Welcome 2025 Guest Musicians to the beautiful Emerald Coast
Festival 2025 | January 12 -19
Amit Peled & The Peabody Cello Gang
The Amit Peled Cello Gang is composed of students from Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2003. The students range in age from undergraduate freshmen to second year master’s students, and the group comes together often to perform works written or arranged for cello ensemble.
This unique ensemble has performed recently for the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, as a resident ensemble in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and all across Maryland, the gang’s home state. Read more about Amit Peled and The Cello Gang.
The Amit Peled Cello Gang is composed of students from Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2003. The students range in age from undergraduate freshmen to second year master’s students, and the group comes together often to perform works written or arranged for cello ensemble.
This unique ensemble has performed recently for the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, as a resident ensemble in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and all across Maryland, the gang’s home state. Read more about Amit Peled and The Cello Gang.
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. Eleni is a winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and has performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Sarasota Orchestra, and as a member of the New World Symphony. Reviews of Eleni Katz' performances include; “Thoughtful and Expressive” (San Diego Union Tribune) and Her Playing was “Uncannily Human” (Royal Gazette) Read more...
Hailed for her virtuosity and vibrant musical spirit, bassoonist Eleni Katz has established herself as a prominent soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Eleni is a winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and has performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Sarasota Orchestra, and as a member of the New World Symphony. Reviews of Eleni Katz' performances include; “Thoughtful and Expressive” (San Diego Union Tribune) and Her Playing was “Uncannily Human” (Royal Gazette) Read more...
Matt Fitzsimmons
Matt is a multi genre trumpet player originally from the Washington D.C area and currently based in the Dallas area. He is passionate about building a sustainable and rewarding future for performing artists through his experiences as a trumpeter, administrator, and educator and hopes to one day inspire and serve his community in a professional Symphony Orchestra or a United States Military Band. Read more...
Matt is a multi genre trumpet player originally from the Washington D.C area and currently based in the Dallas area. He is passionate about building a sustainable and rewarding future for performing artists through his experiences as a trumpeter, administrator, and educator and hopes to one day inspire and serve his community in a professional Symphony Orchestra or a United States Military Band. Read more...
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.