String
Seminar, February 8, 10 and 11
Prospective
Active
Participants:
Non-refundable $25 processing fee.
Auditors:
Free, but must register prior to attending masterclasses.
A limited number of participants
will be chosen to perform in the masterclasses and concerts. Selected
participants will be notified by February 5th.
Prospective
Active Particpants need to send a non-refundable processing fee of
$25 by check, payable to Florida International University, a tape/ CD/
video, proposed works to perform in masterclass and concert, and biography
(group biography and individual if is for chamber music masterclass) to:
2007
String Seminar Attn. Javier Arias
Florida International
University - School of Music
WPAC 152-B Miami, FL 33199
Make checks payable to:
Florida International University
Only
a limited number of the most qualified applicants/groups will be selected
to participate actively in the masterclasses.
Note:
FIU will not provide piano accompanists.
Questions?
email javierarias@inbox.com
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Schedule
of Masterclasses
Feb.
8th.
7:00
PM to 9:00 PM Violin Masterclass by
Shmuel Ashkenasi
7:00
PM to 9:00 PM Cello Masterclass by Marc Johnson
Feb.10th.
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Chamber Music Masterclass by Shmuel Ashkenasi
9:00
AM to 11:00 AM Chamber Music Masterclass by Marc Johnson
12:00
PM to 2:00 PM Violin Masterclass by Zvi Zeitlin
12:00
PM to 2:00 PM Viola Masterclass by Ensik Choi
Feb.11th.
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Chamber Music Masterclass by Zvi Zeitlin
9:00
AM to 11:00 AM Double Bass
Masterclass by Luis Gomez-Imbert
12:00
PM to 2:00 PM Violin Masterclass by Zvi Zeitlin
12:00
PM to 2:00 PM Chamber Music Masterclass by Ensik Choi
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AAmernet
String Quartet
The Amernet
String Quartet (Misha Vitenson, Marcia Littley, Michael Klotz and Javier Arias),
Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida
International University, has garnered worldwide praise and recognition as
one of today’s exceptional string quartets.
The Amernet String Quartet has been described by The New York Times as “an
accomplished and intelligent ensemble”, and by the Nürnberger Nachrichten
(Germany) as “fascinating with flawless intonation, extraordinary beauty of
sound, virtuosic brilliance and homogeneity of ensemble”.
Their
busy performance schedule has taken the group to major musical centers and
smaller cities across the United States. They also have performed concerts in
Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Korea, Mexico, and Romania.
More about the guests artists:
Shmuel
Ashkenasi
Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1941, Shmuel Ashkenasi attended the Musical
Academy of Tel-Aviv and gave his first public performance while still very
young. He came to the United States on a scholarship to study with Efrem
Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute. The international music community discovered
Ashkenasi quickly, at Belgium’s Queen Elizabeth Competition, at Washington’s
Meriwether Post Competition (first prize) and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Competition in 1962.
Ashkenasi has toured the Soviet Union twice and concretizes every year
throughout Europe, Israel and the Far East. He often performs with American
orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Chicago
Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Vienna
Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich,
Zurich, Rotterdam, Geneva and Stockholm; Ashkenasi has been the choice of many
of the world’s most distinguished conductors, including Stokowski, Boehm,
Kempe, Leinsdorf, Kubelik, Skrowaczewski and Ancerl. In addition, as first
violinist of the famed Vermeer Quartet, he has gained a reputation as one of the
world’s outstanding chamber musicians.
EnSik
Choi
Violist EnSik Choi was born in Busan, Korea and
began his musical studies on the violin at the age of eleven. He received a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the Curtis institute of Music, where he studied
with Joseph de Pasquale, principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. While
a student at the Curtis, he formed the Borromeo String Quartet, of which he was
a member for five years. For three years, Mr. Choi was a faculty member at the
New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he earned his Artist Diploma
with distinguished violist, Walter Trampler. He later joined the Amernet String
Quartet and was a faculty at the College- Conservatory at the University of
Cincinnati for two years. Mr. Choi has performed at many chamber music
festivals, including Spoleto Festivals in both Charleston, South Carolina and
Italy, Orlando Festival in Netherlands, Vancouver Festival in Canada, Cape and
Islands Festival in Massachusetts, Caramoor in New York, Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival in New Mexico, Great Lakes Festival in Detroit, and Courchevel Summer
Festival in France.
He is currently a viola professor at the Seoul National University and the
Artistic Director of the Busan Music Festival in Korea.
Luis Gomez-Imbert
Bassist Luis Gomez-Imbert has received international recognition as a
soloist and member of several excellent orchestras in the US and Latin America.
With more than 50 works written for him by numerous composers from throughout
North and South America, Gomez-Imbert maintains a busy schedule of solo recitals
while performing with various South Florida orchestras including the Florida
Philharmonic and several others. Gomez-Imbert's teachers have include such noted
contrabassists as Bertram Turetzky, Gary Karr, Jeff Bradetich among others and
he received his DMA Artist Diploma in contrabass performance from Northwestern
University in Chicago. He is currently on the faculty of School of Music at
Florida International University where he teaches contrabass lessons and other
related courses, and performs with NODUS - the faculty new music ensemble at FIU.
Marc
Johnson
Marc Johnson is Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at Northern Illinois
University, and cellist with the Vermeer Quartet. He received his B.M. degree
and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and his M.M.
degree from the Catholic University of America, with post-graduate studies at
Indiana University. He has recorded with the Vermeer and as a soloist on the
Teldec, Orfeo, Cedille, Alden and CRI labels, including the complete Beethoven
Quartet cycle and Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ, for which the Vermeer
received a Grammy Award nomination. A previous member of the Rochester
Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony, he has performed with the Vermeer and
as a guest soloist on all inhabited continents. Professor Johnson is proud of
his numerous former students, many of whom are performing in quartets and
orchestras around the world. As a member of the Vermeer Quartet, he is also in
residence at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, and Bay
Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine. He is co-director of Bay Chamber Concerts:
The Next Generation, a member of the Board of Advisors of the People's Music
School in Chicago, a member of the Committee of the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music
Prize, and a frequent adjudicator of national and international competitions
Zvi
Zeitlin
Born in Dubrovna, Belarus, Zvi Zeitlin was raised and educated in Israel,
where he attended the Hebrew University in Judaic Studies (1940-43). At age 11,
he became the youngest scholarship student in the history of the Juilliard
School. Receiving a diploma and postgraduate diploma from Juilliard, Zeitlin
studied with Sascha Jacobsen, Louis Persinger, and Ivan Galamian. He served in
the British RAF (1943-46) and concertized for British, American, and Soviet
troops throughout the Middle East and Greece.
He has made solo appearances with the New York, Los Angeles, and Israel
philharmonic orchestras; the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Vienna
symphonies; La Scala, Concertgebouw, BBC, and New Philharmonia of London
orchestras; Orchestre National de France and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Zeitlin has made frequent tours of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Central
and South America.
Zeitlin has taught master classes at most major schools in the U.S. and Canada,
as well as in Great Britain, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Korea, and China,
and most recently in Copenhagen and Prague (2002). He holds annual master
classes at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and
Yehudi Menuhin School. He has been a faculty member at the Music Academy of the
West since 1973, and a visiting professor at Chetham's School of Music and Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester, England since 1992. He has judged such
violin competitions as Montreal, Indianapolis, John D. Rockefeller, and the
Concert Artists Guild.
Zeitlin joined the Eastman faculty in 1967, and was named its first Kilbourn
Professor in 1976 and Distinguished Professor in 1998. He is a founding member
of the Eastman Trio (1976-1982). In 2004, Zvi Zeitlin was the recipient of the
University of Rochester's Edward Curtiss Peck Award for Excellence in Teaching
Undergraduates.
Mr. Zeitlin's students occupy concertmasterships and other leading positions in
many major orchestras in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and other
parts of the world; hold important positions in universities and music schools
worldwide; and are major prizewinners in international and regional
competitions.
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These
events are presented with the generous support of the
School of Music at Florida International University
Joseph Rohm, Interim Director
Florida International
University - School of Music
11200 SW 8th. Street Miami, Fl 33199
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