Now in its 7th year, Diane Saldick, LLC continues to develop its marketable roster of distinguished instrumental soloists and conductors to create successful collaborations with presenting organizations.

Conductor
Robert Franz is Music Director of the Boise Philharmonic, newly appointed Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphony, Music Director of the Mansfield Symphony, and Resident Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic through the 2008-09 season.

Conductor
Jorge Mester Music Director of The Pasadena Symphony, Naples Philharmonic and The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester’s Summer 2008 included guest-conducting engagements at Breckenridge’s National Repertory Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival (NC) and a return to Mexico City’s Orquesta Filarmónica de la Universidad Autónoma de México. In 08-09, he leads the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México in its celebratory 30th anniversary concert, the Tucson Symphony and conducts Louisville Orchestra’s co-production of Iolanthe with Kentucky Opera.

Conductor
Robert Moody2008-09 season marks Robert Moody’s first season as Music Director of the Portland (ME) Symphony and his 4th season as Music Director of the Winston-Salem Symphony. Also Artistic Director of Arizona MusicFest, Moody makes his debut with the Virginia and Charleston symphonies and returns to guest-conduct the Anchorage Symphony. This is his 10th season leading the Oklahoma City Philharmonic’s “Discovery” series. Robert Moody is guest-conductor on the recent release of two cd’s with Canadian Brass entitled “Bach” and “Legends.”

Conductor
Andrew Sewell continues as music director of the Wichita Symphony and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, now in his ninth season with both orchestras. Recent guest-conducting engagements include the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana. 2008 was the 25th anniversary of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s Concerts on the Square; a series of six free Wednesday evening concerts, before an estimated audience of 20,000. In March 2008, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra released its third CD entitled Mozart - the Early Concerti with pianist, Adam Neiman, released on VAI International.

Conductor
Peter Rubardt, now in his 11th season as music director of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, led the Orchestre de Chambre de la Gironde (France) in Summer 2008. He guest-conducts the Sioux City Symphony and returns to Japan in 08-09.

Conductor
Lawrence Leighton Smith, music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Oregon’s Sunriver Festival, will guest at Yale University and the Dayton Philharmonic.

Piano

Pianist Tanya Bannister's recent victories at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition confirm her status among the leading pianists of her generation. Highlights of Ms. Bannister's 2008-2009 season include her return to the Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) series at the Kennedy Center a recital at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and Mozart #23 with the Harrisburg Symphony. Ms. Bannister has a special affinity for contemporary music. Her latest recording entitled "This is the story she began" features solo piano music of living American composers (David Del Tredici, Christopher Theofanidis, Suzanne Farrin and Sheila Silver), released on Albany Records in February 2009.

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Piano
Pianist Yu Kosuge’s 2008-09 schedule includes Festival de piano La Roque d'Antheron in France and the Japanese premiere of Tan Dun's Piano Concerto (2008) with NHK S.O. and Tan Dun, conducting.

Piano
John O'Conor's 2008-09 schedule includes concerto performances at Carnegie Hall and in Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul. He will spend two weeks performing in Hawaii with the Honolulu Symphony at their Beethoven Festival. His box set recording of the complete Beethoven Concertos will be issued by Telarc.

Featured Artist | Antonio Pompa Baldi

(continued) . . .The program featured music from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and all three composers whose works were played, as it happens, had life spans that bridged two centuries. The concert concluded the 2008-2009 season of "Rising Stars" piano recitals, but as Liliane Questel, the series director, correctly noted in her introductory remarks, the word "rising" no longer applies. Mr. Pompa-Baldi is a star—and he is shining brightly.

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Piano
Upcoming orchestral engagements for pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi include performances with the National Orchestra of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo, North Carolina Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Brevard Symphony ( FL), Erie Philharmonic and Great Falls Symphony. Recital engagements include Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Scottsdale, Cleveland, Santa Rosa (CA) and Southampton (NY).

Piano
American pianist Bryan Wallick makes his debut with the Evansville Philharmonic (Brahms 1) and performs in recital on Ravinia’s Rising Stars series.

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Violin
Violist Paul Neubauer performs and records Joan Tower’s "Purple Rhapsody" for viola and orchestra. He also premieres his own piece written for Joan: "Joan, Your Phone is Always Busy" for solo viola. He continues as orchestral and chamber music director of the OK MOZART Festival and returns to Carnegie Hall to perform with the Emerson String Quartet.

Violin
Violinist Lindsay Deutsch’s 2008-09 season includes debuts with the Brevard (FL), Norwalk and West Virginia Symphonies; as well as the Portland (OR) and Mission (CA) Chamber Orchestras. She makes return appearances with the National Academy and Oakville Orchestras in Ontario, Canada and Montreal’s McGill Chamber Orchestra. Her recently established non-profit organization, Classics Alive, is dedicated to building classical music audiences.

Featured Artist | Rachel Barton Pine

(continued) . . .ChicagoClassicalReview.com, June 19, 2009
"CSO'S Dvorak Festival closes with a generous serving of rarities" by
Lawrence A. Johnson

Rachel Barton Pine delivered a highlight with Dvorak's Romance for Violin, here rendered with tonal refinement and chaste purity, shearing off the accumulated schmaltz larded on this work by big-name fiddlers.

Violin
Rachel Barton Pine’s September ‘08 release on Cedille Records, Beethoven & Clement Violin Concertos, features the world premiere recording of Clement’s D Major Violin Concerto. Season highlights include her London debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and appearances with the Royal Scottish National and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Dayton Philharmonic and the Iceland Symphony. Pine is the first living artist to be part of the Carl Fischer “Masters Collection” series, and she will be featured on the November cover of Strad.

Violin
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky makes his debuts with California’s Monterey Symphony and Ventura Music Festival; in Europe with the Netherlands Philharmonic. He has recently recorded the Mendelssohn Double Concerto for Orfeo with Dinorah Varsi and the Bach Double Concerto with Julia Fischer on the Decca label.

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Violin
Highlights of the current season for violinist Livia Sohn include a return appearance with the Edmonton Symphony (Britten Violin Concerto), a recital presented by Lively Arts at Stanford University and a tour of Colombia, South America.

Cello
Cellist Wendy Warner’s 2008-2009 season includes solo engagements with the Anchorage,Corpus Christi (TX) and Youngstown Symphonies and the Fresno (CA) Philharmonic. Cedille Records releases two new recital recordings; one devoted to works by Popper and Piatigorsky and Rachmaninoff and Miaskovsky sonatas on the other.

Flute
Flutist Carol Wincenc celebrates 40 years of her performance career with six world premieres at three New York City concert halls throughout the 2009-10 season to include trio Les Amies (Carol Wincenc, Cynthia Phelps, Nancy Allen) at the Morgan Library. Wincenc's concerto engagements include Rockford (IL), Santa Rosa (CA) and Youngstown (OH) Symphonies; and ProMusica Columbus (OH) Chamber Orchestra. She also appears as guest soloist with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and on tour.

Clarinet
Clarinetist Charles Neidich will give performances of Messiaen's “Quartet for the End of Time” in Japan, appear as conductor/soloist with the Cobb Symphony and the Georgia Youth Orchestra, perform a recital, the Messiaen Quartet, and with the New York Woodwind Quintet a retrospective of all of Elliott Carter's music for woodwinds in Merkin Hall. He performs Carter's Clarinet Quintet, which the composer wrote for him and the Juilliard Quartet, in concerts in Europe. He also gives performances of his reconstruction of the original basset clarinet version of the Mozart Concerto. Neidich is active in education and is adding to his extensive list of master classes, a seminar in Bamberg, Germany, comparing period and modern instruments. Mr. Neidich continues to conduct the Queens College Chamber Orchestra in programs of works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven in historically informed interpretations and 20th and 21st century classics for chamber orchestra. He is continuing his project: the Art of Transcription for Cobra Records with works of Schumann and Prokofiev.

Guitar
Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp's 2008-09 season highlights include performances with The Queensland Orchestra; Australian and European festival performances in "Lotte's Gift" (a one-actor play with music written by Australia's playwright, David Williamson) including a premiere season at the Edinburgh Festival.

Guitar
Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic’s Summer 2008 included performances in Monterrey, Mexico; Dublin, Ireland; Bulle, Switzerland and Interlochen, Michigan. Her 2008-09 European recitals take place in Uppsala, Sweden; Paris, Zuidlaren (Netherlands), Nuremberg (Germany) and Teresina, Brazil; and stateside in St. Louis and Sarasota (FL). She also performs with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.

Horn
Principal Horn of the Seattle Symphony, John Cerminaro receives critical acclaim throughout the season. He is featured in October 2008 as soloist in three performances of Mozart’s Horn Concerto #4 with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conducting.

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