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MASSAPEQUA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SOLOISTS

BENJAMIN BEILMAN *

VIOLINIST BENJAMIN BEILMAN, now 20, was born in Washington, DC and later moved to Ann Arbor, MI. He started violin with the Suzuki method when he was 5 years old, and currently studies with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he is pursing his Bachelor of Music Degree in violin performance. He previously studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago. Mr. Beilman has already won several competitions including Grand Prize winner of the American String Teachers Association in 2007 and most recently, he was named First Prize winner of the Montreal International Music Competition in June 2010. He gave his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2009, and he has also appeared as soloist with the Detroit, Toledo, and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras as well as the L'Orchestre Metropolitan de Montreal. Mr. Beilman has been a featured artist at the Marlboro Festival since the age of 17 and will tour with "Musicians from Marlboro in the spring of 2011. He has appeared on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and "From the Top", and the McGraw-Hill "Young Artists Showcase" on WQXR Radio in New York. Mr. Beilman is a 2007 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a recipient of the Gold Award in Music from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
*Astral Artists, Management/Photo by Myra Klarman

DENIS BOURIAKOV

FLUTIST DENIS BOURIAKOV, born in 1981 in the Ukraine, was given a place at the Moscow Central Special Music School in 1991 where he studied with Y.N. Dolzhikov. Since the age of 11, Mr. Bouriakov has played in Russia's premier concert halls, including the Big Conservatoire Hall and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. After graduating from the Moscow Central Special School in 2000, he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied with William Bennett. In 2006, the Academy awarded Mr. Bouriakov with the prestigious title of "Associate of the Royal Academy of Music". A year after graduating from the Royal Academy he was appointed Principal Flute at the Tampere (Finland) Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2008 he was appointed Principal Flute with the Barcelona (Spain) Symphony Orchestra. Later that year he won the highly coveted position of Principal Flute with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. Mr. Bouriakov has performed with many orchestras throughout the world, including the Moscow Symphony, the Moscow Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, among many others. He has won prizes at many of the world's most prestigious international flute competitions including the Prague Spring, Kobe (Japan), Jean Pierre Rampal, Carl Nielsen, and the Munich ARD, to mention a few. Last summer, Mr. Bouriakov presented a recital at the National Flute Convention held in New York City to great acclaim. Having mastered the standard repertoire for flute, Mr. Bouriakov has been transcribing famous works for violin, including concertos, which he has recorded on a CD issued by Beep Records. He will be performing his transcription of the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

VIOLINIST ANNA LEE, now 14 years old, was born in Seoul, Korea, and started playing violin at age 4. When she was 5, she performed the Paganini Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and at age 6 she played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Bradell Heights Symphony Orchestra. Anna has participated in the Aspen Music Festival on a full scholarship where she gave a live National Public Radio performance to much acclaim. In 2006, at the recommendation of the Juilliard School, In 2006, Anna made her Avery Fisher Hall debut playing with the Little Orchestra Society. In 2007, Anna was a top Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship winner on the NPR Program “From the Top”, and she was recently named a Young Scholar by the same Foundation. She has also appeared on the radio shows, “Good Morning Singapore” and “Good Morning Japan”. Anna attends the pre-college division of the Juilliard School on a full scholarship where she studies with Masao Kawasaki, and she plays on a Nicolo Amati violin, made in 1637, which is on loan from the Stradivari Society.

VIOLINIST SUSIE PARK, a native of Sydney, Australia, started violin at age 3, as a Suzuki student, and later attended the preparatory division of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2003, where she studied with renowned violinists Jaime Laredo and Ida Kavafian, and served as Concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony in the 2001-2002 season. Ms. Park recently received the Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory where she studied with Donald Weilerstein. She has concertized around the world appearing as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony, all of the major Australian orchestras including those of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra, the KBS orchestra of Korea, the Lille National Orchestra under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin in France, and this past season with the Orchestra of St. Lukes in Alice Tully Hall. Winner of numerous awards and honors, Miss Park was a Laureate in the 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. In 1998 she received first prize in the senior division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, second prize in the junior division of the Henryk Wieniawski/Karol Lipinski Competition in 1997, first prize in the Richard Goldner Concerto Competition, the City of Sydney Reg Marsh Award for Most Outstanding String Performer and the Ernest Llewellyn String Award. In 1995 she won the national string division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Young Performer's Award. Her performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was broadcast nationally and earned her the Victorian Premier's Award. Miss Park is an avid chamber musician, and was in residency at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two for the 2006/07 season. She attended the Marlboro Music Festival in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and performed throughout the US on a Musicians from Marlboro tour in 2004 and 2006. She is a founding member of ECCO, a conductor-less chamber orchestra comprised of some of the most talented young chamber musicians, soloists and principal string players in major American orchestras. During the summers she has participated in music festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Austria and Israel's Keshet Eilon. Ms. Park is the violinist of the most sought-after trio in the world, the Eroica Trio.
Photo by Susan Wilson

CELLIST TAE-GUK MUN, born in 1994 in South Korea, started cello at age 4. He moved to New York in 2007, and is currently a scholarship student of Minhye Clara Kim at the Juilliard School, Pre-college Division. Tae-guk has attended master classes with Bernard Greenhouse, Aldo Parisot, and Ron Leonard, and he won the Third Prize of the Sixth International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. He was also the First Prize winner of the International Competition for Young People in Oldenberg, Germany, First Prize winner in a 2008 competition held in New York by the YWCA and a Korean daily newspaper company, and First Prize winner of the National Sungjung Music Competition in Korea. Tae-guk received a full scholarship to attend the Perlman Music Program in 2008, and he won the 2009 cello concerto competition of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division after which he played a solo with the Pre-College Symphony.
Tae-guk has given solo performances throughout Korea, France, Germany, Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Port Washington Public Library in New York. He has been featured on From the Top with his chamber group, and was featured nationally in television and radio broadcasts on NPR.