Janice Weber   A summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Miss Weber has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, National Gallery of Art and Boston's Symphony Hall.  She has appeared with the Boston Pops, Chautauqua Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Hilton Head Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic and Syracuse Symphony in concertos of Hanson, Sowerby, Stenhammar, Bernstein and Leroy Anderson as well as the standard repertoire. She has performed at the Bard, Newport, La Gesse, Husum and Monadnock summer festivals and has twice toured China under the auspices of the American Liszt Society.   Her interest in the uncommon avenues of the piano literature led to a world premiere recording of Liszt's 1838 Transcendental Etudes.  Time Magazine noted, "Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them.  There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here."   Her recordings include Rachmaninoff's complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet, Leo Ornstein's vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky, Rosenthal and Friedman.  Miss Weber recorded Liszt's last Hungarian Rhapsody, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists.  This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize.  Her 2002 Naxos recording of Leo Ornstein's radical piano works received significant acclaim in both the American and European press.  She is also heard in Messian's Quartet for the End of Time.   http://www.janiceweber.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/janice_weber
Michael Lewin   Michael Lewin enjoys a distinguished international reputation as one of America’s most abundantly gifted and charismatic concert pianists, performing to acclaim in 30 countries as orchestral soloist and in recital.   Commanding a repertoire of 40 piano concertos, Michael Lewin has appeared as soloist with orchestras worldwide, including the Netherlands Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, Bucharest ‘Enescu’ Philharmonic, Filharmónica de Guadalajara, the Thessaloniki State Symphony of Greece, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Symphonies of Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, Colorado, Nevada, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, Illinois, North Carolina, Sinfonia da Camera, the Jupiter Symphony, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.  In 2000 he gave the world premiere of the David Kocsis Concerto for the New Millennium. He has performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue over 50 times.   He has concertized in such venues as New York’s Lincoln Center, Boston's Symphony Hall, Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium, the Library of Congress, the Great Hall in Moscow, Hong Kong's City Hall Theater, Taipei's National Concert Hall, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Wilmington's Grand Opera House, the Athens Megaron, the Opera House of Cairo, Holland’s Muziekcentrum Vredenburg and at the Spoleto Festival. Television appearances include a PBS Television recital hosted by Victor Borge that has been aired often throughout the United States. He has been featured in Clavier and Piano & Keyboard Magazines, and edited piano music of Griffes for C.F.Peters. A Steinway Artist, he was Artistic Director of Steinway’s Gala 150th Anniversary Concert held in 2003 in Boston’s Symphony Hall.   Michael Lewin’s career was launched with victories in the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in the Netherlands, the American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship and the William Kapell International Competition. He has also won prestigious career grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Aaron Copland Recording Fund.  Mr. Lewin made a notable New York recital debut in Lincoln Center in 1984, on which occasion the New York Times wrote that “his immense technique and ability qualify him eminently for success.”   www.michaellewin.com
	Richard Dyer   Richard Dyer, chief music critic of the Boston Globe for thirty-three years, has received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award twice for distinguished music criticism.    As a member of the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition jury, he traveled to Shanghai, China; St. Petersburg, Russia; Hannover, Germany; Lugano, Switzerland; as well as to Fort Worth, Texas and New York City to hear 150 pianists from thirty-seven countries.    Dyer has also been a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University, and he and Alfred Brendel were recently awarded honorary doctorates in music by the New England Conservatory.
Richard Bosworth   Richard Bosworth’s travels have taken him to nearly every continent as recitalist, soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and competitor.  He received a baccalaureate from Eastman School, and went on to Indiana University for graduate studies.  While earning his doctorate, he coached and studied under Menahem Pressler, Rostislav Dubinsky, Leonard Hokanson, Mario Feninger, Balint Vazsonyi and Michel Block, with numerous master class participations with Pinchas Zukerman, Gyorgy Sebök, James Tocco, Sequeira Costa and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf.   After winning several prior competitions, he competed in Moscow at the Tchaikovsky Competition and was a semifinalist at both the Beethoven Klavierwettbewerb in Vienna and the Pretoria Competition in South Africa.  In 1999, he gave a guest performance at the White House, by invitation of President Clinton, to a gathering of the fifty State Governors.   In 2005, Bosworth debuted the first interactive music program to combine internet resources and multi-media content at Lincoln Center, New York.  In January of 2008, he performed for the Pianoforte Foundation, Chicago.  The performance featured the music of Frederic Chopin and was broadcast live on WFMT.  Other radio appearances have included WQXR (New York) and WGBH (Boston).   In addition to playing all the major repertory, Bosworth is a champion of contemporary works, often premiering them at music workshops.  Richard Bosworth’s creative output also includes jazz and composition.  He resides in Naples, Florida, where he teaches and performs as a soloist and in chamber ensembles.   www.richardbosworth.org
	Harrison Slater (author of "Chopin and the Vocal Nocturne") combines the versatile careers of musicologist, pianist and novelist.  Of his three books on Mozart, the last is the mystery novel, Night Music (The Embrace Trilogy), which opens the world of Mozart’s life and music to a worldwide audience.  His newest novel, Nocturne (The Embrace Trilogy) is based on rediscovered diaries related to Chopin and includes a piano CD of the music of Chopin integrated into the text, the first example of a novel with a soundtrack performed by the author. For his first book, In Mozart’s Footsteps, Slater traveled to fifty-five cities in nine European countries and completed his exhaustive research over three years with correspondence to archives throughout Europe, always posing previously unresolved question about Mozart Gedenkstätten – the sumptuous palaces, concert halls and salons in which Mozart performed, the houses and taverns in which he lodged, and the churches and public edifices that he visited.  The resulting comprehensive reference book has been called “an amazing feat of scholarship” by the pianist, Alfred Brendel, while Nicholas Slonimsky described it as “absorbing in its brilliance.”Night Music was voted “Rising Star of 2003” by the sales representatives of nine publishing houses, was on the Barnes and Noble bestseller list for mystery trade paperback for over fourteen weeks, and was optioned as a film. Slater’s research and writing of the monograph, Mozart in Milan, continues with “Mozart and Sacred Music in the Ambrosian Capital” and “Mozart’s Singers in Ascanio in Alba and Lucio Silla,” articles which incorporate two handwritten diaries from 1771 found by Slater in archives in Milan.  His musicological work on the influence of the vocal nocturne on Chopin’s piano music continues, building on research found in his 1993 Mozart-Jahrbuch article, “Mozart and the ‘Duetto Notturno’ Tradition” and his entry, “Duetto notturno” in The New Grove.  He has presented musicological papers on the influence of the vocal nocturne on Chopin and Liszt in Southampton, UK, Lucca, Italy, Utrecht, The Netherlands and Dublin, Ireland.  Slater is President and Artistic Director of the Peabody Mason International Piano Competition.  His new article, "Chopin and the Vocal Nocturne" is available as a free pdf download, below.  www.harrisonslater.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/harrison_slater click here to download "Chopin and the Vocal Nocturne"