The LGEM Trio has turned its attention to the beautiful and historic choro music of Brazil. Canadian-born flutist Robert David Billington with a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree in flute performance, Peruvian-born virtuoso guitarist Roger Bustamante, and Colombian-born MIDI percussionist Edwin Guerra perform a sysnthesis of different styles - Brazilian, classical, Hispanic, and jazz - to imbue the venerable chorinho with a new vitality and depth of emotion.

Tai Wai Li began his career as a choral conductor. He has served as an assistant conductor of the Chorale and Oratorio Society of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a DMA in Choral Conducting. He also holds a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Washington, where he has worked as an assistant conductor of the Opera division. He was awarded Stanley Chapple and Nehamer Scholarships and University of Illinois Fellowship to study conducting with Abraham Kaplan, Paul Vermel, Don V Moses, and Robert Feist.

In 1999, Sandra was one of five American pianists chosen to study at the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz Austria where she studied with Professors Harold Heiberg and Eckart Sellheim. Sandra also studied with Caren Levine and Dr. Sylvie Beaudette while studying at CSU, Chico.

He has written music for orchestra, ensembles of various types, piano, guitar and for solo instruments such as the various types of flutes, saxophones and the clarinet. His writing for the voice includes a staged cantata, songs and song-cycles with piano or chamber ensembles, songs for a capella choir and music-theatre. He has produced electro-acoustic music, written and produced theatre and film music, children's theatre and a High-School musical based on an adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata". Finally, he has transcribed and arranged song of other Greek songwriters and composers. He has received commissions from the British Council of Greece, the Union of Greek Com-posers, the Greek Radio, many Greek festivals (including the Paxos Festival) and various UK and Greek artists. Has collaborated with the "Amphi-theatre" company of S. A. Evangelatos. His music has been presented, recorded and broadcast in Greece, Britain, USA, Istanbul (under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew), Australia, Mexico, Italy, Yugoslavia and Cyprus.

Piano: “The First Collection” [1976-81] “Aeolian Harp” [1979] “Wind” [1980] “Three Movements” [1987-88] “Invention” [1988] “London Bridge is Falling Down” [1989] (elementary variations for young beginners) “Chromatic Chasapikos” [1992] “Mi-ni-Mam-bo” [1994] “A Picture and a Dance” [1994] “Nine Variations on a Theme from Bela Bartok” [1995-99] “Three Easy Melodies” (Drei Schlichte Melodien ) [1988-99] “Preludes and Dances” (Preludien und Tanze) [1999-2000] Chamber Music: “Two Greek Songs” [1977] for cor anglais & string quartet “Episode” [1978] for twelve instruments “Ostinato” [1978] for oboe, clarinet, French horn & ‘cello “Trio for Reeds” [1980] for oboe, clarinet & bassoon “Impromptu Mambo I” [1980] for 3 clarinets “Three Postcards from Mani” [1996-97] for clarinet, violin, ‘cello & piano “Impromptu Mambo II” [1996] for clarinet quartet (3 Bb, bass) “Trio for two Violins & Piano” [1997-98] “A Short Rhythmology” [1999] for string quartet “Greek Variations” [1999-2000] for woodwind quintet “Sonata for Violin & Piano” [2001] “Impromptu Mambo III” [2002] for saxophone quartet (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) Solo instruments & guitar: “Walkabout” [1978] for guitar “Momentum” [1979] for guitar “Pictures for Solo Flutes” [1996-2000] for bass, piccolo & concert flutes “The Flight of the Seagull” [1996] for clarinet or saxophone “Sonatina” [2002] for flute “Four Saxophone Solos” [2002] for soprano, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones Orchestral: “A Short Rhythmology” [1999] for string orchestra “Eirenes Simandra” [2002] for 2 violins, piano, string orchestra & percussion “ODOS ONEIRON” (Variations on a Theme by M. Hadjidakis ) [2002] for 2 violins, piano, string orchestra & percussion Orchestral with voices: “We Shall Be Here!” (The Millennium Cantata) [2000] a staged cantata for mezzo, baritone, byzantine cantor, two-voiced mixed choir, actors & orchestra Music theatre: “The Red Feather” [1995] a comic scene for soprano, tenor & small ensemble “Islands” [1996] musical narration for soprano, man-woman narrators, 2 flutists (all four flutes), electro-acoustic keyboard, percussion & tape “The Rehearsal” [1997-98] for a woodwind quintet of musicians-actors, simple percussion (played by the group) & tape Song cycles: “A Bakers’ Dozen of Greek Folksongs” [1993] for soprano, mezzo, tenor & mixed quartet Four Songs & a Translation” [1994] for SATB a capella choir “Five songs & a Translation” [1994] for mezzo, tenor 7 piano “Four Songs of the Sea” [2000] for mezzo & piano “Two Greek Folksongs” [2001] for mezzo & piano

In my earlier life, I played and taught bassoon (own a Puchner, and a Fox) semi-professionally and played piano (for my own entertainment only :)

Played with many ensembles including London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Grenadier Guards Band and many West End productions.

Trained in both jazz and classical music, Mr. Loconsolo possesses a clear tone and a natural vocal range rarely experienced in Contemporary Music, and has cultivated a technique capable of smoothly blending together tenor and countertenor registers which tackles everything from Billy Strayhorn to Baroque arias, contemporary art songs and back to the 16th century Italian vilanella, surpringly rich with heart and humor.

Mr. Loconsolo is one of the very few performers today interpreting the poignant work of legendary Neapolitan singer Roberto Murolo, almost unknown in the U.S. In 2005 he collaborated with avant-garde jazz icon Irene Aebi on rarely heard and never before performed vocal compositions by her husband, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, and was a member of the American premiere of Futurities, a groundbreaking song cycle created by Mr. Lacy and renowned American poet Robert Creeley.

An accomplished violinist, Mr. Lomónaco began his violin studies at the age of 6 with Vladimir Wolfman, continuing them at the Vida y Movimiento Music School and the Montreal University with Vladimir Lanzman. He also has been a member of prestigious orchestras, serving in some of them as concertmaster.

Juan Carlos Lomónaco won The Presser Music Award in order to take The Curtis Ensemble to lead a trip to Mexico and record a music CD. He received the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes scholarship for four years. Founder and Music Conductor of The Mexico-Philadelphia Ensemble which performed at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Corcoran Gallery in Washington for the Mexican Embassy.

Since their inception in 1991 London Concertante has given concerts throughout the UK and toured extensively in Europe. In London they regularly perform a series of 'Candlelight' concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields to packed houses, they have played in all three concert halls at the South Bank with regular sell out concerts in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and this year gave their debut at the Barbican Hall. 2000 has also seen the start of a new series of concerts focusing on the music of British 20th century composers which began with a concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and saw their return to St. John's Smith Square after an absence of six years.

The orchestra's schedule of music club and festival performances continues to grow and during the past year they have given performances around the country including Bristol, Huddersfield, Taunton, Newbury, Brighton, Southend as well as the home counties. London Concertante are delighted to build on its recently instigated education programme tying in workshops with music club performances - an area of work that the players find both vital and immensely rewarding.

Recent highlights include the recording and world premiere performance of Pete Townshend's Classic Quadrophenia, working with Alfie Boe, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler, and of course Pete himself; supporting Barbra Streisand in her Barbra Live concert series at the O2; and working with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant for the BBC Electric Proms at the Round House. In the last few months, the choir has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Classic FM.

The choir's repertoire is broad, ranging from the great choral and orchestral works by Verdi, Brahms, Mozart, Handel and Bach to contemporary commissions. A cappella music is sung in many languages and in all styles from early Renaissance to the present day, from secular to sacred, classical to jazz and including popular and folk music from around the world. The choir is often accompanied by professional orchestras and has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia and the London Mozart Players.

She has won numerous competitions, is playing extensively in this country and abroad and receiving excellent reviews and return engagements, has studied with renowned teachers, and has made three compact discs for Naxos. In reviewing her all-Scriabin disk, American Record Guide said: "Ms. Long is a strong, no-nonsense musician whose command of these works is impressive on many levels."

Her top awards are: the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, the Young Keyboard Artists Association International Competition, the AMSA 1990 World Piano Competition and the Taipei International Piano Competition. Most recent among her awards is FIRST prize in the Ellis Duo Piano Competition in which she performed with her sister, Christina