Alicia Zizzo

Friends and Associates, Instrumentalists

Celebrate The Second Hundred Years Of The Music Of George Gershwin With Dr. Alicia Zizzo Click Here for full Biographical Sketch. George Gershwin wrote over 1,000 songs, but much of his classical piano music – as he originally wrote it – was lost since the 1920s. The...

David Winkler

Friends and Associates

David Winkler has received a Martha Argerich Project/Lugano Festival Commission, a Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship, a Fromm Foundation at Tanglewood Commission, commissions from the Korean Broadcasting System, the National Symphony Orchestral/Kennedy Center for...

Alfredo Sorichetti

Friends and Associates

Alfredo Sorichetti is the artistic and music director of the Civitanova all’Opera Season and of the Orchestra Sinfonica Puccini. Sorichetti has also worked extensively as a guest conductor in over twenty countries at such houses as the Golden Hall of the Vienna...

Zina Schiff

Friends and Associates

California-born violinist Zina Schiff has been described by the New York Times as an instrumentalist of “Luscious high voltage…vintage Heifetz.” The comparison to the legendary Heifetz is apt, as Zina is a Heifetz protégée. With her special blend of passion,...

In Memory of Composer Benjamin Lees

Friends and Associates

Benjamin Lees is renowned for his works featuring concertante group and orchestra: his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (1964) has been performed by more than 35 ensembles * Writes in an extended tonal idiom, with shifting metres shaping an underlying pulse *...

In Memory of Composer Elodie Lauten

Friends and Associates

Born in Paris, France as Genevieve Schecroun, and educated in Paris at the Lycée Claude Monet, the Conservatoire (piano) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. Her father was Errol Parker (né Raphaël Schecroun), an Algerian-born jazz musician; her mother was a...