Our Artists

Artists:
Hacène Larbi, France (composer)                       St. Aidan Girls Choir, U.S.A
Sergei Markarov, Russia (pianist)                       Philip Zawisza, U.S.A. (baritone)
Yasuko Mitsui, Japan (harpsichordist)                Yunhong Zhao, China (soprano)
Christopher Ravenscroft, England (actor)

The multicultural artists' ensemble will fully donate their performances.
Gilbert Nouno

Gilbert Nouno lives and works in Paris as a recording sound artist and a researcher at the Ircam institute.
Pierre Fournier

Pierre Fournier is a writer and a sinologist. He is General Consul of France in India and was director of the Villa Kujoyama and of the Kansai Japanese and French Institute in Kyoto from 2002 to 2006. He wrote Le Babiroussa (Diabase, 2003), a novel which is being adapted for the cinema. In India, he has also produced and directed Jayramdas, a documentary for the French television. He wrote the libretto of Hacène Larbi’s opera Analogôs.

Fournier played a role in the recent 2010 Peace Concert, where he contributed certain Opera excerpts to the program. 
Yun Hong Zhao

Zhao Yun Hong is known in media circles as “the Oriental Nightingale,” and for good reason.
St. Aidan Girls Choir

Heavenly, angelic and celestial are but some of most frequently used words to describe the music of the St. Aidan Girls Choir.
Philip Zawisza
Born in Michigan, Philip Zawisza completed his Master's Degree in 1989 at Indiana University with Nicola Rossi-Lemeni.  Following apprenticeships with the Santa Fe Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in 1992, Zawisza was a MET finalist, won the Baltimore Opera Competition and Munich's Radio-Symphony Voice Contest.
In the US, Philip sang with Carlo Bergon
Sergei Markarov
As the first Russian musician to receive the title of UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2002, classical pianist Sergei Markarov is one of the most renowned advocates of the performance stage as an instrument of world friendship.
Yasuko Mitsui

Tokyo native Yasuko Mitsui is one of Japan's premier artists of the keyboard, and is widely known in classical music circles for her masterful concerts and recordings.

Mitsui studied piano and harpsichord at the Tokyo Murashino Music University and the National University of Music in Vienna. She has received plaudits for her performances with the Ensemble Bella Musica, on TV shows, at music festivals, and in concerts throughout Europe and Japan.
Christopher Ravenscroft

Poetry’s force is best conveyed by the spoken word. Today, acclaimed actor Christopher Ravenscroft may be one of the art form’s greatest voices. Trained at Bristol’s Old Vic School, Christopher has played some of the world’s best known theatrical roles, most recently as Dr. Rank in the Peter Hall Company production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Liverpool Playhouse, AEH in Invention of Love at the Salisbury Playhouse, and the Rev.
Hacène Larbi

Larbi studied piano and horn before entering the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique de Paris or CNSMP, where he was awarded five prizes.