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Netanel Draiblate
Netanel Draiblate has won numerous national and international competitions and has performed in recitals and chamber
music concerts in Israel, the United States, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, France, Belgium, Germany, and
Italy. His many awards include the Jerusalem Academy Solo Competition, the Ben-Haim Competition, the Young Artists Competition
in Haifa, and in Peabody’s Yale Gordan Competition. He was also awarded the J.C. Van Hulstein Award, the Carl Holzapfel
Violin Ship Endowed Scholarship, and the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize, all by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.
He made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra and receives regular invitations to
principal positions in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Tel-Aviv Soloists, as well as Concertmaster positions with the
World Youth Orchestra, Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra, Israel Young Philharmonic, and the Chicago College of Performing
Arts Symphony. He is currently the Guest Concertmaster with the Lancaster (PA) Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Draiblate has collaborated with such luminaries as Daniel Stabrawa, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman,
Jaime Laredo, and Lin Cho Liang. Mr. Draiblate has had the honor of representing Israel in a concert hosted by the King of
Norway. He currently studies under Ms. Pamela Frank.
Netanel Draiblate is the first violinist to be supported by the Ilona Feher Foundation. He has received annual scholarships
since 1990 from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation as well as scholarships from the Ronen Foundation, the Barenboim-Said
Foundation, the Buchman Haiman Foundation, and the Peabody Institute.
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Audrey Wozniak
Audrey Wozniak's debut performance of Mendelssohn' Violin Concerto in E Minor with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra marks
the fourth generation in her family to perform with the orchestra. Her family members have performed with the Philharmonic
since the 1940's, including her great-grandfather, both of her grandparents and, currently, her uncle. Ms. Wozniak is a frequent
performer in Texas, and has won seats in local and regional orchestras, chamber groups and as a solo performer. Audrey recently
made her debut on the national stage where she performed Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D. Major with the prestigious ASTA National
High School Honors Orchestra in Santa Clara, California. Over the past couple of years, Audrey has enjoyed performing with
Texas All-State Orchestras and last year won the leadership position of Assistant Concertmaster with the TPSMEA Texas All-State
Orchestra.
Audrey, age 16, is a senior in high school at St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas.
Audrey plays on a 269-year-old, German Barthol Karner violin (1741);the same instrument her great-grandfather performed
on with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Anthony Laciura
Born and educated in New Orleans, Mr. Laciura has been enjoying himself since the age of 12. Following his music and academic
studies at Loyola and Tulane universities, the late Arthur Cosenza, general director of the local opera company, recognized
the youngster's talents as both tenor and actor and assigned him several difficult featured roles, among them Goro in Madama
Butterfly,Monostatos in The Magic Flute,Incredibile in Andrea Chenier Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro,and Spoletta in Tosca.
These roles Laciura would ultimately sing with the Met.
He has also appeared in many musicals. Tony was "Tony" in both West Side Story and The Most Happy Fella, as
well as having roles in The Student Prince and, as Tevye, in Fiddler on the Roof.
Recordings and video productions have only added to the tenor's international reputation as, to quote from the Washington
Post, one of the outstanding character tenors of our time. Headlining the review, the Post blatantly labeled him The Clown
Prince of Opera! The New York Times leading music critic simply stated that he is a master of such parts, and Terence McNally,
during a Met radio broadcast, identified him as a Singer of the Century.
With master classes and directorial work with young opera singers, Laciura is currently stretching his career to include
assignments on the other side of the footlights. Apprentice artists with the Santa Fe Opera and the Glimmerglass Opera have
already enjoyed working with this consummate artist.
Laciura's directing career seems to be gaining momentum with recent projects at New Jersey City University and teaching
stage craft and role interpretation for The Marina Arroyo Foundation.
Mr. Laciura will be starring in the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire, directed by Martin Scorsese to premiere in the fall
of 2010.
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Extraordinary Guest Artists!!!!! Concerts not to be missed!
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