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Yo-Yo Ma, Cello – Guest Soloist
Yo-Yo Ma has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the Dan David Prize (2006), the Sonning Prize (2006), and the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award (2008). Appointed a CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Yo-Yo Ma has met with, trained and mentored thousands of students worldwide including Lithuania, Korea, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and China. He has performed with and conducted master classes for members of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, Secretary General Kofi Annan named him a U.N. Messenger of Peace and in 2007 Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon extended his appointment.
Gabriela Montero, Piano, Guest Soloist
Gabriela Montero’s recent engagements include acclaimed performances with the New York Philharmonic debut with Lorin Maazel, LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, Rotterdam Philharmonic and with the UBS Verbier Chamber Orchestra at the Tuscan Sun Festival with Antonio Pappano and in recital at the Edinburgh Festival, Verbier Festival, Wigmore Hall, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Koln Philharmonie, Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Istanbul International Festival, Kennedy Centre Washington DC, National Arts Centre Ottawa, Orchard Hall Tokyo and at the 'Progetto Martha Argerich' Festival in Lugano where she is invited annually.
Marco Berti, Tenor – Guest Soloist
The leading international tenor Marco Berti is recognised as one of the most important artists from Italy in recent times. The colours in his voice range from the soft-toned to the penetrating, powerful and effortless top notes and his significant vocal qualities and expressiveness characterise the classic Italian heavy lyric/dramatic tenor. Marco Berti was the recipient of the 2005 Giuseppe Verdi Gold Medal and he recently made his role debut as Verdi's Ernani, opening the Verdi Festival at Teatro Regio in Parma. Last season he appeared in the Opening Gala at the Metropolitan Opera, New York in Tosca alongside Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel conducted by James Levine.
Matt Haimovitz, cello, Guest Soloist
Haimovitz made his debut in 1984 at the age of 13, as soloist with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. At 17 he made his first recording, performing the Saint-Sans, Lalo, and Bruch concerti with James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for Deutsche Grammophon (Universal Classics). Haimovitz has since gone on to perform on the world's most esteemed stages, with such orchestras and conductors as the Berlin Philharmonic with James Levine, the New York Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, the English Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, and the Cleveland Orchestra with Charles Dutoit.
José Franch Ballester, Clarinet - Guest Soloist
A native of Moncofa (Valencia, Spain) Jose Franch-Ballester, is one of the most promising clarinetists of his generation. In 2008 he received the highly coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2007 he was one of a handful of participants selected for a Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with Emmanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman, and one of the year's "most prominent emerging soloists", as selected by the American Symphony League Magazine. As First Prize winner in both the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and the Astral Artists 2004 National Audition in Philadelphia, he has joined the roster of both organizations and performed countless concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.
Jorge Federico Osorio, Piano – Guest Soloist
Recognized as one of the preeminent pianists of our time, Jorge Federico Osorio has been internationally acclaimed for his superb musicianship and absolute command of the instrument. He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre Nationale de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow State Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic, under the batons of such internationally acclaimed conductors as Bernard Haitnik, Lorin Maazel, Klaus Tennstedt, Eduardo Mata, Lukas Foss, Enrique Batiz, and Luis Herrera de la Fuente.
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Joshua Bell, Piano - Guest Soloist
Joshua Bell has captured the public’s attention like no other classical violinist of his time. Bell has recorded more than 35 CDs since his first recording at age18, resulting in a richly varied catalogue of recordings. He received a Mercury Prize and Grammy Award for the Maw Violin Concerto. He received the Gramophone Award for his recording of the Barber and Walton Violin Concertos and Bloch’s Baal Shem. And he received the Echo Klassik Award for his Sibelius/Goldmark concerto recording. He has collaborated with numerous artists and on film scores including the Oscar-winning soundtrack for The Red Violin. Recordings within the past year include Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and the film soundtracks to Defiance and Angels & Demons.
Nelson Freire, Piano – Guest Soloist
One of the best kept secrets in the world of the piano, Brazilian pianist Nelon Freire has recently given performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg, at Prague Spring, with the Orchestre National de France and leading orchestras in Baltimore, Boston, Montreal, New York and Utah. He has toured under Riccardo Chailly with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, with Tonhalle Orchester Zurich and NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo. Nelson Freire has recorded for Sony/CBS, Teldec, Philips and Deutsche Grammophone.
Ingeborg Danz, Mezzo-Soprano – Guest Soloist
German mezzo-soprano Ingeborg Danz collaboration with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt, Claudio Abbado, Manfred Honeck, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, Heinz Holliger, Helmuth Rilling, Ingo Metzmacher and Semyon Bychkov has led her to the Scala in Milan, the Lucerne and Salzburg Festival and orchestras including Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Wiener Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester, DSO Berlin, NDR Hamburg, Bamberger Symphoniker, Radio-Symphony-Orchestra Stuttgart of the SWR, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Paquito D’Rivera, Clarinet & Saxaphone – Guest Soloist
Paquito D'Rivera's first recognition as a solo artist by The Recording Academy (GRAMMYs) came in 1996 with the highly acclaimed recording Portraits of Cuba. Since then, Mr. D'Rivera has received much recognition as an artist and composer. D’Rivera is a recipient of the National Medal for the Arts, presented at the White House by President George W. Bush in 2005 and was named one of the 2005 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Masters. In both 2004 and 2006, the Jazz Journalists Association honored Mr. D’Rivera as the Clarinetist of the Year. In March 2007 he was honored with the Living Jazz Legend Award in a ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Ildar Abdrazakov, Tenor – Guest Soloist
Ildar Abdrazakov made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1988 in the role of Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, and has since appeared there as Conte Rodolfo in La Sonnambula, as Leporello in Don Giovanni (conducted by Valery Gergiev and directed by Johannes Schaaf), as Calatrava in La Forza del Destino with Gergiev, and as Raimondo in a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor. In 2001 Mr. Abdrazakov made his debut at Teatro alla Scala Milan in La Sonnambula, appeared as Oroveso in Norma for the Verdi Festival in Parma, in Il Trovatore at the Opera Theatre in Rome, in Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Opera Festival in Pesaro, in Don Carlo in Tokyo, and in Semiramide in Peru.
Horacio Lavandera, Piano – Guest Soloist
Horacio Lavandera has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras, including the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Filarmonica della Scala, Orquesta de la Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London Chamber Pleyers, Orquestra do Norte of Portugal, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Ciudad de Oviedo, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, among others. He has also been under the baton of outstanding Maestros, such as Charles Dutoit, Antonio Pappano, Benjamin Zander, Christopher Wilkins, George Pehlivanian, Anton Nanut, Martin Sieghart, Arthur Fagen, Terje Mikkelsen, David Murphy, among others.
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Plácido Domingo, Tenor - Guest Soloist
Maestro Domingo’s vocal repertoire - 124 different roles - includes almost all important parts in the Italian and French operas. Being constantly challenged by new roles, his ever expanding foray into the German repertoire consists of Wagner's "Parsifal", "Lohengrin" and Siegmund in "Die Walkьre", in addition to recorded performances of “Meistersinger", "Tannhäuser" and “The Flying Dutchman", of Richard Strauss, "Die Frau ohne Schatten", of Weber's "Oberon" and of Beethoven’s “Fidelio”. He has also recorded four others, giving Domingo more roles than any other tenor. He is also admired for his acting ability, his musicality and musical intellect, and the number and variety of opera roles that he has mastered.
Antonio Meneses, Cello - Guest Soloist
A member of the Beaux Arts Trio since 1998, Antonio Meneses regularly performs with the world's leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Riccardo Muti, Mariss Jansons), London Symphony Orchestra (Claudio Abbado, Andre Previn), BBC Symphony Orchestra (Andrew Davis), Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Semyon Bychkov, Herbert Blomstedt), New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Kurt Sanderling), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Neeme Jarvi), National Symphony Orchestra (Mstislav Rostropovitch), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic (Gert Albrecht), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Friederike Heumann, Viola de Gamba – Guest Soloist
Friederike Heumann studied Viola da Gmba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jordi Savall und Paolo Pandolfo. She completed her music education with a Soloist Diploma in Ancient Music. Subsequenty, she held a Fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and lived there for several years as an independent musician. She has performed all over Europe, Canada, the US and Isreal as soloist and guest of ensembles such as Concerto Vocale (René Jacobs), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Hesperion XXI und Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall), Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado), Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Kent Nagano), Bayerische Staatsoper München (Ivor Bolton), Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble and others.
Alex Klein, Oboe – Guest Soloist
Alex Klein joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe at age 30 in 1995. He has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Chicago Sinfonietta. He has recorded for Teldec, Boston Records, Newport Classics, Musical Heritage Society and Cedille Records. Klein won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental soloist with Orchestra for his recording of Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony. Klein left the Chicago Symphony in July 2004 due to musician's focal dystonia which had begun within two years of his assuming the first chair. He currently performs as soloist and conductor, at the same time serving as a "Professor of Oboe" at his alma mater, the Oberlin Conservatory.
Wendy Sutter, Cello - Guest Soloist
Wendy Sutter is one of the leading cellists of her generation. Holding an unrivaled mastery of the classical repertoire, Sutter's stunning performances provide a heartfelt intensity, garnering overwhelming praise from critics, and adoration from audiences around the world. She has performed with many leading international ensembles, and in recent years her reputation as soloist has continued to grow, giving major performances with the Shanghai Symphony, the La Jolla Symphony, the Shenzhen Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony. Sutter plays on “the Ex Vatican Strad,” a viola da gamba built in Cremona in 1620 by the great luthier Nicolò Amati and adapted to cello by the master, Antonio Stradivari.
Jeanette Sorrell, Organ - Guest Soloist
Ms. Sorrell has received critical acclaim for guest engagements with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis with the St. Louis Symphony, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Oberlin Conservatory Opera Theatre, the Akron Symphony (in 2005 and 2007), the Arizona Opera, the Windsor Symphony in Canada, the Magnolia Baroque Festival in North Carolina, the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, and the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra. Upcoming conducting engagements include the annual “Mozart Birthday Concert” at the Cleveland Institute of Music in January.
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