Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein was First Prize winner of the 2001 Carl Nielsen International
Clarinet Competition, and the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He has soloed with the Vienna Chamber
Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Lincoln Center, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra, among others. In recital, Mr. Fiterstein
has appeared on the "Music at the Supreme Court" Series, at the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y,
Carnegie's Weill Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Louvre in Paris.
Mr. Fiterstein was recently chosen as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society II for the seasons
2004-2006. He has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival since 2001, and toured with Musicians from Marlboro. He has performed
chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Richard Goode, and Emanuel Ax among others. He was born in Minsk, immigrated with his family to
Israel, and later came to study at the Juilliard School. His teachers include Charles Neidich and Eli Heifetz.
Cellist Amit Peled was born and raised on Kibbutz Yizreel in Israel. After winning the
first prize at the 1998 François Shapira competition, the most prestigious award for classical music
in Israel, he embarked on an international career.
Mr. Peled has been featured guest artist in some of the world’s major concert halls such as: Wigmore
Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Salle Gaveau, Konzerthaus Berlin and Tel Aviv’s Man Auditorium.
He has collaborated with the European Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the String Orchestra of the Rockies, and the Cape Symphony.
Mr. Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore in September 2003, becoming one of the
youngest cello professors in the United States. Mr. Peled is playing an Andrea Guarneri cello ca. 1689.
In recent seasons, pianist Alon Goldstein has played with the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston and St.
Louis Symphony orchestras under such conductors as Raphael Fruebeck de Burgos and Peter Oundjian. His repertoire stretches from Mozart’s
Piano Concerto K. 413 which he performed at the prestigious Gilmore Festival conducted by Leon Fleisher, to the rarely heard Tchaikovsky
Second Piano Concerto which he performed with the Kansas City Symphony. Other recent highlights include a New York recital at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto.
Born in Israel, Mr. Goldstein began his piano studies at the age of seven. He graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music at the Tel-Aviv University. A ten-time winner
of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships, Mr. Goldstein went on to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
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Biography
Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein was First Prize winner of the 2001 Carl Nielsen International
Clarinet Competition, and the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He has soloed with the Vienna Chamber
Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Lincoln Center, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra, among others. In recital, Mr. Fiterstein
has appeared on the "Music at the Supreme Court" Series, at the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y,
Carnegie's Weill Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Louvre in Paris.
Mr. Fiterstein was recently chosen as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society II for the seasons
2004-2006. He has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival since 2001, and toured with Musicians from Marlboro. He has performed
chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Richard Goode, and Emanuel Ax among others. He was born in Minsk, immigrated with his family to
Israel, and later came to study at the Juilliard School. His teachers include Charles Neidich and Eli Heifetz.
Cellist Amit Peled was born and raised on Kibbutz Yizreel in Israel. After winning the
first prize at the 1998 François Shapira competition, the most prestigious award for classical music
in Israel, he embarked on an international career.
Mr. Peled has been featured guest artist in some of the world’s major concert halls such as: Wigmore
Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Salle Gaveau, Konzerthaus Berlin and Tel Aviv’s Man Auditorium.
He has collaborated with the European Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the String Orchestra of the Rockies, and the Cape Symphony.
Mr. Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore in September 2003, becoming one of the
youngest cello professors in the United States. Mr. Peled is playing an Andrea Guarneri cello ca. 1689.
In recent seasons, pianist Alon Goldstein has played with the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston and St.
Louis Symphony orchestras under such conductors as Raphael Fruebeck de Burgos and Peter Oundjian. His repertoire stretches from Mozart’s
Piano Concerto K. 413 which he performed at the prestigious Gilmore Festival conducted by Leon Fleisher, to the rarely heard Tchaikovsky
Second Piano Concerto which he performed with the Kansas City Symphony. Other recent highlights include a New York recital at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto.
Born in Israel, Mr. Goldstein began his piano studies at the age of seven. He graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music at the Tel-Aviv University. A ten-time winner
of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships, Mr. Goldstein went on to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.