Victor Rosenbaum Jury Head Pianist Victor Rosenbaum is “one of those artists who make up for all the drudgery the habitual concertgoer endures in the hopes of finding the real, right thing,” (Boston Globe). His concert tours include performances in Europe, Asia, Israel and Russia. Among his many recitals in the United States are those in Chicago, Minneapolis and in New York City. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Rosenbaum has performed with artists such as cellist Leonard Rose and violinists Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt and Robert Mann, and with the Bretano and Cleveland String Quartets. Among the many festivals in which he has participated throughout the world are Tanglewood, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival. A renowned teacher, Mr. Rosenbaum is on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music; the New England Conservatory, where he was chair of the piano department; and the Longy School of Music, where he served as Director and President from 1985 to 2001. He was also a visiting professor at The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music. Well-known for his master classes, workshops and lectures, Mr. Rosenbaum has presented at prestigious institutions throughout the United States and at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, and Guildhall School; the Menuhin School at Stoke d'Abernon in England; Tokyo’s Toho School and the Jerusalem Music Center. Classical Disc Digest described Mr. Rosenbaum’s recording of compositions by Franz Schubert on Bridge Records as “a powerful and poignant record of human experience.” He also recorded the last three sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was greeted with enthusiasm by American Record Guide critic Alan Becker as one of the top ten classical recordings of 2005. Susan Kagan of Fanfare wrote of that disc – “Victor Rosenbaum’s rewarding interpretation can sit proudly among the best.” Nelita True Judge Nelita True made her debut at age seventeen with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall. Since then, she has been in demand as a performer and master teacher throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada, in Hong Kong and Singapore, and in virtually every state in America. On fourteen occasions, she presented recitals and master classes in the People’s Republic of China. As a visiting professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, she performed and gave master classes. She also performed recitals on French national television and Australian national radio. Ms. True is a respected jury member of piano competitions, including the China International Piano Competition (Beijing), the Queen Sonja International Piano Competition (Oslo), the National Piano Competition in Brazil, the Horowitz Competition (Kiev), the Concours de Musique in Canada, the National Piano Teachers’ Association of Japan (Tokyo), the Lev Vlassenko Competition in Australia. In the United States, she has judged for the Gina Bachauer, New Orleans, Hilton Head, and William Kapell International Piano Competitions. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied with Helen Titus, Ms. True went on to The Juilliard School to study with Sascha Gorodnitzki, earned her doctorate with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory, and studied with Nadia Boulanger on a Fulbright grant. Formerly Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Ms. True is currently Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music. As a teacher, Ms. True continues to have a profound impact on thousands of teachers and students. Many of her students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, including an unprecedented five First Prizes in national Music Teachers National Association competitions. She was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, the "Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching" at Eastman, the 2002 Achievement Award from Music Teachers National Association, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from National Keyboard Pedagogy Conference. SH Productions of Kansas City, a video company dedicated to classical music education, produced a set of four videos, Nelita True at Eastman, which is being used at schools on four continents. Ms. True was the cover story for the magazine, Keyboard Companion, and featured in Clavier, Piano Today, and The European Piano Teachers’ Journal. Along with the legendary teachers Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus, Ms. True was highlighted in James Bastien’s book, How to Teach Piano Successfully. “True is an extraordinary pianist and exemplary musician…many a lyric soprano would covet the way (she) can turn a phrase,” wrote a critic forThe Boston Globe. Her most recent recital in Boston was cited as one of the “Ten Best Classical Performances of the Year.” In addition to her performances in concert halls, Ms. True has recorded over one hundred piano works for Advance, Mark, Educo, and Academy Records. Diane Walsh Judge Diane Walsh regularly performs solo recitals, chamber music and concertos worldwide. Her recent engagements include the Bartok Concerto No. 3 with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Strauss Burleske with the Syracuse and Delaware symphony orchestras, the Berg Kammerkonzert with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City and Mozart Concerto No. 24 with David Zinman at the Skaneateles Festival. She has appeared with the radio symphonies of Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Berlin, the San Francisco Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony, toured with the Orpheus and the St. Luke’s orchestras and soloed with orchestras in Brazil, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Russia. In September 2007, Ms. Walsh joined the cast of 33 Variations, a new play by Moisés Kaufman, in its debut production at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. for a month-long run. The play deals with Beethoven's last years and his writing of the Diabelli Variations, which Ms. Walsh performed on stage throughout the play. Coinciding with the play, her new CD of the variations, also entitled 33 Variations, was released by Jonathan Digital Recordings. Ms. Walsh’s recitals include performances at the 92nd Street Y, the Metropolitan Museum, Merkin Concert Hall and the Miller Theatre in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw’s Kleine Zaal in Amsterdam, Philharmonic Hall in Leningrad, Dvorak Hall in Prague, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in other major cities in the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. In demand as a chamber musician, she performs frequently at festivals including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bard, Appalachian Summer, Music From Salem, Eastern Shore, the International Musician’s Seminar in Cornwall, and Strings in the Mountains. Last summer she performed with the Fine Arts Quartet at the Summer Evenings of Music festival in Milwaukee. Ms. Walsh is a member of the quintet La Fenice, comprised of piano quartet plus oboe. From 1999 to 2004 Ms. Walsh was Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Festival, held annually during August in upstate New York. During her tenure she presented world-renowned performers; designed and performed in innovative chamber music and chamber orchestra programs; increased the number of open rehearsals, children’s concerts, and master classes; and co-created and performed in theatrical events such as “An Evening with Bill Irwin” and “The Love Letters of Robert and Clara,” set to music by the Schumanns. Her many awards include the top prizes at the Munich ARD International Piano Competition and the Salzburg International Mozart Competition. She won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was a prizewinner in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and also won that competition’s chamber music award. Ms. Walsh also won prizes in the J. S. Bach International Competition in Washington D.C., the William Kapell International Competition in Maryland and the Busoni International Competition in Italy. Ms. Walsh has made thirteen recordings for Bridge, Nonesuch, Koch, Newport, Sony, Stereophile, CRI and other labels; her first recording for Jonathan Digital Recordings, of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, was released in August 2007. She is recording the Schubert piano sonatas for this label, to be released in early 2008. Ms. Walsh is a Steinway Artist. For more information please visit: www.jwentworth.com