SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ArtistsARTISTS: Roster Violinist Donna Fairbanks - Dr. Fairbanks is Chair of the Department of Music at Utah Valley University, where she is an Associate Professor, Coordinator of the String Area, and Member of the Atma String Quartet and the Aurora Duo. She maintains an active concert schedule, appearing as a soloist and chamber artist. She has soloed with the Charleston Symphony, Utah Symphony, Orquestra Sinfônica de Londrina in Brazil, the Utah Valley Symphony, the Utah Valley University Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, the Eastern Arizona College Orchestra, and the Sun Valley Festival Orchestra. Recent chamber and recital venues include the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands, the Schumann in Zwickau Festival in Germany, the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, the Ghent Festival in Belgium, the Hagibor Center in Prague, and the Nanjing Normal University in China. As a member of the Aurora Duo with harpist Lysa Rytting, her recordings include Melodie (MSR Classics), and The Aurora Duo (4TAY Records). Selections from these recordings are featured on major public radio stations and networks, among them WNYC and WWFM New York City, WGBH Boston, WFMT Chicago, WRTI Philadelphia, WXXI Rochester (NY), WABE Atlanta, WPRB Princeton, WQED Pittsburgh, WUOL Louisville, KMFA Austin, KING Seattle, KBPS Portland, WSHU Connecticut, KHFM New Mexico, WFSU Florida, KVNO Omaha, WSCL Delmarva Public Radio, KMST Missouri, Minnesota Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and the Beethoven Satellite Network. Violinist Cynthia V. Richards, Author and Teacher Cynthia Richards began her study of the violin at age eight. She has maintained a successful private teaching studio since 1964 and performs as a free-lance violinist. She pursued performance and teaching skills in America and Europe, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in violin performance from Brigham Young University (BYU). Her teachers include David Dalton, Percy Kalt, Elaine Richey and Franz Samohyl. A faculty member at BYU from 1996 to 2005, Cynthia taught violin and the innovative String Pedagogy class for teaching young children, based on Kodály principles of music education. She continues her teaching at Utah Valley University and in the Provo School District. Her first book, How to Get Your Child to Practice... Without Resorting to Violence , has received wide popular acceptance. She recently co-authored The Complete Musician -- Violin Books One, Two and Three and The Complete Musician -- Cello Book One with Jerry L. Jaccard and Monica Call. She is the mother of eight children, all successful musicians, who served as her laboratory subjects in preparing this book. Violinist Yeagi Kim Broadwell Heralded for her “perfect performance” on Korean Times of Utah, violinist Yeagi Kim Broadwell has a unique international background. She has performed and studied in Korea, Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Czech Republic, and the United States. Musicians she has collaborated with include Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Eugene Ugorsky, members of Calefax Reed Quintet, Jenny Oaks Baker, Bryn Terfel, Michael Bublé, members of Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and members of Utah Symphony. Ms. Broadwell has also been featured in master classes with David Kim, the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Philharmonic, and Igor Frolov, resident composer and professor of music at the Moscow Conservatory. A native of Busan, South Korea, Ms. Broadwell demonstrated talent and passion for music at an early age, studying piano with her mother at the age of five and taking up the violin at seven. Prestigious competitions won include the Dongpaek Young Musicians Regional Competition, Open Siberian Competition for Young Composers, and Riverton Metropolitan Orchestra Competition for Young Artists. She has also participated in the International Festival of Twentieth-Century Young Musicians in Moscow, Idyllwild Music Festival, and Killington Music Festival in the US. Ms. Broadwell’s list of prestigious international venues, includes the Concertgebouw Hall, the Doelen in the Netherlands, Queen Elizabeth Hall in Belgium, and the University of Cambridge in England. Violinist Blanka Bednarz is an alumna of the Jadwiga Kaliszewska Talent School in Poznan, Poland, the University of Kansas (BM, summa cum laude) and the New England Conservatory (MM, summa cum laude and D.M.A.). She studied with Eric Rosenblith, Michelle Auclair, Ben Sayevich and (viola with) James Dunham. Bednarz’s chamber music coaches include members of the Ying, Cavani, Borromeo Quartets, and Patricia Zander. As soloist she has performed, among others, with the Connecticut Virtuosi, Symphony and Chamber orchestras of the New England Conservatory, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Polonia, Dickinson College Orchestra, Central Pennsylvania Symphony, and the Delaware County Symphony. The violinist performs in the USA, United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, China, the Netherlands and Lithuania, among others at the Jordan Hall in Boston, Carnegie Hall and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Miller Hall, Philadelphia Ethical Society, Kosciuszko Foundation House, Groβer Sendesaal des Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg, Groβer Sendesaal des Landesfunkhauses Hannover, Beijing Concert Hall and A. Mickiewicz University Auditorium in Poznan. She can be heard on Capstone Records, Acte Préalable and Musica Omnia. Violist Leslie Harlow, Founder/Director of the Park City Beethoven Festival, is both a solo and chamber performer. Leslie Harlow has performed as violist in chamber concerts with many of the finest artists of this era. Some of the artists are more known to the general public, such as violinists Charles Libove, Glenn Dicterow, Paul Rosenthal, Bill Preucil, Elmar Oliviera, Shlomo Mintz and Joseph Silverstein, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellists Jeffrey Solow, Mark Kosower, but Ms. Harlow is proud to note that the classical music world is filled with wonderfully gifted artists that she has had the privilege of performing alongside in chamber music throughout her career as a violist. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Leslie Harlow performed in master classes for William Primrose, Paul Doktor, Donald McGinnis, Heidi Castleman and Nabuko Imai and her primary teachers were Marna Street, Susan Schoenfeld, Paul Doktor, and violinist Harry Shub with additional lessons with Heidi Castleman, Donald Wright and Francis Tursi. She studied chamber music with Felix Galimer, Samuel Rhodes, David Soyer, Paul Doktor, Charles Castleman, Robert Sylvester and Julius Baker. Following graduation from Juilliard, Ms Harlow founded the Deer Valley (Utah) Chamber Music Festival in 1984. Renamed the Park City Beethoven Festival, the festival continues as Utah's oldest classical music festival, now having presented over 650 concerts. Leslie Harlow also founded and directs the Park City Film Music Festival. An active recording artist, both in chamber music and in commercial studio work, Ms. Harlow's viola solos can be heard on a number of film scores for major films including "Murder in the First" and "Surviving Picasso." Cellist Cheung Chau began cello lessons at age seven and soon received top prizes at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, including first prize at the Commercial Radio Prize Competition at age twelve – the youngest musician ever to receive this prize. At fourteen, he was invited to perform as soloist, playing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The Sing Tao Daily described him as "a rare gem in the musical field". Mr. Chau was a full scholarship recipient from the R. D. Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, the Harid Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. He won the first prize in the "Artist of Tomorrow" competition in Los Angeles, among others. He holds the first double doctorate awarded from the New England Conservatory in Boston in wind ensemble conducting and cello performance. His cello teachers include Colin Carr, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Aldo Parisot and Johanne Perrron. He also played in master classes for Yo-Yo Ma, Ralph Kirshbaum and Lawrence Lesser. Dr. Chau performs as a soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Hong Kong, Macao, China, Germany, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden and Finland. He performed as a soloist with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Chamber Orchestra, Hemet Symphony Orchestra, Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra and recorded for Hong Kong Radio and Television Corporation, China Central Television, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Acte Préalable, Irish Radio and was heard on Polish Radio Merkury and TVP Poznan. He has performed in Merkin Hall and Yale Club in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Fine Arts Recital Hall at Ambassador College as well as performing in Miami, Providence, Salt Lake City, Stockholm, Warsaw, Beijing and Sardinia. He is a member of Atma Piano Trio, with pianist Slawomir Dobrzanski and violinist Blanka Bednarz. The ensemble performs worldwide in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Lithuania, China, many times in the US, and has toured extensively in Poland. Their concerts merited high critical acclaim and have broken several audience attendance records. Chau can be heard both as cellist and conductor on a CD released by Polish label Acte Préalable (AP0181) in works by Roman Palester and Paul Kletzki, as well as on CD with Atma Trio, AP0172, Acte Préalable. He participated also on the recording of "Maria Szymanowska Complete Piano Works" released in2013