released July 22, 2022
All tracks composed by Benjamin Shorstein
Fantasy for Violin and Piano (2020)
Sonata for Piano (2018)
Partita for Solo Violin (2015)
Benjamin Shorstein is a composer of classical and jazz music and a founding member of the creative music collective Madre Vaca. He has been named a finalist for several national and international competitions, including the Franz Schubert Conservatory World Championship in Composition, the American Prize for Chamber Music Composition, and the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music. Mr. Shorstein’s music has been performed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, recorded for film, and featured in concerts and recordings. His jazz arrangement of Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise was named one of the best jazz recordings of 2020 by the Chicago Tribune, with critic Howard Reich writing that "Benjamin Shorstein has created the best kind of jazz-meets-the-classics merger, the two worlds intermingling rather than crashing up against each other".
Lucia Luque is the violin concertmaster of the Cordoba Symphonic Orchestra of Argentina and the Valdivia Chamber Orchestra of Chile. She is a violin professor at Uader University and performs regularly as a soloist throughout North America, South America, and Europe.
Marcelo Balat is the principal piano soloist of the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra and is one of the most renowned pianists in Argentina. In addition to his active career as a soloist, he is a piano and chamber music professor at UCA University.
The recording was mixed and mastered by Tom Lazarus. Widely regarded as one of the top recording engineers, Mr. Lazarus has recorded, mixed, and mastered for a broad spectrum of artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Emerson String Quartet, Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Horowitz, Ray Charles, Björk, Joshua Redman, and Ravi Shankar.
SPECIAL THANKS to Dr. Nicole Nissim Shorstein, JeanCarlo Mendez, Dr. Aaron Grant, Chick Corea, Keith Marks, Jarrett Carter, Andre Gruber, Dr. Daniel Crozier, and the whole Shorstein family for your encouragement and support.
Recorded December 18, 2017, April 29, 2019, December 18, 2020
at MTT Studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Session Engineer DAMIAN POLIAK
Session Producers PABLO HOPENHAYN and ESESSION STRINGS
Mixing TOM LAZARUS and JEANCARLO MENDEZ
Mastering TOM LAZARUS
Executive Producers BENJAMIN SHORSTEIN and JEANCARLO MENDEZ
Associate Producer NICOLE NISSIM SHORSTEIN
Executive Label Producer BOB LORD
Executive A&R SAM RENSHAW
A&R Director BRANDON MACNEIL
A&R DANIELLE LEWIS
VP of Production JAN KOŠULIČ
Audio Director LUCAS PAQUETTE
VP, Design & Marketing BRETT PICKNELL
Art Director RYAN HARRISON
Design EDWARD A. FLEMING
Publicity PATRICK NILAND, AIDAN CURRAN
Content Manager SARA WARNER
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