Music for the People Workshop 2007

Posted: Monday May 28, 2007 10:05 AM

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“100 Years of Music”
1907-2007

St. Scholastica’s College
School of Music

invites you to the

MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE WORKSHOP 2007 

May 28 to June 1
9:00-4:00
at
St. Scholastica’s College
2560 Leon Guinto Street
Malate Manila 

In summer 2006, a group of musicians from leading schools in USA namely Juilliard's, Yale, Oberlin and Mannes, came to St. Scholastica’s College (SSC) to give a music workshop and master classes in strings and piano to students and orchestra members.  The musicians were members of the Music for the People, a non-profit group based in New York City, whose aim was to promote international cultural understanding through music.  In line with the Centennial Celebration of SSC School of Music, the Music for the People team is coming again to conduct another workshop in music.  The members of the team are: 
 

Andrew Roitstein, bass
Jeremiah Shaw, cello
Danielle Kuhlmann, horn
JoAnna Farrer, violin
William Harvey, violin
Frank Shaw, viola

 
For more information, please call:  524-7686 local 288
526-8080 (direct line)

ANDREW ROITSTEIN, bass

A native of Valencia, California, bassist Andrew Roitstein is pursuing his master's degree at the Juilliard School, from where he received his bachelor's degree in 2006.  He has performed chamber music in Alice Tully Hall, Los Angeles' Skirball Center, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  As a member of Juilliard Orchestra and New Juilliard ensemble, Andrew has played in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Berlin's Konzerthaus.  Other notable performances include Runner-Up prize in Juilliard's 2007 Double Bass Concerto Competition and a 2004 recording premiere of "Anna Maria Suite" for double bass and piano, written by his father David Roitstein.  Andrew has attended the Sarasota, Aspen, Domaine Forget, and Idyllwild Music Festivals.  He is a recipient of Juilliard's Noble Foundation Scholarship, ASCAP's Lieber and Stoller scholarship, and the Los Angeles Young Musician's Foundation Scholarship.  Andrew is a student of Eugene Levinson, and received previous instruction from David Young.

JEREMIAH SHAW, cello

Jeremiah Shaw, cellist, grew up in Blacksburg, VA in a musical family— both of his brothers, Frank and Alex, are musicians, and his father and stepmother are members of the Audubon String Quartet. Jeremiah earned his Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in New York in 2004, studying with Joel Krosnick, cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2002, under the tutelage of Richard Aaron. Jeremiah completed his high school education at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and has participated in many music festivals, including Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho, Gretna Music Festival in Pennsylvania, Steans Institute at Ravinia Music Festival in Illinois, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, Kneisel Hall in Maine, Chautauqua Music Festival in New York, and the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina. During the summer of 2003, he performed chamber music at the Gardner Museum in Boston with pianist, Seymour Lipkin and violinist, Lucy Stoltzman. Jeremiah was a winner of the 2004 New World Symphony Concerto Competition and performed Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1 with NWS in February 2005. Jeremiah has worked with acclaimed conductors and soloist such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Paavo Järvi, James Conlon, Peter Oundjian, Yo-Yo Ma, Christian Tetzlaff, Gil Shaham, and Renée Fleming. As an active chamber musician, Jeremiah has spent summers studying with members of the Audubon, Borromeo, Cavani, Cleveland, Juilliard, St. Lawrence, and Vermeer String Quartets.

DANIELLE KUHLMANN, horn

Danielle Kuhlmann, hornist, has traveled the world, performing in symphony orchestras and chamber music concerts throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Growing up in Seattle, Washington, she began her musical studies at age 3. Currently in her 4th year of undergraduate studies with Jerome Ashby at the Juilliard School, she has performed with the Seattle Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra and in all of Juilliard's orchestral ensembles. Her interest in new music has brought her to perform in the New Juilliard Ensemble, as well as the newly established Axiom Ensemble.   In May of 2006, Ms. Kuhlmann performed Britten's The Turn of the Screw at the Kennedy Center with Maestro Lorin Maazel. Other performance highlights include chamber music concerts in the Baltic Sea aboard Radisson Cruise Lines with Juilliard students, faculty and alumni and circumnavigating the globe with the Verbier Festival Orchestra. In addition to classical performances, Ms. Kuhlmann can be heard on many television, video game and major motion picture soundtracks. Other ensembles she has performed with include the National Repertory Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute and the Orchestra of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.

JOANNA FARRER, violin

At the age of 24, Ms. Farrer is already a seasoned performer of chamber music and solo works in a variety of styles. She is an active performer of contemporary and multi-disciplinary works in the New York area and abroad. JoAnna was a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for their November tour of California and in May of 2006 she traveled to the Kyoto International Music Festival to perform as a representative of the United States in solo recitals. She is also a current SYLPH (Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) fellow and in February of this year, joined musicians from France, Poland, Russia, Romania and Vienna for concerts in Paris.

Ms. Farrer has a wide variety of classical chamber music experience, including performances with artists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Emanuel Ax and Itzhak Perlman and has appeared at Merkin Hall with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In May of this year she will perform as concertmaster under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel for performances of Britten's "The Turn of the Screw." In March of 2004, she performed the Vivaldi Concerto for four violins with Itzhak Perlman at Carnegie Hall, and in a similar performance in 2002, she was a featured soloist in a Live from Lincoln Center broadcast. She has performed as a soloist with various orchestras on the East coast, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, and has been a featured soloist with the Israel Philharmonic.

In 2001, Ms. Farrer was the featured artist on the Dame Mira Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. This one hour solo recital was broadcast live on WFMT-FM and its 300 affiliated cable stations. During the same year, Ms. Farrer was also featured on the WQXR McGraw-Hill concert artist showcase.

Ms. Farrer is an alumna of the Perlman Music Program, which she has attended since its inception in 1995. She has participated in the National Arts Centre Young Artist Programme, in Ottawa, Canada as a student of Mr. Zukerman and has also traveled to his music program in Holon, Israel.

She has appeared on New Orlean's "Good Morning" CBS show, has been the main feature of a "USA TV Network" music commentary, and has been a violinist in commercials for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Bank of Tokyo. In 1999, Ms. Farrer was also a featured violinist in a Shania Twain music video.

Ms. Farrer was accepted as a scholarship student at the Juilliard School at age 7. In 1992, Itzhak Perlman suggested that she study with Ms. Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music. Currently Ms. Farrer is pursuing her Master's Degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Glenn Dicterow, the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.

WILLIAM HARVEY, violin

"William Harvey played as if his life depended on it," proclaimed the Santa Barbara News-Press following his July 2002 performance of the Schoenberg Violin Concerto with the Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestra. He brings that same passion to every endeavor: playing the violin, composing, and directing Music for the People.

Upcoming violin engagements include William's Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony and the Elgar Concerto with the Manila Symphony. Recently, he toured Qatar with the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble. He was named interim concertmaster of the Spokane Symphony shortly after he earned his Master's degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Ronald Copes. Upon his graduation in May 2006, the school presented him with the William Schuman Prize, its highest honor. As the winner of Juilliard's 2006 concerto competition, he gave the New York premiere of Behzad Ranjbaran's Violin Concerto in Alice Tully Hall, with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, hailed that performance as "intense and persuasive." During his last semester at Juilliard, he served as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra for the commencement concert conducted by Maestro James DePreist. He also played Milton Babbitt's Melismata in a concert honoring the composer's ninetieth birthday.

William has performed solo with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New World Youth Symphony Orchestra in Basel, Switzerland. He has collaborated with musicians such as Joan Tower, Herbie Hancock, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. In 2003, he toured the West Coast as the second violinist of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble. In 2002, he gave the first performance west of New York City of the Sonata for Solo Violin (1919) by Artur Schnabel. At the age of seventeen, William toured France playing Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 6. He was selected to be one of the very first guests on NPR radio show From the Top. He earned a Bachelor's of Music with highest distinction from Indiana University, where he studied with Ilya Kaler and Mimi Zweig.

A firm believer in outreach concerts, William famously performed for members of the Fighting Sixty-Ninth regiment on September 16, 2001, as they recuperated from a long day of rescue and clean-up work at Ground Zero. As a result, he was a guest on the Judith Regan Show and FOX News Magazine, and his account of the event was reproduced in an award-winning broadcast by WFMT-Chicago. This essay was also published in Chicken Soup for the Soul of America, Reader's Digest, and forty other publications worldwide. While a student at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine, William directed their Saturday Young Musicians Progam and played outreach concerts throughout downeast Maine.

His 43 compositions have received a total of 96 performances. In 2005, "When I Have Fears" for soprano and piano received its premiere at the Wolf Trap Festival in Virginia, with a repeat performance at New York Festival of Song. The Indiana University String Academy commissions him frequently, playing his works for strings all over the mid-western United States, central France, and Japan. William's composition teachers include Samuel Adler and Sven-David Sandstrom.

Born in 1982, William grew up in Indianapolis with his father Jay Harvey, a journalist for the Indianapolis Star; his mother Susan Raccoli, a church musician; and his brother Theodore, currently assistant principal cello of the Charlotte Symphony.

FRANK SHAW, viola

Frank Shaw, violist, is currently pursuing his Graduate Diploma under the tutelage of Martha Strongin Katz at the New England Conservatory. In Boston, he is Mrs. Katz's teaching assistant as well as founding violist of the Brando and Luna String Quartets-New England Conservatory Honors quartets in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Frank attended the Interlochen Arts Academy from 1998 to 2000, where he graduated with honors under the guidance of David Holland. More recently, he graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. A native of Blacksburg, Virginia, Frank began his musical studies on the violin at the age of nine with David Salness, formerly of the Audubon Quartet. Frank has performed throughout the United States, South America and Canada, as well as participated in numerous music festivals, including the Meadowmount School of Music, International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove (U.K.), Taos School of Music, The Audubon Quartet Seminar, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. He has studied viola and chamber music with members of the Audubon, Cleveland, Emerson, Fine Arts, Guarneri, Juilliard, and Takacs String Quartets, among others. Frank also enjoys the culinary arts.

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