< Back Diego Imperiale Voice (Countertenor) Learn More Videos About Diego Gabriel Imperiale, born in Buenos Aires Argentina. Singer, actor, voice coach and musician. Since he was young, around 2005, he began writing songs and performing on stages in Argentina. In 2010 he founded his band “Absurda Atracción” and in addition to playing in several legendary places in the city, he began to appear on the musical theater scene as a vocal coach, composer and assistant director of local musicals. As an actor, he was the face of “Coca Cola” for the celebration of 125 years as a lead role for Spain and several places in Europe. He was selected by Oscar winner Armando Bo for this role. He is also in the movie “Christmas In Miami” on Amazon Prime. Between 2010 and 2020 he portrayed Paul McCartney in different bands of the Latin American Beatle scene, participating in Beatle Week festivals in Latin America and also in different cities in Brazil. In 2014, he celebrated a successful tour with the band Quantica, a Pop Art Discos and Sony Music signed project, as a backup vocalist, keyboardist and sequencer. He is an Estill Voice Training certified singing teacher (Estill Voice Master Trainer) at Estill Voice International. He studied with Kim Steinhauer, the president of the method, and assisted her in some of her international courses. He was certified by Alejandro Saorín Martínez (renowned opera voice teacher from Italy) and is also an assistant for his international courses in Spanish. He is one of the few Latin American Master Trainers in the world. In 2018, he directed, headlined and produced “Avenida Broadway”, a musical theater concert series in Buenos Aires that ran for a year and a half and had two shows in Columbus, Ohio, United States. He participated in shows at Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, as a singer and musician with his former pop/rock band “Absurda Atracción” under the production company Club Media Networks, awarded by YouTube as one of the most important influencers’ agents in Latin America. “Avenida Broadway” had its new installment at the end of 2022 as “A Night At Broadway” in Fort Lauderdale. Diego is a former counter tenor opera singer, cross-trained to sing tenor roles as well. In 2019 he played Jesus as a counter tenor lead in a baroque opera version of Jesus Christ Superstar and Marius in Les Miserables. He also starred in the Opera Gianni Schicchi in the role of Rinuccio, the lead tenor, in California. In mid-2023. At the end of 2023, he returned to the musical theater stage in South Florida with West Side Story, where he performed two different roles singing, acting and dancing in a professional cast for the Wynmoor Theater. Previous Next

< Back Giacomo Franci Piano/Conductor/Orchestra Learn More Videos About Maestro Pianist Giacomo Franci is the Artistic Director and the Conductor of The New York Chamber Players , an organization he founded in 2004. For the 2010-11 season Maestro Franci was elected Guest Maestro of Escuela de Direccion de Orquesta in Cordoba , Spain. Giacomo Franci is world renowned as the leading interpreter of the music of Aaron Copland . He earned this highly coveted position based on the merits of his acclaimed world premiere recording “The Complete Edited Piano Works by A. Copland”, a triple CD released by Fone’ Classics .Maestro Franci performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, for the centennial of Copland’s birthday in February 2000, receiving rave reviews for his performance. In December 2010 his World Premiere Recording “Igor Stravinsky: The Complete Published Piano Works” was released by Fone’ Classics . The double CD recording was praised by Audio Review Magazine as “… the Great Igor Stravinsky in the outstanding performance by Giacomo Franci” In the year 2016 he started the Recordings of The Complete Piano Sonatas by Beethoven on Sheva Collection Record Company, this year(2020) he has in program the 3rd CD Recording In 1998 Franci debuted at the Carnegie Recital Hall and the Italian Music Magazine “Musica” compared him to Glenn Gould and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Mr. Franci hails from Tuscany and now resides in New York City . When not performing he works at The Tribeca Music Studio, a teaching studio for aspiring pianists and singers. Read More Franci started his Concert Career in Italy with appearances at Teatro Comunale “Guglielmi” , Teatro San Filippo di Torino , Circolo della Musica di Bologna , and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara . When Franci is not performing as a featured pianist/soloist he devotes his time to conducting his new chamber orchestra. He is very excited about the recent attention which he and the orchestra are receiving. The Chamber Orchestra had their debut at the CAMI Concert Hall in New York City in May 2004 , performing the Bach Piano Concerto in D minor , and they have been in growing demand ever since. Franci who is constantly looking to interpret new works, studied with Gaetano Gaeta and Giampiero Semeraro while earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano from the Boccherini Music Institute in Lucca . He was awarded his Master’s Scholarship from the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo , studying with Jean Fassinat and the famed Aldo Ciccolini . He also studied conducting with Piero Bellugi and Gustav Kuhn at Teatro Comunale di Pisa . Over the last few seasons Franci has been a featured soloist for engagements throughout the USA, Italy, England, Finland, France,Bulgaria,Chile,Turkey, China, Hungary . He is a returning soloist with : Philharmonic Orchestra of Veneto, Orchestra Sinfonica di Grosseto (where he has been featured as Soloist/Conductor), La Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra, ISO Symphony, Turkey State Symphony in Istanbul, Richmond County Orchestra, New York Chamber Players, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Bordeaux and The Beijing Symphony Orchestra ( where he has been featured as Soloist/Conductor). Since the year 2004 when he founded his Orchestra in New York , he has conducted many great Orchestras such as :The Shanghai Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Grosseto, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Players , Concepcion Symphony Orchestra,Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano,Orchestra Modigliani,Boston Chamber Orchestra in Tanglewood and Richmond County Orchestra . Very recently he has been featured in 2 Radio Programs by David Dubal : “Piano Matters” on WWFM Radio and “Reflections from the Keyboard” on WQXR . For some of you that might not know , these radio programs feature the most legendary pianists of today and of all times . He has also appeared on radio and television shows carried by New York One, ABC, WPIX, Manhattan Cable, Hofstra University Radio, Blusat Radio 2000 (an hour long interview broadcast to an audience of over 2 million people) and Antenna 3 . In 2008 Maestro Franci was selected to the Cambridge Who’s Who Registry which lists the most accomplished professionals in the U.S. Previous Next

< Back Previous Andrea Causapruna Next Guitarist Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall June 30, 2025 WATCH VIDEO Andrea Causapruna developed a passion for music at a young age. He began studying classical guitar, alternating with electric guitar during his high school years, and played in various bands, exploring genres from early blues to experimental rock. He studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under Giuliano Balestra, graduating with top honors in guitar. He was a full student at the advanced courses of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Oscar Ghiglia and he furthered his studies with Stefano Grondona in Brescia. His classical repertoire spans from the Renaissance to contemporary works. Andrea performis Spanish Golden Age music on the vihuela and 19th-century music on period instrument. He has performed in numerous festivals and events in Italy and abroad and has won several national and international competitions. In 2006, he was awarded the Silver Plaque of the Italian Presidency of the Republic as the overall winner of the Anemos music competition in Rome. Andrea has given guitar masterclasses in Mexico City at the Escuela Nacional de Música and the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes. He holds a degree in Music Didactics and teaches in public schools. He is also a composer. His album "The Lover’s Suitcase”, published by World Fonogram Records in 2023, received international acclaim. He is author of soundtracks for movies and music for theatre production. The passion for theatre led him to found the collective "Il Teatro Invisibile” in 2017 and in 2021 his project Siamo Tutti Lupi Cattivi was a finalist at the Rome Fringe Festival, Tube section. In 2024, he debuted with the play Tungsteno by Antonio Mocciola.

< Back Fred Karpoff Piano Learn More Videos About After recovering from a career-threatening injury, Fred Karpoff continues to develop his multi-dimensional approach to piano teaching and technique through a wide range of experience. Initial mentoring by Yoheved Kaplinsky helped him rethink his approach to piano playing–which now combines elements of Tai chi, the Alexander Technique, and the Feldenkrais Method® with the work of many piano pedagogues, past and present. A master clinician, Fred is highly sought-after for workshops throughout the world. He guides teachers and students toward more efficient, healthful, and expressive piano playing as Artistic Producer of Entrada Piano. An international Steinway Artist, Fred has performed as both soloist and collaborative pianist in China, India, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and throughout North America and Europe. As guest artist at major music festivals in the U.S. and Europe, he has collaborated with many of America’s foremost musicians. With a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Conservatory, he has been fortunate to study with Ann Schein, Leon Fleisher, and Robert Weirich, and to have had extensive coachings with Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Richard Goode. A former USIA Artistic Ambassador, Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music, and current Professor of Piano at Syracuse University, he was named the winner of MTNA’s Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award for 3-D Piano: The Three-Dimensional Pianist. Fred’s Story More than thirty years ago, I was a graduate student at the Peabody Conservatory. At the end of a grueling academic year, without papers to write or students to teach, I greedily devoured big repertoire like it was going out of style, practicing for six or more hours a day. After two weeks, I began to feel fatigued at night. My arms felt hot and sore. But this was still the era of “ No pain, no gain ,” so I figured this had to be a sign that my hard work was paying off! Then one morning, after only fifteen minutes at the piano, I felt a sharp, searing pain on the underside of my arm, and stopped playing right away. I rested for a few days and tried practicing again, but the pain immediately returned. The same thing happened each time I rested and tried to resume my work. A specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital gave me the bad news: I had tendonitis, synovitis, and myositis in my arms and, later, bursitis in my shoulder. He prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs and recommended that I take up swimming. I took two blue pills and swam a half-mile a day for two weeks. This helped some but the pain returned as soon I resumed practicing. I stopped again. This time I was really down. Was this the end of my music career? Fred Karpoff Presenting a teacher’s workshop in Mumbai, India, 2017 A few weeks later, during a routine vision exam, my eye doctor asserted that postural problems tend to precede vision problems. He suggested I meet with a Feldenkrais® practitioner to deal with these issues. The Feldenkrais Method® helps clients develop their sensory skills and promote more efficient, agile body movement. Indeed, this helped me improve my posture and the quality of movement throughout my body. Around the same time I met a new instructor at Peabody, Julian Martin, who had been reexamining his own piano technique under the guidance of Dorothy Taubman. Over the course of a month, Julian patiently tutored me on very basic pianistic movements. My progress was steady but slow; I still worried that I might reinjure myself. And focusing repeatedly on the C Major scale and simple rotary movements was pretty dull–I yearned to play real music again, without pain or fear. After a few more months of working on my own, Julian introduced me to Yoheved (“Veda”) Kaplinsky, who showed me a systematic way of understanding the faults in my technique. Time and again, Veda demonstrated why I experienced specific pains. She offered alternatives that dramatically changed my approach to the piano, including new ways of listening and responding to music. I was grateful to return to inspired artistic study with Ann Schein and Leon Fleisher and soon began playing professionally. Veda accepted a position at Peabody and I completed my final semester at Peabody with her as my major teacher, and it was my great good fortune to study with Karl Ulrich Schnabel in the lead-up to my doctoral comprehensive and oral exams, incorporating new input on balancing resonance and clarity with artistic pedaling and a wide range of other artistic insights. Emerging from those dark days at Peabody, I not only became healthy again, but also grew as a musician. I learned to explore new sound possibilities and express myself more fully. In many ways, however, my journey as an artist and teacher was just beginning. Fred Karpoff performing the Brahms D Minor Concerto with Leon Fleisher conducting, 2015. As a young university professor, I encountered a wide range of challenges in helping students of many levels to play better. Whether it was the beginning student in piano class or the piano major working on virtuoso repertoire, the concept of three-dimensional movement quickly emerged as a constant theme to address the challenges I and my students faced together. Though my developing views were at odds with many of the prevailing teaching paradigms of the past two hundred years, the results for students at all levels were consistently positive. My studies of Tai Chi and the Alexander Technique inspired more insights on integrating three-dimensional principles at the piano, including mobility in the hips, and the cycling motion of the vibrato technique and trills. Over several years, I was privileged to have a series of extensive lessons with Richard Goode, whose artistic insights into music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Mozart were revelatory; Mr. Goode’s powerful imagination combined with penetrating demonstrations produced new technical tools to express myself more deeply. Later still I resumed lessons with Leon Fleisher, which ultimately led to a rich collaboration with him conducting me and my university’s orchestra in a performance of the Brahms D Minor Concerto. Mr. Fleisher’s approach to technique, sound, and pedaling had evolved tremendously from my student days, and he generously and enthusiastically shared his latest discoveries, with the same sharply-attuned ears as ever. Around the same time, Seymour Bernstein agreed to work with me and fired my imagination in new and exciting ways, particularly by enlightening me on the true meaning of hairpins as well as Chopin’s pedal markings. Fred Karpoff With Seymour Bernstein after Ann Schein’s recital, 2015. As I reflect, I am increasingly aware of my good fortune to work with, and learn from, many musicians who have influenced me. Private and masterclass sessions with prominent pianists, singers, and string players, including Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Lazar Berman, Carol Webber, Janos Starker, Michael Tree, Franco Gulli, and Earl Carlyss provided invaluable insights which have been synthesized into my pedagogy. Playing professionally with many outstanding partners has infused a chamber-music ethos into my life’s work that is central to my playing and teaching of solo piano as well. There is an inseparable link between artistry and technique that I espouse at every moment: although we often need to isolate technical gestures to fully understand whole-body movement, it’s only through a profound integration of movement and artistry–grounded in rich and varied piano sound–that the study of technique holds true meaning. Entrada Piano is not a one-size-fits-all method. Pianists apply these concepts to fit their hand size, body, technical level and playing style. In Skills videos featuring students, note that each one applies Entrada concepts in their own way. Summary reviews, musical examples, and marked scores that accompany Masterclasses help guide your experience and invite you to adapt these principles to your work at the piano in everything you play, so that your music flows effortlessly with your enhanced coordination. And Insights provide targeted instruction on problem spots in repertoire and other responses to members’ questions. I hope Entrada will bring you what three-dimensional playing has given me – the means to discover new and rich pathways of expression while enjoying a physical approach that promotes freedom, longevity, and health in the body. Previous Next

< Back Previous Stacey Kim Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall July 1, 2024 WATCH VIDEO Stacey Kim – Biography Education & Private Studies: Attending Manhattan School of Music (MSM) Pre-College Division Private lessons with Prof. Elizabeth Faidley, MSM, 2022–present Private lessons with Prof. Michael Avagliano, Drew University, 2021–present Studied with Grace Lee, Scherzo Music Studio, 2016–2020 Orchestral Experience: School District of Chathams Orchestra, 2019–present Pops Orchestra, 2021–present New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), New Providence, NJ: After-School Orchestra (Level 5/6), 2021–2023 – Assistant Concertmaster, 4 concerts/yea Philharmonia (Level 4/6), 2020–2021 – First Violin, 3 concerts/year Sinfonia (Level 3/6), 2019–2020 – First Violin, 3 concerts/year Primo (Level 1/6), 2018–2019 – Assistant Concertmaster, 3 concerts/year Chamber Music: Prelude Performance, Lyrica Chamber Music Concert, Chatham, NJ, Oct 2022 – String Trio Prelude Performance, Lyrica Chamber Music Concert, Chatham, NJ, Oct 2021 – String Quartet Other Performance Opportunities Board of Education Meeting, Dec 2022 Chatham Farmer’s Market, Oct 2022 School District Art Show, May 2022 & May 2023 Chatham Middle School Talent Show, May 2022 Orchestra Recruiting Event for 4th Graders, Apr 2019 Awards & Honors New Jersey Regional Intermediate Orchestra (Region 1), 2022, 2023 New Jersey All-State Intermediate Orchestra, 2022, 2023

< Back Previous Hally Graves Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall June 28, 2026 WATCH VIDEO Hally is incredibly honored to be here today. Sixteen years old, she has been studying voice for the past six years and began training in opera this year. Passionate about both music and theater, she has performed in eight productions with her school and local community. This concert, held at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on June 28, 2026, marks Hally’s debut performance, and she is deeply grateful to everyone who has supported her journey, as well as to all the organizers and performers involved in the gala.

< Back Daniel Ihasz Lyric Baritone Voice Learn More Videos About Lyric Baritone - Daniel Ihasz, earned a Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, along with the prestigious Performer’s Certificate. From 1992 to 2022, he was a member of the voice faculty at the State University of New York at Fredonia and achieved the rank of Full Professor. For the past two years he served as the Interim Director for the School of Music and previously served as the former Chair of the Voice Area. In 2013, he was awarded the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. An active performer he has performed with the Carolina Chamber Chorale, which debuted at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and completed a new recording of Menotti’s The Unicorn, Gorgon and Manticore (Albany Records). The Carolina Chamber Chorale returned to the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and completed two additional recordings including a world premiere by Dan Locklair along with other works by Anthony Davis and Ronald Perrera. Recent highlights include Lee Hoiby’s The Last Letter Home with the composer at the piano, Mozart’s Requiem, The Abduction of Figaro with Peter Schickele and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, Hansel & Gretel with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Messiah with the New York State Baroque, several performances of The Telephone, The Mahler Festival in Boulder, Co., The Jumping Frog of Calavaras County (Foss Festival) with the Buffalo Philharmonic and selections from Elijah and The Five Mystical Songs with the Rochester Oratorio Society. Other performances include concerts in Puerto Rico and in Venezuela at the International Canticum Festival as Artist in Residence, Strawberry Fields tour with Glimmerglass Opera, Fiesta de la Posada with Dave Brubeck, the North American premiere of Caedmon by Richard Shepherd with Opera Sacra, Glimmerglass Opera (including the world premiere Central Park taped for PBS - Great Performances), ArtPark, Central City Opera, Buffalo Philharmonic, Fredonia Chamber Players, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Genesee Baroque Players, Madison Opera and Madison Symphony. Mr. Ihasz has been the recipient of several awards, including the 1988-89 Metropolitan Opera Auditions (Milwaukee) and first place in the 1989 Society of American Musician's Competition (Chicago). “... The trumpet shall sound, Ihasz delivered the most expressive performance of the afternoon. ... an expression of transcendence and wonder that eluded most artists.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle “...Ihasz’s strong, well-defined voice providing the best-articulated performance of the evening.” Buffalo News Previous Next

< Back Previous Turner Guichard Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall November 24, 2024 WATCH VIDEO Turner Guichard, a junior at Monte Vista High School in Danville, CA, is a prizewinner of the North California Young Talents Competition. He performs as first violinist with the Berkeley Youth Orchestra, East Bay Chamber Orchestra, and his school orchestra. Turner has excelled in Certificate of Merit and ASTACAP examinations and is currently studying AP Music Theory.

Audience voice matters! Vote for your favorite Finalist - the musician who receive most votes will receive the James Adler Audience Favorite Award, a Certificate and $200. Make your voice count! James Adler Audience Favorite Award For Pianists and Composers $300 cash Award J&S Silver Award ($100) Vote for your Favorite Laureate! Voting EXTENDED until July 5, 2026 at midnight EST I want to VOTE! Vote I want to VOTE! Voting ends on June 1, 2026, at 11:59pm EST One vote per audience member Vote by choosing a Laureate from the list on the form Duplicate votes will be deleted One winner Winner is determined by the simple majority - the Winner will have received the highest number of audience votes Minimum votes for the cash Prize to be awarded - 100 No purchase necessary to vote, you do not need to create account to vote Audience Favorite Award is co-founded by James Adler Photo: Frank Gimpaya It is very important to have the audience participate in this competition! It engages the listener and encourages our wonderfully talented contestants. I am delighted to co-found the James Adler Audience Favorite Award for the Carnegie Hall Laureate Gala 2023. Sit back, listen, enjoy -- and please vote!

< Back Apply Previous Next Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Selected Soloists will be offered a pay-to-play opportunity to benefit their musicianship and career through a RECORDING with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world’s most prestigious ensembles. Inclusion of selected soloists in a public performance with RPO within one of the RPO’s concert series outside London is at the discretion of the RPO Music Director, with the decision to be made after the conclusion of recording sessions and based on the artistic merits of the recording. Dates – June 1-2, 2027. State-of-the-art audio equipment and engineering selected and approved by the RPO. Complete editing and mastering of the recordings by RPO’s own award-winning audio engineers. Publication on CiMA record label, including complete publisher’s package: graphics, liner notes. Distribution of the Album on Digital Download Platforms such as Spotify, Apple, Deezer, and many more. At the discretion of the RPO Music Director soloist(s) may be invited back for additional performance(s) in London within the RPO subscription series. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Important dates: Application deadline - see dates on the website. Live Auditions Finals. Broadcast on video and social platforms. Meet the Judges and the Conductors. Streaming technology seminar in preparation for Live Audition - prior to performing LIVE. ~~~~~~~~~~~ No age restrictions. Any instrumental Concerto, a single movement, or Aria accepted. Composers may submit scores for consideration Concertos, Arias, Composers Meet the Orchestra The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s (RPO) mission to enrich lives through orchestral experiences that are uncompromising in their excellence and inclusive in their appeal, places it at the forefront of music-making in the UK and internationally. Typically performing approximately 200 concerts a year and with a worldwide live and online audience of more than 60 million people, the Orchestra is proud to embrace a broad repertoire and reach a diverse audience. Whilst artistic integrity remains paramount, the RPO is unafraid to push boundaries and is equally at home recording video game, film and television soundtracks and working with pop stars, as it is touring the world performing the great symphonic repertoire. Throughout its history, the RPO has attracted and collaborated with the most inspiring artists and in August 2021, the Orchestra was thrilled to welcome Vasily Petrenko as its new Music Director. A landmark appointment in the RPO’s history, Vasily’s opening two seasons with the RPO have been lauded by audiences and critics alike. Highlights included a star-studded gala concert to mark the RPO’s 75th Anniversary (with soloists Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE and Sir Bryn Terfel), all three of Mahler’s epic Choral Symphonies at the Royal Albert Hall, performances at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, and major tours to the USA, Japan, Germany, Spain and a host of prestigious European festivals. The RPO is recognised as the UK’s most in-demand orchestra, an accolade that would have pleased Sir Thomas Beecham, who founded the Orchestra in 1946. As well as a busy schedule of national and international performances, the Orchestra enjoys an annual season of concerts in London’s Royal Albert Hall (where the RPO is Associate Orchestra), the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Hall, where it is celebrating its 20th Season as Resident Orchestra. In the 2023–24 Season, Vasily Petrenko and the Orchestra take a fresh look at the works of five major composers in Icons Rediscovered. The series explores the burning inspiration, the living emotion and the human personality behind some of the most iconic masterpieces, including Rachmaninov’s The Bells, Elgar’s Falstaff, Verdi’s Requiem, music from Wagner’s greatest operas and a semi-staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. The Season will also feature an autumn residency in Florida, followed by tours to the UAE and Germany, a twelve-concert tour of the USA, a series of relaxed performances across the UK, and collaborations with guest artists including Principal Associate Conductor Alexander Shelley, Composer-in-Association Joe Hisaishi, Sheku-Kanneh-Mason MBE, Miah Persson, Nikolai Lugansky, John Rutter, Jennifer Johnston, and Artist-in-Residence Zlatomir Fung, amongst others. Meet the Conductor Previous Next Conductor(s) - TBD Learn More Application and Audition Process Application form is DUE by the posted DEADLINES throughout the season. Upload video of any piece (with or without accompaniment). YouTube or Google Drive links are accepted Application fee $75 Selected musicians will be invited to audition live on a public Internet TV Broadcast* and will receive a preparation tech session with VCHS Broadcast Engineers. You will meet the Judges during Live Audition. Live Auditions are held virtually. Live Auditions are judged in real time. Judges provide participants with immediate on-air feedback. During the live audition participants will be able to speak with Judges. • The judges’ decisions are final and may not be contested. • To participate in the live online auditions, each musician must prepare required technical setup Live Audition Fee - $250 *Fee includes the Technology Preparation session with A/V and Broadcast engineers You will be notified about your acceptance into the colORCHESTRA program Fees Application and video pre-screening - $75 Live Audition - $250 PAY-TO-PLAY opportunity. Recording and Performance Package costs depend on the selected repertory and the length Selected soloists are expected to cover their own travel expenses. Upon request colORCHESTRA provides supporting documentation for selected soloists' visa applications. Selected soloists may request press releases, letters of recommendation, confirmations of their participation in the concert, in support of the soloist's grants applications. Apply Concertos, Arias, Composers The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s (RPO) mission to enrich lives through orchestral experiences that are uncompromising in their excellence and inclusive in their appeal, places it at the forefront of music-making in the UK and internationally. Typically performing approximately 200 concerts a year and with a worldwide live and online audience of more than 60 million people, the Orchestra is proud to embrace a broad repertoire and reach a diverse audience. Whilst artistic integrity remains paramount, the RPO is unafraid to push boundaries and is equally at home recording video game, film and television soundtracks and working with pop stars, as it is touring the world performing the great symphonic repertoire. Throughout its history, the RPO has attracted and collaborated with the most inspiring artists and in August 2021, the Orchestra was thrilled to welcome Vasily Petrenko as its new Music Director. A landmark appointment in the RPO’s history, Vasily’s opening two seasons with the RPO have been lauded by audiences and critics alike. Highlights included a star-studded gala concert to mark the RPO’s 75th Anniversary (with soloists Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE and Sir Bryn Terfel), all three of Mahler’s epic Choral Symphonies at the Royal Albert Hall, performances at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, and major tours to the USA, Japan, Germany, Spain and a host of prestigious European festivals. The RPO is recognized as the UK’s most in-demand orchestra, an accolade that would have pleased Sir Thomas Beecham, who founded the Orchestra in 1946. As well as a busy schedule of national and international performances, the Orchestra enjoys an annual season of concerts in London’s Royal Albert Hall (where the RPO is Associate Orchestra), the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and Cadogan Hall, where it is celebrating its 20th Season as Resident Orchestra. The series explores the burning inspiration, the living emotion and the human personality behind some of the most iconic masterpieces, including Rachmaninov’s The Bells, Elgar’s Falstaff, Verdi’s Requiem, music from Wagner’s greatest operas and a semi-staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. The Season will also feature an autumn residency in Florida, followed by tours to the UAE and Germany, a twelve-concert tour of the USA, a series of relaxed performances across the UK, and collaborations with guest artists including Principal Associate Conductor Alexander Shelley, Composer-in-Association Joe Hisaishi, Sheku-Kanneh-Mason MBE, Miah Persson, Nikolai Lugansky, John Rutter, Jennifer Johnston, and Artist-in-Residence Zlatomir Fung, amongst others. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s mission is to place orchestral music at the heart of contemporary society and, through collaboration with creative partners, foster deeper engagement with communities to ensure that live orchestral music is accessible to as inclusive and diverse an audience as possible. To help achieve this goal, in 1993 the Orchestra launched RPO Resound, which has grown to become the most innovative and respected orchestral community and education programme in the UK and internationally. Early in 2025, the Orchestra will move its headquarters to Wembley Park in the London Borough of Brent; this will be the realization of its long-held ambition to embed the Orchestra in a community, in line with its mission to be a truly inclusive and contemporary international orchestra for the modern age. The Orchestra has always been entrepreneurial; in 1986 it was the first UK orchestra to launch its own record label and it has gone on to embrace advances in digital technology, achieving well over 50 million streams of its recorded music each year. The RPO’s global online audience engages with it through the website and social media channels, where the Orchestra shares streamed performances, artist interviews, ‘behind-the-scenes’ insights and more. Passion, versatility and uncompromising artistic standards are the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s hallmarks. As it looks forward to an exciting future with the patronage of His Majesty King Charles III and Vasily Petrenko as Music Director, the RPO will continue to be recognized as one of the world’s most open-minded, forward-thinking and accessible symphony orchestras. Registered Charity No. 244533 Previously Produced Albums Reviews: If Sant'Ambrogio hits the bull's-eye with the passionate side of Elgar in the first movement, she does so again with the interior musings of the third movement Adagio. If one interprets her stated intention to change the way we think about this music, she has succeeded in the sense that this performance is fresh as a daisy, passionate, intelligent, and mature... The performance is miraculous: Sant'Ambrogio finds true freedom in Wolosoff's generous lines (the cello dominates the musical argument here), while also demonstrating the ability to bend with the music at an instant's notice when the sound suddenly turns interior. --Colin Clarke - Fanfare Magazine This new release is a fabulous selection of famous soprano arias, linked by the universal themes of love and humanity. Highlights include arias from popular operas by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Beethoven, Giordano, Cilea, and Barber. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with acclaimed conductor Grzegorz Nowak are joined for this new recording by versatile British spinto soprano Katerina Mina to celebrate the strong, determined, and spiritual heroines of these well-known operas. This album also includes the world premiere recording of two lyrical pieces by contemporary Swiss composer Stephan Hodel. Katerina Minas crystal clear voice exploited the acoustics of St. Jamess Piccadilly perfectly, soaring through the building, down the aisles and up to the high ceiling. The singing was heavenly. -The Daily Express- Fairfields Concert Hall London Fairfield Halls, Croydon, London Cadogan Concert Hall London Cadogan Hall /kəˈdʌɡən/ is a 950-seat capacity concert hall in Sloane Terrace in Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. The resident music ensemble at Cadogan Hall is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), the first London orchestra to have a permanent home. Cadogan Estates offered the RPO the use of the hall as its principal venue in late 2001. The RPO gave its first concert as the resident ensemble of Cadogan Hall in November 2004. Since 2005, Cadogan Hall has also served as the venue for The Proms' chamber music concerts during Monday lunchtimes and Proms Saturday matinees; it is also one of the two main London venues of the Orpheus Sinfonia. Cadogan Hall has also been used as a recording venue. In February 2006, a recording of Mozart symphonies with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists was produced and made available immediately after the performances. In 2009, art rock band Marillion recorded a concert there which was released on the album Live from Cadogan in 2011. Building The hall is known for its stained glass windows by Arild Rosenkrantz The building is a former Church of Christ, Scientist church, completed in 1907 to designs in the Byzantine Revival style by architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm, who also designed the Napier Museum in Kerala, India. The stained glass is by the Danish sculptor and stained-glass artist Arild Rosenkrantz. The building was listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England in April 1969. The organ case by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd Organ The church had a three-manual pipe organ built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1907 and installed in 1911. It was on a raised position on the platform. The organ was removed in 2004, and the pipes in 2006. The original intention had been to install the organ in a church in the Midlands, but instead, in 2009-10, it was installed in Christ the King Catholic Church in Gothenburg, Sweden. Walker's organ case remains in place in the concert hall. Conversion to a concert hall By 1996, the congregation had diminished dramatically and the building had fallen into disuse. Mohamed Fayed, then owner of Harrods, had acquired the property, but was unable to secure permission to convert the building to a palatial luxury house on account of its status as a listed building. Cadogan Estates Ltd (the property company owned by Earl Cadogan, whose ancestors have been the main landowners in Chelsea since the 18th century; the nearby Cadogan Square and Cadogan Place are also named after them) purchased the building in 2000. It was refurbished in 2004 by Paul Davis and Partners Architects at a cost of £7.5 million. The changes included new lighting and sound systems and bespoke acoustic ceiling modules in the performance space.

< Back Kelly Hall-Tompkins Violin Learn More Videos About Acclaimed by the New York Times as “the versatile violinist who makes the music come alive” and as a 2017 New York Times “New Yorker of the Year,” for her “tonal mastery” (BBC Music Magazine) and “Groundbreaking” recording projects (STRINGS Magazine), and featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African- American History, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins is trailblazing an innovative, creative and entrepreneurial career as a soloist and chamber musician. Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize, Concert Artists Guild Career Grant, and Sphinx Medal of Excellence, Ms. Hall-Tompkins has appeared as soloist as the Inaugural Artist in Residence with the Cincinnati Symphony and with orchestras including the Dallas Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Gateways Music Festival, for the Manhattan School Centennial Gala at Carnegie Hall with co-soloist Glenn Dicterow, under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, and a Brevard Festival Orchestra under the baton of Keith Lockhart. Additional concerts and recitals include the cities of Kiev, Ukraine; New York, Washington, Cleveland, Toronto, Chicago, Baltimore, and Greenville, South Carolina, and at festivals in France, Germany and Italy. For thirteen months on Broadway, Ms. Hall-Tompkins was the “Fiddler,” violin soloist, for the Bartlett Sher production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” with numerous solos written especially for her. The New York Times hailed her in a feature article as holding the title role, together with dancer Jesse Kovarsky. Featured as soloist in over 400 Broadway performances, plus a Grammy-nominated cast album alongside a bonus track by Itzhak Perlman, Ms. Hall-Tompkins has been the featured subject on NBC’s Today Show with Harry Smith, NBC 4 New York with Janice Huff, NBC 4 at 5, Playbill.com, BroadwayWorld.com, WWFM radio Princeton and Strings Magazine among numerous other major press outlets for her role in Fiddler. Kelly Hall-Tompkins interviews and Kiev performances are also featured in the new documentary on the 50-year history of Fiddler on the Roof, “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles.” A significant collaborating partner with violinist/composer Mark O’Connor for five years, Ms. Hall-Tompkins performed his Double Violin Concerto with O’Connor in concerts across the United States. As a passionate chamber musician, Ms. Hall-Tompkins was first violinist of the O’Connor String Quartet, which performed concerts nationally, including Tanglewood, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Lincoln Center’s Great Performer’s Circle, and a member of the Florida-based Ritz Chamber Players, including concerts in residence at Jacksonville’s Times Union Center for the Performing Arts, the Ravinia Festival’s “Rising Stars Series,” New York at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room, and include an upcoming appearance on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society series. Ms. Hall-Tompkins will perform on Bruce Adolphe’s Off the Hook Festival and has performed at the Garth Newel Music Center, Chamber Music South Dakota, New York City’s Bargemusic, live on WNYC’s “Soundcheck”, at Miami’s Deering Estate Series and for the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild. Additional performance highlights include as soloist in the 2018 Joyce Theater Ballet Festival with principal dancers of the New York City Ballet, 2016 at the US Supreme Court, and in 2007 Benefit for the Victims of Darfur at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Hall-Tompkins was invited by actress Mia Farrow and conductor George Matthew to perform as soloist before an orchestra comprised of musicians from every major orchestra in the world. In 2002 Hall-Tompkins commissioned a new work for violin and percussion from the German composer Siegfried Matthus, which was premiered at Michigan’s Pine Mountain Music Festival and gave in 2016 with the Oakland East Bay Symphony the US Premiere of Professor Matthus’s newest Violin Concerto. Ms. Hall-Tompkins’ performances have been broadcast nationally as co-host of NPR’s Performance Today, in New York by WQXR, by Chicago’s WFMT and live on the BBC. Ms. Hall-Tompkins’ newest recording project is The Fiddler: Expanding Tradition , featuring for the first time ever a full album of newly commissioned and original Fiddler-inspired works. The full recording was released on Broadway Records in 2018 and acclaimed as “Vital, life-enhancing, glorious…mesmerizing…magnificent” in 3 reviews, a feature article and cover spot in Fanfare Magazine; Two pre-release music videos from the project have already garnered nearly 400,000 views on You Tube. This follows the success of her recent Imagination recording, a double video release of the Ysaÿe sonata No. 6 and her own jazz arrangement of “Pure Imagination” from the original film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The videos, released online and on Collector’s Edition DVD in early 2014, now enjoy over 1,000,000 You Tube views, were featured in Strings Magazine and hailed as “ground-breaking...sumptuous... a potent package” and by Chamber Music America in a public presentation on creating music videos. She released her debut CD recording in 2002, featuring the Kodaly duo, Brahms D minor Sonata and the Ravel Tzigane. Ms. Hall-Tompkins released her second CD, entitled In My Own Voice, in 2008, featuring music by Kreisler, Saint-Saëns, William Grant, and David Baker. The album was praised by Fanfare for its “opulent intensity,” by The Strad, which described Hall-Tompkins’ “winning way,” noting her “mercurial charms [and] genial touch...impressive,” and is featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History. Regularly tapped as concertmaster, Ms. Hall-Tompkins’ distinguished orchestral career includes a performance on the BBC Proms leading the Chineke! Orchestra, the 2016 Lincoln Center Benefit for the 10 year Anniversary of “Light in the Piazza,” the Biennial Gateways Music Festival, and a 2016 PBS Live from Lincoln Center Broadcast with Lang Lang. Ms. Hall-Tompkins’ orchestral career also includes extensive touring in the United States and internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, including performances in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Japan, Singapore, Scotland and a recording with countertenor Andreas Scholl. She also performed over 150 performances with the New York Philharmonic, under conductors including Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, Andre Previn, Charles Dutoit and Valery Gergiev. Ms. Hall-Tompkins has also lead numerous Carnegie Hall concerts with the New York Pops and as founding member of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, which performed its debut concert in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in the Fall ’07 with Ms. Hall-Tompkins also as soloist. For 13 seasons, she was a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s first violin section. A dedicated humanitarian and social justice in the arts pioneer, Ms. Hall-Tompkins founded and directs Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, which has, to date, brought over 100 chamber music performances to an estimated 18,000 homeless shelter clients in New York City, Los Angeles,nationwide and in Paris, France, with nearly 200 artists including Emanuel Ax, Glenn Dicterow, Albrecht Mayer, Jeff Ziegler and Rene Marie. Music Kitchen with present a newly commissioned song cycle Forgotten Voices World Premiere in Association with Carnegie Hall May 21,2020. Kelly and Music Kitchen have been featured on the NBC TODAY Show, in The New York Times, on CBSNews.com and ABCNews.com, plus Strings Magazine, Chamber Music America Magazine, Spirituality and Health Magazine, Columbia University Radio and cable’s Hallmark Channel. Ms. Hall Tompkins received an Honorary Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, her alma mater, in 2016, and also delivered the Commencement address. She is also one of three 2017 recipients of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, which was presented at the US Supreme Court by Justice Sotomayor. She earned a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School under the mentorship of Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. While there, she was concertmaster of both of the school’s orchestras. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors in violin performance with a minor in French from the Eastman School of Music studying with Charles Castleman. While at Eastman she won the school’s prestigious Performer’s Certificate Competition, several scholarship awards from the New York Philharmonic, and was invited to perform chamber music on the school’s Kilbourn Concert Series with members of the faculty. An avid polyglot, Ms. Hall-Tompkins studies and speaks eight languages. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, where in 2018 she was inducted into the School District Hall of Fame, Ms. Hall-Tompkins began her violin studies at age nine. She lives in New York City with her husband Joe. http://www.kellyhall-tompkins.com/bio.html Music Kitchen Previous Next

< Back Previous Einav Yarden Next WATCH VIDEO Pianist Einav Yarden is praised for her “imagination and exceptionally vivid playing…sense of immense majesty, tempered by gentleness and quiet grace” (The Washington Post, USA), and “glistening rapture…ingenious humor” (Tagesspiegel, Germany). She has been regularly presented in recital at important venues around the world and as a soloist with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (and the Rundfunkchor Berlin), Minnesota Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bradenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Bucharest Philharmonic, and Jerusalem Symphony, under conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Leon Botstein, Frédéric Chaslin, Stefan Blunier, Aldo Ceccato, Mendi Rodan, and Simon Halsey, among others. Her engagements over the past couple seasons include solo performances at the 92nd Street Y in NYC, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Cortot in Paris, Nikolaisaal in Potsdam, and a solo performance at the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, subbing in for the international star Daniil Trifonov with just a few hours’ notice, and leaving the audience “deeply overjoyed and impressed” (Piano News, Germany). Other noteworthy stages on which she has performed include the Berlin Philharmonie and the Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Schumannsaal in Düsseldorf, Musée d’Orsay Auditorium in Paris, and others. In 2018, Einav Yarden released her third CD for Challenge Classics, with solo piano works by Schumann. The recording received widespread international acclaim. Her 2016 album release of Haydn sonatas on Challenge Classics was awarded the quarterly German Record Critics’ Award (“Preis der Deutsche Schallplattenkritik”), selected as CD-of-the-Month for Germany’s distinguished Piano News magazine, and received much enthusiastic press internationally. Her first release with Challenge Classics, “Oscillations”, which combines works by Beethoven and Stravinsky, also received international praise. Her performances and recordings have been broadcast on many prominent classical radio stations throughout most of Europe, in the US, Canada, England, Israel, and elsewhere in the world. A passionate chamber musician, she devotes herself regularly to collaborations with other musicians and enthusiastically incorporates unique repertoire into her programs. Major festival appearances include the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany), La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival (France), Ravinia Festival (USA), Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Menton Festival, and Flâneries Musicales de Reims Festival (France), Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, and Upper-Galilee Chamber Music Festival (Israel), and others. Einav Yarden currently teaches piano at the Frankfurt University for Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK Frankfurt). She taught chamber music from 2016-18 at the Univerity for Music Freiburg and served a substitute professor of piano at the Music Conservatory of Lucerne University in the fall 2018-19 semester. Between the summers of 2012 and 2017, she was a Collaborative Pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s esteemed Steans Music Institute. Among her competition awards are top prizes at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Canada’s Esther Honens International Piano Competition, as well as top prizes at the Aviv Competitions in Israel, where she was awarded the piano Guralnik Prize and the prize for best performance of contemporary Israeli work. She was a longtime student of the late renowned pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University) in Baltimore, earning a Master of Music with high honors and a Graduate Performance Diploma. Prior to this, she received a Bachelor of Music with high honors from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University under the instruction of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. She has also received piano guidance from Richard Goode, Elisso Virsaladze, and Prof. Zvi Meniker (on historical fortepianos). She is based in Berlin, Germany.