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Name: Jorge Isaac
Skills: Soloist (recorder & live electronics)
Address: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Jorge Isaac (b. 1974, Caracas) began his musical studies at the age of six at the state conservatory "Sebastián Lozano" in Valencia, Venezuela, where he received private tuition for a number of years. Since 1991 and in the years ensuing, he has followed master classes held in The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. In 2000 completed his professional training under the tutelage of Walter van Hauwe at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 2002 received his master degree on contemporary performance & live electronics at the same institution.

Isaac’s specialist field is in contemporary music and the use of live electronics. He has won prices at renowned contemporary music competitions such as the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2001 in The Netherlands and the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Poland. As a soloist, Isaac has given a variety of performances in The Netherlands, Germany, England, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. He has participated in varied recording productions, such as radio broadcast for the Hessen’s radio (HR4) in Germany, the company Shell (Mexico/ The Netherlands), Teldec (Germany), blockflute samplers in the USA, and his own music together with pianist/composer Elik Alvarez (Venezuela).

He has participated in several International Music Festivals such as Hessen’s Festival (Korbach-Germany, 1997), Second International Blockflute Festival (Amsterdam, 1998), From Distant Lands (London, 1999), Festival Internacional de Puebla (Mexico, 2000), Ultima Festival (Oslo, 2001), Music for Galway (Ireland, 2002), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam, 2002), Spazio Musica (Cagliari, 2002), International Youth Music Forum (Kiev, 2003), Time of Music Festival (Finland, 2003).

Jorge Isaac has performed together with the Dutch ensembles - ASKO & Schoenberg, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, The National Dutch Ballet, The Dutch Opera, regisseur Pierre Audi, blockflute player Walter van Hauwe, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, composer Roderik de Man, György Ligeti, Jukka Tiensuu; and the conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. He is at the moment involved with solo recitals, multimedia research projects of the Amsterdam School for the Arts, and in the production of multidisciplinary performances together with Visisonor Media Productions (USA).

 

Name: Mark Izzard
Skills: Teacher (Guitar and Bass tutor)
Phone: +44 (0)1908 505479
Address: 9 Culmsotck Close, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK4 2BH, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
I have been playing guitar for around about 20 years. Although a Bass player first and foremost, I wanted to write songs to contribute to the band I was playing in at the time. So I learned to play the guitar and have been writing ever since. I have performed in bands playing rhythm and lead, but most of my playing is done in my home studio. Having recorded most styles of music, I would like to pass on that knowledge via Cadenza.

 

Name: David William Jackson
Skills: composer (Compose choral, solo and orchestral works of any shape or size.)
Address: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Portfolio includes works for solo voices, solo instruments, choirs, chamber ensembles and orchestra. Commissions accepted. Situated in York - England. Won the National Choristers Composition Competition in 1996, and the Tudor-Howat prize for music composition in 1998.

 

Name: Gabriel Jackson
Skills: composer
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Gabriel Jackson was born in Bermuda in 1962. After three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral he studied composition at the Royal College of Music, first in the Junior Department with Richard Blackford and later with John Lambert, gaining his B.Mus in 1983.

His music has been performed and broadcast throughout Europe and the USA and as far afield as Kuwait and Ho Chi Minh City. His works have been presented at many festivals including Belfast, Brighton, Cheltenham, Copenhagen, Glasgow Mayfest, Huddersfield, Kings Lynn, Machynlleth, Northern Lights (in Inverness), St. Magnus (in Orkney), Sounds New (in Canterbury), ThreeTwo (in New York), the Gegenwelten Festival (in Heidelberg) as well as Spitalfields and Meltdown in London. He has been commissioned by, among others, the East of England Orchestra, New Macnaghten Concerts, the Tate Gallery, and ensembles Tapestry, I Fagiolini, the Brindisi String Quartet, the Delta Saxophone Quartet and the Orlando Consort; more recently A Vision of Aeroplanes was premiered by the BBC Singers

His music is being recorded with increasing frequency and a CD of his chamber music on the Metronome label is being planned. Current projects include Atlantis, for symphony orchestra (Atlantis being the name of the re-useable space shuttle as well as Plato's lost city under the sea), a piano trio for Kammerspiel and a setting of Ian Hamilton Finlay for Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices.

 

Name: Valencio Peter Jackson
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Singer, Soloist (Singer-Tenor, Conductor of Men's Chorus)
Phone: +1 302 344 3674
Address: P.O. Box 121, Newark/New Castle County/Delaware 19715, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Hi! I compose music mainly for choral groups, and chamber ensembles. I am really interested in developing a "Chamber Art Song" genre, a genre consisting of chamber works written in the art song style, for voice and instruments. And so I have built up a repertoire exploiting this genre -- Bassoon, Harp, and Baritone; Mezzo-Soprano, Cello, and Piano; Marima, Voice, and Flute -- only to name a few works.

 

Name: Adrienne Jacobs
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Violinist)
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
American-born violinist and violist Adrienne Jacobs enjoys a career as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. To date, she has been heard on stages across Europe and the United States.

As Associate Concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony and substitute violinist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Adrienne performs regularly on the symphonic stage. Recently Adrienne participated in an Eastern European tour as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Kammerorchester under the direction of Heinrich Schiff, highlighted by an appearance at the prestigious Prague Spring Festival.

Since her solo debut at age 13, Adrienne has performed as soloist with many of Southeastern Michigan’s orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on two separate occasions. However, her passion for recitals and chamber music has lead her to collaborate with many of the DSO’s members as well as Pinchas Zukerman. Notably, Adrienne was the Grand Prize winner of both the 1998 and 1999 American String Teachers’ Association Michigan Chamber Music Festival Competition which lead to many subsequent performances across Michigan including a performance at Rackham Auditorium presented by the University Musical Society of Ann Arbor. Also an avid performer of music from the Baroque, Adrienne has performed and coached with members of Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire, and Edward Parmentier.

Adrienne received her M.M. from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and her B.M. with Honors from The University of Michigan. She plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin made in 1706.

 

Name: Gabriel Jacobs
Skills: Administrator
Phone: +44 (0)1792 89 70 75
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: Gregg Jacobson
Skills: Singer, Soloist (Opera Singer - Tenor)
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Professional Opera Singer - Tenor

 

Name: Alberto Jacopucci Jacopucci
Skills: Composer
Address: Italy
Links: E-mail
 
Alberto Jacopucci was born to Tarquinia. He graduated in composition theory in the new music,in I press the Darmstadter Ferienkursen fur Neue Musik in theory of the composition, techniques of the tools to breath, treatment of the tools to arc with David Alberman and organ with Wolfang Mitterer, clarinet with Ernesto Molinari, where it deepens technical clarinettistiches of vanguard,(in special way the clarinet double bass),specializing him on the phenomenons that regulate the generation of the sounds, single and multiple, composing passages for alone clarinet and ensemble. To introduce Akademie fur Tonkunst for the Lectureses, Workshops, Foren, Performances, Diskussionen a Vortrage one passage of his for five groups mobile Bremsstrahlungs (Irradation of braked) .The composition makes use of a particular way of writing, that the author has developed departing from semantic ranges that space from the thin astrophysics to arrive to dwarf technologies. For this it is used some help of the composer Roland Kayn that it advises him to study the essays of Max Bense for the semiotica and of Abraham Moles for computer science and that of the Prof. Tito Tonietti the maximum Italian expert of the theory of the catastrophes, that also starts it to the studies of mathematics and physics. Its music is performed by the greatest interpreters of contemporary music, what: Guido Arbonelli, Christ Barrios, Simone Mancuso, Manel Ribera, Annette Riesner, Jeremias Schwarzer, Ensemble Surplus e Ellen Ugelvik, and in the most important international festivals of music contemporary: Berlino, Budapest, Colonia,Parigi,Oslo, Varsavia,ecc… One work of his for alone cello, has been recently inserted in the catalog international Cello Works. Member of the Stichting Huyghens - Fokker of Amsterdam and the Contemporary Blockflute Music. In 2006 on suggestion of the prize Nobel for chemistry Harold Kroto, begins a vast job for big orchestra, based on the structure of the fullerene (molecule of carbon C 60).

 

Name: Abigail James
Skills: Soloist (Classical Guitar)
Phone: +44 (0)20 8769 6019
Address: 15 Harborough Road, London SW16 2XP, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Abigail James is one of the most dynamic and exciting guitarists of her generation. Between 1990 and 1995 she studied at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded a Foundation Scholarship to study with Carlos Bonell. She gained an MMus in Advanced Performance (RCM) and was a major prizewinner. In 1993 she was awarded the RCM prize for the performance of a work by a student composer. In 1995 she won the Madeline Walton Guitar Prize and was nominated by the College to take part in the Young Musicians Recording Trust Scheme.

Abigail has taken part in solo masterclasses with Hubert Käppel, Alirio Diaz, Julian Byzantine, Berta Rojas and in ensemble workshops with John Williams. She has been a finalist in the South East Music Schemes' Musicians' Platform and String Semi-Finalist in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition. Abigail was also chosen for the prestigious Park Lane Group Young Concert Artists Series at The Purcell Room.

Abigail has performed as a soloist in a wide variety of venues up and down the country including The Purcell Room, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James's Church Piccadilly, Barbican foyer, Brighton Chapel Royal, Conway Hall, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Bristol and in music clubs, festivals and guitar societies. In recent years she has performed Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' with orchestras in London and has also toured with two opera groups.

As a chamber musician Abigail plays regularly as part of Ceciliana flute and guitar duo and the London Guitar Trio. She has also performed with twentieth-century ensembles Reservoir, The Modern Consort, The Opera Group and Hartland Chamber Opera.

 

Name: Alice Louise Jamison
Skills: Accompanist, Repetiteur
Address: flat 2/79 gilbey rd, boradway, tooting, london sw17 OQH, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Having arrived freshly from Australia I am looking for any work within the music industry. I am primairly looking for repetiteur work yet I am happy to work as an accompanist or rehearsal pianist. I have one year to finish B.Arts/B.Mus at Melbourne Univeristy.

I am eager to do anything .....and would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me the places one should search for music jobs in London and the surrounding areas.

I have worked with major operas and festivals within Australia....won piano competitions......all the right credentials....would appreciate it if I could use them!

 

Name: Rajeev Janardan Janardan
Skills: Soloist, Sitarist (Doyen of the famous Imdadkhani Gharana of Sitar)
Phone: 0761-427837
Address: 1045, Hathital, Jabalpur, 482001, India
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Rajeev Janardan hails as leading Sitarist of the younger generation today. As a young lad, Rajeev Janardan had an inborn natural talent and aptitude for Music. He blossomed into a true artist under the valuable guidance of Pandit Bimlendu Mukherjee, a doyen of the famous Imdad Khani Gharana of Sitar. A graduate in Arts, he opted for Sitar as a career due to his intense desire for furthering the art. A class one artist of A.I.R. and Doordarshan, earned enviable acclaim by his recital in major musical events and received numerous awards and honours within country. Rajeev Janardan has superb control over his instrument. His style is unique and masterly blend of Khyal- ang and baj of Sitar, the base of "Imdad Khani Gharana". Achievements & Distinctions Conferred : (A glimpses) · Topped in All India Music Competition at the age of fifteen. · Topped in the Prayag Sangit Samiti's All India Music Competition. · First Prize award in Sur Singar Samsad Bombay. · Became Sangit Visharad of Prayag Sangit Samiti, Allahabad. · Became "A" grade artist of A.I.R. & Doordarshan. · Awarded with National Merit Scholarship by Govt. of India. · Selected for empanelment in ICCR's reference panel of artists for performance in abroad. His Major Performances : · Sankat Mochan Sangit Samaroh Varanasi. · Prayag sangit Samaroh, Allahabad. · Vasundhara Kala Academy, Mysore. · Orrisa Sangit Parishad, Puri. · Birla Krida Kendra, Bombay. · N. C. P. A. , Bombay. · India International Centre, New Delhi. · Haridas Sangit Sammelan, Bombay. · Malhar Sangit Samaroh, Patna. · South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur. · Layashala, Indore. · Tirupati Sangit Festival, Tirupati. · Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, Shivpuri. · Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal. · North Central Zone Cultural Centre. Allahabad. · Kala Academy, Goa. · Rajasthan Sangit Academy, Jodhpur. · Kerala Sangit Natak Academy, Trichur. · State Academy of Music, Chennai. · Kumar Gandharva Sangit Academy, Dewas. · A.I.R. chain concerts, Nagpur, Ratnagiri, Yavatmal, Pune. · I C C R , New Delhi, Lucknow. · CULTURAL FOUNDATION U.A.E. - ABUDHABI - JUNE 2000 News Paper Reviews : Those Music lovers who missed the Sitar recital by Rajeev Janardan of Jabalpur at I.I.C. lost out some delightful Music. Rajeev showed that he has not only mastered the intricacies of the instrument but also understood what good music is all about. His music offers a heaven of peace and touches the listeners. Hindustan Times, June, 23, 1996. A delicate fine perception of tone and Swara couched in just the right modulation and tint and these two never getting harsh or out of control even in the heat of faster playing is probably the most redeeming virtue of Rajeev's Sitar playing. The Hindu, June, 14, 1996. Long years of patient practice and an inborn natural talent have combined to make him a top notcher among our Sitarists. Today in his mid-twenties, he flowered into a fully natural artist whose recital may well be envy of many seasoned Sitar players. Vasundhara Performing Art Centre, Mysore.-1990 Contact: "Sangeet Kuti" 1045, Hathital, JABALPUR -482 001 [I N D I A] TEL - 0761 - 427 605 / 427 837 (R) e-mail : rjanardan@hotmail.com

 

Name: Zoran Jancic
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +381658991444
Address: FU Knjeginje Ljubice10, Nis, Yugoslavia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Zoran G. Jancic-pianist ...was one of last staff to continue teaching (at Sarajevo's Music Academy) despite of the war. At great personal risk he gave a recital during the siege of Sarajevo.

 

Name: Paul Austin Janes
Skills: Soloist, Teacher (Piano)
Phone: +44 (0)161 434 1137
Fax: +44 (0)161 434 1137
Address: 3 Arthog Road, Manchester M20 6HR, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Winchester in 1968, Paul Janes is one of the finest British pianists of his generation, whose performances have been consistently praised for their profound sensitivity and intellectual understanding, beauty of sound and technical brilliance.

Paul studied from 1986 to 1991 with Renna Kellaway at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was awarded all the College's major prizes. He has won numerous other awards,including scholarships from the Countess of Munster and Ian Fleming Trusts, and prizes in many international competitions, including Dudley, Terni (Italy)and Glasgow.

He has performed at many of Britain's major concert halls, including the Royal Albert Hall (London), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester) and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He has played concertos with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Worthing Symphony, Lakeland Sinfonia and City of Glasgow Philharmonic. Conductors he has worked with include Yan Pascal Tortelier, Leonard Slatkin, Richard Hickox, Martyn Brabbins, James Loughran and Barry Wordsworth. Paul is equally at home in solo and chamber music recitals, having appeared at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham International Festival and Lake District Summer Music. He took the solo piano role in the BBC Phiharmonic's 1995 Proms performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka, where his performance was hailed by the press as 'dazzling'.

Paul is one the finest teachers in the UK and has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music since 1994.

 

Name: Ayman Jarjour
Skills: Soloist (Guitar)
Phone: +44 20 8690 9640
Fax: +44 20 8690 9640
Address: 20 Felday Road, London SE13 7HJ, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
A graduate of Juilliard (MM'99), classical guitarist Ayman Jarjour gave his Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 to great acclaim (see reviews on website). He also studied in Spain with Segovia's favourite student, Jose Luis Rodrigo, and has performed extensively in North America, Europe and the Far and Middle East.

Now resident in London, Ayman is available to perform a full classical or contemporary repertoire, either as a soloist or with different chamber music ensembles (flute, violin etc).

 

Name: Yoris Henryk Jarzynski
Skills: Arranger, Conductor, Manager, Player, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +5687355981
Address: Chile
Links: E-mail
 
Yoris Jarzynski has studied with Philippe Hirschhorn, Viktor Libermann, Igor Oistrakh, Tibor Varga, and M. Beswekhny.

He has been invitated on many international festival in all the world. Yoris performs frecuentally as soloist an gives master-claces.

 

Name: Maia Kristine Jasper
Skills: Soloist, Teacher, Chamber musician
Phone: +1 (323) 559 1571
Address: Los Angeles CA, United States
Links: E-mail
 
Los Angeles native Maia Jasper began her violin studies at age 8 in 1989. Since then, she has appeared as concerto and recital soloist in France, in the Netherlands, and on both American coasts in such venues as Los Angeles’ Zipper Hall and Music Center, the Cité Intérnationale des Arts in Paris, Music Hall in San José, the Bergen Ruinekerk (Holland), and Yale University. She has received awards from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts, the Young Musicians Foundation, the Colburn Foundation, and the Maestro Foundation.

Maia received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in May 2003 from Yale University, where she was awarded the Master’s Prize for her contribution to the musical life of her college. While an undergraduate, she served as the youngest member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, in which she held the Jeanet S. Curtis Chair. She spent her junior year at the Paris Conservatoire as a scholarship student of Gérard Poulet.

Maia is committed to bringing not only artistic integrity but also relevancy to art music in contemporary society. She recently gave the U.S. premier of Constantinidis’ “Folk Suite” and the West Coast premier of Periklys Koukous’ Violin Sonata in San José. At the 2004 Los Angles Philharmonic International Gala, she performed music of Piazzolla alongside her teacher and Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. She served as concertmaster of and soloist with the Timothy Dwight Chamber Players, Yale’s contemporary music ensemble. For two years she hosted her own radio program, Listening to the Guys Who Invented Music, on WYBC New Haven, AM 1340. An avid chamber musician, Maia will perform sextets with the Ysaye String Quartet when the group performs in Los Angeles this October. As first violinist of the Sonus Quartet in 2003 – 2004, she participated in the Juilliard Quartet Seminar, the Yehudi Menuhin Emerging Artists Seminar, and the Banff Centre Quartet Residency. Other chamber music performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, KCSN, KKGO, and KUSC. She is also developing a taste for early music, performing as baroque violinist with Los Angeles’ early music ensemble Musica Angelica and as leader of the Thornton Early Music Ensemble. She was recently awarded a generous scholarship to support her studies with renowned baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock.

Maia has participated in mastercourses with Ruggiero Ricci, Janos Starker, and the Ysaye, Juilliard, Alexander, and Takacs Quartets. At the International Holland Music Sessions, she worked with Gyorkgy Pauk and Hermann Krebbers. Other festival appearances include the ENCORE School for Strings and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. Her former teachers include Pamela Frank, Kyung Yu, Paul Kantor, Robert Lipsett, Michelle Kim, Camille Avellano, and David Russell. She is currently completing her Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she is a student of and teaching assistant to Martin Chalifour and is the school’s first Colburn Fellowship recipient.

 

Name: JCC Symphony Orchestra
Skills: orchestra
Phone: +1 301 469 0989
Fax: +1 301 365 3240
Address: 9104 Quintana Drive, Bethesda Maryland 20817-2040, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Critical acclaim for the JCCSO performance of Beethoven's 4th Symphony: ".. an exuberant, large-scale realization of an immensely difficult score." -- Washington Post, 6/22/99

 

Name: Jefferson String Quartet
Skills: Ensemble
Phone: +1 972-333-1325
Address: 6812 Robinhood Ln., Fort Worth TX, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
String quartet in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area since 1992. Available for weddings, parties, and receptions.

 

Name: Jenny Doyne and Jennifer Miles
Skills: Ensemble (flute and piano)
Links: E-mail
 
We are a flute and piano duo based in London and are both graduates of the Royal Academy of Music, London, England. We have a varied repertoire from Bach to Prokofiev, and from Poulenc to Mower, and are available for performances throughout the UK.

 

 


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