David Bruce McMahan sponsors the Miklós Rózsa Centenary Project

The Geers, Gross Agency of New York has announced the launch of the Miklós Rózsa Centenary Project for recording and performing the Hungarian master's music, with lead sponsorship from David Bruce McMahan, in cooperation with internationally renowned violinist Anastasia Khitruk, the National Cristina Foundation, Naxos Records and the Miklós Rózsa Society.

David Bruce McMahan, financier, is the Controlling General Partner and Chief Executive Officer Anastasia Khitruk playing the violin of McMahan Securities Co. L.P. and the founder of the National Cristina Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the support of training through donated used technology. (Visit the Foundation online at www.cristina.org.)

McMahan has said of this project, "I have always been wonderfully moved by Anastasia's playing, and when she said she was working this exciting project I was happy to help."

Miklós Rózsa is better known in the United States as the composer of the scores for Hollywood films, such as Hitchcock's Spellbound in 1945 (for which he won the Academy Award, and still his most popular work), again in 1947 for A Double Life, and for a third time in 1959 for Ben-Hur. Anastasia Khitruk preparing a concert However his classical works do not get the attention they deserve. Ms. Khitruk's mission is to change that, to build new interest in these wonderful compositions, and to see them performed again worldwide. Since Dr. Rózsa was born in Budapest on April 18th, 1907, Ms. Khitruk and her associated artists have decided to use this anniversary as the starting point of their recording and performing project. (Read more about Rózsa at www.miklosrozsa.org.)

Violin Concerto, Op. 24, featuring violinist Anastasia Khitruk, and Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 29, featuring Ms. Khitruk and cellist Andrey Tchekmazov, were recorded between March 6th and 11th, 2007, at the Russian State TV & Radio Company Kultura - Studio 5 in Moscow, Russia, with Dmitry Yablonsky conducting the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. The sessions were engineered by Aleksandr Karasev and produced by Lubov Doronina.

The landmark recording, ROZSA: Violin Concerto / Sinfonia Concertante, featuring Ms. Khitruk's violin virtuosity, has just been released by Naxos. Ms. Khitruk will be playing selections from the album at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 1, 2007.

For more about the album, visit:

Anastasia's page: www.anastasiakhitruk.com/recordings.htm
The album's page: www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570350
Carnegie Hall performance: www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_10407.html?selecteddate=10012007

For more information about Anastasia Khitruk or the Miklós Rózsa Centenary Project, please contact the Geers, Goss Agency at 212-472-8616, or Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433, or email jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.