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
Monday, August 4, 2014, 7:30 PM
at Keiter Center
Mr. Nicholas
Kitchen, violin
Lecture/demonstration:
“Expressive Strokes:
working directly from Beethoven's manuscript of
Violin Sonata No. 10, Op. 96”
Peter Fang, piano
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Nicholas
Kitchen,
violin
Violinist Nicholas Kitchen, a native of Durham, N.C., has been
active as a soloist and chamber musician since making his
first professional appearances at age 12. Since then, his
performances have taken him to more than 20 countries, where
he has been presented in such halls as the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, the Opera Bastille in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo,
Wigmore Hall in London, and Carnegie Hall and Jordan Hall in
the U.S.
His solo appearances have included collaborations with such
conductors as Michael Tilson-Thomas, Otto-
Since 1989, Kitchen has performed extensively as first
violinist of the Borromeo String Quartet. He has participated
in the Caramoor, Spoleto, Vancouver, and Orlando festivals,
among others.
Among Kitchen’s many awards, he has received the Albert
Schweitzer Medallion for Artistry and was named a Presidential
Scholar in the Arts.
His interest in contemporary music has resulted in his
premiering Stephen Jaffe’s Violin Concerto with the Greensboro
Symphony, and working as an artist member of "Music from the
Copland House." Kitchen is Artistic Director of the Cape &
Islands Chamber Music Festival, and has the honor of playing
on the A.J. Fletcher Stradivarius, a violin purchased for
long-term loan to him by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation of
Raleigh, NC.
B.A., Curtis Institute; Artist Diploma with Borromeo String
Quartet, NEC. Violin with James Buswell, Giorgio Ciompo, David
Cerone, Szymon Goldberg. (2012) |
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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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