World-renowned musicians of the highest caliber will unite in Kansas City for an incredible performance featuring the works of celebrated Polish-Israeli-American composer Jan Radzynski. His music has won many awards internationally and has been performed around the world in great concert halls by ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. Held at the 1900 Building, this unique collaborative effort will feature key members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, and Kansas City Symphony, as well as award-winning faculty, students, and friends of Park University’s International Center for Music.

The program will include a great variety of chamber music and solo piano works. Radzynski’s compositions combine Jewish, Eastern European, and American elements, revealing an inner world which is uniquely compelling to players and audiences alike. Please join us for this celebration of great music interpreted by noted artists.

PROGRAM

Five Duets for Two Cellos (Oliver Aldort: Cello, Timotheos Petrin: Cello)

Two Mazurkas for Solo Piano (Kenny Broberg)

Festival of Lights for Clarinet, Strings and Piano (Greg Raden: Clarinet, David Radzynski: Violin, Matthew Sinno: Viola, Mark Gibbs: Cello, Ilya Shmukler: Piano)

INTERMISSION

Personal Verses for Violin and Piano (David Radzynski: Violin,  Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich: Piano)

Concert Duos for Cello and Clarinet  (Greg Raden: Clarinet, Oliver Aldort: Cello)

Serenade for Strings. (David Radzynski: Violin, Aleksander Snitkin: Violin, Igor Khukhua: Violin, Orin Laursen: Violin, Matthew Sinno: Viola, Peter Chun: Viola, Mark Gibbs: Cello, Oliver Aldort: Cello, Caleb Quillen: Double Bass)

Jan Radzynski left his native Poland in 1969. He first settled in Israel where he studied composition with Leon Schidlowsky at Tel Aviv University Academy of Music. He continued his studies in the United States with Krzysztof Penderecki and Jacob Druckman at Yale University, where he received his doctorate in 1984. He is presently Professor of Composition and Theory of Music at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

The compositions of Jan Radzynski have been performed by the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Cracow Philharmonic, The Israel Camerata, Israel Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Mexico National Orchestra, Moscow Bolshoy Theater Chamber Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Polish National Philharmonic, Saarbrücken Radio Orchestra, Silesian Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, and the West German Radio Orchestra (Cologne), among others.

Radzynski received numerous awards and commissions for new works, among them the Creative Work and Research Grant from the Rothschild Foundation, Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, commissions from the Cologne Radio Orchestra, Individual Artist Grants from the Ohio Arts Council and from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Summer Residency at the Foundation Artist’s House, Boswil, Switzerland. Radzynski’s Kaddish recorded by Jerusalem Symphony received in 1983 a special commendation at the International Rostrum of Composers
in Paris.

His compositions are recorded on CRI, Channel Classics, Centaur Records, Delos, Music in Israel (IMI), and Naxos labels. His music is available from Israel Music Institute (represented in the United States by Theodore Presser) and from Keshet Music Publications.

KENNY BROBERG American pianist Kenny Broberg continues to build a reputation for “blazing intellect, impeccable technical skills, and the ability to build a strikingly imaginative and intelligent program.” His fresh interpretations are complemented by a natural, honest stage presence and “an almost miraculous array of tone qualities” (Theater Jones). The Minneapolis native first came to international attention when he captured the silver medal at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with performances marked by “an imaginative shaping of themes, revelation of inner voices, and an unfailing sense of momentum” (Texas Classical Review). He followed this with a bronze medal win at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, adding to his numerous competition prizes at the Hastings, Sydney, Seattle, and New Orleans International Piano Competitions.

Kenny has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, Minnesota, Sydney Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestras, among others, collaborating with conductors Ludovic Morlot, Kent Nagano, Leonard Slatkin, Vasily Petrenko, Nicholas Milton, Nicholas McGegan, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Stilian Kirov. His subscription concert debut with the Minnesota Orchestra—stepping in for André Watts with Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto days before the performance in February 2018—was declared “a highly auspicious debut, marked by poise [and] technical brilliance” (Star Tribune). Other recent and upcoming highlights include his debut with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra; residencies at the Montreal Symphony’s Festival Virée Classique, Rye Arts, Methow Chamber, Strings, and Sunriver Music Festivals; recitals in Houston, Denver, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis; and tours of Japan, Australia, and Italy.

He has been featured on NPR, WQXR, APM’s Performance Today, MPR, and ABC (Australia) radio. Several of his performances at the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition were included on CDs released on the Universal Music Australia label. His solo debut album was released in August 2017 on the Decca Gold label, featuring one of his signature pieces, the Barber Piano Sonata, as well as works by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, and Franck.

The first musician in his family, Kenny started piano lessons at age 6, when he was first fascinated by his mother’s upright—a wedding gift from her parents. He studied for nine years with Dr. Joseph Zins before entering the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree with Nancy Weems in 2016. He currently resides in Parkville, Missouri, under the guidance of 2001 Cliburn Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University. Alongside his teachers, he is influenced by the recordings of Alfred Cortot, William Kapell, and Claudio Arrau.

A hockey and baseball athlete in high school, Kenny still enjoys watching and playing sports, in addition to listening to jazz and reading.

OLIVER ALDORT joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2015. Raised on Orcas Island, WA,
Mr. Aldort began his musical studies at the age of six. He has performed throughout North America as a soloist, appearing with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, Newton Symphony Orchestra, and as a recitalist at the Miami International Piano Festival, Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, and the Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur in Montreal. His media appearances have included KOMO TV's Northwest Afternoon, NPR's From the Top, CBC Radio, and WFMT in Chicago. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Aldort has performed internationally with Curtis on Tour, as well as at the Verbier Festival Academy, Tanglewood Music Center, Steans Music Institute at Ravinia, and the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, collaborating with many distinguished artists including Miriam Fried, Desmond Hoebig, Roberto Díaz, Martin Chalifour and Jon Kimura Parker.
Mr. Aldort graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music with a Bachelor of Music in 2015. His
major teachers have included Carter Brey, Peter Wiley, Lynn Harrell, Ron Leonard and Amos Yang.

TIMOTHEOS PETRIN Greek-Russian cellist, Timotheos Petrin, is quickly garnering an international reputation for his distinctive voice. He gained international recognition as a top-prize winner at the prestigious International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland, where he was praised for "a great and passionate soloist style: expressive, vibrant singing lines, sparkling rhythm", "an interesting, original personality" {Helsingin Sanomat, newspaper}.

In 2016, Mr. Petrin made his US debut performance with the Kansas City Symphony, under the direction of Robert Spano. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Helsinki Philharmonic and Susanna Malkki in Shostakovich's rarely performed second cello concerto. Other important collaborations include performances with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Athens Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, the Greek-Turkish Youth Orchestra.

In 2017, he was named Young Artist in Residence at the Performance Today radio program of American Public Media, the most listened-to classical music program in the US. Several of his recordings were broadcasted and received with great success throughout 2017. As part of his second residency at the Performance Today radio program, he made a recital tour in Paris and Normandy, France. In addition, Mr.Petrin has appeared as chamber musician and recitalist in major concert halls in Taiwan, Korea, Hong-Kong, Germany, and Greece, as part of the Curtis on Tour initiative.

LOLITA LISOVSKAYA-SAYEVICH is a reputed concert pianist in her own right. Originally from Uzbekistan, Lisovskaya-Sayevich is part of the impressive faculty at Park International Center for Music. Serving as Director of Collaborative Piano, she works with students during the rehearsal process and accompanies them on piano during performances. Lolita was hired by Park ICM, her husband Ben said, because, “she had a special talent for musical collaboration . . . when you make music together with other people, you have to have a very similar imagination.” Lolita was born into a Tashkent musical family and began studying piano at the age of four. She won the first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition. She entered the Tchaikovsky Special Music School and two years later was accepted to the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Vera Cornosteaeva, with whom she continued postgraduate study. She also studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park International Center for Music. Lolita has played as a soloist with orchestras all over the world.

An avid chamber musician, he often collaborates with important musical figures such as Noah-Bendix Balgley, Yura Lee, Jonathan Biss, Miriam Fried, Roberto Diaz, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Alexey Goribol, Meng-Chieh Liu, Plamena Mangova, Miri Yampolsky. He was accepted to the Marlboro Music Festival and and made his first appearance there in summer 2019. Other festivals and concert series he frequently participates at include, Chamberfest Cleveland, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Caramoor Evnin Rising Stars, Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth, Jupiter Chamber Players, the Moritzburg Festival, and the Dimitria Festival. He was also a chamber music collaborator at the Lake Como Piano Summer School in 2016.

In addition to his concert appearances, Mr.Petrin is an advocate for charity and philanthropic causes. In spring 2016, in collaboration with the non-profit organization 'Podari.Life' and the renowned Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova, he appeared in performances aiming to raise funds for children diagnosed with oncological and hematological diseases.

MARK GIBBS Praised by the Kansas City Star for his “sweet, sensuous tone and a sophisticated feel for long-breathed lines,” principal cellist Mark Tsuyoshi Gibbs holds the Robert A. Kipp chair in the Kansas City Symphony. Prior to this appointment in 1999, Gibbs earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University, where he was a student of Hans Jorgen Jensen. At Northwestern, Gibbs was named principal cellist of the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He also worked closely with Professor Jensen as a teaching assistant. Gibbs’ numerous awards include the Northwestern University Civic Scholar String Fellowship, the Union League of Chicago Civic and Arts Foundation Prize, first place in the Northwestern University School of Music Concerto Competition, first prize in the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist National Competition, and grand prize in the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition. He has appeared many times as a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony, including twice on opening night and on the Symphony's 2015 all Saint-Saëns disc from Reference Recordings, which earned a Grammy Award nomination in 2016. He is proud to be known as a “Fine Kansan Cellist” (Audiophilia Online Magazine) and resides in Overland Park with his wife, Kansas City Symphony principal second violinist Tamamo Someya Gibbs, and their two daughters.

ORIN LAURSEN Described as possessing “superb technical skill,” and “deep understanding and artistry” (CVNC) violinist Orin Laursen is an active performer of both chamber music and the solo violin repertoire. He presents works from the Baroque to the contemporary with equal passion and imagination.

Orin has collaborated on the concert stage with artists including Robert McDonald, Paula Robison, Richard Lester, William Purvis, Misha Amory, Andres Diaz, Steven Dann, Hsin-Yun Huang, Barry Shiffman, Michael Kannen, the Borromeo String Quartet, and conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy. He has appeared as a soloist with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Durham Symphony, the Winston-Salem Symphony, and the Tar River Orchestra. Orin was first violinist and founding member of the Kubrick Quartet, with which he performed from 2011 to 2014.

A strong advocate of contemporary music, Orin has worked with such eminent composers as Terry Riley, Christian Wolff, Unsuk Chin, Harrison Birtwistle, and John Zorn, and has worked extensively with prominent Canadian composer Kati Agócs. His recent appearances have included performances on the 21C festival and with the Callithumpian Consort on the Music at the Gardner series and at Jordan Hall.

Originally from Durham, North Carolina, Orin earned his Master of Music and Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory with violinists Soovin Kim and Nicholas Kitchen, and his bachelor’s at the Peabody Conservatory under violinist and pedagogue Victor Danchenko. His previous mentors include Joseph Genualdi and Jose Bastardes. He currently is pursuing his Artist Diploma at the Park International Center for Music where he studies with Ben Sayevich. Orin plays a violin made in 2014 by Joseph Curtin.

Born into a family of musicians in Thessaloniki, Greece, Mr. Petrin studied with Dimitris Patras at the Thessaloniki State Conservatory. He entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012 where he studied with Carter Brey and Peter Wiley, and received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2017. He is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma degree at the New England Conservatory
under the tutelage of cellist Laurence Lesser.

DAVID RADZYNSKI concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic, is one of the youngest violinists to lead a major world orchestra today. He works extensively both with the orchestra's current artistic director Zubin Mehta, and with the newly appointed future artistic director Lahav Shani. David has led the orchestra on tours throughout Europe, China, Singapore, South America, the United States, and in Mehta's hometown Mumbai, India. He has also performed as guest concertmaster with the Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras.

As concertmaster of the IPO, David enjoys collaborating regularly with major conductors and soloists, both in orchestral, solo, and chamber music settings. An avid chamber musician, he has performed with Emanuel Ax, Pinchas Zukerman, Lahav Shani and Martha Argerich, among others.

As a soloist David has most recently played with the Israel Philharmonic and Manfred Honeck performing the Weinberg Violin Concerto. He also performed with Zubin Mehta in Musikverein Hall where he played the Haydn Sinfonia Concertante with his colleagues of the IPO, and in Poland with the Łódź Philharmonic performing the Brahms Double Concerto with principal cellist of the Polish National Philharmonic. David has also played as soloist with the Columbus Symphony and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poznan where he premiered the double concerto composed by his father Jan Radzynski. He also gives recitals regularly throughout the world.

David holds a Bachelors degree from Indiana University, a Masters degree from Yale, and Artist Certificate from the International Center for Music at Park University.

IGOR KHUKHUA The Russian born violinist Igor Khukhua has been recognized internationally for performances of charismatic temperament, bright musical expression and sparkling technique. He has won international acclaim as an outstanding young soloist, recitalist and chamber musician having already achieved top prizes in numerous international violin competitions. He has received multiple grants from major foundations. Igor was awarded the Excellence Prize by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. In 2012 he won Grand Prix at the 4th International Violin Competition in Astana (Kazakhstan). In 2014 he received Second Prize at the 2nd Russian National Music Competition in Moscow (Russia) and in the following year was a participant of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2017 he was awarded the Prize at the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition in New York. In 2018 he won First Prize at the Naftzger Artists Competition in Wichita, KS.

Igor Khukhua was born in Siberia in 1992. He started play violin at the age of 4. He was eight when he won First Prize at the Russian String Comprtition named by Emelyan Katz in Barnaul, city in Russia, the capital of Altai krai. He is the laureate of the Russian Fifth Delphian Games.

PETER CHUN is the Adjunct Instructor in viola and music theory at Park University. Before that, he taught for 16 years as the Associate Professor of viola at the University of Kansas. He is a versatile musician who has given numerous recitals and chamber music performances across the U.S., as well as performing internationally in Korea and Japan. In 2012, he performed a series of recitals and masterclasses in China, visiting universities in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenyang, and in 2009, he performed and gave a masterclass at the International Viola Congress, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His performances have also been featured at such universities as Penn State University, University of Connecticut, Southern Illinois University, University of Ulsan in Korea, and the Conservatory of Music at University of Missouri, Kansas City. He has appeared as soloist with Lexington Sinfonietta, the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, and University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra.

Peter Chun was the Artistic Director of the Kansas City String Quartet Program from 2009 to 2012. His other chamber music activities include a tour of Japan as the violist of the New England Chamber Ensemble. His performances as a member of the Tonos String Quartet resulted in a highly acclaimed Seoul début, as well as being featured in Fleetbank Celebrity Series through its out-reach program, City Music, appearing with the acclaimed musician Rob Kapilow. Other musicians he has collaborated with include artists such as the Borromeo String Quartet, Laurence Lesser, James Buswell, Paula Robison, Diemut Poppen, and Frank Almond. His performances have been broadcast numerous times on the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) radio and television, WGBH radio in Boston, Maine Public Radio and Television, and Kansas Public Radio.

Chun has performed and taught at many music festivals and camps, having appeared at the Halcyon Music Festival in New Hampshire, Busan International Music Festival (Korea), Killington Music Festival in Vermont, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Festival and Yellow Barn Music Festival, as well as the International Musical Arts Institute, in Maine, where he was a resident artist. In addition, he has taught at the Midwestern Music Camp at KU, and is currently a faculty member of the nationally-recognized Sound Encounters camp in Ottawa, Kansas.

As the violist of Quartet Accorda—a group that was based in Kansas City—Peter Chun performed extensively in Kansas and Missouri, gaining a wide notoriety in reviews and reputation. Their performances were consistently acclaimed for its recitals and collaborations with world-renowned musicians, and were frequently broadcast in the region. Quartet Accorda has been the quartet in residence at IMAI, between 1997-2010, and at Park University in Parkville, Missouri between 2005-2010.

Chun’s orchestral activities have included performances at the Tanglewood Music Center (where he was one of the featured members in a documentary on TMC which aired nationally on PBS), the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and the Seoul Festival Orchestra—working extensively with musicians such as Peter Serkin, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Myung-Whun Chung, and members of the Juilliard Quartet, among many others. In addition, he frequently performs with the Kansas City Symphony and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra.

Making his conducting début in 2005, Chun led critically acclaimed and innovative production of Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore at LG Arts Center in Seoul that were broadcast internationally on the Korean Broadcasting System satellite program, followed by a performance of Stravinsky’s L’Histoiredu Soldat at University of Kansas, and many other programs, genres and ensembles since then.

In 2007 he was accepted into Murom Novosibirsk’s College of Music and in 2011 received High School Diploma. Since 2011-2016 studied at the Moscow State Conservatory (BM, MM) under Professor Eduard Grach and has been an artist with the Moscovia Orchestra (Artistic Director – Eduard Grach). This one of the unique and distinguished young collective in Russia. Being a part of this ensemble he played the String Sextet Souvenir de Florence by P. Tchaikovsky, String Octet op. 20 by Mendelssohn and String Sextets by J. Brahms. Also during study he had a work experience in Russian National Orchestra (Artistic Director – Michail Pletnev ) and Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra (Artistic Director – Yuri Simonov) In 2016 he successfully won competition and was employed in the Saint Petersburg Philarmonic Orchestra (Artistic Director – Yuri Temirkanov), but has refused the offer and has left for study to the USA Since 2016 studies in the International Center of Music of Park University (Parkville, Missouri) under professor Ben Sayevich (Artist Diploma in Violin Performance) During study In the US he had a work experience in Kansas City Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019 was employed as Adjunct Violin Teacher at Park University.

In addition to his formal studies, he has taken part in master classes with international artists such as Zakhar Bron, Ivry Gitlis, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Daniel Veis, Mauricio Fuks, Pavel Vernikov, Vadim Gluzman, Ilya Gringolts, Ani Schnarch and Irena Muresanu. He also was a part of prestigious The Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse in Israel.

Igor Khukhua has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the the Great Hall of Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow International Music House, Tchaikovsky Moscow Concert Hall (Russia), Ríos Reyna Hall (Israel), Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the Folly Theater Hall in Kansas-city (US). His repertoire includes violin concertos with orchestra by P. Tchaikovsky, J. Sibelius, J. Brahms, S. Prokofiev, A. Glazunov, N, Paganini, L. van Beethoven, F. Mendelssohn. He has presented numerous solo recitals and has played as a soloist with orchestras in Russia, Israel, Croatia, Poland, German, France, United Kingdom and United States.

GREGORY RADEN Appointed Principal Clarinetist of the Dallas Symphony in 1999, Gregory Raden was previously Assistant Principal of the National Symphony Orchestra and Principal Clarinetist of the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony. He has been heard as Guest Principal with the Orchestras of Minnesota, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Saint Paul and Bergen (NORWAY).

Raden has appeared as a soloist with the Dallas Symphony, National Symphony, Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, and the New York String Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

He performs regularly at the Grand Teton, Newport, and Bravo Vail Music Festivals and has also participated in the Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Bellingham, Mimir, Aspen, Pacific, and Evian Music Festivals. An active chamber musician, Raden has collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cavani, and Arianna String Quartets and recently performed the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with Yo-Yo Ma at the Grand Teton Music Festival Gala.

San Diego Arts said of his performance of Weber’s Clarinet Quintet: “I cannot think of enough good things to say about Raden. As he played, I was reminded of Mozart traveling out on all those trips of his when he would discover wonderful players and write home to his father about them…Raden is like that. A magician. He makes you wonder how it’s done-how any reed instrument can produce a sound of such beauty and lyricism.”

ILYA SHMULKER started his musical education in Moscow at the age of 5. Currently he studies at International Center for Music at Park University (Parkville, the USA) with Professor Stanislav Ioudenitch as well as at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory with Professor Elena Kuznetsova and Associate Professor Sergey Kuznetsov.

Ilya Shmukler is award winner of a number of Piano Competitions: such as IV International Festival-Competition “Musica Classica” (Ruza, Russia, 2009) – Grand Prix; Festival “Origin” (Moscow, 2012) – Grand Prix; 46th International Radio Competition for Young Musicians “Concertina Praga”(Duo; Praga, Czech Republic, 2012) – Winner Diploma; V International Rachmaninov Music Competition (St. Petersburg, 2012) – 2nd Prize; I International Competition “Sсriabin – Rachmaninov” (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012) – Grand Prix, 2018 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition (Salt Lake City, the USA) – semi-finalist, the 3rd Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition (Tokyo, Japan, 2019) - 1st Prize and Audience Award.

As a participant of projects of International Charitable Fund “New Names” he was involved in number of festivals such as “Crescendo”, “Stars on the Baikal”. The name of Ilya Shmukler is listed in the “Golden Book – the names of the young talents”.

Ilya Shmukler repeatedly played in the leading Concert Halls in Russia, the USA, Japan, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Kazakhstan.

Ilya Shmukler played with several Orchestras, among them with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra (St. Petersburg) and Bayer-Symphoniker Orchestra (Germany). He has records for the CD, TV and radio programs such as “Radio of Russia”. In 2017 he was broadcasted by “Medici.tv”.

MATTHEW SINNO Massachusetts native Matthew Sinno was appointed Associate Principal Viola of the Kansas City Symphony in 2018. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. 

Winner of the 2014 Juilliard Concerto Competition, Matthew performed Hindemith’s Der Schwanendreher in Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra. In 2019, He appeared as soloist with the Kansas City Symphony, playing an arrangement of Queens “Bohemian Rhapsody” featuring solo viola as the voice of Freddy Mercury. Matthew has performed at summer festivals such as Perlman Music Program, Music Academy of the West, Chestnut Hill Concerts and Sebago Long Lake Music Festival. 

Matthew holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Curtis Institute of Music. His primary teachers include Cynthia Phelps, Heidi Castleman, Roberto Diaz, Toby Appel, Ed Gazouleas and David Rubinstein.

Raden’s playing has been hailed by the Dallas Morning News as: “Exquisitely phrased, his playing was of amazing half-lights and subtle shadings of pastels…”

“The greatest of all clarinet solos (Rachmaninoff Second Symphony) was spun out with heartrending eloquence by DSO principal Gregory Raden”

The Fort Worth Star Telegram said of his performance of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet: “With flawless intonation and liquescent tone, Raden’s playing was enormously artful, adding subtle hints of color and dynamic shading to the music making.”

The Washington Post said: “Gregory Raden piped sweetly, raptly and with exquisite nuance”

He has been heard on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and on recordings with the Dallas Symphony on the Delos, Hyperion, and Bridge labels.

As a performing Artist/Clinician for Buffet Crampon Clarinets and Vandoren products, Raden has given recitals, master classes, and clinics throughout North America including at the Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman, Rice University, Baylor University, UT Austin, Texas Christian University, University of Maryland, The Glenn Gould Conservatory, New World Symphony, National Orchestral Institute, and Buffet Crampon Clarinets acclaimed Summer Academy in Jacksonville, FL. He has been on the faculty at George Washington University and the College of Charleston. Currently, an adjunct Associate Professor of Clarinet at the Meadows School of Music at Southern Methodist University, he also maintains a private studio in the Dallas area. Raden was also one of five American clarinetists chosen to be part of the research and development team of Buffet’s new model Clarinet, the Tradition.

A native of White Plains, NY, Raden began his early studies at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division with David Weber and then continued with Donald Montanaro at the Curtis Institute of Music where he graduated in 1994.

ALEKSANDR SNYTKIN Lithuanian-American violinist Aleksandr Snytkin has been praised by critics as “an emerging virtuoso with delicate touch and a sense of intimacy, technical and artistic maturity” Mr. Snytkin began his musical education at the age of seven, studying violin at the B. Dvarionas Music School, and got his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Lithuanian Music Academy under the guidance of Prof. J. Urba and R. Katilius and continued in Malmo Music Academy, Sweden with A. Fischer, a former assistant to legendary Mikhail Vaiman of Leningrad conservatory.

CALEB QUILLEN has performed with the Houston, Atlanta, Detroit, and Boston Symphony Orchestras. While in school Caleb was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in the summers of 2015 and 2016. Quillen currently holds a position in the Kansas City Symphony, where he has been since 2016.

Quillen’s education includes a Bachelors in Music from New England Conservatory where he studied with Donald Palma, co-founder of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Lawrence Wolfe of the Boston Symphony. He also holds a Masters in Music from Rice University where he studied with Paull Ellison and Timothy Pitts. 

Quillen was a Zubin Mehta Fellow in 2016, where he studied and played alongside members of the New York Philharmonic. 

In Quillen’s free time he likes to stay active, running and biking, and has recently become interested in bouldering. 

In 2001 Mr. Snytkin came to the United States to pursue the doctoral degree at the University of Kansas under Prof. Ben Sayevich and later continued his education at the Southern Methodist University, Artist Certificate program in Dallas, TX with Dr. Eduard Schmieder.

Aleksandr Snytkin has been soloist with several chamber orchestras in his native country, as well as being an active chamber musician, performing at festivals and participating in competitions in Lithuania, France, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Israel and the United States. Aleksandr made his American orchestral solo debut, performing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Springfield (Missouri) Symphony Orchestra, as a result of his winning the Hellam Young Artists’ Competition. He performed with many renowned musicians such as members of Accorda String Quartet, Kansas City, pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, violist Mikhail Iakovlev, Hansa String Quartet, Norway and was founding member of the ART Piano Trio, Lithuania and Emerald Piano Trio, Dallas, TX.  Mr. Snytkin is also a member of “I Palpiti” International Chamber Orchestra, former member of Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and served as guest concertmaster in Irving Symphony, Plano Symphony Orchestras and Bergen Philharmonic, Norway.

After serving as an assistant concertmaster in Bergen
Philharmonic, Norway for 2009/10 season, Aleksandr
returned to become a permanent member of the
Dallas Symphony Orchestra.  He frequently performs in various
chambermusic groups and is a member of the PLUS string quartet.
Most recent solo performances include A.Vivaldi “Four Seasons”
with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.