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Elena Urioste began her violin studies in Philadelphia and made her debut as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age thirteen as winner of the Albert M. Greenfield Competition. In the seven years since then, she has appeared as soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States including the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony and Hartford Symphony, garnering critical acclaim for her commanding stage presence and the lyricism of her playing.
Miss Urioste made her Carnegie Hall debut as a featured soloist in the December 2004 Sphinx Gala Concert, and returned as a soloist in the 2006 Sphinx Gala. Also in 2004, she was presented in recital at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall as the youngest musician ever selected for the Young Performers Career Advancement Showcase. Miss Urioste has collaborated with acclaimed artists David Kim, Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, pianists Christopher O’Riley and Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and conductors Robert Spano, Keith Lockhart, and Thomas Wilkins, among others. She has been a featured artist in the International Young Artists Music Festival and the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, as well as the Sarasota and Aspen Music Festivals.
Miss Urioste’s media appearances include performances on national broadcasts of the popular public radio programs From the Top and Performance Today, and the Spanish language television network, Telemundo. She has been the featured guest on the radio program Anything is Possible, and is also featured in the Emmy award winning documentary Breaking the Sound Barrier, on the cover of the January, 2006 issue of Careers and Colleges magazine, and in the Winter 2007 issue of Philadelphia Music Makers magazine. In addition to the Philadelphia Orchestra Competition, she has won the national Sphinx Competition (Senior and Junior Divisions), the Kennett Symphony Concerto Competition, and the Temple University Music Prep Concerto Competition.
Miss Urioste is a student at The Curtis Institute of Music where she has studied for the past four years with Joseph Silverstein and Ida Kavafian, and will continue to study this year with Mr. Silverstein and Pamela Frank. Other notable teachers include David Cerone and the late Rafael Druian. She is the past recipient of a Starling Foundation Scholarship at Temple University Music Preparatory Center for Gifted Young Musicians in Philadelphia, where she was a student of Choong-Jin Chang and Soovin Kim.
The outstanding violin being used by Miss Urioste is a Michelangelo Bergonzi, Cremona, circa 1750, on extended loan through the generous efforts of Society for Strings, Inc., Meadowmount School of Music, from the private collection of Dr. Charles E. King.
Read about Elena Urioste on website
Bio as of July 18, 2007
Abraham Feder was appointed Principal Cellist of the Florida West Coast Symphony and was named cellist of the Florida String Quartet in 2008.
Abraham attended The Curtis Institute of Music and studied with David Soyer and Peter Wiley. He served as Principal Cellist of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, the Curtis Chamber Orchestra, and the Curtis Opera Orchestra.
Abraham was chosen as principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. He served as principal cellist of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. Abraham also spent five summers as a member of the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra. He was selected to serve as principal cellist of the Disney Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and at Avery Fisher Hall.
Abraham has soloed with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Youth Concert Orchestra, and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was a prizewinner in the Primary, Junior, and Intermediate Divisions of the Society of American Musicians and received an Honorable Mention in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Feinberg Competition.
Abraham has been featured as a soloist on “From the Top,” and has been presented in recital with “Music in the Loft.” He has participated in the Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral in Chicago and was featured this past year on WFMT’s “Impromptu.” He was also featured in concert with Christopher O’Riley at the Laguna Beach Music Festival. He has performed with artists Richard Hirschl, Brant Taylor, Kenneth Olson, and Yuan-Qing Yu of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO); Rami Solomonow and of the Chicago Chamber Musicians; Stephen Balderston former Assistant Principal cellist of the CSO; Joseph Silverstein; and Leonidas Kavakos.
Abraham has performed in master classes with Janos Starker, Wolfgang Laufer, Yehudi Hanani, Truls Mork, Carter Brey, and Eleanore Schoenfeld.
Abraham’s teachers have included Richard Hirschl and Tanya Carey.
Abraham spent this past summer at the Colorado College Music Festival and the Vail Valley Music Festival.
Abraham plays on a 1785 Joseph Odoardi cello
Roman Rabinovich, born in 1985 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, began his piano studies at the age of six with his mother, Mira. In 1994, he and his parents immigrated to Israel. There he studied with professor Arieh Vardi at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He is currently studying at The Curtis Institute of Music with Seymour Lipkin and Claude Frank.
He is the recipient of a merit-based full-tuition scholarship and holds the Ralph Berkowitz Fellowship.
In 1995, Rabinovich performed 11 concerts in five major American cities. At age 10 he made his Israel Philharmonic Orchestra debut under the baton of Zubin Mehta, and performed with that orchestra and Maestro Mehta again in 1999 and 2003. He has performed as a soloist with most Israeli orchestras (including Israel Philharmonic, Rishon-Lizion, Haifa, Raanana Symphony orchestras), the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (NY), Ann Arbor Symphony (MI), Delaware symphony (DE), Ashland Symphony (OH), Moscow Conservatory Chamber orchestra and many others. He has also given solo and chamber recitals in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Norway, Russia, and the United States in such prestigious venues as the Metropolitan Museum, Steinway Hall and Yamaha Salon in New York, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Glazunov Hall in St. Petersburg, as well as on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, Salle Cortot in Paris and in the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
He is a winner of the Animato and the Arjil Piano Competitions in Paris, Frank Peleg Piano Competition, the annual Tel Aviv Music Academy competition, as well as “Vendome Virtuosi” prize and second prize at the Olga Koussevitsky competition in NYC, the young orchestral soloists of the Delaware Symphony competition and received financial support from Doron Foundation and Tzfunot Tarbut, as well as scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation from 1996 to 2004. He has participated in international festivals such as Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, Verbier Academy in Switzerland, Conservatoire Week in St. Petersburg, Russia, Felicia Blumental Festival in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and All-Israel Festival.
He was featured on radio and TV in numerous occasions in Israel (Kol HaMusica), Italy, Germany, and the United States (including the biggest classical station in NY, WQXR).
Future engagements include solo recitals, and chamber music performances in such venues as M. Hess Memorial concert series in Chicago and Jupiter Symphony Chamber players in New York, and concert tours in France, Germany, Switzerland and Israel.
Roman also excels as a gifted artist and has won prizes as a painter. He often combines his concerts with exhibitions of his paintings. From October 06 till March 07 the Brigham Young University in Jerusalem hosted an exhibition that includes Roman’s paintings, his works were also shown at the Good Sheppard Church, in NYC and in the Philadelphia area.
PROGRAM Trio in f#minor, Op. 1 No. 1 Cesar Franck Sonata for violin and piano Leo Janacek Trio in B flat major, Op. 99 Franz Schubert |