Two major piano solo works by Sergei Prokofiev and Sergei Rachmaninoff are presented on this album by Dzmitry Ulasuik, who brings these masterpieces to life. Dzmitry Ulasiuk has emerged on the American scene after winning over audiences in Europe with his ferocious technical skills yet quietly refined ability to coax every detail, every note, and every lyrical phrase out of the keyboard. He has won or placed in 15 international piano competitions, winning the latest which had nearly 2,000 contestants from 88 different countries: the 2018 Kaleidoscope International Music Competition in Los Angeles, California. Soft-spoken and humble, Dzmitry has a zest for life that transfers into musical panache. His recordings have been broadcast on European radio and television, and on NPR in the United States. He has a fast-growing reputation for electrifying performances and evocative interpretations of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Scriabin in particular.

"•This album features contemporary American works for percussion by Matthew Burtner. • Matthew Burtner is an Alaskan-born composer, sound artist and technologist specializing in concert chamber music and interactive new media. • His work explores ecoacoustics, embodiment, and extended polymetric and noise-based systems. • Percussionist I-Jen Fang has been a member of the faculty of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia since 2005."

Double-bassist Volkan Orhon performs the wonderful Grieg Cello Sonata. This album also features a great transcription for double-bass and piano of Cesar Franck's Sonata in a Major for Violin and Piano.

This is the latest installment in Centaur's edition of the complete Six Collections of Keyboard Works for Connoisseurs and Amateurs of C.P.E. Bach. + Sri-Lankan born fortepianist, harpsichordist, composer and Founder and Director of Con Gioia Preethi de Silva has made of this literature a specialty. + The journal Early Music (Oxford) recognized her for her “profound understanding of [C.P.E.] Bach’s idiosyncratic language.”

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• Tenor Kerry Jennings performs songs by four major contemporary American composers. • Mr. Jennings maintains an active singing career whilst also being an Assistant Professor of Voice at DePauw University, U.S.A.

Formed in 1992, the Arianna String Quartet garnered national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the 1994 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize in both the Coleman and Carmel Chamber Music Competitions.  They were also Laureates in the 1999 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

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This album features two true masterpieces of the 20th Century for violin and piano, beautifully performed by Wanchi Huang, violin, and Robert Koenig, piano. Wanchi has been praised numerous times ("... her incisive technique and an exceptionally rich and beautiful tone... " Phil's Classical Reviews, Audio Video Club of Atlanta, November 2015) for her recordings and performances in chamber music, solo recitals, and as a soloist with orchestras throughout North America and Asia, including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and numerous music festivals in the world. Pianist Robert Koenig has established a reputation as a much sought-after collaborative pianist and chamber musician. He performs regularly in major centers throughout the world with many of this generation's most renowned musicians. Recent engagements have included performances at Carnegie Hall in New York, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Louvre Museum in Paris, and Royal Festival Hall in London.

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Doug Rosener, a master of the marimba, presents a great program of contemporary works for Marimba. Works from composers Takatsugu Muramatsu, Dwayne Rice, David Gillingham, Gordon Stout, and Joaquin Turina are included, as well as Daniel Levitan's Baroque Suite, where Rosener is joined by flutist Alina Windell. Dr. Doug Rosener serves as Associate Professor of Percussion and Associate Director of Bands at Auburn University. In addition to teaching the applied percussion studio, Dr. Rosener teaches courses in percussion literature, percussion skills, Finale techniques, and directs the Auburn percussion ensemble and Auburn University Marching Band drumline. During Dr. Rosener's tenure, the drumline has been the subject of two separate features on VicFirth. Com, and both the percussion ensemble and steel band have appeared on Alabama public television.

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