Elizabeth Borowsky
Elizabeth Borowsky has been lauded as an outstanding soloist, collaborative artist, composer, and teacher. She has performed concerts and recitals in major concert halls and prestigious music festivals in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Bosendorfer Halls, the Beethoven Haus, Strathmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, Klavierwoche International, the Maryland Arts Festival, the UNESCO World Music Conference in Amman, the Torun International Arts Festival, and Savona's Concerti di Primavera, and has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, Young German Symphony Orchestra, Lublin Philarmonic, Polish Camerata Orchestra, Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, and Israeli Soloists Orchestra. She has recorded several CDs and DVDs for ICRecords. She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the Erick Friedman Prize for Outstanding Young Musicians, Chopin Foundation of the United States' Scholarship for Young Pianists, Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship, and William Donald Schaefer Scholarship (Maryland International Education Association). She received full scholarships for her studies at Indiana University, Towson University, and Trinity College of Music (London). She has been mentored by renowned pianists and teachers, including Yonty Solomon, Arnaldo Cohen, Ann Schein, Andrzej Jasinski, and Reynaldo Reyes. An engaging teacher herself, she has presented masterclasses in the USA, Germany, and Vietnam, and taught at as an Assistant Instructor at Indiana University (2006-2007). She is currently on the faculty of the Maryland Conservatory of Music and ARTIST Music Education. She is active in promoting excellence in education through music and frequently presents educational concerts in schools. She has held leadership positions in numerous organizations and is currently director of a non-profit scholarship program for young women in the Greater Baltimore region. (Click here to go to Elizabeth Borowsky's Official Website)
Brian Ganz
Brian Ganz is widely regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation. Washington Post critic Joan Reinthaler has written: “One comes away from a recital by pianist Brian Ganz not only exhilarated by the power of the performance but also moved by his search for artistic truth.” Brian Ganz was winner of one of two First Grand Prizes awarded in the 1989 Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris, where he was also awarded special prizes for the best recital round of the competition and the best performance of the required work. That same year he won a Beethoven Fellowship awarded by the American Pianists Association, and in 1991 he was a silver medalist with third prize in the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition. After his performance in the finals of the Brussels competition, the critic for La Libre Belgique wrote: “We don’t have the words to speak of this fabulous musician who lives music with a generous urgency and brings his public into a state of intense joy.” Some of Mr. Ganz’ recent concert highlights include performances of Mozart Piano Concerti K. 466, with the Memphis Symphony, and K. 467, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra at the new Strathmore Hall in Rockville, Maryland. In the summer of 2006 he returned to the Kennedy Center concert hall in a critically acclaimed performance with the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Yoel Levi. He has also performed with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Mstislav Rostropovich, Philippe Entremont, Pinchas Zukerman, Leon Fleisher, Jerzy Semkow, and Gustav Meier. (Click here to go to Brian Ganz's Official Website)
Yoshie Kubota
A native of Kyoto, Japan, Yoshie Kubota has lived in New York City since 1988. She is currently residing in Baltimore, MD. She has performed as a soloist with orchestra in Japan under the baton of Mr. Yutaka Sado. She has appeared on Radio FM Osaka and performed in major cities in Japan, including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Chiba, Kochi and Kyoto. In the United States she has performed in CA, OH, DC, CT, WV, PA, NJ, MD, NY including at the Lincoln Center. Ms. Kubota received a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Mannes College of Music in 1990. Yoshie is a member of a chamber group "Baltimore Canon" since 2006. Yoshie started to compose her original music since the Spring of 2006. She has been an official accompanist at IMIF-USA since 2006. (Click here to go to Yoshie Kubota's Official Website)
Frederick Minger
Frederick Minger has been well known to Maryland audiences as a pianist for more than thirty years. He is most widely known as a collaborative pianist, in particular as a vocal accompanist and chamber musician. In the years 1976-86 he performed and recorded with the Baltimore Symphony both as a member of the orchestra and as a soloist. He earned the B.M. from Oberlin College Conservatory and the M.M and D.M.A . from the Peabody Conservatory. He studied piano with Leon Fleisher, Miklos Schwalb, and Arthur Dann; chamber music with Berl Senofsky and Robert Koff; and vocal accompanying with Alice Gerstl Duschak and Ellen Mack. Dr. Minger taught piano, music theory, and music history at Towson University from 1971 to 1983. Active in the Baltimore Music Club since 1998, he was head of the Baltimore Music Club Competition from 1999 to 2003.
Alex Peh
Alex Peh began performing at age thirteen in a series of recitals in New York’s Steinway Hall, and since then has refined his skills as a multi-faceted performer, teacher and lecturer. He was a featured soloist in the New Millennium Young Artist Concert Series in Frank Lloyd Wright’s “jewel box,” the Unity Temple, Silvermine and Musica Viva Young Artist Series. Mr. Peh has been a prizewinner at the Kingsville International Isabel Scionti Piano Competition, Thaviu Isaak endowed scholarship competition, Cliff Dwellers piano competition, and National Arts and Letters competition. He was the winner of the IU Jacobs School of Music Concerto Competition and performed the Mozart A major concerto, K. 488 with Uriel Segal and the IU chamber orchestra. As the recipient of both the Liberace fellowship and Laura Winkelman Scholarship, he received a B.M and M.M. in piano performance from Northwestern University where he graduated with honors. He has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and the Banff Centre keyboard festival. He studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Arnaldo Cohen as a chancellor’s fellowship student (DMA). He is currently on the faculty of the Lhevinne School of Music in Washington, D.C.