Boston Metrowest
About the Artists
2025
Irina Muresanu
Romanian-born violinist Irina Muresanu is equally in demand on both sides of the Atlantic, as she has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South Africa. Ms. Muresanu has firmly established herself as a successful recording artist, and her adventurous programming and thematic concepts define her as soloist and chamber musician.
A laureate and winner of top prizes in several prestigious international violin competitions including the Montreal International, Queen Elisabeth, UNISA International String, Washington International, and the Schadt String Competition, Muresanu achieved international acclaim early on. Muresanu’s awards also include the Presser Award, the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association, the Creative and Performing Arts Award from the University of Maryland, a prestigious New Music USA Grant, a Pro Musicis International Award.
Irina Muresanu is Associate Professor in the School of Music and Affiliate Faculty in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland and has been on the faculties of Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and in the Harvard and MIT Music Departments. She holds a prestigious Artist Diploma degree and a Doctor in Musical Arts degree from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with the legendary French violinist Michèle Auclair. Muresanu plays an 1849 Giuseppe Rocca violin and an Étienne Pajeot bow.
Asiya Korepanova
Born in Izhevsk, Russia, to a musical family, Asiya Korepanova received various awards for her prodigious abilities. These include the Russian Federation Presidential Award for Exceptional Achievement in the Arts, the National Award from the Republic of Udmurtia (2002), the Germany Berliner Salon Award (2003), the Russia Youth Triumph Award (2005), and the title of Honored Artist of Udmurtia (2009).
With a repertoire of over sixty works ranging from baroque to contemporary, pianist Asiya Korepanova is also a composer, transcriber, visual artist, and poet. “Poème,” her work for alto saxophone and piano, recently received its world premiere. A native of Russia, Ms. Korepanova debuted at age nine and has since soloed with many Russian orchestras. In the U.S., she won the gold medal at the Wideman International Piano Competition and earned an Artist Diploma from the University of Miami. South Florida Classical Review has hailed her “blazing technique” and her “singular affinity for Rachmaninoff’s Russian romantic idiom.” Ms. Korepanova celebrated Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday in 2023 with performances of his complete solo piano music.
Ronald Lowry
Ronald Lowry is an active performer in many of Boston’s leading musical organizations. Called a “superb cellist” by the Boston Globe’s Richard Dyer, he is the principal cellist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Former principal cellist of the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Lowry performs frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with the Boston Pops. As a soloist, he has been featured with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston Ballet Orchestra on several occasions as well as the Concert Arts Orchestra of Boston, the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the New England Symphony Orchestra, and several other orchestras in the greater Boston area. He has presented recitals in Jordan Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, the Worcester Museum of Art, on WGBH radio in Boston, and throughout the New England region. Mr. Lowry is heard frequently as a chamber musician. He has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Muir String Quartet, the Boston University Faculty Artists, and the First Monday concerts at the New England Conservatory. Mr. Lowry is currently the Artistic Director for the Needham Concert Society. He has premiered numerous compositions with contemporary ensembles such as Collage, Griffin Ensemble, NuClassix, Composers in Red Sneakers and with the Boston Musica Viva, with whom he was the cellist from 1990 until 2004. He is on the faculties of the New England Conservatory Extension Division, The Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Rivers School Conservatory. Mr. Lowry graduated with Honors from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory. His teachers include Janos Starker, Lawrence Lesser, Aldo Parisot, Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, and Rodney Farrar.
Daniel Kurganov
Violinist Daniel Kurganov, praised for his “extraordinary fervor, commitment, and technical prowess” (Classics Today), has recently given recitals at venues including Merkin Hall, BargeMusic, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Harvard Musical Association. He worked with the Violins of Hope project in Sion, Switzerland, performing on an instrument rescued from Auschwitz. Daniel runs a YouTube Channel with 80,000 subscribers focused on violin pedagogy and performance, and has recently given masterclasses at the Boston Conservatory, the University of Maryland, and Münster Hochschule. He is also regularly featured in The Strad, and was voted “Best of The Strad 2021.” In 2025, Daniel was a visiting instructor at Boston University, working with graduate/doctoral violin students of Bayla Keyes. Daniel’s studio albums include a 2018 debut with pianist Constantine Finehouse, world premieres by Lera Auerbach and Richard Beaudoin (Orchid Classics, 2021) and the complete Brahms Violin Sonatas on historical instruments (Hänssler Classics, 2023), which earned a 10/10 rating from Jed Distler. Born in Minsk, Belarus, and raised in Chicago, he completed his Master’s at the
Zurich University of the Arts under Rudolf Koelman, a protégé of Jascha Heifetz.
Lyle Brewer
Lyle Brewer is a guitarist and songwriter from Massachusetts. He has released several instrumental guitar albums and has performed all over the country with such artists as Neighbor, Ryan Montbleau and Lori McKenna. For the last decade Brewer has been a professor of guitar at The Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has released three transcription books and maintains a hearty teaching schedule through his Patreon site. His solo show will consist of instrumental music from his albums Juno, Get It Together and Hold On.
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