Nobuko Imai (viola)
Nobuko Imai studied at the famous Toho School of Music in Tokyo and then at Yale University and the Juilliard School. She is the only violist to have won the highest prizes at both the Munich and Geneva International Viola Competitions, and she was formerly a member of the esteemed …
Vytautas Barkauskas (composer)
Vytautas Barkauskas (1931 – 2020) was one of the most prolific Lithuanian modern composers. He was a graduate in mathematics (1953) and music composition (1959) – of late he was professor in the Department of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. The works of Vytautas Barkauskas have been performed …
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Formed by a group of committed, resilient musicians, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) was established in 2000 following the demise of the National Symphony Orchestra. The circumstances couldn’t have been more hopeless. The new government’s priorities were focused on a range of the most intractable social and economic problems: reversing …
Grant Llewellyn
Grant Llewellyn is renowned worldwide for his exceptional charisma, energy and authority in music of all styles and periods. As Music Director of the Handel & Haydn Society, America’s leading period orchestra, Llewellyn gained a reputation as a formidable interpreter of music of the Baroque and Classical periods. On the …
Hugh Sung (piano)
Pianist Hugh Sung has been an active soloist and chamber musician ever since his debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 11. Two years later, he was accepted for studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where his principal teachers included Eleanor Sokoloff, Jorge Bolet, and Seymour Lipkin, …
