NEWS ABOUT PAST ARTISTS

At the Juilliard School 2024 commencement, graduating violinist Christina Jihee Nam received the Peter Mennin Prize, an award for outstanding achievement and leadership in Music presented to an undergraduate student, announced by David Serkin Ludwig, Dean and Director, Music Division. Nam, High School Instrumental Scholarship recipient at the inaugural Nancy F. Walker Scholarships in 2018, performed in the MMC recital series in 2022.


Recitalist Pene Pati (2019, 2021, 2024), tenor, announced that he will debut with the Chicago Lyric Opera in the role of Rudolfo in La Bohéme in 2025! For those who were hoping to purchase his CD when he was here in 2019 and 2021, here's you chance! His first solo CD was released in March of 2022! Click here to listen and/or purchase!


French horn virtuoso Yun Zeng (2024) was recently appointed Principal French Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. He has been Principal French Horn of the Staatskapelle Berlin since November 2022. He performed in Memorial Hall on Sunday, March 3, 2024.

After receiving 290 applications, the Queen Elizabeth Competition has announced that 69 young violinists will proceed to the live rounds in Flagey and the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts on May 6 to 11, 2024. One of them will be Joshua Brown (2017). Good luck, Josh!

Ryan Speedo Green (2022) recently won his third Grammy at the 2024 award ceremony. His lead role in Terence Blanchard's Champion won Best Opera Recording.

Jason Vieaux (2018), guitar, gave a solo recital on January 26, 2024 for San Francisco Performances. He also soloed recently with the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the Santa Fe Symphony and the Cleveland Pops. In 2011, Vieaux co-founded the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music (with David Starobin). He has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music for 25 years. Jason’s online Guitar School for Artistworks Inc. has hundreds of subscribers from all over the world. 

Cincinnati Opera has just announced that Elliot Madore (2023), baritone, will star in a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni this coming summer! We can't wait to hear him again!


One of our past artists, pianist Nicholas Angelich (1994), passed away on April 18, 2022.

On March 14, 2023, the Metropolitan Opera presented A Concert for Ukraine, a benefit performance to support Ukrainian citizens under attack, with all ticket sales and donations going to support relief efforts in Ukraine. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra and Chorus and star soloists in a 70-minute program, featuring music by Valentin Silvestrov, Barber, Verdi, Strauss, and Beethoven. The soloists were Lise Davidsen and Elza van den Heever, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton (2018), tenor Piotr Beczała, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green (2022), and Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi, who led the Met Chorus in a performance of the Ukrainian national anthem.

Violinist Paul Huang (2017) performed recently at the Panthers vs. Vikings NFL football game at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The game was before a live crowd of over 75,000 people and was broadcast on FOX Sports and ESPN — reaching a TV and digital platform audience of over 15 million people internationally. The Taiwanese-American violinist performed his own arrangement of the United States national anthem.

Tenor Pene Pati ( (2019, 2021, 2024) was named the winner of the Reader's Choice International Opera Awards in 2022. This Samoan tenor was also hailed as ​“the most exceptional tenor discovery of the last decade” (Opéra-Online).


Pene Pati (2019, 2021, 2024), tenor, and Nadine Sierra (2016), soprano, starred in Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” at the San Francisco Opera in September 2019. Click here to see them in this outstanding video clip!


Albert Cano Smit (2019, 2021), pianist, was named a 1st place winner of the Young Concert Artists International Competition in November 2019.

Yolanda Kondonassis (2018), harpist, performed here in April 2018. She received her second Grammy nomination in the classical instrumental solo category in 2020. While she didn’t win, composer Jennifer Higdon won in the Classical Composition category for the harp concerto that she wrote for Yolanda!

Here is a 23-minute video about our history and some of our world-renowned performers!

PAST ARTISTS BY DECADE

Below are some of our guest artists who have gone on to have illustrious careers from 1911 to the present.

Artist

2020s

Artist


Pene Pati

WindSync

Albert Cano Smit

Nicole Cabell

Zlatomir Fung

Ryan Speedo Green

Rachel Barton Pine

Christina Nam

Steven Banks

Alexandre Kantorow

Elliot Madore

Sivan Silver, Gil Garburg

Sara Daneshpour

Julian Schwarz

Jasmine Choi

Sara Daneshpour

Julian Schwarz

Jasmine Choi

Yun Zeng

Instrument/Voice


Tenor

Woodwind Quintet

Piano

Soprano

Cello

Bass Baritone

Violin

Violin

Saxophone

Piano

Baritone

Piano Duo

Piano

Cello

Flute

Piano

Cello

Flute

French Horn

Year


2021

2021

2021

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2023

2023

2023

2023

2023

2023

2023

2023

2023

2024

2010s

Artist


Natalya Kraevsky

Nareh Arghamanyan

Amit Peled & Eli Kalman

Meng Su & Yameng Wang

Olga Kern

Chad Hoopes

Alexander Melnikov

Benjamin Grosvenor

Scott Ramsey &

Christopher Allen

Alexander Fiterstein

Alessio Bax &

Lucille Chung

Mac Frampton

Charlie Albright

Kara Shay Thomson

Goldstein-Peled- Fiterstein Trio

Matthew Worth

Gleb Ivanov

Jeanine De Bique

Andrew Garland

Ilya Kaler

Alon Goldstein

Natasha Paremski

Yevgeny Sudbin

Claire Huangci

Roman Rabinovich

The Tempest Trio:

Ilya Kaler,

Amit Peled,

Alon Goldstein

Ashu

Nadine Sierra

Amit Peled

Ben Bliss

Joyce Yang

Paul Huang

Winston Choi

Joshua Brown

Jamie Barton

Julian Bliss

Yolanda Kondonassis &

Jason Vieaux

Akropolis Reed Quintet

Tessa Lark

Pene Pati

Brannon Cho

Ashley Hall

Albert Cano Smith

Dover Quartet

Instrument/Voice


Soprano

Piano

Piano, Cello Duo

Guitar Duo

Piano

Violin

Piano

Piano

Tenor,

Piano

Clarinet

Piano Duo

Jazz Piano

Piano

Soprano

Piano, Cello, Clarinet

Baritone

Piano

Soprano

Baritone

Violin

Piano

Piano

Piano

Piano

Piano

Violin,

Cello,

Piano

Saxophone

Soprano

Cello

Tenor

Piano

Violin

Piano

Violin

Mezzo-Soprano

Clarinet

Harp,

Guitar

Woodwind Quintet

Violin

Tenor

Cello

Trumpet

Piano

String Quartet

Year


2010

2010

2010

2011

2011

2011

2011

2012

2012

2012

2013

2013

2013

2013

2014

2014

2014

2014

2014

2014

2014

2015

2015

2015, 2017

2015

2016

2016

2016

2016

2016

2017

2017

2017

2017

2018

2018

2018

2018

2018

2019

2019

2019

2019

2019

2000s

Artist


Marina Piccinini and Andreas Haefliger

The Alexis Trio: Sylvia Samis, Michael Samis, Keiko Alexander

Stella Simakova

Dean Elzinga

Polina Bespalko

Jennifer Koh

Bryan Wallick

Sergio Tiempo

Leon Williams

Philip Quint

Katia Skanavi

Susan Platts

J.Y. Song

Sergio Tiempo

Janice Chandler

Rachel Lee

Jale Papila & Michael Balke

Paavali Jumppanen

Ji-Yong

Baiba Skride &

Lauma Skride

Peng Peng

Mihaela Ursuleasa

Theresa Santiago & Michael J. Wanko

Conrad Tao

Ilya Yakushev

Thomas Hammons

Jennifer Frautschi

Instrument/Voice


Flute, Piano


Violin, Cello, Piano

Piano

Bass-Baritone

Piano

Violin

Piano

Piano

Baritone

Violin

Piano

Mezzo-Soprano

Piano

Piano

Soprano

Violin

Mezzo-Soprano,

Piano

Piano

Piano

Violin,

Piano

Piano

Piano

Soprano,

Baritone

Piano

Piano

Bass-Baritone

Violin

Year


2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2001

2001

2001

2001

2002

2002

2003

2003

2004

2004

2004

2004

2005

2005

2005

2006

2006

2006

2008

2009

2009

1990s

Artist


Paul Plishka

John Aler

Mitsuko Shirai

Nicholas Angelich

Nokuthula Ngwenyama

Frederic Chiu

Jean-Philippe Collard

Alyssa Park

Cecily Nall

Michael Chertock

Mark Kosower

Dean Elzinga

Stefan Vladar

Alfredo Perl

Ljuba Kazanovskaya

Zephyr Trio:

Jeanne Galway,

Kaethe Jarka,

Samuel Sanders

Brian Lewis

Jonathan Biss

Theresa Santiago

Instrument/Voice


Bass

Tenor

Soprano

Piano

Viola

Piano

Piano

Violin

Soprano

Piano

Cello

Bass-Baritone

Piano

Piano

Piano

Flute,

Cello,

Piano

Violin

Piano

Soprano

Year


1990

1990

1991

1994

1995

1996

1996

1997

1997

1997

1997

1998

1998

1998

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1980s

Artist


Eugenia Zuckerman

Andras Schiff

Joshua Bell

Ransom Wilson

Jeffrey Kahane

Misha and Cipa Dichter

Jean Ives Thibaudet

Alexander Toradze

Nigel Kennedy

Lydia Artymiw

Instrument/Voice


Flute

Piano

Violin

Flute

Piano

Duo-Piano

Piano

Piano

Violin

Piano

Year


1980

1982

1983

1983

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1989

1970s

Artist


Grant Johannsen

Benita Valenti

Daniel Heifetz

Edith Peinemann

Frederica von Stade

Judith Blegen

Emmanuel Ax

Andre-Michel Schub

Janina Fielkowska

Instrument/Voice


Piano

Soprano

Violin

Violin

Soprano

Soprano

Piano

Piano

Piano

Year


1971

1973

1974

1975

1975

1976

1976

1977

1978

1960s

Artist


Jaime Laredo

Jorge Bolet

Malcolm Frager

Itzhak Perlman

Sherrill Milnes

Beverly Sills

Pinchas Zukerman

Instrument/Voice


Violin

Piano

Piano

Violin

Baritone

Soprano

Violin

Year


1960

1961

1962

1966

1968

1969

1969

1950s

Artist


Byron Janis

Gina Bachauer

George London

Tossy Spivakovsky

Leon Fleisher

Jerome Hines

Van Cliburn

Joseph Szigeti

Jennie Tourel

Daniel Barenboim

Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau

Henryk Szeryng

Instrument/Voice


Piano

Piano

Bass-Baritone

Violin

Piano

Bass

Piano

Violin

Soprano

Piano

Baritone

Violin

Year


1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1955

1955

1946

1958

1958

1959

1940s

Artist


Alexander Brailowski

Helen Traubel

Vitya Vronsky & Victor Babin

Claudio Arrau

Mack Harrell

Zinka Milanov

Martial Singher

Leonard Warren

Jennie Tourel

Robert Weede

Isaac Stern

Ruggiero Ricci

Instrument/Voice


Piano

Soprano

Duo-Piano

Piano

Baritone

Soprano

Baritone

Baritone

Soprano

Baritone

Violin

Violin

Year


1940

1940

1941

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

1948

1930s

Artist


Jose Iturbi

Joseph Szigeti

Alexandre Gretchaninoff

Nadia Boulanger

Shura Cherkassky

Nathan Milstein

Lauritz Melchior

Arthur Schnabel

Emanuel Feuermann

Marian Anderson

Arthur Rubinstein

Instrument/Voice


Piano

Violin

Piano and Composition

Soprano

Piano

Violin

Tenor

Piano

Cello

Contralto

Piano

Year


1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1935

1936

1936

1937

1938

1920s

Artist


Maggie Teyte

Marcel Dupre

Myra Hess

Nadia Boulanger

John Alden Carpenter

Instrument/Voice


Soprano

Organ

Piano

Piano

Composition

Year


1920

1924

1925

1925

1929

1910s

Artist


Julia Culp

Jacques Thibaud

Alma Beck

Instrument/Voice


Soprano

Violin

Contralto

Year


1913

1914

1917

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