MOSAIC is a quartet of instrumentalists made up of a unique core combination of flute, cello, piano and percussion — no other chamber group presently exists with this specific makeup. In addition to concert programming, part of MOSAIC’s focus is to produce multi-disciplinary events that treat either new or already-composed music as a centerpiece and equal component to whatever artistic discipline might be involved in these distinct projects. Recently the press have said of MOSAIC: "...a technically deft, adventurous ensemble." Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times and "MOSAIC is one of those crack New York ensembles where one senses that a group of virtuosos have gotten together for the sheer pleasure of making new music sound as good as any repertoire they might otherwise play." Fanfare Magazine

MOSAIC is involved in commissioning and recording new works and has presented their programs in residencies as well as in traditional concert formats throughout the country since 1992. During the 2005/2006 season, MOSAIC will also be co-producing and performing the work Cabaret Schoenberg, a collaboration with the renowned theatre director Hans Peter Cloos and stage designer Jean Kalman, with soprano Julia Migenes at the Kasser Theatre and in Europe. With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Jerome Foundation, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, the O'Grady Family Foundation, the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, and the Vilcek Foundation, among others, MOSAIC continues its ongoing commitment to commissioning and recording American music. The group has commissioned works by Sebastian Currier, Martin Matalon, Sue Lian Tan, Rand Steiger, Tania Leon and Steven Mackey whose work forms part of a collaboration with Donald Byrd/The Group. MOSAIC is also commissioning new works by composers Mike Figgis, Margaret Brouwer, a collaboration with BMOP, as well as two commissions with emerging composers to be named later this season. MOSAIC, in collaboration with New World Records has released CDs of Sebastian Currier's works. MOSAIC recently released its Steven Mackey CD for New World Records and looks forward to the release, with Bridge Records, of an innovative audio/DVD of two multi-disciplinary works by Steiger and Currier.

Zizi Mueller, flutist, studied at the Juilliard School and while still a student, she appeared at the major theatres and festivals throughout Europe and the United States and won the Artists International Competition as soloist. Ms. Mueller has worked extensively in theater, acting as Musical Director for the LaMama ETC Company under the direction of Wilford Leach, Musical Director and composer for Leonard Cohen's Sisters of Mercy, Musical Director for Joseph Papp's “Midsummer Night's Dream” and many other theatrical productions. Ms. Mueller has played recitals and chamber music throughout the US and gave her New York solo debut at Merkin Hall to enthusiastic reviews.

Ms. Mueller has produced collaborations that include one with MOSAIC and Donald Byrd/the Group which was premiered in 2001 at Symphony Space in New York and is currently producing Cabaret Schoenberg, a work directed by celebrated artists Hans Peter Cloos and Jean Kalman which premiered in the US in the 2005/2006 season. Ms. Mueller's productions also include collaborations with video artist Vibeke Sorensen and composer Rand Steiger as well as a new recording of Margaret Brouwer's orchestral works, featuring soloist Evelyn Glennie.

Ms. Mueller has recorded for the Vanguard, CRI, Newport Classic, Naxos, Nonesuch and New World companies and released a CD for Premiere Records entitled The American Flute, Volume I. Ms. Mueller has produced a new recording of Steven Mackey's chamber works released by New World Records and is also Executive Producer of a recording of Margaret Brouwer's orchestral works with Gerard Schwarz and Evelyn Glennie. She has been on the faculties of Fairfield University and SUNY Purchase as well as on the Faculty of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East.

Cellist Edward Arron is rapidly gaining recognition worldwide for his elegant musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Earlier that year, he performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos with Yo-Yo Ma and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Opening Night Gala of the Caramoor International Festival. Since that time, Mr. Arron has appeared in recital, as a soloist with orchestra, and as a chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East.

The 2005-2006 season marked Mr. Arron’s third season as the Artistic Director of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, a chamber ensemble created in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Museum’s prestigious Concerts and Lectures series. Each performance of the MMAinC is broadcast live on New York’s classical radio station, WQXR. Mr. Arron is also the artistic coordinator of the Caramoor Virtuosi and is the artistic director of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Summit County, Colorado. For four seasons, he was the artistic administrator and resident performer for WQXR’s “On A-I-R” series, a weekly radio program dedicated to chamber music.

Recent highlights of Mr. Arron’s career include guest appearances with the Tokyo and Shanghai Quartets, as well as collaborations with Renee Fleming, James Taylor, and the Persian singer, Shahram Nazeri. Mr. Arron has performed numerous times at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, New York’s Town Hall, and the 92nd Street Y, and is a frequent performer at Bargemusic. Past summer festival appearances include Ravinia, Salzburg, BRAVO! Colorado, Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Piccolo Spoleto, Santa Fe, the North Country Chamber Players, the Chamber Music Conference of the East, and Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounterseen on the faculties of Fairfield University and SUNY Purchase as well as on the Faculty of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East.

Pianist Emma Tahmiziàn’s international career was launched when she won the First Prize in the Robert Schumann International Competition. Within the span of three years, she won prizes in the Tchaikovsky, Leeds, and Van Cliburn competitions. She has appeared with the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Halle, and Brooklyn Philharmonics, and the East Berlin Radio Symphony. Ms. Tahmiziàn tours throughout the United States and Europe in wide variety of appearances. Her affinity for broad repertoire dates in her formative years, as early as in her first performances where she often included new music in her programs, and at eleven was chosen to represent her native country in Moscow, performing twenty six pieces by contemporary Bulgarian composers in less than a week. She has premiered and recorded numerous new works, several of which written expressly for her. Ms. Tahmiziàn spends her summers at the Bowdoin International Music Festival which she joined eighteen years ago. Featured at MIDEM Classique in Cannes with her recording of Beethoven's Sonatas Op.31 No.3 and Op.111 and in live broadcasts, she has recorded for New World Records, Koch International, Balkanton, Premier Recordings, and Classico.

Daniel Druckman, percussionist, is active as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and recording artist, concertizing throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic's Horizons
concerts, the San Francisco Symphony's New and Unusual Music series, and in recital in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo. A member of the New York Philharmonic, Speculum Musicae and the New York New Music Ensemble, Mr. Druckman has also made numerous guest appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Group for Contemporary Music, Steve Reich and Musicians, and the Philip Glass Ensemble, among others.

Mr. Druckman is currently coordinator of the percussion department and Director of the percussion ensemble at the Juilliard School. He has recorded for the Columbia, Angel, Teldec, DGG, CRI, Nonesuch, Bridge and New World labels. Daniel Druckman was born and raised in New York City. He attended the Juilliard School where he was awarded the Morris A. Goldenberg Memorial Scholarship in 1977 and 1978, and the Saul Goodman Scholarship in 1979. Additional studies were undertaken at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he was awarded the Henry Cabot Award for outstanding instrumentalist.