TAGI Trio

TAGI is unique among chamber groups in that they perform in a flexible format – duos, trios and quartets. Because they are internationally-known soloists as well, they occasionally take a star turn performing a solo on their chamber programs.

As soloists and an ensemble, TAGI has appeared on the world's most prestigious venues including Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, Newport Festival, Illona Feher Festival in Israel, National Arts Center Young Artists in Canada, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Marlboro Festival,Caramoor, Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein and Soestersberg International Music festival (The Netherlands), to mention a few, and has appeared in recitals and concerts in Russia, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Bolivia, Korea, South Africa and the United States.

Performance:

Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
1100 Carter Creek Parkway
Bryan, Texas 77802

Members:

• Grigory Kalinovsky, violin: has been touring the world with concerto engagements, recitals and master classes. In recent years, he has performed with Nashville Symphony (USA), Klassik Philharmonie Hamburg (Germany), KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic (South Africa), Kwang-Ju Symphony (South Korea), Symphony Nova Scotia (Canada), Bolivian National Symphony, and Guatemala Symphony, under the baton of Sidney Harth, Irwin Hoffman, Bernhard Gueller, Robert Stehli and François-Xavier Roth, among others. He has appeared on stages of Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, United Nations Auditorium, and other prestigious venues.
   
  A founding member of the TAGI ensemble, Mr. Kalinovsky has performed at numerous concert series, including Newport Music Festival, Asheville Chamber Series, Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, Lucas Foss Festival at the Hamptons, and Olympic Chamber Music Festival. He has collaborated with such renowned musicians as Pinchas Zukerman, Ralph Kirshbaum, Miriam Fried, James Buswell, Dora Schwarzberg, and Paul Coletti.
   
  As an active educator, Grigory Kalinovsky has taught at Bowdoin International Music Festival, Soesterberg International Music Festival in Holland, Heifetz Summer Music Institute, and Pavel Vernikov’s Festival “Il Violino Magico” in Italy, where he has been invited to perform and teach again in 2009. He has also presented masterclasses at Meadowmount, San Francisco Conservatory, and at major universities in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.
   
  Mr. Kalinovsky has raised many talented students who have won top prizes at national and international competitions, and who have gone on to study at some of the most prestigious conservatories such as Curtis, Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music.
   
  His recording featuring Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata and Twenty-four Preludes for Violin and Piano with pianist Tatiana Goncharova was released worldwide by Centaur Records to great critical acclaim and was hailed by the composer’s son, conductor Maxim Shostakovich, as “a must have for any Shostakovich music connoisseur”. It has been receiving extensive airplay on radio stations throughout US, Canada, and Europe.
   
  Mr. Kalinovsky is currently a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, and Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program in Canada.
• Igor Begelman, clarinet: Mr. Begelman's virtuosity and imagination on his instrument have been praised by critics as "remarkable display of music making" (Daniel Webster, Philadelphia Inquirer) and have earned him an impressive list of awards, engagements and honors.
   
  Winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, a prize awarded to outstanding American artists, Mr. Begelman has appeared as a soloist with the Houston Symphony, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Odense Simfoniker, New Haven, Savannah and Greenwich Symphonies. He has also performed recitals in Western and Eastern Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Israel. In recent seasons Mr. Begelman appeared with the Bangor, Key West, Fairbanks Symphonies, I Musici de Montreal, Astral and Chappaqua Chamber Orchestras as well as in recitals in Philadelphia, at Caramoor and Ravinia Festivals.
   
  An active educator, Mr. Begelman is a professor of Clarinet at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Director of Wind Program at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. He also teaches at Brooklyn and Sarah Lawrence Colleges. He has taught on various occasions at Yale, Juilliard, and Manhattan School of Music in addition to many master classes throughout the US including such festivals as Caramoor and Bowdoin among others.
   
  Equally accomplished as soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Begelman performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has appeared at numerous festivals throughout the world, including Casals, Marlboro, Caramoor, Tucson, Tanglewood and Schleswig-Holstein. An avid proponent of new music, Mr. Begelman has also premiered compositions by Anton Kuerti, Alex Krasotov, Meyer Kupferman, Elliot Schwartz, Jennifer Higdon, Roland Tec and recently a new concerto of Ralph Shapey.
   
  Mr. Begelman was awarded top prizes at the First Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition in Denmark and the 53rd Geneva International Competition in Switzerland. In addition, he has earned top prizes at William C. Byrd Competition, Koussevitsky Competition, International Clarinet Society Competition, Heida Hermanns International Competition, Tilden Prize Competition and Crane New Music Competition among others. His honors also include the Special Prize at the 41st Munich International Competition and awards from the Altamura/Caruso Foundation and Salon de Virtuosi. Mr. Begelman was featured as a special guest in the Music section of "Lifestyles" magazine
   
  Raised in Kiev, Ukraine, Igor Begelman came to the United States in 1989. He received his Master's degree from The Juilliard School of Music and a Bachelor's degree from The Manhattan School of Music. His major teachers include Charles Neidich and Stanley Drucker.
• Tatiana Goncharova, piano: Goncharova has performed throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer for her exceptional musicianship, Ms. Goncharova has appeared with various programs and ensembles 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 who’s been hailed by Washington Post as “a musician on the threshold of a brilliant career “ 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, as well as the Appalachian Summer Music Festival and the Great Composers Festival in Canada where she performed a duo-recital with one of the world’s most celebrated violinists Pinchas Zukerman. In May 2003, Ms. Goncharova performed 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.
   
  Being a resident artist of the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, she founded TAGI ensemble with Sophie Shao, 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, pre-college division of the Manhattan School of Music in New York, Zukerman Performance Program, and formerly at the Perlman Music Program, Fordham University and Illona Feher Festival in Israel. She is also 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.
   
  Ms. Goncharova is a winner of numerous prizes and awards, including Olga Koussevitzky Piano Competition, Bergen Philharmonic Concerto Competition, Moscow Conservatory Concerto Competition and 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.