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Judith Burganger is founder and artistic director of the Florida Atlantic University Chamber Soloists and the Brahms Festival, began her music career at age of six in Buffalo, New York, with a piano recital at Kleinhans Music Hall. She performed more than 30 times with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under renowned conductors including William Steinberg, Josef Krips and Michael Tilson Thomas. Her early mentors were Mme. Isabelle Vengerova and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. At 17, she won First Prize in the nationa Merriweather Post Competition in Washionton, D.C., and was invited to attend the Marlboro Festival, where she studied with Hermann Busch, Felix Galimir and RudolfSerkin. Her remarkable achievements include being :the FIRST American ever to win the coveted 1st Prize of the International piano Competition (ARD) in Munich, Germany; a Bronze Medal in the International Piano Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, the 1st Prize winner of the National Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, D.C; 1st place winner in the National Piano Competition of German Music Conservatories in Cologne, Germany and finally the winner of a Grant awarded by the Clultural Coalition of German Industry.
Leonid Treer was born in the former Soviet Union. He performs in the tradition of his great Russian predecessors. Critics hail his "striking demonstration of the grand Russian piano manner" citing his "sensitive, emotional interpretations with a formidable technique." He began his studies at age six under the tutelage of Anna Stoliarevich, student of the eminent pianist-conductor Felix Blumenfeld, who also taught Vladmir Horowitz and came himself from the schools of Rimsky-Korsakoff and Anton Rubinstein. L. Treer graduated from the prestigious Moscow Gnessin Institute of Musical Pedagogics, where his distinguished teachers included Georgy Fedorenko and Boris Berlin, who was from the school of Konstantin Igumnov, a creator of the great Russian school of piano performance. Mr. Leonid Treer is Professor of Music/Artist-in-Residence at Florida Atlantic University's School of the Arts in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
He is Artistic Director of FAU Chamber Soloists and founder of Tchaikovsky and Dvorak Festivals, and concert series "Roots of Classical Music".
