Piano
Nathan Ben-Yehuda, Piano
Nathan Ben-Yehuda has been recognized as an emerging musician of impassioned energy and integrity. He has been a prize winner at the Yamaha Young Performing Artist award and the Seattle International Piano Competition, among many others.
He has worked closely with such composers as George Lewis, Kaija Saariaho, Oliver Knussen and Thomas Ades. Nathan has held a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he performed in a variety of new music and chamber music groups, and took part in a complete performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux alongside pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and performed Nancarrow Studies on two pianos with composer/pianist Thomas Adès.
He has been featured in live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 “In Tune” as well as on WMHT Radio. He has appeared on Musiqu3 TV in Belgium as a competitor in the 2021 Queen Elisabeth competition. He recently was one of two pianists invited to the Taos School of Music, directed by Robert McDonald, and performed as part of their young artist chamber music series.
He is also the pianist for the Victory Players, a recently formed new music ensemble based in Holyoke, MA. Having earned degrees from Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music in London, he is now faculty at Cal Lutheran University.
Rudolfo Leone, Piano
Italian-born pianist RODOLFO LEONE is the First Prize Winner of the 15th International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna (2017). Described as “a true sound philosopher” (Oberösterreichische Nachrichten), Leone released his debut album on Gramola Records Vienna in May 2018. His playing has been described as having “impeccable style” and “absolute technical control” (Il Nuovo Amico). A 2018-19 Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, Leone’s current season includes debuts with the San Diego and Pasadena symphonies; a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Colburn Orchestra; an Austrian recital tour, culminating in a performance at the Musikverein’s Brahms-Saal; and recital and chamber music performances in Los Angeles and Florida. Leone holds a Master of Music degree from the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he continues to study with Fabio Bidini as an Artist Diploma candidate.
Bevan Manson, Piano
Bevan Manson is a musical jack-of-all trades as a classical composer, arranger, and jazz pianist.
He has received composing commissions from Sierra Chamber Music, the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, the Pacific Philharmonic Foundation, the San Francisco Symphony, clarinetist Gary Gray, and L.A. Chamber Orchestra violist Victoria Miskolczy, among others.
His ‘California Concertino’ was premiered by Katherine Fink of the Brooklyn Philharmonic with Paul Dunkel conducting, and also performed by L.A. Chamber Orchestra flutist David Shostac with the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony. It has been recorded on Albany Records with soloist Sara Andon.
He has performed with George Garzone, Cecil McBee, Gunther Schuller, Bob Sheppard, Ron Jones L.A. Big Band, Ira Sullivan, and Jimmy Guiffre, among others, as a jazz pianist, with recordings on Iris Records and Meistero Music.
Bevan has written and conducted string charts for saxophonist Gary Smulyan at New York’s Blue Note jazz club, and wrote string arrangements for Manhattan Transfer singer Cheryl Bentyne’s new Sondheim album, of which JazzTimes Magazine commented that “ a kaleidoscopic, edge-of-sanity Comedy Tonight that, courtesy of arranger Bevan Manson, blends Baroque courtliness with Big Top buffoonery.”
“Manson’s composing is brilliant, inventive, witty but never self-consciously clever.”
-RafaelMusicNotes. com (Cincinnati)
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