CROSSSOUND 2000 GUEST MUSICIANS   TEODORO ANZELLOTTI - ACCORDION is regarded as among the best classical accordion players in the world. His repertoire ranges from composers of the age of the Baroque, such Girolamo Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, to new works dedicated to him by contemporary famos composer like Luciano Berio (Sequenza XIII), Vinko Globokar, Heinz Holliger, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Born 1959 in Candela, Italy and studied in Karlsruhe and Trossingen (Germany). In 1985 he was awarded the first prize at the International Hugo Herrmann Competition. Since 1987 Anzellotti has been a teacher of accordion and Chamber-music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Bern - Biel and since 1992 at the Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik Darmstadt. As a lecturer he works at international Mastercourses and seminars. Concert all over Europe, USA, Canada and Asia. As a soloist he played with several orchestras like the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Freiburg, Kölner-Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Radio-Simphonie-Orchester Ljublijana, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Contrechamps Geneve, Collegium Novum Zürich, Münchner Kammerochester, Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen, Arditti Quartett, ensemble recherche and furthermore at festivals: Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Musik-Biennale Berlin, Ars Musica Brussel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Biennale Venezia, Archipel Geneve, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Musiktrienale Köln, Gubelkian Lissabon, Luzerner Festwochen, Mondsee Musiktage, Biennale München, Steirischer Herbst, Festival d´Àutomne Paris, Schwetzinger Festspiele, musica Strasbourg, Pan Music Festival Seoul, Éclat Stuttgart, Wien Modern ect. Click here for German. SUSANNE SERFLING - SOPRANO - grew up in Budapest, Hungary and Gera, Germany. She studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik "Hans Eisler" and completed her education with classical ballet training. As a singer she has worked extensively at the Neuköllner Oper in Neukölln, Germany and at the Schloßparktheater in Steglitz, Germany (Serpetta/Sandrina). Most of her appearances have been in Berlin at "Konzerthaus Berlin" (Blondchen, Pamina), "Offenbach Theater Berlin," "Staatsoper Unter den Linden" (Papagena), and "Komische Oper" (Minerva, Brautjungfer in "Der Freischütz") where she worked among others with directors Klaus Everding, Harry Kupfer, and George Tabori. This year she appears in the world premiere of "Rheinsberger Maskerade" by Theodor Bürkholz at the "Musikakademie Schloß Rheinsberg" and she was a winner at the "International Lotte-Lenya Singing Competition 2000" of the Kurt-Weill-Foundation New York/Dessau. Ms. Serfling has toured the United States twice already, in 1998 with a program called "Brecht in Lied und Text" and in 1999 with "Goethe in Lied und Text."  ISHIGURE, MASAYO - KOTO - began playing the koto and jiuta shamisen at the age of five in Gifu, Japan. After initial studies with Tadao and Kazue Sawai, she became a special research student in 1986 at the Sawai Koto Academy of Music. The aim of the academy was to shed new light on koto music by incorporating everything from Bach to jazz and thus change the koto from being thought of only as a traditional Japanese instrument into an instrument of universal expressiveness. Later Masayo Ishigure became one of a small group of virtuoso disciples of the Sawais and successfully completed the 33rd Ikusei-kai program sponsored by NHK to foster and train aspiring artists in Japanese music. In 1988 she received a degree in Japanese Traditional Music at Takasaki Junior Arts College with a concentration on koto and shamisen. The same year she was recorded on the CD The World of Tadao Sawai. In 1994 she also appeared on the CD entitled Tori no Yoni [Like a Bird]: Tadao Sawai Compositions. Since that time she has performed all over the world, and appeared in such festivals as Bang on a Can (NYC). She has been featured in two public television broadcasts, Music Under New York and World of Music (working title). In 1992 she began teaching koto and shamisen in the music department of Wesleyan University (CT) as an artist in residence where she formed the Wesleyan Koto Ensemble. In December 1997 she performed a classical program of traditional koto music at Carnegie Hall, and in January 1998 she performed at Merkin Hall, NYC as part of the Music from Japan series. LIU, JING - ERHU - was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China in 1964. At the age of four she began studying traditional Chinese dance, joining a tour to Romania. In 1972, she began studying the erhu, first under the famous Professor Gan Tao, and then under Professor Zhang Rui. Under the tutelage of Professor Gan, Liu Jing specialized in the Jiangnan sizu style of playing, particular to the region south of the Yangtze River. In 1987, Ms. Liu entered the Nanjing College of Art, graduating in 1990 with honors. Since that time, Ms. Liu has performed dedicatedly and energetically, as both a soloist and an ensemble player. In 1995, she placed second for her solo performance in the Third Jiangsu Instrumental Music and Dance Competition. In 1996, Ms Liu participated in a highly successful tour of Taiwan, out of which came two CDs. Then, in 1997, Ms. Liu took second place in the acclaimed Jiangsu Erhu Competition, capping her achievements in 1999 in a highly prestigious performance to celebrate the hand-over of Macao to China, playing a duet with her old teacher, Professor Zhang Rui. 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