Péter TóthOctober 22, 2011
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Peter Toth is considered one of the most promising music talents in
Hungary. In 2005 he made his debut in Munich with a solo concert in the
series "Piano Concerts in the Royal Residence" with resounding success. The
"Suddeutsche Zeitung" wrote of his performance: "It is enormous, what this
young Hungarian pianist is capable of...a clever, plausible music with all
the potential to grow and to mingle with the very best."
After two years of formal piano studies, Toth won first prize in 1997 in
an international piano competition for young pianists in Wittenberg,
Germany. He subsequently won the Florestano Rossomandi International Piano
Competition in Bovino, Italy, in 1999 and the Franz Liszt International
Piano Competition in Weimar, Germany in 2000, after which he made a highly
praised debut at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw resulting in frequent
re-engagements in the Netherlands.
Toth made his first CD recording in 2005, an all-Liszt program released
by Stockfisch Records, and in 2006 his recording of the "Liszt Late Piano
Works" won the Grand Prix International Liszt du Disque award of the
Budapest Liszt Society. In March 2007, Toth was invited by the American
Liszt Society to give a solo recital in San Francisco.
In 2001, he was invited to play at the annual Piano Festival Tiszadob,
together with Zoltan Kocsis and Dezso Ranki, and later that year, he won
the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. In 2002, he
was sponsored by the GlaxoSmithKline organization on a concert tour
throughout Hungary.
After his graduation recital in 2008, featuring works by Mozart,
Schubert, and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 in the Liszt
University's Large Hall, he was awarded his Master of Music degree. In
2009,Toth received a full scholarship to Texas Christian University in Fort
Worth, Texas to work with Dr. Tamas Ungar. While studying there he was able
to return frequently to Europe to give concerts and visit his family in
Bekescsaba, as well as to perform in California and in Lima, Peru.
In November 2010, Toth won top honors in two categories of the Franz
Liszt International Piano and Voice Competition in Los Angeles, as well as
the Grand Prize.
Among others he has given concerts in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, in
the Tchaikovsky Music Conservatory in Moscow, in France, Austria, Holland,
South Korea and Japan, in the Czech Republic, in Belgium, Switzerland, USA
(San Francisco) and in Germany.
Peter has performed with the Hungarian Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra, MATAV
Symphony Orchestra and with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
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David FelbergDecember 10, 2011
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Violinist David Felberg is Concertmaster of the Santa
Fe Symphony Orchestra. The Albuquerque native performs
regularly throughout the Southwest as concerto soloist,
recitalist and chamber musician. He has appeared as a
soloist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Palo Alto
Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, Albuquerque Philharmonic,
and the Balcones Orchestra. Felberg has performed solo
recitals in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Clovis,
Portales, and the Outstanding Artists Recital Series for the
Emerald City Opera in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He made
his New York debut in Merkin Hall in the spring of 2005.
Felberg is the Music Director of Church of Beethoven,
an innovative Sunday morning series highlighting music and
poetry that has been featured on NPR and in the Los Angeles
Times. He also acts as Music Director of the Albuquerque
Philharmonic, assistant conductor of the University of New
Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and founder and conductor of
Chatter, a chamber ensemble, dedicated to performing 20th
and 21st century chamber orchestra repertoire.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the
University of Arizona and a Master of Music in instrumental
conducting from the University of New Mexico. He has also
taken advanced string quartet studies at the University of
Colorado at Boulder and attended the prestigious American
Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, where he
worked with maestros David Zinman and Murray Sidlin, and
with renowned conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.
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Michael CornerFebruary 18, 2012
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Michael Corner is the Principal Clarinetist of
Symphony Silicon Valley. He served as the Principal Clarinet
of the former San Jose Symphony since 1983 and was regularly
featured as soloist in works by Debussy, Weber, Copland,
Mozart, and others. He has served as both Principal Clarinet
and soloist with San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia San
Francisco, Midsummer Mozart, Mendocino Music Festival,
Colorado Music Festival, and Marin Symphony. He has
performed with the Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony,
San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, Stockholm
Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra, and many others.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Corner appears regularly
with the Sierra Chamber Music Society, and has performed in
such venues as Kohl Mansion, San Jose Chamber Music Society,
Old First Concerts, Legion of Honor, Palo Alto Cultural
Center, and many others.
An active theater musician, he serves as Principal
Clarinet for Ballet Silicon Valley. He also performs
regularly on clarinet, saxophone and flute for American
Musical Theatre of San Jose, and for the theaters in San
Francisco -- including Principal Clarinet for Baz Luhrmann's
recent production of Puccini's La Bohème. An accomplished
jazz musician, he has appeared at such Bay Area venues as
Yoshi's and Kimball's, and recorded with Radio Big Bands in
Frankfurt, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.
Mr. Corner attended the University of Southern
California, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and was an award
winner at both the Music Academy of the West and the
Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood. While a student at
USC, he won First Prize in the Coleman Chamber Music
Competition. He later received a Soloists Diploma from the
Basel (Switzerland) Conservatory. His primary teachers are
Mitchell Lurie and Hans Rudolf Stadler.
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