Tickets, at $94, 57, 35, 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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John Leavitt is a composer, conductor, teacher, and church musician, whose music continues to captivate listeners and musicians of all ages. He is a lifetime member of the American Choral Directors Association and is a member of ASCAP, from which he has received annual recognition. Mr. Leavitt was the recipient of the W. A. Young Award for teaching excellence, in recognition of his career at Friends University, and has also served on the faculties of Concordia College, Concordia University, and Newman University. Leavitt currently resides in Wichita, Kansas where he has been the music director at Immanuel Lutheran Church and Cantor at Reformation Lutheran Church. His music appears in many major catalogs and has been performed in 30 countries, while his recordings have been featured nationally on many public radio stations.

Nick Page is a Boston based conductor, composer, author, and song leader who has directed and written for many of North America's great children's choirs. In addition, Nick has led workshops and concerts in over forty states, Europe and Central America and is the director of Boston's 200-voice Mystic Chorale. He has published over fifty choral pieces as well as two books for educators on the benefits of music on all of education.

Musically active throughout the country, soprano Suzanne Woods has performed with the New York City Opera National Company, Nevada Opera, Sarasota Opera, Shreveport Opera, Opera Carolina, Ohio Light Opera, Opera at Florham, Theatre of the Stars, Birmingham Summerfest, Arkansas Symphony, Rhode Island Orchestra, Cobb Symphony, Long Bay Symphony, Pine Bluff Symphony and recorded with Albany Records and Newport Classic.

For more information, please contact David Dutkanicz at 212-239-0205 or ddutkanicz@midamerica-music.com

Tickets, at $94, 57, 35, 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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John Rutter, conductor, a native of London, is well known on both sides of the Atlantic as a composer, conductor, and recording artist. His compositions span choral and orchestral works, carols, school operas, popular music, and music for television. He was director of music at England's Clare College from 1975-79, later forming the Cambridge Singers, a mixed-voice choir that has recorded over two dozen albums, many for his own label, Collegium. In the last few years, several of his recordings have reached Billboard magazine's Classical Top 25 chart. Recently, he initiated the Collegium Choral Series, a music publishing project aimed at making available to choral groups works performed by the Cambridge Singers.

For more information, please contact David Dutkanicz at 212-239-0205 or ddutkanicz@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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Critics have hailed her performances as "masterful." Concert pianist Aglaia Koras made her debut at age eleven with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Recognition by her mentor, Greek pianist Gina Bachauer, drew the attention of Rudolf Serkin, then Director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where Ms. Koras studied for several years on full scholarship with Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. After receiving the Curtis Alumni Award for three consecutive years, she graduated from Curtis with a Bachelor's degree in piano. Rudolf Serkin called her "an excellent pianist, a fine musician," and Horszowski praised her as "a great artist" at her graduation.

In 1983, the City of New York and the Queens Council on the Arts sponsored her New York Debut at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, where she received a standing ovation. She has returned several times to Lincoln Center, and also performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and in major venues throughout the United States as well as France, England, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Canada, and Mexico, including both European and American television and radio broadcasts.

This season, Ms. Koras continues her Beethoven and Chopin Plus series, sponsored by MidAmerica Productions. Last season, Ms. Koras performed an all-Mozart 250th Birthday Tribute concert at Weill Recital Hall to a standing ovation. In recent seasons, Ms. Koras has performed in a special program for the United States Ambassadors in Washington, DC; in recitals at the Kennedy Center; in concerts sponsored by the National Symphony Orchestra; in the Recording Industry's Music Performance Trust Fund as arranged by the American Federation of Musicians; in programs in Spain, Greece, and Brazil; on the Smithsonian website; and in concerts sponsored by the Curtis Alumni and Leschetizky Associations.

Ms. Koras has received top prizes in several international and national piano competitions, including: the International Chopin Young Pianists Competition, first prize; the International American Music Scholarship Association Piano Competition, first prize; the International Concert Artists Guild Competition, "Fine Artistry and Musical Excellence Award"; the National Young Musicians Foundation Competition, first prize; the Koszciusko Foundation Competition; the La Gesse Foundation Fellowship of France; the Adopt-An-Artist Award of New York City; the Ruth Slenszynska Award for Piano, as well as other awards.

In addition to being an active performing artist, Ms. Koras has served on the faculties of Temple University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact David Dutkanicz at 212-239-0205 or ddutkanicz@midamerica-music.com