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Due to unpredictable circumstances we will sadly have to cancel the May 7 concert this year. We have had 6 wonderful concerts this year and that is about what we promised at the beginning of the season. See you next season! Charlotte White Our final concert of this season will take place on May, 7, 2007 at 7 P.M. and will be held at the lovely apartment of Mr.& Mrs. Bryden at the Des Artistes Apts. at 1 W. 67 St. Since the Indian Consulate is unfortunately not available this May, since they are housing and entertaining a large Mission from India which will take up most of the month of May, we will have to wait for next season to find a suitable date that will be possible for both the Consulate and the Salon. We will be presenting a most remarkable Indian-American Saxophonist, ASHU, with a varied program of Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Piziola Tangos and more unusual works for the saxophone. A Reception will follow the concert.

On Tuesday, April 17, 2007. we were delighted to present two superb artists, VIRGINIA LUQUE, noted student of the legendary Guitarist, Segovia, and the brilliant Pianist, ALESSIO BAX, recent winner of the prestigious LEEDS Competition in a delightful program called "WITH STRINGS ATTACHED". This was held at Steinway Hall. It followed by a Dessert and Wine Reception.
	Virginia Luque

	Alessio Bax

On Thursday, March 22, 2007, we again presented our " Hungarian Fantasy" at the beautiful Hungarian Consulate 227 East 52nd St. We presented the young Hungarian Protégé of Itzhak Perlman, ERNO KALLAI in an exciting Springtime program of virtuosic masterpieces for the violin. It was followed by a charming reception.

On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 we held our yearly concert at the glamorous Polish Consulate, 233 Madison Avenue. We presented the internationally well known 19 year old Polish-American pianist, ADAM GOLKA and young Violinist, BELLA HRISTOVA, first Prize winner of the International Enesco competition in Romania. A delightful Polish Buffet-Reception followed the recital.
	Bella Hristova

	Adam Golka

On January 23, 2007 we opened the new year with an outstanding event presented at the elegant residence of Ambassador and Mrs. Sakurai of Japan, featuring a former Van Cliburn winning pianist , JON NAKAMTSU We also presented the fine young FLUTE QUARTET composed of: RIRIKO OKADA, flute; AYUMI TAKESHIMA, Violin; CHI CHI BESTMAN, Viola; YVES DHARAMRAJ, Cello. They played the beautiful Mozart Flute Quartet in D Major K285. This was followed by a Japanese style Buffet-Reception.
	Chi Chi Bestman	Jon Nakamtsu

Ayumi Takeshima	Ririko Okada	Yves Dharamraj

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
For those concert goers who could not attend our opening this season at Steinway Hall, and for those who wanted to hear it again. There was Good News! Bob Sherman aired the program on WXQR, Wednesday January 3rd at 9 pm.

On December 13, 2006 the Salon again presented an exciting Holiday Recital at the beautiful residence of Mr.& Mrs. Lewis Bryden at their Des Artistes Duplex Apartment at 1 West 67 Street NYC. We presented the young outstanding pianist, ANG LI. We also presented the phenomenal Chinese Bamboo flutist, CHEN TAO The performance was followed by a festive Buffet.
	Chen Tao	Ang Li

On October 17, 2006 the Salon De Virtuosi opened their seventeenth season with a GALA AWARDS CONCERT held at Steinway Hall. On this very special occasion Five Career Grants of $5000 each were presented to the five most deserving talents who performed for the "Salon" during our 2005-2006 season. The winners were: Kyung-Jun Kim, Young Korean violinist;...Mihai Marica, Rumanian cellist, protégé of renowned Aldo Parisot; Chen Reiss, Israeli Soprano, who often co-appears with Zubin Mehta, Yevgeny Kutik, Young Russian Violinist; and Amit Peled, Israeli Cellist. A festive Buffet-Supper Reception followed the concert.

OUR PAST 2005-2006 CONCERT SEASON:

On May 15, 2006, we presented our closing concert of the season at the elegant Indian Consulate at 3 East 64 St, at 7 PM. called" Sounds of the East and Sounds of the West" where representing the WEST we presented the fabulous Marimba artist, NAKURA MAKATO, and for the EAST we presented SADHANA PARANJI a Baratnayam dancer and the wonderful Sitarist ANUPAMA BHAGWAT with NITIN MITTA on the Tabla. This was followed by the usual wonderful INDIAN BUFFET SUPPER RECEPTION."

On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, we presented an event, "SHALOM ISRAEL", at Steinway Hall. At that time we also presented the renowned Israeli Soprano, CHEN REISS, a favorite artist of ZUBIN MEHTA and the brilliant Israeli cellist, AMIT PELED. It was followed by an elegant Buffet-Reception

On March 27, 2006, we presented our popular "HUNGARIAN FANTASY" at the lovely Hungarian Consulate on E. 52nd St., featuring the recent prize winning young Hungarian Flutist, DORA SERES and MIHAI MARICA, noted cellist, protégée of ALDO PARISOT. This was followed by the usual elegant Buffet Supper Reception."

On March 2, 2006 we were delighted to present the famous JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET and PHILIPPE QUINT, violinist, a former Salon De Virtuosi grant winner. They were our guest artists for our important BENEFIT for the support of our FELLOWSHIP FUND. It took place at the glamorous SONY CLUB, the penthouse atop of the Sony Building, and included a lavish sit down dinner for our guests. We had a full house for an extraordinarily successful concert!

On January 26, 2006.at 7:30 we were delighted to present a special event. . . a concert sponsored by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA...and co-presented by Salon De Virtuosi and the Sejong Soloists. It took place at the exciting and new TIME WARNER BUILDING at Columbus Circle at the "SAMSUNG EXPERIENCE" Featured was a young prodigy, KYUNG-JUN KIM, violinist with WONMIN KIM at the piano.

On Wednesday January 4th, Bob Sherman repeated on WQXR our October Gala Opening Concert where five exciting young musicians played and were awarded Career Grants. They were fabulous performers. On Wednesday January 11th, Bob Sherman repeated excerpts from that October Gala Opening Concert

On December 15, 2005 we once again presented our holiday concert at the lovely duplex Des Artistes Apartment of our members, Elizabeth and Lewis Bryden. we featured the brilliant pianist, ELIZABETH JOY ROE and young oboist, YOON JOO LEE , protégée of JOSEPH ROBINSON, First chair Oboist of the N.Y. PHILHARMONIC." An elegant Buffet-Reception followed.

There was a concert at the Polish Consulate on November 17th. We featured the remarkable award winning violinist YEVGENY KUTIK and ILYA ITIN, Pianist and winner of the prestigious LEEDS COMPETITION in a varied program including Wieniawski and other Polish composers. The concert was followed by an elegant Buffet-Reception
	Yevgenky Kutik

We opened our 2005-2006 Season on October 18th 2005 with our traditional "GALA 2005 AWARDS" event held at STEINWAY HALL where we once again award the year's most outstanding artists with our generous Fellowship and Career Grants. Winners AMY and RAY IWAZUMI, brother & sister duo violinists played as did our other winners ANDREA LAM, Australian Pianist; MARK KOSOWER, cellist protégée of JANOS STARKER; PABLO SAINZ VILLEGAS, Spanish Classical Guitarist, and TENGSTRAND-SUN, two piano team. The concert was followed by a delightful Buffet Reception
			Charlotte, Amy & Ray Iwazuml and parents

PabloSainz Villegas	Charlotte, Andrea Lam and Parents	Mark Kosower	Charlotte, Bob Sherman and Mrs Sherman

OUR PAST 2004-2005 CONCERTS SEASON:

On May 10, 2005, at 7 PM. we presented our final concert of the season: "SOUNDS OF THE EAST AND SOUNDS OF THE WEST" at the beautiful Indian Consulate, 3 East 64th St. (the former Astor Mansion.) The artists featured were STEVE GORN, Bansoori artist (Indian Bamboo Flute), who has just performed the background music for the prize winning film ,"Born Into Brothels", representing the EAST and PABLO SAINZ VILLEGAS, classical guitarist , who very recently received a standing ovation at the Metropolitan Museum concerts, representing the WEST. The concert ended with beautiful presentation by SONALI SKANDAN, a dancer of the Bharatanatyam tradition. An Indian Buffet Reception followed the concert.		Steve Gorn	Pablo Sainz Villegas

On March 7, 2005 our concert was held at the glamorous Polish Consulate presenting a recent First Prize winner of the QUEEN ELIZABETH COMPETITION from Belgium, violinist BAIBA SKRIDE accompanied by her sister LAUMA SKRIDE, and winner of many other prestigious competitions as well. They presented an exciting program. The concert was followed by a Buffet Dinner-Reception.

On February 14, 2005, Valentines Day, we presented an International Concert featuring the husband-wife Two Piano team of PER TENGSTRAND and SHAN-SHAN SUN as well as introducing one of the first electronic instruments, the *Theremin* played by PAMELIA KIERSTIN accompanied by DELIT WARSAW, Israeli artist-composer. ALEXANDER BEDENKO added his excitingly virtuosic clarinet performance to our interesting Valentine celebration. This took place at Steinway Hall at 7 PM. and was followed by a Valentine Sweet Dessert Reception.
	Alexander Bedenko	Pamelia Kierstin

On January 18th, 2005, we had the great pleasure of presenting a special New Year concert at the beautiful residence of Ambassador and Mrs. Ando of Japan. The featured artists were the remarkable violinists, brother and sister team of AMY and RAY IWAZUMI. We also presented the excellent koto artist MASAYO ISHIGURA. A lovely reception followed the concert.
	Amy & Ray Iwazuma	Masayo Ishigura

On Wednesday January 5th at 9pm Bob Sherman replayed on WQXR our October 19th concert (link there) where we introduced our Grant Winners. It was a great opportunity to hear again such talented artists.

There was a concert for Benefactors and Patrons on December 15th, 2004. It took take place at the lovely residence of Lewis and Elizabeth Bryden at the Des Artistes Apartments on West 67th Street. We were presented to the brilliant young pianist ANDREA LAM on this occasion. A lovely Reception followed

On November 18, 2004, we presented a delightful program at the beautiful Hungarian Consulate, featuring the 15 year old violinist, ERIC SILBERGER and MARK KOSOVER, Cellist and protégé of the renowned JANOS STARKER. We also presented SANDOR KUTI, one of Hungary's outstanding Cimbalom artists, who performed romantic folk music, which inspired many great composers including Franz Liszt and his Hungarian Rhapsodies! This was followed by a Hungarian Buffet Supper Reception.
	Eric Silberger	Mark Kosover

October 19. 2004, marked our 15th Anniversary, and at that time we opened our series with our traditional "GALA 2004 AWARDS OPENING" at Steinway Hall, where once again we celebrated by awarding SIX FELLOWSHIP GRANTS from $3000 to $5000. each. The following artists received these prestigious Grants: ARNAUD SUSSMAN, young violin protégé of Itzhak Perlman, JESUS CASTRO BALBI, cellist and student of Aldo Parisot, ALEXANDER FITERSTEIN, clarinetist, ALON GOLDSTEIN, pianist, KENNEITHIA MITCHELL, soprano, and JAMES LENT, pianist. (Since we have inaugurated our Fellowship Program in 1995 we have endowed a wonderful group of young talents with $178,000 in Grants including the Grants to be awarded on Oct. 19, 2004.)

The winning artists performed and the concert was followed by a festive Buffet Supper Reception.

Support for Fellowship Grants for the 2003-2004 Season was generously been provided by
BARBARA BROOKS
the HORACE W. GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION;
the SONY USA-FOUNDATION; MARGALIT MEIDER;
MONIQUE SCHOEN-WARSHAW;
the VALERIE BETH SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION;
the ZIPKIN FOUNDATION and ALICE STRAUS

ABOUT US:
The Salon De Virtuosi Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit society dedicated to the discovery and support of extraordinarily gifted international emerging musicians.

We have, since 1985, when we established our fellowship program, awarded $230,000 in grants to amazingly talented young artists, many of whom who have achieved international success. The list of grant winners can be seen by following the link on the left.

HONORARY MEMBERS

EMANUEL AX	PATRICE MUNSEL
DEAN BLOCKER, Yale University	ALDO PARISOT
VAN CLIBURN	ITZHAK PERLMAN
VLADIMIR FELTSMAN	ROBERT SHERMAN
PETER GOODRICH	JANOS STARKER
GARY GRAFFMAN	TOKYO STRING QUARTET
KURT MASUR	DOROTHY DE LAY (dec)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (dec)	ROSALYN TURECK

Founded in March 1989 by the concert pianist, Charlotte White a former student of the legendary Josef Lhevinne, the Salon De Virtuosi has been presenting an outstanding array of superb artists in a series of six concerts each year. They are held at elegant and intimate venues that recall the old world salon, such as Steinway Hall, the Indian, Polish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Canadian and British Consulates as well as prestigious clubs, such as the Sony Club, the Lotos Club and Caspary Hall at Rockefeller University.

INTERNATIONAL HONORARY MEMBERS

AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION

AMBASSADOR & MRS. LAZLO MOLNAR - of HUNGARY

AMBASSADOR RATH – of INDIA

AMBASSADOR & MRS. NISHIDA - of JAPAN

CONSUL GENERAL & Mrs. RICHARD DUQUE - of FRANCE

CONSUL GENERAL GABOR HORVATH - of HUNGARY

AMBASSADOR GREGG - of KOREA SOCIETY

TEATRO GRATTACIELO OPERA COMPANY

THE FELICIA BLUMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL in TEL AVIV

CONSUL GEN. & LADY HARRIS of GRT. BRITAIN

CONSUL GEN. & MRS. ALON PINKAS of ISRAEL

On this our 14th season we continue to emphasize the INTERNATIONAL theme by presenting the most promising emerging talents from different lands who perform the great works of classical and contemporary masterpieces. We also introduce ethnic instruments and music to which western audiences have had limited exposure. This is followed by an ethnic buffet-dinner reception where the social exchange between artists and members creates an unusually stimulating experience and an immersion into new cultures and worlds.

Our outstanding members and guests, who are a sophisticated group of music lovers, give just the kind of support that every artist needs…encouragement. a sympathetic and discerning ear, plus the enthusiasm for the task of finding the future GREATS.

CORPORATE SPONSORS

SCHNURMACHER FOUNDATION	FUJI BANK & TRUST
DAVID J. GREENE, INC.	ICM ARTISTS, LTD
N. Y. TIMES FOUNDATION	NIPPON STEEL-USA
SONY-USA FOUNDATION INC.	STEINWAY & SONS, INC
ZIPKIN FOUNDATION	GAIL DAITCH
BERNARD & IDA SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION	VALERIE B. SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION
HORACE W. GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION

11/06/2008