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New York, NY—Tanja Dorn Artist Management, a newly-created boutique agency for classical musicians, is proud to
announce that its roster of artists is now complete. Ms. Dorn represents seven musicians from throughout the world, who
are distinguished by their excellent artistry and unique approach to their art. Her roster includes Viennese pianist Rudolf
Buchbinder, American pianist Simone Dinnerstein, Hungarian Gypsy pianist Ernő Fehér, Chinese pianist Ran Jia, Russian-
Armenian violinist Mikhail Simonyan, German violinist Arabella Steinbacher, and German pianist and conductor Christian
Zacharias.
Tanja Dorn Artist Management is dedicated to the personal representation of each artist as an individual, and is set apart by
the high level of service it offers both musicians and concert presenters. “To me, each person on my roster is an individual
with different strengths, goals, and career needs,” Tanja Dorn said. “Especially in today’s difficult and ever-evolving market
for classical musicians, applying a formulaic approach would not ensure their success,” she elaborated. “Each artist
requires an individualized plan and vision, which I do my best to identify, and then help them achieve.”
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein praised Ms. Dorn’s approach. “Tanja Dorn is a passionate advocate and a brilliant strategist,”
Ms. Dinnerstein said. “She combines these qualities with a deep and expert musicality,” she continued. “No artist could ask
for more.”
Prior to starting her own agency, Tanja Dorn was an associate manager at Columbia Artists Management, LLC, where she
was responsible for a roster of thirteen top performing artists. In addition to her work with CAMI, Ms. Dorn has served as the
Artistic Director of Klavierhaus, where she produced over 50 recitals showcasing young artists. She has also been artistic
advisor for New York’s Splendor of Florence Festival, and produced the Sounds of Modern Italy concert at Pace University.
For the fifteenth anniversary of the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, Ms. Dorn with Mr. Reisinger initiated and organized the Berlin
Wall Project. Through this project, the Berlin Senate presented the State of New York with a three-ton portion of the Wall,
which once stood in downtown Berlin between Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz. Today, the segment is morepermanently
displayed in Battery Park City’s Kowsky Plaza as a symbol of unity, freedom, and friendship between the two countries.
A native of Germany, Ms. Dorn studied the piano at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, where she received
her master’s degree in piano performance, chamber music, and piano pedagogy. As a student, she was elected head of the
student parliament and nominated as the first student board member of the Academy's Friends and Supporters Foundation.
In this capacity, Ms. Dorn founded Europe's first student concert agency, called “Eisleriana,” for students of the Hochschule
für Musik, and initiated a biannual fundraising concert series in collaboration with Germany's Minister of Economics, Dr.
Werner Müller. Since graduating from the Academy, Ms. Dorn continues to serve as Director of International Affairs of the
Academy's Foundation. In Berlin, Ms. Dorn established the lecture series Musik! at Steinway Hall and, together with the late
Erik Smith, produced the German premiere of the Mozart opera L'oca del Cairo in August 2003. As a performing pianist, she
has served as an ambassador to her hometown, Mainz, throughout Russia, and the Ukraine. She has also performed
throughout Europe, including an orchestral debut at the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie.

The Artists

Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder has been called “….the Viennese oracle on the core literature of Haydn, Beethoven and
Brahms…” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Firmly established as one of the most important pianists on the international
scene, Rudolf Buchbinder is a regular guest of such renowned orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic,
New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic, National Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He
has collaborated with the world’s most distinguished conductors including Abbado, Dohnanyi, Frühbeck de Burgos, Giulini,
Harnoncourt, Maazel, Macal, Masur, Mehta, Saraste and Sawalisch. Mr. Buchbinder has over 100 recordings to his credit,
covering an enormous range of repertoire, including the cycle of Beethoven sonatas and an 18-disc set of Haydn’s complete
works for piano, for which he was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque. One of his major focus is the interpretation of the "New
Testament" in piano repertoire, the cyclic performance of all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven, which he played in over 30
cities including Munich, Vienna, Hamburg, Zurich, Berkeley and Buenos Aires. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled
Buchbinder for his complete recording of this sonata cosmos as "one of today's most important and competent Beethoven
performers". His cycle of all of Mozart’s piano concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, recorded live at the Vienna
Konzerthaus, was chosen by the famous critic Joachim Kaiser as CD of the year in 1998 and was acclaimed by Classics
Today…”Buchbinder has given us the finest all-around Mozart concerto cycle on disc…a reference edition guaranteed to give
immense musical pleasure for years to come.” In the Johann Strauss Year of 1999, Mr. Buchbinder released an exceptional
CD of piano transcriptions entitled Waltzing Strauss. His latest live recordings are of both Brahms piano concertos with the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and a live recording of all five Beethoven piano
concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as both soloist and conductor. In 2005-2006, he performed twelve Mozart
piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Vienna Festwochen, the DVD recording of which has recently been
released by EuroArts. Rudolf Buchbinder is the artistic director of the Music-Festival Grafenegg, a new major international
Austrian festival for classical music close to Vienna. Mr. Buchbinder was admitted to the Vienna Musik Hochschule, at age
five, and remains the youngest student to gain entrance in the school’s history.
Tanja Dorn represents Rudolf Buchbinder in North America.

American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has fast been gaining international attention as a commanding and charismatic artist,
and as one of the most compelling women pianists performing today. The Philadelphia Inquirer has written that her playing
“bursts with so much emotional and intellectual life.” Since being featured by the New York Times as an artist “poised for a
breakthrough” in September 2006, Ms. Dinnerstein has signed an exclusive recording contract with Telarc International,
which will release her much-anticipated recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations worldwide in August 2007. In November
2006, she performed to a sold-out audience at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s prestigious Accolades series. Highlights of
the current season include her debut recital at the Salle Cortot in Paris and recitals at Philadelphia’s Bach Festival and the
Copenhagen Music Festival. Ms. Dinnerstein will open the Moselfestwochen in Germany in June 2007 and will play at the
opening gala concert of the “Metropolitan Museum of Art in Berlin” exhibition at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. During the
2007-2008 season, she will give debut recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie and at the National
Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius. In New York City she will appear on the People’s Symphony series at New York City’s Town
Hall and on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series and will perform Beethoven’s complete sonatas for piano and cello
with duo partner Zuill Bailey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Dinnerstein will also tour the US with the Dresden
Philharmonic under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, open the concert season of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in
Jerusalem with Leon Botstein, tour with the Czech Philharmonic under Zdenek Macal, and will make her debut with the
Wüttembergische Kammerorchester Heibronn. Since 1996 Ms. Dinnerstein has played concerts throughout the United
States for the Piatigorsky Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues.
Amongst the places she has played are nursing homes, schools and community centers. Most notably, Ms. Dinnerstein
gave the first classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system when she played at the Avoyelles
Correctional Center.
Tanja Dorn represents Simone Dinnerstein worldwide.

Hungarian Gypsy pianist Ernő Fehér’s virtuosity and musical sensitivity have attracted critical acclaim throughout Europe,
Asia, and the United States. Renowned music critic Harris Goldsmith has described him as “impressively gifted,” and
“distinctive.” Of his performance of Liszt’s B minor Sonata, Goldsmith raved, “Even under the scrutiny and proximity which
might have mercilessly exposed any chink in Fehér’s technical armor, the playing was clean-cut and brilliant; the harmonic
tension was superbly conveyed; the mood swings emotionally apropos with no extreme allowed to disrupt the overall
proportion and continuity. Yes: Fehér’s reading was that good – which is to say, it joined the select company of Fleisher,
Curzon, Richter, Vasary and Yundi Li.” Mr. Fehér (b. 1979) is the winner of many competition prizes, culminating with the
Silver Medal and two Special Honors at the Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Hungary, and First Prize in the
International Future Musicians Audition in Japan. In recent seasons, Mr. Fehér has appeared as soloist with the
Marosvasarhely Symphony Orchestra, Kecskemet Symphony Orchestra, BM Duna Symphony Orchestra, Bombay Symphony
Orchestra, Szeged Symphony Orchestra and the Gyõr Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in recitals in Czech, Finland,
Germany, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States, in
addition to his homeland of Hungary. Ernő Fehér studied with Attila Némethy and Balázs Szokolay at the Franz Liszt Academy
of Music in Budapest, and received his Masters degree in 2004. His other teachers include Dimitri Bashkirov, Ferenc Rados,
Zoltán Kocsis and György Sebők. Currently, Mr. Fehér is working toward his Doctor of Music degree at the Franz Liszt
Academy, with Professor Márta Gulyás. For the past three years, he has been the recipient of the prestigious Annie Fischer
Scholarship.
Tanja Dorn represents Ernő Fehér worldwide.

At eighteen, pianist Ran Jia is already making a name for herself as a striking musician with unusual natural abilities. Tan
Dun called her a “piano poet with dramatic skill in music-making.” Born on December 31, 1988 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China,
Ms. Jia began studying piano at the age of three. She made her solo debut in 1995, and has since performed in Shanghai,
Nanjing, Chengdu, Fuzhou, and Xiamen in China. Her numerous award include The Special Prize for her performance of a
Mozart Sonata in
the Second Piano International-E-Competition in 2004; the Silver Medal in The National Cultural Ministry Dandelion Youth
Arts Competition in Nanjing, China in 2001; First Prize and the Osaka Mayer Prize in the Shanghai-Osaka Chinese and
Japanese Friendship Youth Piano Competition in 2000; First Prize in The Sichuan Youth Piano Competition in 1998; and
Second Prize in The National Xinghai Cup Piano Competition in 1998. In May 2004, Ms. Jia presented an ambitious recital at
the Heluting Concert Hall at
the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her recital was received with great enthusiasm by audiences and the media. Oriental
TV broadcast two special programs that featured Ran’s life as a young artist, and included her live performance at the
Conservatory. In
November 2005, Ms. Jia was selected to perform at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with her teacher, Gary Graffman, and the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s at a special “Junior/Senior Concert” organized by the Musicians Emergency Fund, Inc. Ms. Jia
performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 under the baton of Mr. Li Jian. Highlights of 2006 included a
return, sold-out concert at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and a performance of two Mozart concerti with the Shanghai
Philharmonic Orchestra at the Shanghai Concert Hall. Ran Jia currently studies with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia. Her father, Professor Daqun Jia, is one of the leading composers in China and Dean of the Graduate
Study Programs at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Tanja Dorn represents Ran Jia worldwide.

Violinist Mikhail Simonyan, now just 21, is already recognized as one of the most promising talents of his generation. The
Moscow Times proclaimed in 2004, “[Simonyan] seems destined to be ranked on the same Superstar level as fellow
Novosibirsk natives Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin.” The Miami Herald commented after his performance of
Symanowski’s first violin concerto that he “played with the poise, perfection and inner burning fire of a master like David
Oistrakh in his prime on a good night.” Born of Russian and Armenian parents, Mr. Simonyan made his New York debut at
Lincoln Center in 1999 at age 13 with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (ARYO), and his debut in St.
Petersburg, Russia at the Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre in ARYO's joint concert with the Mariinsky Youth Orchestra, performing
the Szymanowski Violin Concerto. After performing with Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center's 35th Anniversary Gala in
2001, Mikhail Simonyan made his official debut with Maestro Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra in 2002. He
made his recital debut at the Kennedy Center in 2004, and has performed with, among others, the Kirov Orchestra, the
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic, the Moscow Virtuosi, the
Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and under conductors including Valery Gergiev, Mikhail
Pletnev, Constantine Orbelian, Vladimir Spivakov, Arnold Katz, Kristjan Järvi, Leon Botstein, and the late Yehudi Menuhin.
Highlights of past seasons included a tour of the United States with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under
Maestro Valery Gergiev, concerts and a recording with Maestro Kristjan Järvi and the Russian National Orchestra, tours of
both Europe and China with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and recitals in Europe, Asia and the United States. In
spring 2006 Simonyan performed Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail
Pletnev at the Prague Easter Festival, to great critical acclaim.
Tanja Dorn represents Mikhail Simonyan worldwide.

German violinist Arabella Steinbacher has become a fast-rising star on the international concert stage after making an
extraordinary debut in Paris in March 2004, when she stepped in on short notice for an ailing colleague and performed the
Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Sir Neville Marriner. Ms. Steinbacher
has since enjoyed a number of successes within an unusually short amount of time, and has appeared with leading
international orchestras such as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, The London
Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfónica de la
RTVE of Madrid, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestra of the Bayerische Rundfunk, Deutsches
Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, and the WDR Orchestra of Cologne. Her New York recital debut on June 11, 2006 was called “a
particular highlight of the month” by The Strad magazine. The New York Times wrote, “Balanced lyricism and fire ….among
her assets are a finely polished technique and a beautifully varied palette of timbres.” Ms. Steinbacher’s two most recent
recordings, of the Milhaud and Shostakovich concerti, have both received the German Record Prize. In November 2007, she
will make her American orchestra subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi.
Other engagements during the 2007-2008 season include her debuts with the NDR-Sinfonieorchester under Christoph von
Dohnányi, the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi, the
Orchestre National de Belgique under Walter Weller, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Marek Janowski, the
Orchestra Nacional de Espana under Mark Albrecht, and a European tour with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the European Youth
Orchestra.
Tanja Dorn represents Arabella Steinbacher in North and South America.

Christian Zacharias is considered to be one of the great German pianists of today and one of the most remarkable musical
explorers of our time. Known for his consistent and uncompromising individuality, Christian Zacharias achieved international
attention as prizewinner in the Geneva Competition in 1969 and the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. In 1975, he won the
First Prize in the Ravel Competition in Paris and began an international career encompassing recitals in all the major
international venues, award-winning recordings and concerts with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. Christian
Zacharias also appears in chamber music recitals with partners such as the Alban Berg Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, the
Leipziger String Quartet, Heinrich Schiff and Frank Peter Zimmermann. In 1992, Christian Zacharias launched his
conducting career, making his debut conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. This was soon followed
by invitations to conduct the Bamberg Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Dresden
Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orquesta Simfónica de
Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunya, the Orquesta Nacional de Espaňa and the Orchestra of the Frankfurter
Museumsgesellschaft. Mr. Zacharias’ U.S. debut as a conductor took place in 2000, when he conducted the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by his conducting debuts at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, and
with the National Symphony and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. In September 2000, Christian Zacharias assumed the post of
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. He started his tenure as principal guest
conductor of the Göteborgs Symfoniker in 2002. The 2005-2006 season included his conducting debuts with the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Staatskapelle Dresden, and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cologne (WDR), as well as
the production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Geneva Opera House. Upcoming U.S. performances will bring him to
Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, where he will perform the Schumann Concerto with the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra. During the 2007-2008 season, he will also make his conducting debut at the Hollywood Bowl, will return to
conduct at the Mostly Mozart Festival, and in February will embark on a US recital tour. Mr. Zacharias has recently received
the “Artist of the Year” MIDEM Classics Award for 2007.
Tanja Dorn represents Christian Zacharias in North America.