(Japan/USA)
Professor, California State University – Sacramento. Active performer around the world in the role of both, soloist and chamber musician, throughout the U.S., Japan, Australia, Europe, and in Israel, including such venues as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Chicago Cultural Center. Performances have been broadcast throughout the U.S., including National Public Radio, WQXR and WNYC in New York, and Yomiuri Television in Japan, Czech National Radio, ABC Radio in Australia, and “Good Morning Denmark” (Television). Critics have called her playing “powerful and convincing” (Washington Post), and “with an unusually organic breadth” (Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen). Founding member of the award-winning Jalina Trio, winner of numerous international prizes, highest critical acclaim including a January 2006 rave review in Fanfare magazine. Regular collaborator with many fine chamber musicians in Northern California includeing pianist Pascal Rogé, cellists Jean-Michelle Fonteneau, Stephen Harrison, and Susan Lamb, saxophonist Keith Bohm. Frequent guest soloist of the Sacramento Chamber Music Society. Her recent appearances include a tour of Italy performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F with Maestro Leo Eylar and the California Youth Symphony, concerto performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Liszt’s Totentanz, and Saint-Säens’ Carnival of the Animals with her husband Richard Cionco, concerto performances with Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Michael Morgan (Beethoven Third), CSUS Orchestra and Maestro Leo Eylar (Rachmaninov Second), duo concerts with U.C. Davis Artist-in-Residence violinist Ben Kreith and with violinist Ben Dominitz in Riverside, as well as performances as a guest artist for the Chamber Music Alive! series in Sacramento and Rocklin. Distinguished piano teacher with a growing waiting list of students. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a graduate of The Juilliard School, the Prague Academy of Music, and recently earned her doctorate from the University of Maryland. Early studies with her mother and later with pianists Mark Richman, Martin Canin, Ferenc Rados, Anne Koscielny, Jan Panenka, Fumiko Ishikawa, and violist Tim Fredericksen. Her trio studied intensively at the Isaac Stern Carnegie Hall Chamber Music Workshop as well as at the Jerusalem Music Encounters.
