A versatile artist, Anat Malkin has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician across four continents. Henry Roth named her as one of the “gifted young violinists who are among the vanguard leading the march of violin art into the 21^st century” in his book, Violin Virtuosos form Paganini to the 21^st Century. She made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of sixteen under the baton of Alexander Schneider. Orchestras with whom she has soloed include the Camerata Universidad Andrés Bello, Drammen Byorkester, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Stage Orchestra, New York String Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogotá, Orquesta Sinfonica de Salta and the Westchester Philharmonic, among others. She has been featured on American, Israeli, Latin American and Russian radio and television.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Malkin is presently first violinist of the Gaïa Quartet, a member of the Piazzolla Trio, an artist with The Hudson Chamber Series in New York and the United Nations Chamber Music Series, and is a member of the prizewinning Malkin Duo. She has performed with many distinguished artists including Joseph Silverstein, Mikhail Kopelman, Anthony McGill, Emanuel Borok, Jerry Grossman, and Aviv Quartet, amongst others.

In addition to her performing career, Ms. Malkin is passionately committed to education and teaching. She is a sought-after pedagogue, giving master classes regularly around the globe. She serves on the Violin and Viola faculties of the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division and the artist faculty of the Academy of Music Festival in New York, as well as various summer festivals. For many years, she was a teaching artist for the Manhattan School of Music Distance Learning Program.

Ms. Malkin began her with studies with her father, Professor Isaac Malkin. Her training also includes studies with Josef Gingold, Boris Belkin and Cho Liang Lin. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the Maastricht Conservatorium in Holland, where she graduated cum laude.

“A world-class violinist with versatile virtuosity, beautiful and expressive sound, artistry, bright performing charisma,” according to Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Anisimov was educated in Russia. His teachers were graduates of the violin classes of Leopold Auer and Albert Markov, who kept the best traditions of the Russian violin school. During his years of study, Alexander attended master classes of such masters as H. Akhtyamova, V. Rabei, M. Yashvili, E. Grach, M. Lubotsky, who gave high marks to his playing. In 1998, as a soloist, he became a participant in a concert, where he played on the same stage with M. Rostropovich.

Alexander is the Prize-Winner of a number of International Music Competitions in many countries (Russia, USA, Italy, Bulgaria, etc.) in various categories such as “Solo performance (Violin)”, “Chamber Ensemble”, “Composition”. Participant of Peter The Great Festival (Netherlands, 2008), New York Piano Festival (2014), Festival “Music Without borders” (Portland, Maine, 2018) etc.

As an active soloist, he has played with a number of domestic and overseas orchestras. Having served as a concertmaster, soloist and the second conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Ufa, Russia). In 2011-2012 having served as a solo concertmaster in the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (St. Petersburg), and with this orchestra in 2012 he took part in a large tour of many cities in the USA (New York, Chicago, Charleston, Boston, etc.).

As a solo violinist and member of the State String Quartet (Ufa, Russia), Alexander was the first performer of works by contemporary composers, who dedicated their works to him.

In addition to his performing activities, Alexander is actively working as a teacher. Many of his students became prize-winners and diploma winners of All-Russia and International competitions.

Alexander is the author of a scientific monograph (and a dissertation on the same topic): “Solo and tutti in the Western European violin concerto”, after defending his thesis he received the Doctor of Music degree (PhD).

Since 2012 Alexander has been living in the USA, frequently working with most outstanding performers of our time such as Albert and Alexander Markov, Nina Beilina, etc.

From 2012 till 2014, Alexander completed “Artist Diploma” program as conductor at the Long Island Conservatory of Music (New York, USA), where his tutors were professors Robert Renee Galvan (conducting & composition), George Stelluto (conducting), Albert Markov (orchestration & composition). From 2013 to 2017, worked at Long Island Conservatory (LISMA), was also a member of the jury of LISMA International competition. From 2022 to present working at Long Island Music Conservatory (LIMC) as an associate faculty (Violin Professor).

Participant of concerts at Carnegie Hall: “Bohemian Nigth“ (29.09.2015); “New York International Virtuosi Orchestra” (22.11.2022); “Baroque to Rock” (22.10.2024);

Acclaimed by The New York Times as “a pianist of high caliber,” Russian pianist Arkady Aronov was one of the leading pianists in the Soviet Union before he came to the United States in 1977. The most prestigious Russian musical journal, “Soviet Music,” wrote about him: “Aronov is a universalist. He presents any music with equal clarity, expression and finality.

As a most accomplished pianist he is a welcome sight on any concert stage and should be ranked among the best pianists of our time.” Arkady Aronov gained a reputation throughout Russia as an outstanding interpreter of baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary music for the keyboard. He has a vast repertoire, including more than forty five complete recital programs and twenty four piano concerti. In addition to playing literally hundreds of recitals (over 1000), appearing as guest soloist with numerous orchestras and on radio and television throughout Russia’s major cities, he presented four historic series of twenty concerts, embracing the music of three centuries in the Leningrad Concert Hall. Arkady Aronov was the first to perform the music of leading contemporary Russian composers and many of them wrote some works in consideration of his artistic individuality. He also debuted some Western compositions in Russia; his performance of Aaron Copland’s Sonata won the praise of the composer, for whom Mr. Aronov gave a special performance in Leningrad. Dr. Aronov has written numerous scholarly works, including “Dynamics, Articulation and Tempi in Beethoven’s Piano Compositions,” and edited two collections of piano works by the Russian avant-garde. He was also the founder and editor of a series of volumes for students, “Contemporary Composers for Youth.” Arkady Aronov studied piano with the renowned Savshinsky at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of Music in Leningrad. In 1960 he was appointed Professor of Piano at the same Conservatory and held the position until 1977. In 1977 Arkady Aronov emigrated to the United States where he has received unanimous critical acclaim for his appearances in major concert halls in New York. The distinguished member of the Piano Faculties at the Mannes College of Music since 1977 and Manhattan School of Music since 1984, he conducts two big piano studios. More than two hundred of his students from twenty five countries graduated the schools with Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degrees. Many of them won top prizes at various international and national piano competitions, successfully work at the prestigious music schools and universities both in United States and abroad. In addition to his full time positions in New York Dr. Aronov also conducts Piano Master Classes in USA, Italy, France, Spain, Russia, People Republic of China, India, Taiwan, The Philippines, Hong Kong.

New York based pianist-composer Hayk Arsenyan, a native of Armenia, has appeared in numerous recitals in USA, Armenia, Russia, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Canary Islands, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Syria, and Lebanon. His performance venues have included Carnegie Hall (New York), Palais d’UNESCO (Paris), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), “Petranka” House-Museum of Mozart (Prague), Auditorio de Miguel Delibes (Valladolid), Dar-Al-Assad Opera House (Damascus), and appearances at the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, and the Phillips Collection Concert Series in Washington DC. At the age of 17, Mr. Arsenyan made his orchestral debut as a soloist with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, and was awarded a platinum medal by the City of Paris.

Mr. Arsenyan’s performances have been described as “…deeply moving…” “…poetic and colorful…“…technically flawless and powerful…” His concert repertoire is diverse and encompasses works from early Baroque to New Music. An avid chamber musician and collaborator outside of the classical music stage, he constantly strives to explore various experimental projects with Dance, Drama and Visual Arts, such as the “Visual Landscapes” multi-media project of all Alan Hovhaness piano works, which was The New York Times’ pick of the week in May 2011, and was reviewed as “…One of the coolest events in NYC to go to.”

Currently Mr. Arsenyan teaches at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa and a Master’s degree from the Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow. In 2007 he was awarded the full-tuition Yevgeny Kissin Scholarship for the Professional-Studies performance program at Manhattan School of Music in New York. Mr. Arsenyan also studied the piano in Paris at École Normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot and the Conservatoire National de Region D’Aubervillier La-Courneuve. He is a scholar of Iberian Early Music and has compiled a Performance Guide to Three Keyboard Sonatas of Antonio Soler as part of his Doctoral Dissertation, published by the University of Iowa Press.

In 1993 Mr. Arsenyan became a member of the French Society of Authors and Composers (SACEM) and two collections of his original works were published in Paris. Several of his original works have been choreographed by the dance departments of the University of Iowa and New York University. Mr. Arsenyan is also a member of the Ararat International Academy of Sciences in Paris and serves as the Academy’s representative in New York.

Professor of Piano, George Mason University, Virginia, Levine School of Music in Washington, DC, formerly of the Moscow State Conservatory and St. Petersburg State Conservatory. Collaborated with such noted artists as Kirill Kondrashin, Victor Tretyakov, Daniel Shafran, Dmitri Tziganov, Vladimir Landsman, and Michael Ganvarg. Concertized in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France, Belgium, Italy, Finland, United States, Canada, and Argentina, having performed in some of the greatest halls including Carnegie Hall, Salle Gaveau of Paris, The Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Teatro Colon in Buenos-Aires, Palais des Arts in Montreal, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Corcoran Gallery, National Gallery of Arts, and Library of Congress. Founding member of “Ensemble da Camera” of Washington and its active performer. Studied at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory piano with the renowned pianist and master teacher Nadeszda Golubovskaia and chamber music with world famous chamber musician Prof. Tamara Fidler. Awarded many prizes, among them three times the “Best Accompaniment Diploma” of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Conducts numerous master classes throughout the Unites States and Europe, teaches at the International Summer Music Festivals in Holland, Germany, and Russia. Her students have been winners of multiple competitions, both in the USA and Europe.

Surai Balbeisi is active as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician; a versatile musician, she performs a variety of genre, including classical, baroque, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electric. She has performed in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Radio City Music Hall and appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, The View, The Martha Stewart Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Saturday Night Live, with artists and groups including Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Jewel, Regina Spektor, The Roots, Il Divo, the Antara Ensemble, the New England Symphonic Ensemble, and Dorian Baroque. She has toured with the Bollywood sensation Arijit Singh; the jazz ensemble the Daughters of Nina Simone; the Opera Show; and the Paris Chamber Orchestra; as well as with the U.K. based band Elbow as back-up singer and violist. On Broadway, she was viola chair for the show Sleigh Bells Swing and is currently substitute viola at The Phantom of the Opera.

In addition to a multifaceted career as a performer, Ms. Balbeisi enjoys working in TV and film. She was the viola consultant and instructor for the film A Late Quartet and performed on ABC’s supernatural drama pilot 666 Park Avenue, NBC’s Mysteries of Laura, and the upcoming Netflix comedy Like Father. She can be heard on Katy Perry’s MTV Unplugged DVD on the Capitol Records label and on VMM and Eye Ball Records.

In addition to an active freelance career in New York City, Ms. Balbeisi is a dedicated teacher. She is a Suzuki trained teacher and Level I certified Orff Schulwerk teacher. She has extensive training in BrainGym, the Alexander Technique, and Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She has taught at Penn State University, the Virginia Commonwealth University Community School for the Performing Arts, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, and the New York Summer Music Festival. She is currently on the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege and the Diller-Quaile School of Music.

Ms. Balbeisi began her musical training in Amman, Jordan under the patronage of Queen Nour. She holds a BM in violin performance from Pennsylvania State University, a Professional Studies Diploma in viola from the Mannes College of Music, and a Master of Arts from New York University. Her teachers have included Karen Ritscher, Martha Katz, Pedro de Alcantara, and Weigang Li.

Mr. Berlinsky arrived on the International scene as the youngest winner in the history of the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. This victory led to his performance on Nicolo Paganini’s own Guarneri del Gesú instrument, a privilege shared by only a handful of artists in history. Subsequent triumphs at the Montreal International Violin Competition (Grand Prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, led to appearances with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, the Far East, North and South America.

Mr. Berlinsky has performed in such major venues as Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Concert Hall, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Munich Herkulessaal, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Bonn Beethoven Hall, Le Place des Arts in Montreal, and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires among others.

His extensive performance schedule has taken him to the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Newport Music Festival, the Settimane Musicale in Stresa, Italy, Bratislava Festival, as well as appearances at the Ambassador Foundation in Pasadena, the Fiddle Fest at Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y

Recently he performed with Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival, Russian National Orchestra at the Arts Square Festival in St.Petersburg, Prague Radio Symphony at the Budapest Spring Festival, Orchestra de Chambre Français in New York, Russian Chamber Philharmonic on European Tour, Directed and performed with “International Chambers Soloists” at the Fontana Arts Festival, San Francisco Conservatory, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto. He gave recital in US, Taiwan, Korea, England, Italy, Mexico, and Brazil.

Recent highlights include performances with the London Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Toronto, Montreal Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Quebec, Utah, Virginia, Kalamazoo, Miami, San Antonio, and West Virginia Symphonies, Seoul Philharmonic, New Jersey Philharmonic, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Weimar Staatskapelle, Berlin Staatskapelle, Gent Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonia Siciliana, UNAM Symphony in Mexico City, I Musici de Montreal in Canada and the United States, South American tour with the Prague Chamber Orchestra,as well as appearances at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico and festivals in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Taiwan and Costa Rica.

His playing was featured in Emmy-Award documentary “Life on Jupiter” and “New York Canvas”.

Dmitri has been Artist Teacher and Professor at the College of Music at the Michigan State University. His students have won important international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky, Menuhin, Tibor Varga, William Byrd and have assumed positions in orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony.

In high demand as a teacher Mr.Berlinsky has tought and given Master Classes in Europe, Asia, Canada and in US at the Chautaqua Festival, Summit Music Festival in New York, Festival Internacional de Campos do Jordão in Brazil, International Academy of Music in Italy, Music in the Mountains Colorado, Schlern Festival, Instrumenta Verano in Mexico, University of South California in Los Angeles, Eastman School of Music, Menuhin School, Manhattan School, Temple University in Philhadelphia, DePaul and Roosevelt University in Chicago, Western Michigan University, Weber University in Utah, and UNT in Texas.

Mr.Berlinsky is the founder of the chamber orchestra “International Chamber Soloists” and Artistic Director of “Southampton Arts Festival” in Long Island, New York.

Mr.Berlinsky has been recipient of many awards including SONY, Juilliard, YCA and Bagby Foundations.

For several years he played on famous “Yusupov” Stradivarious- the same instument David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan played.

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Founder of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Cello Quartet, and Artistic Director of Positive Motions Concert Series in Los Angeles, Cellist Ruslan Biryukov is known for his “superb artistry, passion and individuality.” Biryukov represents a new generation of creative professional musicians whose artistic level is recognized not only by awards, but also by a world-wide audiences. Ruslan was the only cellist ever to be invited to perform solo recitals for 10 consecutive years at the Sundays Live Concert Series in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – the longest running live radio broadcast concert series in the United States . Biryukov is also the only Russian cellist to be invited to solo with orchestra during the inaugural season of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Orange County. Recent appearances by Biryukov include Dvorak cello concerto performances with the Redlands Bowl Symphony and Marina Del Rey Symphony (Summer Series), Glendale Philharmonic (“Bestemming” Cello Concerto by Sharon Farber, World Premiere) and San Bernardino Symphony in Los Angeles. His chamber music accolades include performances with world-renowned violinist Midori at the Disney Hall in Los Angeles, cellist Kirill Rodin at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, and members of the Ysaye Quartet.

Mr. Biryukov has been a master teacher in music festivals across Europe and Russia. He has held teaching positions at the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Institute of Music (Moscow), the Music Academy (Lovran, Croatia) and California Institute of Music. His creative artistic ideas are based upon the traditions he learned from esteemed artists Kirill Rodin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran, Natalia Gutman, Janos Starker, Steven Isserlis, and Eleonore Schoenfeld. Within last decade of his teaching career, his students won over 200 prizes at various competitions worldwide, including the International Youth Tchaikovsky Competition (Nathan Le), Stulberg International String Competition, etc. His students performed solo with major orchestras worldwide including San Diego Symphony, Redlands Bowl Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, Armenian State Orchestra, Moscow State Philharmonic, etc.

In 2012 LA Talk Live Radio Station invited Ruslan to host a talk show “The Cool Classics” in collaboration with Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Culver City Symphony Maestro Frank Fetta. The Cool Classics project evolved into a full production company specializing in music videos and films based in Los Angeles.

Ruslan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and received his formal music education at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in Russia (Master of Music, M.A.), and the USC Thornton School of Music in United States (Artist Diploma and Graduate Certificate). He first earned international recognition by winning major awards in Azerbaijan and by the inclusion of his name in the Golden Book of Russia’s international program “New Names”. Biryukov has gone on to win numerous other awards worldwide, including the Grand Prize at the 17th Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition.

Biryukov resides in Los Angeles, United States. He was awarded permanent residency from the U.S. government as an “Extraordinary Ability Artist.” The title means that he has “sustained national or international acclaim and the achievements have been recognized” in his field, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Additionally, Mr. Biryukov is the only musician in the world to be granted a US Commercial Pilot license and Certified Flight Instructor single & multi-engine instrument license (SEL,MEL,CFII, MEI).

Professor Lidia Boguslavsky is an “embodiment of a whole generation of great Russian piano pedagogues and performers”. Upon receiving Doctorate of Musical Arts from a prestigious Gnessin Institute at the age of twenty- five, Ms. Boguslavsky has already recorded numerous solo albums of contemporary Belarusian music by Dmitri Smolsky, Sergey Kortes, Grigoriy Surus, Edi Tyrmand for the Soviet Union National Radio Fund. Those recordings were broadcasted across fifteen republics of Soviet Union, making her the youngest professor at the Belarusian State Conservatory at the age of twenty-six.

Her artistic freedom and full dedication to each of her students has led Professor Boguslavsky to hold positions at the SUNY Purchase College, University of Staten Island, Wagner College and Rowan University of New Jersey. As a guest artist and a distinguished faculty member, she has been a member of Summit Music Festival (USA), American Fine Arts Festival (Germany), Burgos International Music Festival (Spain), Castelnuovo di Garfagnana International Academy of Music (Italy) for numerous years. While maintaining an impressive studio of highly successful pianists, she has toured all over Russia, United States and Europe as a soloist and a collaborative artist. Lidia Leonidovna has published numerous scholarly works, such as Working on New Repertoire and The Art of Legato, where she introduced her unique teaching method undertaking the continuation of a great legacy of Konstantin Igumnov, Heinrich Neuhaus and Yakov Milstein.

Lauded a “true piano genius” (Anthony Newman) and  “one of the most talented pianists of his generation” (Joseph Patrych, WFUV), renowned for “phenomenal virtuosity” (MusicWeb International) and “profound musical consciousness” (Michel Le Naour, Piano 21), Matthew Cameron’s original piano works and transcriptions have attained worldwide popularity, collecting over a million views on the internet, and are heard on the Arabesque, Cala, Delos, Naxos, ARS, and Sony/BMG labels. His career as piano virtuoso has taken him to Carnegie Hall for a heralded sold-out debut, from venerable venues like the Salle Erard in Paris, to trendy classical hotspots like Teatro del Sale in Florence, Italy.

A series of recordings on the Arabesque Records label and on Cala Records have received accolades in the American Record Guide, Fanfare Magazine, inspiring Audiophile Audition to say that “Cameron equals anyone who champions Liszt” with performances “that could not be bettered” (MusicWeb), and a recording of the 24 Chopin Etudes that “is up there with the very best available” (MusicWeb). His original piano works and transcriptions are published by G. Schirmer Editions and IMC Editions, and have been performed by himself and others at Salle Gaveau in Paris, Il Bagno Konzertgalerie in Germany, the Michel Sogny Festival in Switzerland, Oji Hall in Tokyo, Musashino Cultural Foundation in Japan, Shanghai Concert Hall, Sayed Darwish Theter in Cairo, Husum Piano Rarities Festival in Germany, Festival Pianistyczny in Warsaw, and in Strasbourg, Montpellier, Estonia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Spain, and Austria. Winner of multiple awards at the 2004 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Los Angeles. Broadcasts include solo spots on New York’s WNYC and WQXR Radio.

Matthew serves on the faculty of the Summit Music Festival and teaches at the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts since 2016.

His interests include collecting antique historic swords, having acquired a collection dating back to the 9th century, with examples from the Napoleonic era, Prussia, Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Persia, the era of Charlemagne, and the European Dark Ages.  He actively trades and acquires them on the open market, through private dealers, and in other ways.

Matthew Cameron is a Steinway Artist since 2012 and is heard only on Arabesque Records.