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MASSAPEQUA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SOLOISTS

KORBINIAN ALTENBERGER *

VIOLINIST KORBINIAN ALTENBERGER, a native of Munich, Germany, started Suzuki violin at age 4, and at age 11 entered the pre-college progam at the Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria. Later, he studied at the Musikhochschule Koln where his principal teacher was Charles-Andre Linale. He made his debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in 1994, and was a participant in the Munich Philharmonic's Youth Concert series in Germany and in Japan for two years. In 2006-2007, Mr. Altenberger was an Artist-in-Residence at the State Orchestra of Eisenach, Germany, where he was a soloist in twelve concerts, and in August 2007, he served as concertmaster of Cologne's WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Semyon Bychkov. At the age of 22, he served as concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Mariss Jansons. Mr. Altenberger has won several prizes and competitions including the special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned piece in Munich’s 2005 ARD Music Competition, First Prize and the Audience Choice award from Munich's Jacob Stainer Competition, First Prize from Italy's Andrea Postacchini International Competition, among many others. Mr. Altenberger, a winner of the 2005 Astral Artists National Auditions, studied at the New England Conservatory(NEC) of Music with Donald Weilerstein where he received both a graduate diploma and an Artist Diploma. While at NEC he won their Mozart Competition. In 2007, he enrolled at the Thorton School of Music at the University of Southern California where he continues his studies with famed violinist Midori. Recently he recorded Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra for Germany's Bella Musica label.
*Astral Artists, Management/Photo by Susan Wilson

ORION WEISS*

PIANIST ORION WEISS, a native of Lyndhurst, Ohio, started piano at age 3 with the Suzuki Method. One of his important teachers was Paul Schenly of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Weiss won the 2005 William Petschek Award at Juilliard and made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in April 2005. He was awarded a 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant and is a winner of both the Gina Bachauer Scholarship (2002, 2003) at the Juilliard School and the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship competitions. In 1999, he received the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award, granted to promising young American pianists. During the 2005-06 season, Mr. Weiss made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and then returned to the Philharmonic later in the season for performances at Disney Hall with Christoph von Dohnanyi. He also performed with the symphony orchestras of Houston, Phoenix, Rochester, Memphis, Annapolis, Louisville, and Omaha. Mr. Weiss was featured in both the 2004 Musical America and the March 2004 Symphony Magazine as part of the next generation of great artists in classical music. In 1998 he performed Dvorak’s Piano Quintet with Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. In March 1999, with less than 24 hours notice, Mr. Weiss replaced Andre Watts as a soloist, performing the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He was immediately invited to return to perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto in October 1999. Also in 1999, Mr. Weiss made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, playing the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1. He was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 2002-2004. During the summers, Mr. Weiss had been a participant at the Perlman Music Program both in Long Island and in Israel. Mr. Weiss recently graduated from the Juilliard School and continues to study with Emanuel Ax.
*IMG Artists, Concert Management/Piano by Steinway

VIOLINIST ANNA LEE, now 13 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.