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John Lee, cello, is the winner of the Topeka Symphony Young Artist contest. He is a junior at Blue Valley Southwest High School.

Jaya Suprana, (née Phoa Kok Tjiang) is an Indonesian pianist, composer, conductor, writer, cartoonist, and television presenter.Jaya Suprana was born in Denpasar, Bali as a Chinese descendant, but grew up within Javanese culture. He studied music at Musikhochschule Münster and Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, West Germany, between 1967 and 1976, and since then has given piano recitals worldwide, as well as composing his own music. He also presents his own national weekly talkshow called the Jaya Suprana Show. His daily writings have appeared in the daily newspapers Kompas, Suara Pembaruan, Sinar Harapan, on-line media such as RMOL, Askara, SMSI and books published by Elex Media Komputindo.

Three Preludes is a collection of short piano pieces by George Gershwin, which were first performed by the composer at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in 1926. Each prelude is a well-known example of early-20th-century American classical music, as influenced by jazz. The three pieces, when played together consecutively, typically run about a total of five minutes.

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is known for his 555 solo keyboard sonatas, which are single-movement works, often in binary form, and are considered a significant contribution to keyboard music, pushing both musical and technical standards.

Caprice, being a virtuoso form, mainly for a solo instrument, dates back to the 19th century. In these times, instrumentalists were frequently also composers - they would create pieces adapted to their abilities and the caprice was the most virtuosic genre among them. The caprices by Alfredo Piatti, recognized by Yehudi Menuhin as the cello's New Testament, are fraught with difficulties, but there are plenty of beautiful and varied melodies and counterpoints using almost all possibilities of the cello.

"Le cygne", pronounced [lə siɲ], or "The Swan", is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. Originally scored for solo cello accompanied by two pianos, it has been arranged and transcribed for many instruments but remains best known as a cello solo. The piece is in 6/4 time, with a key signature of G major and a tempo marking andantino grazioso. The slow cello melody is accompanied by almost constant broken chord figurations on the pianos. When performed as a separate movement, not in the context of The Carnival, "The Swan" is frequently played with accompaniment on only one piano.

The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best-known compositions, and is considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It is an amalgam of his rich native harmonic language with the Classical traditions he valued highly, held together in a cyclic framework.

Jan Radzynski is a native of Warsaw, where he was born into a musical family. His mother encouraged and guided him in his early piano studies; and prior to the First World War, one of his great-grandfathers had been an army bandmaster in the military establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1969 Radzynski made aliya (settled in Israel) and studied at the music academy at Tel Aviv University. He graduated with diplomas in cello and in composition and theory in 1974 and received a bachelor of music degree as well. He furthered his composition studies with the Chilean-born Israeli composer León Schidlowsky. In 1977 he came to the United States to pursue graduate work, studying composition at Yale University with the world-renowned Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki, and then with Jacob Druckman. He received a master's degree in 1979 and another in 1980, followed by his doctorate in 1984. For fourteen years, beginning in 1980, he taught on Yale's faculty, and in 1994 he joined the faculty of The Ohio State University as a professor of composition-a post he has held since. He has also served there on the faculty of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and he has twice been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.