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Ovidiu Marinescu Duo

Ovidiu Marinescu, one of the outstanding musicians of his native Romania, was chosen to play at Carnegie Hall for Romanian President Constantinescu on an official visit to the United States. Soon after, he made his debut with the New York Chamber Symphony in Beethoven's Triple Concerto, followed by recitals in Merkin Hall (New York), Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. After his debut with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania in the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto, which was broadcast live across Romania, he returned several times to perform works by Mozart and Iorgulescu. Most recently he returned as soloist and conductor in works by Boccherini, Beethoven and Glinka. Other notable appearances include Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Slobodkin Center, Elgar Concerto with Helena and Newark Symphonies, and Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Shostakovich with the Cleveland Philharmonic, and Mozart Concerto with Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain. Recent performances include appearances with the Limeira Symphony in Brazil, Cleveland Philharmonic, Great Falls, Portsmouth and Immaculata Symphonies, Craiova and Botosani Philharmonics in Romania, Vanderbilt Orchestra, a 2 week tour of China and a recital at Carnegie Hall.
Marinescu critically acclaimed first recording "Fiesta Latina" was followed by a recording of the complete Miaskovsky cello works with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Kenneth Boulton released by Cambria. His recording of the Bach Cello Suites, released by Navona Records, has received international critical acclaim, this year alone receiving over 50,000 hits on Spotify. The recent recording of the Arthur Gottschalk Sonata for Cello and Piano has received the Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards for 2014. His recording of The Sea Knows by Michael Kurek made its debut as no. 1 on the Classical Billboard list in July 2017.

Marinescu has commissioned and performed many new works for cello solo, among which are those of Jae-Wook Kim and his brother, Liviu Marinescu. Penn Presents featured Marinescu in a multi-media program at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia featuring works for solo cello, film and electronics by Andrea Clearfield, Richard Belcastro, David Ludwig, Paul Geissinger, teamed with four local filmmakers. In 2000, Marinescu premiered with the Newark Symphony "Anecdote" for cello and orchestra by Hilary Tann, followed by the first performance of "Ostinato" by Liviu Marinescu with "Orchestra 2001" in Philadelphia. In January of 2015 he performed the premiere of a new work for cello and orchestra by Kile Smith, commissioned for him by Helena Symphony.
Equally outstanding as a conductor, Marinescu is the Director of the West Chester University Symphony, and served as the conductor for the Wilmington Orchestra, as the Music Director of the Manalapan Orchestra in New Jersey, and Principal Conductor of the Goppisberg Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. His guest conducting includes the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, National Radio Orchestra of Romania, New Russia State Orchestra, Helena Symphony, Southeastern Pennsylvania Orchestra, and orchestras from Spain, Portugal, and Romania.
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Pianist and harpsichordist Anna Kislitsyna hails from a long and noble tradition of music making in Russia. Both of her parents are highly trained established artists. Anna completed her Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees in Piano Performance from Novosibirsk Conservatory under Professors Larisa Smeshko and Mery Lebenzon. She was piano faculty at the Novosibirsk Conservatory as well as Novosibirsk Special Music School-College before she moved to the United States in 2012. She completed her second Masters degree in Piano Performance at West Chester University of Pennsylvania where she studied with Dr. Resnianski. Currently Anna is working on her second Doctoral Program at Temple University where as the recipient of a full fellowship. She studies piano with Dr. Charles Abramovic, chamber music with Lambert Orkis and harpsichord with Dr. Joyce Lindorff.
Anna concertized throughout Russia, Europe, and United States giving solo recitals, performing with symphony orchestras, and chamber ensembles. She appeared in such halls as Carnegie Hall in New York, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Rachmaninov Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Alfred Cortot Hall of Paris Conservatory, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Hall, and numerous concert stages in Russia, Finland, Italy, France, Ukraine, USA, etc. Her large repertoire includes major works from solo and chamber literature.
From 2014 Anna is a member of Trio Casals which actively performs in the United States and abroad. In 2015 Trio Casals recorded CD of modern chamber music and presented it in the Carnegie Hall. In 2015 Anna was a member of Philadelphia International Music Festival, where she performed with Philadelphia Orchestra musicians.
She is a prize winner of many competitions including Chopin International Piano Competition, Connecticut; Liszt International Competition, Los Angeles, CA; Lautard-Chevtchenko International Piano Competition, France; International Chamber Ensembles Competition in Finland; and various International Piano Competitions in Russia and Europe. In 2014 Anna got the award from The Jacobs Music Steinway Company for outstanding pianistic achievements.
She performed with such orchestras as Novosibirsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Omsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Omsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yaroslavl Academic Symphonic Orchestra, and Temple University Symphony Orchestra. Anna worked with such conductors as Yuri Nikolaevsky, Andreas Delfs, Evgeny Shestakov, Dmitry Vasilyev, Vladimir Prasolov, Evgeny Samoilov, Alexander Pariman, Mark Abramov, Andrei Radchenko, Valery Ryvkin, Andre Raphel, and Evgeny Bushkov.
During Annas teaching career, she was invited to give master classes and judge international piano competitions. Her students performed with various symphony orchestras, including Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Symphony Orchestras, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, and others. Her students are winners of numerous international piano competitions in Italy, Austria, China, Korea, Poland, Ukraine, USA, and Russia. They annually perform in Carnegie Hall.
Anna is a scholar researcher of the French composer Oliver Messiaen and the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke. She published many articles in related to his piano works in Russian and English languages. She successfully presented her scholarly works in various international research conferences of classical music.