Pianist Adam Kent has performed in recital, as soloist with orchestra, and in chamber music on four continents. A winner of the American Pianists Association Fellowship and Simone Belsky Music Awards, Dr. Kent also received top prizes in the Thomas Richner, the Juilliard Concerto, and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competitions, and is a recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award.  Dr. Kent made his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall in 1989 and is a favorite on N.Y.C. area radio stations. 

His recently released recording of the piano music of the Cuban-American composer Tania León entitled “Teclas de mi piano” has garnered critical praise from The New York Times, which reported, “The pianist Adam Kent has the measure of León’s sound throughout, whether he’s dealing with student pieces written in the 1960s or more recent items like “Homenatge,” from 2011. In the latter, he brings a virtuoso’s zest to the dance rhythms and bluesy clusters that cavort in the composition’s opening minutes. But he also offers a patient, less showy sensibility during the ruminative airs of the final minutes…Throughout, Kent pays as much attention to León’s formal invention as to the way she reworks her diverse inspirations.” All About the Arts enthuses about the disc “…the gifted Adam Kent triumphantly takes on every one of the pianistic hurdles contained in Tania León’s panoply of works.” Among his other critically acclaimed commercial recordings are a CD of Ernesto Halffter’s complete piano music on Bridge Records and performances of chamber works by Joaquín Turina, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez with the Damocles Trio and Emerson Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton on the Claves label. 

The music of Spain and Latin-America has long been a specialty of Dr. Kent’s, whose advocacy has been acknowledged by the Spanish government on numerous occasions. In 2011, King Juan Carlos I of Spain honored the pianist by bestowing Spain’s Orden al Mérito Civil, and the Spanish Consulate has also sponsored appearances by Dr. Kent at Weill Recital and Merkin Concert Halls. The Spanish Ministry for Education and Culture awarded him a grant for Música por doquier/Hispanic Music Everywhere, a year-long celebration of Spanish and Latin-American music with the Damocles Trio and Spanish composer and conductor Salvador Brotons, and The Foundation for Iberian Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU, and Institut Ramon Lllull have also sponsored a number of Dr. Kent’s Hispanic-themed projects. Dr.  Kent has won grants to commission new works from Tania León, Salvador Brotons, Miguel-Ángel Roig-Francolì, and others. He has contributed performances and interviews to documentaries on Spanish composers Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, and Federico Mompou. Ms. León’s music has been an area of particular advocacy for Dr. Kent, who has programmed her works in concerts throughout the world, including a version of Homenatge dedicated to him and choreographed by Pedro Ruiz for Dance Theater of Harlem. Recent performances have included a series of centennial tributes throughout Spain and the U.S. to the pianist Alicia de Larrocha, a collaboration with Flamenco cantaor Fernando Barros in Granada, Spain, and presentations at the Hispanic Heritage Festival at Palm Beach Atlantic University. 

Since 2016, Dr. Kent has been a professor of music at the State University of New York at Oneonta, where he was recently awarded the 2023 Susan Sutton Smith Award for Academic Excellence. Summers have found him serving as Director of Cultural Outreach at the Burgos International Music Festival and teaching and performing at the Summit Music Festival in N.Y, Alberta Pianofest in Edmonton, Canada, and the Cursos de Verano of the Fundación Princesa de Asturias in Oviedo, Spain. He received a D.M.A. from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. He holds as well B.M. and M.M. degrees from Manhattan School of Music, where he was a student of Solomon Mikowsky. In April 2023, Dr. Kent began a three-year tenure on the American Fulbright Specialist roster. 

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Vladimir Khalikulov has played viola in the Monterey Symphony since 1991, becoming principal in 1995. He has also been principal violist with the Reno Philharmonic and Sacramento Philharmonic. In 1994, Mr. Khalikulov performed the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.6 with Abraham Rosenblit (member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) in San Francisco. In 1995, he made the North American premiere of the Concerto for Two Violas and String Orchestra by Marina Kalantaroff with violist Sergei Rakitchenkov (associate principal, San Francisco Opera), which was broadcast on San Francisco Bay Area television. Also in 1995, he made the San Francisco premiere of the Sonata per la Grand Viola e Orchestrre by Niccolo Paganini. With Phillip Levy, the first violinist of the Stanford String Quartet, he performed the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante. In 2000, he performed as soloist and conducted the Telemann Viola Concerto with the Monterey Symphony. He was a teacher and performer at the Printemps Musical au Moulin in Ande, France in 2004 and the Beverly Hills Music Festival in 2004.

Mr. Khalikulov is a native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His teachers were A. Rosenblit and A. Braverman. In 1977, after five years of studies with Nicolai Maschenko and Alexander Polonsky, he earned his MA in music at the Mukhtar Ashrafi State Conservatory in Tashkent. He was a finalist in the All-Russia competition to Munich with Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Gandelsman, and Sergei Rakitchenkov. Mr. Khalikulov completed his Doctoral Studies in 1979 at the Moscow State Conservatory with Fyodor Druzhinin and Yuri Bashment. From 1980 to 1985, he was the violist of the Uzbek State String Quartet and studied with Victor Gvozdetsky and members of the Borodin String Quartet. He taught viola and string quartet at the Conservatory in Tashkent from 1979 to 1990. Many of his students hold major positions in professional orchestras in Russia, Uzbekistan, and other countries. He currently teaches viola and violin and coaches orchestral musicians in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas.

From 1985 to 1990, he was principal violist of the opera and ballet orchestras the Bolshoi Theater of Uzbekistan, and soloist with the Uzbek Philharmonic. In 1983, his quartet won the Third Prize of the Borodin String Quartet Competition in Talinn, Estonia. His recitals and solo performances include the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Ilya Dimov with the Moscow Philharmonic in 1987 (also broadcast on radio), the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante at the Glinka Festival with violinist Andrei Korsakov, performances of three viola concerti at the USSR Viola Festival, including the Concerto for Violin and Viola by Alexander Pechenyuk with violinist Mark Pover (currently concertmaster of the Royal Opera in Stockholm), and soloist in a cultural exchange between Uzbekistan and Bulgaria, including a performance and broadcast of the Shostakovich Viola Sonata. Vladmir originally studied this sonata with F. Druzhinin, to whom Shostakovich dedicated this masterpiece. He has performed major viola repertoire with conductors Kiril Kondrashin, Roman Matsov, Vladimir Ziva, Zakhind Khaknazarov, Enrique Dimecke, violinists Michael Vaiman, Alexander Vinitsky, Igor Oistrakh, violist Michael Kugel, and with pianist Susanna Konstantinovsky.

He is a champion of new music of living composers and performed world premieres of four viola concertos dedicated to him as well as solo and chamber music. The Rakhimov Concerto was recorded on Melodiya and broadcast on USSR national television. In July 2012, Vladimir will be participating in the Burgos International Music Festival in Spain (www.burgosmusicfestival.com) and the International Academy of Music program in Castelnuova di Garfagnana, Italy (www.internationalacademyofmusic.com).

Christina Khimm Rosand has built a distinguished career as both performer and pedagogue, recognized for her artistry on stage and her dedication to training the next generation of musicians.

Born in Seoul, Korea In 1953, she made her solo debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at age 10. She moved to the U.S. in 1970 to study at Juilliard with Dorothy Delay, and the following year won a full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music. where she studied with Raphael Bronstein and won both schools’ concerto competition and the New York Young Artist Competition. She went on to earn a B.A from Sarah Lawrence College, where she continued to study with Dorothy Delay and later trained with legendary violinists Ruggiero Ricci and Aaron Rosand.

She began her teaching career at Queens College in 1989 and went on to serve on the faculties of the Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Music Conservatory of Westchester, Mannes College, and Manhattan School of Music. Certified in the Suzuki method since 1988, she has also been a faculty member and outreach director of the Summit Music Festival since 1994, where in 1996 she and her husband, Aaron Rosand, co-founded the Aaron Rosand Intensive Program.

Alongside her teaching, Ms. Khimm Rosand has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and the 92nd Street Y, as well as in Korea, Italy, Spain, and the U.K Critics have praised her ·insightful musicianship, elegant tone, and technical mastery.· A former member of the Laurentian String Quartet, she has also released two recordings on the Sohn and Artkor labels, featuring works by Schnittke, Foote, Grieg, Vivaldi, and Mozart.

Manhattan School of Music Precollege faculty since 2001.

South Korean violist Nam Joong Kim is already an established artist. At the age of sixteen, she has garnered top prizes from Seoul National University Competition, Dong-A Music Competition, LG Art Center Opening Ceremony Competition (performance with Menahem Pressler) and Music Journal Competition in her native country, and has performed with major orchestras such as Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Buchun Philharmonic Orchestra.

Cellist Gloria Kim has appeared in the US and across the globe as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She has performed extensively in renowned concert venues in the New York metropolitan area such as Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall and has toured throughout Europe, China and Korea as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an orchestral with such as notably under Music Director Andre Previn. She also has performed at UN, US Capitol, performed for the president Bill Clinton.

She performed at the NBC Saturday Night television show in NY and she is also in recording for the video game music for the Starstruck and Animist that are in the development and will launch on Play Station, Nintendo and Stream.

She has been invited as a faculty, concert artist and for the master classes from the music festivals such as the Pan Music Festival at the Seoul National University, Sarasota Music Festival, Verbier music festival, 4String Music Festival, Triumph Music Festival, Summit Music Festival and more.

Her first Album “An Evening of Sentimental Classic” that includes the great works of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and more was collaborated with the Pianist Sehwan Park and has released in April, 2023 in Korea sponsored by Huks Music.

Born into a family of musicians, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, where she had privilege to study under Peter Wiley, David Soyer, Joseph Silverstein, Gary Graffman, Felix Galimir, Guarneri Quartet and more.

Kim is a founding member of the BeneSori Quartet and currently on a faculty at the County College of Morris and the Summit Music Festival in NYC.

Cellist Gloria Kim has appeared in the US and across the globe as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She has performed extensively in renowned concert venues in the New York metropolitan area such as Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall and has toured throughout Europe, China and Korea as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an orchestral with such as notably under Music Director Andre Previn. She also has performed at UN, US Capitol, performed for the president Bill Clinton.

She performed at the NBC Saturday Night television show in NY and she is also in recording for the video game music for the Starstruck and Animist that are in the development and will launch on Play Station, Nintendo and Stream.

She has been invited as a faculty, concert artist and for the master classes from the music festivals such as the Pan Music Festival at the Seoul National University, Sarasota Music Festival, Verbier music festival, 4String Music Festival, Triumph Music Festival, Summit Music Festival and more.

Her first Album “An Evening of Sentimental Classic” that includes the great works of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and more was collaborated with the Pianist Sehwan Park and has released in April, 2023 in Korea sponsored by Huks Music.

Born into a family of musicians, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, where she had privilege to study under Peter Wiley, David Soyer, Joseph Silverstein, Gary Graffman, Felix Galimir, Guarneri Quartet and more.

Kim is a founding member of the BeneSori Quartet and currently on a faculty at the County College of Morris and the Summit Music Festival in NYC.

Gloria has appeared in the US and across the globe as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She has performed extensively in renowned concert venues in the New York metropolitan area such as Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall and has toured throughout Europe, China and Korea as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an orchestral with such as notably under Music Director Andre Previn. She also has performed at UN, US Capitol, performed for the president Bill Clinton.

She performed at the NBC Saturday Night television show in NY and she is also in recording for the video game music for the Starstruck and Animist that are in the development and will launch on Play Station, Nintendo and Stream.

She has been invited as a faculty, concert artist and for the master classes from the music festivals such as the Pan Music Festival at the Seoul National University, Sarasota Music Festival, Verbier music festival, 4String Music Festival, Triumph Music Festival, Summit Music Festival and more.

Her first Album “An Evening of Sentimental Classic” that includes the great works of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and more was collaborated with the Pianist Sehwan Park and has released in April, 2023 in Korea sponsored by Huks Music.

Born into a family of musicians, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, where she had privilege to study under Peter Wiley, David Soyer, Joseph Silverstein, Gary Graffman, Felix Galimir, Guarneri Quartet and more.

Kim is a founding member of the BeneSori Quartet and currently on a faculty at the County College of Morris and the Summit Music Festival in NYC.

Hailed as a “powerful player,” and praised for her “arresting, intelligent,” and “splendid” playing by The New York Times, as well as for the temperament, poetry, and singing quality of her sound.  

Soloist, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, New York Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Round Top Festival Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Buchon Philharmonic, Taipei National Philharmonic, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and International Sejong Soloists. Collaborations with conductors such as Yoel Levi, Heichiro Oyama, and Vladimir Feltsman.  

Recitals at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Amnesty International at Mannes, and in Kuala Lumpur, under the auspices of his royal highness Sultan Salahuddin of Malysia. Appearances at Aspen Music Festival, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Round-Top Festival, Shendlee Music Festival, Merano Festival (Italy), and Cello Plus Chamber Music Festival. Founding member of Polydora Ensemble (vocal quartet and piano).  

First prize winner, Virginia National Competition, and Artists International Distinguished Artists Award. Solo and orchestral performances in the United States, Europe and Asia. Recorded for Well-Tempered Productions (National Public Radio Award). TV appearances on Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning feature on Channel 13’s City Arts and on NBC’s Today Show, as well as concert broadcasts on KBS in Korea. Radio appearances on NPR and WQXR, as well as in Korea, Malaysia, and Russia.  

Piano and chamber music faculty, International Academy of Music (Italy and Russia), Euro Arts Academy (Poland), Puigcerda Music Festival (Spain), International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York). Taught at the New Paltz Piano Institute, Special Music School of America, Summit Music Festival, Burgos International Music Festival (Spain), Bizier Music Festival (France), Duxbury Music Festival, and the Beethoven Institute at Mannes.  

Her students have won the New York Philharmonic Concerto Competition, as well as the New Jersey Symphony, New Amsterdam Symphony, and Summit International Music Festival concerto competitions, and have joined the rosters of IMG, and Young Concert Artists. Students have also won first prizes at the Duxbury Music Festival chamber music competition, as well as the Puigcerda Music Festival and Burgos International Music Festival solo competitions in Spain. Other students have joined the faculties at Mannes, The Juilliard School, City University of New York, and Montclair State University, and some have also become leaders in important arts organizations.  

Yuri Kim was born in South Korea, and after moving to Malaysia was self-taught for seven years, until receiving an invitation from the Curtis Institute to begin her undergraduate studies in America. A recipient of the prestigious Uris Brothers Foundation Award, she earned her BM, MM, and Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes College of Music as a full-scholarship and stipend recipient. She was trained in the Russian pianistic tradition. Piano studies with Nina Svetlanova (pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus), concert pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman, and the legendary Bach interpreter and theorist Edward Aldwell. Chamber music with Felix Galimir and Robert McDonald. Schenkerian analysis with Carl Schachter. Faculty, Aaron Copland School of Music, CUNY Queens College, since 2008, Mannes College since 1999, and Teachers College, Columbia University since 2023. She lives in New York City with her husband, tenor Nils Neubert.

More: https://www.newschool.edu/mannes/faculty/yuri-kim-neubert/

Ms. Jinyoung Park Kim is a distinguished violinist and violist who comes from a musical family. She is an active performer and a committed and successful educator, serving as a violin and viola faculty member at Mannes Prep.

Ms. Park Kim has performed extensively throughout the world, giving solo recitals and chamber music concerts at prestigious venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Merkin Hall in New York, as well as at Mozart Haus Wien and other notable locations in Salzburg, Como, Paris, London, Leipzig, Berlin, Tokyo, Milan, and Seoul.Passionate about nurturing young talent, Jinyoung shares her love for playing violin and viola with younger musicians. Her students have  achieved significant accolades, including winning NYO2, NYO auditions,YoungArts, and From The Top competition. Many of them have been accepted into esteemed institutions such as Juilliard, Mannes,Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Institute, Boston College,Stanford, and Harvard University with scholarships.

She completed her pre-college and bachelor’s degree at theKonservatorium Der Stadt Wien in Austria. She finished her master’s and postgraduate degrees with perfect scores at Hochschule Für Musikund Theater Rostock in Germany. During her stay in Germany, she won the sponsored violin “Joseph Rocca” from Prof. Petru Munteanu.Jinyoung came to America to pursue her fervor as a musician. She earned her Professional Studies Diploma covered by a Merit Scholarship at Mannes College of Music with distinction. Ms. Park Kimhas performed in masterclasses given by Zakhar Bron, Michael Kugel, Dora Schwarzenberg, and the Orion String Quartet. Her exceptional teachers include Choong-Jin Chang, Daniel Panner, Petru Munteanu, Maria Egelhof, Raisa Musachozaeva, Leonid Sorokow, Alexander Arenkow, Thomas Christian, Wolfgang Sengstschmid, and Jae-Kwang Song.

Hailed by critics for her “most perfect playing” (Internet Cello Society) with “great warmth and beauty” (The STRAD), cellist Bongshin Ko has appeared worldwide as a soloist with such groups as Munich Chamber Players, Television and Radio Symphony of Moscow, the KBS Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Zagreb Philharmonic, and Central Broadcasting Symphony of China. In 1992 Ms. Ko was honored to be the first Korean artist to be invited to perform in China after the historic resumption of diplomatic relations between Korea and China, and has since been invited back annually.

Ms. Ko has collaborated with some of the world’s greatest artists including Mstislav Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Stein, Gunther Schuller, Semyon Bychkov and Valery Gergiev. In 1997 she appeared with the Korean Symphony at Seoul International Music Festival to give the Asian premiere of Bernard Rands’ Cello Concerto, composed and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in celebration of his 70th birthday. Other international music events and festivals welcomed her to Schleswig-Holstein festival, Kronberg Cello festival, Berlin Wall 10th anniversary concert, Rostropovich & Friends Concert (Germany), plus numerous others in France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Monaco, Croatia, USA, Korea, China, Japan and Indonesia.

She has performed to critical acclaims on NDR and Bavarian Radio (Germany), Fuji TV (Japan), TV New Zealand, TV China, Korean Broadcasting Systems and NBC to name a few. As a member of the European-based Tritton Cello Quartet she can be heard on the Musica Columna label. Her live performances of Brahms and Barber sonatas are often broadcast on the Arte TV in Korea and over the transpacific in-flight classical station on Asiana Airlines. Ms. Ko’s Haydn and Saint-Saens concerti, recorded with Munich Chamber Players in Germany, can also be heard on the SONY Classical label.

As a recipient of over 30 international prizes and awards, including the highest performance award in her native Korea and the Crossroad Award in the US for her “superior teaching,” she is on popular demand as a teacher as well as a performer around the globe. Serving on various festival and university faculties including California State University, Fullerton, The New York Soloists, and Greenhouse Cello Foundation, Ms. Ko performs frequently at major venues and concert halls throughout four continents.