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Praised by critics as “a diva of the piano” (Salt Lake City Tribune), “a mesmerizing risk taker” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and “simply spectacular” (International Music Foundation, Chicago), Ukrainian-American pianist Marina Lomazov has established herself as one of the most passionate and charismatic performers on the concert scene today. Following prizes in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, William Kapell International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Ms. Lomazov has given performances throughout North America, South America, England, France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Japan and in most of the fifty states in the U.S

Most recently Lomazov became a Steinway Artist after a surprise ceremony in June of 2009 that unveiled a Steinway Grand Piano, an unprecedented and incredibly generous gift from the citizens of Columbia, South Carolina. Recognized by The New York Times for her virtuosity and wit, Lomazov's recent performances include recitals in New York City (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and Rockefeller University), Chicago (Dame Myra Hess Concert Series), Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Boston (Symphony Hall). As orchestral soloist, Ms. Lomazov has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic (NY), South Carolina Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony (SC), Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Graz Höchschulorchester (Austria), Bollington Festival Orchestra (England) and Chernigoff Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), to name a few.

Before immigrating to the United States, Marina studied at the Kiev Conservatory where she became the youngest First Prize Winner of the all-Kiev Piano Competition. Ms. Lomazov holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, the latter granting upon her the highly coveted Artist’s Certificate – an honor the institution had not bestowed upon a pianist for nearly two decades. Her principal teachers include Natalya Antonova, Barry Snyder, and Jerome Lowenthal.

Together with her husband and duo partner Joseph Rackers, Lomazov also performs as part of the Lomazov/Rackers piano duo. In 2005, Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo was awarded the Second Prize at the Sixth Biennial Ellis Competition for Duo Pianists, the only national duo piano competition in the United States at the time. Their performances have been described as "splendid" (Rochester, WXXI Radio), and "simply dazzling" (The State, SC).

Ms. Lomazov is a frequent guest artist at music festivals at the U.S. and abroad, including Burgos Music Festival (Spain), Moulin d’Andé Arts Festival (France), Summer Evenings in Kiev (Ukraine), Sulzbach-Rosenberg Music Festival (Germany), Hamamatsu International Piano Academy (Japan), Chautauqua Music Festival (NY), Northwest Piano Festival (OR), Wassermann Piano Festival (UT), Grand Teton Music Festival (WY) and Brevard Music Festival (NC). She has recorded for Albany Records, Arizona University Recordings, Centaur Records and Innova Recordings. In July of 2009, Centaur Records released her latest recording of solo piano works by Rodion Shchedrin. She has been featured on the "Bravo" cable channel, and her live performances are broadcast regularly on public radio stations including programs such as National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and New York’s “Young Artist Showcase”, among numerous others.

Australian-American pianist Lisa Moore lives in New York City where she collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists. The New York Times says "her energy is illuminating" and the New Yorker magazine called her “visionary” and "New York's queen of avant-garde piano". Moore has released 5 solo discs (Cantaloupe and Tall Poppies labels) and 30 collaborative discs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, CRI, BMG, Point, New World, ABC Classics, Albany and New Albion). Her latest solo recording "Seven" (music by Don Byron) has just been released on Cantaloupe. Two more solo Cantaloupe EPs are scheduled for release in 2010 featuring original music by composers Annie Gosfield and Donnacha Dennehy.

Lisa Moore's performances combine musical and emotional power -- whether in the delivery of the simplest song, the most challenging chamber work or complex solo score. She is passionately dedicated to the music of our time as well as the great musical canon. Moore has collaborated with composers from many musical genres -- Elliot Carter, Iannis Xenakis, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Thurston Moore and Ornette Coleman to name just a few. Her wide-ranging repertoire spans from Robert Schumann, Leos Janacek and Modeste Mussorgsky to music and text settings by Randy Newman, Frederic Rzewski and Kurt Schwitters. Past solo shows include "ipiano: my brilliant career", "Wilde's World", "The Totally Wired Piano", "Janacek from the street" and "Musically Speaking". Moore has given concerts at La Scala, the Musikverein, the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. She has made many guest appearances at festivals - The Holland, Lincoln Center, Schleswig-Holstein, BBC Proms, Israel, Warsaw, Uzbekistan, Musica Ficta Lithuania, Prague Spring, Istanbul, Athens, Taormina, Southbank's Meltdown, Dublin's Crash, Graz, Huddersfield, Scotia, Paris d'Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Turin, Palermo, Barcelona, Heidelberg, Berlin, Perugia, Tanglewood, Houston Da Camera, Jacob's Pillow, Aspen, Norfolk, Sandpoint, Saratoga, Victoriaville, Ojai, Other Minds, NY's Sonic Boom, BAM Next Wave, MassMoca, Bang on a Can, Keys to the Future, Healing The Divide, Mizzou, Music 10 Blonay, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney's Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring, Sydney Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival.

Lisa Moore has performed with the New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, St. Lukes Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Steve Reich Ensemble, So Percussion, Don Byron Adventurers Orchestra, Signal, Third Coast Percussion,, Da Capo Chamber Players, Paul Dresher Double Duo, Mabou Mines Theater, Susan Marshall Dance Co, Sequitur, Newband, Music at the Anthology, The Crosstown Ensemble, Australia Ensemble, Westchester Philharmonic, New York League of Composers ISCM, Newband, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, Terra Australis, Essential Music, and the John Jasperse Dance Company. As a concerto soloist she has appeared with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Albany, Sydney, Tasmania, Thai and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, Philharmonia Virtuosi and the Queensland Philharmonic, under the baton of conductors Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Jorge Mester and Edo de Waart.

Lisa Moore won the silver medal in the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. From 1992-2008 she was the pianist and founding member for the Bang On A Can All-Stars -- the New York based electro-acoustic sextet and winner of Musical America's 2005 "Ensemble of the Year" Award. As an artistic curator she most recently produced Australia's Canberra International Music Festival “Sounds Alive ‘08” series, importing musicians from around the world for 10 days of music making at the Street Theatre.

Lisa Moore teaches at the Yale-Norfolk New Music Workshop Summer Festival and at Wesleyan University as well as making guest teaching appearances at conservatories around the world. She was born in Canberra and raised in Australia and London before moving to the USA in 1980. Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook.

Amy Briggs has established herself as a leading interpreter of the music of living composers, while also bringing a fresh perspective to music of the past. She recorded three volumes of David Rakowski’s Piano Etudes on Bridge Records to much critical acclaim. Based in Chicago, she is a featured soloist and chamber musician on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series, where she has worked with composers such as Simon Bainbridge, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, David Lang, Tania Léon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Augusta Read Thomas. In the 2005-2006 season, she premiered Knussen’s A Fragment from Ophelia’s Last Dance for solo piano. She was awarded a stipend prize at the 2000 Darmstadt Internationale Fereinkurse für Neue Musik.

The Chicago Tribune has called “extraordinary” Briggs’s “mastery of what lay on the dense, printed page and beyond,” and the Chicago Sun-Times called her a “ferociously talented pianist.” Classics Today said of volume one of the Rakowski Etudes project, Briggs "does a splendid job projecting the music's wit, and her unflappable virtuosity makes even the densest writing sound effortless... a marvelous disc that piano fanciers should snap up without hesitation.” In addition, the New York Times praised her recent recording of Augusta Read Thomas’s six Piano Etudes as “elegant” and “precisely shaded.”

Amy Briggs has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1993, she was selected by the United States Information Agency to tour Africa and South Asia as a United States Artistic Ambassador. Her highly acclaimed concerts combined traditional repertoire with contemporary American music. Today, her recital programs connect composers from all eras and nationalities. She has performed with the Callisto Ensemble, the Chicago Contemporary Players, Chicago Pro Musica, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Klang, and the Empyrean Ensemble, and as an extra keyboardist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also been a prizewinner in the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition and the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition.

Amy Briggs has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, New Hampshire Philharmonic, and the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, among others, and her live and recorded performances have been featured on radio stations around the United States and Europe. Recent performances include the New York Philharmonic’s Day of Berio in Lincoln Center, solo and chamber performances with Grammy-award-winning eighth blackbird at the 2009 Ojai Festival in California, and performances with Ursula Oppens and the Mark Morris Dance Company in Chicago, Toronto, Washington D.C. and Auckland, New Zealand. Recently released recordings include George Flynn’s American City, a concerto for piano and wind ensemble, on Southport Records, and a disc of multi-piano works of Edgar Varèse and Morton Feldman for Wergo. Upcoming engagements include the MITO Festival in Milan, Italy, and the Keys to the Future Festival in New York. Ms. Briggs earned her Doctor of Music degree at Northwestern University, where she studied with Ursula Oppens. She was recently appointed Director of Chamber Music and Lecturer in Music at the University of Chicago. Ms. Briggs is a Steinway Artist.

Described by the New York Times as an "astonishingly good pianist", Tatjana Rankovich is one of the most versatile pianists of her generation, committed to continuously expanding the boundaries of the traditional repertoire, constantly searching for and discovering new contemporary music and devoting her interest to performing rarely heard works of the past. An innate instinct to create a spectrum of different traditions, styles, old and new, known and unknown, is the very essence of her as an artist and takes a special place with every one of her concerts.

Ms. Rankovich is an enthusiastic advocate of 20th Century American music and has recorded and performed a number of premieres. She is the first pianist ever to play the First, Second and Third Piano Concertos of Nicolas Flagello, recording them with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Naxos, June 2006) and the Slovak Philharmonic, (Artek 1996), which was released to unanimous praise and chosen for one of the five "best of the year" recordings in 1996 and again in 1999, by Fanfare magazine.

Ms. Rankovich is one of the main artists performing annually at the prestigious New York Contemporary Festival "Keys To The Future", where she received only lavish praise for many of her premiere performances by such composers as: Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Philippe Hersant, Joseph Fennimore, Lowell Liebermann, Paul Moravec, Bruce Stark, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Pierre Jalbert, Joseph Rubenstein, Lois Vierk, Henry Martin and many others.

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Tatjana Rankovich is a laureate of numerous first prizes and awards. She has performed throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Central and South America and as a guest soloist with the Slovak Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, Radio Belgrade Symphony, The Novi Sad Chamber Orchestra and the Zagreb Philharmonic. In 2002 and again in 2006, as a part of the Fulbright Grant, Ms. Rankovich appeared in recitals throughout Serbia and Montenegro and, as a Cultural Ambassador gave master classes at the Belgrade Conservatory.

She studied at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, (former Yugoslavia), at the North Carolina School of the Arts and at the Juilliard School, where she earned Bachelors and Masters degrees, as well as the Judelson Piano Award, Gina Bachauer Scholarship and the Teaching Fellowship Grant.

Ms Rankovich was a featured artist on many radio and television programs worldwide. She has recorded several highly acclaimed discs for Phoenix USA, Naxos, Artek, and Citadel Records. Her premiere recordings of the little known masterworks by Paul Creston, Vittorio Giannini and Nicolas Flagello have received lavish praise and were described as "splendid" and "superb."

In the summer of 2008, Tatjana Rankovich was one of the recipients of the prestigious State Award, "Golden Badge", awarded annually by the Serbian Ministry of Diaspora in Belgrade, Serbia.

Ms. Rankovich has an extended teaching studio and she is presently on the piano faculty in the Preparatory Division at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where she now lives with her husband, composer Ionel Petroi.