ANNA GENDLER, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory in Russia, has been a member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra since 1991. She is also a member of the Grammy nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra. In addition, she has performed with the Phoenix Symphony, Tucson Symphony String Quartet and Flute Trio, Daystar Chamber Players, St Michael’s Piano Quartet, and with her husband, Alexander Tentser, in a violin and piano duet. In the summer she performs at the “Music in the Mountains” Festival in Grass Valley, California, and with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta in New York.

Ms. Gendler teaches at the Lake Placid Chamber Music Workshop for adults. As an accomplished chamber musician, she dedicates her time to children’s musical education in Tucson. Ms. Gendler is also a violin teacher of the Symphony Women Association charity program for low-income families, and she is on the Music Faculty at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona.

ALEXANDER TENTSER began studying piano with his father at the age of four in Kiev, Ukraine. After a highly acclaimed performance of the Grieg’s Piano Concerto at age twelve, he was recommended for studies at the Gnessin Music College in Moscow, Russia, the oldest music college in the country. He continued his piano education at the Gnessin Russian Music Academy with Professor Theodor Gutmann, a student and assistant of Heinrich Neuhaus, who taught in the celebrated Russian piano tradition. Mr. Tentser received a full scholarship for doctoral studies with Professor Nohema Fernandez at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Mr. Tentser has performed as orchestra soloist, piano recitalist, and chamber musician in Russia and in the United States. He lectures on music for the Learning Curve, Tucson’s independent arts and humanities series, and teaches at Pima Community College in Tucson. As a conductor, he directs the Pima Community College Orchestra, and as a teacher he maintains a private piano studio of children and adult students.

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