An active recitalist and avid chamber music player, Mark Kashper performs extensively in the Los Angeles area and throughout the United States. Since the creation of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony in the Spring of 1994, he has also been busy as that orchestra’s founding principal concertmaster and frequent featured soloist, performing throughout Southern California and touring in New York and Israel. In February 2000, Kashper was the soloist in performances of Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra conducted by its then-Music Director, Gisèle Ben-Dor.

Samuel Glicklich, 21, is currently a Bachelors of Music Candidate at the Colburn Conservatory where he studies with Fabio Bidini. He is also mentored by Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

An international prize winner, Samuel was most recently awarded 3rd prize at the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition. He has also been awarded the gold medal in the Seattle International Piano Competition, first prize in the Glendale Piano Competition, and was a winner of the Aspen Music Festival concerto competition, resulting in a performance with the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Ludovic Morlot. Samuel was also a prize winner in the 2021 Canada International Piano Competition, as well as finalist for the Mondavi Young Artist Competition and the Music Center’s Spotlight Awards, and a semifinalist of the MPrize Competition, as well as a National YoungArts Winner in 2018.

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