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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:red;background:white'>Chagrin Valley Concert Series Hosts Free
“Chamber Music Extravaganza” on April 18<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><i><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;color:red;background:white'>World-renowned musicians join forces for
Cesar Franck’s monumental Piano Quintet in F minor <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
background:white'>The Chagrin Valley Chamber Music Concert Series welcomes
internationally acclaimed musicians to the stage for a free “Chamber Music
Extravaganza” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 18 at Valley Lutheran Church (87
East Orange Street, Chagrin Falls). Award-winning violinists Hristo Popov and
Andrew Sords will perform virtuoso works for two violins before joining forces
with violist Aaron Conitz, cellist Michael Gelfand, and pianist Eriko Izumida
for the monumental Piano Quintet in F minor by Cesar Franck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
background:white'>Hristo Popov, violinist and artistic director of the Concert
Series, made his orchestral debut at the age of nine and has since performed in
major halls throughout the United States, Europe, and Mexico. He began his
musical studies at a school for gifted children in Bulgaria, and completed his
bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. at Oberlin College, Kent State University, and
the University of Kentucky, respectively. His distinguished awards include
prizewinner at the Kozian International Violin Competition, Silver Medalist at
the California Young Artist Competition, grand prize winner at the
International Institute of Music (Germany and USA), and first place at the
American String Teacher’s Association Chamber Music Competition. In April
of 2009, he was selected as Artist of the Month by the Obama for Arts and
Entertainment Organization. Dr. Popov teaches at both Youngstown State University
and Western Reserve Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
background:white'>A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, violinist
Andrew Sords received international exposure in 2008 as the top <i>Google </i>classical
news story and a Top-40 classical recording artist. He is the winner of the
2005 National Shirley Valentin Violin Award, the 2004 and 2005 National
Federation of Music Clubs Competition, the Fortnightly Music Club of Cleveland,
and the Festival de la Orquesta Sinfonica de las Americas Competition of the
Casals Festival. Noted performances include a recent tour of the </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven
concerti, the<span style='background:white'> Brahms Violin Concerto and Bowling
Green Symphony with David Dettloff, the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Maestro Luis
Biava conducting at the Plaza de las Americas in San Juan, Chausson’s <i>Poeme
</i>and the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Anna Balakerskaia in Holland,
Sarasate’s <i>Zigeurerweisen </i>in the Interlochen Honors Recital
Series, and a live broadcast of music innovator George Crumb’s <i>Black
Angels</i> on Cleveland’s WCLV radio 104.9. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
background:white'>Aaron Conitz is an active orchestral performer and chamber
musician who serves as section violist for the Canton Symphony Orchestra. His
performances include the Aspen Music Festival’s Chamber Symphony and
Chamber Orchestra where he received a two-year fellowship, the Cervo
International Summer Music Academy, the <i>SecondCity</i> Chamber series, and
the Intensive String Quartet seminar at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In
2007, he was invited to study with </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jean
Sulem at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, and is
currently studying with Robert Vernon at the Cleveland Institute of Music. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cellist Michael Gelfand received his Bachelor of Music
at Indiana University and a Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music
in cello and conducting. He pursued doctoral studies in conducting at the
Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the Pierre Monteux School for
Advanced Conductors. Since 1975, he has been Professor of Music at Youngstown
State University and Principal Cellist of the Youngstown Symphony and Warren
Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
since 1990. A former member of the Cleveland Orchestra, he was awarded the
Distinguished Professor of Music Award at Youngstown State University in 1984
and was named Music Director/Conductor of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra in
2002. . Mr. Gelfand also performs as a member of the <i>Amici Trio </i>in
residence at Youngstown State University. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Eriko Izumida has been an active piano soloist,
collaborator, chamber musician. She has performed extensively throughout the
United States and Asia, teaches private piano lessons, and is on the piano
faculty of Baldwin Wallace Collage Preparatory/Adult Education Department where
she also serves as staff accompanist at BW Conservatory. A native of Japan, she
began studying piano at the age of three. Her teachers include Graeme Humphrey
at the Royal Academy of Music in London as well as Dr. Thomas Hecht at the
Cleveland Institute of Music where she holds both a Bachelor of Music and a
Master of Music in piano performance. <b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;background:white'>“It is an honor to showcase so
many talented, renowned musicians at the final concert of our 2009-10
season,” notes Hristo Popov, artistic director for the Concert Series.
“This is sure to be a spectacular chamber performance and, quite
literally, music to our audience’s ears.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black;background:white'>For additional information, visit </span><a
href="http://www.chagrinmusic.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;background:
white'>www.chagrinmusic.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
background:white'> or call 440-247-0390. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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