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Sinisa Ciric, Violin,
(now updating) received his undergraduate degree from the Academy of Arts,
University of Novi Sad (Yugoslavia)
and master degree from University
of Georgia. He is
currently pursuing DMA degree in violin and viola performance at University of Georgia
in Athens
studying with world renowned professor Levon Ambartsumian (student of Kogan
and Yankelevich) and Dr. Mark Neumann
respectively.
Mr. Ciric is concertmaster of New
Atlanta Philharmonic, Gwinnett Ballet Orchestra and Rome Symphony, GA. He
appeared as a soloist with New Atlanta Philharmonic, Georgia Philharmonic
and Rome Symphony Orchestra as well as Bach Festival Orchestra, GA. As a
member of ARCO Chamber Orchestra Mr. Ciric
performed in Carnegie Hall and was featured as soloist on ARCO’s most recent recording of Vivaldi’s concertos for
two, three and four violins. He can
also be heard on several CD recordings of New Trinity Baroque as violinist
and violist.
Prior to coming to USA his orchestral experience involves
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (Yugoslavia), the Symphonic Orchestra of
the Radio-Television of Serbia, the Orchestra of the National Theatre,
ensemble Camerata Academica
and the Opera Orchestra of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad.
Mr. Ciric participated in many
concerts as a soloist, member of chamber ensemble, member of an orchestra,
etc. While performing with the Symphonic Orchestra of Serbian Radio
Television, he cooperated with many national and international conductors,
such as Zubin Mehta, Christian Mandeal, Gyula Nemet, Milen Nachev, Mikis Teodorakis, Christian Badea
and many others.
Mr. Ciric actively performs in
Southeast and has given masterclasses and
recitals at Weber State University
and Berry College among others. Mr. Ciric is Artist Affiliate at Emory University
and teaches violin, viola and chamber music at Oxford College of Emory
University.
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Ian Wong, Violin.
At 17, Ian Wong is already a veteran musician. He has held
leadership positions as co-concertmaster of PSYO, concertmaster of the
Grammy Award winning Philharmonic of Northwood High School, concertmaster
of the Irvine School District Honor Orchestra, principal second violin in
California All-State Honor Orchestra, concertmaster of the national Honor
Orchestra of America.
Since 2002, Ian had solo performances with youth orchestras
and professional orchestras such as Downey Symphony Orchestra and South
Coast Symphony, playing works by Paganini, Ravel, and Saint-Saens, among
others. His youth orchestras have taking tours in Italy, France and New York Carnegie
Hall where Ian performed as violinist, violist, pianist as well as flutist.
He was “Stars of Tomorrow” in 2006, “Young Stars of the
Future” in 2007. Ian has won 1st place in SYMF and VOCE.
He attended the Aspen Summer Music Festival. He is a member
of an awarding winning piano quartet, and the founder and harpsichord
player in the Brandenburg Trio.
He enjoys teaching viola, doing piano accompaniment for
young students at recitals and competitions, and helping violin students
prepare orchestra excerpts for auditions. Ian also participates in
fundraising events lead by American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
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Lynn Czae, Pianist, started her performance career at age of
five and won her first major competition when she was just nine years old. Czae's wonderful talent was instantly recognized and
became a renowned young pianist in Korea. Ms. Czae
moved to New York City and studied at the Juilliard School as a teenager and continued
her studying at the Manhattan School of Music with Zenon
Fishbein and Byron Janis where she holds for B.M
And M.M. Later, she went to Harvard Graduate school for study Music History
for post graduate study.
Ms. Czae was honored with the
"Citation of Honor Award" from New York City. And won the First Prize
from Keyboard Artist Competition. Also add another First prize from Mozart
Competition (USA). Internationally, she received the "Mozart
Award"(France), and "Granada Music Award" from Spain.
Today, Ms. Czae's internationally
acclaimed musical performance can be seen through her solo and chamber
recitals all around the world. She has appeared as a soloist with numerous
renowned Orchestras including the Festival Symphony Orchestra(USA), the
Geneva UN Orchestra( Swiss), the McGill Chamber ( Canada), the KBS
Symphony(Korea), the Seoul City Philharmony
Orchestra(Korea), the New Seoul Philharmony, and
the Seoul Symphony Orchestra(Korea). Many of her performances were
broadcasted on major T.V and Radio all around the world.
The critics describe Ms. Czae’s
performance with "Astonishing touch and the magical colors of
musicality”, “Charisma captivates audience ”,
“Giant within small build".
She was a piano faculty at MSM (prep) NY, at Kyunghee University (Korea)
and Chair for Piano Dept. at the Seoul Conservatory as well as a pianist
for KBS FM in Korea
before. Recently she move back to USA as a fellowship Professor
at the Cal-state University of Northridge.
She has been sidelined by severe rheumatism for 3 years but
came back to stage with her strong faith and will. Since then, She has been
giving many concerts around the world including charity concerts and now
she has 3 CDs out for the public.
”Before, I
played for myself, Now I play for others…” She says.
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Patrick Ryan received his
Bachelors degree under the direction of Beth Newdome
from the Florida
State University,
and he holds a masters degree from the Eastman School of Music under the
direction of Charles Castleman. An
avid performer of contemporary music, Patrick has had the pleasure
attending the Bang on a Can summer festival, working with artists such as
Todd Reynolds, Brad Lubman, David Lang, Julia
Wolfe, and Michael Gordon. During his time at Eastman, Patrick has
also performed "Different Trains" by Steve Reich with the
composer in attendance. Last year, Patrick soloed with the OSSIA
music ensemble, playing Lou Harrison's Violin Concerto.
No stranger to the classical world, Patrick has won jobs with the
Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and the Pensacola Symphony
Orchestra. During his time at Florida State,
he was invited to perform the Schubert Octet with faculty members of the
school. After winning the school's concerto competition, Patrick also
won the Mt. Dora Arts Festival competition as well as several other local
competitions.
Now residing in Atlanta, Patrick performs
with symphonies including, Rome, Gainesville, New
Atlanta Philharmonic and Musica Sacra as well
as holding teaching positions with
several schools in the Atlanta
area.
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Jung Ja Kim, Violin, was born in Seoul, Korea
and started the violin at age of nine. She graduated from Han Yang
University with B.M. in Seoul, had been a member of the K.B.S. Symphony
Orchestra one of the top ranked in Korea.
She came to USA
for studying music with and graduated GSU with M.M degree. At that time she
studied with Dr. Oliver Steiner.
Ms. Kim have experienced
lots as a teacher of many public school orchestras in Atlanta, a
member of the Rome, Gainesville and now,
the emeritus
concertmaster of the New Atlanta Philharmonic.
She awarded “the musician of the year” in 2006 from the
Atlanta Korean-American Musician Association and “The golden medal of
the centennial anniversary
of the Korean-American immigrant in US” in 2003.
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Yoo Seb Cho,
Violin, was born in Korea
in the year of 1988, Joseph came abroad to U.S.
on Dec. 19th, 2000. He has started playing violin back when he still lived
in Korea.
However, it was his second year in U.S.
that he took interest in playing for the rest of his life. 2003, when he
moved to Pennsylvania
for high school, he participated in numerous state festivals, including
MENC All-Eastern Honors Orchestra.
Currently, he is pursuing a degree in violin performance at Georgia State University,
and he intends to transfer to a conservatory after his second year in GSU
to concentrate and focus solely on the violin.
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Yoshitada Nam, Violin, was born in Chiba,
Japan. He
started to play violin at age of ten in Japan. In 2004, he was a winner of Bronze
Prize at his first violin competition in
Japan.
Also
he got the Gold Prize at the Arts Flores Concert
Competition in Florida, 2006. Also, he awarded the 2008 Eugene Lee Music Scholarship.
In 2007, Mr. Nam
was honored the High School Honor Orchestra by the Georgia State
University and he is
pursuing a member of the All State Orchestra, and solo player for its
concerto. Currently he is the concertmaster of the New Atlanta Youth
Orchestra.
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Clarinetist
Ricky Saucedo, clarinet, is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music
degree at Georgia
State University,
where he is a student of Dr. Kenneth Long; previous teachers include Laura Ardan, Ted Gurch, and Kathy
White. While at Georgia
State, Mr. Saucedo
has served as Principal Clarinet in both the GSU Symphony Orchestra and
Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and has been selected to perform at several Honors
Recitals and master classes.
He is a Brumby Concerto Competition
winner, and has been heard in performance on WABE Atlanta. A dedicated
teacher, Mr. Saucedo participated in the Clarinet, Flute Teaching Workshop
at Indiana University,
and currently maintains an active, high calibre
private clarinet and flute studio in the metro Atlanta area.
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Helen
Hwaya Kim, Violinist, as well known this
is the 3rd appearance of Ms. Helen Kim with The New Atlanta Philharmonic
that she brings Brahms after her successful Mendelssohn and Bruch. Helen Hwaya Kim made her orchestral debut with the Calgary
Philharmonic at the age of six,and has gone on to
become a respected and sought-after artist. She recently appeared as a
soloist with the Boston Pops at Boston''s
Symphony Hall, as well as with the Milwaukee
and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Kim earned her Master's Degree from
the Juilliard
School, where her
teachers included Cho-Liang Lin and Dorothy DeLay. While at Juilliard, she
was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, with which she also appeared
as a soloist.
She is the recipient of more than one
hundred national and international awards. In 1992, she won the prestigious
Artists International Competition in New
York and, as a result, gave debut recitals at
Carnegie Weill Hall and the Aspen Summer Music Festival. A native of Canada, Ms. Kim has been engaged by many of Canadas leading orchestras,including the National Arts Center
Orchestra, Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, McGill
Chamber Orchestra, and the Windsor, Regina, Victoria
and Prince George Symphonies.
She has also appeared with the GreenBay, Cedar Falls , Dekalb , Aspen and Banff
Festival Orchestras,and with orchestras in the United Kingdom, Germany
and Poland.
A dedicated recitalist and chamber music performer, Ms. Kim has toured
extensively throughout Canada
and the United States,
including performances at Alice Tully Hall and the Sante
Fe and La Jolla International Music Festivals, where she performed with
Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman, Andre Previn, and
the Orion String Quartet. She performed Bach Double violin concerto with
Hilary Hahn at the 2002 Amelia Island Chamber music festival. A featured
performer during the 1988 Olympic Arts Festival, she has given command
performances for the Governor General
and Prime Ministers of Canada.
Ms. Kim has been profiled on national and
international television and has appeared on CBC, PBS and CBS networks. Her
performances have been aired on NPR and CBC radio networks.
Ms. Kim currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia where she served as
assistant and associate concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony for three
seasons. Also she is a faculty member at Kennesaw University
and a Assistant Concertmaster of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra.
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William Pritchard, Tuba, is a proud New jersey native who graduated from
William Paterson University Cum Laude as the Classical Performer of the
year and completed a Masters degree at the Eastman School of Music. His
primary teachers were Don Harry, Paul Scott and Scott Mendoker.
As a tireless supporter of contemporary music, he premiered a personally
commissioned work "A Gentle Answer" by John Link at the Friends
and Enemies of New Music concert series in New York City.
He also appeared as an electric tuba
soloist with Ossia, a frequent soloist with the
New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and the Midday Artists series and has soloed
with the South Orange Symphony Orchestra as well as the Army Ground Forces
Band. He is a founding member of Quartus Tubus, who appeared
with Bobby McFerrin in 2000.
Mr. Pritchard has been seen on Chinese
National television, Good Morning Atlanta and has been heard on WQXR (NY)
and on the CDs "Invictus" with the Army
Ground Forces Band and "Eastman Trombone Choir 60th Anniversary
Celebration." Mr. Pritchard was
a member of the Georgia Brass Band and was stationed at Fort McPherson
with The Army Ground Forces Band, and in 2005 he came back to Atlanta from the Eighth Army Band in Seoul, Korea.
In 2004 Mr. Prichard had a successful
concert with the New Atlanta Philharmonic conducted by Eugene Lee as a
soloist with Sampson's Tuba Concerto, "Three Portraits"
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Kaylla Haijoo Suh, Violinist, was born in Seoul, Korea
on June 6, 1966. She holds the degrees from the Julliard
School in New
York (B.M.A.), University
of Southern California in Los Angeles
(M.M.A.),and University of Miami (D.M.A.). She has won the First Prize in
numerous Competitions and scholarship auditions such as Teenager
Competition, the National Student's Competition, the Competition of the
National University of Education, the Korea Times Competition, Yukyoung Competition and the Boca Pops Scholarship
Auditions.
She's appeared as a soloist with I Solist Veneti of Italy,
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Black Sea Music Festival Orchestra of Rumania,
The State Philharmonic Kosice of Slovakia, Czech Prague Mozart Orchestra, Capella Cracoviensis of
Poland, Barcelona Symphony, St. Petersburg Symphony, Miami Symphony, KBS
Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, The Korean National Symphony, The Academy
Orchestra, New Seoul Symphony and the Civic Orchestra in China.
Dr. Suh has
also had recital tours in cities around the world such as New
York's Lincoln Center, Beijing's
Exhibition Center Theater, Los Angeles Hancock Auditorium, Miami's
Gusman Center, Sydney's
Opera House and Townsville Civic Center
in Australia, and
Southeast Asian City including Kuala Lumpur
and Singapore. She's had three Korean national tours for
her recital, touring fifteen different cities in Korea.
The critics called her "a performer full
of charisma …. With supernatural powers", " Sensitive yet
powerful … a passion-possessed violinist".
Currently, Dr. Kaylla
H. Suh is an associate Professor at Kyung Won University.
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Samuel
Fordis, Violin, has been a member
of the New Atlanta Symphony for the past three years. Mr. Fordis also serves as concertmaster of both the Georgia Philharmonic and the Rome
Symphony. He was previously the concertmaster of Orchestra Atlanta. Mr. Fordis came to Atlanta
in 2000 after a distinguished career in Los Angeles, where he served as
concertmaster of the Pacific Palisades Symphony. He was also the
concertmaster of the Brentwood Westwood Symphony, with whom he was soloist
in the Wieniawski and Glazunov Concertos.
Mr. Fordis
played with the Santa Monica Symphony and toured Europe
with the symphony. He served as a recording violinist at Universal Motion
Picture Studio, under personal contract for ten years and free-lanced at
Warner Brothers, RKO and Paramount Studios. Mr. Fordis
studied with Bronislaw Gimpel
and Noumi Fischer.
He also studied with the renowned
violinist and teacher, Abram Shtern, whom Mr. Fordis and his wife brought to California
from Kiev
in 1990.
Samuel Fordis
has pursued multiple careers. He has
produced orchestral and choral concerts in California. He has also conducted symphony orchestras
and choral groups. He is both a
composer and arranger.
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Alice
Park, Flute, began her flute studies after obtaining an Accounting degree
from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
in 1993. She received a second Bachelor's degree in music at the University of Maryland
at College Park, a Master's degree in flute
performance at the University of Iowa, and a Graduate Professional Diploma at the Hartt School in Connecticut,
where she was a recipient of a talent scholarship from 1999 to 2001.
Her teachers include William Montgomery, Tadeu Coelho, John Wion,
Christina Smith, and Carl Hall. She was a member of the Army Ground Forces
Band in Atlanta
for the past four years, and now freelances in the area. Ms. Park currently
resides in Mableton, Georgia with her two dogs and
cat.
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