Having gained the respect of distinguished composers such\\r\\nas Helmut Lachenmann or George Crumb, several new works were written for him,\\r\\namongst these piano concertos by Michael Nyman, Lorenzo Ferrero, Filippo Del\\r\\nCorno, Michele dall\'Ongaro, Carlo Boccadoro or Louis W. Ballard (who\'s Indiana Concerto was premiered in 2008\\r\\nwith the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra).

Pursuing new ideas and innovative programs, Emanuele\\r\\nArciuli is continuously developing new projects. Recently, Round Midnight\\r\\nVariations, a group of 16 compositions that were written expressively for\\r\\nArciuli (including composers such as Babbitt, Rzewski, Torke, Daugherty, Bolcom\\r\\nand Harbison), has gained much interest by international critics and can be\\r\\nconsidered as one of the most significant contemporary American piano\\r\\ncollections. His special interest for the native American culture has inspired\\r\\na project that involves major native composers (Davids, Quincy, Croall,\\r\\nChacon), who dedicated new piano pieces to Arciuli. He premiered them in November\\r\\n2008 at the Washington Smithsonian Museum.

Amongst his numerous recordings are Gates to Everywhere\\r\\nwith music from Carla Bley, Fred Hersch and Chick Corea; the complete piano\\r\\nworks of Berg and Webern, and the Concerto for piano and orchestra of Bruno Maderna\\r\\n(world premiere). The CD album dedicated to George Crumb (Bridge) was nominated\\r\\nfor the Grammy Awards, and his CD with works by Adams and Rzweski\\r\\n(Stradivarius) received the Italian critics\' award for the best record in 2006.

He regularly performs at major music institutions and\\r\\nfestivals, such as Berliner Festwochen, Miller Theater New York and Miami Piano\\r\\nFestival, as well as La Scala Milano, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, La Fenice\\r\\nVenice, Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival, and has collaborated\\r\\nwith international orchestras such as Indianapolis Symphony, Saint Petersburg\\r\\nPhilharmonic, Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira or the RAI National Symphony.\\r\\nAmong the conductors he has collaborated with are Yoel Levi, James MacMillan,\\r\\nKazushi Ono, Zoltan Pesko, Arturo Tamayo and Mario Venzago.

As a writer and musicologist, Emanuele Arciuli has\\r\\npublished the volume Rifugio Intermedio on contemporary piano music between\\r\\nItaly and the United States. A new comprehensive book on American piano music\\r\\nwill be published in June 2010 in Italy. Recently, the Italian culture channel\\r\\nRaiRadioTre included Emanuele Arciuli in its series of ten transmissions\\r\\npresenting contemporary Italian interpreters.

Emanuele Arciuli is professor at the Conservatory in Bari\\r\\nand frequent guest professor at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati\\r\\nand other American universities.

MICHAEL BEGAY. composer, guitarist, radio producer,\\r\\nwriter. A graduate of Grey Hills Academy in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, Mr.\\r\\nBegay was one of the first graduates of the Grand Canyon Music Festival\'s Native American Composer Apprentice\\r\\nProject (NACAP), studying with composers Brent Michael Davids (2001-2002) David\\r\\nMallamud (2003), Jerod Impichchaachaaha\' Tate (2004) and Raven Chacon\\r\\n(2006-present) and working with outstanding string quartets including the Miro\\r\\nQuartet, Calder Quartet, Corigliano String Quartet, Avalon String Quartet and\\r\\nnew music ensemble ETHEL.

Mr. Begay studied recording arts at the Conservatory of\\r\\nRecording Arts and Sciences in Tempe and has worked at Native American radio\\r\\nstation KGHR, a National Public Radio affiliate, as a producer and music writer\\r\\nfor six years, and has worked in the studio with Grammy award winner Verdell\\r\\nPrimeaux, all the while continuing to compose. He joined NACAP as a volunteer\\r\\nassistant composer-in-residence in 2006, working closely with Raven Chacon. He\\r\\ncontinues studying composition with Mr. Chacon, and officially joined NACAP as\\r\\nassistant composer-in-residence in 2007.

As NACAP assistant composer-in-residence he has worked\\r\\nwith over 25 composition students from Tuba City High School and Grey Hills\\r\\nAcademy tutoring them on all aspects of composition, from inspiration to\\r\\nnotation, including instruction in the Sibelius music notation program.

Mr. Begay has taught guitar at a summer youth program and\\r\\nproduces and performs concerts throughout northern AZ. He continues to work at\\r\\nKGHR, compose, study, and teach.

STEPHEN BENSON. Guitarist Stephen Benson is a freelance\\r\\nperformer who has remained active on the studio, jazz and Broadway scene for\\r\\nover twenty years. Comfortable in a variety of musical settings from jazz and\\r\\nclassical music to rock, rhythm and blues, Broadway, bluegrass and klezmer\\r\\nmusic, he has performed and or recorded with people as diverse as Phoebe Snow,\\r\\nJohn Sebastian, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Natalie Cole, Jessica Simpson, Evelyn\\r\\nBlakey, Nick Lachey, and The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Philadelphia\\r\\nOrchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke\'s and The American Symphony Orchestra. He\\r\\ntoured Europe as a member of the Giora Feidman Trio, performing at the\\r\\nCarnevale in Venice, Italy, for two years. He currently performs on Broadway in\\r\\nthe orchestra pits of \\"The Lion King\\", \\"Chicago\\",\\r\\n\\"Mary Poppins\\" and \\"Hair\\". He holds a Bachelor of Music\\r\\ndegree from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Masters\\r\\nof Music from Manhattan School of Music. He has taught at the Hartt School of\\r\\nMusic and the Turtle Bay Music School. He is currently on the jazz faculty at\\r\\nMontclair State University in New Jersey and lives in New York City with his\\r\\nwife and 13 year old twins.

ROBERT BONFIGLIO, harmonica, is founding director of the\\r\\nGrand Canyon Music Festival. Called \\"the Paganini of the Harmonica\\"\\r\\nby the Los Angeles Times, Robert Bonfiglio dazzles audiences worldwide with his\\r\\nconstant reinvention of the harmonica, from classical concertos to sizzling\\r\\nblues. Since 2006 he made his debut with the Louisville Orchestra, the Bochumer\\r\\nPhilharmoniker in Germany, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, performed\\r\\nwith the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the\\r\\nPittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Marvin Hamlisch. Mr. Bonfiglio regularly\\r\\nperforms with the world\'s top orchestras, including the Orchestre de la Suisse\\r\\nRomande, the Leipzig MDR-Radio Symphony at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the\\r\\nBuenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colón, Madrid Radio Television Española\\r\\nOrchestra, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, and the Mexico City, Luxembourg\\r\\nand Hong Kong Philharmonics, as well as the Minnesota, Milwaukee, Indianapolis,\\r\\nOregon and Utah Symphonies, the Los Angeles and Brooklyn Philharmonics, the\\r\\nBoston Pops with John Williams on PBS, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra with\\r\\nJohn Mauceri. His RCA recording of the Villa-Lobos Harmonica Concerto was\\r\\nreleased to critical acclaim and his \\"Through the Raindrops\\" CD\\r\\nremained on the pop billboard charts for 9 months. Robert has appeared on\\r\\n\\"CBS Sunday Morning,\\" \\"CBS Morning Show,\\" \\"Live with\\r\\nRegis and Kathy Lee,\\" \\"Larry King,\\" and Garrison Keillor\'s\\r\\n\\"American Radio Show\\" and had feature stories in The New York Times,\\r\\nthe Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Chicago\\r\\nTribune. He holds a masters degree in composition from Manhattan School of\\r\\nMusic, studying with Charles Wuorinen and, as the first recipient of the Mihaud\\r\\nScholarship at the Aspen Music School, Aaron Copland. He studied harmonica with\\r\\nCham-ber Huang and Andrew Lolya.

RAVEN CHACON, composer, originally from Chinle, AZ on the\\r\\nNavajo reservation, is one of the few American Indian composers working in the\\r\\nworld today. His work ranges from quiet, almost silent music for classical\\r\\nchamber instruments and ensembles to solo deafening performances for noise\\r\\ndevices created by Chacon himself.

His pieces and installations have been performed and\\r\\nexhibited in across U.S. as well as Europe, Canada and New Zealand. He has also\\r\\nstudied and worked with notable composers such as James Tenney, Morton\\r\\nSubotnick, Wadada Leo Smith and Glenn Branca and has received commissions from\\r\\nthe University of Mary Washington and the ERGO Ensemble.

Recent projects include performing in the west coast\\r\\nnoise trio KILT, in the Albuquerque ensemble Cobra//group. Chacon also is a\\r\\nmember of the First Nations Composers Initiative, a collective of composers and\\r\\nmusicians working to progress the education and works of young Native\\r\\ncomposers. He has also written essays on the subject of \'New Native Art\' and\\r\\ncontemporary American Indian art forms.

As an educator, Chacon has taught courses in experimental\\r\\nart and performance at the University of New Mexico and annually he serves as\\r\\nComposer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship\\r\\nProject, a month-long intensive course teaching composition to young\\r\\nReservation students. The recently released full-length disc, Overheard Songs\\r\\nis available on Innova Recordings.

He lives anywhere between Los Angeles, California and\\r\\nAlbuquerque, New Mexico.

JOE DENINZON, electric violin, mandolin. Joe Deninzon has\\r\\nestablished himself as a versatile, on-demand violinist and composer. A\\r\\nmusician who transcends many genres, he has recorded and performed with a\\r\\nvariety of artists including Sheryl Crow, Everclear, Ritchie Blackmore of Deep\\r\\nPurple, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Matthis, Les Paul, Phoebe Snow, Jane Monheit,\\r\\nand Robert Bonfiglio. Joe has recently made his film scoring debut with the\\r\\nsoundtrack for \\"What\'s Up Scarlet\\" (Open City Entertainment). He has\\r\\nappeared in Lincoln Center\'s Meet the Artist program, as a soloist with the New\\r\\nYork Chamber Orchestra, has performed on MTV and at the Rock \'n Roll Hall of\\r\\nFame, and has played for former President Clinton.

Joe has been hailed by critics as \\"The Jimi Hendrix\\r\\nof the Violin\\" because of his innovative style on the electric six and\\r\\nseven-string violin and his compositions combining jazz, rock, and world music.\\r\\nHe has been featured in publications such as Jazziz and Relix magazine. Joe and\\r\\nhis band, Stratospheerius, have released three CD\'s to international acclaim,\\r\\nand were recently named \\"Best Jam Band\\" in the Musician\'s Atlas 2005\\r\\nIndependent Music Awards. The group has toured throughout the United States and\\r\\nhas developed a reputation for their explosive live performances.

ETHEL. ETHEL is a 21st century incarnation os a classical string quartet featuring Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Cornelius Dufallo (violin), and Mary Rowell (violin). Formed in 1998, ETHEL explores new possibilities in string quartet performance, forging a repertoire unencumbered by convention, genre or style. The group\'s philosophy embraces the improvisational and theatrical, as they seek to revitalize and diversify audiences for new music. ETHEL works with some of today\'s most exciting composers, including John King,, Joe Jackson, Evan Ziporyn, Julia Wolfe and Phil Kline.
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ETHEL has performed at the Whitney Museum, Merkin Hall,\\r\\nChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Miller Theater, Galapagos Art\\r\\nSpace, the Cutting Room, Joe’s Pub and the Knitting Factory, and in festivals\\r\\nincluding String Summit at The Kitchen, Great Day in New York at Merkin Hall,\\r\\nand Bang On A Can Marathons. It has also performed at Princeton University, at\\r\\nMIT, in Bang on a Can Marathons in Hamburg, Germany, at the Venice Biennale,\\r\\nThe Library of Congress, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, Mass MOCA, Emory\\r\\nUniversity, Atlanta and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. The group has appeared\\r\\non the live radio broadcasts of David Dye, John Schaefer, and Vin Scelsa. Ethel\\r\\nreleased its first CD in 2003, which garnered excellent reviews, 4th place in\\r\\nWNYC’s New Sounds Listener Poll, and a “best recording of 2003” from Billboard\\r\\nMagazine’s classical music columnist. The group has recorded with Joe Jackson,\\r\\nDayna Kurtz, Steve Coleman, Mark Wood, Mel Graves and Benny Wallace, and released its second CD in 2004.

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SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE. Concertmaster of the Memphis\\r\\nSymphony Orchestra since 1997, where she has frequently been featured as a\\r\\nsoloist, including performances of the W. A. Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A\\r\\nMajor, Alban Berg Violin Concerto, Max Bruch Scottish Fantasy, and J.S. Bach\\r\\nBrandenburg Concerti, Susanna Gilmore maintains an active schedule of solo\\r\\nrecitals and chamber music collaborations throughout the country. Ms. Gilmore\\r\\ncurrently serves as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University\\r\\nof Memphis and serves at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp as the Valade Violin\\r\\nFellow. She has been on the summer faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music\\r\\nFestival, Tennessee Governor\'s School for the Arts, Hot Springs Music Festival\\r\\nin Arkansas, Washington Island Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin, and as an\\r\\ninstructor of Celtic fiddle at the Memphis Suzuki Institute. She regulrarly\\r\\nperforms with her husband, Barry Gilmore, and Planet Reed, specializing in\\r\\ntraditional and contemporary Celtic folk music intertwined with rhythms and\\r\\ninstrumental textures from around the world. Ms. Gilmore received her\\r\\nBachelor\'s in Music at Oxford University in England and spent a year of\\r\\npost-graduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where\\r\\nshe studied with violinist Yfrah Neaman. She received her Master\'s degree in Violin\\r\\nPerformance at New England Conservatory under the instruction of James Buswell.\\r\\nPrior to her studies in England Ms. Gilmore studied with Christian Teal at the\\r\\nBlair School of Music and with Mimi Zweig at Indiana University. Ms. Gilmore\\r\\nhas recorded for the Naxos, Dorian, Island and Cadre record labels.

In October 2008 she and her husband collaborated with the\\r\\nTennessee Shakespeare Company to compose, arrange and perform the music for the\\r\\nproduction of \\"As You Like It\\". She has twice been named Premier String\\r\\nPlayer in the region by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences;\\r\\nHer work with the Crittenden Arts Council and other arts organizations has\\r\\nafforded her the opportunity to play for and educate children and teachers\\r\\nthroughout the Mid-South. In the summer she has been a faculty member at the\\r\\nSewanee Summer Music Festival, Tennessee Governor\'s School for the Arts, and\\r\\nthe Hot Springs Music Festival.

CLARE HOFFMAN, flute, artistic director. Clare Hoffman\\r\\nhas toured the United States, Europe and Asia, performing in a variety of\\r\\nsettings from major concert halls to an ancient ampitheatre on the Greek island\\r\\nof Rhodes. Recent engagements include the Berkshire Bach Society (Tanglewood),\\r\\nBang on a Can Festival (Lincoln Center), Cutting Edge (New York City, Victoria\\r\\nBond, director), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber\\r\\nOrchestra (Lincoln Center\'s Great Performers series), Scandia Symphony, and\\r\\nBronx Arts Ensemble. She has premiered works by John Corigliano, Seymour Barab,\\r\\nArnold Black and Richard Einhorn and recorded for television, film, and RCA and\\r\\nHigh Harmony Records. Ms. Hoffman\'s 2001-2002 season included working with\\r\\nMusic Givers, an organization founded by musicians after September 11, 2001, to\\r\\noffer their talents to the relief efforts in the New York City area. Her\\r\\narrangement of John Corigliano\'s \\"Voyage\\" for flute and string\\r\\nquintet is published by Schirmer. She studied at the Mannes College of Music\\r\\n(Bachelor of Music) with Andrew Lolya, at L\'École d\'Été in France with legendary\\r\\nFrench flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion, and with Samuel Baron and\\r\\nJulius Baker.
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\\r\\nED MELL. Born in Pheonix, visual artist Ed Mell graduated from the Art\\r\\nCenter College of Design in Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Fine Arts\\r\\ndegree in illustration. He began his career in New York City as an art\\r\\ndirector for a prominent advertising agency. He also ran his own\\r\\nillustration studio in New York in the early seventies. After spending\\r\\ntwo summers working with children\'s arts programs on the Hopi\\r\\nReservation, he developed his interest in southwest landscape. He\\r\\nreturned to Phoenix in 1973 to continue his commercial work in\\r\\nillustration, while painting landscape of the west. Now he devotes\\r\\nhimself full time to working in oils. his main emphasis on western\\r\\nlandscapes and subject matter. He also paints southwestern florals and\\r\\nsculpts western figures in bronze. His pieces are found in many\\r\\ncorporate and private collections nationally and internationally. He has\\r\\nbeen providing images to the Grand Canyon Music Festival since its\\r\\nsecond season.
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ROBERT MIRABAL. \\"...my music is informed by the\\r\\nceremonial music that I\'ve heard all of my life.\\" Two-time GRAMMY winner\\r\\nRobert Mirabal lives with his family at the foot of sacred Taos Mountain in\\r\\nnorthern New Mexico. Maintaining a traditional life, keeping the centuries-old\\r\\ncustoms of the Taos Pueblo people, Robert has been described as a Native\\r\\nAmerican \\"Renaissance man\\" - musician, composer, painter, master\\r\\ncraftsman, poet, actor, screenwriter, horseman and farmer - and travels\\r\\nextensively playing his music all over the world.

His first flute came when he was 18 with money he\\r\\nborrowed from his grand mother, and shortly after wards he had the opportunity\\r\\nto meet Native American flute player R. Carlos Nakai who greatly influenced\\r\\nhim. \\"When we met he looked at my hands and laughed. He said, \\"I have\\r\\nthat same scar. It\'s the scar of the flute maker.\\"

In the years since, Robert has continued the evolution of\\r\\nhis flute making and has also become a concert performer and recording artist.\\r\\nHis dozen albums of traditional music, rock and roll, and spoken word present a\\r\\ncontemporary view of American Indian life that is unequaled.

\\"My music is informed by the ceremonial music that\\r\\nI\'ve heard all my life. What I create comes out of my body and soul in a desire\\r\\nto take care of the spirits of the earth.\\"

A leading proponent of world music, Robert has merged his\\r\\nindigenous American sound with those of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, tapping\\r\\ninto a planetary pulse with a style that defies categorization.

Whether as a composer, songwriter or musician, Robert has\\r\\nwon many honors including two-time Native American Artist of the Year,\\r\\nthree-time Songwriter of the Year, a 2006 GRAMMY Award for Sacred Ground, and\\r\\nhis 2008 GRAMMY for Johnny Whitehorse Totemic Flute Chants, blending all of\\r\\nRobert\'s influences into a musical landscape that conjures up both the historic\\r\\nand contemporary West. His 2001 breakthrough \\"Music From a Painted Cave\\"\\r\\nPBS special and CD brought him national acclaim. and his first novel,\\r\\n\\"Running Alone in Photographs\\", has won critical praise.
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NEWMAN & OLTMAN GUITAR DUO. Hailed as \\"... a revelation\\r\\nto hear.\\" by The Washington Post,\\r\\nthe Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo\'s phenomenal musicianship places them solidly\\r\\nat the top of their field. Their innovative programming, matchless technique and\\r\\nensemble precision, combined with their commitment to expanding the repertoire for\\r\\nguitar duo make them a stand-out chamber ensemble in every way.

Newman and Oltman\'s concert tours have taken them to world\\r\\ncultural capitals and premiere venues across five continents. Recent highlights\\r\\ninclude performances in the United States and Asia, major capitals of Europe, South\\r\\nAmerica, South Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and the South Pacific, with performances\\r\\nat Carnegie Hall, aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, at Caramoor and at the Grand Canyon,\\r\\namong other locales. The Duo has demonstrated extraordinary stylistic breadth in\\r\\ntheir collaborations with such diverse artists as author Frank McCourt (\\"Angela\'s\\r\\nAshes\\"), composer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch and the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops,\\r\\nmezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, violinist Arnold Steinhardt, fiddler Eileen Ivers,\\r\\nand numerous string quartets including ETHEL, Calder, Daedalus and Turtle Island.

Upcoming performances for 2010 will include collaborations\\r\\nwith violinist Timothy Fain at the Raritan River Music Festival, flutist Clare Hoffman\\r\\nand bandoneon virtuoso Daniel Binelli at the Grand Canyon Music Festival, and the\\r\\nNew York premiere of Repentance by Sofia Gubaidulina (for three guitars, cello and\\r\\nbass) at the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes. The Duo will also perform concerts\\r\\nand master classes at the Iserlohn International Festival in Germany and at the\\r\\nInternational Music Festival F. Sor in Bogota, Colombia.

Through their groundbreaking New Music Commissioning Program,\\r\\nNewman & Oltman have built a unique repertoire of works for two guitars by leading\\r\\nand emerging composers such as Paul Moravec, Augusta Reed Thomas, Lowell Liebermann,\\r\\nDuaan Bogdanovi and Roberto Sierra.\\r\\nThe duo\'s latest CD, \\"Music from Raritan River\\" , which was hailed by\\r\\nFanfare Magazine as \\"top notch\\"\\r\\n and \\"... a winner all around\\", features a collection of\\r\\nworld premieres commissioned by the duo over the past decade.

Their artistry has also been captured on nearly a dozen other\\r\\nacclaimed recordings, including Songs of Spain (BMG), Laments and Dances: Music\\r\\nfrom the Folk Traditions (Music Masters) with the Turtle Island Quartet, Sally Rogers\\r\\nand Jay Unger, Tango Suite! Romance for Two Guitars (Music Masters) and Christmas\\r\\nPastorale: 600 Years of Carols, Chorales, Preludes and Pastorales on Two Guitars\\r\\n(Musical Heritage Society). Their recordings uniformly garner critical praise: \\"A reference standard\\" (Billboard), \\"Their duet recordings reveal a finely blended sound and\\r\\ntrue unity of timbre and style\\" (The New York Times), \\r\\n\\" & beautifully realized performances\\" (Guitar Player Magazine).

Newman & Oltman\\"s contributions to the world of music\\r\\nhave been recognized by grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,\\r\\nChamber Music America, and other national and international organizations, including\\r\\nthe ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.

The Duo has served as ensemble-in-residence at New York\\"s\\r\\nMannes College of Music since 1987, and has recently been featured artists-in-residence\\r\\nat Cornell University, University of Puerto Rico, and Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.\\r\\nMichael and Laura are founders and artistic directors of the New York Guitar Seminar\\r\\nat Mannes, which takes place every summer in New York City (www.mannes.edu/guitar).\\r\\nThey also are founders and music directors of New Jersey\'s Raritan River Concerts\\r\\nand the Raritan River Music Festival (www.RaritanRiverMusic.org).

Michael Newman serves on the faculty of Mannes College. Laura\\r\\nOltman serves on the faculties of Princeton University and Lafayette College.

JEFF PETERSON. Born on the Island of Maui, Jeff Peterson\\r\\ngrew up on the slopes of Haleakala where he was introduced to the rich heritage\\r\\nof Hawaiian music by his father, a paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy, on the\\r\\nHaleakala Ranch. The music that he heard from his father and other paniolos as\\r\\nwell as the slack key on classic recordings by the Gabby Pahinui Band, Leonard\\r\\nKwan, and Sonny Chillingworth made a deep and lasting impression on him that he\\r\\ncontinues to draw inspiration from today. As he began studying the guitar on\\r\\nhis own, his interests broadened and he delved into a wide variety of musical\\r\\ngenres that the guitar plays a part in. To explore these interests further, he\\r\\nwent on to study jazz and classical guitar at the University of Southern\\r\\nCalifornia and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has studied privately\\r\\nwith a wide variety of artists including celebrated classical guitarist\\r\\nBenjamin Verdery, slack key guitarist Ozzie Kotani, as well as a number of jazz\\r\\nguitarists including Joe Diorio, Larry Koonse, and Frank Vignola. He has\\r\\nparticipated in the island-wide Annual Slack Key Guitar Festivals over the past\\r\\nfive years with many other slack key artists including Raymond Kane, Keola\\r\\nBeamer, and Cyril Pahinui. As a performer, Jeff has had the honor to work with\\r\\na wide range of artists and groups including Eric Clapton, slack key guitarist\\r\\nLedward Kaapana, James Galway, Michael Feinstein, the Honolulu Symphony, Hawaii\\r\\nOpera Theatre, jazz bassist Rufus Reid, shakuhachi master Riley Lee, soprano\\r\\nDana Hanchard, and with many other artists in the fields of Hawaiian,\\r\\nclassical, and jazz music. He has three recordings on Hula Records\\r\\nInternational with Riley Lee: \\"Maui Morning\\" \\"Bamboo Slack\\r\\nKey\\" and \\"Haiku\\". He also released an acclaimed solo guitar\\r\\nrecording featuring his slack key artistry, \\"Kahealani\\". Wayne Harada\\r\\nfrom the Honolulu Advertiser reacted to hearing the CD by writing: \\"Add\\r\\nthe Peterson name to the top 10 list of slack key giants\\".

He has traveled to Europe, Australia, New York, Maryland, Florida, and\\r\\nacross the West Coast to perform at a variety of venues from Symphony Space in\\r\\nNew York City to the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Australia. He was\\r\\nfeatured recently at the First World Guitar Congress in Maryland where he\\r\\nperformed Hawaiian slack key guitar as well as classical music in masterclasses\\r\\nby classical guitarists David Russell and Dusan Bogdanovic. He performs\\r\\nregularly at Michel\'s Restaurant in the Colony Surf Hotel in Waikiki in\\r\\naddition to a variety of other venues throughout Hawaii and abroad in both solo\\r\\nand group settings. In addition to performing, he also teaches the guitar at\\r\\nthe University of Hawaii. Recently, he achieved a milestone in Hawaiian music\\r\\nat the 47th Annual Grammy Awards on February 13th, 2005, when a recording on\\r\\nPalm Records featuring Jeff and other island artists, \\"Slack Key Guitar,\\r\\nVolume 2\\", won the first ever Grammy Award for best Hawaiian recording.

TREVOR REED. A native of Seattle, Washington, Trevor Reed\\r\\nbegan his involvement with music as a double bassist. After receiving first\\r\\nprize in the Washington State Solo Competition for three consecutive years, and\\r\\nlater as a finalist in the All American Music Festival solo competition, Reed\\r\\ndecided to pursue composition as his creative outlet. He received his Bachelor\\r\\nof Music degree in composition from Brigham Young University. He recently\\r\\ncompleted his Masters Degree in Arts Administration Columbia University\'s\\r\\nTeacher\'s College and has been accepted into Columbia Un iversity\'s Doctoral\\r\\nProgam.. Among Reed\'s achievements in composition are first prize in the Vera\\r\\nHinckley MayHew Composition Competition and a grant from the Laycock Center for\\r\\nCreative Collaboration to produce a new work for orchestra. A tribute to his\\r\\nHopi culture, the orchestral piece marked an important milestone in Reed\'s goal\\r\\nof incorporating indigenous elements into concert music. Reed is currently Research\\r\\nCoordinator at the Research Center for Arts and Culture, where his team is\\r\\nconducting the first national study of living American composers.

ASTRID\\r\\nSCHWEEN. As a member of the world-renowned Lark Quartet since 1989, Astrid Schween\\r\\nhas performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center\'s Great Performers Series, the Kennedy\\r\\nCenter, London\'s Wigmore Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Lockenhaus,, the\\r\\nBeethoven Festival in Moscow and many other prestigious venues. Among the numerous\\r\\nawards garnered by the Lark Quartet in international competition are the 1991 Shostakovich\\r\\nGold Medal in Russia and the 1990 Naumburg Chamber Music Award in New York. Miss\\r\\nSchween\'s discography includes more than one dozen CDs with the Lark Quartet for\\r\\nArabesque, Decca/Argo, Point, CRI and New World labels.

In addition to her work with the Lark Quartet, Miss Schween\\r\\nperforms regularly with pianist Gary Hammond as the Schween-Hammond Duo, and with\\r\\nthe Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York and on tour throughout the world, performing\\r\\nextensively throughout North America, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and\\r\\nJapan. In recent seasons, she has appeared as concerto soloist with the Memphis\\r\\nSymphony Orchestra, and with the orchestras of the University of the South, Sewanee\\r\\nSummer Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Ohio University.

She serves as frequent juror/panelist in competitions at Juilliard\\r\\nand the Manhattan School of Music, Concert Artists Guild, Chamber Music America\\r\\nand the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference, and has conducted\\r\\nmaster classes in cello and chamber music at conservatories and universities across\\r\\nthe country. Miss Schween is a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School\'s Music\\r\\nAdvancement Program, the School for Strings, the New York Youth Symphony, the Sewanee\\r\\nSummer Music Festival and was recently appointed Visiting Professor of Cello at\\r\\nthe University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she succeeds cellist Matt Haimovitz.

Astrid Schween began her cello studies at age seven with Dr,\\r\\nH.T. Ma and shortly thereafter entered the Juilliard School Pre-College Division.\\r\\nShe was invited to study at the Paris Conservatory as well as the Curtis Institute,\\r\\nbut remained at Juilliard until the completion of her Bachelor and Masters degrees\\r\\nas a student of Harvey Shapiro, Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins. From ages sixteen\\r\\nto twenty-two, she enjoyed an intensive series of lessons in London with cellist\\r\\nJacqueline Du Pre, arranged for her by Zubin Mehta, after he presented Miss Schween\\r\\nas soloist with the New York Philharmonic as winner of the Young Peoples Concerts\\r\\nCompetition. Other major teachers included Bernard Greenhouse, Ardyth Alton, Eugene\\r\\nMoye, and Scott Ballantyne. Miss Schween also spent many summers at the Meadowmount\\r\\nSchool of Music and the Marlboro Music Festival, and was twice a winner of the Juilliard\\r\\nCello Prize.

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