Links to additional info about the Amateur Weeks

 

	for Concerto Program faculty see Concerto Faculty 2007
	for Premium Program faculty see Premium Faculty 2007

 

Participant Comments on the Faculty Concerts

	Phenomenal, do not shorten, would be happy to listen all week - Sue Entmacher, violin
	I thoroughly enjoyed all the concerts; wish there could be more - Elizabeth Blatt, violin
	The quality of the faculty concerts was world class - Susan Spevak, piano
	Faculty concerts rival those of any festival in the world - Francis Church, cello
	Superb; well worth the cost of the program - Leonard Krawitz, violin, clarinet
	In general the level is very high, a thrill to us amateurs - Marjorie Duncalfe, piano
	Fabulous; the highest level of professional performance - Marty Lipnik, oboe

 

The listings below reflect our current information about which faculty are attending.  
Expect that some faculty will be added, drop out or change to other weeks.

piano

violin

viola

cello

woodwind

§ Piano

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 Emelianoff. 

Jan Deats. Scholarship student Oberlin Conservatory, Masters from Southern Methodist University, student of Gyorgy Sandor, Alexander Uninsky and Menahem Pressler. Head of piano department at Rockland Conservatory of Music, regular performer with McCall/Deats duo.

Maya Hartman  completed her DMA at SUNY Stony Brook where she studied with Gilbert Kalish. Previous studies were with Menahem Pressler and Edward Auer. Upcoming performances include solo recitals at Steinway and Merkin Halls in New York City and on the Dame Myra Hess live broadcast concert series in Chicago. She will perform Elliott Carter*s Dialogues (2003) for piano and chamber orchestra as well as Milton Babbitt's "3 compositions for piano" in a concert celebrating Milton Babbitt's 90th birthday in Pittsburgh, PA this fall. Festival appearances inculde the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove (England), the Mannes Contemporary Festival, Yellow Barn Festival (Vermont), Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music (Connecticut), and Kneisel Hall (Maine). Ms. Hartman is on faculty at SUNY-Stony Brook and at the Lucy Moses School in New York City.

Denise Kahn. Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from Mannes College. Principal teachers were Murray Perahia, Bruce Hungerford, Edward Aldwell and Sophia Rosoff. Founding member of the Cameo Trio which has performed in Europe, South America and the US. Currently on faculty of Mannes College.

 

§ Violin

Philip Coonce. Doctorate, The Manhattan School; student of Raphael Bronstein; chamber music study with Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Josef Gingold; is Associate Concert Master of Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico; has been Concertmaster of the Spoleto Festival

Wayne Lin.  A native of Green Bay, WI, received his Bachelor's degree from the Juilliard School, studying violin with Glenn Dicterow, and most recently completed his master's degree and artist diploma at the Yale School of Music, under the tutelage of Peter Oundjian. Mr. Lin's music has led him to performances on four continents, and he has appeared as soloist with the symphonies of Green Bay, Fox Valley, Milwaukee, the Martinu and Hradec Kralove Philharmonics in the Czech Republic, the Sudecka Philharmonic in Poland, and the Chengdu Symphony in China. He has served as concertmaster with the Juilliard Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra this past season.  An avid chamber musician, Mr. Lin has performed with the Sebastian Chamber Players, the Metropolis Ensemble, the Hindemith Ensemble, and the International Sejong Soloists.  Mr. Lin plays on a 1779 G.B. Guadagnini.
 

Linda Rosenthal is Founder and Artistic Director of Juneau Jazz & Classics, Director of the Annual Sring Chamber Music Symposium nd Professor of Music at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau.  She performs world wide as a chamber musician and soloist and with Strings & Stories, a children's show for violinist and actor.  Ms. Rosenthal has recorded five solo CD's and has commissioned and premiered more than a dozen works for violin; violin and narrator; and violin and Big Band.

§ Viola

Lori Berkowitz. MA, The Manhattan School; student of Raphael Bronstein and Karen Tuttle; was Principal Violist with the Symphony of the New World and the Jackson Hole Festival; performed with the Parnassus and Anacrusis Trios; teaches at The Manhattan School in New York City.

Andrew Knebel  is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford where he was a tudent of Steve Larson.  He hold a double Bachelor's degree in viola  performance and music education.  He was a member of the honors chamber progam at the Hartt School, Performance 20/20, a tuition free, invitation only program.  He  has participated in masterclasses with John Largess (Miro SQ), Chauncey Patterson (Miami SQ), and Heidi Castleman.  Andrew is also a coach for the Young People's Institute forChamber Music in Stamford, CT. 

§ Cello

Joseph Kimura. Masters Degree, Juilliard; student of Harvey Shapiro, Channing Robbins, Paul Katz and Daniel Morgenstern; is Principal Cellist Stamford Symphony, Garden State Chamber Orchestra and Hudson Chamber Orchestra; member of Jupiter Symphony in New York City, Opera Orchestra of New York, the Solisti Chamber Orchestra.

Robert LaRue. graduate of Curtis Institute, New England Conservatory, Indiana University and holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School; studied with Greenhouse, Soyer, Starker, Parisot, Lesser; chamber music with Mischa Schneider, Eugene Lehner, Rastislav Dubinsky, Menahem Pressler. Soloist with Banff Festival Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Seattle and Phoenix Symphonies. First Prize, 1992 National Society of Arts and Letters Cello Competition.

Hrant Parsamian  Hrant Parsamian. First Prize at the National Competition of Instrumentalists and Singers in Sofia, Bulgaria (age 8); performed as soloist of the Vidin Philharmonic same year; graduate of Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna; continuing studies at Juilliard under Aldo Parisot; winner of the Olga Koussevitsky competition; soloist in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; performances at the Landon Gallery.

Karlos Rodriguez  A graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with David Soyer of the Guarneri quartet. He was previously a student of Richard Aaron at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has performed as a soloist with the New World Symphony, and has participated in the Mostly Modern Chamber Music Festival, 609 Series, Sarasota Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and the ENCORE School for Strings.

Brian Snow is a doctoral student in music at SUNY Stonybrook where he studies with Colin Carr. He has apeared as a soloist with the Crescent City Symphony (New Orleans), the Hartt Symphony and the Longy Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with Ricardo Maroles, David Jolley, Christina Dahl and the Emrson String Quartet, and has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Taos Festival and others. He is first prize winner in the Paranov competition, the Longy Concerto Soloits competition, the Denison Performing Arts Competition and the Emerso String Quartet Competition. He is a member of the New Haven Symphony, Orchestra New England, and principal cellist of the Waterbury Symphony.

§ Woodwinds

Linda Boyd, flute; Former member of Houston Ballet Orchestra and Texas Opera Theater; performed regularly with the Houston Symphony and Houston Grand Opera. Performed with New York Virtuosi, Oratorio Society of Queens, and Lake George Opera.

Lisa Kozenko, oboe; Lisa Kozenko, Oboe, has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Nova Filarmonia of Portugal, the National Orchestra of New York, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra.  She is a member of the Manhattan Wind Quintet, finalists in the 1993 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music Competition and prizewinners of the Coleman, Fischoff, Monterey, Yellow Springs, and Chamber Music Chicago Competitions.  In 1997 she received the Chamber Music America Heidi Castleman Award for excellence in chamber music teaching.  She has recorded on the Digital Concerto, Albany and Arabesque labels. Her teachers have included Hansjorg Schellenberger, Maurice Bourgue, and Robert and Sara Bloom.  She has been a faculty member at Central Michigan University, Oklahoma State University, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and Stony Brook Summer Music Festival and a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute.  In 2000 she was a winner in the Louise D. McMahon International Competition.  Ms. Kozenko was Principal Oboist of the New York City Opera National Company from 1994-2001.

Barbara Oldham, French Horn, founding member of Quintet of the Americas which has toured in over 300 cities and performed at Carnegie hall, the American Music Week Series at 'Weill Recital Hall; the Bermuda Internation Festival and many others.  Solo recitals at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the American Landmark Festivals.  Has appeared in chamber music with the Marlboro Music Festival, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Chamber Music Society of Lincon Center and others.  Served at Chamber Music Coach during the Quintet's residences including Northwestern University, Austin Peay State Univ. (TN), Hunter College; and as a faculty member of Brooklyn College.  She holds a Bachelor of Music from Miami University, Ohio, Phi Beta Kappa, graduated magna cum laude and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music (Dean's list). 

Shotaro Mori, Bassoon. Originally from Fukuoka, Japan, completed his studies at Mannes College of Music in New York City, where he received full scholarship and won the first prize in the Concerto Competition for woodwinds, brass and percussion. He has performed with such groups as New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, Jupiter Symphony, Haddonfield Symphony, Cosmopolitan Symphony and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist he has performed with Lyric Theatre Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, One World Symphony and the Mannes Orchestra. He has participated the Aspen Music Festival, the Virgin Atlantic Holders Festival in Barbados and the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong-Kong. Shotaro is bassoonist for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the woodwind Five and the West Side Winds.

Craig Vandewater, bassoon  studied at Stony Brook and Yale; principal teacher was Arthur Weisberg. Since completing his doctorate at Stony Brook he has taught at the University of Texas at El Paso, the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and the Ross School of East Hampton. He is the solo bassoonist of the Peconic Chamber Orchestra and the North Shore Pro Musica of Long Island, and a member of the Lancaster Festival Orchestra of Lancaster, Ohio.