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Before assuming duties at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance this coming September, recently appointed cellist Richard Aaron will spend another busy summer with stops at Aspen Music School, Encore School of Strings, Indiana String Acedemy, Chautauqua School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Festival International du Domaine Forget in Canada.
Harpist Lynne Apnes was member of the adjudication panel for the 2005 Cite des Arts International Louise Charpentier harp competition in Paris, France. Master classes for the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (March 2006), recitals and master classes sponsored by the Virginia Harp Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Charlotte North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia; collaboration with double bassists David Murray and Diana Gannett for their recording of operatic repertoire transcribed for two double bassists.
Springtime will see violinist Yehonatan Berick return to WGTE's Live from FM91, this time in collaboration with Guitarist Matthew Ardizzone. He will also be a guest artist with the Quebec Chamber Music Society, CCM's Chamber Music with James Tocco in Cincinnati, Close Encounters with Music In the Berkshires of MA, Detroit's Chamber Music at the Scarab Club, the Wharton Center in East Lansing, and a special concert for Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. This summer he will be teaching and performing at Killington Music Festival in Vermont, and in the Academy of the Festival International du Domaine Forget in Canada. He will also perform at the Agassiz Music Festival in Winnipeg and the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Silverthorne, CO. This coming September he will be performing Brahms Violin Concerto with the Windsor Symphony.
Violinist Aaron Berofsky will be recording a CD of all-Mozart Sonatas with Pianist Tom Sauer in May, and will present an all-Mozart program in a recital at the Internacional Festival Deia, SPAIN. This summer he will be teaching in Meadowmount School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
Double bass Professor Diana Gannett will be completing three new CD's this summer: Opera Duo with David Murray, Old Wine in New Bottles with Volkan Orhon,and Ladybass 2 with John Ellis on piano. She will be teaching and performing at Golden Gate Bass Camp in San Francisco in July, Strings in the Valley in Mizra, Israel in August, as well a judging the Hsing Tien Kong Music Competition in Taipei Taiwan in late August.
Violinist Andrew Jennings spent the Fall sabbatical leave playing chamber concerts in New England, recording a Mozart viola quintet, Tchaikovsky first String Quartet and Moszkowsky's Suite with Vermont Musica Viva, and studying in England with musicologist Clive Brown. He anticipates doing the American premiere of Franz Clement's previously unknown Violin Concerto (1805) which served as the model for Beethoven's Violin Concerto as well as continuing in collaboration with Prof. Brown on the reconstruction of Clement's Second Concerto. He and his wife, Gail played recitals this winter in Ann Arbor, Holland and Seattle and will return to Massachusetts this summer for several recitals. Also this summer, he will once again be teaching and performing at the Tanglewood Music Center's Chamber music Program. He will be featured soloist in a Mozart Concerto with the Flint Symphony under Enrique Diemecke this fall. A performance of the Brahms Concerto is scheduled for the Spring of 2007 in Austin TX. One of his former students, Erin Keefe, has just been awarded an Avery Fischer career award.
Violist Yizhak Schotten can be heard this summer in Strings in the Mountain festival in Steamboat Springs, CO, where he is the festival's co-artistic direcor with his wife, pianist and U of M professor Katherine Collier.
Violinist Stephen Shipps will be in the Czech Republic this summer, as Artistic Director of the International Music Academy Pilsen
Last updated: 4/10/2006
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