 Many Routes to Carnegie: Interharmony International Music Festival Side-by-Side Artist ShowcaseBy: Ellen Jacobs Associates March 8, 2013 - PRLog -- How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Yes. Yes. Yes. But sometimes an airplane would help. As in the case of 13-year-old pianist Miu Ishikawa who is jetting to New York from Tokyo to perform as part of “Side-by-Side Artist Showcase” at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, March 21 at 8pm. The event is a first of its kind.
Produced by InterHarmony International Music Festival, which was founded and directed by cellist Misha Quint, the evening showcases the most gloriously talented students who have participated in the prestigious 12-year-old festival, which takes place in three different European cities each summer. Each festival concludes with an Artist Showcase joining the professional musicians with the best of the participating students. The March 21 concert also joins acclaimed professional musicians with the best of the budding young artists. Seasoned pianist Svetlana Gorokhovich will accompany both 10-year-old Noelle Midori Naito in Antonio Bazzini’s “The Dance of the Goblins” and her 12-year-old brother violinist Kenneth Naito in Manuel de Falla-Kreisler’ The Prelude from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Unaccompanied Cello Suite, No. 3 in C Major” will be played by 14-year-old Hastings-on- The second half of the program includes Chopin’s “Nocturne, No. 4 in F Major, Op. 15” and Toru Takemitsu’s “Rain Tree Sketch,” works played by pianist Etsuko Terada. The evening concludes with a “Side-by-Side” Gingras-Roy and Matthew Pickart, and cellists Misha Quint and Caitlin Quinn McConnell. McConnell, Jeong and Pickart are former students at the Festival. WHERE TO GO Tickets for the March 21 performance are $35, and can be purchased by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800; ARTIST BIOS MISHA QUINT, who graduated from the Leningrad Special School for the Gifted and the Leningrad State Conservatory, made his orchestral debut at the age of 13 after winning first place in the Boccherini Competition in St. Petersburg. Many other prizes and awards followed before he immigrated from Russia to the United States in 1989. Quint has appeared with such celebrated orchestras as Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional do Brasilia, Metropolitan Symphony, New York Chamber Orchestra, National Irish Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Chamber Symphony and London Soloists Chamber Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad State Orchestra, Orchestra of Classical and Contemporary Music as well as with the Symphony Orchestras of Latvia and Georgia. He has worked with an equally illustrious group of conductors including Maxim Shostakovich, Paul Lustig Dunkel, Colman Pearce, Sidney Harth, Ravil Martinov, Camilla Kolchinsky, Yaacov Bergman and Ira Levin. Misha Quint began to create music festivals in Europe in 1997 (the International Cello Festival in Blonay, Switzerland) MARYLÈNE GINGRAS-ROY, a native of Québec City, Canada, joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra viola section in the 1997 season, and in 2004 was promoted to fourth chair. She studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec with Douglas McNabney and François Paradis and graduated in 1993 with unanimous First Prizes in both in viola and chamber music. She was then the recipient of Canada and Québec Arts Councils’ Scholarship Grants, enabling her to attend the Harid Conservatory with Victoria Chiang and received an Artist Diploma in 1997 at the Curtis Institute of Music with Karen Tuttle and Joseph DePasquale. She teaches at Duquesne University and coaches viola for the Three Rivers Young People Orchestra. Marylène has also taught at summer music festivals such as: Domaine Forget, Québec, InterHarmony International Music Festival in Germany and Italy. SVETLANA GOROKHOVICH has performed in international music festivals in Holland, Germany, Italy and New York. She has worked with Misha Quint since 2005. Her latest performances include recitals in Zankel Hall, Weill Recital Hall and Ridotto Music Series. Gorokhovich received her music training in the Kazan State Conservatory and her Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State Conservatory, studying with distinguished professor Tatiana Kravchenko. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1989. Gorokhovich was the 1997 winner of the Bartok-Kabalevsky- ANDRZEJ GRABIEC was a prizewinner at the Fifth International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poland (1967) and the International Jacques Thibaud Violin Competition in Paris, France (1969). An honored graduate and later professor at the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland in 1972, Grabiec immediately became a soloist and Concertmaster of the Polish National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and leader of Capella per Musica da Camera. He has been Concertmaster of the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra in Kansas, and Music Director of the Mozart Festival Chamber Orchestra. Since moving to Houston in 1995, Mr. Grabiec became Professor of Violin at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, and joined the Western Arts Trio. He performed with the Houston Symphony in 1999 and is a founder and Artistic Co-Director of the Virtuosi of Houston. He served as Artistic Director of an extensive Olympic Arts Tour throughout Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific islands as a soloist and conductor in 1999. In 2002 Grabiec performed the world premiere of Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Peter Lieuwen, dedicated to Andrzej Grabiec. He performed under such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Erich Leinsdorf, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutoslawski, Kazimierz Kord, Mark Elder, Erich Bergel, and taught and performed at many summer festivals around the world. ETSUKO TERADA began piano lessons at the age of four in Tokyo, and later when she was 16, she entered the Vienna Academy where she studied with Dieter Weber. After graduating from the Vienna Academy with highest honors she moved to New York City to study with Sascha Gorodnitzky at Juilliard School (post graduate diploma) and later with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University (artist diploma) where she taught as Mr.Pressler’ Ellen Jacobs Associates 611 Broadway Suite 403 New York, NY 10012 USA T: 212.245.5100 F: 212.397.1102 eja@ejassociates.org www.ejassociates.org Photo courtesy of David Milkis. End
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