mrs. Roberts makes her home in Northport with her husband and two children.  She teaches voice and coaches singers form her studio in Northport, and continues an active schedule as accompanist and conductor.
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 Doris Anne McMullen Doris Anne McMullen is a pianist who performed both her solo and duo piano debuts at  Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City and her international duo piano debut at Wigmore Hall in London.  Her live and taped radio concerts have been broadcast on WQXR, WNYC and BBC.  She has presented concerts and lecture recitals for many university, museum and library audiences.  Mrs. McMullen has performed with the Long Island Philharmonic and as featured soloist in concertos with the Suffolk Symphony, West Islip, SUNY Stony Brook and BAFFA orchestras.  Mrs. McMullen, a scholarship recipient for the Tanglewood Chamber Music program, has studied with Doris Frerichs of the Juilliard School, Aurora Ragaini of the Royal Academy and Martin Canin of SUNY Stony Brook.  She holds baccalaureate and Master of science degrees in piano performance.
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 Guen-Duk Koh In 1957, Geun Koh came to America under the auspices of the American-Korean Foundation by an American pianist Seymour Bernstein. Studied with Samuel Chotzinoff, Jan Gorbaty, and Seymour Bernstein. Appeared frequently on radio and television and gave numerous solo and chamber concerts (Carnegie recital hall, Town Hall, etc.) before devoting to theory, musicology, and teaching. A resident of Huntington. Retired from teaching in 1991.
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 Howard Schreiber "I grew up in East Northport where my father, Walter Schreiber, was a piano tuner and technician well known in the pianistic community.  As a result of my father's love for the instrument the piano was something of a family occupation and I began the piano at a young age like my three older sisters.   I studied with several local teachers and when I reached high school I studied with Carol Montparker, a great teacher and mentor and now a great friend and surrogate mother.  After graduating from Northport High School in 1979, I attended the Manhattan School of Music for two years where I was a student of Isabella Byman and Seymour Lipkin. 
   I took a year off to work in the public relations department at Carnegie Hall before finishing my undergraduate education at Hunter College.  I then attended law school at Forham University.  After graduation, I worked several years as a   corporate finance lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. 
   After moving to Los Angeles I began to make my living as a writer as well and now work only occasionally as an attorney.  My most recent project was a television comedy pilot for Kelsey Grammer's production company at Paramount. 
   I also returned to serious work at the piano.  My current teacher is Marc Steiner, who is on the faculty of the Dorothy Taubman Institute."
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 Audrey Schneider I am a pianist, lecturer and certified Taubman teacher, based in West Hempstead.  I received the Master of Arts degree in Solo Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where I completed the Bachelor of Arts degree, Summa cum laude. Most extensive and recent coaching has been with Edna Golandsky and Dorothy Taubman, whose pedagogical work on the prevention and cure of musicians' injuries was the subject of an article I wrote for Clavier magazine, 1983. Subsequently, I was invited to lecture on the Taubman technique at the European Congress of Arts Medicine, Munich, 1994, and Berlin, 1998, as well as at the Westchester Musicians' Guild, 1994, and the Association of Piano Teachers of Long Island, 1995. I teach at my own private teaching studio and annually at The Taubman Institute and International Piano Festival, held every July for two weeks at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. I have performed in solo and duo piano recitals at Queens College, Brandeis University, Williams College, the Bethpage, Long Beach, Massapequa and Shelter Rock Public Libraries and Steinway Hall. I have collaborated in recital with singers and Instrumentalists and have been featured in the "Chamber Music Live!" series at Queens College for the past three years. Preceding this "last-minute substitution", I was summoned many years ago to substitute for Leonid Hambro in a Guest Performance with Jascha Zayde and the CBS-TV Concert Orchestra conducted by Alfredo Antonini in Saint-Saens' "Carnaval of Animals", part of a Thanksgiving Day special program presented "live" on CBS Television.
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 Mirta Gomez Mirta Gomez received her early piano training from her mother in her native Cuba.  She continued her musical education at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.  During the 1990's, Ms. Gomez' international concert tours included performances at the Grand Theatre de Geneve, Switzerland; Hochschule fur Musik Hans Eisler in Berlin, Germany; Town Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York City; and most recently a televised performance at the Conservatorio Nacional Lopez Buchardo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  A dedicated champion of both Cuban and 20th Century music, Ms. Gomez was honored by the internationally acclaimed Cuban composer, Tania Leon, who wrote Satine, a composition for two pianos, especially for her.  In addition to performing, Ms. Gomez also lectures on this part of her expertise, most recently in French, at the 1st Conference on Cuban Composers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, in Guadeloupe.   She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Universities in Tulsa, Okahoma, and Portland, Oregon.  Her upcoming performances include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum, and recitals and chamber music through Europe in the summer and fall of 2001.  Ms. Gomez also appears in a film documentary directed by Ivan Acosta, "Como se forma una rumba" to be shown in the International Film Festival in New York City this summer. 
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 Edmund Arkus Pianist, Edmund Arkus, has performed for many years in the United States and England to high critical acclaim.  He has given solo recitals, performed as soloist with orchestras, and also collaborated in many chamber music and sonata recitals.
   Mr. Arkus has been heard in New York over WNYC, WFUV, and WQXR radio, as well as live performances over National Public Radio from Washington, D.C., and BBC Radio at the York Festival in England.  In the last few years he has performed regularly in chamber music concerts at Boston Conservatory of Music, Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory and in Jordan Hall, Boston.  Mr. Arkus performed several concerts in Tokyo, Japan with Keisuke Wakao, assistant principal oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  The program presented in Tokyo's Opera City Recital Hall was televised. 
   Edmund Arkus began his piano studies at 3 years old with his mother Helena Arkus, pianist and teacher.  Four years of thorough and positive training with her, prepared him well for the Juilliard Preparatory Division studies that followed.  In the early stage of his career, Edmund Arkus studied with renowned pianist Leopold Mittman.  He then went on to receive both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School where he studied with the distinguished teacher and pianist, Rosina Lhévinne.  After graduation he completed his studies with Wolfgang Rosé, nephew of the composer Gustav Mahler.  Mr. Arkus is a member of various musicians groups including, The Bohemians, Leschetizky Association and The Piano Teacher's Congress of New York. 
   Edmund Arkus has shared his musical knowledge and experience through many years of private teaching.  During the years 1980 to 1983, he was on the college faculty of The Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.  Mr. Arkus regularly serves as an adjudicator for the Great Neck Young Artist's Competitions.
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 Walter Winterfeldt Walter Winterfeldt, pianist, is a native New Yorker and graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. Among his teachers are Raymond Lewenthal, Donal Nold, and Dalton Baldwin. He is a recipient of the Chaminade Music Award, and the Gramma Fisher Award. As a collaborative pianist he has performed extensively in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and in Europe. He has accompanied the masterclasses of Gerard Souzay, Hermann Prey, Regina Resnik, Licia Albanese,and Hugues Cuenod. Mr. Winterfeldt is currently a vocal coach at the Manhattan School of Music, and on the music faculty at Five Towns College on Long Island. He has recorded a solo piano CD, and a disc of 20th century violin works with Christopher Lee. 
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 Carol Montparker Carol Montparker, has been enjoying a dual career as pianist and writer.   Since her successful New York debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1976, she has given numerous concerts across the country, and her CD, "Pianogarden", recorded in live concert, was praised by artists and critics including Harold C. Schonberg:  Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times, called her "a real artist, whose playing is unfailingly graceful and affecting."  Montparker's second book, A Pianist's Landscape (Amadeus Press), has been receiving enthusiastic reviews resulting in frequent invitations for book-talks and lecture-recitals in universities, piano festivals, and music education conferences.  She has taught piano privately at her Huntington residence for many years.
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 Alexandra Eames Since her New York debut at Merkin Concert Hall, pianist Alexandra Eames has enjoyed an active career performing throughout the United States and Europe. Recent appearances include recitals at Trinity Church in New York, Andrews University in Michigan, the University of Nebraska, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, and the Teatro Principál in Mallorca, Spain. 

Pianist and author David Dubal has written "Alexandra Eames is one of the finest interpreters of the Chopin Mazurkas, as both scholar and executant".  Her recently released compact disc of nineteen Chopin Mazurkas on the Klarity Multimedia label has made her increasingly in demand for lectures and performances of these works.  She has presented lecture-recitals at the Juilliard School in New York and for the Chicago Music Teachers Association. 

Ms. Eames is a co-founder of the Delmarva Piano Festival in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where she performs regularly.  The Festival is approaching its tenth season, and has been broadcast on WSCL Radio. 

Ms. Eames began piano studies at the age of eight under Livia Rabinek, a student of Zoltan Kodaly.  At the age of nine, Ms. Eames was already performing and composing.  Her family moved to New York, where she continued lessons with Carl Mosbacher and studied violin as well.  At thirteen, she won a fellowship to attend the Aspen Music Festival, where she was the youngest participant.  At sixteen, she was awarded a full scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Bachelor's degree.  She received her Master's degree from the Juilliard School, as a scholarship student of William Masselos.  In addition, she studied for many years with Alexander Edelmann.  At twenty-three, Ms. Eames was the winner of the Five Towns Piano Competition, and she was listed in "Extraordinary Students of America".  In 1989, Ms. Eames was one of the five pianists to win the Rutgers Summerfest Auditions. 

Alexandra Eames is an experienced teacher currently on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music. She has served as the Preparatory Division Piano Department Chairman for the past two years. 
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 Tatjana Rankovich Miss Rankovich has premiered and recorded a number of works for piano never before heard in public. Her premiere recording of Nicolas Flagello's Second Concerto and Third Concerto, with David Amos and the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, was released to unanimous praise in 1996 by Vox Classics and was selected for the Want List 1999 by Fanfare magazine critic Adrian Corleonis. Phoenix USA released Miss Rankovich's CD American Piano Works in 1999, which features the premiere recording of Vittorio Giannini's piano sonata, as well as compositions of Flagello and Paul Creston. She has also recorded Flagello's Symphonic Waltzes for Klavier/Citadel. Acclaimed by audiences and critics for her youthful appeal, musical poise and technical power, Tatjana Rankovich has appeared in recital in the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Malta, Great Britain, Brazil and Guadeloupe. She has also been a featured artist on the WQXR Young Artist Showcase and WNYC Around New York. Many of her performances as guest soloist with the Belgrade Radio Symphony have been broadcast live on radio and television. 

Born in Belgrade, Miss Rankovich won three prizes in national competitions by the time she reached the age of 18. A year later, she arrived in the U.S. to attend Juilliard, where she earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees, as well as the Judelson Award and a Teaching Fellowship. She also captured First Prize at the 1989 Artists International auditions. Her other awards include top prizes at the Olga Koussevitsky and the Young Keyboard Artists International Competitions. Miss Rankovich studied with Benjamin Kaplan, Zelma Bodzin, Josef Raieff, Clifton Matthews, and Arbo Valdma. She is currently on the piano faculty of the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division in New York City.
Video: William Goldberg Born in New York City.  Studied music at the Juilliard School of Music and the New York College of Music. Occupation: Private piano teacher (retired). Composed extensively in all forms. Music played throughout the United States. 

His composition TENEBRAE for brass, organ, percussion and two voices won first award at the Georgia State University Brass Symposium in 1972.  A commissioned work, WORKS AND DAYS, was played in Atlanta in 1973 by the New York Brass Quintet and a soprano soloist. 

He has been a member of the Long Island Composers' Alliance for many years.   He has been on many LICA programs, including some under the auspices of Meet the Composer. 

In 1982 he initiated the Cormorant Press, a press devoted to publishing new music. 

He has been active in Maine music for over a decade.  He was represented in several Maine Composers Festivals in Augusta, and in a number of Maine Composers' Forum programs throughout the state.  He has also given piano recitals in Augusta and elsewhere in Maine. 

His piece DIPTYCH was commisioned by the Sea Cliff Chamber Players and his TRIO SONATA by the Arcady Music Festival in 1985. Some recent compositions are ANNELIDA for tape and piano, INSCRIPTION for piano and organ, and a number of songs and piano pieces.

"I studied piano and theory at the Institues of Muxical Art of the Julliard Foundation.  My piano teacher was Lonny Epstein ,an assistant of Carl Friedberg.  Later I studied composition under Jacon Weinberg at the New York College of Music.  Many years later, when I was living in Northport, I took several courses at SUNY in electronic music under Daria Semegan and Bulent Arel.  However, during that time, I learned a great deal more about music from my students.  Often you don't really know a subject until you try to teach it, and I am grateful to many of them. 

As to the musicians I heard, some pianists were Josef Hoffman, Rachmaninov and Rudolf Serkins. There were many others, such as Jasha Heifitz and Marion Anderson.  The most memorable performances were Hoffman doing Beethoven Op.111, and Serkin and Rachmaninov doing the Appassionata. Also Marion Anderson singing "Death and the Maiden," and James Friskin who gave six programs of all of Bach's keyboard (piano) works."
  Isabella Eredita Johnson Isabella Eredita Johnson is an arts promoter in Northport, Long Island. She teaches piano privately, and accompanies voice and instrumentalists. Isabella studied at the Manhattan School of Music under Anna Shenderoff, Robert Goldsand, and Constance Keene. She is a mother of an eleven-year old, and enjoys bringing artists and art lovers together.

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