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June 9, 11 and 12, 2021The Village Presbyterian Church

1300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, ILwww.nscmf.org

VADIM GLUZMAN ANGELA YOFFE ATAR ARAD WILLIAM WOLFRAM

PAUL NEUBAUER ARIEL STRING QUARTET JANICE CARISSA MASHA

LAKISOVA KATHERINE AUDAS ILYA SHTERENBERG ROSE ARMBRUST

GRIFFIN JOSHUA BROWN ERIC REED JULIAN RHEE JACQUELINE

AUDAS MARLENE NGALISSAMY LISA SHIHOTEN WENDY WARNER MARK

KOSOWER KURT MUROKI VADIM GLUZMAN ANGELA YOFFE ATAR ARAD

WILLIAM WOLFRAM PAUL NEUBAUER ARIEL STRING QUARTET JANICE

CARISSA MASHA LAKISOVA KATHERINE AUDAS ILYA SHTERENBERG

ROSE ARMBRUST GRIFFIN JOSHUA BROWN ERIC REED JULIAN RHEE

JACQUELINE AUDAS MARLENE NGALISSAMY LISA SHIHOTEN WENDY

WARNER MARK KOSOWER KURT MUROKI VADIM GLUZMAN ANGELA

YOFFE ATAR ARAD WILLIAM WOLFRAM PAUL NEUBAUER ARIEL STRING

QUARTET JANICE CARISSA MASHA LAKISOVA KATHERINE AUDAS

ILYA SHTERENBERG ROSE ARMBRUST GRIFFIN JOSHUA BROWN ERIC

REED JULIAN RHEE JACQUELINE AUDAS MARLENE NGALISSAMY

LISA SHIHOTEN WENDY WARNER MARK KOSOWER KURT MUROKI

Vadim Gluzman, Artistic DirectorAngela Yoffe, Executive Director

10th Anniversary season: in-person and online

Our Community Ambassador Award is given each year to recognize an individual, organization, or corporate partner whose compelling dedication to the arts and support of the North Shore Chamber Music Festival empowers us to enrich the cultural life of Chicago’s North Shore and the State of Illinois.

In celebration of our 10th anniversary milestone, this season’s Community Ambassador Awards are gratefully presented to the following wonderful organizations that have steadfastly supported NSCMF since its first festival season in 2011.

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NORTH SHORE MUSIC ALLIANCE PRESENTS:

VADIM GLUZMAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ANGELA YOFFE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

JUNE 9, 11, 12, 2021THE VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH1300 SHERMER ROAD, NORTHBROOK, IL

FESTIVAL ARTISTS:VADIM GLUZMAN, LISA SHIHOTEN, JACQUELINE AUDAS*, MASHA LAKISOVA*, JULIAN RHEE*, JOSHUA BROWN* VIOLINWENDY WARNER, MARK KOSOWER, KATHERINE AUDAS* CELLOATAR ARAD, PAUL NEUBAUER, ROSE ARMBRUST GRIFFIN VIOLAWILLIAM WOLFRAM, ANGELA YOFFE, JANICE CARISSA* PIANO ILYA SHTERENBERG CLARINETKURT MUROKI DOUBLE BASSERIC REED FRENCH HORNMARLENE NGALISSAMY*, BASSOON ARIEL STRING QUARTET:ALEXANDRA KAZOVSKY, GERSHON GERCHIKOV VIOLINAMIT EVEN-TOV CELLOJAN GRÜNING VIOLAMICHAEL VOLPERT MUSIC ADVISOR

* AFSF Recipient

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WELCOME TO THE NORTH SHORE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the North Shore Chamber Music Festival - the music makers!

We had a dream. We wanted to start a chamber music festival as a way to enhance and give back to our community. In 2011, we were running errands near our home in Chicago’s North Shore, noticed the Village Presbyterian Church, and quickly realized it would be ideal for such an event. For participating artists, we knew we could draw on a top-notch network of friends and colleagues with whom we have had the good fortune to collaborate throughout the years.

What resulted was the North Shore Chamber Music Festival, which takes place each June over three days in Northbrook. If not for the pandemic, 2020 would have marked the 10th anniver-sary of the festival – a noteworthy milestone in the rough-and-tumble non-profit world. During this unprecedented year, we created a new onstage/offstage series presented at the beautiful PianoForte Studios with limited in-person seating that enjoyed a livestream audience of tens of thousands of people in the Chicago area and around the globe. Our concerts were streamed in Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Bright Star Community Outreach, and included perfor-mances by the talented students of The Betty Haag Academy of Music.

Today we are extremely proud and moved to welcome you to the celebration! Thanks to all our donors and especially that of our lead sponsor, The Alphadyne Foundation, we are able to offer complimentary access to everyone in celebration of our 10th anniversary and as a gesture of thanks and encouragement to our community here on Chicago’s North Shore and elsewhere.

Among the festival highlights are Beethoven’s Septet, Brahms’ grandiose Piano Quintet, Hun-garian composer Ernst von Dohnányi’s Sextet, featuring elements of jazz and what one writer has described as a “lopsided Viennese waltz.”

Continuing the festival’s commitment to education, the concert on June 11th features past and present recipients of the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund. They will be joined by the festi-val artists - bridging generations in a heartwarming program full of beauty and virtuosity called “Romance from France”

This special year, all the Artists will be familiar faces. Violist and composer Atar Arad, violinist Lisa Shihoten, clarinetist Ilya Shterenberg, cellist Wendy Warner and pianist William Wolfram have all appeared numerous times at the festival, including its debut edition in 2011.

2021 is a big year for the North Shore Chamber Music Festival for many reasons. If you are a regular attendee, or joining us for the first time - we are so happy to see you, and experience music together as a sign of a new, brighter beginning.

Welcome to the NSCMF - the music makers!

Yours truly,

Vadim Gluzman Angela YoffeArtistic Director Executive Director

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The North Shore Music Alliance, the NSCMF and its Directors Angela Yoffe and Vadim Gluzman would like to salute the young performers, and express our deep appreciation to

THE MAGICAL STRINGS OF YOUTH OF THE BETTY HAAG ACADEMY OF MUSIC

Our special thanks and gratitude to the extraordinary teacher and human being, the Founder and Director of the Academy—Betty Haag-Kuhnke—for her endless enthusiasm, belief and continuous support of this project.

Tonight’s program will be recorded by WFMT - Chicago’s Classical and fine arts station.Streaming on The Violin ChannelNSCMF 2021 concerts will be streamed worldwide by Elan Cinema

The North Shore Chamber Music Festival is grateful to The Village Presbyterian Church for hosting the FestivalPianoForte Chicago for graciously providing the grand piano for the FestivalThe Hilton Chicago Northbrook - the official hotel of the North Shore Chamber Music Festival

PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2021 AT 7:30PM THE VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTHBROOK

OPENING NIGHT – MOSTLY BEETHOVEN

ATAR ARADToccatina A La Turk for violin and violaLisa Shihoten, violin; Atar Arad, viola

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENString Quartet Op.59. No.3 “Razumovsky”

Andante con moto - Allegro vivaceAndante con moto quasi allegrettoMenuetto (Grazioso)Allegro molto

Ariel String Quartet

INTERMISSION

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENSeptet in E-flat major, Op.20

Adagio – Allegro con brioAdagio cantabileTempo di menuettoTema con variazioni: AndanteScherzo: Allegro molto vivaceAndante con moto alla marcia – Presto

Vadim Gluzman, violin; Atar Arad, viola; Mark Kosower, cello; Kurt Muroki, double bass; Ilya Shterenberg, clarinet; Marlene Ngalissamy, bassoon*; Eric Reed, french horn

*AFSF Recipients

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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021 AT 7:30PM THE VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTHBROOK

THE STARS OF TOMORROW! ROMANCE FROM FRANCEAFSF Recipients and Festival Artists MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI

Suite for two violins and piano Op. 71Allegro energicoAllegro moderatoLento assaiMolto vivace

Vadim Gluzman, Julian Rhee*, Masha Lakisova*, Joshua Brown*, Jacqueline Audas* violin; William Wolfram, piano

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNSSonata for bassoon and piano Op. 168

Allegro moderatoAllegro scherzandoMolto adagio – Allegro moderato

Marlene Ngalissamy*, bassoon; Janice Carissa*, piano

PABLO DE SARASATENavarra for two violins and piano Op.33Jacqueline Audas*, Joshua Brown*, violin; Angela Yoffe, piano

INTERMISSION

CESAR FRANCKPiano Quintet in F minor

Molto moderatoLentoAllegro non troppo

Janice Carissa*, piano; Masha Lakisova*, Joshua Brown*, violin; Julian Rhee*, viola; Katherine Audas*, cello

*AFSF Recipients

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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2021 AT 7:30PM THE VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NORTHBROOK

“BRAHMS AND COMPANY”

JOSEPH HAYDN Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob. XV/25 (Gypsy Trio)

AndantePoco AdagioFinale: Rondo all’Ongarese - Presto

Angela Yoffe, piano; Vadim Gluzman, violin; Wendy Warner, cello

ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI Sextet for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet & horn in C major, Op. 37

Allegro appassionatoIntermezzo: AdagioAllegro con sentimentFinale. Allegro vivace, giocoso

Janice Carissa, piano; Lisa Shihoten, violin; Rose Armbrust, viola; Mark Kosower, cello, Ilya Shterenberg, clarinet; Eric Reed, french horn

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2021 Appreciation Award presented to Michael Volpert, Music Advisor

JOHANNES BRAHMSThe Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Allegro non troppoAndante, un poco AdagioScherzo: AllegroFinale: Poco sostenuto. Allegro non troppo

William Wolfram, piano; Vadim Gluzman, Lisa Shihoten, violin;

Paul Neubauer, viola; Wendy Warner, cello

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Vadim Gluzman, violinartistic director, North Shore Chamber Music FestivalUniversally recognized among today’s top performing artists, Vadim Gluzman brings to life the glorious violinistic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Gluzman’s wide repertoire embraces new music and his performances are heard around the world through live broadcasts and a striking catalogue of award-winning recordings exclusively for the BIS label.

The Israeli violinist has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony Royal Concertgebouw and many others. He collaborates with leading conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Neeme Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Semyon Bychkov and Hannu Lintu. Festival appearances include performances at Ravinia, Tanglewood, Verbier, and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago, founded by Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe, his wife and recital partner.

Highlights of the current season include performances with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Ohio, where he leads performances as its Creative Partner and Principal Guest Artist. He celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of violinist Henryk Szeryng with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Hamburg NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony and the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Gluzman serves as Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory and performs on the legendary 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari, on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Angela Yoffe, pianoexecutive director, North Shore Chamber Music FestivalPianist, producer, and educator, Angela Yoffe, is widely admired for her dazzling musicianship and passion for music education. Yoffe is the founder and executive director of The Music Makers, an international organization that produces Chicago’s annual North Shore Chamber Music Festival, the Music Makers Israel, and the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund, which has provided early career support, guidance and inspiration to more than 25 gifted young artists from around the world interested in

pursuing a career as a performer.Yoffe is also founder of the Collaborative Piano Class at the Chicago College of Performing

Arts at Roosevelt University. Her Creative Learning Program has led collaborative projects with the International Center on Deafness and the Arts and the Lurie Children’s hospital.

Angela Yoffe has performed as a chamber musician and recitalist in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Rome and Tokyo among others. She has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony and with New York’s Jupiter Symphony under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Gerard Schwarz, Jens Nygaard, and other leading conductors. Yoffe has been invited to perform at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Lockenhaus Festival in Austria, Festival de Radio France, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Colmar Festival in France, MIDEM Festival, Ravinia Festival, Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the Schwetzingen Festspiele, and the Bantry Festival in West Cork.

Angela Yoffe records exclusively for BIS Records and her discography includes a recent album of Sergey Prokofiev’s Violin and Piano Sonatas with violinist Vadim Gluzman. Her world premiere recording of Lera Auerbach’s “24 Preludes for Violin and Piano” (composed

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for Ms. Yoffe and Mr. Gluzman) was released on BIS Records to rave reviews, as well as their other albums: “Time and Again,” “Ballet for a Lonely Violinist,” and “Fireworks”.

Ms. Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvia into a family of respected musicians. After studying piano performance in the Soviet Union and Israel, she continued with Joaquín Achúcarro and Jonathan Feldman in the United States and became an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. Angela resides between Chicago and Tel Aviv with her husband, violinist Vadim Gluzman, and their daughter Orli.

Atar Arad, violaIsraeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is a faculty member at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington. His summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon, Israel, Domaine Forget, Canada, Heifetz Institute and the Steans Music Institute (where he is serving as faculty since 1991).

A Cum Laude First Prize winner at the Geneva International Music Competition (1972), he has performed worldwide in recitals and as a

soloist with major orchestras and, for seven years, as a member of the celebrated Cleveland Quartet. His recordings with the quartet and as a soloist for labels such as Teldec, Telarc, RCA and RIAX are widely acclaimed. His performance of Paganini’s Sonata Per La Grand’ Viola e Orchestra in particular is considered by many as a landmark in the history of the viola.

A “late bloomer” composer, Arad’s compositions include a Solo Sonata for Viola, two String Quartets, a Viola Concerto (which he premiered in Bloomington, Brussels and in Stockholm) and more. His Tikvah for Viola Solo was commissioned for the 2008 Munich International Viola Competition by the ARD. His Listen (three poems by W.S. Merwin) for tenor, clarinet, viola, cello and bass was written for the International Musicians Seminar’s concert tour in England with singer Mark Padmore. Epitaph for cello and string orchestra was written for cellist Gary Hoffman who premiered it in Kronberg, Germany, with the Kremerata Baltica Orchestra (Arad performed the viola version of this piece at the International Viola Congress in Rochester, NY). Arad performed and presented his Twelve Caprices for Viola on several USA, Canada, Israel and European concert tours. The Caprices are published by Hofmeister Musikverlag, Leipzig.

Recent performances include the Primrose Memorial Concert at BYU and, as a part of his services as the Lorand Fenyves Distinguished Visitor, in Toronto.

In November 2018, Arad was a featured artist at the International Viola Congress in Rotterdam, premiering his new concerto for viola and strings, titled “Ceci n’est pas un Bach”.

Atar Arad is a recipient of the American Viola Society’s Career Achievement Award (June 2018) and the International Viola Society’s Silver Alto Clef 2018 “in recognition for his outstanding contributions to the to the viola” (November 2018).

Arad plays on a viola by Niccolo Amati. He uses a set of PI strings by Thomastik.

William Wolfram, PianoAmerican pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg International Piano Competitions and a bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow.

Wolfram has appeared with many of the greatest orchestras of the world and has developed a special reputation as the rare concerto soloist who is also equally versatile and adept as a recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician. In all of these genres, he is highly sought after for his

special focus on the music of Franz Liszt and Beethoven and is a special champion for the

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music of modernist 20th century American composers.His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin

was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. He has also appeared with the San Francisco, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, Seattle and New Jersey symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington D.C.), the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony, the Columbus Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Grand Teton and San Luis Obispo Mozart festival orchestras, among many others. He enjoys regular and ongoing close associations with the Dallas Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra as well as the musicians of the New York Philharmonic for chamber concerts in the United States.

Internationally recognized conductors with whom he has worked include Osmo Vanska, Andrew Litton, Jerzy Semkow, Mark Wigglesworth, Jeffrey Tate, Vladimir Spivakov, Michael Christie, Gerard Schwarz, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jeffrey Kahane, James Judd, Roberto Minczuk, Stefan Sanderling, JoAnn Falletta, James Paul, Carlos Kalmar, Hans Vonk, Joseph Silverstein, Jens Nygaard, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Vasily Petrenko.

Abroad, Wolfram has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra of London, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the RTE Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (Dublin), the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Bergen Philharmonic (Norway), the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and many others.

An enthusiastic supporter of new music, he has collaborated with and performed music by composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Kenneth Frazelle, Marc Andre Dalbavie, Kenji Bunch, and Paul Chihara. His world premiere performance of the Chihara re-orchestration of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Andreas Delfs, was met with great critical attention and acclaim.

Other highlights include several chamber music collaborations, including recitals and recordings with Oscar Shumsky, recitals with Harvey Shapiro and numerous collaborations with Leonard Rose. He also performed Richard Strauss’s setting of the Tennyson poem Enoch Arden with the Oscar-winning actress Louise Rainer, and with actor Jeff Steitzer.

Wolfram has also performed as a guest artist with prominent ballet companies including ABT, Pittsburgh Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Carolina Ballet and Boston Ballet, working with noted choreographers including Jiri Kylian, Edward Villella, Robert Weiss, and Agnes De Mille.

Wolfram has extensive experience in the recording studio. He has recorded four titles on the Naxos label in his series of Franz Liszt Opera Transcriptions and two other chamber music titles for Naxos with violinist Philippe Quint (music of Miklos Rosza and John Corigliano). Also for Naxos he has recorded the music of Earl Kim with piano and orchestra – the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland behind him. For the Albany label, he recorded the piano concertos of Edward Collins with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He most recently recorded the Bach Goldberg Variations on the PlayClassics label.

As educator and teacher, Mr. Wolfram is a long-standing member of the piano faculty of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, and a regular featured guest at the Colorado College Music Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also teaches a performance class and a chamber music class at the acclaimed Manhattan School of Music.

In print and other media Wolfram was the focus of a full chapter in Joseph Horowitz’s book, The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. On television, he was a featured pianist in the documentary of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.

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A graduate of the Juilliard School, William Wolfram resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters and is a Yamaha artist.

Paul Neubauer, violaViolist Paul Neubauer‘s exceptional musicality and effortless playing led the New York Times to call him “a master musician.” He recently made his Chicago Symphony subscription debut with conductor Riccardo Muti and his Mariinsky Orchestra debut with conductor Valery Gergiev. He also gave the US premiere of the newly discovered Impromptu for viola and piano by Shostakovich with pianist Wu Han. In addition, his recording of the Aaron Kernis Viola Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia was released on

Signum Records and his recording of the complete viola and piano music by Ernest Bloch with pianist Margo Garrett was released on Delos. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower and has been featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on numerous labels including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical and is a member of SPA, a trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Mr. Neubauer is the artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Ariel String QuartetDistinguished by its virtuosic playing and impassioned interpretations, the Ariel Quartet has a glowing international reputation. Formed in Israel over twenty years ago, the Quartet was recently awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award. The Ariel serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where they direct the rigorous chamber music program.

The group’s 2017-18 season features performances for Shriver Hall, the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, and the New England Conservatory; on major series around the United States; and in Israel and Europe. In 2016-17, the Ariel Quartet performed the complete Beethoven cycle in Berlin, following a performance of the cycle for Napa’s Music in the Vineyards, while 2015-16 featured their debut at Carnegie Hall.

The Ariel has collaborated with the pianist Orion Weiss; violist Roger Tapping; cellist Paul Katz; and the American, Pacifica, and Jerusalem String Quartets, and toured with the cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the legendary pianist Menahem Pressler. The Ariel was quartet-in-residence for the Steans Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and for the Perlman Music Program, and was the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-In-Residence at the Caramoor Festival.

Formerly the resident ensemble in NEC’s Professional String Quartet Training Program, the Ariel has won international prizes including the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Grand Prize at the 2006 Fischoff Competition, and the Székely Prize for their performance of Bartók, as well as the overall Third Prize at Banff.

The Ariel Quartet has been mentored extensively by Itzhak Perlman, Paul Katz, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, and Martha Strongin Katz, among others, and spent a formative year in Switzerland for in-depth studies with Walter Levin. The Quartet has received significant support for the members’ studies in the United States from the America-Israel

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Cultural Foundation, Dov and Rachel Gottesman, and the Legacy Heritage Fund. Most recently, they were awarded a substantial grant from The A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation.

Janice Carissa, piano 2019 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipientJanice Carissa, from Surabaya, Indonesia, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2013 and studies piano with Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full tuition scholarships, and Ms. Carissa is the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Fellow.

A recipient of numerous awards and honors, Ms. Carissa was recently awarded the 2018 Career Grant Winner of Charlotte White’s Salon De

Virtuosi. She will perform at WQXR’s Greene Space in New York in November. In Summer 2018, Ms. Carissa participated at Ravinia Steans Music Institute Summer Festival and premiered the Timo Andres Piano Trio, which she would play in Ravinia’s 2019 Tour along with Miriam Fried and her colleagues. Following her success at Ravinia, Ms. Carissa was also invited to collaborate with players of Berlin Philharmoniker’s Scharoun Ensemble in Poland at Penderecki Center, performing works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Bach. Her other upcoming 2019 engagements include a recital tour series with cellist Zlatomir Fung.

Ms. Carissa was a Young Scholar of Lang Lang’s International Music Foundation; the runner-up in the 2014 piano competition at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Music Festival and School; Star Performance Award Winner of the 2012 American Protégé International Music Talent Competition in New York; the runner-up in Indonesia Pusaka International Piano Competition in 2011; and the Top Prize Winner of the IBLA Foundation’s 2006 International Piano Competition.

Ms. Carissa has been featured on television and radio, including Indonesia Mencari Bakat, Inspirasi Pagi, Sang Juara, Global TV, RCTI, Trans TV, BC TV, Metro TV, TV One, Voice of America, WHYY-TV, WXQR’s Greene Space, and National Public Radio’s From the Top.

Recent career highlights include her debut with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra playing Mozart Piano Concerto and a solo recital tour in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Long Island, and New York. She has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea; Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra; Symphony in C; the Eastern Wind Symphony; Bay Atlantic Symphony; and appears regularly with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Concert Series. She also has performed at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris for the Auditorium opening in 2016. Other notable venues include The Sydney Opera House, Stern and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York, Miller Theater in Columbia University, the Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University, the Kimmel Center, United Nations in New York, Oxford University’s St. Hilda’s College, Chicago’s Jay Priztker Pavilion, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Sydney Opera House, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music’s Concert Hall in Warsaw, Theatre Hall of the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, and performances in Rimini, Ragusa, and Cesena in Italy.

In 2011, Ms. Carissa performed for the President of Indonesia and other dignitaries at the Presidential Palace in Bogor and for Lady Dewi Sukarno in Bali.

Masha Lakisova, violin 2015 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipient“While it is not out of the ordinary for me to come across immensely and precociously talented youngsters as host of “From the Top,” it is quite a rarity to be introduced to a very young artist who displays not only incredible facility but the truest manifestations of artistry: devotion and dedication, a personal and rigorously integral aesthetic point of view, and the requisite leadership and responsibility for inspiring her peers. Masha

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Lakisova is just such a rarity, a true artist destined for great things.”– Christopher O’Riley, Host, NPR’s “From the Top”

At just nineteen, Chicago violinist Masha Lakisova is fast becoming one of the rising stars of her generation. She has had the privilege of performing in esteemed concert venues in the United States and all over the world. Masha has appeared as a soloist with orchestras worldwide such as Kremerata Baltica, HEMU, Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, and Lake Forest Symphony. At the North Shore Chamber Music Festival, she became the first recipient of the Arkady Fomin Scholarship in 2015. She was featured on NPR’s “From The Top” four times, where she received the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, and on WFMT’s Introductions, both as a soloist and as a member of various chamber groups.

She has taken top prizes at prestigious competitions such as 3rd prize at the 2020 Stulberg and Klein International String Competitions, 1st prize at the 2018 Tibor Junior and 2nd prize at the 2015 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competitions, National YoungArts, and the Walgreens National Concerto Competition. She also became a finalist at the 2013 International Louis Spohr Violin Competition.

From 2011-2017, Masha was a member of Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, where she served as concertmaster in three orchestras and played first violin in four chamber groups. Her chamber groups have won two consecutive Gold Medals at the 2016 and 2017 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competitions. They received 1st Prize in the 2015 and 2016 Rembrandt High School Chamber Music Competitions, as well as 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition in 2017. They were also the overall winners at the 2016 Discover Chamber Music Competition and Silver Medalists at the 2016 St. Paul String Quartet Chamber Music Competition. In 2018, Quartet Bellezza was accepted to the Julliard String Quartet Seminar.

Masha currently studies with Miriam Fried at New England Conservatory, where she is a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship. She graduated from Julliard Pre-College where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin, and she has also previously been a student of Grigory Kalinovsky, Drew Lecher, and Larisa Zhizhin. Masha has taken lessons and masterclasses with such prominent virtuosi as Ana Chumachenko, Anne Sophie Mutter, Pinchas Zukerman, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Paul Huang, Augustin Hadelich, and Ida Kavafian. She has collaborated with Vadim Gluzman, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlin Roussev, Ilya Kaler, Yossif Ivanov, Masumi Per Rostad, Rose Armbrust Griffin, Ani Aznavoorian, Mark Kosower, Christopher O’Riley, David Schrader, and the Ariel Quartet.

Masha has been involved with many prestigious summer music festivals. In 2015, she attended the Heifetz Music Institute and has been a student at the Perlman Music Program since 2016.

Miss Lakisova is the proud recipient of a magnificent violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Turin, 1845 on loan from The Stradivari Society of Chicago thanks to the generosity of her patron, Edward Manzo.

Katherine Audas, cello 2020 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipientKatherine Audas is currently pursuing her masters degree in cello performance with Brinton Smith at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she holds the Appassionata Endowed Scholarship in Music. She graduated cum laude from Rice University with her undergraduate degree in cello performance where she studied with Norman Fischer.

Katherine made her solo debut at the age of 11 as the winner of the Young Artist’s Competition of the Meridian Symphony. In August 2019, she was awarded the silver medal at the IX Concurso Internacional Violonchelo Carlos Prieto. In June 2019, she competed in the 2019 Ima Hogg Competition where she was awarded the audience

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choice award and 4th place. In the past, she was the winner of the Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition, the Gold Medal and the Audience Favorite Award winner at the Young Texas Artists Music Competition, the Grand Prize winner of the Enkor International Music Competition, and the Grand Prize winner in the junior division of the Tulsa International Crescendo Music Awards.

Katherine has appeared as a soloist with numerous symphonies, including the Houston Symphony at the Ima Hogg Competition, the Michoacán Symphony, the Shepherd School of Music, the Boise Philharmonic, the Walla Walla Symphony, and the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra. She has performed in masterclasses for Gautier Capuçon, Lynn Harrell, Ko Iwasaki, Alisa Weilerstein, Clive Greensmith, Joel Krosnick, and Lawrence Lesser.

Katherine performs on a 1696 Grancino composite cello.

Ilya Shterenberg, clarinetPrincipal clarinetist of the San Antonio Symphony and Principal clarinetist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra (Columbus, OH), Ilya Shterenberg balances a busy career as an orchestral musician, chamber music performer, and a soloist. Hailed by the press: “He possesses that miraculous gift of an innate musical sense…music seemed to flow toward the infinite, as if divinely ordained”, he has been featured as a soloist performing standard works by Mozart, Weber, Rossini, Debussy, as well

as rarely heard clarinet concertos by Krommer and Kurpinsky, as well as the American premiere of Richard Strauss’s Serenade for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra.

He has been featured as Principal clarinetist with Cincinnati and Seattle Symphonies, and has collaborated with such conductors as Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Barenboim, George Solti, Pierre Boulez and others.

Away from the orchestras, Ilya is very active as chamber musician, festival performer, and educator. He is a member of Olmos Ensemble, a chamber group made up of principal woodwind players from the San Antonio Symphony. His summer appearances have included the Colorado Music Festival and Britt Festival, as well as the Piccolo Spoleto Festival – USA. As an educator, he has been a faculty member of the College of Charleston, the University of Texas San Antonio, and UT Austin.

A native of Ukraine, Ilya began his music education at the Kosenko Music College, in Zhitomir, city of his birth. After his immigration to the United States in 1989, he received an Artist Certificate diploma from the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, after which he did further study at DePaul University in Chicago. His principal teachers have included Larry Combs, Stephen Girko, and Charles Neidich.

Mr. Shterenberg’s performances have been heard on National Public Radio stations throughout the country as well as Chicago’s WFMT nationwide classical music network. He performs frequently as a recitalist and chamber music artist with Cactus Pear Music Festival and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival.

Ilya is a Buffet Group USA performing artist.

Joshua Brown, violin 2017 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipientPossessing a rare combination of musical instinct, a unique voice, and flawless technique, Joshua Brown has found success in performances and competitions worldwide. He was first recognized for his debut performance with the Cleveland Orchestra at the age of fifteen, for which he received glowing reviews from critics: “Had he played from behind a curtain, you wouldn’t have believed that Joshua Brown…was only

15,” wrote clevelandclassical.com. “His interpretation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s first violin

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concerto was so maturely wrought that it might have come from a seasoned professional. Brilliantly played and expertly paced, Brown’s performance checked into every emotional corner of [the] work…Brown was spellbinding throughout his entire time on stage.”

Following that debut, Joshua has gone on to perform regularly with orchestras in the United States and Europe (including the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, and Rockford Symphony Orchestra, among many others) and has continually garnered praise from critics (Chicago Classical Review: “…his lithe playing betrays a musical maturity beyond his 17 years……the young man played with great poise and a silken tone……and is clearly someone to watch in years to come;” The News-Gazette: “The highlight of the evening was young Joshua Brown’s solo playing in Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons.’ Brown is clearly a young performer of considerable promise. His sparkling playing in the Vivaldi ..… gave renewed joy to this often heard composition.” The Augsburger-Allgemiene: “With finely cut tone, … [Brown] scored with meticulous articulation, lively dynamics and an understanding of the rhetoric of this music…. Brown … renounced superficial sound enrichment and preferred to rely on narrative statement, even in the large, technically excellently mastered cadenza of the first movement.” Feuilleton Regional: “His brilliant portrayal [in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto], with its lyrical colors and virtuoso drive, radiated refinement [and] the Kongress Hall [audience] celebrated with standing ovations.”)

Joshua has performed at concert halls on three continents, including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, both Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York City, Severence Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Symphony Center in Chicago, Arnold Katz State Concert Hall in Novosibirsk, Russia, and Kongress Hall in Augsburg, Germany; has made solo appearances on NPR’s nationally syndicated program From the Top and on WFMT’s Introductions; and has been featured on WFMT, WNIU, WCLV, ElmhurstTV, and Fox5DC. He has also been featured in a number of recitals, including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, the Tchaikovsky Festival in Moscow, and Cincinnati’s Matinée Musicale series.

Joshua’s musical ability has been recognized in competitions as well. At the age of only nineteen, Joshua won the Tenth International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany, securing the First Prize, “Mozart” Prize, the Audience Award, the Chairman of the Jury Special Prize, the Kronberg Academy Special Prize, and the CD Production Special Prize. He was also awarded dozens of performance opportunities in Europe which will take place during the next three years.

Other competition victories include the Cooper International Violin Competition (Second Prize and the Audience Award) and the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in Novosibirsk, Russia (the Audience Award, Special Prize, the Academy of Arts Golden Medal, and the Siberian Academy of Arts Talent Award). Joshua was also a top prize winner in the 2016 Stradivarius International Violin Competition; was awarded the Grand Prize for Violin in the 2016 ENKOR International Music Competition; was named the 2016/2017 American Prize Winner for Instrumental Performance; was a National YoungArts Winner in both 2016 and 2017; was awarded Grand Prize in the 2018 National Stillman-Kelly Competition; was named a 2018 Yamaha Young Performing Artist; was awarded the Luminarts Cultural Foundation’s 2019 Luminarts Fellowship for Strings, and was named the National Collegiate Strings Winner for 2019 by the National Federation of Music Clubs. Additionally, as part of Kairos String Quartet, Joshua (who alternated between first violin and viola) won First Prize at the A.N. & Pearl G. Barnett Chamber Music Competition and the Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition and earned Gold Medals in both the Junior Division of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Competition and the Junior String Division of the 2018 M-Prize International Chamber Arts Competition, making Kairos the only chamber group ever to win the top prizes at both Fischoff and M-Prize in the same year.

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on a 1679 Pietro Guarneri violin from Cremona. Joshua currently studies violin with Donald Weilerstein at New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) on a full Deans Scholarship. For the five years prior to NEC, Joshua studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago’s (MIC) Academy as a Scholarship Fellow (recipient of both the Rachel Barton Pine Scholarship and the Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Fellowship). Other scholarships include the North Shore Chamber Music Festival’s Haag/Galvin Young Artist and Arkady Fomin Scholarship, the American Opera Society of Chicago’s Eleanor Pearce Sherwin Scholarship, the Highland Park Music Club Scholarship, the Parkridge Civic Orchestra’s International Rotary Scholarship, and the 2019 Luminarts Cultural Foundation at the Union League Club of Chicago Classical Strings Fellowship. Joshua is passionate about reaching and connecting with new listeners and towards that end, maintains a very active presence on his Instagram account @joshuabrownviolinist.

Eric Reed, hornEric Reed is an internationally recognized horn player, chamber musician, and educator. He is the newest member of the American Brass Quintet, and serves on the horn and chamber music faculties of The Juilliard School. In addition to his work with the ABQ, Eric performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He is a former member of the Canadian Brass and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, as well as the Oregon, New World,

and Harrisburg symphonies. Based in New York City, Eric has performed with dozens of the region’s cultural organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and International Contemporary Ensemble. He has appeared as Guest Associate Principal Horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as Guest Principal Horn with the New Jersey Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, and American Ballet Theater. He is a member of the newly formed Ensemble Échappé, a sinfonietta dedicated to music of the 21st century. Recent world premieres include works by John Zorn, Eric Ewazen, William Bolcom, Philip Lasser, Kenneth Fuchs and Timo Andres. Mr. Reed is on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School and Round Top Festival Institute, and was recently appointed Guest French Horn Professor at the Middle School Affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He holds degrees from Rice University and The Juilliard School. Eric resides in the Bronx with his wife, violinist Sarah Zun and their son, Oliver.

Julian Rhee, violin 2020 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipientViolinist Julian Rhee is fast gaining recognition as an outstanding musician and performer in the US.

The first prize winner of the Johansen International Competition in Washington DC, Julian was also awarded the Solo Bach, Commissioned Work, and the Elaine H. Klein Prize at the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. In 2018, Julian was a Finalist of the National YoungArts

Foundation, where he performed at the New World Center in Miami. Subsequently, Julian appeared at the John F. Kennedy Center as a Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and received his medal at the White House. In the summer of 2018, Julian was the recipient of the 2019 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship, and was named the winner of the Aspen Music Festival Violin Concerto Competition, where he performed with the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra at Benedict Music Tent.

An avid soloist, Julian made his Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra debut at age 8, and has gone on to perform with orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Symphony Orchestra, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra,

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the Avanti Symphony Orchestra, West Suburban Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Philharmonic, the Lacrosse Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and most recently, the San Diego Symphony. He has performed in an array of venues including Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall, Heinz Hall, the Overture Center for the Arts, Teatro El Círculo in Rosario, Argentina, The Musikverein in Vienna, Bartok Hall in Hungary, New World Center, and the John F Kennedy Center.

A passionate chamber musician, Julian’s performance on violin and viola earned him and his String Quartet first prize in the 2018 A.N. & Pearl G. Barnett Chamber Music Competition and Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition, and Gold Medals at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the M-Prize International Chamber Arts Competition. This past summer, Julian appeared with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New York City, and also performed with recent Avery Fisher Career Grant Winner Henry Kramer at Pierce Hill Performing Arts in August.

Julian has appeared alongside internationally renowned ensemble Time for Three on National Public Radio’s From The Top, 98.7 WFMT’s Introductions, Milwaukee Public Radio 89.7, Milwaukee Public Television, and Wisconsin Public Radio and Television (WPT/WPR).

Julian shares his passion for music by serving in the local community as an assisting artist and mentor of the Wisconsin Intergenerational Orchestra (WIO), which brings together musicians of all ages and skill levels. In addition, he regularly speaks and performs at schools and retirement homes in Wisconsin and Illinois, most recently at West Bend High School and North Shore Country Day School as its Susan Marshall Artist.

Julian studied with Almita and Roland Vamos as a scholarship recipient at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. He is a graduate of Brookfield East High School as Class President and Valedictorian. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory.

Jacqueline Audas, violin 2017 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipientViolinist Jacqueline Audas began studying the violin at age three. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BM in violin performance from The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. As the recipient of the Winifred and Maurice Hirsch Memorial Scholarship, she is currently pursuing her master’s degree in violin performance at Rice, with the renowned Professor Paul Kantor. Prior to entering college, she studied with the late Arkady Fomin

who was a member of the Dallas Symphony and the director of the New Dallas Conservatory.At the age of 14, Jacqueline made her solo debut with the Meridian Symphony after winning their young artist competition. In recent years, she has appeared as a soloist with the Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Texas Medical Center Orchestra, the Boise Philharmonic, the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the McCall Summerfest Orchestra, and the Walla Walla Symphony. Audas has collaborated with a number of conductors including Guillermo Figueroa, Robert Franz, Yaakov Bergman, and Libi Lebel.

She has performed in masterclasses for Vadim Gluzman, Ivry Gitlis, Chaim Taub, Ida Kavafian, Grigory Kalinovsky, Arnold Steinhardt, Sergey Ostrovsky and Rachel Barton Pine, among others. She attended the Keshet Eilon Mastercourse in Israel in 2015 and 2017, the Sommermusik im Oberen Nagoldtal in Germany in 2017, and the Aspen Music Festival in 2016 and 2018.

In 2017 she was awarded a scholarship from the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund.

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Marlene Ngalissamy, bassoon 2020 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipient“My goal as a musician and artist is to encourage emotional expression through music, promote diversity, acceptance and sense of belonging in diverse communities.”

Born in Moscow, Marlene moved to Canada at the age of 10 and began learning the bassoon three years later. She quickly developed a deep passion for the instrument and was accepted at the Montreal Conservatory

of Music where she studied with Mathieu Harel and Stephane Levesque. She completed her undergraduate diploma in Montreal and her post-bachelor at the Curtis Institute of music with Daniel Matsukawa.

She had the chance to participate in several workshops: Pacific music festival in Japan, International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Pablo Casals Festival, Orford Academy, Chamber Music Academy of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and Domaine Forget. She had lessons with several national and international masters such as Dag Jensen, Carlo Colombo, Laurent Lefevre, Ole Kristian Dahl, Stéphane Levesque, Gustavo Nuñez, Christopher Millard, Vincent Parizeau and Louise Pellerin. She worked with different conductors such as Kent Nagano, Yannick NézetSéguin, Juanjo Mena, Vasily Petrenko, Allain Trudel, Julian Kuerti, Robert D. Levin and many others. She is now part of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.

Winner of the first prize in the Canadian Music Competition (2012)and finalist of the Meg Quigley bassoon competition (2015), she performed with the Edmonton Symphony orchestra, the Montreal Metropolitain symphony orchestra, the Montreal Conservatory orchestra and the Youth orchestra of Montreal. She was invited to perform as guest principal bassoon with the Saint-Paul chamber Orchestra and is frequently performing with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New-York.

In February 2014, Marlene gave a recital at the Red Path Hall at McGill University as part of the Montreal High Lights Festival. The performance was recorded and broadcasted on CBC radio2.

One of the eight laureates of the Developing Artist Grant of the Hnatyshyn Foundation (2013), Marlene is living in Philadelphia and is freelancing with both Canadian and American orchestras.

She is also part of a community teaching artist program, working along with Penn memory center, where she is leading a “creativity through music” class for people with diverse stages of Alzheimer’s disease.Fuchs and Timo Andres.

Lisa Shihoten, violinViolinist Lisa Shihoten enjoys an active career as a chamber musician, recitalist, and teacher. She made her New York solo debut at Avery Fisher Hall under the direction of Kurt Masur, and has received top prizes and awards from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Marcia Polayes National Competition, and the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors National Competition.

Ms. Shihoten is a member of the Concertante Chamber Players and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and has performed at numerous summer festivals, including the Caramoor Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the North Shore Chamber Music Festival, the Verbier Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She has also toured throughout Israel, Greece, and Turkey, and in this country regularly tours in duo recital with organist Ken Cowan.

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Elizabeth (Lizzi) Volpert, 12, is an ardent artist, a passionate dancer and a keen writer.

Her interest in artistic expression developed early: when she was 3 years old, inspired by the American Ballet Theater’s production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Metropolitan Opera, she asked to start attending ballet classes. Shortly thereafter, art classes followed.

Since then, Lizzi has been devoted to painting and drawing, gradually experimenting with technique and genre. In spring of 2020, she received

her first commission: a cover portrait for the season brochure for Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York.

When she was 6, she was admitted to the American Ballet Theater Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School where she trained in classical ballet for 4 years. After realizing that she wanted to explore other types of dance, she successfully auditioned for the acclaimed Nimbus Youth Ensemble. Currently, she is a dancer with Nimbus’s Pre-Professional division, greatly enjoying training in modern, jazz, hip hop, and ballet, as well as participating in the company’s many performances.

Lizzi lives in Hoboken, NJ, with her parents and a younger brother, Daniel. She is a student at Elysian Charter School, where she plays for the school’s basketball team. Her other interests include interior design and writing: she is finishing her first murder mystery novel, inspired by the works of Agatha Christie.

2021 Opportunity Award Presentation to Elizabeth (Lizzi) VolpertSponsored by Lifeway Foods

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Works by Lizzi Volpert

Top row: Arkady Fomin, Daniel and Lizzi Volpert. Second row: Atar Arad, Julian Rhee, Katherine Audas. Third row: Janice Carissa, Marlene Ngalissamy, William Wolfram. Fourth row: Angela Yoffe, Ariel Quartet.

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Ms. Shihoten received her Bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School, and her Master’s degree from the Yale School of Music. Having taught at Princeton University, she teaches violin at the Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston.

Wendy Warner, celloCellist Wendy Warner soared to international acclaim, winning the international Rostropovich Cello Competition top prize at age eighteen. Her career took off with concerts conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich and debuts in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Köln, Düsseldorf, Berlin and New York at Carnegie Hall. Strings magazine hailed her “youthful, surging playing, natural stage presence and almost frightening technique.”

From a musical Chicago family, Warner studied with Rostropovich at the Curtis Institute of Music from which she graduated. Collaborators have included conductors Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, Andre Previn, Jesús López Cobos and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has appeared with leading U.S. orchestras and internationally—from Paris and London to Serbia and Russia.

Recent season highlights include appearances with the Wichita, Columbus (Georgia), Wyoming and Alabama Symphonies and return engagements with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Peru) and the Xiamen Philharmonic (China). This season she will be featured with the Hartford and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestras and, joining violinist Vadim Gluzman in the Brahms Double Concerto, the Austin Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 she will return to the prestigious Piatigorsky International Cello Festival.

Warner played the 2009 world premiere of a newly discovered Beethoven piano trio. With pianist Irina Nuzova she performed the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas on tour and by invitation at the U.S. Supreme Court. Other collaborators have included Anne Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer, the Fine Arts Quartet and Chicago Chamber Musicians. She has given recitals in Milan and Tokyo and is a frequent guest on WFMT in Chicago.

Wendy Warner’s Cedille CDs include Haydn & Myslivecek; Russian Music for Cello & Piano; Popper & Piatigorsky; The Beethoven Project Trio; Double Play with Rachel Barton Pine; and Eclipse. On other labels she has recorded Hindemith’s chamber works; Barber’s Cello Concerto; and compositions by Dalit Warshaw. A CD of Edgar Valcárcel’s Cello Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Peru) will be released soon. An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, Warner holds the Leah D. Hamer Distinguished Faculty Chair at the Schwob School of Music, Columbus State University. She plays a 1772 Joseph Gagliano cello.

Mark Kosower, celloUniversally admired by critics, audiences and fellow musicians, cellist Mark Kosower has earned an extraordinary international reputation for his instrumental mastery, musical integrity and powerfully expressive performances as soloist with orchestras, in recitals, chamber music and as Principal Cello of the Cleveland Orchestra with which he appears annually as soloist. He most recently performed the Samuel Barber Concerto at the Blossom Music Festival with Bramwell Tovey conducting and the Dvorak

Concerto with Herbert Blomstedt conducting during the 2013-14 subscription season.During the 2014-15 season Mark Kosower will record the cello concertos of Victor Herbert

with JoAnn Falletta and the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast for Naxos International. Other international appearances include the Dvorak Concerto with the Thailand Philharmonic and the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with the Camerata Franconia in Germany. In the United States Mark Kosower returns to the Toledo Symphony to perform the Friedrich Gulda Concerto with Stefan Sanderling and appears with the Hawaii Symphony performing the Lalo Concerto with Carlos Miguel Prieto.

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The Northbrook Symphony will continue the partnership with the North Shore Chamber Music Festival featuring Arkady Fomin Scholarship recipients as soloists in the upcoming seasons.

The Northbrook Symphony 2021-2022 Season will feature World Class Soloists and a Wide Range of Repertoire. Pending Covid restrictions, performances maybe On-line or In-Person.

Celebrating the Community!

Vivaldi’s Ring of MysteryAugust 29th, 3:00 pmJoin our Family Concert at the Village Green Park in NorthbrookNo tickets, but reservation required

Stay tuned for details

www.northbrooksymphony.org NSO Office 847-272-0755

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He visits the North Shore Chamber Music and Steamboat Spring’s Strings Music festivals as well as the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach (FL).During the past two seasons Mark Kosower has debuted as soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orquestra Sinfonica de Venezuela, the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil, and the Virginia Symphony. He has also made appearances at the Eastern Music and Santa Fe Chamber Music festivals as well as at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.

An active advocate of 20th and 21st century music, Mark Kosower has brought lesser-known contemporary masterworks to international attention in recent years. His 2011 Naxos release of the two cello concertos of Alberto Ginastera, with Lothar Zagrosek and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, has won widespread critical acclaim – and, with his 2008 disc of the complete Ginastera works for cello and piano, makes him the first cellist to record the complete catalogue of works for solo cello by the composer.

In 2011 Naxos also released Kosower’s performance as the soloist in the world premiere recording of Miklós Rózsa’s Rhapsodie for Cello and Orchestra with the Budapest Concert Orchestra MAV. Other premieres have included the world premiere of Cristóbal Halffter’s Klagelied eines verwundeten Vogels for solo cello, as well as U.S. premieres of Yuri Falik’s Concerto della Passione and Marco Stroppa’s Ay, there’s the rub for solo cello. He has also recorded the Walton Concerto with James DePriest and the Oregon Symphony.

An eloquent orchestral soloist, Mark Kosower has appeared with the symphony orchestras of Detroit, Florida, Grand Rapids, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Phoenix, Santa Barbara, Seattle, Syracuse, and Toledo; the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others. International appearances include the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Kansai Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Kwa-Zulu Natal Philharmonic, and the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. With these appearances he has collaborated with James DePriest, Christoph Eschenbach, Joanne Falletta, Erich Kunzel, Nicholas McGegan, Anton Nanut, Stefan Sanderling, Gunther Schuller, Gerard Schwarz, Joseph Silverstein, Hugh Wolff, and Lothar Zagrosek.

As a recitalist, Mark Kosower has performed on the Great Performer’s Series at Lincoln Center, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Aspen Music Festival, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He has also given solo performances in some of the world’s most prestigious venues including the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Berlin’s Komische Oper, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, and in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall.

A former member of Chamber Music Two, a two-year residency at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Kosower makes frequent appearances at chamber music societies and festivals throughout the United States and abroad and has performed with such esteemed musicians as Leon Fleisher, Janos Starker, Jorg Widmann, and the Juilliard String Quartet.

Mark Kosower has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant, a SONY Grant, and has been a top prize winner in both the Rostropovich and Pablo Casals International Cello competitions – including a special prize in both competitions for best interpretation of the newly commissioned works by Marco Stroppa and Cristóbal Halffter. He has also been the Grand Prize winner of both the Irving Klein International String Competition and the WAMSO Competition of the Minnesota Orchestra.

Mark Kosower is currently Principal Cello of the Cleveland Orchestra, Teacher of Cello at the Cleveland Institute of Music and is on the faculty at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. His previous posts include Solo Cellist of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Germany from 2006-10, and Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2005-07. Mark Kosower began his cello studies with his father at the age of 1 ½, and later studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University and Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School.

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Kurt Muroki, double bassAn Artist Member with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Kurt Muroki began his musical studies on the violin at the age of six and subsequently performed concerti with the Honolulu Symphony and the Maui Symphony. Mr. Muroki went on to study the Double bass at the age of 13 and entered the Juilliard School of Music at 17 studying with his teacher / mentor Homer R. Mensch.

At the age of 21 Kurt began performing with the internationally renowned Sejong Soloists under ICM Management. Kurt has performed with the The Jupiter Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae, “Great Performers” series at Lincoln Center, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitur, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Nomori, New York City Ballet, 92nd St. Y, and Bargemusic. Festivals include Marlboro Music Festival, Festival L’Autonne at IRCAM, and Aspen Music Festival to name a few. Kurt is also active playing movies, commercials, popular, and classical recordings with titles including the Oscar winning film “The Departed”, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, “Hitch”, “Julie and Julia”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, “Roger Daltrey Sings Pete Townshend” – The Who, Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Itzhak Perlman .

Mr. Muroki has won numerous competitions including 1st prize in the Aspen Music Festival double bass competition, the first bassist to win the New World Symphony concerto competition, and the Honolulu Symphony Young Artists competition. He has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Orion quartets, Ensemble Wein-Berlin, Jaime Laredo, Lynn Harrell, Maurice Bourgue, Toru Takemitsu, Peter Schickele, John Zorn, and Brian Ferneyhough among others, and has performed concerto tours throughout Asia and the United States.

Mr. Muroki is currently faculty/teaches at the Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, and has been a judge at the Yale Gordon Competition at Peabody Conservatory, ASTA, and others. Mr Muroki is also on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bassists and is a D’Addario Strings Artist.

Kurt plays on a double bass once owned by the famous double bassist Domenico Dragonetti and attributed to Nicolo Amati circa 1665.

Rose Armbrust Griffin, violaViolist Rose Armbrust Griffin received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School, Artist Diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music and Masters of Music from Indiana University. During her time at The Curtis Institute of Music she held the James and Betty Materese Annual Fellowship. Most notably, Rose was awarded a Performers Certificate in “recognition of her outstanding musical performance.” Her teachers include Heidi Castleman, Hsin-Yung Huang, Roberto Diaz, Michael Tree

and Atar Arad.Rose has performed as soloist with the Bogota Symphony Orchestra, Woodstock’s Mozart

Festival Orchestra, The Curtis Chamber Orchestra and the Indiana University’s Chamber Orchestra. Composer Johnathan Graybill’s “Viola Concerto”, was written for and premiered by Rose along side the Ball State University Orchestra. She was awarded first prize in the Chicago Viola Society and Rembrandt Chamber Players Competitions and was a prizewinner at The Fichoff Chamber Music Competition.

An active chamber musician, Rose has collaborated with renowned artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, Vadim Gluzman, Peter Wiley and the Amernet String Quartet. She has appeared at The Kennedy Center, Avery Fischer Hall, Music from Angelfire, Zankel Hall, and Ravinia’s Steans Institute. She has been a guest artist at the North Shore and the Kingston Chamber Music Festivals and has performed with The Chicago Ensemble, The

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Jupiter Chamber Players, The Pilgrim Chamber Players, The Chicago Chamber Musicians, The Rembrandt Chamber Players and the MusicNOW series. Currently, she is an active member of the International Chamber Artists and can be heard throughout the year on WFMT.

Rose’s passion is music education. She is currently the viola instructor at Wheaton College where she serves as the Chamber Music Coordinator and teaches an Introduction to Music History Course. Because of her love of teaching and chamber music, Rose fills her weekends with coaching chamber music at Midwest Young Artists.

Rose has recorded for Albany Records. She plays on a 1989 Marten Cornelissen that was borrowed during her time at Curtis and subsequently purchased after she realized she couldn’t live without it.

Michael Volpert, Music AdvisorMichael Volpert joined Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York as its Director of Artistic Planning and Orpheus Institute in 2013 after having served as the Vice President of Artistic Operations at Symphony in C, Camden, NJ. Mr. Volpert oversees Orpheus’ artistic planning process and facilitates its personnel hiring and tour planning. His past positions include Artistic Coordinator with the Detroit Symphony; Associate for the Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., an artist management, as well as

Nancy Shear Arts Services, a public relations firm. Michael is also Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Jupiter Symphony Chamber

Players in New York City which produces over 23 unique programs a year, and Music Advisor to the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Northbrook, IL.

Mr. Volpert received his Bachelor’s degree in Bassoon Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and his Master’s degree in Arts Administration at Teachers College of Columbia University.

Serving as liaison between the residents of the midwest region and the state of Israel.

The Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest 500 West Madison St, Suite 3100

Chicago, IL 60661

Our best wishes for the North Shore Chamber

Music Festival’s 10th anniversary season. Thank

you for these many years of inspiring us with

beautiful music and enriching the cultural life

of Chicago’s North Shore community.

– Aviv Ezra, Consul General

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Since its inception, AFSF has granted assistance to 34 young talented artists from all over the world. Created in 2015 to celebrate and perpetuate the legacy and spirit of Arkady Fomin – an educator, conductor and violinist extraordinaire, the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund has become an integral part of educational activities of the North Shore Chamber Music Festival.

AFSF’s activities include awarding scholarships to talented young musicians (college and pre-college), closely following their artistic development and supporting them in the most formative years of their lives.

Arkady FominViolinist Arkady Fomin was born in Riga, Latvia, where he received his musical training at the Latvian State Conservatory with Voldemar Sturestep. A founder of Clavier Trio, he has collaborated in performances with Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Borok, Shlomo Mintz, Atar Arad, David Korevaar, Jesús Castro-Balbi, Vadim Gluzman, Phillippe Quint, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Andrew Litton, and the late Steven De Groote.

As violinist and conductor, Arkady Fomin has performed in Russia, Latvia, Austria, Germany, Japan, and throughout the United States. A member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, he served as Visiting Professor and Artist-in-Residence at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Professor/Artist-in-Residence and Orchestra Director at The University of Texas at Dallas and Artistic Director of the New Conservatory of Dallas and Conservatory Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. Arkady Fomin received the Cowlishaw Award for artistic achievement at UT Dallas as well as Special Recognition from the Mayor of the City of Dallas for promotion of music education and international relationship through concert performances and tours.

A musician’s musician, extraordinary violinist, and a pedagogue whose devotion to students transcended time – Arkady Fomin’s light, passion and belief in eternal beauty of music will be carried by generations of musicians whose lives he has touched so profoundly.

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ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Donations play a crucial role in making this important festival

possible each year.

Join our festival artists in bringing great music to life

for everyone

PLEASE DONATE TODAY

in-person or at www.nscmf.org

Thank you for your generosity!

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SUPPORTERSThe North Shore Music Alliance and the NSCMF would like to express deepest appreciation and gratitude to the individuals and organizations that generously provide the financial resource needed to sustain the North Shore Chamber Music Festival and its artistic, educational and outreach programs.

OVATION SOCIETYLead SponsorThe Alphadyne Foundation

BRAVO ($10,000 and up)AnonymousMagical Strings of Youth of Betty Haag

Academy of Music John H. Harmon, Jr. and Jane H. Harmon

FoundationNew Conservatory of Dallas Puffin Foundation West, LTD John A. Carey Elisabeth W. Johnson

VIRTUOSO ($9,999 to $ 5,000)Anonymous Brueckner Family Foundation Medical Management of Chicago, LLC USA Vein Clinics Mark Audas Idalyn Cyprus Shelly Cyprus Tas & Elizabeth Ganitopoulos Katherine Freiberger Patrick & Yasuko MetcalfJoseph & Minna Pirogovsky Gene & Marina Schloss Leslie & Roberta Shwartz

IMPRESARIO ($4,999 to $ 1,000)AnonymousAdvanced Home Health servicesAleksandra Enterprises, INCAlpha Care Inc.Bein & Fushi Inc. Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest Femacare OB/GYN, Helen Plavnik MDGLUFFE Inc. IG Realty LLCMB Financial Bank, Northbrook & GlenviewMedical Management of Chicago, LLCTakeda Pharmaceuticals USA, IncPeter & Christine AznavoorianDr. David BarackAlexander & Eva BelavskyMikhail BlekhmanBeverly & Martin CobenJoe & Diane Deiss Henry FogelDiana & Gennady FridmanJan Gabelev & Irene PolonskyTas & Elizabeth GanitopoulosJohn & Angela Rhee Michie HisadaHorst Kuhnke & Betty Haag – KuhnkeVladimir & Svetlana KaytsnerJ. A. Ode & R. McBride Ode Sabina A. Sewillo, Morgan Stanley Wealth

Management, CFP, Vice President Susan S. Shiva FoundationJane S. & Robert O. Stroud James Scharnell Carolina Susanto Nancy TauberFredrick & Katherine WeberMiriam & Bernard Yenkin

OVERTURE SOCIETYGOLD ($999 to $500)Elizabeth Stein CompanyDziennik Zwiazkowy, Daily Polish News,

Lukasz Dudka, General managerWet Solution, IncMr. & Mrs. BelkinGail BelytschkoJeannine CowellOneida CramerSophie FominGregory GlavasMaki HalumMr. Salmon GolbergGary & Beverly GoldenColin HaraIlya & Olga KalerSandra & David KaminskyEsther H. LimBonnie & Lee MalmedVera M. MayerAllan & Joliot PalmesAlexander D. & Danielle PavlosLaila RobinsWilliam Wolfram

SILVER ($499 to $100)Illinois Tool Works FoundationNorth Shore Dental AssociatesNorth Shore RhythmicsPediatric Health Care AssociatesPerformers MusicKaren BendokMr. & Mrs. BlockPaul & Susan BoardmanEmanuel BorokNeil A BreslauAizik & Frida ChernobrovKen Cowan in Honor of Genevieve

“Betsy” GabrielliCarol & Richard CaldwellDaniel SchwartzMs. Mary CookMichael DiPierro & Barbara Ross DiPierroHope EvansJames H. Foster Alan J. GoldIlene Greene

Mona S. Hersh – Cochrah Douglas & Rogene Howard Greg J. HustisMichael KhamutovAlan R. KravetsBeverley Ervine & Boyce LancasterLyudmila LakisovaStephen & Lynn MattsonKay NalbachElva PeyrotHarry PoffenbargerFrank & Joan SaffordDiana SokolovaAvram & Renee SchreiberRonald SchwechterGil A. StricklinJ.C. Svare & P.J SvareJames & Jin Jung SongNatalia ThraenMr & Mrs. WardMr. & Mrs. ZadehMina ZikriLarisa Zhizhin

BRONZE (from $99)Yaffy ArthurEugene FinermanKaren FinermanBurl GregoryDeborah R. Fishma-RusnakGreg Friedman & Lynn Mansbach FriedmanCarol & Ron JesselsonNorman & Anne JonesSidney & Harriette KavinEugene KendallNoysey KupermanCarol & Kenneth McMahonOlgaMyachinaJane OgrodnikSteve RobinsonStromberg RosieRobert & Susan Swan

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AFSF SUPPORTERSThe North Shore Music Alliance and AFSF would like to express deepest appreciation and gratitude to the individuals and organizations that generously provide the financial support to the Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund

Phema AbrahamAccurate Private Care Inc.Christine AznavoorianEva and Alexander BelavskyAnna and Tony BelkinNatasha BelskyGail BelytschkoKaren BendokRobert Blumberg, Former Honorary Consul

of LatviaEmanuel Borok (In memorial)Neil A. BreslauBrueckner Family FoundationJohn A. CareyFrida and Aizik ChernobrovBeverly and Martin CobenMona S. Hersh–CochrahMs. Mary CookSara & Michael CorenOneida M. CramerIdalyn Cyprus & Mark Audas Shelly CyprusNew Conservatory of DallasDiane and Joseph DeissAnonymous in memory of Dorothy DeLayBernard Ebstein in memory of Roslyn EbsteinDeborah R. Fishman-RusnakHenry Fogel Janet FominSophie FominJames H. FosterPaul Galvin Memorial FoundationKatherine FreibergerDiana and Gennady FridmanLynn FriedmanLiz and Tas GanitopoulosEsther GitelzonMichael & Ludmila GluzmanAlan J. GoldGary & Beverly GoldenDiane GordonIlene GreeneBurl GregoryDerek Han

Tatiana HannaJohn H and Jane H Harmon FoundationWendy & Edward HarphamMichie HisadaDouglas & Rogene HowardGreg J. HustisElisabeth W JohnsonAnne and Norman JonesSandy KaminskyDrs. Flora and Yan KatsnelsonLana & Vladimir KaytsnerMichael KhomutovRichard KlodnickiAnton KozlovBetty Haag-Kuhnke & Horst KuhnkeLudmila LakisovaLifeway FoodsLee MalmedStacey McTaggartVera MayerMorgan Stanley Wealth Management,

Sabina A. Sewillo, Vice PresidentJ.A. Ode & R. McBride OdeBryan PageElva PeyrotBarbara and Michael Di PierroMinna and Joseph PirogovskyPuffin Foundation West, LTDAngela Hee Soon Chae and John S. RheeDaniel RichLaila RobinsGarry & Michael Savulkin in memory of

Zanna PerelmuterJames ScharnellMarina and Gene SchlossDaniel SchwartzMia SeoGilad ShebaGil ShivaNina and Fred Shterenberg Roberta and Leslie ShwartzMaria SoninaGil A. StricklinRosie Stromberg

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CONTRIBUTE TODAY!Contribution received later then May 20, 2021 will be acknowledged in future NSCMF publications

For information about opportunities to support the NSCMF, please contact: Angela Yoffe, Executive Director North Shore Chamber Music FestivalP.O.Box 85, Northbrook, IL 60065847 370 3984, Email: [email protected]

AFSF SUPPORTERS (CONT’D)

Jane & Robert StroudWaltraud SzeryngNancy TauberCarolina ThauladKay UmwellingVeronica Volpert in memory of Tamara Volpert

Fredrick & Katherine WeberMiriam and Bernard YenkinSookyung Cho YoonLarisa ZhizhinMina Zikri

IN-KIND SUPPORTThe North Shore Music Alliance and the NSCMF extend special thanks to the companies and individuals listed below who have generously donated their time and resources.

The Village Church of NorthbrookPianoForte ChicagoLaw Office of Avram H. Schreiber, New YorkFields BMW, Northfield

Yanni Design Studios, Wheeling, IL Lana’s Dazzling Desserts, Wheeling, ILSunset Foods, NorthbrookLuxs Cars Chicago, Wheeling, IL

ADMINISTRATION

Administrative Assistant:Yancidara Davila LopezCarolina ThauladStefani HaasOrli Gluzman

Performers MusicClassical Sheet Music Store

Fine Arts Building410 South Michigan Ave., Suite 904

Chicago, IL 60605

Monday –Friday, 10–7Sat, 9–5; Sun 12–4

(312) 987-1196

[email protected]

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