Ana Lourdes Rodriguez

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Cuban american Pianist, Ana Lourdes Rodriguez, who specializes in Latin American Music has performed extensively in concerts and recitals in Europe, Canada and the United States, in cities such as Boston, Miami, New York, Prague, and Rome. She has been presented in prestigious concert halls such as Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall and Carnegie’s Recital Hall. Because of her innovative programming, Miss Rodriguez has had much success with audiences, and is commonly invited to return for more performances. During the 2005-2006 season, she played in the Bahamas for a benefit concert towards music education. In addition, Miss Rodriguez’s expertise in Latin American music has made her a frequent performer for music organizations such as, “The Dominican Association of Classical Artist” “Amigos de la Zarzuela” and the “Cuban Cultural Center of New York”. The television show “Raises” which highlights Hispanic talent has televised Miss Rodriguez’s concerts regularly. Miss Rodriguez also takes great pride in working with composers, and has had the opportunity to give premieres of their works. 

Miss Rodriguez’s talent has made her recipient of several awards, including the University of Miami School of Music Award for Excellence in Piano Performance, and in 1998 receiving an Honorable Mention in the Bartok-Kabalevsky Piano Competition. The Puerto Rican Cultural Association has honored Miss Rodriguez’s talent and commitment to Latin American music by awarding her the 2003 Emilia Conde Award, which is given to a young artist each year. Most recently, Miss Rodriguez made her New York debut in Carnegie’s Recital Hall as Winner of Artist International Special Presentation Award. The following year Miss Rodriguez was once again honored by Artist International by receiving the Alumni Award and by giving a concert in Merkin Concert Hall. She has also given performances for the University of Miami Summer Music Camp in Gusmann Conert Hall. The Miami Herald has described Miss Rodriguez to be a “Young Pianist for New Music”.

Ana Rodriguez holds a Master of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music and received her Bachelor’s degree from the University Of Miami School Of Music and was honored with a full Scholarship. She is currently on faculty at the University of Miami School of Music - Piano Preparatory and has served on faculty for the Juilliard School of Music Advancement Program.

You may contact me by phone at (305) 693-7096 or via email at teclaana@aol.com.

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CAROL COMUNE

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Carol Comune’s technical precision and lyricism has earned her a reputation as one of today’s premiere pianists, performing extensively throughout the eastern United States both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.  She has been featured artist in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music, the Gardner Museum, the Art Complex at Duxbury, and the Longfellow National Historic Site.   She was featured at Lincoln Center and Steinway Hall in New York City, Flagler Museum, Kravis Center in Palm Beach and her recitals have been featured on National Public Radio.  In 2005, Ms Comune debuted her original composition for solo piano; Variations on “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” – 18th Century Hymn of William Croft in a concert with her chamber group, Three Women at Steinway Gallery, New York City.  In 2003, Ms. Comune was a featured artist and invited to speak at New England Conservatory, Piano Pedagogy Intensive Weekend.  Her presentation was entitled, “The Independent Teacher: Keeping the Standards.”  In addition, Ms. Comune and her 6 year-old daughter, Gealyn, performed and debuted their original compositions, “Gealyn and Me” - Fantasies for the Young – Four Piano Duets.

A multi-talented musician as a teacher, composer and recording artist, Ms. Comune has produced through her company Elegant Entertainment & Co. (BMI) founded in 1985 six albums:  “Intracoastal”, 1990; “Echoes from Coquina”, 1991, “Farm of Dreams”, 1993; “Carousel Classics”, 1994; “Season of the Light”, 1997 and  “Little Gems”, 1999.   They include original compositions in the New Age genre, popular arrangements and classical repertoire for solo piano, string quartet, violin and piano, piccolo trumpet, soprano and four hands one piano. Her critically acclaimed albums are featured on commercial stations and National Public Radio in the United States and on broadcasting stations in the Far East, Canada, Europe and the World Wide Web.

In 2006, Ms. Comune produced an album entitled, “Soliloquy of the Soul”, music for healing the mind, body and spirit.  It is dedicated to cancer patients and their loved ones.  It is compiled from her previous albums to create an ambiance for healing based on her recent cancer experience and recovery from major surgery.  Her music is assisting patients at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center in Morristown, New Jersey.

In 2007, Ms. Comune proudly presents Comune Music Press - new pedagogical works for Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced repertoire for teachers who seek rewarding pianistic experiences for their students.  These works include:  “Gealyn and Me”-(Fantasies for the Young), four piano duets; Suite for Sleeping Beauty for solo piano; ”Season of the Light”for piano with optional voice, violin and treble instruments; “Variations for Piano on O God, Our Help in Ages Past” (18th Century Hymn of William Croft) and a preview of upcoming works from, “The Nightingale” based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson.
 
Since 1973, Ms. Comune has taught, coached, judged and accompanied hundreds of students, many of whom have been recipients of achievement awards and winners of competitions for performance.  She is a former piano faculty member, accompanist and chamber coach at New England Conservatory Preparatory School of Music; Berklee College of Music; New School of Music, Massachusetts; Conservatory of Music at Lynn University, Florida and continues a private studio.  Ms. Comune is a member of the New England Piano Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association, PBCMTA, FSMTA, NJMTA, PMTA and the PBC Cultural Council.
In 1996-2000, Ms. Comune was Competition Scholarship Chair for Palm Beach County Music Teachers Association and in 2004-2005 Commissioning Composer Chair for Florida State Music Teachers Association.  She has been a frequent presenter for PBCMTA with topics that focus on “Teaching the Young Contemporary Music” and “Composing”.

carol Comune started her piano studies at the age of three and received a scholarship for piano and solfege to study with Music Director and alumnus of the Paris Conservatoire, Mme. Yvonne Combe at the French School of Music in Plainfield, New Jersey.  She completed her prep years with a diploma and a frequent first place winner of the Agilite Competitions with honors.  Ms. Comune is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts (BM in Piano Performance with David Hagan); continued graduate studies in Piano Pedagogy with Jean Stackhouse (NEC); Composition with John Felice (NEC), influential mentor Donald Waxman and concert pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, a master teacher of international stature and pupil of the celebrated Russian teacher Madame Isabelle Vengerova.

Available for:

Solo and joint recitals
Accompanist
Presentations of original music/ Comune Music Press
Scoring music
Piano Teacher  (accepting late-elementary to adults)
Judging competitions

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MIA VASSILEV
Concert Pianist
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Pianist Mia Vassilev, originally from northeast Kansas, has concertized in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Florida, and (Shanghai) China as well as playing for productions and accompanying singers and instrumentalists in Italy and Austria. In Bulgaria, she has been broadcast on the Classical Radio Network. In Florida, she has played on the Platinum Piano Concert Series (Miami), the Bass Museum of Art ( Miami) Summer Concert Series, at the Steinway Gallery of Miami, at the VA Guest Artist Series benefitting US Veterans, on The Internationals concert series in West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach, and the BMI Steinway Concert Series. Winner of the Presser Scholar Award, the Melba C. Budge Fellowship, the Outstanding Performer Award and the University Concerto Competition, she completed her undergraduate studies in piano performance from Kansas State University, where she studied with Dr. Robert Edwards. After graduating, she was invited back multiple times on their guest artist series, once as soloist for a performance of the Prokofiev Piano Concerto #1. She graduated with a master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music in 2001 as a University Graduate Scholar recipient both years where she studied with Richard Fields and Michael Chertock. She also performed in the Grandin Chamber Music Festival in Cincinnati, and has been a pianist with: The New World Symphony Orchestra (substitute), Glimmerglass Opera in New York, Florida Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and the Hispanic-American Lyric Theatre of Miami, Florida, as well as serving as a staff pianist in the OTMFL (Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca), Italy, and the AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies) Festival in Graz, Austria. Recently, she performed unpublished works of Wittgenstein in Honolulu at the International Humanities Conference and in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Conservatory. Besides concertizing, Mia works as a staff pianist at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

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Cell phone is 786-210-9753 Home phone is 305-666-4998

“Keyboard wizard Dacic dazzles in recital”
Kalamazoo Gazette’s Matt Steel reporting on the 2004-05 Rising Stars Recital Series

"From Franz Liszt on, there has been a tradition of gymnastically fingered, rock-star persona classical pianists. Misha Dacic fits the mold.”
Twin Cities Pioneer Press’s Pamela Hill Nettleton reporting on Frederic Chopin 2005-2006 series.

Misha Dacic was born in 1978 in the former Yugoslavia, into a family with a musical tradition. Dacic first came to public attention at age 11 when he performed a Haydn piano concerto in his birth city. Shortly afterwards, he entered the class of Kemal Gekic at the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia, where he received his early training. In 1998, at the invitation of Lazar Berman, Dacic enrolled at the prestigious school for pianists in Imola, Italy, where he studied with Berman for over five years. Dacic was one of Berman’s last pupils.

Dacic made his American debut in 2003 at the Discovery Series of the Sixth Miami International Piano Festival. That same year, he performed at the “Martha Argerich Project Festival” in Lugano.

Dacic performed at the Xavier University Classical Piano Series in Cincinnati in 2004 and 2005, at Princeton University (New Jersey) in Edna Golandsky’s Symposium, at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series in Chicago and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival Rising Stars Series in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Dacic made his New York Debut at the Leschetitzky Piano Series in 2005, and in Guatemala at the Eighth Festival Internacional de Cultura Paiz in Antigua. The same year Dacic performed a Horowitz Tribute concert for The Frederic Chopin Society’s Concert Series at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was re-invited to Guatemala to perform two concerts for the prestigious Mosaico Festival.

Future engagements include “Young Lions of the Piano” sponsored by the Chopin Foundation of the US on December 9th at UM Gusman Concert Hall—a solo and two-piano recital with Mei-Ting Sun, 2005 winner of the US Chopin Competition. In May 2007, Misha Dacic will perform on two evenings of the Tenth Anniversary of Miami International Piano Festival--on May 9th in A Tribute to Rachmaninoff and in a Concerto Evening featuring Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concertos on May 13th.

Dacic is a recipient of support from the Patrons of Exceptional Artists and a special scholarship at the University of Miami, where he pursues advanced piano studies with Frank Cooper. Dacic is the recipient of the 2006 University of Miami Alumni Association Student of Distinction Award and was chosen for inclusion in Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities, 2005-2006 edition.

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FEDORA HOROWITZ, Concert Pianist

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