Artists - Maryville University

Artists
Carillons Piano Duet Alia
Voskoboynikova and Alexander Tentser
both come to the U.S. from Russia. Alia
Voskoboynikova has held the position of
Director of Keyboard Studies at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis since 2004.
She extensively performs and collaborates
with local musicians and regularly accompa
nies and coaches for the Union Avenue
Opera Company as well as Webster
University in St. Louis. Before moving to
the United States in 1996, Alia
Voskoboynikova was a pianist and vocal
coach at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater
in Ukraine. She received her Bachelors Degree in Piano Performance from the
Music College in Voronezh, Russia and her Master's Degree in Piano
Performance from the Gnessins Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia. Her
teachers were Oleg Milman and Una Bulatova (student of Elena Gnessina and
Henry Neihaus). Alia was an accompanist in the Tchaikovsky Competition in
1996 and has performed numerous solo recitals along with chamber music in sev
eral European countries. Since moving to the United States, Alia has collabo
rated with several members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, performing
chamber music. In 1998, she performed at Carnegie Recital Hall with flautist
Brenda Hagni and in 2002, Alia performed Rachmaninov's second concerto with
the Webster University Symphony Orchestra. In February 2004, Alia was the
Russian coach for the St. Louis Symphony performance of Sergei Prokofjev's
Alexander Nevsky and coached the St. Louis Symphony Chorus for the perform
ance of Sergei Rachmaninov's Vespers in November 2006. In past years, Alia has
organized a series of chamber music recitals, the latest of which commemorated
Dmitri Shostakovich's 100th Anniversary.
Alexander Tentser began studying piano at the age of four with his father
in Kiev, Ukraine. He was quickly accepted at the Ukraine State School for Gifted
Children sponsored by the Kiev Conservatory. After a highly acclaimed perform
ance of the Grieg's Piano Concerto at the age of twelve, he was recommended for
studies at the Gnessin Music College in Moscow, Russia, the oldest music college
in the country. He continued his piano education at the Russian Music Academy
with Professor Theodore Gutmann, who, as a student of Henry Neuhaus, contin
ued the celebrated Russian piano tradition producing a number of wonderful
pianists working all around the globe. After his arrival to the United States in
1990, Alexander was immediately engaged as a pianist with the New York
Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova to perform John Corigliano's Violin
Sonata at Merkin Hall, SUNY at Purchase, NY, and the New York University. In
1991 he was offered a full scholarship for doctoral studies at the University of
Arizona with Professor Nohema Fernandez. He became a winner of the
President's Concerto Competition and as a result of this, he was engaged to
appear with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Concerto #4 in
1993-1994 concert season. Since then, he was invited back as a guest soloist in
1998, and 2003. Alexander and his wife Anna performed as a violin and piano
duo in the Dame Myra Hess Music Series in Chicago and they also frequently
appeared with the Daystar Chamber Ensemble, performing piano trios, quartets,
and quintets with the Tucson musicians.
In 1997 Alexander became a Music Faculty member at Pima Community
College in Tucson, Arizona. His students performed very successfully at different
venues, and several of them became winners of the Tucson Symphony and the
Sierra Vista Symphony Concerto Competitions.
Alexander Tentser's recent solo piano appearances included: Mozart's Piano
Concerto in A Major #23 with Lake Placid Sinfonietta in New York, piano
recitals in St.Andrew's Bach Society and St. Philips Music Series in Tucson,
Arizona.
A versatile pianist, Peter Henderson is active
as a performer in orchestral, chamber, and solo set
tings. Since fall 2005, Dr. Henderson has served as
Assistant Professor of Music at Maryville University.
He performs frequently as an ensemble keyboardist
with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and made his
first appearance as a subscription-concert soloist with
the SLSO in January 2008. Over the past five sea
sons, he has often given Pre-Concert Perspectives
from the SLSO's Powell Hall stage prior to subscrip
tion concerts. Dr. Henderson has coached chamber
music at the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop
each summer since 2001, and was an orchestral and
chamber keyboardist with the Sun Valley Summer
Symphony during its 2004 and 2006-2009 seasons. In 2003, he was a winner of
the St. Louis-based Artist Presentation Society's auditions. Dr. Henderson holds
the degree Doctor of Music from Indiana University-Bloomington (having stud
ied piano there with Dr. Karen Shaw); before attending IU, Dr. Henderson stud
ied piano at the University of Idaho with Dr. Jay Mauchley. Dr. Henderson's
ongoing musical partnerships include the St. Louis-based Ilex Piano Trio, featur
ing SLSO musicians Kristin Ahlstrom, violinist, and Anne Fagerburg, cellist.
Dr. Henderson is also an advocate of new music, having given several premieres
of solo piano works during the past several years.
Hailed for their out! standing musicianship, the
Arianna String Quartet
has firmly established itself as
one of America's finest cham
ber ensembles. Formed in
1992, they garnered national
attention by winning the
Grand Prize in the 1994
F i s c h o ff C h a m b e r M u s i c
Competition, and First Prize
in both the Coleman and
Carmel Chamber Music
Competitions. They were
also Laureates in the 1999
Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.
The Arianna String Quartet has appeared throughout North America,
Europe and Asia, including critically acclaimed debuts at Orchestra Hall in
Chicago and Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and have been heard on live nationally broad
cast performances in Osaka, Japan, on Canada's CBC radio, several times as part
of Chicago's prestigious Dame Myra Hess Series, and on National Public Radio's
"Performance Today" program. Highlights for 2011 include concert tours in
Brazil, South Africa and Canada.
The Arianna String Quartet has recorded for Albany Records and Urtext
Digital Classics, and recently signed a long-term contract with Centaur Records
for recordings of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Bartok, Janacek and the
Mozart "Haydn" Quartets.
Katja Georgieff, professor emeritus, serves
as artistic director and participant of the Music at
Maryville concert series. Dr. Georgieff is known to
St. Louis audiences through her performances in
chamber music concerts and duo piano programs,
and as a soloist with the Bach Festival Chamber
Orchestra and the Kammergild Chamber Orchestra.
In 1993 she was invited to participate in the
International Chamber Music Festival in St.
Petersburg, Russia. She received her early training
in Vienna, Austria, graduated with honors from the
Mozarteum in Salzburg and holds a master's degree
and doctorate from Washington University in St.
Louis. After her retirement from Maryville University as Director of Music
Program, Dr Georgieff is actively participating in various musical organizations
in St. Louis and serves on the board of Artist Presentation Society.
— —| Cristian Fatu and Victoria. FatuMartirosyan were presented to St. Louis
audiences by the Artist Presentation Society
in 2012. They have released a CD New
Beginnings on Tzigane music label featuring
music of Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Debussy, and
Bartok. Cristian Fatu is recognized as one
of today's most exciting young violinists,
praised for his virtuosity, technique and
bright artistry. He has presented numerous
solo recitals in Austria, Germany, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy,
Tunis, Israel, Japan and the United States;
participated in many festivals around the
world; and won over 25 national and inter
national competitions, including last year's
Artist Presentation Society of St. Louis. Born into a musical family in 1983, Fatu
began studying violin at the age of 4 and made his debut at age 16 in a perform
ance of the Bruch Concerto with Bucharest's National Radio Symphony
Orchestra. Subsequently he appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Romania
and the United States including the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra and the
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. Throughout his career, Fatu participated in
Master Classes with renowned artists such as Stefan Gheorghiu, Robert Szreder,
Erich Gruenberg, Eric Rosenblith and Vladimir Spivakov. He earned an
Bachelor's degree at the National Music University of Bucharest, Romania and
a Masters degree at Park University, Parkville, Missouri. Currently he is pursu
ing an Artist Diploma at the Park University under the direction of Ben
Sayevich. Fatu resides in Kansas City with his wife, Victoria and their daugh
ter, Vivienne Nicole. In his spare time he enjoys photography, literature, hightech gadgets, cycling and jogging. He competed in the Queen Elizabeth
Competition in Brussels, Belgium.
Pianist Victoria Fatu-Martirosyan has been recognized international
ly for performances of deep musical expression, charismatic temperament and
sparkling technique. She has scored victories in numerous international compe
titions and has received multiple grants from major foundations, including the
Vladimir Spivakov and the Aram Khachaturyan International Scholarship
Foundations. Victoria was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and started studying the
piano at age of eight at the Music Studio School "Young Talents" in Moscow.
The following year she entered the Central Special Music School at the Moscow
State Conservatory where she studied for nine years under Elena Rikhter. At the
age of ten she performed Mozart's D-minor Concerto, in the Grand Hall of the
M U S I C AT M A RY V I L L E
2012-2013 Season
Sunday, October 7, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
Carillons Piano Duet
Alia Voskoboynikova and Alexander Tentser
will perform works for two and four hands by
Schubert, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Ravel,
Qavrilin and others
Sunday, November 4, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
Peter Henderson, pianist
In a recital of works by
Claude Debussy
Sunday, March 17, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Arianna String Quartet
John M.cQrosso, violin
Yulia Sakharova, violin
Joanna Mendoza, viola
Kurt Baldwin, cello
with guest artist Katja Qeorgieff, piano
Sunday, April 7, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Cristian Fatu, violin
Victoria FatU'Martirosyan, piano
In a joint recital of works by
Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev and Dinicu
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Programs are presented in the Auditorium
on the Maryville University campus
Admission: Adults - $10
Senior citizens - $5
Students - free
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