MEDINA-ZIMMERMANN
DUO
Medina-Zimmermann Duo has a mission to connect with audiences, perform with excellence, and thoughtfully curate programs with well-known works and rare gems.
Margrit Julia Zimmermann
Margrit Julia Zimmermann is winner of many international piano competitions, including the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria and International Piano Competition in Roma, in Italy. An important part of her career has been as a performing artist through recitals, solo performances with orchestras and as a chamber musician. Her extensive tours through U.S. and Europe have featured performances from New York’s David Geffen Hall in the Lincoln Center, to the Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow, to the great hall of the Graz Musichochschule in Austria, Great Hall of Vilnius Philharmonie (Lithuania), and Sala Beethoven, and Teatro Isauro Martinez (Mexico). As an avid chamber musician, she is features in numerous highly-acclaimed recordings with instrumentalists and vocalists alike: Art Songs with Mikhail Svetlov (Hartshorn Classical), Works for Flute and Piano: L.Boulanger, V.Janárčekova, B.Heller (SALTO record, Germany), Works for Violin and Piano: A.Schnittke, O.Balakauskas and A.Pärt on ProSound Record and ASV Record (UK). As a soloist with the orchestra: Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra of O.Balakauskas on BIS Record (Sweden). Margrit Julia Zimmermann is a winner of the Arts Prize of the Wolfgang-Zippel Foundation. She was a founder and for many years Artistic Director of the International Music Festival "Cascades" and long term Artist-in-Residence of Alliance University in New York.
Medina
Medina is a contemporary and classical chamber musician and clarinetist based in New York City. Medina has performed in New York’s most prestigious halls ranging from Avery Fisher to Carnegie Hall. Medina’s playing has been described as: “…dynamic and exotic with the virtuosic writing pulled off flawlessly.” by the Examiner, “ethereal” by Sound Word Sight, and has been recognized for her “…extraordinary breath control” by the Classical Voice of North Carolina. Medina has collaborated with Chamber Music Silicon Valley’s Primal Reboot Summer Festival, Chamber Music Society of New Paltz, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Capital City Concerts of Vermont, and Wolfson College Music Society in Cambridge, England. Medina also was the recipient of the City Corps Grant with composer Rachel Fogarty. Medina’s expertise has brought her to both coasts of the United States working with musicians as a concert clinician and teaching artist. Her mission as an educator is to guide her students in discovering their musical voice. Medina has served as faculty in the woodwind department at Alliance University School of Music in Manhattan and has presented entrepreneurship to musicians at West Virginia University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts.
