Clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester and the Jupiter String Quartet have been awarded 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grants! Franch-Ballester and the Quartet, both members of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, have recently performed Mozart's Clarinet Quintet together on tour.

Violinist Karen Gomyo, a YCA Alumna,
was also awarded a 2008 Grant.

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For pianist Benjamin Moser’s New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series on March 25, 2008, The New York Times called his playing "eloquent," "passionate" and "colorful." After his Washington, DC debut on April 8, The Washington Post noted a “clarity and solidity to the sound that never lost tonal luster” and “more crucially, every piece spoke from the heart.”

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Harpist Emmanuel Ceysson’s appearance as soloist with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra on April 11, 2008 caused The El Paso Times to exclaim, “Ceysson’s brilliant performance was captivating.”

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The Jupiter String Quartet was lauded in the March 16, 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch for “superb technique, amazing unanimity, clarity and terrific energy in their sound” on their debut recording of Shostakovich and Britten. This followed a rave review in the February 11, 2008 Dayton Daily News, which praised their “furious emotional intensity and focused technical control” in a performance on the Vanguard Concerts series.

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Following her March 9, 2008 recital at Western Michigan University, the Kalamazoo Gazette raved that pianist Chu-Fang Huang “showed unflagging artistry, whatever the musical style.”

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Violinist Mayuko Kamio’s reappearance in New York on March 3, 2008 was enthusiastically received by The New York Times: “she was distinguished by her warmly luxurious, buttery tone and long, seamless phrases.” Her debut, at the age of 17, was in 2003 at the 92nd Street Y

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The Modigliani String Quartet was praised in The Birmingham News for “a rare combination of depth, enthusiasm and near-faultless technique” for their March 2, 2008 concert with Birmingham Chamber Music Society.

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Clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester’s February 17, 2008 recital, presented by Astral Artistic Services in Philadelphia, led The Philadelphia Inquirer to exclaim, “Not a false note from this young man, whose control of line, nuance and hush are superior!”

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Russian pianist Gleb Ivanov was featured on the cover of SYMPHONY magazine’s January-February 2008 issue as a “Young Artist To Watch.”

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“Keep your eye out for Sasha Cooke, a 25-year-old mezzo who…has a thrilling, dramatic voice,” says The Boston Phoenix after her January 27, 2008 recital at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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The First Prize winners of the 2007-2008 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, held on January 19, 2008, are Pius Cheung, marimbist and Narek Hakhnazaryan, cellist

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Mason Bates has received a major commission from Chanticleer, the men’s choral group, supported by The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Emerging Composers 2007 initiative.

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Playing the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Eastbourne, England on January 12, pianist Benjamin Moser’s review in The Independent (UK) noted: “With the brilliant Benjamin Moser at the Steinway, this was a high-wire act of breathtaking proportions. A familiar work it may be, but it was here performed with freshness and panache.”

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Louis Schwizgebel-Wang earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post and The New York Times for his debut recitals in the Young Concert Artists Series in November 2007

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