![]() His debut album “Violin Transcriptions”, featuring works by Rachmaninoff and Muczynski, was released in 2014. He has soloed with the Montevideo Philharmonic (Uruguay), Charleston Symphony, Toa Payoh West Chinese Orchestra (Singapore), Bela Bartok Orchestra (Italy), among others. After an appearance at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, wrote that “he displayed absolute clarity and through his refined dynamic range brought gorgeous contrasts to each section.” He has performed in concert series and festivals such as the Internacional Festival de Colonia (Uruguay), Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Musicale (SC), South Carolina Chamber Music Festival, Chicago Duo Piano Festival, Hawaii International Cultural Arts Festival, and Piccolo Spoleto Festival (SC). See Chang-Hee – Competition AccompanistĬhee-Hang See is a prize-winning Singaporean pianist, composer, and conductor who has been called “a cool and confident performer” by the Charleston City Paper. She also can be heard in various chamber music collaborations on Navona Records and Centaur Records. Ināra Zandmane has collaborated with leading Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, giving Latvian premieres of his piano works The Spring Music and Landscapes of the Burnt-out Earth and recording the latter one on the Conifer Classics label. Ināra Zandmane’s solo recordings include the piano works by Maurice Ravel, recorded together with her husband Vincent van Gelder, and the complete piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin. Ināra Zandmane is on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she performs with students and faculty more than fifty different programs per year. She is the accompanist in residence for the South Eastern Piano Festival that takes place in Columbia, SC every June. Zandmane is frequently invited to serve as an official accompanist at national conferences and competitions, among them the North American Saxophone Alliance conference and MTNA National competition since 2005. In 2014, she was invited to the International Saxophone Symposium and Competition in Columbus, Georgia to present a recital with Vincent David. In 2012, Ināra stepped in on a short notice to perform with violinist Ray Chen at the Aspen Music Festival, followed by a recital in Lima, Peru. In 2008, Ināra teamed up with Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika on a tour leading them to Boston, Cleveland, and Toronto, before culminating in an invitation-only performance at the Kennedy Center arranged by the Latvian Embassy in the United States. She has performed with such artists as Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Augustin Hadelich, Ray Chen, Sergei Antonov, Yura Lee, Martin Storey, Paul Coletti, Ian Clarke, and Branford Marsalis, in addition to regularly performing with Blue Mountain Ensemble and in duos with saxophonist Susan Fancher and violinist Fabián López. Ināra Zandmane is one of the leading collaborative pianists of North Carolina. Danijela Žeželj-Gualdi served on the faculty of Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta, GA. Prior to her current position as a Violin and Viola Instructor and an Artistic Director of the Community Music Academy at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dr. In January 2008 she became a founding member of the Balkan Quartet, a string quartet which focus is to involve and inspire composers to create new music that would use an indigenous Balkan language, reviving the rich Balkan folk heritage on a high artistic level. Her musical career is noted for collaborations with remarkable musicians, including Evgeny Rivkin, and contemporary composers Augusta Reed Thomas and James MacMillan. She has proven herself an amazingly adaptable musician, performing as a soloist (both orchestral and recital), chamber musician, and orchestral musician (as violinist and violist). Žeželj-Gualdi has performed throughout the country, including two performances in Carnegie Hall, as well as on Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage. In 2006 she graduated from the University of Georgia earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. In 2001 she graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a Master’s degree in music. ![]() Žeželj-Gualdi moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue graduate studies in music. Žeželj-Gualdi concertized throughout Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, performing in Serbia, Austria, Croatia, Italy, and Montenegro.ĭr. In 1998 she graduated from the Academy and joined the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra that same year. Her college level studies began in 1993 at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia, studying violin performance with Professor Eugenia Tchougaeva. At the age of eleven she joined the Zadar Chamber Orchestra as its youngest member. Danijela Žeželj-Gualdi – Competition Artistic Directorĭanijela Žeželj-Gualdi was born in Croatia where she began her violin studies in 1984.
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