Janet Williams is an American soprano who has won international critical acclaim for performances at the Metropolitan Opera, etc, with conductors including which  internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor?
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Janet Williams (soprano) Janet Williams is an American soprano who has won international critical acclaim for performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opera de Lyon, Nice Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opera Geneva, Frankfurt Opera, Cologne Opera, Leipzig Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Dallas Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre as well as in concerts throughout Europe, North America, Canada, Israel and Japan with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Myung-whun Chung, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Marek Janowski, Neeme Järvi, Raymond Leppard, Fabio Luisi, Sir Neville Marriner, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, John Nelson, Donald Runnicles, Gerard Schwarz and Michael Tilson Thomas.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (Russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи , "Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi"; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He is originally from Russia and has held Icelandic citizenship since 1972. He has lived in Switzerland since 1978. Ashkenazy has collaborated with well-known orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large storehouse of classical and romantic works. His recordings have earned him five Grammy awards plus Iceland's Order of the Falcon.
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Jeanne-Marie Darré Jeanne-Marie Darré (30 July 190526 January 1999) was a French classical pianist. She was known for her lyrical and elegant interpretations of the solo works of Chopin and Liszt, and of the Saint-Saëns Concertos. She was awarded the Légion d'honneur and made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.
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Marion Osgood Marion G. Osgood (ca. 1865–after 1924) was an American violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor. Her company, the Marion Osgood's Ladies Orchestra, was the first ladies' orchestra organized for professional work in the United States, and she was one of the leading solo violinists in the country.
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Chris Nance Chris Nance (October 12, 1940, Charlottesville, Virginia — October 27, 2014, New York City) was an American conductor and music educator. Primarily active as an opera conductor, he served on the conducting staff of the New York City Opera from 1969-1974 and was the music administrator and conductor of the Houston Grand Opera from 1974-1977. Thereafter he worked as a freelance conductor with opera companies throughout the world. He became particularly associated with George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" for which he was frequently hired to conduct at opera houses both in the United States and abroad.
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Janet Baker Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
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John Mauceri John Francis Mauceri (born September 12, 1945) is an American conductor, producer, educator and writer. Since making his professional conducting debut almost half a century ago, Mauceri has appeared with most of the world's great orchestras, guest conducted at the premiere opera houses, produced and musically supervised Tony and Olivier Award-winning Broadway musicals, and taught at the most prestigious halls of academia. Through his varied career, he has taken the lead in the preservation and performance of many genres of music and has supervised/conducted important premieres by composers as diverse as Debussy, Stockhausen, Korngold, Hindemith, Bernstein, Sibelius, Ives, Elfman, and Shore. He is also a leading performer of music banned by the Third Reich and especially music of Hollywood's émigré composers.
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Judith Burganger Judith Burganger (born 1939) is an American pianist and pedagogue.
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Edward Auer Edward Auer (born December 7, 1941, New York City) is an American classical pianist. In 1965, he became the first American to prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition. Due to his frequent and subsequent touring in Poland, Mr. Auer is recognized worldwide as one of the leading interpreters of Frédéric Chopin. Auer has also displayed his consummate skill and broad repertoire—from Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann to Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and others—while touring the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He is currently a Professor of Piano at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Robert Freeman (musician) Robert Freeman (born August 26, 1935, in Rochester, New York) is an American pianist, music educator, and musicologist who is known for leading some of the finest music schools in the United States. Freeman is board chair of the Institute for Music and Brain Science at UCLA, and serves on the board of the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center in Houston.
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American Pianists Association The American Pianists Association is a performing arts organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, that holds two national, quadrennial piano competitions in alternating 2-year cycles: the Classical Fellowship Awards and the Jazz Fellowship Awards. Only American citizens ages 18–30 are eligible to compete. The organization hosts a recital series in non-competition years. The Fellowship Awards are among the most lucrative piano prizes in the world, valued at over $100,000.
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Seiji Ozawa Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾 , Ozawa Seiji , born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor, known for his advocacy of modern composers and his work with the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. He is the recipient of numerous international awards.
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Artur Pizarro Artur Pizarro (born Lisbon, 1968) is a Portuguese pianist of international acclaim. He performs internationally in solo recitals, in duos, with chamber music groups, and as a soloist with the world's leading orchestras. He has an extensive discography available on Linn Records, as well as on Naxos, Hyperion, Collins Classics, and other labels. Pizarro is a Yamaha-International Artist.
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Cleveland Chamber Symphony The Cleveland Chamber Symphony is an American chamber orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music, and has presented over 200 performance premieres.
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Mike Williams (trumpeter) Mike Williams is an American jazz and big band trumpeter residing in Lapeer, Michigan. He is most noted as the lead trumpeter for the Count Basie Orchestra, an esteemed chair which he has held without interruption for more than 21 years. Mike can be heard on numerous Count Basie Orchestra recordings (some of them Grammy Award winners), including the recent ""Basie Is Back"" (recorded live in Japan) and the Grammy nominated ""Ray Sings, Basie Swings,"" on which he was a featured soloist. As a member of the Basie Band, he has performed in all 50 states and 40 countries with such notable names as Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, George Benson, Tony Bennett and Diane Schuur.
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Yelena Dudochkin Yelena Dudochkin is a Ukrainian-American soprano known for her "gorgeous, expressive and rich voice...a true pearl of the opera"(Voice of America) and her "dramatic intelligence" (Boston Globe).
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Karen Williams (soprano) Karen Williams is an American concert and opera soprano. In 1985 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; making her stage debut at the Metropolitan Opera later that year as Serena in George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess". She sang that role at the Met again in 1989-1990. She has also performed Serena at Symphony Hall, Springfield with the Boston Concert Opera (1986), the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (1998), the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (1999), the Utah Symphony Orchestra (1999), and the Philadelphia Orchestra (2000) among others. In 1986 she made her debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Amelia in Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera".
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Terry Lowry Terry Lowry (born January 17, 1974, in Albany, Georgia) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. He is the Conductor and Music Director of the Carroll Symphony Orchestra, in Carrollton, Georgia. He is the composer of over 200 works. He maintains an active piano recital schedule, performing throughout the United States, Canada and Europe each year. His recital programs include works from the standard literature, his own compositions, and improvisations on themes provided by the audience. In 2007 Lowry released an album of original piano compositions featuring his large, 14 movement work "Stations of the Cross". In 2011 he released two albums: "Da Capo" - a collection of piano works by Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Satie and Scriabin; and an album with CSO Concertmaster Edward Eanes featuring Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 4, as well as works for piano solo (Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas, and the Fantasia, op. 77).
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Anthony Newman (musician) Anthony Newman (born May 12, 1941) is an American classical musician. While mostly known as an organist, Newman is also a harpsichordist, pedal harpsichordist, pianist, fortepianist, composer, conductor, writer, and teacher. A specialist in music of the Baroque period, particularly the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Newman considers himself to have played an important role in the movement towards historically informed performance. He has collaborated with noted musicians such as Kathleen Battle, Julius Baker, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein and Wynton Marsalis for whom he arranged and conducted "In Gabriel’s Garden", the most popular classical record of 1996.
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Richard Auldon Clark Richard Auldon Clark is an American conductor specializing in music by contemporary composers. He is Conductor and Music Director of both the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1987, and the Butler Symphony Orchestra. He has premiered over 100 works and recorded over 40 CDs. His repertoire is of little known older works and new music by such composers as Randall Thompson, Victor Herbert, Michael Schelle, Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, Lukas Foss, David Amram, Miho Sasaki and Osvaldo Lacerda. He also performs music of earlier periods, including works by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ibert, Verdi, and others. He is founder / music director of the annual Finger Lakes Summer Chamber Music Festival in upstate New York. He is also the head of the orchestral program at the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University.
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Aaron Goldberg Aaron Goldberg is an American jazz pianist. Described by "The New York Times" as a "post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and range," Goldberg has released five albums as a solo artist and has performed and collaborated with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Guillermo Klein, among others.
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Christopher Rountree Christopher Rountree is an American conductor known for founding the Los Angeles chamber group wild Up, an ensemble that blends new music, classical repertoire, performance art and pop. Wild Up was named "Best Classical Music of 2012" by the Los Angeles Times.