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LEE-CHIN,
VIOLIN
GOLD Medal winner of the 1994 Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition and First Prize winner of the 1994 Louise D. McMahon International Music competition for Strings, Lee - Chin is one of the most talked about young violinists today. She was hailed as “a violinist having superb control with tasteful flair . . . “ by Donald Rosenberg, Music Critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She brought “a silvery timbre and unpressured approach to Vaughan Williams’ haunting scenario”.

GAIL WILLIAMS,
HORN
Gail Williams is an internationally recognized hornist and brass pedagogue. She has presented concerts, master classes, recitals and lectures throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Asia. Ms. Williams joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1979, and was appointed Associate Principal Horn in 1984, a position she held until her retirement from the orchestra in 1998. She has been a member of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, and is currently Principal Horn of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra.

ROBERT LEVIN,
PIANO
Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and in Asia, in recital, as soloist, and in chamber concerts. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Joseph Silverstein.

DAVID SCHRADER,
ORGAN, HARPSICHORD, FORTEPIANO
Equally at home in front of a harpsichord, organ, piano, or fortepiano, David Schrader is "truly an extraordinary musician . . . (who) brings not only the unfailing right technical approach to each of these different instruments, but always an imaginative, fascinating musicality to all of them". (Norman Pelligrini, WFMT, Chicago) A musician of wide ranging interests and accomplishments, Mr. Schrader has appeared as a soloist with orchestra and as a recitalist at three National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists. He has performed with the symphony orchestras of

YA-FEI CHUANG,
PIANO
Acclaimed by critics in the United States and abroad for performances of stunning virtuosity, refinement and communicative power, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared at festivals including the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw with Christoph Eschenbach, at the European Music Festival (Stuttgart), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Brahms-Tage, the Bach Festival in Leipzig (Germany), the Shannon Festival (Ireland), Oulu (Finland), Ravinia, Sarasota, the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Celebrity Series in Boston, and the Oregon Bach Festival (USA).

JOE LULLOFF,
Saxophone
Saxophonist Joseph Lulloff is widely recognized as one of the most sought after performance artists and clinicians of today. Acclaimed internationally for his innovative style and unparalleled virtuosity, Mr. Lulloff has been described by colleague Branford Marsalis as "a marvelous musician" whose "knowledge of music, along with his ability to embrace music normally considered outside the sphere makes him a joy to listen to."

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