General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Grand-prize winner of the 2004 Carmel Music Society Competition, pianist Judy Huang brings sensitivity, depth, and richness to her music through her versatility, lyricism, and masterful technique. Peninsula Reviews praised her as "a musician who exuded charm and enormous authority in her playing." She was heralded by the Los Angeles Times: "Huang is a quicksilver player, who is already one of UCLA's rising young stars." At her Weill Recital Hall debut in January 2006, The New York Concert Review praised Ms. Huang's "lustrous singing tone and heartfelt simplicity," and remarked that she displayed "admirable serious substance... decidedly to her credit."

Ms. Huang has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Peninsula Symphony, the Ventura Symphony, the Rio Hondo Symphony, the Redlands Symphony, and the Riverside Symphony. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with members of Pacific Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Highlights of Ms. Huang's upcoming season include concerts in Irvine Barcley Theater, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Nixon Library Concert Series, and with Valley Symphony Orchestra. Sharing her passion for music, Ms. Huang is dedicated to community outreach programs and, with the sponsorship of the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, has provided concerts to local hospitals, schools, and senior centers.

Ms. Huang received both her BA and MM degrees from UCLA. She has studied with Robert Turner, Ming Qiang Li, Aube Tzerko, and Vitaly Margulis. Currently, she is completing her DMA dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles and serves faculties at Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana and International Institute for Young Musicians in Irvine, California.

Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 265 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Now in its 15th season, The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA), Atlanta's largest and most active chamber music organization, is coming to Manhattan with some of the city's finest resident musicians. On Saturday, February 24, at 8:30 p.m., the society will present a concert of both classical and jazz music, performed by the Gary Motley Jazz Quartet, the Vega String Quartet, and ECMSA artistic director, William Ransom on piano. The recital, titled "Jazz Meets Classics," has been put together to present classical music that influenced jazz and jazz that was in turn influenced by classical.

The Gary Motley Jazz Quartet includes Gary Motley, piano; Dwight Andrews, saxophone; Lorenzo Sanford, drums; and Moffett Morris, bass.

Gary Motley, jazz pianist and composer, has worked with artists ranging from Dave Brubeck to Clarke Terry. He has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Soapstone Center for the Arts, the Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and the American Composers Forum. Gary has also been featured in Downbeat Magazine and on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland (NPR). He is a member of the faculty of the music department at Emory University where he teaches jazz improvisation and directs the jazz combos.

Dwight Andrews, saxophone, joined the Emory College faculty in 1987. A native of Detroit, Dr. Andrews is an associate professor of music theory and African-American music at Emory University and senior minister of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Atlanta. Andrews served as music director for the Broadway productions of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Fences, The Piano Lesson, and Seven Guitars. Andrews's film credits include PBS Hollywood's The Old Settler, Louis Massiah's documentary films W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices and Louise Alone Thompson: In Her Own Words, Charlene Gilbert's Homecoming, the Hallmark Hall of Fame's The Piano Lesson, HBO's Miss Evers' Boys, and the theme for the PBS documentary on African-American contributions to the arts in the 20th century entitled I'll Make Me a World.

Moffett Morris, bassist, originally from Rochester, NY, began performing with Atlanta musicians in 1989 at Markos, with the Milkshake Quartet and the Modern Jazz Septet under the direction of Bill Branyon. He has served as a sideman with Kim Rushing and Gary Motley, and played at the Sambuca Jazz Café and Churchill Grounds in Atlanta.

The Vega String Quartet was recently named the first-ever String Quartet in Residence at Emory University after previously acting as quartet-in-residence at the Van Cliburn Institute and performing on the artist roster of Carnegie Hall's New York City Neighborhood Concert series. In the 2003-04 season, they joined the Community Concerts Association touring ensembles as the only string quartet on the roster. The quartet's live broadcast credits include NPR's Performance Today (USA), the National Radio of China, Shanghai TV, Radio France, France Musiques, German National Radio, and the National Radio of the Czech Republic.

The Vega Quartet has won numerous international competitions and has performed around the world in major venues in Asia, Europe, and the United States, and the members have collaborated with some of the world's finest musicians including Yehudi Menuhin, Richard Stoltzman, Charles Wadsworth, Robert McDuffie, Christopher O'Riley, and Eliot Fisk. In January, they performed at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall with marimbist Mika Yoshida.

Pianist William Ransom has appeared as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in Europe, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South America, Ireland, and throughout the United States. He has collaborated with musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, Robert McDuffie, Stephen Isserlis, and members of the Tokyo, Cleveland, and Lark Quartets, the Empire Brass Quintet and the percussion group Nexus, among others. As a teacher, he has also performed and given master classes at numerous college campuses, including Yale, Duke, Cornell, MIT, Stanford and Vanderbilt. Ransom is the founder and artistic director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta.

Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 265 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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Michael Parloff, principal flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, will be presenting a recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on February 11, 2007 at 8:30 p.m. He will be accompanied by an all-star line-up of performers, with includes Barbara Barrie, speaker; John Novacek, piano; David Chan, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Rafael Figueroa, cello; and Deborah Hoffman, harp.

The concert will feature pieces by Erwin Schulhoff, Claude Debussy, Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Joseph Jongen.

Michael Parloff has been playing for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1977 and has been a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music since 1985. In addition, he also performs regularly as a recitalist and concerto soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Japan.

Barbara Barrie, speaker, will be performing with Mr. Parloff. Through Ms. Barrie's long and successful acting career, she has performed On- and Off-Broadway, in films, and on television. She won the best actress award at the Cannes film festival for the 1964 movie, One Potato, Two Potato. More recently, her appearances on Law and Order and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit earned her an Emmy award nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series and a nomination for outstanding guest actress in a drama series, respectively.

David Chan, violin, and concertmaster of the Met, made his Carnegie Hall debut during the 2002-2003 season performing the Brahms Double Concerto with Rafael Figueroa and the Met Orchestra under conductor James Levine. He gained international recognition at the age of 17 when he won the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East.

John Novacek, piano, regularly tours North and Central America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and China as both a recitalist and a concerto soloist. As a soloist he has presented more than 20 different concertos with dozens of orchestras. In addition, he has been a featured performer on both the Tonight Show and Entertainment Tonight.

Hsin-Yun Huang, viola, has appeared as a soloist with the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Russian State Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Zagrab Soloists, the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony of Taiwan, to name a few. At 17, she was the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. She is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School and the Mannes College of Music.

Puerto Rican-born cellist Rafael Figueroa has been established as one of the most sought-after cellists of his generation, having appeared in numerous performances throughout the United States, Europe, Central and South Americas, Japan, and Puerto Rico. He is currently the principal cellist at the Met, as well as being active in a number of chamber music ensembles, including the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, the Met Chamber Ensemble with James Levine, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, the Morgan Library Chamber Music Series, and Bargemusic.

Deborah Hoffman has been principal harpist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1986. She is also solo harpist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City. Ms. Hoffman was the first prizewinner of the 1981 American Harp Society Competition, and in 1978 was a top prizewinner in the Seventh International Harp Competition in Israel. In 1983 she was chosen to represent the United States in a recital at the First World Harp Congress in the Netherlands.

Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 265 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com.

Tickets, at $94, 57, 38, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com.

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The Schubert Mass in G is an extraordinarily lyrical work, its movements almost like a series of songs. Mozart's two settings of the antiphonal anthem to the Virgin, Regina Coeli, for solo soprano, chorus and orchestra, were composed for use in the Salzberg Cathedral. The first, K.108, is a festive work; the second, K. 127, is a short work that is alternately lyrical and sensitive, and festive and joyous.

Contemporary composer Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna is a setting of five sacred Latin texts, all containing references to light. It is paired on the program with the world premiere of Arise, Shine by Dan Forrest, which was written as a contrasting companion piece to the Lauridsen.

Solveig Holmquist is associate professor of music, director of choral activities and co-head of the music department at Western Oregon University. Guest conducting appearances include the Spokane Festival of the Arts, the Colorado Western Region Honor Choir, and the Anchorage High Schools Choral Festival. As an associate conductor-in-residence for MidAmerica Productions in New York, she is making her fourth appearance conducting on the Carnegie Hall stage, with WOU Chamber Singers as the core ensemble. Ms. Holmquist is the founder and artistic director of the Festival Chorale Oregon, a civic choir in its 26th season that has enjoyed performing tours through Germany, France, Scandinavia, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Spain.

Duane R. Karna, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities, oversees the University of Nevada, Reno choral program, which consists of some seven vocal ensembles. Under Mr. Karna's direction, the Nevada Chamber Choir toured southern Germany and Austria in January 2004 and was in residence at the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf, Germany. In January 2006, the Reno Chamber Singers were in residence for one week at the Bavarian Music Academy, where they participated in a workshop on the choral music of Lithuania.

Mr. Karna is also an accomplished singer and collaborated with Sten Ternström from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, on writing the chapter "Choir" in The Science of Psychology and Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning, which was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.

Tracy Resseguie has served as the director of choral activity at Shawnee Mission East High School for the last nine years. Under his direction, the choral program has expanded to five choirs comprising of more than 370 singers. Mr. Resseguie's choirs have been titled grand champion, outstanding small chamber choir, and outstanding large concert choir at the Winter Park Ski Music Festival. Mr. Resseguie and the Shawnee Mission East Choraliers have performed in Italy, Germany, England and Ireland.

Lyric coloratura soprano Evelyn Pollock has performed over 20 diverse operatic roles in venues including Wolf Trap; with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony; with Tulsa, Santa Fe, Central City, and Palm Beach Operas; and with the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera, the Western Opera Theatre Tour, and the Accademia Verdiana in Busseto, Italy. As a Minnesota Opera resident artist, Ms. Pollock earned rave reviews for her Gilda in Rigoletto and, as a last-minute substitute, in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia opposite Bruce Ford's Gennaro. Concert credits include soloist appearances in Handel's Messiah, Poulenc's Stabat Mater, Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras, Orff's Carmina Burana, Copland's In the Beginning, Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass, and Bach's B-Minor Mass.

John Bernard, tenor, has sung as a soloist with the Westchester Oratorio Society, the New Haven Symphony, the Utah Symphony, Central Synagogue's "Prism Concerts" and Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. Mr. Bernard has also sung under the baton of Anton Coppola, George Manahan, Gerald Steichen, and Keith Lockhart. Additionally, he has performed roles with DiCapo Opera Theatre, El Paso Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Utah Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Sarasota Opera.

Acclaimed for his commanding stage presence and powerful baritone voice, Brett Hyberger has had the pleasure to perform for Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Chattanooga Opera, DuPage Opera, Light Opera Works, L'opera Piccola, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and Portland Opera, among others. Brett was selected as a Regional Soloist Winner for the Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee, which provided the opportunity to work with Pennsylvanian composer Richard Wargo and perform under the direction of Richard Hynson. Brett was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Schoenberg's Moses und Aron in Berlin, Germany under the baton of Pierre Boulez.

Over the past 23 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 870 concerts worldwide and more than 740 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

More than 2500 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have more than 100 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 650 solo artists, and over 100,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall.

In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Susan Case at 212-239-0205 or scase@midamerica-music.com