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Brian Gilmore,
Piano
 Chamber
musician and accompanist, he performs regularly throughout the tri-state
area. A native of New Jersey, he received Honorable Mention in the
NJMTA Young Artists Competition in 2000, 2001. He has performed
in masterclasses with John Perry, John Steele Ritter, Douglas Humphreys,
Ani and Ida Kafavian, and Sara Davis Buechner and in International
Masterclasses in the Ukraine in 1999, 2001, and 2002. He holds Bachelor’s
and Master’s degrees in piano performance. His major teachers
include Galina Greyserman, Veda Zuponcic, and Amanda Penick. Mr.
Gilmore teaches music at Ocean County College, NJ. He frequently
performs with his wife, flutist Inna Gilmore.
Elizaveta
Kopelman, Piano
 Elizaveta
Kopelman was born in Moscow in 1974. She studied at the Central
School of Music with Dina Parachina and with Arnaldo Cohen at the
Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she won numerous
prizes and awards.
In 1995 Elizaveta
was selected for representation by the Young Concert Artist Trust
in London. She has appeared as a soloist throughout the UK, Europe,
USA and South America including debut recitals and concerti at the
Purcell Room, Harewood House, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Queen
Elizabeth Hall, Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre, Bridgewater
Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall among others. Her chamber
music collaborations include violinists Priya Mitchell, Lucy Gould
and Peter Krysa, violist Jeanne Mallow, cellists David Geber and
Julia Lichten, the Leopold String Trio, Ying Quartet, Jupiter Chamber
Players, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Elizaveta has
appeared at such festivals as the Mozarteum Argentino, Flanders,
Mecklenburgh, Summit and Cratfield where in 2004 she performed Shostakovich's
24 Preludes and Fugues.
At the opening
of the 1999/2000 seasons she performed Mozart's Concerto K.467 at
the Royal Festival Hall with the London Chamber Orchestra.
Other concerto performances include Rachmanninov Paganini Variations
with the London Concert Orchestra and with the Iceland Symphony
Orchestra, Shostakovich Concerto No.2 with the London Philharmonic,
Rachmanninov Concerto No.2 and Beethoven Concertos Nos.4 & 5
with the Norfolk Symphony Orchestra, and the Schumann Concerto with
the Guildford Philharmonic.
In February
2002 Elizaveta performed Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the New
York Chamber Symphony at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
Future engagements include recitals and chamber music appearances
in Rochester, Philadelphia and New York, concert tours in the UK,
Europe, Russia and Ukraine.
Elizaveta has
given live broadcasts for both BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, appeared
on Anglia TV and recorded for the Naxos label. She also performs
regularly with her father, violinist Mikhail Kopelman.
Maria Zheltova,
Piano
Maria Zheltova-concert
pianist.
A native of Moscow, Ms. Zheltova leads an active concert life and
regularly appears in Moscow's top Concert Halls. Other engagements
include performances in Russian Cities, such as Kostroma, Tver,
Lipetsk, Novomoskovsk, Mezen, and abroad in Germany, England, Scotland,
Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.
She is a prizewinner
of the Scriabin International Competition in Moscow (2004) and the
Schubert International Competition in Dortmund, Germany (2003).
Additionally, she is a recipient of a special prize for the best
performance of Scriabin's music at Nikolai Rubinstein All-Russian
Youth Competition, Moscow (2000) and a winner of the Scriabin scholarship,
Moscow (1993).
She has been featured as a performer at the International Festival
of Modern Music in England (1990).
Her solo concerto
debut, at the age of 16, took place in Russian Gnesins Academy of
Music Concert Hall with the Philharmonic Orchestra (V. Ponkin conductor),
where she performed Schumann Piano Concerto op. 54.
Her Debut at the Rachmaninoff Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory
(Wunderkinder Concert Series) occurred the following year.
Ms. Zheltova graduated from the Gnesin Special Music School (T.
Vorobyeva class) and the Gnesin's Russian Academy of Music in Moscow,
graduate and post-graduate degrees (prof. M. Gambaryan class).
Ms. Zheltova
is on the faculty at Gnesin's Russian Academy of Music where she
teaches undergraduate piano.
Elena Karetnikova,
Piano
Elena Karetnikova,
a Russian pianist, lives and works in Moscow. She has been a long
time collaborator with composer Yury Chugunov and premiered all
of his piano compositions. Her diverse musical talent allows her
to be at home in both classical music and jazz. In classical venues
she has been working for many years in a piano duet with her sister
Nadezda Karetnikova concertizing with extensive programs, including
concert cycles of all Symphonic Poems by Liszt (composer’s
transcriptions for two pianos) and Tchaikovsky. They made many recordings
for the Radio archive in Moscow.
The piano duet
performs regularly at the Moscow Autumn Music Festival where
they have premiered numerous works by contemporary Russian composers.
Ms. Karetnikova graduated from Russian Gnesin Academy of Music in
Moscow, studying with A. Yoheles.
Vadim Galushka,
Piano
 Concert
pianist, professor at the Rachmaninoff Institute of Music in Tambov,
Russia.
Mr. Galushka
performs and gives masterclasses extensively throughout Russia,
in cities including Moscow, Tambov, Sochi, and Ufa.
He also has had successful solo appearances and given masterclasses
abroad in Washington DC, New York and Geneva.
He was the First
Prize winner at the National Competition of Young Pianists in Rostov-on-Don,
Russia (1991) and at the National Competition of Young Pianists
in Krasnodar, Russia (1992).
Mr. Galushka
has participated in the All-Russian Music Festival Muzikalnoe Obozrenie
as a concerto soloist in the Poulenc concerto for two pianos (with
V. Anfinogenova). Among his other concerto performances are: Rachmaninoff’s
Second and Third concerti, Liszt’s First concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s
First concerto, with the Tambov Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sochi
Symphony Orchestra where he worked with conductors: M. Knell (Germany),
D. Vasilyev (Russia), A. Mileikovsky (Russia).
In 1997 he was
appointed assistant to professor Viktor Merzhanov and in 2003 became
piano professor, the Head of the piano department and the Dean of
the international students department at the Rachmaninoff Institute
of Music. He is also piano professor at the Rachmaninoff International
Summer School in Tambov, Russia.
In 2006 Mr.
Galushka was awarded PhD in music, with a thesis on Modern approaches
to establishment of the piano technique in higher education.
Vadim Galushka
graduated with honors from the Gnesin’s Russian Music Academy
in Moscow (class Valentina Zvereva and Artur Bernhardt) and completed
a post-graduate degree with professor Vladimir Tropp.
He regularly
appears on Tambov radio and TV programs.
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