|
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR
Luzerne Chamber Music Festival &
Tributes to
“ALUMNI STARS”
Luzerne Music Center dedicated its 25th Anniversary
Luzerne Chamber Music Festival
to its alumni, who now number about 3,000 worldwide. Almost
one third of all LMC students have gone on to careers in
performance, conducting, recording, composing, arts education,
and arts management.
LMC
kicked off the 2005 Luzerne Chamber Music Festival on
July 4th
with Luzerne
Chamber Players Benjamin Fox, oboe, LeAnne Wistrom, flute, Gerik Fon-Ruvitsky,
bassoon, Robyn Jones, clarinet,
Alumnus Star William Schulman,
horn (pictured from left to right below), and
Jennifer Lee & Nathan LaLiberte, violins,
Megan Tipton, viola and Glenn Fischbach, cello,
in an "All American" concert of
Gershwin, Barber, Schuller, and Dvorak.
 Alumnus
Star
William Schulman
(pictured left as an LMC student) attended camp from 1984 to 1988 and served as a faculty
member for the past eight years. He has a Master’s of Music
Performance degree from Indiana University and a
Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and Performance from
Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Schulman is LMC’s Resident Camp Manager, Registrar and
Instructor of Horn; teaches in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and performs
with the Palm Beach Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic
Orchestra and Southwest Florida Symphony of Ft.
Myers. He also performed at Lincoln Center for
LMC’s 20th Anniversary celebration in 2000.
July 11th
featured Alumna Star pianist Jennifer
Chiaramonte in concert with Jessica Modoff,
soprano of the Lake George Opera Company,
LeAnne Wistrom, flute, Tara Louise Mantour and
Rico McNeela, violins, Megan Tipton, viola, and
Kirstin Peltz and Bert Phillips, cello, in a concert
of Beethoven, Ravel and Brahms.
 Jennifer
Chiaramonte
is
a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. She
is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Accompaniment and
Chamber Music at NYU and maintains an active
freelancing career in NYC.
Ms. Chiaramonte has been on LMC’s faculty since 2002 and
regularly performs on Monday evenings at the Luzerne Chamber
Music Festival. She keeps a rigorous schedule as an accompanist
for her students at their recitals every Saturday and Sunday,
and for LMC faculty members every Friday evening at the LMC
Faculty Concerts. Ms. Chiaramonte is also a regular soloist at
LMC.
 July
18th
featured Alumni Stars Derek Wieland,
piano, and William Schulman, horn, with
Robyn Jones, clarinet, Jennifer Lee, violin, Rico
McNeela and Megan Tipton, violas, Glenn Fishbach,
cello, and Celeste Schulman, double bass, in a
performance of Mozart, Bartok and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Derek Wieland
began his musical training with Jeffrey Marcus. He went on to
study with Richard Fabre and Gyorgy Sandor at Julliard
School of Music, receiving the Bachelor and Master of
Music diplomas.
In early childhood, Mr. Wieland swept through the worldwide
piano competition circuit, becoming the first pianist to win the Grand Prize in the Seventeen/General Motors
National Concerto Competition, among many others.
As an adult, Mr. Wieland has performed recitals in the U.S.,
Europe, South America, South Africa and Taiwan, and has given
solo concerts in such esteemed venues as Holland’s
Concertgebouw, Beurs van Berlage and Lincoln Center. Mr.
Wieland is also owner/founder of Uptime Recording.
 July
25th
featured
Alumnus Star
pianist Glen Inanga
in duo with pianist
Jennifer Micaleff
in music of Chopin, Ravel, Shostakovich and Dave Brubeck.
(Sponsored by Lufthansa German Airlines)
Glen Inanga
began his training as a boy in Nigeria, attended our Center under a
scholarship from his piano instructor beginning in 1985, and
studied with Ms. Blumenthal for two summers. He later returned
as a counselor in the 1990’s.
Mr. Inanga is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, in London, where he is now
based as a performer and recording artist. Pictured with piano
partner Jennifer Micallef, the duo appeared in our “Rising
Stars” concert at Lincoln Center in 2000.
August
1st
brought back the talented mainstays of the Luzerne Chamber Music
Festival experience: the Philadelphia Piano
Quartet.
Toby Blumenthal,
Norman Carol, retired
Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, LaMar
Alsop, retired
Concertmaster of the New York City Ballet and proud
father of American conductor Marin Alsop,
and Bert Phillips,
emeritus of the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented an evening
of Mozart, Anthony Holland, and Brahms, for a sold-out
audience.
|
 |
August
8th:
Fabulous Philadelphians
Toby Blumenthal, Ricardo
Morales, Principle
Clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Michael
Ludwig, Associate
Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Bert
Phillips performed program of
Milhaud, Brahms and Arensky.
(Ludwig, Morales and Blumenthal embrace for Phillip’s camera after an
exciting performance.)
August
15th
featured Philadelphia Orchestra Members
Michael Ludwig, Associate Concertmaster,
Jeffrey Kirschen, horn, Angela Anderson,
bassoon, Henry Scott, double bass,
Glenn Fischbach, cello sub and LMC
faculty, and Bert Phillips, cello emeritus,
in concert with Toby Blumenthal, LMC faculty members
Jennifer Lee, violin, of the Georgia
Symphony, and Robyn Jones Principal Clarinet,
Louisiana Philharmonic, and Alumni Stars
Elizabeth Pitcairn, violin, and
Carl
St. Jacques, viola, in a night of Mozart, Beethoven
and Schubert, for a sell-out crowd of 500.
 Alumnus
Star
Carl St. Jacques
is
a violist based in Miami. Mr. St. Jacques has
received wide
acclaim as a winner in the
Sphynx Competition, a
participant in the Verbier International Music Festival
and a member of the Verbier Orchestra, which is on
tour in the United States. He has Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees from Indiana University.
August 22nd
was the
Grand Finale
of the Luzerne Chamber Music Festival. Raymond Gniewek,
former concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
was the featured guest, along with Allen Krantz, on
classical guitar.
Luzerne faulty member Melinda Daetsch played viola,
Toby Phillips, piano, and Bert Phillips, cello in an
evening of Mozart, Paganini, Bedrich Smetana and New
American Music by Allen Krantz.
Below, Raymond Gniewek dines with
some of the LMC's international students after a great performance.
|
