Adam
Holzman
International
performing and
recording artist, is hailed as "...polished and quite dazzling,"
by The New York Times, "...brilliant!," by De Gelderlander, Holland,
and
"...masterful!," by The Toronto Star.
Mr. Holzman's
recordings
for the Naxos label have been critically acclaimed. The first two
are discs of the music of Fernando Sor and have been called
"...irresistible"
by Gramophone Magazine. Vol. 1 and II of the music of Manuel Ponce are
also now available. From his CD "The Venezuelan Waltzes of
Antonio
Lauro" the American Record Guide had this to say, "The landmark
recording
was David Russell's1980 LP. Now, 20 years later, comes another
masterly
recording by Adam Holzman: in many ways it raises the benchmark still
further."
His newest release is the Bardenklange of J.K. Mertz. Adam Holzman is
founder
of the Guitar Department at the University of Texas at Austin where, in
addition to his active performing career, he heads a thriving guitar
studio.
Mr. Holzman's performance studies were with Bruce Holzman, Albert
Valdes
Blain, Eliot Fisk and Oscar Ghiglia.
Visit Adam Holzman's web site: http://www.adamholzman.net/
Michael
Chapdelaine
Is the only guitarist
ever
to win First Prize in the world's top competitions in both the
Classical
and Fingerstyle genres; the Guitar Foundation of America International
Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championships
at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield , Kansas.
From New York's Lincoln
Center
to the Cactus Cafe in Austin, from Milano to Bangkok, Michael continues
to enchant, dazzle and surprise audiences and critics alike as he
redefines
the modern acoustic guitar with his amazing technique, "soulful"
expressiveness,
and versatility as a performer, composer and arranger/producer. His
performances,
played on both steel string and classical guitars, include musical
styles
ranging from blues to Bach to country to rhythm n' blues as he wins his
audiences hearts with breath taking technique and the poetic magic of
his
original musical portraits and landscapes.
Michael is
Professor of Music
and head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico. His
teachers
included the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia.
Visit Michael
Chapdelaine's web site: http://www.michaelchapdelaine.com/
Theodore
Antoniou
One of the most
eminent
and
prolific contemporary artists, leads a distinguished career as
composer,
conductor, and professor of composition at Boston University.
As a conductor,
Professor Antoniou
has been engaged by several major orchestras and ensembles, such as the
Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, the Radio Orchestras of
Berlin
and Paris, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra
(Zurich),
the National Opera of Greece, and the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra.
In 1974 he became assistant director of contemporary activities at
Tanglewood,
a position he held until 1985. He is the director of the ALEA III
International Composition Competition, and since 1989 the president of
the National Greek Composers' Association. Many of Professor
Antoniou's
compositions were commissioned by major orchestras around the world,
and
more than a hundred and fifty of his works have been published by G.
Schirmer,
Inc. & Associated Music Publishers, Inc. and Bärenreiter
Verlag
(Germany).
He has received many awards and prizes, including the
National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship grants and the Richard Strauss Prize,
as well as commissions from the Fromm, Guggenheim, and Koussevitzky
Foundations,
and from the city of Munich for the 1972 Olympic Games. In
December
1997 he was presented with the Music Award from the Greek Academy of
Arts
and Letters; and in January 2000, the Greek National Radio Broadcast
Corporation
awarded him the Dimitri Mitropoulos Award for his lifelong contribution
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Apostolos
Paraskevas
Holds
a doctorate in
composition
from Boston University, and an Artist Diploma in guitar from the Modern
Conservatory/Greece.
Fanfare
magazine
described
him as “ an amazingly versatile guitarist”and for his CD Visions of
Azure “...a wonderful and essential guitar CD”. Classical Guitar
magazine
wrote: “Apostolos Paraskevas is a genuine innovator, a young and highly
gifted musician..."
His appearances as a
performer/composer
with major orchestras around the world include concerts in such venues
such as Carnegie Hall/New York, Weill Recital Hall, Jordan Hall, the
Athens
Concert Hall/Athens, etc.
A few of his awards
include Grammy
Nomination, Bridge Records/Starobin/Newdance 1998, First
Prize“Lukas
Foss Composition Competition”/2000, Winner of the 1997 “Call for
Scores”
(SCI); First Prize “I. Papaioanou Composition Competition” 1997.
He is the
founder/Artistic
Director of the Guitar Congress-Festival in Greece/Corfu and an
Associate
Professor at Berklee College of Music (composition/guitar department)
and
Northeastern University. Major publications by Santerrelle
/Germany,
Guitarrisimo/ Sweden, Papagrigoriou-Nakas Publications/Greece, Clear
Note Publications/USA, NorthStar Publications/Great Britain, Centaur
and Bridge Records.
Recent performances of
his
include two sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall under the direction of
Lukas
Foss, Program included the Third and Fourth guitar concertos and
the orchestral work “Night Wanderings” by Apostolos Paraskevas.
Other recent performances with the Odessa Phiharmonic/Ukraine, St.
Petersburg, New Mexico, San Francisco. Major
teachers: Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou.
Leonidas
Kanaris
Graduated from the
Athens Conservatory
with a Diploma in Guitar Performance and from the Hellenic Conservatory
with a Composition Diploma and with First prizes and
distinctions.
Post-graduate studies include studies at the Rubin Academy of Music in
Israel.
He has won four international prizes in competitions.
His compositions include works for various instruments and instrumental
combinations, songs, as well as orchestral works which have been
performed
in Greece and abroad by important performers. In his work he uses
diverse idioms and techniques of the 20 century music, which he
combines
with forms and idioms of various music periods and
styles.
His music was published by Contemporary Music, Fagotto Music
and K.
Papagrigoriou - H.
Nakas
music publications. In addition, a number of his works have
featured
in recordings by various artists. He has given solo recitals in
Greece,
UK, Israel, USA, Italy, Poland, Spain, Egypt and he has
appeared
as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras such as The Bach
Orchestra
of Moscow, The Contemporary Hellenic Music Ensemble and The
Corfu Festival Orchestra. He is a member of the Greek
Composers
Union and a founding member of the Greek Composers Artistic Forum
[KESY]. He is the President of the Hellenic Music Company
and
Chairman of the International Guitar Congress-Festival of Corfu.
Dale
Kavanagh
Dale Kavanagh is one of the
guitar world's most gifted interpreters.
She
received her Bachelor of Music degree at Dalhousie University in
Canada, and Solisten Diplom at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel with
Oscar Ghiglia in Switzerland. Between 1986 and 1988 Ms. Kavanagh was a
top prize-winner in many international competitions such as Gargnano
Competition in Italy, Segovia Competition in Spain, Scandinavian
Competition in Finland and Neuchatel Competiton in Switzerland She now
performs internationally as a soloist and also in the Amadeus Guitar
Duo with German guitarist Thomas Kirchhoff.
She
is a regular recitalist and teacher in guitar and music festivals in
Canada, Argentina, , China, Thailand, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Holland,
Sweden, Hungary, Mexico, England and the United States and has given
more than 700 concerts around the world. Many composers have written
works for Dale Kavanagh such as Carlo Domeniconi, Roland Dyens, Jaime
M. Zenamon, Stephen Dodgson, Stephen Funk-Pearson, Bruce Shavers,
Christian Jost and Harald Genzmer.
Her
10 CDs (Hänssler Classic) have received superlative reviews in
internationalmagazines including Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar
Magazine, Fono-Forum, Hi-Fi-Vision, Gendai Guitar, Gitarre & Laute,
La Cahir de la Guitare, Musikblatt, Staccato, Soundboard Magazine,
Gitar och Luta and many others. Dale Kavanagh is teaching at the
Musikhochschule in Detmold, Germany and is also "Musician in Residence"
at Acadia University in Canada. She is an exclusive artist with
Hänssler Classic since 1999 and plays D'Addario strings.
Visit Dale Kavanagh's web site: http://www.kavanagh.de/
Anthony
Paul De Ritis
Anthony Paul De Ritis completed his Ph.D.
in Music
Composition at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied
with Richard Felciano, Jorge Liderman, and Edwin Dugger, and worked
with David Wessel at Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio
Technologies (CNMAT) (1992-1997). He received his M.M. in Electronic
Music Composition from Ohio University under Mark Phillips (1990-1992);
and his B.A. in Music with a concentration in Business Administration
from Bucknell University, studying composition under William Duckworth,
Jackson Hill and Kyle Gann, and philosophy with Richard Fleming
(1986-1990). De Ritis has engaged in summer study at the American
Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France under Phillipe Manoury, Tristan
Murail, and Gilbert Amy (1991, 1992), the University of Southern
California (1990) and New York University (1989).
Other significant
accomplishments include his contracting and managing of 112 musicians
for the American premiere of Merce Cunningham and John Cage's Ocean
1-95 with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company presented by Berkeley's
Cal Performances (1996), and his score for the Macintosh computer game,
Step On It, which won the 1997 MacWorld Arcade Game of the Year.
He is the founder and lead
developer of the Online Conservatory collaboration between the Boston
Symphony Orchestra and Northeastern University, which has been featured
in the New York Times, the Chronicle for Higher Education, Newsweek,
Symphony magazine and the Boston Globe. The Online Conservatory allows
viewers to explore BSO programs in-depth before their performances.
De Ritis also holds a
certificate in Internet Technologies and a Masters in Business
Administration with an emphasis in High Tech.
Visit Anthony Paul De Ritis' web site: http://www.casdn.neu.edu/~music/Faculty/DeRitis/home.html