Edna Landau has dedicated nearly 40 years of her life to the field of artist management. She was a Director of IMG Artists from its founding in 1984 until her departure from the company in October of 2007. Her global vision, passion for the arts and uncompromising work ethic played a major role in launching this unique company, which is now the only truly international performing arts management company in the world. At IMG Artists, Ms. Landau personally looked after the career of the world’s premier violinist, Itzhak Perlman, for 21 years and launched the careers of current musical superstars such as pianists Evgeny Kissin and Lang Lang, violinist Hilary Hahn and conductors Franz Welser-Most and Alan Gilbert.  She participated in the international strategic planning that contributed to IMG Artists gaining its current pre-eminent international standing and oversaw its operations in North America.

In June of 2008, the Colburn School in Los Angeles announced the creation of a new position for Ms. Landau. In her role of Director of Career Development, she designed a special curriculum intended to broaden the horizons of its students and enhance their preparedness for post-conservatory life. She also offered personalized one-on-one career counseling to the students. Ms. Landau held this position for three years and has continued to offer career advice to its alumni.

In September 2013, Ms. Landau was invited to work with students at The Juilliard School as a special career consultant. She greatly enjoys the one-on-one guidance and strategic planning that she offers the students, as well as the seminars and guest talks that have been part of her responsibilities.

Edna Landau’s intense desire to help young performing artists and advocate on their behalf inspired her to write a comprehensive article entitled “Getting Noticed in the 21st Century”, which was published in Musical America’s 2011 Directory. That association led to the creation of Ms. Landau’s career advice blog, “Ask Edna,” which was hosted by Musical America for three and a half years and which drew a large international readership each week. The columns remain available on Musical America’s website.

Edna Landau has been frequently invited to lecture at college and conservatory campuses and to meet with students in career training programs. She also offers consulting services to individual artists and to non-profit organizations such as the Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, which she helped to found as a fundraising arm of the celebrated orchestra.

Ms. Landau received her B.A. in Music and M.A. in Musicology from City College and the City University of New York. She was on the faculty of the prestigious High School of Music and Art in New York for five years. Longing to be more closely associated with performing artists, she became Assistant to the Director of Young Concert Artists in 1974. In 1979, she joined up with Charles Hamlen to launch Hamlen/Landau Management, a unique agency that was dedicated to the representation of extraordinary artists and to extending to them and to presenters an unparalleled level of service and integrity. The company quickly gained recognition and attracted the attention of International Management Group’s Chairman, Mark McCormack, who acquired it in 1984 and re-named it IMG Artists.

Edna Landau’s many years of dedication to the field of arts management have been the subject of a CNN documentary on their series entitled “Movers”, broadcast internationally in the year 2000. She was also featured in New York Magazine’s May 15, 2006 issue entitled “The Influentials” in which she was described as “the intensely coveted, hugely devoted grande dame of New York managers who inspires a rare level of trust and commitment from her clients.”  In January of 2008, the International Society of the Performing Arts awarded Ms. Landau their International Citation of Merit, recognizing her Lifetime Achievement in the performing arts. From 2009 to 2015, she was proud to be a member of the Board of Directors of Chamber Music America.

Goldstein is the fourth generation in a family of musicians. He has worked extensively with Israel’s leading artists contributing his skills as a producer, arranger, programmer and keyboard player/pianist. Goldstein is also a current member of the Israeli “Kochav Nolad” (Israeli Idol) band.

He has scored music for movie soundtracks and critically acclaimed Israeli and international TV productions.

In 2012, Goldstein launched his own stock music library called ‘AGsoundtrax‘ and started licensing music for films, commercials and new media.

In 2013, Goldstein began developing web apps as the ‘Tags Generator’ which helps socials marketers to build generated #hashtags, and also the ‘AG Watermark Generator’ which helps musicians to protect their online music by adding an audio watermark files signatures.

In 2016, Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton licensed Goldstein’s music for their election campaigns. In 2017, he founded ‘Sampleso’ – a company that creates music samples for KONTAKT (Native Instruments).

Goldstein is currently working on a variety of live and studio projects for commercials, TV, Film & New Media.

Bruce has been called a renaissance man. At age 15 he sang in the choir for Duke Ellington and by 19 was playing The Boy in the world’s longest running musical, The Fantasticks, in a run lasting more than 800 performances. Trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he has performed in Shakespeare in the Park, television commercials and films, ran a small art business based in New York City, and was a founding member of ODC, San Francisco’s premiere dance company.

He left his musical theater career to join the vibrant California business community and founded and/or managed innovative businesses in the health care arena. Bruce continues to consult to health care organizations globally and has recently co-developed an app called Timeout2Thrive, designed to aid frontline healthcare and essential workers during this period of unprecedented stress and crisis. He was a founding director of the acclaimed HeartMath Institute and CEO of HeartMath LLC for 11 years, during which time his clients included Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, NASA, The World Bank, Unilever, Shell, Prudential Financial, the NHS, Cathay Pacific Airways, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Cisco Systems, and Yosemite National Park.

He has taught global executives at Stanford Business School, Columbia University Executive Program, Haas Business School at University of California Berkeley, and Nanyang Polytechnic University in Singapore. After fully recovering from a two-year health ordeal, he began to sing and dance again through a project he developed called What Makes Your Heart Sing, co-created with multi-Emmy award winning composer Gary Malkin. In 2017 he recorded his first album of original songs, entitled Renaissance Human, co-produced by gifted singer/songwriter/recording artists the Brothers Koren — Isaac and Thorald Koren.

His years in both the business and performing arts worlds led him to develop a body of work on Awakening Creativity called Renaissance Human, which is now being taught at Stanford University, University of Delaware, the New York Open Center, 1440 Multiversity in Silicon Valley, the European Transformational Teachers Gathering, and elsewhere. In 2018 he returned to NYC and rejoined the arts scene here. He has performed at the Norwood Club, Pangea, Don’t Tell Mama, the United Palace Theater, and St. Clements Theater and Church.

His digital photography is available through Instagram and Facebook. He is part of the vocal ensemble at St Clements Church and Theater performing a program each week called Peaceable Hour.

Yefim Maizel has more than 37 years of experience directing opera and musical theater productions internationally. He has directed 61 original productions of both opera and operetta for opera houses of all sizes, and has worked with major opera stars as well as young professional and emerging singers. Formally trained, holding a degree in Opera Stage Direction and a Master’s degree in Music, his love for interpreting the music score, his passion for theater, and deep insight into human emotion and behavior transform opera into storytelling at its best.

For the last 18 seasons Yefim has been a Guest Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera, after working for 8 seasons with San Francisco Opera.

In 2005, Mr. Maizel established the Opera Academy of California (OAC), a non-profit 501(c)3 educational organization, where he serves as CEO, Artistic Director and Stage Director. In 2011, in addition to intimate theater performances, master classes, opera appreciation classes and programs for children, OAC opened the first Summer Program for Emerging Singers, which became one of the cornerstones of the OAC’s vision of ensuring that opera as musical theater remains alive and relevant.

In the last several years, Yefim directed productions of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” and “Nabucco” in Kazan, Russia. The productions have had great success both with critics and audiences. A prestigious opera festival named after Chaliapin in Kazan Opera Theater, Russia opened with his production of “Il Trovatore”on the 1st of February, 2016 and with “Nabucco” in 2018.

Yefim Maizel will be directing the operatic masterpiece “Bluebeard’s Castle” by Bartok for the Opera Academy of California in 2019.

Virginia Grasso, a native New Yorker, has been performing since the age of 13. She won her first vocal award at the age of 17 and went on to win seven more.

She was a principle artist with New York City Opera for 8 years. As a bel canto specialist, Virginia has also been presented at Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Teatro Cervantes, Malaga, Spain; The San Francisco Opera; Washington Opera; Teatro Sao Carlo, Lisbon; Grand Theatre of Geneva; Cape Town Opera, South Africa; Alfredo Kraus Theatre, Canary Islands; Teatro Colon, Bogota;  Opera Grand Rapids, Michigan; Fort Worth Opera, Texas; Gold Coast Opera, Florida; The Sinaloa Festival, Mexico; and Opera Orchestra of New York.

Her roles included: Norma; Violetta, La Traviata; Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni; Alaida, La Straniera; Elizabetta, Roberto Devereux; Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor; Gilda, Rigoletto; Musetta, La Boheme; Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro; Adele, Die Fledermaus; Micaela, Carmen; Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi.

Virginia excelled as a soloist in many concert and oratorio performances on such stages as The Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, Italy; Palau de la Musica in Barcelona; Casa Verdi in Milan; Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City; New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Bruno Walter Recital Hall; Donnell Library Series; and in concerts with The New Jersey Symphony, Haifa Symphony, The Grace Choral Society, The Collegiate Choral, The Berkshire Festival, and The Brooklyn Philharmonic, – performing works of Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Honegger, Mozart, Poulenc, Schubert, Vivaldi, and others.

Since 2000, Virginia has dedicated her time to teaching voice full time. Occasionally teaching through her performing years, she now has over 30 years experience teaching voice.

Her students have performed at The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, on Broadway, regionally and internationally. She facilitates singer forums and Master Classes. In 2001, she was honored with an invitation to give a series of Master Classes on the Art of Bel Canto singing in Tokyo, Japan.  She has also been invited to give Master Classes for Opera Noire of New York and has been a frequent guest speaker with the Exploring Opera series in San Francisco and New York City.

Virginia is an approved voice teacher for the Lindemann Young Artist Program at The Met and has a professional affiliation with Hunter College in NYC. She has studios in Midtown and Upper Manhattan. She also teaches in San Francisco on occasion.

Top recording artists and violinists Angela & Jennifer Chun are trailblazing string duo and multi-genre artists. Known for their sheer energy and synchronized style, they are one of the most unique and exciting ensemble in classical music.

This award-winning duo has garnered critical acclaim for their concerts, including music festivals and performances with London Bach Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra in the Washington, DC Kennedy Center.

As advocates for new music, this duo works with modern composers Gyorgy Kurtag, Gyorgy Ligeti, Sebastian Currier, Kaija Saariaho, Philip Glass, Isang Yun, George Tsontakis. New York’s Metropolitan Opera’s new production, Two Boys, by young American composer Nico Muhly, lead Muhly to write two violins and piano work for Chun.

As exclusive recording artists for Harmonia Mundi, their recordings have climbed to the top of the charts on Billboard & iTunes over the last decade. Their Infinity Projects is a collaborative production with broad specs. This year’s program includes choreography, Jonah Bokaer and famed architect Charles Renfro to present a stage performance that truly crosses genres.

Beyond the classical music world, the Chuns were honored by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as United Nation’s Messengers for Peace.  Their goal is to focus on political and global peace through music to generate awareness in the belief that the power of music can truly change people and societies.

Angela and Jennifer have met with world leaders and politicians attending Aspen Institute, Davos World Economic Forum, and the Yalta YES European Conference to discuss such issues as how music can unite people in conflicted areas of the world. They have closely followed conductor and peace maker Daniel Barenbiom and Israeli & Palestinian musicians Divan Orchestra, and lobbied tirelessly on behalf of bringing peace through music. Oct 2016, their UN day performance at the UN assembly was live-broadcasted simultaneously to 193 centuries.

Angela and Jennifer are visiting professors & string mentors of London’s Royal Academy of Music. 2020 Sisters will present “Infinity Project 2020” in Bing Performing Arts Center as Artists Residents in Stanford University.

“The intense, telepathic communication between the virtuosic Chun sisters makes for a powerful listening experience …”  Gramophone

Joseph “Yossi” Somer is an award-winning Norwegian-Israeli film industry professional and entrepreneur, based in Nesodden (a peninsula in the Oslo fjord). Across a forty year career, his work has won eight Israeli Academy Awards, two Gold Medals and one Bronze Medal at Worldfest Houston, and numerous awards and citations at various prestigious international film events. The Economist named him as one of the pioneers of cinematic “magical realism” because of his utilization of computer-generated images in motion picture production (Dybbuk).

Yossi has cooperated with legendary musician Roger Waters of Pink Floyd on the original motion picture soundtrack for his film, The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field. The soundtrack album that Yossi produced, involving DJ Dorfmeister of Vienna and DJ Shantel of Frankfurt, won best soundtrack in 1998. Yossi has also worked with Norwegian master jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek, who wrote the original soundtrack for his film Burning Memory. In 1983, he created what is considered to be Israel’s first music video, Don’t Light Me a Candle. He also produced and directed the music video, Shake our Pom Pom, for Kohinoor, Norway’s Woman of the Year in 2007. Yossi has collaborated with the late director Fred Zinneman (High Noon, Julia, Oklahoma) and German film producer Klaus Hellwig (The Lace Maker, F for Fake, and Providence).

He studied at the London Film School from late director Charles Crichton (Fish called Wanda) and established the Theater Seeking Youth organization at Haifa Theater. Yossi has also worked for Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures as Property Master and has supervised more than 75 successful projects that were the foundation of an education plan delivered to the Israeli Ministry of Education’s Film & Communication Department for 3D, animation and VFX. Yossi is a highly experienced expert in the IT-Entertainment domain as CEO and platform content developer, and is currently involved in a new initiative developing content for an Art & Technology project within the AR domain.

The Eye in the Wood, Yossi’s recent art exhibition, opened in Sweden April 2020, followed by two other exhibitions in Scandinavia May-Aug 2020. His newest large-scale art project, 77 Window Plates, is executed in cooperation with Statsbygg, the Norwegian Government real estate portfolio agency, managing also the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard.

Yossi is a social entrepreneur seeking new peaceful ways of connecting between opposing cultures locally and globally, using his artistic soft skills as bridge builder by nature to create new ways of communication.

Roman Markowicz, the Polish born pianist, has been a New York resident for nearly half a century.

Graduating from Manhattan School of Music with the Harold Bauer Award (B.M.), as a student of Artur Balsam, Markowics then continued his piano studies in the Juilliard School (M.M.), taking lessons from Ania Dorfman.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Markowicz has performed throughout the Eastern United States and in Europe.

For the last three decades, Mr. Markowicz has been active as a music reviewer for Polish-language publications on both sides of the ocean (Nowy Dziennik, Kurier Plus, Ruch Muzyczny). Three seasons ago, he joined the New York staff of the well-known French classical music website Concertonet.com as an English language contributor and critic.