Never before on one stage! Jon Kimura Parker along with several of Houston’s most prominent pianists will all grace the stage at The Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall in support of the mission of Impulse. Don’t miss this once in a life time concert complete with traditional Classics such as Beethoven and Chopin, dazzling Fantasies, Contemporary works and original compositions. Ask about how you can join the artists onstage for a special reception. Tickets available through The Hobby Center only. Click here to see the entire line up of performers.

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Austin’s Angels is a dynamic string trio of world-class musicians who share a passion for exploring and interpreting many different styles of music. These young women enjoy playing the music of their childhoods including Asian tunes, Appalachian melodies, Classical, Blue Grass and Jazz as well as many other styles including Tango, Gypsy and Celtic. Rebecca Browne, violinist of the Austin Angels, will tour Europe as the violin soloist with the Austin Eurhythmy Ensemble next spring. Ms. Browne just completed a successful tour of Chicago, Ann Arbor and St. Paul as well as a three week residency in Aspen soloing with the ensemble. Jessica Mathaes is an accomplished violinist as well as violist of the Austin’s Angels. In addition to being one of the Angels, she is the concertmaster of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Jessica has appeared in concert tours of Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Jou-An Hou, cellist of the Austin's Angels, won the gold medal in the Kaushiung City Cello Competition and the Silver Medal of the Taiwan Cello Competition among many other awards. She has performed extensively in her native Taiwan, throughout Asia and in the United States. Ms. Hou is the principal cellist of the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra.

Jessica Xylina Osborne is a critically acclaimed collaborator/soloist who has concertized throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has won numerous prizes in both national and international competitions, including 1st prize in the 2000 International Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev Competition, 1st prize in the 1999 Indiana University Concerto Competition, 1st prize in the 1998 National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists’ Competition, and 1st prize in the 1997 MTNA Yamaha Competition, National Division. She was named the Audience Award winner at the 2005 Ima Hogg Competition, and in 2006 she was the recipient of the award for the best performance of Russian music at the International Russian Music Piano Competition. In addition to her solo performances, Jessica has maintained numerous chamber groups; in 2001, she toured in Europe with her trio, Trio Dumka, giving concerts in Venasque, Chateauneuf-du-Pape and Barcelona. She has collaborated with such rising stars as Yura Lee and Caitlin Tully, and with students of Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman, Janos Starker, and Miriam Fried, among others.

Russian pianist Ekaterina Ryndina is recognized for her elegance, fiery spirit, and captivating sound. Born in Moscow, Ekaterina began her keyboard studies at an early age, and by twelve she had been accepted into the studio of the famous Russian pedagogue Galina Zhuravleova. Just two years later she gave her debut at the Bolshoy Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. Ekaterina was a top prize winner in several competitions including the Piacenza val Tidone in Italy, and the Texas Young Artist Competition, where she garnered the 20th Century Prize for her outstanding interpretation of Ravel's Ondine. Ekaterina has performed throughout Russia and Europe including the National Art Museum and Rudolfino Hall in Prague and the Maliy Halls of the Russian Music Academy. She has taken part in the Mlada Praha music festival in Prague and was soloist with the Moscow Cantus Firmus Chamber Orchestra. In 2002, she came to America to study with Dr. Robert Roux at Rice University as a President’s Scholar. Ekaterina is highly dedicated to piano pedagogy. In the summer 2005, she and her husband Matthew Loudermilk founded the International Music Academy, a program dedicated to providing music instruction of the highest level to pre-college students.

Canadian pianist Neda Navaee has been hailed by the press as "... a truly sensitive pianist...a pianist one would yearn to listen to repeatedly...".She has performed as a soloist in all the major concert halls in Germany, including the Beethovenhalle Bonn, Musikhalle Hamburg, Koelner Philharmonie, Liederhalle Stuttgart, and Konzerthaus Berlin. Her recent recital at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto was broadcasted live by CBC Radio Canada. As a winner of the Artist International Presentations in New York, she made her Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall Debut in 2001 which was received with extraordinary critical acclaim. Ms. Navaee split her childhood between the United States, Iran, France and moved to Cologne, Germany when she was 12. She worked there with Tatiana Nikolajewa at the age of 15 and a year later she entered the Cologne Conservatory to study piano with Pavel Gililov as well as chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet. An "Erasmus" scholarship took her to the Royal Academy of Music in London before moving to New York where she received her Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2000. In 2005 Neda Navaee became a Professor of Piano at the Department of Music and Performing Arts at New York University NYU, New York City.

Pianist Clara Jung-Yang Shin is winning acclaim for the exquisite sensitivity and vibrant energy of her playing. She was the Grand Prix winner of the 2005 Rachmaninoff Competition in Italy, the Silver Medalist of the 2004 World Piano Competition and the top winner of the 2002 Entergy Young Texas Artist Music Competition, where she also captured the Audience Choice Award for her dazzling performance of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz. As a chamber musician, Ms. Shin has collaborated with national and international artists. She won the Byrd Competition for Duo Piano and was a member of the Ambrosio Trio, the first piano trio in-residence at the University of Florida. 2005/2006 marks her return to Korea in nearly a decade. There she was invited to perform a solo recital at the Youngsan Art Hall and was selected to perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on the theme of Paganini, Op. 43 at the Seoul Arts Center’s Spring Symphonic Festival, which led to her debut recital at the Seoul Arts Center.

The Complete 2007 Impulse Artist Series Concert Schedule

2004-2005 Impulse Artists

Calogero Di Liberto
Bernardo Scarambone
Hyojin Ahn