Enjoy
Princeton
A Musical Vacation
with
Chamber Music
Play Week
Sunday 5 PM to Sunday Noon
13th Annual
--Princeton--
Princeton Chamber Music Play Week is delighted to announce its thirteenth annual Chamber Music Workshop in the Princeton New Jersey area. Play Week offers string players the opportunity to spend eight gratifying days playing chamber music in an informal atmosphere, attending concerts, master classes, greeting old friends and making new ones.
Adult string players of ALL ages, levels and experience are welcome. Existing groups are welcome to attend and may participate as a group or separately. Our music staff will form groups according to the players' instruments and abilities. Each player is accepted on a first come, first served basis; however the right is reserved to limit the number of each kind of instrument and ability level of players to achieve a good working balance.
The goals of the workshop are a well organized, well run, joyous musical vacation; a chance to learn and grow musically; a chance for everyone to perform; and an outstanding musical experience for all.
From Monday through Saturday there will be two scheduled ensembles per day. Ensembles will be formed in two ways: (1) The morning groups will be formed prior to the workshop and remain together for the entire week. Music for these groups is assigned several weeks in advance of the conference. (2) The afternoon groups will be reformed more frequently. Music for the first afternoon groups will be assigned in advance of the conference.
The morning sessions give players an opportunity to focus on one piece of music for an extended period; the afternoons offer the excitement of making new music with different players more often. Both groups will be coached at least fifty percent of the time.
Play Week offers something for everyone, from professionals to those players who are new to chamber music. The music staff will work with participants to improve individual and ensemble performance techniques as related specifically to chamber music. With twelve coached sessions and at least three assigned works, each player has the opportunity to hone their ensemble skills.
There will be ample time for informal groups, participant recitals, staff concerts, master classes, etc. Play Week has an extensive music library.
The playing together and the coaching cover a wide range of chamber music literature from the Classical through the Romantic and Contemporary. The staff will work with participants on the interpretation of musical styles represented in the literature chosen for the ensemble.
Effort will be made to suit the preferences of the players, and to encourage the playing of unfamiliar music. A vacation with music means the enjoyment of the familiar, the excitement of the new and the honing of musical skills.
CHARLES FORBES, 'cellist, is a graduate of Harvard College and the Manhattan School of Music. He studied with Bernard Greenhouse, Maurice Eisenberg and Pablo Casals, among others. He has played principal 'cello in the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Vermont Symphony, and others, He has given four solo recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall and continues to concertize while teaching at the Settlement Music School of Philadelphia. He is a founding and current member of the New York Camerata and performs with the Relache Ensemble and other new music groups in the Philadelphia area. His chief professional interest has always been and continues to be chamber music. He has been on the staff of Play Week since its inception.
DAVID BAKAMJIAN, 'cellist, performs regularly as recitalist, recording artist and with several ensembles. He earned a B.A. from Yale, and Master's, and Doctoral degrees from SUNY Stony Brook. He studied with Timothy Eddy, Bernard Greenhouse, Aldo Parisot and Andor Toth, Jr. As a member of the Casa Verde Trio, Mr. Bakamjian completed six critically acclaimed national tours. The Trio performed at New York's premiere recital halls, on National Public Radio and WQXR Radio, and was a winner or finalist in four international chamber music competitions, including the Naumburg. Mr. Bakamjian has appeared as soloist with the Beijing Symphony. He has been a participant at the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Banff Festival of the Arts, Yale's Norfolk Music Festival, the Spoleto Festival and the Taos School of Chamber Music.
LORI BERKOWITZ, violist, teaches at the Children's Orchestra Society. For may years she taught viola, violin and theory at the Manhattan School of Music where she earned her Master's degree, studying with Raphael Bronstein. She has served as first desk violist in the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski, and principal viola in the Jackson Hole Festival and Symphony of the New World. She now freelances and plays recitals in the New York area; she has been a member of Music Among Friends, Parnassus Chamber Ensemble, Anacrusis and currently Music Alert and Musicians for Peace. She soloed in Bartok's Viola Concerto and the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the Albert Einstein Symphony.
PHILLIP COONCE, violinist, received a Bachelor of Music from the University of New Mexico, and a Master of Music from the State University of New York in Stony Brook. He received his doctorate at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Raphael Bronstein. He has been on the staff of Play Week and Play Week West since their inception. Mr. Coonce was for ten years, and active free lance and chamber musician in the New York area. Currently he lives in Toluca, Mexico where he is Associate Concert Master of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México. He has been concert master of the Spoleto Festival, the Hoboken Chamber Orchestra and the Long Island Opera Society. He has participated in Master Classes with Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Josef Gingold, among others.
MARK PRESTON, violist, was trained as a violinist and switched to the viola at the suggestion of Paul Doctor during graduate studies at the Julliard School. Early violin studies began at age eight; later he entered Northern Illinois University as a scholarship student of Pierre Menard of the Vermeer Quartet, finally attending graduate school at Julliard with Lewis Kaplan. Mr. Preston is the founder of Chamber Music South Bristol and is a founding member of the Da Ponte String Quartet.
MASAKO YANAGITA, violinist, began the violin at age six and later studied with Louis Graeler and William Kroll. In 1966 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. She was presented the Silverstein Prize in Tanglewood during her first summer while studying on a Jascha Heifetz scholarship. She won top honors at the Paganini Competition in Genoa, the Carl Flesch in London and the Munich International. Ms. Yanagita has performed at many chamber music festivals, including Mostly Mozart,. Mohawk Trail Concerts, Caramoor, Madeira and Grand Canyon. She is on the faculty of Mannes College and the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College. She has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Vox-Turnabout and Music Minus One.
The setting for the PLAY WEEK is the beautiful wooded, 375 acre campus of the Lawrenceville School, an almost two hundred year old private preparatory school -- the oldest in the country. Players will be housed in modern dormitories. A short stroll from the living quarters is the modern, comfortable air conditioned dining hall, with our own private carpeted area overlooking the campus. The food, which choice of main dishes and a salad bar, is served cafeteria style.
The campus has many practice/playing rooms, almost all of which are air conditioned, a six lane swimming pool, both indoor and outdoor tennis courts, a golf course, a jogging track and beautiful wooded paths for walking. The main walkways on campus are all paved. The library will be open for browsing.
The Lawrenceville Preparatory School in is Lawrence Township on N.J. Route 206, just 4 miles south of Princeton. The campus can be conveniently reached by car. Bus or train service is available from major cities to Princeton Junction or Trenton. Pickup can be arranged.
Any person having dietary restrictions or needing special accommodations should let us know when completing the registration form. A nurse is on duty during the day, and there are hospitals and walk-in health facilities within minutes of the campus.
TUITION: $580 (double occupancy), $605 (single occupancy); includes room, board, two daily coached sessions, and the use of all facilities.
COMMUTERS: $515; includes complete board, all sessions and facilities, but without sleeping rooms.
DISCOUNT: $25 reduction for playing participants who make full payment before May 1.
GUESTS: $250; for non-playing participants.
REGISTRATION & DEPOSIT; A $150 deposit must accompany all for registration. Deposits not refundable after May 1.
PAYMENT IN FULL: May be made at time of registration, but must be made by May 15 to receive your musical assignments.
QUESTIONS: answered free of charge.
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