Concertmaster-Amir Schiff

Violin 1

Violin 2

Viola

Aaron Van Heyningen

Whelan, Alyson

Carrie Deyer

Amir Schiff

Brittany Zellman

Heater J. Casparie

Ann-Marie Bermont

Ervilino

Jenifer Beth Hermann

Annelie Fahlstedt

Eun Jung Lee

JinKyung Park

Yang Dae Jin

Jessica Looi

Rick Quantz

Chih-Wei Hung

Julia lutzka

Susan Marie Talamini

Chaplen Bichop

Seung hyun Yoo

YoonYun

David Edward Keen

Hyo Jung Yoo

Entela Barci

Garry Ianco

Steliana Stefanova

 

Elizbieta Winnicki

 

 

Hye Won Cho

 

 

Jose M. Pietri Coimbre

 

 

Misako Sato

 

 

 

Cello

Double Bass

Flute

Laura Caspaire

Chris Clark

Kristina Walter

Gjiberta Gelaj

Joe Soucy

Chelsea Dana Knox

Minkyung Lee

Bob Peterson

 

Sean Katsuyama

Pawel Knapik

 

Misung Kang

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Oliver Hsu

 

 

 

Oboe

Clarinet

Basson

Hyun Hee Kim

Soohyun Jeon

Gul Jang

Katie Nita Scheele

Yi-Ju Lin

Ivy Haga

 

Trumpet

Horn

Trombone

Clayton Chastain

Jamie Campbell

Nick Martin

Cris Coletti

Marc Cerri

Charles Billings

 

 

Chris Chuk

 

Tuba

Timpani

Percussion

Paul Sandberg

Paul John Robertson

Sam Smith

 

 

Jennifer Wang

 

Harp

 

 

Joen Hampson

 

 

 

 

Nam Yun Kim- Music, Director and Principal Conductor

Mr. Kim is Music Director and Principal Conductor of New Jersey Philharmonic Orchestra (NJPO) which he founded in 1998. He intends to restore the ideal balance of crisp precision and emotional interpretation to performances of the great masterworks in a way that vindicates the striving of the composers. He conducted a wide variety of not only orchestral works, is deeply interested in presenting choral music and opera collaborated with orchestral music that led him to create choral group, which called, New Jersey Concert Choir (NJCC). NJPO and NJCC performed Beethoven¡¯s ¡°Choral Symphony and 9th Symphony¡± Mozart¡¯s ¡°Requiem¡± Ik-Tae Ahn¡¯s ¡°Korea Fantasy¡± and Handel¡¯s ¡°Messiah¡± which require a large member of chorus and Puccini¡¯s La Boheme, Verdi¡¯s La Traviata, Donizetti¡¯s Lucia di Lammermoor, and many other operas.

Also Mr. Kim expressed to promote and advocate the Korean traditional music in the classical music program.He served as a music director for Chicago Academic Chamber Orchestra and Chicago Christian Chamber Choir.Mr. Kim had studied chorale conducting skills while attending Chicago Musical College at Roosevelt University, and orchestral conducting at DePaul University both in Graduate School.In 2007, Mr. Kim invited to conduct Philharmonia del Veneto in Italy, Philharmonia Symponieta Hungarica in Germany and Israel Chamber Orchestra and Christopher Chamber Orchestra in Lithuania, Manhattan Symphony and other orchestras in Europe and Russia.

www.nykim@njphil.com

 


Nina Beilina, Violin

Nina Beilina's career was launched behind the Iron Curtain, after winning the Enescu International competition, Grand-Prix at the Long-Thibaud International competition and 3rd place at the Tchaikovsky International competition. The premier female violinist in Soviet Russia, Beilina appeared in recital and with orchestra in every major city in the former Soviet Union, in Scandinavia and South America. Beilina subsequently emigrated to the United States, and made her New York recital debut shortly thereafter. Since her arrival in the West, her concerts have captivated audiences and critics worldwide. “Hers is the kind of solid violinistic talent that ought to be heard on a regular basis?(The New York Times); “A sound so powerful, so enormous that it appears epic…fulminating?mathematically infallible, bordering on the incredible?(IL Messsagero, Rome); “playing equal to all demands?exact yet free as the flight of a bird?(The London Times). In recognition of her extraordinary achievements, Beilina was awarded the Vercelli Gold Medal (Vercelli Medaglia D'oro) as Musician of the Year for 1983, an honor she shares with the likes of Renata Tebaldi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Igor Stravinsky.

Nina Beilina performs regularly in concert and recital on four continents. She has appeared numerous times in recitals at halls such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the 92nd Street “Y? and in concert with the Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Minnesota, the American Symphony orchestras, among many others. She has also performed with the Orpheus and with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras, the Santa Cecilia Symphony, the RAI Orchestras of Milan, Rome and Turin, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Jerusalem, Natal and Cape Town Symphonies. Her 2006-2007 season includes repeated tours in Austria, Germany, Taiwan, Russia and Italy, as well as many performances in the US. On a more unusual note, Beilina appeared in Munich with pianist Richard van School and famed German actor Thomas Holtzmann in a cross-disciplinary performance of the “Kreutzer?Sonata - Beethoven's and Tolstoy's.

Beilina has premiered numerous works, including Schnittke's Suite in the Old Style, Boris Tischenko's Violin Fantasy, and Mark Kopytman's “Dedication? all of which were written for her. Among her extensive discography in the West there are the premieres of her arrangements and reconstructions of works by Bach, Piazzola, Gershwin and many others. In addition, Beilina recorded extensively for Russia's Melodya label before leaving the former Soviet Union.

Nina Beilina began her musical studies at the Central Music School in Moscow under Professor Abraham Yampolsky, and then entered the Moscow Conservatoire. She continued her post-graduate studies in St. Petersburg with Leopold Auer's disciple, Julius Eidlin, and completed her formal training under David Oictrakh. In addition to her concert engagements, Beilina is a distinguished, much sought-after teacher, a professor at the Mannes College of Music in New York, and gives master classes in Italy, Spain and Taiwan. Beilina is the founder and artistic director of the New York City's Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra, which celebrates?its 20th anniversary in 2007-2008 season.

 

NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA Viola

Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s performances as orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician garner great attention. Gramophone proclaimed Ms. Ngwenyama’s playing as providing “solidly shaped music of bold, mesmerising character,?and the Washington Post described her as playing "with dazzling technique in the virtuoso fast movements and deep expressiveness in the slow movements.?o:p>

Ms. Ngwenyama came to international attention when she won the Primrose Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions at age 17. Plaudits followed her debut recitals in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center and in New York at the 92nd Street ‘Y? and in 1997 she received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.?

Ms. Ngwenyama’s 2006-07 engagements included performances with the Austin, Jackson and Memphis Symphonies.? Highlights of her 2007-08 include a recital in Oakland, California for the Four Seasons Concert Series and performances with the Charlotte Symphony and Cincinnatti Chamber Orchestras.

Ms. Ngwenyama’s past seasons include performances with the Charlotte Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmoni, the Austin, Jackson and Memphis Symphonies, and appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She also performed with Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa, as well as Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.? Additionally, she “fascinated on viola and violin during recital? (Washington Post) at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C. and with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.?

Ms. Ngwenyama has performed throughout the United States and abroad. Domestic appearances include performances with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Indianapolis Symphonies as well as the National Symphony Orchestra. She has been heard in recital at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the Louvre, the Ford Center in Toronto, and the Maison de Radio France. Summer festival appearances include Green Music, Vail, San Diego’s Mainly Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, Marlboro Music Festival, and Spoleto USA.

Ms. Ngwenyama is no stranger to television and radio appearances. Her performance at the White House, commemorating the 10th anniversary of NPR’s Performance Today, also featured artists Wynton Marsalis, James Galway, and Murray Perahia. A vivid portrait of Ms. Ngwenyama was televised nationally on CBS Sunday Morning with cultural correspondent Eugenia Zukerman. She was featured on the Emmy Award-nominated PBS program Sound of Strings in the Musical Encounter Series, hosted by cellist Lynn Harrell. A dedicated advocate for the arts, she has testified before Congress on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts. As an artist recording on the EDI label, she has collaborated with pianist Mihae Lee on Grieg and Debussy and guitarist Michael Long on Bach partitas as well as Corella’s Che! A Musical Biography. Her recent collaboration with pianist Jennifer Lim on the Rubinstein viola and violin sonatas was released February 2007.

Born in California of Zimbabwean-Japanese parentage, Ms. Ngwenyama graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1996.?As a Fulbright scholar she attended the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris, and in 2002 received a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University.?

www.ngwenyama.com

 

Federico Pivato, Violin

Federico Pivato lives in Venice. He began violin's study at eleven; he studied under professor Carlos Garfias. He graduated of the conservatory with full marks and he won the best prize in various Italian competitions.

He attended specific courses of violin in   Italy, Usa and Korea with the main maestri Beatrice Antonioni, Cristiano Rossi, Alfonso Ghedin, Amir Shiff, John Calabrese, Hyo Kang, Joel Smirnoff and Eugene Sarbu; they showed very interesting for him. Scholarship holder at Lynn university in Boca Raton ? Miami-Usa in the maestro Sergiu Schwartz's class.

He plays as soloist, in orchestra and in duo Violin piano.