Diane Saldick, LLC continues to develop its marketable roster of distinguished instrumental soloists, conductors and ensembles to create successful collaborations with presenting organizations.

Conductor
Robert Franz Music Director of the Boise Philharmonic, Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphony, and Music Director of the Mansfield Symphony, Robert Franz is emerging as one of the most talented conductors of his generation. In Boise, Franz continues to build the orchestra’s composer residency program, which will include award winning composer Jennifer Higdon. He has created partnerships with other leading area arts organizations including Opera Idaho, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Boise Ballet. Franz leads the Peoria and Bangor symphonies as well as Asheville Opera this season.

Conductor
Jorge Mester Music Director of The Pasadena Symphony, Naples Philharmonic and The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester’s recent guest-conducting engagements include Breckenridge’s National Repertory Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival, Tucson Symphony and a return to Mexico City’s Orquesta Filarmónica de la Universidad Autónoma de Mexico and Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México (for its celebratory 30th anniversary concert). He returns to the Buffalo Philharmonic this season for subscription concerts.

Conductor
Robert MoodyThe 09-10 season marks the 5th anniversary of Robert Moody's music directorship of the Winston-Salem Symphony where unprecedented success has been the hallmark of his tenure including the creation of Pops, "Kicked-Back Classics," Discovery, Side-by-Side and Handel's Messiah concert series. Moody is enjoying his second season as Music Director of the Portland Symphony (ME) and continues as Artistic Director of Arizona MusicFest. His guest-conducting engagements this season include the Naples Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony and River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston.

Conductor
Andrew Sewell continues to garner high praise from his two positions as music director with the Wichita Symphony and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, now in his tenth season with both orchestras. In Spring 2009, Sewell spent 2 weeks conducting the Monterey Symphony,(CA). He returned to the Masterworks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana, for his seventh season as a guest conductor in Summer 2009 as well as guest conduct the Peninsula Music Festival (WI). Guest-conducting engagements in 2009-10 include his return to to the Syracuse Symphony for subscription concerts.

Conductor
Peter Rubardt, now in his 12th season as music director of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, guest-conducts the Rogue Valley Symphony (OR), Ballet Pensacola and returns to the Hyogo Arts Center Orchestra (Osaka) in 09-10.

Conductor
Lawrence Leighton Smith, Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Oregon’s Sunriver Festival, guest-conducted at Yale University, Dayton Philharmonic, The Louisville Orchestra and Riverside Philharmonic (CA)last season and served on the Panel of the NEA in Summer 2009. He conducts the Utah Symphony during the Finals of the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in Spring, 2010.

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Piano
Tanya Bannister Upcoming orchestral engagemnts for Tanya Bannister include performances with the Syracuse, Greenwich (CT), Columbus (GA), New Philharmonic (IL) and Northwest Indiana symphonies. Her recital dates include Ravinia's Rising Stars series. Her latest recording, This is the story she began, features solo piano music of living American composers (David Del Tredici, Christopher Theofanidis, Suzanne Farrin and Sheila Silver), and was released on Albany Records in February 2009. Ms. Bannister has completed her 3rd successful year as artistic director for the Alpenkammermusik festival in Austria and continues to expand her chamber music interests. She recently formed a new two-piano/percussion ensemble called Hammer/Klavier with pianist Stephen Buck and percussionists Svet Stoyanov and Eduardo Leandro.

Piano
Eduardus Halim Highlights of Eduardus Halim's 08-09 season was a recital of the Granados complete Goyescas for the Festival of Spanish and Latin American at NYU Steinhardt. His Summer 2009 included performances at the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music and the Newport Music Festival (RI) for a concert, Romantic Sunset, which was showcased as part of the internet live concert streaming. Mr. Halim's 09-10 season includes a return engagement with the Allentown Symphony(PA) and a recital and master class at California State University Sacramento.

Piano
This season, Yu Kosuge appears with State Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kaspszyk, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Michael Hofstetter, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symohony Orchestra/Eliahu Inbal, and returns to perform with NDR Hannover Orchestra/Eiji Oue, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra/Tatsuya Shimono among the others. Ms. Kosuge perform solo recitals throughout Japan and Europe, including her debut at Tokyo's Suntory Hall, as well as the chamber music with Jacques Zoon, Radek Baborak, and Daishin Kashimoto. Her new CD, Mendelssohn's first piano concerto with Mito Chamber Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa and selections from Songs Without Words were released by SONY in September 2009.

Piano
John O'Conor's Summer 2009 included the Aspen Festival where he played Beethoven's Third Concerto with Kirill Karabits and solo recitals. In 2009-10 he performs in the UK, Iceland, Europe, Korea and Japan. In North America he gives recitals in Cleveland, Toronto, Philadelphia, Columbus and Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA and performs as soloist with the Modesto Symphony. His recent recording of the complete Beethoven Concertos with the London Symphony (Andreas Delfs conducting) continues to receive great acclaim.

Piano
Upcoming orchestral engagements forAntonio Pompa-Baldi include performances with the North Carolina Symphony, Asheville Symphony, Orchestra di Toscana (Italy), Firelands (OH) Symphony and the newly formed Heartland Festival Orchestra of Peoria. Recital engagements include Belbroughton (England), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Fort Worth, TX and Peoria, IL. Mr. Pompa-Baldi recently recorded the entire piano output of Edward Grieg in 11 CDs.

Piano
American pianist Bryan Wallick makes his debut with the Boise Philharmonic (Tchaikovsky 1), the Johannesburg Philharmonic (Brahms 2), and the Durban Philharmonic (Brahms 1). He also makes return appearances with the Winston-Salem Symphony (Gershwin Concerto) and the Arizona Musicfest (Prokofiev 3), and will perform recitals throughout South Africa.

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Violin
Highlights of Lindsay Deutsch's 2009/2010 season include performances with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, Newport Symphony (OR), Classics 4 Kids Philharmonic, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, New West Symphony, and return appearances at the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series and with Orchestra Nova (San Diego) where she has been named Principal Guest Artist for the next four seasons. She has also co-founded a non profit organization (Classics Alive) whose mission it is to inspire American youth about classical music.

Violin
Ilya Kaler's Detroit Symphony performance at Meadowbrook in Summer 2009 is followed by concerto engagements with the Louisville Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony and Ann Arbor Symphony. He also tours with the World Orchestra for Peace run by the Solti Foundation in London and conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Violin
Rachel Barton Pine’s September 2009 release on Cedille Records, Trio Settecento: A German Bouquet, explores German Baroque sonatas. Season highlights include Japan and New York City recital debuts, as well as performances with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic (her Finland debut) and the Vancouver, Sacramento and Syracuse symphonies. Pine is the first woman and living composer to be published in Carl Fischer’s Masters Collection series, and she is Music Advisor and Editor of Maud Powell Favorites, the first and only published compilation of music closely associated with Powell.

Violin
Alexander Sitkovetsky made his debuts with California’s Monterey Symphony and in Europe with the Netherlands Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in Spring 2009 performing the Elgar Concerto. In 09/10 Sitkovetskey returns to the Concertgebouw and in London he will appear at the Barbican and will broadcast with the BBC concert orchestra, in addition to numerous concerts throughout the world including Germany, Japan and Russia. He has recently recorded the Mendelssohn Double Concerto for Orfeo with Dinorah Varsi and the Bach Double Concerto with Julia Fischer on the Decca label.

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Violin
Livia Sohn's 2009-2010 season includes repertoire ranging from Bruch Concerto (Green Bay Symphony) to Ned Rorem Concerto (Boca Sinfonia) to Jiyeh (Symphony Orchestra of Asturias in Spain), a concerto written for her by Jonathan Berger. Ms. Sohn will also be seen in recital in Vancouver and Madrid this season. A recording of the Britten Concerto is planned for this year.

Viola
Paul Neubauer musical endeavors are consistently creative this season with performances as soloist in the world premiere of Rinehold Glière’s Two Concert Pieces for viola and string orchestra with Camerata Ireland, as recitalist in such venues as the National Gallery, as a chamber musician in the United States and Europe with the Emerson Quartet, as Music Director of the OK Mozart Festival, as collaborator with violinist Mark O’Connor, as well as performances with the Iranian Kurdish tenor, Shahram Nazeri.

Cello
In 2009, Wendy Warner’s premiered a Beethoven Trio with violinist Sangmee Lee and pianist George Lepauw in Chicago, IL. Their recording of other unknown Beethoven trios is released this season by Cedille Records. Ms. Warner's recordings of Popper, Piatigorsky, Rachmaninoff and Miaskovsky sonatas is also released this season by Cedille. She debuted with the Capetown Philharmonic Orchestra in Spring 2009. Her concerto appearances this season include the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Cape Cod Symphony, Evanston Symphony, Valdosta Symphony (GA) and the Santa Fe Concert Association performing the Barber Concerto with members of the New Mexico and Santa Fe symphonies.

Clarinet
Charles Neidich has begun a series of seminars in China, giving classes at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an and working with the China Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is continuing the music seminar he began with his wife, Ayako Oshima, in Kita Karuizawa, Japan and will give a series of lecture concerts on new music and period instruments. Mr. Neidich continues to perform his reconstructions of the original basset clarinet version of the Mozart Concerto, the original version of the Copland Concerto and Elliott Carter’s Concerto in the US, Europe, Japan, and China. He continues to conduct the Queens College Chamber Orchestra in historically informed performances of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, and 20th and 21st century classics.

Flute
In addition to her concerto and chamber music engagements, Carol Wincenc celebrates her 40th anniversary on the concert stage in the 2009-2010 season with a four-concert series at venues across New York City. The Carol Wincenc Ruby Anniversary Series feature six world premieres; new works written for Carol Wincenc and the anniversary celebration by composers Jonathan Berger, Shih-Hui Chen, Andrea Clearfield, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, and Joan Tower. The programs, including one by the trio Les Amies (Carol Wincenc, Cynthia Phelps, and Nancy Allen), will also feature additional works written for Ms. Wincenc over her career.

Native American Flute
R. Carlos Nakai, the premier Native American flutist, brings a unique artistry to performances in the symphonic and chamber music traditions. The melding of Native American flute with European classical music requires an artistry that understands two disparate musical traditions while mastering the technical demands of both.

Mr. Nakai has brought the native American flute to the concert hall since 1993, with the premiere of the Two World Concerto by James DeMars. In August , 2009, he premiered the A Bec Quintet, written by Chicasaw composer, Jerod Tate, at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. This season, he performs with the Redlands Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil del Estado de Veracruz (Xalapa, Mexico) and the Orchestra of Indian Hill (MA).

Guitar
Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic continues to captivate audiences around the world with her global touring this season throughout South America and the Far East. Ms. Vidovic's recital schedule in the USA takes her to Portland (OR), Pasadena, Pensacola, Austin, Erie, Baltimore and the 92nd St. Y in NYC; and she performs with the Asheville Symphony.

Ensemble
The Cassatt String Quartet's 09-10 season appearances are scheduled at Symphony Space (New York City), Centro National de las Artes in Mexico City, University of Texas at Austin, Vassar College, Cornell and Syracuse universities, The Cosmos Club in Washington D.C. with composer/pianist Joan Tower, Music Mountain Festival, CT. where they will offer an amateur chamber music workshop, and a return to their residencies, Cassatt In The Basin! in Odessa, Texas and the Seal Bay Festival in Maine. Their new DVD comes out on YouTube and new recordings are scheduled for composer Libby Larsen. In Fall 2009, the quartet releases two CD’s on the Naxos Label of music by Dan Welcher and Andy Tierstien.

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