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JUILLIARD SELECTS TEN EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT ARTISTS TO PARTICIPATE IN
2011 STARLING-DeLAY SYMPOSIUM FOR VIOLIN STUDIES
Student Violinists Selected to Play For Master Teachers During the Symposium
Juilliard has selected ten exceptional student artists to participate in this summer’s Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies at The Juilliard School at Lincoln Center in New York City. The symposium, which will be held from Tuesday, May 31 – Saturday, June 4, 2011 features five days of master classes, recitals, lectures, and pedagogy sessions and provides many opportunities for participants to observe and explore how to nurture and develop the exceptional student artist. This is the 6th Starling-DeLay Symposium, held at Juilliard every other season, focusing on the methods and philosophy developed by legendary Juilliard pedagogue, Dorothy DeLay, who established the first symposium in 2001. Each year, alumni of her teaching studio (this year including Brian Lewis and Itzhak Perlman) participate as symposium faculty and recitalists.
Brian Lewis, symposium artistic director and a faculty member at the University of Texas in Austin, will lead this year’s symposium. The roster of renowned performers, experts, and master teachers includes: Itzhak Perlman (Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair, The Juilliard School); Glenn Dicterow (Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic); Ida Kavafian (The Curtis Institute); Joseph Lin (Juilliard String Quartet); David Updegraff (Cleveland Institute of Music); Teri Einfeldt (The Hartt School, Chair, Suzuki Association of the Americas); Ray Iwazumi (Juilliard Violin Seminar Leader); Julie Lyonn Lieberman (Artistic Director, Strings Without Boundaries, Technique Rehabilitation Specialist); Ryu Goto (guest recitalist) and the Juilliard String Quartet (guest recitalists).
The 10 student violinists selected are:
-Alicia Choi, Juilliard master of music degree student from Douglaston, NY
-Brandon Garbot from Shaker Heights, OH
-Francisco Garcia-Fullana, Juilliard bachelor of music degree student from New York, NY
-Marie-Christine Klettner from Goldegg, Austria
-Justine Lamb-Budge from Philadelphia, PA
-Ji-Eun Anna Lee, Juilliard Pre-College Division student from New York, NY
-Doori Na, Juilliard bachelor of music degree student from New York, NY
-Blake Pouliot from Toronto, Canada
-Marie Rossano from Bellevue, WA
-Rachell Wong from Lynnwood, WA
These student artists will attend the symposium tuition-free as performers and recipients of on-stage coaching. They also will be presented in group recitals. The symposium is attended by string teachers from around the world. The 2011 Starling-DeLay for Violin Studies at The Juilliard School will have 170 such participants from 30 states (and Washington, D.C.) and 12 foreign countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, El Salvador, England, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, and Spain).
For more information on the 2011 Starling-DeLay Symposium, call (212) 799-5000, ext. 7161 or e-mail: symposium@juilliard.edu.
April 18, 2011
THE ATTACCA QUARTET IS NAMED JUILLIARD’S NEW GRADUATE RESIDENT STRING QUARTET
The Attacca Quartet To Teach During the School’s 2011-2012 Academic Year and To Perform the
Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital in the 2011-2012 Season
The Attacca Quartet has been named The Juilliard School’s graduate resident string quartet, beginning in September 2011. Winner of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young ensembles. The members of the Quartet - violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming, and cellist Andrew Yee - are all graduates of Juilliard and reside in New York City. They formed the Quartet in 2003.
As part of their Arnhold residency at Juilliard, the Attacca Quartet is presented in a full Lincoln Center recital, the Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital, during the season, and the Attacca members have lessons with members of the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ). They assist the JSQ with their ensemble and chamber music instruction, as well as the School’s first-year String Quartet Survey course. Juilliard’s Arnhold Fellowship residencies are one year in length, and quartets are eligible to return once, for a maximum residency of two years. At the successful completion of the residency, they are awarded the Artist Diploma in String Quartet Studies from Juilliard.
Juilliard has offered residency to graduate string quartets since 1981, when the Colorado Quartet became the first to complete a two-year residency. Since the advent of the program, the quartets-in-residence have included: the Avalon, Biava, Calder, Cassatt, Chiara, Corigliano, Essex, Lark, Maia, Magellan (now renamed the Whitman String Quartet), Miró, St. Lawrence, and Shanghai, and most recently, the Afiara String Quartet.
The Attacca Quartet gave their debut recital in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and they have appeared there on numerous occasions since. The Quartet also performed in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall as part of the Juilliard Young Artists and Their Mentor Series, sharing a program with the Juilliard String Quartet. The Attacca Quartet performed John Adams’ String Quartet (2008) in Alice Tully Hall in December 2009, having worked on the piece with the St. Lawrence Quartet and John Adams at Juilliard. In 2010, they embarked on a new project, “The 68,” in which the Quartet will perform all sixty-eight Haydn String Quartets on a special series they created in New York.
The Attacca Quartet represented Juilliard in the Guarneri String Quartet’s 40th Anniversary master class and on the Kennedy Center Conservatory Project concert series. Resident quartet at the 2005 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, the Attacca Quartet has collaborated with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Claude Frank; violinist Arnhold Steinhardt; and the Tokyo String Quartet. They also have participated in the Emerson String Quartet’s International String Quartet Seminar at Stony Brook University.
The current resident quartet of the Northern Lights Music Festival in Minnesota for 2010-2011, the Attacca Quartet also held an artist residency at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2007, working closely with the Tokyo and Vermeer Quartets. They will be returning to Norfolk this summer and will be doing a residency at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Michigan this summer. They were one of three string quartets chosen to participate in the Pacific Music Festival’s 2006 String Quartet Course in Sapporo, Japan.
The Attacca Quartet has distinguished itself in seminars and master classes with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Miró, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence string quartets and participated in the International Program for Advanced String Quartets at the Music@Menlo Festival in the summer of 2005.
For the past four years, the Quartet has performed in numerous benefit concerts supporting the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Efforts to combat Parkinson’s disease.
The Attacca Quartet is represented by Schmidt Artists International. For further information, call (212) 421-8500 or go to www.schmidtart.com.