Concerts and Recitals

The master’s fifth violin and piano sonata (the “Spring”), Fifth String Quartet, and iconic Fifth Symphony arranged by piano for four hands performed by Margeaux Maloney, violin; Vega String Quartet; Elizabeth Pridgen and William Ransom, piano.

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Eduard Kunz,Piano

September 28th at 7pm

Named one of ten of the ten great pianists of tomorrow by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with many major European orchestras, including, among many others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pomeranian Philharmonic, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra.

He has appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Louvre in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among many other venues. His performances have been broadcast on major classical stations, including BBC Radio 3, Radio France, Deutschland Radio Kultur, and Orpheus Radio.

New projects include debuts with the Russian National Philharmonic and Russian Symphony orchestras, solo appearances in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, recital tours of Italy, Spain, Japan and Poland, and chamber music recitals with such musicians as Sol Gabetta, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov and Alexandru Tomescu. Other collaborations include piano duos with Alexander Ghindin and Andrei Diev and a special Scarlatti project with bayanist (accordionist) Yuri Medyanik.

Mr. Kunz had one of the most successful competition careers of his generation, winning 13 first prizes at major contests, including the Grand Prix of the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and gold medals at both the New Orleans and Paderewski competitions. Other awards included a silver medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians in London, awards from the Hattori Foundation, and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe prize.

Teaching younger colleagues is Mr. Kunz’s passion, and he will conduct a series of master classes in Italy as well as in Spain, the U.S. and Russia. He is a guest professor at the Schlern International Music Festival in South Tirol. 

Born in Siberia, Mr. Kunz studied with Mikhail Khokhlov at the Gnessin Secondary School for gifted children and with Andrei Diev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and gained his postgraduate diploma with distinction as well as the gold medal for performance from the Royal Northern College of Music, studying with Norma Fisher and late Mark Ray.

Mr. Kunz is a Moscow Philharmonic Society Artist, a Verbier Festival laureate, a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and a Global Yamaha Artist.

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Student's Performances:

Anna and Alice Romanov-violin

Dr.Anna Arshavskaya-piano

May 1st at 6.30pm

Anna and Alice Romanov perform the first movement of the Violin Concerto in D-minor by Bach at the Roswell High School's Spring Concert.

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Student's Performances:

Raiana Frey,Violin

April 30 at 7pm

Raiana Frey is performing the first movement of Vivaldi's Concerto for two violins with the senior student of the Centennial High School and the Centennial Chamber Orchestra.

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Student's Performances:

Shyam Thimaiah,Violin

April 30 at 7pm

Shyam Thimaiah is performing Mozart's Violin Concerto #4 with the Milton Symphony Orchestra.

Shyam is a senior student of Arshavsky Music School and has been a student for the last 14 years.

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Itzhak Perlman,Violin

April 25th & 27th at 8pm,April 28th at 3pm

Mr. Gluzman’s 2012/13 season begins with his debut at the BBC Proms in London, followed by appearances with, among others, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St. Louis Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, as well as Seattle, Atlanta and Vancouver Symphonies. Vadim Gluzman also gives recitals in New York City presented by the venerable People's Symphony Concerts and in Paris at the Théâtre de la Ville. Vadim’s 2013 summer engagements include returns to Ireland’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival as well as Colmar and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals. 

Born in the former Soviet Union in 1973, Vadim Gluzman began violin studies aged seven. Before moving in 1990 to Israel, where he was a student of Yair Kless, he studied with Roman Sne in Latvia and Zakhar Bron in Russia. In the US his teachers were Arkady Fomin and, at the Juilliard School, the late Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Early in his career, Mr. Gluzman enjoyed the encouragement and support of Isaac Stern, and in 1994 he received the prestigious Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award. Vadim Gluzman plays the extraordinary 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari, on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.The Israeli violinist appears regularly around the world: with major orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, London Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and NHK Symphony; and with leading conductors including Neeme Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Andrew Litton, Marek Janowski, Itzhak Perlman, Tugan Sokhiev, Paavo Järvi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Hannu Lintu and Peter Oundjian. Among his festival appearances are Verbier, Ravinia, Lockenhaus, Pablo Casals, Colmar, Jerusalem and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Northbrook, Illinois, founded by Gluzman with his wife and long-standing recital partner, pianist Angela Yoffe.

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Vilde Frang,violin

January 31st and February 1st at 8pm

Born in 1986 in Norway, Vilde has studied at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo, with Kolja Blacher at Musikhochschule Hamburg and Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy. She plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin lent by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Freundeskreis Stiftung.After her 2007 debut with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vilde was immediately re-engaged for a concert with the orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall in the 2009 season, followed by a recital at Wigmore Hall. Her concerto recording debut as EMI Classics' Young Artist of the Year 2010 was greeted with acclaim by critics throughout the world and received the Edison Klassiek Award, and a Classic BRIT Award for Best Newcomer. Her recital disc was equally praised, and was selected as "Editor's Choice" by Classic FM Magazine and "Diapason d'Or" by Diapason Magazine as well as being awarded the Echo Klassik Award.  Her most recent release, featuring concertos by Tchaikovsky and Carl Nielsen recieved the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and was named Editor's Choice by Gramophone Magazine.She appears as a recitalist and chamber musician at festivals in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rheingau, Lockenhaus, Gstaad, Verbier and Lucerne. Amongst her collaborators were Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Leif Ove Andsnes and Maxim Vengerov, and together with Anne-Sophie Mutter she has toured in Europe and the US, playing Bach's Double Concerto with Camerata Salzburg.

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Yefim Bronfman, piano SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2013, 8PM

                                     Sunday,March 14, 2010 at 3pm at 3pm

                                                        Congregation Ahavath Achim's Concert Hall

                                                                    600 Peachtree Battle Avenue NW

                                                                                  Atlanta,GA 30327

                                                                                      (404) 881-2100

 The Program includes works by Haydn,  Beethoven,Chopin,Tchaikovsky and Scriabin.

Anna Arshavskaya graduated from The Ural's State Conservatory (Russia) with the Honorary Diploma in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy.

At the age of 5 she started taking piano lessons from Mrs.Anna Markova and later studied with Professors Alevtina Kazakova and Maria Bogomaz,the former students of legendary pianists Neuhaus and Oborin.

For many years Mrs.Arshavskaya served as a faculty member of the prestigious

Russian State Conservatory and was particularly involved in teaching musically gifted children.

She has regularly performed as a soloist and an accompanist and frequently appeared with symphony and chamber orchestras. 

Her programs are distinguished by their complexity and the variety of styles.

Currently Anna Arshavskaya teaches а wonderful group of musically gifted students at her Piano Studio in Roswell,Georgia.

Many of her former students were accepted to the top Music Schools in the United States  such as The Juilliard School,The Manhattan School of Music,Eastman School and Peabody Conservatory as well as the Russian Music Conservatories.

Mrs.Arshavskaya is a proud teacher of many award-winning students.

Her students successfully participate in many international,national and state competitions.

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Itzhak Perlman

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

8:00 p.m.

The student tickets are $15 with the purchase of an adult ticket.

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