Bela Horvath - Violin
Tatiana Goncharova - Piano
GIUSEPPE TARTINI
Devil’s Trill
CÉSAR FRANCK
Sonata in A Major
- Allegretto ben moderato
- Allegro
- Recitativo, fantasia
- Allegretto, poco mosso
INTERMISSION
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Märchenbilder, Op. 113
- Nicht schnell
- Lebhaft
- Rasch
- Langsam, mit melanchonischem Ausdruck
WILLIAM KROLL
Banjo and Fiddle
PABLO DE SARASATE
Zigeunerweisen
TATIANA GONCHAROVA
Piano
 An inspiring soloist and ensemble partner, Russian-born pianist Tatiana Goncharova has performed throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “exceptional musicianship,” and hailed by the Washington Post as “a musician on the threshold of a brilliant career,” Ms. Goncharova has appeared at such noted venues as Avery Fisher Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kravis Center, Ravinia, Caramoor, and Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.
Frequent collaborations with international artists have taken Ms. Goncharova to such renowned venues as Aspen Music Festival, Japan’s Miyazaki Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center, National Hall in Taipei, Colden Center for the Arts, Singapore Sun Festival, Montpellier Music Festival in France; at the Appalachian Summer Music Festival and the Great Composers Festival in Canada she performed a duo-recital with one of the world’s most celebrated violinists, Pinchas Zukerman. In May 2003, Ms. Goncharova performed again in recital with Mr. Zukerman, in Tokyo for the Empress of Japan. Her performances were broadcast by Radio France, New York's WNYC and WQXR, nationally on PBS and NPR’s Performance Today, and in Japan.
A resident artist of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, she founded the TAGI ensemble (formerly known as the New York Lyric Chamber Players) with Francesco Mastromatteo, Igor Begelman and Grigory Kalinovsky. The highlights of the group’s recent seasons include performances and masterclasses at Asheville Chamber Series, Universities of South and Western Carolina, Sevenars, Bentley College, Howland Music Center, Emelin Theater, Lukas Foss’s Festival of the Hamptons, and the Lyric Chamber Music Society.
Ms. Goncharova is on the faculty of Pinchas Zukerman’s National Arts Center Young Artists Program in Canada, the pre-college division of the Manhattan School of Music in New York, the Zukerman Performance Program; she was also formerly at the Perlman Music Program, Fordham University, and the Illona Feher Festival in Israel. She is involved with a number of educational projects through her affiliation with Astral Artistic Services and the Piatigorsky Foundation, which allows her to perform classical music in less traditional settings.
Called “a sensational pianist” by the Providence Journal, Ms. Goncharova is a winner of numerous prizes and awards, including the Olga Koussevitzky Piano Competition, the Bergen Philharmonic Concerto Competition, the Moscow Conservatory Concerto Competition, and the Byelorussian National Competition. She has studied with such renowned musicians as Leon Fleisher, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Eugene Malinin and Oxana Yablonskaya at the Moscow State Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School.
Tatiana Goncharova made her debut recording with violinist Grigory Kalinovsky, featuring the Violin Sonata and 24 Preludes by Dmitriy Schostakovich, which has been recently released worldwide by Centaur Records. The International Record Review praised it for its “emotional intensity” and “overwhelming mastery.”
BELA HORVATH
Violin
 A distinguished young artist of international stature, Bela Horvath has numerous prizes and awards, TV and radio appearances, and major performances in various European countries and the U.S. to his credit. In 1996, Bela entered the Bela Bartok Conservatory In Budapest, Hungary, where he studied with Istvan Kertesz, the first violinist of the Festetics String Quartet.
In 1998, Bela won the National Janos Koncz violin competition in Hungary. The following year, he entered the 9th International Carl Flesch Violin Competition. As the youngest contestant, he was the fourth prize winner of that year and also won a special prize for the best interpretation of a new work written for the competition by Hungarian composer, Miklos Csemicky. In 2000, Bela entered the Franz Liszt University of Music, where he began his studies with Hungarian concert violinist, Miklos Szenthelyi.
In 2002, the renowned violinist, violist, and conductor, Pinchas Zukerman invited Mr.Horvath to study with him and his associate, Patinka Kopec, at the Manhattan School of Music. Bela Horvath has worked with leading violinists and pedagogues including Zakhar Bron, Jaime Laredo, Gyorgy Pauk, Ruggiero Ricci, Aaron Rosand, and Joseph Silverstein.
Mr. Horvath has also played a great deal of chamber music and has been coached by chamber musicians and teachers like Daniel Avshalomov, Steven Dann, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, Timothy Eddy, Joseph Kalichstein, Robert Mann, Sylvia Rosenberg, David Soyer, and Michael Tree.
Bela Horvath made his debut recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in 2003. The debut of his Piano Quartet, Amity Players, was at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in October 2006. The Quartet has recently released a recording of two piano quartets by J. Brahms for the Canadian label, Marquis Music.
As a soloist and recitalist, he has played many concerts around the world, including the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, France, England, Slovakia, Hungary, the United States and Canada.
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