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Former Scholarship Student Performs with The Park Avenue Chamber SymphonyStefan Sanderling Announced as Music Director
Former Scholarship Student Performs with The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Graciela Arguedas-Herrera, 18 year-old Mannes Preparatory student of Richard Shirk and a former scholarship recipient at Chautauqua's School of Performing Arts, appeared as soloist with David Bernard conducting the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony on October 24, 2007 at the Skirball Center of the Arts. The program featured Ms. Arguedas-Herrera in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467 and included a special performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.
Founded in 1999 and now recognized as one of the finest non-professional ensembles in New York City, The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony combines professional-level music making with a philanthropic mission to support public service organizations operating within New York City.
Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) members combine successful business careers with considerable accomplishment in music. Members of the orchestra include investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, the Summerset Group and Morgan Stanley, as well as business executives with the Associated Press, Alliance Bernstein, American Express, Bank of America, Sony BMG Records, DB Marketing Technologies, the operations department of the New York Philharmonic, the New York Times, Daddario Strings Company, Pfizer, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Healthbridge RG Niederhoffer Capital Management, and Andrew Marc. Our members are doctors, medical researchers, technology consultants, architects, museum executives, music teachers, marketing specialists, conservatory professors, and culinary and hotel services managers. Several are judicial law clerks and attorneys at law firms, while others are officials in City and State government agencies. Park Avenue Chamber Symphony members include alumni of the Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard, Hartt School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Mannes College of Music, Oberlin College, as well as former members of professional orchestras.
Photo (c) 2007 The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Chautauqua and Steinway & Sons Announce Historic Partnership
The famed Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, has been accepted into the prestigious company of All-Steinway Piano Festivals. Now linked with such renowned Summer Music Festivals as Aspen, Brevard and Tanglewood that choose only Steinway designed pianos for their programming, the Chautauqua Institution’s Schools of Fine & Performing Arts will now offer its students, faculty and internationally acclaimed artists the opportunity to study, practice and perform exclusively on Steinway designed pianos.
Marty W. Merkley, vice president and director of programming for the Chautauqua Institution, commented in a letter to Steinway dignitaries in their Long Island City, New York office, and members of Steinway’s local dealer representative, Denton, Cottier & Daniels of Buffalo, New York, which will be facilitating all of the arrangements for installing the Family of Steinway Designed Pianos on site, that "Chautauqua is thrilled and honored to be included in the Steinway family. This relationship with Steinway along with the completion of over $7 million in improvements to our school of music campus, places Chautauqua among the leading summer festival programs."
Jim Trimper, Sr., president of Denton, Cottier & Daniels, and Michelle Wlosinski, vice president, will be working closely with Mr. Merkley, his administrative and piano technical staffs under the direction of Bruce Fellows, in the final selection of models and placement of pianos during the 2008 nine-week summer programs. A total of 41 new Family of Steinway Designed Pianos will be available on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution for use during the festival. The historic partnership will further be recognized in all Chautauqua Institution programs and publications with the printed captions "The Chautauqua Institution uses Steinway Pianos exclusively for its Festival Season" and "The Family of Steinway Designed Pianos in service at the Chautauqua Institution are facilitated by Denton, Cottier & Daniels, Buffalo, New York".
Steinway & Sons, One Steinway Place, Long Island City, New York, is recognized throughout the world for its superior quality and has long been acknowledged as a leader in technical development of the piano. The Steinway piano has been handcrafted in New York for over 154 years and its name has become synonymous with quality. The Steinway piano has won international recognition from the most distinguished pianists and musical artists. The Steinway piano is the choice of over 98 percent of piano soloists performing with symphony orchestras. The Family of Steinway Designed Pianos includes the Boston and Essex piano brands.
The Boston piano offers a full line of grand and upright pianos that blend the incomparable design experience of Steinway & Sons with the efficiencies of high technology production. Boston pianos can be found at leading music institutions around the world. The Essex piano is also designed by Steinway engineers and manufactured to exacting Steinway specifications providing a piano with rich sound and inspired cabinetry at an affordable price.
Denton , Cottier & Daniels, located in Getzville, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, with a second location in East Rochester, New York, was founded in 1827 and in 2007 celebrates 180 years of continuing service to the music and educational communities of greater Western New York State. Denton’s was appointed as a Steinway & Sons Dealer on March 18, 1860, and has been recognized as the oldest Steinway & Sons retail dealer.
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Stefan Sanderling Announced as Music Director
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce that Stefan Sanderling has accepted the Institution’s invitation to become the new music director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Sanderling stated, "I am honored and excited to become the new music director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Since my first appearance with this great orchestra, I have been taken by their wonderful music making, their commitment to excellence and their extraordinary camaraderie. If there is one place in the world where the utopia of a true synthesis of the arts, philosophy, religion and education can become reality , this place is Chautauqua. I am thrilled to be a part of the Chautauqua Institution and look forward to my first season in the summer of 2008."
Marty W. Merkley, vice president and director of programming, added, "Stefan is a wonderful fit for Chautauqua and the CSO. He is very enthusiastic about the position, anxious to begin and committed to Chautauqua and the orchestra. He is an excellent musician, wonderful with audiences and has a terrific sense of humor."
The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1929 at the Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York State. The orchestra is in residence for eight weeks of the Institution’s nine-week summer festival. The CSO performs 19 orchestra concerts, accompanies two ballet programs and four operas. The members of the orchestra come from cities and orchestras across the United States and three foreign countries.
German-born Sanderling is also music director of The Florida Orchestra in Tampa/St. Petersburg and principal conductor of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Since his North American debut at the 1989 Tanglewood Summer Music Festival, Sanderling has quickly risen to the top of the young generation of German conductors. He has conducted such prestigious North American orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and the orchestras of Indianapolis, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Buffalo, to name a few.
Receiving his early artistic inspiration from his parents, Sanderling studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Kurt Masur. He then moved to the United States to continue his studies at the University of Southern California. He also attended the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, winning several awards, and Tanglewood, where he worked with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin and Yuri Termikanov.
Celebrated for his interpretation of the music of Shostakovich, Sanderling has conducted across Europe, leading such legendary orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra (Salzburg), Prague Symphony, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Staatskapelle, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Bamberg Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Berliner Sinfonie Orchester and Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn among many others. He has also guest conducted the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Komische Oper Berlin.
During the past several seasons, Sanderling made his debuts in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and in Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. His highly successful appearances with the NHK Symphony of Tokyo continue on a regular basis, and he also appeared in Japan with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Osaka Philharmonic as well as the Super World Orchestra Tokyo.
He has appeared several times with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with whom he has recorded the complete symphonies of Honneger for the Naxos label.
Sanderling made his first recording on the Sony Classics label with the London Symphony Orchestra. Three highly acclaimed recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have been released on the RPO label, featuring symphonies by Haydn and Mendelssohn. He has recorded the complete Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suites with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland on the Naxos label. Most recently, he completed several discs of works by the French composers Gretry, Ladmirault, Gossec, and Mehul on the ASV label with the Orchestre de Bretagne.
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