Frances C. Roberts is the founding conductor of Long Island Philharmonic Chorus, the Long Island Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra, and the Long Island Choral Festival & Institute.  

She received her B.S. at the Crane School of Music and her M.M. degree from Boston University.  Her work as a collaborative pianist and conductor were recognized at an early age by invitations to work with Abraham Kaplan, Allen Lannom,  Roman Totenberg and Chloe Owen.  She accompanied at the Metropolitan Opera Studio and for the Gregg Smith Singers, and has collaborated with  conductors Christopher Keene, Marin Alsop, David Lockington, David Wiley and Edo de Waart.

Ms. Roberts has a long and distinguished career as pianist, conductor and teacher, and has been responsible for the commissioning of 2 major choral works. She continues an active performing and teaching schedule from her home in Northport, where she resides with her husband.

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Avraham Sternklar, pianist, composer,  educator, began his career in Israel, both as recitalist and soloist with the Israel Philharmonic.

Upon his arrival to this country he was awarded scholarships for study at the Juilliard School. Numerous concerts followed which took him from coast to coast as well as abroad – often appearing in the triple role of pianist, composer and lecturer.
His compositions are published, recorded and performed by soloists and ensembles internationally.


He has served as Associate Professor of Piano Performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and has been instrumental in launching the careers of hundreds of young musicians.
Mr. Sternklar is the recipient of many awards, among them MEET THE COMPOSER, ASCAP and several BEST OF THE YEAR awards by the Piano Quarterly Magazine.
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Dr. Kenneth Rosenthal was born on October 1st, 1953, coinciding with the 50th birthday of Vladimir Horowitz.  His parents took this to be a sign that Rosenthal might become a musical genius of similar stature.  However, this hope did not come to fruition. What evolved in its modest stead was a musical passion that has lasted his entire life, and which has proved to be an essential part of his life.

His musical career began at the age of 6 when he began piano, composition and theory studies with Avraham Sternklar, a graduate of the Julliard School of Music and the first person to receive a masters degree in chamber music from that institution.  Sternklar is an internationally known and acclaimed pianist and composer.  Incredibly enough, Rosenthal has continued to study with Sternklar for  53 years!

After studying at the Julliard School of Music, Dr. Rosenthal studied Biology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was awared a B.S. degree.  He attended Albany Medical College followed by a residency in ophthalmology at the North Shore University Hospital.  In his final year he was honored by being elected Chief Resident.  During this time he continue to take courses at Julliard. For 30 years, he has been the Surgeon Director of Rosenthal Eye Surgery and Facial plastic surgery in New York City and Great Neck, New York, and he continues to be one the most significant pioneers in performing innovative and complex eye surgery throughout the world. He continues to pursue the study of music and has performed before groups of colleagues including international eye surgery meetings. As the president and founder of the Iris and Rose Foundation, Dr. Rosenthal seeks to mesh his two passions, music and medicine….

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Paul Moravec, a current university professor at Adelphi University, and winner of the 2004 Pultizer Prize in music, will be joining us for a special preformanceon this special night. Moravec has composed and preformed a myriad of works in his long-standing career. He is a graduate of the elite Harvard University and Columbia University and an outstanding composer for famous orchestras and performers throughout the country. Paul Moravec is a the recipient of various awards throughout his career including: Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Rome, a fellowship in music Composition, a fellowship in Music Composition from the National Endowment for Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and two fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information please visit his page: http://paulmoravec.com/