Welcome 2025 Guest Musicians to the beautiful Emerald Coast
Festival 2025 | January 12 -21
Amit Peled & The Mount Vernon Virtuosi
Praised by The Stradmagazine and The New York Times, internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels. Musical Americanamed Peled one of the Top 30 Influencers of 2015. Peled is also the founder, conductor, and artistic director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra dedicated to nurturing the careers of recently graduated music students, which annually performs in the Baltimore-Washington area.
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Praised by The Stradmagazine and The New York Times, internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels. Musical Americanamed Peled one of the Top 30 Influencers of 2015. Peled is also the founder, conductor, and artistic director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra dedicated to nurturing the careers of recently graduated music students, which annually performs in the Baltimore-Washington area.
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Eleni Katz
Hailed for her virtuosity and vibrant musical spirit, bassoonist Eleni Katz has established herself as a prominent soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Her “thoughtful and expressive” (San Diego Union Tribune) approach to music making has led her to performances by the bright blue waters of Bermuda to the lights of Carnegie Hall. Eleni is a winner of the 2022 Concert Artist Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Nu Deco Ensemble, the Jupiter Chamber Players, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Sarasota Orchestra, and as a member with the New World Symphony. Other recent appearances include La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest, Bridgehampton Chamber music Series, Lake George Music Festival, Phoenix Chamber Music Society, Death of Classical: The Crypt Sessions, and Newport Classical. Her approach to playing the bassoon has been described as “uncannily human” (The Royal Gazette) and has always believed the bassoon should emulate the organic nature of the human voice. In August, Eleni will starting as bassoon teaching faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music.
Hailed for her virtuosity and vibrant musical spirit, bassoonist Eleni Katz has established herself as a prominent soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Her “thoughtful and expressive” (San Diego Union Tribune) approach to music making has led her to performances by the bright blue waters of Bermuda to the lights of Carnegie Hall. Eleni is a winner of the 2022 Concert Artist Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Nu Deco Ensemble, the Jupiter Chamber Players, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Sarasota Orchestra, and as a member with the New World Symphony. Other recent appearances include La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest, Bridgehampton Chamber music Series, Lake George Music Festival, Phoenix Chamber Music Society, Death of Classical: The Crypt Sessions, and Newport Classical. Her approach to playing the bassoon has been described as “uncannily human” (The Royal Gazette) and has always believed the bassoon should emulate the organic nature of the human voice. In August, Eleni will starting as bassoon teaching faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music.
Neo Art Piano Duo
Neo-Art Piano Duo is an emerging duo from Kansas City, known for performing programs of audience favorites. Regina Tanujaya and Matteo Generani have performed together since 2018 in various venues and occasions, from doing outreach performances in assisted living communities in the Kansas City areas to bigger venues such as the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the Steinway Piano Gallery Kansas City.
In February 2023, they were invited as guest artists of the Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation for a 10-day residency in Florida to perform concerts in the Destin area. One of their upcoming projects is to publish and perform their own arrangement of Shostakovich Jazz Suite. Neo-Art duo members are active members of the Mu Phi Epsilon. Together, they serve as Co-Artistic Directors of Classical Music Express, a newly founded concert series that brings Classical music performances outside the concert halls to create a stronger connection between performers and audience. Neo-Art Piano Duo is excited to continue exploring different ways to perform, enriching their repertoire selections, and to reach larger audiences. Read more on Regina Tanujaya .... Matteo Generani
Neo-Art Piano Duo is an emerging duo from Kansas City, known for performing programs of audience favorites. Regina Tanujaya and Matteo Generani have performed together since 2018 in various venues and occasions, from doing outreach performances in assisted living communities in the Kansas City areas to bigger venues such as the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the Steinway Piano Gallery Kansas City.
In February 2023, they were invited as guest artists of the Emerald Coast Music Alliance Foundation for a 10-day residency in Florida to perform concerts in the Destin area. One of their upcoming projects is to publish and perform their own arrangement of Shostakovich Jazz Suite. Neo-Art duo members are active members of the Mu Phi Epsilon. Together, they serve as Co-Artistic Directors of Classical Music Express, a newly founded concert series that brings Classical music performances outside the concert halls to create a stronger connection between performers and audience. Neo-Art Piano Duo is excited to continue exploring different ways to perform, enriching their repertoire selections, and to reach larger audiences. Read more on Regina Tanujaya .... Matteo Generani
Medhelen Duo
Medhelan Duo was created from solid foundations of friendship and communal deep love for music. Matteo Generani, pianist, and Doriano Di Domenico, violinist, met each other for the first time in 2015, when they were classmates at the Pavia Conservatory “Franco Vittadini”. They soon realized to have a shared passion for theoric classes such as counterpoint, harmony and music history. Many were the long talks on music, literature, art and life, from which the discovered a similar musical perception and a similar love for music. Extensive sight-reading sessions in between conservatory classes were the first experience as a duo.
The debut duo concerts dates 2018, where they performed at Lu for the “Monferrato Music Festival” and the Malpensa “Flying Notes”. Then, Matteo went to USA and Doriano to Switzerland for their studies, and they didn't manage to play together until 2023. In this year they finally reunited and they gave a name to their Duo: Medhelan. This is the ancient celtic name of the city of Milan, the city around where their collaboration was born and grew up. This match between the name and the italian territory is also a declaration of intent. Actually, the aim of the Duo is to promote the Italian Culture throughout the world, with a particular attention to great less-known italian composersof the past and, also, to the valorization oh the contemporary Italian production.
Medhelan Duo was created from solid foundations of friendship and communal deep love for music. Matteo Generani, pianist, and Doriano Di Domenico, violinist, met each other for the first time in 2015, when they were classmates at the Pavia Conservatory “Franco Vittadini”. They soon realized to have a shared passion for theoric classes such as counterpoint, harmony and music history. Many were the long talks on music, literature, art and life, from which the discovered a similar musical perception and a similar love for music. Extensive sight-reading sessions in between conservatory classes were the first experience as a duo.
The debut duo concerts dates 2018, where they performed at Lu for the “Monferrato Music Festival” and the Malpensa “Flying Notes”. Then, Matteo went to USA and Doriano to Switzerland for their studies, and they didn't manage to play together until 2023. In this year they finally reunited and they gave a name to their Duo: Medhelan. This is the ancient celtic name of the city of Milan, the city around where their collaboration was born and grew up. This match between the name and the italian territory is also a declaration of intent. Actually, the aim of the Duo is to promote the Italian Culture throughout the world, with a particular attention to great less-known italian composersof the past and, also, to the valorization oh the contemporary Italian production.