Category: Featured Artists

Q&A with Amit Peled

  • Publication date December 22, 2015

In the second installment of our festival artist Q&A series, we spoke with Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled. From a rural upbringing in Israel to performing at Carnegie Hall, Peled is a strong personality and an engaging performer known for breaking down the audience/performer barrier by explaining the pieces or telling stories. Peled studied with Laurence…Continue Reading Q&A with Amit Peled

Artist Block 4

  • Publication date February 10, 2015

Conductors Hilo Carriel Karen Kamensek Carl St.Clair   Pianists Bernadene Blaha Ya-Fei Chuang Vivian Fan Kevin Fitz-Gerald Lily Maisky Alin Melik-Adamyan Juho Pohjonen Robert Thies Viola Yura Lee Soprano Sarah Shafer  Ensembles Los Angeles Philharmonic USC Thornton Symphony Piatigorsky Festival Orchestra SAKURA  …Continue Reading Artist Block 4

Artist Block 3

  • Publication date February 10, 2015

Amit Peled Li-Wei Qin Jean-Guihen Queyras Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt Andrew Shulman Giovanni Sollima Jeffrey Solow Raphael Wallfisch Wendy Warner…Continue Reading Artist Block 3

Artist Block 1

  • Publication date February 10, 2015

Cellists Ye Lin (Stella) Cho Evan Drachman Chiara Enderle Samatanga Zlatomir Fung David Geringas Clive Greensmith Narek Hakhnazaryan Frans Helmerson Steven Isserlis Michael Kaufman Terry King Ralph Kirshbaum Maria Kliegel Jakob Koranyi Benjamin Lash Laurence Lesser Antonio Lysy Jens Peter Maintz Mischa Maisky Yoshika Masuda Peter Myers Jean-Guihen Queyras Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt Inbal Segev Andrew…Continue Reading Artist Block 1