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Pianist-conductor, NORMA MEYER has an active performing career in
chamber music and accompanying. As a young performer, she won
numerous competitions - one resulted in the premiere of Kabalevsky's
Third Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent
performances include collaborations with members of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, as well as with her son, Ranaan, a bassist (Time for Three).
Norma has been a member of the Grand Piano Orchestra and has been
featured in productions of "Grandissimo.” Her work with youth orchestras
has been widely praised. Norma holds music performance degrees
from the Philadelphia Music Academy and Temple University.

Born into a musical family in Bucks County, PA, RANDALL HARTMAN
began taking piano lessons from his mother at age 6. Randall and his
two brothers had weekly music lessons, and their father sang with the
Trenton Opera Company. A church organist at fourteen, Randall went
on to tour with the Hartman Brothers, a duo-piano team. He has also
appeared with the Grand Piano Orchestra. Hartman maintains a private
studio in Pipersville, PA, and has served on the faculty of Eastern
University, in St. Davids, PA. Randall has degrees in piano performance
from Houghton College and Temple University, and is Founder-
President of a not-for-profit, Hartman Concert Artists, celebrating the
Arts in Bucks County.

VITALIJ KUPRIJ began his piano studies at Kiev's Mykola Lyssenko
Music Academy for highly talented students with Professor Nina
Najditsch. After graduation he studied with Vienna's Rudolph
Buchbinder at the world reknown Basel Conservatoire in Switzerland.
Upon recommendation by Sir James Galway, he furthered his studies
with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Vitalij made his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall in 1999 and his solo
recital debut there in 2006. When he is not touring, Vitalij can be
found teaching, giving master classes and working on his most
demanding project to date; composing and finishing his own
piano concerto to be dedicated to the memory of his late father and
mentor, a professor of trombone and music theory at a conservatory
in the Ukraine. Visit Vitalij's website.

Israeli musician Michal Schmidt is pianist and cellist living in Philadelphia. She teaches at Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore colleges as well as the University of PA. From 2000-2008 she was a Contributing Artist at Dickinson College. Michal is a member of numerous performing groups in the Philadelphia area including the Hildegard Chamber Players, Four Horizons and the Network of New Music. She studied at the Curtis in Institute of Music and later got her Masters degree at the University of the Arts. Michal completed her DMA at Temple University in 2002. Interested in new music, she has collaborated with composers in the US and abroad.. She has performed works of Richard Wernick, Osvaldo Golijov, Jay Reise, Ingrid Arauco, Jan Radzynski, Sylvia Glickman, Margaret Garwood, Cynthia Folio and many others. As an accompanist, Michal works regularly with singers and string players. Please visit Michal's website www.michalschmidt.com

The founder of Piano4, JOHN KOZAR is the Music Director of the
Grand Piano Orchestra, and producer of the multi-media production,
Grandissimo. John Kozar, applauded on five continents as conductor
and concerto soloist, has performed throughout the United States and
Mexico, in Britain, Europe, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Australia, New
Zealand, and China—from Adelaide to London, where he made his
British concerto debut with the London Philharmonic in a Royal Gala.

Kozar has graduate degrees from Indiana University in piano performance
and conducting, and is listed in the International Who's Who in Music, and
American Keyboard Artists.