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Pianist James Giles regularly performs in the world’s major musical centers, including France’s Nancy Music Festival, Italy’s Accademia Cristofori, Spain’s Gijon Piano Festival, and the Beijing International Music Festival. Each summer he directs Italy’s Amalfi Coast Music Festival. Giles has commissioned and premiered works by William Bolcom, Stephen Hough, Lowell Liebermann, and Ned Rorem, among others. Violinist Ilya Kaler is a Gold Medal winner of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition, Helsinki’s Sibelius Competition, and Genoa’s Paganini Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the Leningrad, Moscow, and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestras, the Montreal Symphony, and the Danish and Berlin Radio Orchestras and performs worldwide as a member of the Tempest Trio with cellist Amit Peled and pianist Alon Goldstein.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major
Ernst von Dohnányi, Violin Sonata in C-sharp Minor
Sergei Prokofiev, Five Melodies
Karol Szymanowski, Romance in D Major
Fritz Kreisler, Berceuse romantique, La Gitana, and Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta