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Hamilton Cheifetz
 Hamilton Cheifetz has been described in Fanfare Magazine as “unquestionably a magnificent player" for his solo recordings, and he has performed throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, and Australia. A native of Chicago, he began playing cello when he was seven and first appeared as soloist with orchestra at the age of eleven. He studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University and later became the teaching assistant to Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the University of Western Ontario. The winner of the Piatigorsky Prize at Tanglewood, he toured the United States and Canada on the Music from Marlboro concert series and performed at the White House for President Carter and the members of Congress. Mr. Cheifetz has appeared as guest artist with the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Oregon, and Milwaukee, and he toured nationally with the Paul Winter Consort. He presented a solo recital in the Sydney Opera House and has often been featured on National Public Radio's “Performance Today.” His playing was highlighted, together with jazz great Dave Frishberg and vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, on the CBS television special “Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side.” Recently, he performed duos in concert with Janos Starker which were broadcast nationally on NPR, and he appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. He is a featured artist at Chamber Music Northwest and other festivals including BargeMusic in New York and the Oregon Bach Festival. Cheifetz is also Principal Cellist of the Oregon Ballet Orchestra and Acting Principal of the Portland Opera Orchestra.
Mr. Cheifetz performed solo recitals and gave master classes in China in the spring of 2010 in Beijing and Tianjin. He has presented master classes in Korea and taught as Guest Lecturer at Indiana University. He is also a member of the Third Angle New Music Ensemble and has recorded for Koch, Delos, New World, and Gagliano Recordings. He is featured on “Sound of the Five”, chamber music of Chen Yi, released in 2009.
A dedicated teacher, some of Professor Cheifetz’s students have gone on to positions in orchestras such as the Boston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony.
Hamilton Cheifetz can be heard live in concert in audio recordings and videos at his website at http://hamiltoncheifetz.instantencore.com
Janet Goodman Guggenheim
 Janet Goodman Guggenheim began her piano studies with her father when she was five years old and, in her hometown, Spokane, also worked with Margaret Saunders Ott. At the age of ten she was the youngest student to have been accepted for summer master classes by the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhevinne who was her mentor for many years. She made her orchestral debut with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of sixteen. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded an Alfred Hertz Fellowship, she received her master's degree at Juilliard, where she was the recipient of the Josef Lhevinne scholarship. She had further study in England under the tutelage of Ilona Kabos and Dame Myra Hess, and she performed concerts throughout Europe. She was a recipient of a Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation grant. Prior to moving to Portland in 1995 she was on the music faculty at the University of California. She has participated in numerous music festivals in the United States and Europe.
For over thirty years she collaborated with the celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman, including concerts in Hong Kong, Taipei, Istanbul and Russia. The Moscow concert encores are included in the DVD, “Perlman Live in Russia”. She has been pianist numerous times on the Johnny Carson Show for Mr. Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg. Additionally she has collaborated with violinists Young Uck Kim, Ivry Gitlis, Uto Ughi, Miriam Fried, Pinchas Zukerman, hornist Barry Tuckwell, cellists Pierre Fournier and Matt Haimovitz, and has recorded CDs of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev (Naxos) with cellist Michael Grebanier.
Tomas Svoboda
 Born in Paris of Czech parents, December 6, 1939. His Op.1, A Bird (published by T.C. Stangland Co.) was composed at age 9 and was admitted to the Prague Conservatory 5 years later as its youngest student. By 1962, after graduating from the Conservatory with degrees in Percussion, composition and conducting, numerous performances and radio broadcasts of his music brought national recognition to Svoboda, clearly establishing him as Czechoslovakia's most important young composer. In 1964, the Svoboda family departed from the mother country and settled in the United States, where Svoboda enrolled at the Univ. of Southern California in 1966, graduating 2 years later with honors. In 1981, first publication of his music brought a front cover tribute to Tomas Svoboda by the respected "Piano Quarterly". In 1992 he received a Governor's Arts Award of Oregon for his Music Accomplishments. In 2003 his Marimba Concerto was nominated for a Grammy Award with the title, Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra, Niel DePonte, marimba. Recently he received a BMI award for being among the most broadcast classical composers in US. Visit TomasSvoboda.com for more information and music.
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