About the Artists

The Ibis Camerata brings together four internationally acclaimed musicians of the new generation. Coming from different corners of the world, each one of them possesses a distinct remarkable musical personality. Formed under the auspices of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music in 2001, they have garnered much attention with audiences and critics in their home base of Miami, Florida and around the world. Their unique ensemble enables them to command a much more varied repertoire than the traditional piano trio, allowing them to perform rarely heard classical masterpieces, works by contemporary composers and non-conventional repertoire such as tango and jazz. They have been recognized as one of North America's premier young ensembles by some of the world's top chamber musicians including the Paris Trio, the Guarneri Quartet and the Klichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. The Ibis Camerata has given critically acclaimed performances in many cities in the United States, Canada, Serbia, Italy, Switzerland and Russia. They have performed at such world-renowned festivals as the Aspen Music Festival, the Hampton-Sydney Music Festival and the White Nights Music Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. Their debut album on Albany Records will be released at the end of 2006. (Clarinetist Christopher Graham became indisposed at the last minute, and is not appearing with the Ibis Camerata at this concert)

Biljana Milovanovic, a native of Belgrade , Serbia , began piano studies at the age of six at the Mokranjac music school for gifted children. She holds four first prizes in the Serbian State and Yugoslavian National piano competitions.
She began her performance career at the age of 15 under sponsorship of the Concert Management Association “Jeunesses Musicales” and has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in Serbia , Croatia , Macedonia , Russia , Estonia , Lithuania , Ukraine , Belgium , Canada , Switzerland , Italy , Spain , and the United States . Ms. Milovanovic graduated from the world renowned Conservatory “Rimsky- Korsakov” in St-Petersburg , Russia under full scholarship where she studied piano with Professor L. Vakhina and chamber music with professors G. Serova and Z. Zohova.
She has performed in numerous master classes for such renowned pianists as Leon Fleisher, John Perry, Andre Laplante and Jean-Paul Sevilla, as well as performing for some of the world’s top chamber musicians including the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Paris Trio and the Guarneri Quartet.

 

A First Prize winner at both the 2005 National Society of Arts and Letters Violin Competition and the 2004 William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition for Strings, Dmitri Pogorelov is a prizewinning young virtuoso violinist and a seasoned performer.
Dmitri is the youngest member of a well-known family of outstanding musicians in his native Russia. He won the international violin competition held at the prestigious Gnessin School in Moscow and the International Competition for Chamber Music in St. Petersburg before coming to the United States in 2001.
Dmitri continued to garner awards, including top prizes at the 2004 Michael and Madelyn Savarick Music Scholarship Competition of the Mizner Centre of the Arts, the 2003 Strad Violin Competition and the 2003 Ludwig Spohr International Violin Competition in Germany. Dmitri has appeared in solo recitals, and as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, and Russia, where he performed in the most prestigious concert halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg, including Rachmaninoff Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Maly Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and the St. Petersburg Stadtskapella.

 

Winner of the New World Symphony Young Artist Competition, Ian Maksin gave his first cello recital at the age of six in his native St. Petersburg, Russia. He has performed as a soloist and as a part of chamber ensembles throughout Russia, Europe, and the Americas.
In St. Petersburg he has appeared in recitals at the Maly Philharmonia Hall as well as the Glazunov Conservatory Hall. He has given critically acclaimed performances in New York, Miami, Chicago, Pittsburgh and many other cities in the United States. Mr. Maksin has appeared in chamber music recitals with such artists as Paula Robison, Andres Diaz, Sergiu Schwartz, The Miami String Quartet, St. Laurence String Quartet, and members of the Orfeus Chamber Orchestra. He appeared in the chamber music series at the Spoleto USA festival in Charleston, Lyric Mountain Festival in Pittsburgh, Summit Music Festival in New York, and the Norfolk Music Festival in Connecticut, to name a few. Several of his live performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and its affiliate stations throughout the Unites States. Mr. Maksin has performed as a soloist with many orchestras throughout the United States and has also won prizes and been a finalist in the Montgomery Cello Competition, Westmoreland Young Artist Competition and Krannert Center Performance Award.