The 23rd Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 24
to August 17, 2014
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 3:30 PM
at Amelia Recital Hall
Mr. Donald
Weilerstein
Violin Master Class
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~Program~
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Youxin Li
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
I. Vorspiel: Allegro moderato
Ellen Huang
Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy Op. 25
Selena Yi-Hsin
Jen
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Donald Weilerstein,
violin
Donald Weilerstein has concertized extensively throughout the
world as soloist and chamber musician. He studied at the
Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, Dorothy Delay, and members
of the Juilliard String Quartet, and was honored at graduation
by the National Foundation of the Arts as an outstanding
graduate of the school. He was a member of the Young Concert
Artists and a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival,
performing on several Music from Marlboro Tours. In 1968, he won
the Munich International Competition for violin and piano duo.
For twenty years (1969–1989) Weilerstein was the first violinist
of the renowned Cleveland Quartet, with whom he toured the
world. His recordings with the quartet can be heard on the RCA,
Telarc, CBS, Phillips, and Pro Arte labels. These recordings
have earned seven Grammy nominations and won Best of the Year
awards from Time and Stereo Review.
Weilerstein has taught and performed at such major American and
European music festivals as Caramoor, Tanglewood, Aspen,
Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Luzern, Verbier, Ishikawa,
Keshet Eilon, "Chamber Music Encounters" sponsored by La Cite de
la Musique and the Paris Conservatory and many more. He
regularly teaches and performs at the Steans Institute in
Ravinia, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and at the Perlman
Music Program.
He also performs as a duo recitalist with pianist Vivian Hornik
Weilerstein. The Duo was enthusiastically received at Alice
Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and in the
major American cities. Their discography includes the complete
works of Ernest Bloch for violin and piano, and the Janacek,
Dohnanyi, and Enescu Sonatas for Arabesque, as well as the
complete Schumann Sonatas for Azica Records.
Weilerstein is a very active as a member of the highly acclaimed
Weilerstein Trio which is in residence at the New England
Conservatory of Music. Their CD for Koch records was released in
January 2006 and features trios of Dvorak. They can be visited
at www.weilersteintrio.com.
Recently featured in Strad, Weilerstein was formerly a professor
of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School and the
Cleveland Institute of Music. He is currently on the faculty of
the New England Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School.
His students have been prize winners in major national and
international competitions, including first prizes in the
Indianapolis, Naumburg and Hanover competitions and 2nd prize in
the Brussels competition. His students can be heard in many of
today's leading orchestras and chamber ensembles.
Donald Weilerstein occupies a teaching chair endowed in 2004 by
the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation, with matching funds
from the Nicholas Family Challenge.
B.S., M.S., The Juilliard School, first recipient of the Fritz
Kreisler Memorial Scholarship. Studies with Ivan Galamian,
Dorothy Delay, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet.
Studies with Sidney Griller of the Griller String Quartet.
Recordings on RCA, Telarc, CBS, Philips, Pro Arte, Arabesque,
Azica. Former faculty of Cleveland Institute of Music, Paris
Conservatoire, Eastman School of Music, Bowdoin College, Ithaca
College, and SUNY/Buffalo. Also current faculty of Aspen Music
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2014 |
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