Kate Dillingham & Jory Vinikour
Biographie Kate Dillingham & Jory Vinikour
Kate Dillingham
enjoys a varied career as a soloist and collaborative artist, and is an avid proponent of the music of living composers. She has performed as a soloist in 18th-21st century repertoire with The St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra, The Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared numerous times at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Symphony Space, and The DiMenna Center in New York City. She has performed at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, PA, and has been presented twice at the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Ms. Dillingham has toured throughout Europe and the United States. Recent highlights include concerts at the Tseretelli Gallery in Moscow, Russia, and Weill Recital Hall and The DiMenna Center in New York, where she performed a recital of entirely new compositions. Active in the New York freelance scene, she has performed for Broadway productions of Disney's The Lion King and Matilda the Musical and has appeared with jazz legends Tony Bennett, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, and Barry Harris.
Ms. Dillingham has made several recordings; Haydn's Cello Concertos with The Moscow Chamber Orchestra and music of Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger, and Gabriel Fauré, and works of Witold Lutoslawski, Victor Herbert, Antonin Dvorák, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Higdon with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent recording project entitled CROSSINGS: New Music For Cello featuring commissioned works by composers of Random Access Music, Alia Musica and several notable individuals was achieved through “crowd- funding” and was the “Album of the Week” on WQXR’s Q2 program.
Following Ms. Dillingham's New York debut, which featured world premieres of works by Augusta Read Thomas and Jennifer Higdon, the press deemed her "an excellent cellist; dignified, intelligent, and compelling. An adventurous, dedicated champion of contemporary music, she performed with admirable control, conviction, and authority." In reference to her performance of Jennifer Higdon's Soliloquy, the New Music Connoisseur described her as "an extraordinary performer who displayed musical insight and emotional depth…"
As a student of Bernard Greenhouse, Ms. Dillingham received both a Bachelor and Master of Music from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, after which she studied with Professor Maria Tchaikovskaya at the Moscow Conservatory. A long association with Mr. Greenhouse led to collaboration on an edition of the Sonatas for Violoncello and Keyboard BWV 1027-1029 by J.S. Bach, published by G. Schirmer Inc., which she presented in a combined concert and lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ms. Dillingham has served on the faculty at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and at The New York Summer Music Festival at SUNY, Oneonta; under the auspices of The Connecticut Alliance for Music, she developed an Outreach Program for string education for school children in Bridgeport, CT.
A commitment to expressive phrasing and a sense of forward motion characterize her playing. Her enthusiasm for broadening the range and repertoire of the cello has led her to commission, perform, and record music written by composers of the 21st century.
Jory Vinikour
is recognized as one of the outstanding harpsichordists of his generation. A highly-diversified career takes him to the world's most important festivals, concert halls, and opera houses as recitalist and concerto soloist, partner to many of today's finest instrumental and vocal artists, coach, and conductor.
Born in Chicago, Jory Vinikour came to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study with Huguette Dreyfus and Kenneth Gilbert. First Prizes in the International Harpsichord Competitions of Warsaw (1993) and the Prague Spring Festival (1994) brought him to the public's attention, and he has since appeared in festivals and concert series throughout much of the world.
A concerto soloist with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Poulenc to Nyman, he has performed as soloist with leading orchestras including Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic of Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with conductors such as Stéphane Denève, Martin Haselböck, Marek Janowski, Armin Jordan, Benjamin Levy, Fabio Luisi, Marc Minkowski, John Nelson, Gordan Nikolic, Constantine Orbelian, Victor Yampolsky, et al. He participated in a recording of Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Concertante with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Armin Jordan (Suisse Romande, 2005).
Well-known as an accompanist, he has worked extensively with artists such as David Daniels, Hélène Delavault, Vivica Genaux, Magdalena Kozená, Annick Massis, Marijana Mijanovic, Dorothea Röschmann, and Rolando Villazón. He has accompanied legendary Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in recitals in Sweden, Norway, Spain, and Paris, as well as at Milan's storied Teatro alla Scala. With lutenist Jakob Lindberg, their programme of English and Italian music of the 17th Century, entitled Music for a While, was released by Deutsche Grammophon in early 2005.
As an active exponent of contemporary repertoire for the harpsichord, he has given the premieres of works by composers such as Harold Meltzer and Frédéric Durieux, Stephen Blumberg, Patricia Morehead, Graham Lynch, etc. written for him. He has also given important performances of works by Ligeti and Michael Nyman, as well as several 20th century concerti, including Cyril Scott's 1937 Harpsichord Concerto, which Mr. Vinikour prepared and edited for Novello Editions. Sono Luminus released Toccatas, his recording of modern American harpsichord works, in late 2013.
Mr. Vinikour appears regularly as harpsichordist at the finest opera houses and festivals in Europe: Paris Opera, Netherlands Opera, Salzburg Festival, Teatro Real de Madrid, Baden-Baden, Glyndebourne, etc. in Baroque and Classical repertoire, as well as in more contemporary works (notably Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Zimmermann's Die Soldaten) and is heard on many recordings from Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Erato, Sony Classics et al.
His recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, released on Delos International in 2001, received excellent reviews throughout the world. John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune named it as one of 2001's Top Ten Classical CDs, an honor that was also accorded to Mr. Vinikour's recording of Bach's Toccatas in 1999. Mr. Vinikour's 2009 Delos release of Händel's 1720 Suites for Harpsichord has received wide critical acclaim, American Record Guide naming it the finest recording of these works. Partnering with flautist Joshua Smith, their recording of Bach's Sonatas for flute and harpsichord garnered attention from around the world. His debut recording for Sono Luminus, the Complete Harpsichord Works of Jean-Philippe Rameau, was nominated for a 2012 GRAMMY® award in the category of Best Classical Solo Instrumental Recording. Mr. Vinikour received a second GRAMMY® nomination for his Sono Luminous disc Toccatas.
