The Symphonina Foundation

Symphonina Stories: New Horizons will be a double album with eight (that’s right eight!) Symphoninas. Leading the album is Christopher Siu’s competition-winning Symphonina No. 1 (“Hope”) and Jordan Jinosko’s runner-up composition Symphonina No. 3 (“Of Fire and Water”), each performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Following Christopher and Jordan on the first CD, we have Alexander Unseth’s Symphonina No. 3 (“Painted City”) and Chris Prather’s Symphonina No. 1 (“Tales from Spooky Town”) each recorded by the International Symphonina Orchestra. Then, on the second CD, we start with 5-time Grammy® nominee David Arkenstone and his Symphonina No. 1 (“Dreams Carried on Fire”), followed by Grammy nominee David Das and his Symphonina No. 1 (“Lenny and George Walk Into a Bar”), each performed again by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. That’s followed by David Fogel’s Symphonina No. 6 (“Flutissimo”) featuring Ragan Whiteside on flute and Alexander Boldachev on harp, performed by the International Symphonina Orchestra. Finally, the album concludes with HIMA award winner Daniel Fisher and his Symphonina No. 3 ("Lyrical Hearts"), performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The album is scheduled to release July 24 and we’ll have the pre-sale ready for CDs and digital downloads early in June. 

We want to thank everyone who helped us create all this wonderful music and CD: the composers, performers, conductors, engineers, producers, engravers, artists, everyone who contributed time and funds to help us produce all of this, and all of you who support us in other ways. We’re truly very grateful.  Look for more credits to everyone involved as we post the liner notes coming soon. 

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. Annelle also performs as part of the 2026 International Symphonina Orchestra for Chris Prather’s Symphonina No.1 (“Tales from Spooky Town”). Welcome Annelle! 

Annelle has two upcoming events in June. She’ll be a presenter and artist at the MTAC State Convention held at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel on Saturday, June 27, 9:00am giving a lecture/recital with her mother and koto player Reiko Obata. Later at noon, she’ll also be giving a workshop on performance etiquette. For more information, visit https://www.mtac.org/convention/ and click on the featured artists pop-up!