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Conductor:
Yuval Waldman
Yuval
Waldman, violinist and conductor, has conducted dozens of orchestras including
the Kansas City Philharmonic, The Mid Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, the Russian
State Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Israeli Chamber
Orchestra. He made his debut as a solo violinist at the age
of 8.
His New York debut was as winner of the Jeunesses
Musicales Carnegie Hall International Competition. He is the principal
guest conductor of the St. Petersburg (Russia) Orchestra, and conductor the New American Orchestra,
which tours extensively in the mid-Atlantic states. He has recorded for Sony, Omega, Newport
Classic and Angel Records. He holds degrees from Rubin Academy (Israel) and the
Juillard School.
The Piano
Faculty:
Lily Friedman. Music Director of Summertrios;
 Founding member of the New York Piano Trio,
an Artists International award winner. The trio has performed in the New
York area for over 25 years.
It has performed
virtually the entire standard piano trio, piano quartet and piano quintet
literature, as well as introducing to audiences a great deal of lesser
known piano chamber music involving voice, brass and woodwinds.
Ms. Friedman holds a Master of Music from Juilliard where she was a student of
Beveridge Webster; further study with Irma Wolpe; chamber music study with
Menahem Pressler, Arthur Balsam, Isidore Cohen, Joseph Fuchs, and Rudolph
Serkin. She has been a participant in the Marlboro Music festival, and the
Orono (Maine) Festival. She has performed in many chamber nesembles; among the
more notable performances have been the entire Beethoven Sonatas for
piano/violin with New York Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova; and the entire
Beethoven oeuvre for cello and piano with Juilliard professor Andre Emelian
Jan Deats was a scholarship student at Oberlin Conservatory and received her
masters degree from Southern Methodist University. She has been a student
of Gyorgy Sandor, Alexander Uninsky and Menahem Pressler. She has
performed regularly as a member of the McCall/Deats duo with cellist Alvin
McCall. She is Chair of the piano department at the Rockland Conservatory
of Music.
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