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Jon Manasse - Clarinet Among the most distinguished classical artists of his generation, clarinetist JON MANASSE is internationally recognized for his inspiring artistry, uniquely glorious sound and charismatic performing style. Jon Manasse´s solo appearances include New York City performances at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts´ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Hunter College´s Sylvia & Danny Kaye Playhouse, Columbia University, Rockefeller University and The Town Hall, fourteen tours of Japan and Southeast Asia - all with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, debuts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Osaka and acclaimed concerto performances with Gerard Schwarz and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, both at Lincoln Center´s Avery Fisher Hall and at the prestigious Tokyu Bunkamura Festival in Tokyo. With orchestra, he has been guest soloist with the Augsburg, Dayton, Evansville, Indianapolis and National Philharmonics, Canada´s Symphony Nova Scotia, the National Chamber Orchestra and the Alabama, Annapolis, Florida West Coast, Green Bay, Jackson, Oakland East Bay, Pensacola, Princeton, Richmond and Stamford Symphonies, under the batons of Leslie B. Dunner, Peter Leonard, Alfred Savia, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Richard Westerfield, Michael Morgan and Leif Bjaland. He also presented the world premieres of James Cohn´s Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra at the international ClarinetFest ´97 at Texas Tech University and, in 2005, of Steven R. Gerber´s Clarinet Concerto with the National Philharmonic. Of special distinction was Mr. Manasse´s 2002 London debut in a Barbican Centre performance of Mozart´s Clarinet Concerto with Gerard Schwarz and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Following a summer that included debuts at Sarasota´s La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Colorado´s Music in the Mountains, Jon Manasse´s current season is highlighted by performances with the Bozeman and Dubuque Symphony Orchestras. An avid chamber musician, Jon Manasse has been featured in New York City programs with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at Carnegie Hall´s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Walter Reade Theatre (on Lincoln Center´s "Great Performers Series"), The Sylvia & Danny Kaye Playhouse and Merkin Concert Hall; at the Caramoor International Music Festival, Colorado Springs Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival and France´s Festival International des Arts, as well as the chamber music festivals of Bridgehampton, Cape and Islands, Crested Butte, Georgetown, St. Bart´s, Seattle and Tucson. He has also collaborated with many of the leading chamber ensembles of the day, including The Amadeus Trio and Germany´s Trio Parnassus and the American, Lark, Manhattan, Orion, Shanghai, Borromeo, Moscow, Rossetti and Ying String Quartets. Jon Manasse is also principal clarinetist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra, and, as, one of the nation´s most highly sought-after wind players, has served as guest principal clarinetist of the New York Pops Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke´s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New Jersey, Saint Louis and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, under the batons of Gerard Schwarz, Zdenek Macal, Robert Craft, Jerzy Semkow and Hugh Wolff. For several seasons, he was also the principal clarinetist of the New York Chamber Symphony. Mr. Manasse has also been a guest clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic in concerts conducted by Valery Gergiev and André Previn, and, during the 2003-04 season, served as the principal clarinetist of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, performing under the batons of Artistic Director James Levine and, among others, Andrew Davis, Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Jurowski. Jon Manasse is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with David Weber. While at Juilliard, he was the winner of two concerto competitions and the recipient of the Walter W. Naumburg Scholarship. He was also awarded scholarships from the Aspen Institute, Waterloo Music Festival and Academie Internationale D´Ete. Mr. Manasse was a top prize winner in the Thirty-Sixth International Competition for Clarinet in Munich and the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition. Jon Manasse has six critically acclaimed CDS on the XLNT label: the complete clarinet concerti of Weber, with Lukas Foss and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra; the complete works for clarinet and piano of Weber, with pianist Samuel Sanders; recording premieres of 20th Century clarinet works; "Clarinet Music from 3 Centuries," including Mozart´s Clarinet Quintet (with the Shanghai Quartet), as well as music by Spohr, Gershwin and James Cohn; James Cohn´s Clarinet Concerto #2; and, most recently released, the concerti of Mozart, Nielsen and Copland, with Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Jon Manasse is an official "Performing Artist" of both the Buffet Crampon Company and Vandoren, the Parisian firms that are the world´s oldest and most distinguished clarinet maker and reed maker, respectively. In 1995, he was appointed to the faculty of the Eastman School of Music. Performances for Season 25 (current season) Concert 4 Artists who also play the Clarinet John Scott

Gregory Allen - Piano Grand Prize winner of the 1980 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv; Second Prize at the 1978 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Atar Arad - Viola Distinguished soloist in prestigious festivals worldwide and Professor of Viola at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. Ik-Hwan Bae - Violin Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels and Concertmaster of the Hwaum Chamber Orchestra in Korea Alessio Bax - Piano Winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant Jeff Bradetich - Doublebass Distinguished soloist and recording artist; Faculty member, University of North Texas Carter Brey - Cello Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Che-Yen Chen - Viola First prize winner of the 2003 William Primrose Viola Competition and “Yuri Bashmet prize” winner of the 2003 Lionel Tertis Viola Competition. Naida Cole - Piano Pianist Naida Cole has been hailed as "a dazzling star" by Gramophone magazine. She has quickly established a reputation as an individual artist with her own unique voice. Paul Coletti - Viola Winner of the Naumberg International Competition in New York and Professor of Viola at UCLA Luba Daneman - Violin Winner of the Chamber Music Competition at the Moscow Conservatory. Susan Dubois - Viola Winner of the Tertis International Competition in England and Professor of Viola at the University of North Texas. James Dunham - Viola Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Rice University. Former Violist with the Cleveland Quartet. Anthony Elliott - Cello "His emotional communication is often profound, and his glittering, silvery tone captivates the ear." Anne Epperson - Piano Distinguished performer, recording artist, teacher and clinician. Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Music. Norman Fischer - Cello Distinguished chamber music artist and professor of cello at Rice University Leon Fleisher - Piano Renowned as a pianist, conductor and teacher, now in his sixth decade before the public with the dynamic CD Two Hands. Grace Fong - Piano Praised as a "true musical colourist with enormous style and taste," an artist of "rare eloquence and grace" Roland Glassl - Viola 1st Prize Winner of the 1997 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in England and Violist in the Mandelring String Quartet in Germany Kenneth Goldsmith - Violin Professor of Violin at Rice University and Violinist of the Mirecourt Trio. He has taught on the faculties of colleges and universities throughout the United States. Yuval Gotlibovitch - Viola First prizes in 2003 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition (U.K) and the 2004 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (U.S.A) Augustin Hadelich - Violin Winner 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Gold medal 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Jaymee Haefner - Harp Professor of Harp at the University of North Texas. Recent performances in Mexico, Moscow, and Prague. Lynn Harrell - Cello A consummate soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor, and teacher, his work throughout the world places him in the highest echelon of today’s performing artists. Gary Hoffman - Cello Internationally renowned as first North American to win the Rostropovich International Competition International Competition in Paris (1986) Yi-Jia Susanne Hou - Violin Gold Medalist, 3 International Violin Competitions: Concours Jacques Thibaud,1999; Lipizer,1999; Sarasate,1997. Nai-Yuan Hu - Violin Gold Medallist of the 1985 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels and highly distinguished concert and recording artist. Director of the Taiwan Connection Music Festival. Helen Huang - Piano Winner of Avery Fisher Career Grant and Arthur Rubinstein Prize Sung-Mi Im - Piano “Her touch, phrasing, and sense of balance were magic” Tuscan Citizen. Jun Iwasaki - Violin First prize winner of Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Los Angeles Ko Iwasaki - Cello Winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. Sarah Kapustin - Violin Prizewinner in many competitions and distinguished soloist and chamber musician and member of the Atlas Piano Trio. Barnabás Kelemen - Violin Barnabás Kelemen’s performances at the 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) “radiated such charisma that one could almost forget that anyone else had come before.” David Kim - Violin Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Eric Kim - Cello Received the first William Schuman Prize awarded for outstanding leadership and achievement in music from Juilliard Katalin Kokas - Viola Gold Medallist of the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition and the Joseph Szigeti International Competition in Hungary. Scott Lee - Viola Winner of a Nathan Wedeen Management Award at the 1996 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Philip Lewis - Violin Founder/Artistic Director of CMI; Professor of Violin, University of North Texas; Performs in festivals worldwide. Jungshin Lim Lewis - Cello Grand Prize Winner of the Dong-Ah International Competition in Korea and Principal Cellist with the Richardson Symphony Orchestra. Cho-Liang Lin - Violin One of the finest virtuoso violinists in the world today. Meng-Chieh Liu - Piano Performs with major orchestras world-wide; Faculty member, Curtis Institute of Music Jon Manasse - Clarinet Principal clarinetist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and one of the nation´s most highly sought-after wind players. Stefan Milenkovich - Violin Recognized internationally for both exceptional artistry and his life-long commitment to humanitarianism Alexandre Moutouzkine - Piano Winner of the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Spain. Jon Nakamatsu - Piano Grand Prize Winner of the 1997 Van Cliburn Piano Competition. Paul Neubauer - Viola First violist chosen to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant Hai-Ye Ni - Cello Principal Cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra Gail Niwa - Piano Gold Medalist at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition Eugene Osadchy - Cello Associate Professor of Cello at the University of North Texas; Performs in music festivals throughout the USA and Canada George Papich - Viola Director of Chamber Music at the University of North Texas and distinguished violist. 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William Scharnberg - French Horn Professor of Music at the University of North Texas and Principal Hornist of the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society and Breckenridge Festival Orchestra André-Michel Schub - Piano Grand Prize Winner of the 1981 Van Cliburn Piano Competition and a distinguished recording artist John Scott - Clarinet Internationally-known Clarinetist; Professor of Music at the University of North Texas James Scott - Flute Flutist, distinguished soloist and Dean of the College of Music at the University of North Texas. Michael Shih - Violin Violinist Michael Shih, currently Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, has performed throughout the United States, his native Taiwan, and the rest of the world. Michael Tree - Viola One of the most widely recorded musicians in America and founding member of the Guarneri String Quartet. 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