May 9th
2:00 PM
SDPA Faculty Recital - ANELLE GREGORY AND OKSANA STOCK
Saturday, May 9th, 2026 2:00PM
P. Tchaikovsky: Waltz-Scherzo, Op. 34
S. Rachmaninoff: Romance, Op. 6, No. 1
S. Prokofiev: Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 115
N. Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. F. Kreisler): Two Selections from Scheherazade
I. Chanson Arabe
II. Danse Orientale
D. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 77
III. Passacaglia
IV. Burlesque
ANELLE K. GREGORY American violinist Annelle K. Gregory is a laureate of international competitions, concert soloist, and recording artist. She is the 1st Prize & Audience Choice Award winner of the 2017 National Sphinx Competition and Laureate of the 2013 Stradivarius International Violin Competition. In 2017 she released the first-ever CD of Rachmaninoff's complete violin/piano works (Bridge Records) and in 2019 released, "Russian Music for Solo Violin and Orchestra" (Naxos). As a soloist, Annelle has performed with the symphonies of Detroit, Chicago Sinfonietta, Houston, Kiev Virtuosi, New Jersey, Nashville, San Diego, Philadelphia, and others, performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Walt Disney Hall, as well as abroad in Azerbaijan, Germany, Guadeloupe, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and the UK. In 2025, she published a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed book on music performance. Her teachers have included Michael & Irina Tseitlin, Glenn Dicterow, and Alexander Kirov.
OKSANA STOCK received her Bachelor Degree in Piano Performance at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Professor Nelita True. She then went on to complete her Masters Degree at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria in the studio of Professor Oleg Marshev.
She has attended piano festivals in the US and Europe, including the Vitaly Margulis Piano Master Class at the University of California Los Angeles, the Colburn Academy Piano Festival in Los Angeles, Klaviersommer - John Perry Piano Festival in Germany, Southern California Music Institute with John Perry, as well as the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival in Florida and the Casalmaggiore International Festival in Italy. These festivals enabled her to study with many great artists including Vitaly Margulis, John Perry, Mina Perry, Thomas Schumacher, Rebecca Penneys, Blanca Uribe, Gabriel Kwok, Jean-David Cohen, Dmitri Shteinberg, Christopher Harding, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Fr. Sean Duggan, Eunmi Ko, Roberta Rust, Ori Shihor, Andrew Park, and Wojciech Kocyan.
She performed as soloist with the San Diego Symphony in 2010, was a regularly featured artist for the Music 101 Radio broadcast on San Diego's classical station, 104.9 FM, and was a featured soloist with the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra performing Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto and Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3.