TANGO RECITAL

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Programme

C. Guastavino

Las Presencias No.7

A. Piazzolla

Histoire du Tango, Revirado, Milonga del Angel, Escualo, Oblivion, Adios Nonino, Libertango

Violinist Machiko Ozawa, a former concertmaster of Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes, gave her debut recital at the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition. Subsequently she has performed as a soloist with the Presidential Symphony in Turkey, the Pan American Symphony Orchestra and the American Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Ms. Ozawa’s solo album “Mi Oblivion” released in 2018 from Composers Concordance Record became a top seller on the label and recorded more than 420,000 downloads in the first year. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Tokyo National University of the Arts (Tokyo Gei Dai), Ms.Ozawa has given numerous solo recitals in the U.S. and Japan at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Kennedy Center Performing Arts, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and Nikkei Hall as well as Blue Note New York, Blues Alley. As an orchestral and chamber musician at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Barbican Center, Bellas Artes, Symphony Space, GW Lisner Auditorium, and Mondavi Center. A Yamaha performing artist, Ms. Ozawa plays the electric violin, YEV104.

Pianist Rami Sarieddine was born in Cyprus and went on to receive performance qualifications at the Royal Academy of Music (BMus, MMus, LRAM), the New England Conservatory in Boston (Graduate Diploma) and the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles (Doctor of Musical Arts) under the tutelage of Patsy Toh, Gabriel Chodos and John Perry respectively. Upon his doctoral graduation Dr. Sarieddine was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. He was the head piano fellow at the Bard Conservatory in upstate NY as well as a Marc & Eva Stern Piano Fellow at SongFest in Los Angeles. With bass singer Andrew Robert Munn, he co-founded Chimera, as a hub for the creation and interpretation of chamber music. The duo has presented recitals in Berlin, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Athens, and Nicosia. He has held faculty positions at the British School Al Khubairat in Abu Dhabi and the Central Conservatory Prep School in Beijing. He is now on the faculty of ARTE Music Academy in Nicosia and a vocal coach at the Berlin Opera Academy.