Mark Tse

Mark Tse is a Canadian-born conductor based in Boston with a mission to re-engage the public through programming that both entertains and challenges. He brings with him years of experience in relentlessly generating excitement for concert music through his work in music education. Tse strives to stretch the aesthetic, theoretical and historical understandings of his audience.

His path to pursue professional conducting was paved during a conducting workshop with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at the Eastman School of Music in 2011, where he was one of only five participants selected to conduct the orchestra in the workshop’s final concert. Mark Tse was a conductor at El Sistema Aeolian for 11 months and at Western Chamber Orchestra for 5 months.

At present, Tse is completing a Master’s degree in conducting with Charles Peltz at the New England Conservatory in Boston. While there, he has premiered new works, taught conducting classes and conducted rehearsals with NEC’s Symphonic Winds. Tse also helped organize the College Band Directors

National Association’s regional conference “Crossing Over” which NEC hosted. On November 11th, 2014 Tse will make his conducting debut with the NEC Wind Ensemble in a performance of Massenet’s Ballet Music from Le Cid. On February 24th, 2015 he will debut with NEC’s Symphonic Winds, leading the ensemble in a performance of Holst’s Hammersmith.

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Sarah Geronimo

Philippine Pop Star Sarah Asher Geronimo famously known as Sarah Geronimo was conceived on July 25, 1988 in Sta. Cruz Manila.  She is an artist, host, model, dancer, and actress from the Philippines. She had her first music lessons from her father Delfin who honed her consistently to create her ability in singing. At two years old she first sang in front of an audience at a shopping center show singing together with Pinky Marquez and Richard Reynoso to the tune “Pasko Na Naman”.

Her mother Divina would typically go hand in hand with her to a few trials for distinctive TV programs. When she was four years of age Sarah got to be some piece of the show “Pen-pen de Sarapen until she turned 6 and with Ang TV when she was seven years old. In the middle of these shows Sarah would additionally be performing in shopping centers and in some inn lounges. She was likewise decided to perform amid the Papal visit of Pope John Paul II in 1995.

It was in the singing challenge “Star for a Night” facilitated by Regine Velasquez where Sarah picked up her fame. On March 1, 2003 at fourteen years old she was the amazing prize champ of the said show. She won a sum of P1,000,000 and a managerial contract under Viva Artist Agency. After her achievement in that singing challenge a ton of tasks emulated. She had made various collections, had made numerous shows, played and featured in cleanser musical dramas and a pillar in ASAP, heading parts in films and turned into an endorser for both print and TV. Sarah in her own particular way turned into a pop star. In the year 2005, she had her first significant solo show.

In 2005 Sarah was the first Filipino craftsman to get a platinum honor for a DVD duplicate of her show entitled The Other Side and is the main craftsman to have a platinum record for four DVDs of her own show. Her fourth show was honored with triple platinum status in 2010. Her first featuring part for a film “A Very Special Love” discharged in 2008 was a film industry hit. She was hailed as the Box Office Queen in the year 2008. Because of the accomplishment of the motion picture a continuation instantly tailed “You Changed My Life”. Aside from being a performer and vocalist she additionally wandered into a few organizations like a magnificence parlor named after her and an evolved way of life being overseen by her mother Divina. In the not so distant future Sarah was assigned at the well-known and prestigious World Music Awards. A significant number of her fans see Sarah as a good example and this serves as her appeal on why a great deal of the organization gets her to embrace their item.

When not busy being a pop star, Sarah spends time with her family, they go to Sunday mass. Sarah enjoys reading J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, and plays video games.

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Dinah Douieb

Punk attitude with a funky appeal.

That is how Dinah Douieb, a producer, musician, and composer wanted people to remember her.

Dinah, born in Tunisia, had witnessed music focused to ceremonials and profane ceremonies brewed with classic Egyptian music and tribal Tunisian music.

At her very young age, she already had a taste of jamming with the blues of Jimi Hendrix & John Lee Hooker, the rhythm and blues of Ike & Tina Turner, Funk of Jame Brown inspired by Rock Melancolia of Hard Rock Icon Black Sabbath, and the Romanticism of the Glittering David Bowie.

In 1976, Dinah loved the Punk movement which was the main expression for teenagers. Dinah started singing with the French Funk Punk band “Les Flambeurs” with Marc Zermati who stood as their producer.

Dinah started  to manage a girl group of 7 double-Dutch & hip-hop dancers  “The Lady’s Night” touring all over clubs & festivals featuring artist such as Ultramagnetic’s MC’s Big Daddy Kane, Adeva or Queen Latifah.

During the 2000′s, she created Dinamyte Productions and began to record the album “Open Collection”, a compilation of 25 songs which were composed by French American Hip Hop producers Sebastian Bardin Greenberg and performed by artists namely Fafa Larage, Rohff, Les 3 Griffes in France, Saddate X, Get Open Bruknham, Joy, and Vinia Mojica.

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Clara Biermasz

The Dutch-born pianist Clara Biermasz received her musical training in the classes of Prof. Alexander Warenberg and Prof. Klára Würtz at the Academy of the Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She completed her bachelor studies in 2004 and then studied in the classes of Prof. Balázs Szokolay and Prof. Balázs Réti at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary, and in the class of Prof. Michael Hruby at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna. She completed her M.A. with distinction in 2012.

Clara has attended master classes held by Itamar Golan, Jan Wijn, Alan Weiss, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Martijn van den Hoek, Gergely Bogányi, Istvan Gulyás and Paolo Giacometti.

She is an award-winner at many international competitions, including the first prize (VSB Prize) and the Youth Jury Prize at the Princess Christina Competition in the Netherlands (1996), the first prize in the category of chamber music and ‘Primo Premio Assoluto’ – the overall winner in all categories (respectively in duo with Ádám Jávorkai) at the international competition ‘Premio Città di Padova’, Italy (2008). In 2008, Clara was also a prize-winner at the ‘18th International Chamber Music Competition Thessaloniki’ in Greece.

Clara has held concerts at the following venues: in the Vienna Konzerthaus, at the Beethoven Festival Wien, at the Chopin Festival in Gaming (Austria), as well as at such prestigious places as the Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, the Palazzo Zacco-Armeni in Padua (Italy), the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the National Theatre in Miskolc (Hungary), the Dutch Embassy in Vienna, the Dutch Embassy in Cairo (Egypt), the Dutch Embassy in Muscat (Oman), the Bogense Summer Festival (Denmark), the Festival Peinture en Musique (France), Vredenburg in Utrecht, de Doelen in Rotterdam, the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, the Hermitage Amsterdam (Holland) and at festivals like the Cello Festival in Dordrecht and the ‘Settimane musicali al Teatro Olimpico’, Vicenza, as well as the Kodály Society Wales, where she also has held master classes.

She has made several recordings for international radio and television stations, among others for ATV and ORF (Austria).

In 2013, she made her first CD with sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms and Grieg for the austrian label Gramola (Gramola 99034).

This CD was sponsored by ARP and Blüthner.

Clara Biermasz has been the scholarship-holder of different cultural funds in the Netherlands such as the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Willem Mengelberg Fonds, Stichting Fonds voor de Geld- en Effectenhandel, Stichting A.F.V.O.M.S., Stichting Niemeijer Fonds and Stichting Vreedefonds.

‘… An exceptional talent with great technical skills …’ (International Federation of Chopin Societies and the International Chopin Society in Vienna, 2011) ‘Her wonderfully clear narrative tone simply made us forget everyday concerns …’ (Wiener Chopin-Blätter, 2012)

‘The solo pieces she played-impressionist poems in music by Debussy and one of Chopin’s Nocturnes-were a testament to the talent that has won Clara many international prizes…’ (Times of Oman, 2014)

‘Two exceptional talents with brilliant technical and refined interpretative skills’ – Padova Cultura on the Duo Jávorkai & Biermasz (2008)

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