THIS IS AN AMATEUR ALERT!!!!!!

Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival of Blue Hill, Maine and Paul Wolfe of Sarasota, Florida have joined forces and are sponsoring an Amateur new Year's Festival in Sarasota December 27 - 31.

The enrollment is limited to just 50 musicians (piano, violin, viola and cello); preformed groups are encouraged to attend. So come by yourself, with your octet, quintet, whatever - just come. Your time will include morning playing in assigned groups, afternoons of mixed groups including octets, sextets and quintets, master classes and a performance by the coaches. New Year's Eve we will start playing Haydn quartets in the morning, break for dinner and continue until midnight and then we'll celebrate together with an elegant dessert buffet.

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC with some sun, a white, shell-filled beach, golf or tennis and more MUSIC. Won't you join us for the best New Year's celebration you'll ever have?

Coaches will be:

Barbara Mallow is a cellist and pianist and a graduate of the Yale School of Music where she was a student of Luigi Silva; further studies were with Bernard Greenhouse and Zara Nelsova. She has performed widely as a chamber musician and soloist and was a guest performer at the Aspen Music Festival for many summers. Mrs. Mallow established the cello and chamber music program at the East Hampton Summer Institute and is currently vice president of the New York Violoncello Society. She is on the faculties of Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and the Mannes College.

Cellist George Sopkin, a pupil of Emmanuel Feuermann, began his career as one of the youngest members of the Chicago Symphony. He was a founding member of the fine Arts Quartet. In 1979 Mr. Sopkin resigned from the quartet and retired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as distinguished Professor Emeritus. In 1997 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University. He has lived in Maine since 1979 and is currently a faculty member at Kneisel Hall and is a member of the New England Piano Quartette.

Violinist Paul Wolfe is the co-founder of the Sarasota Music Festival, conductor of the Festival Orchestras, and Violinist in the Florida String Quartet. For 35 years, Maestro Wolfe was Artistic Director and conductor of Florida West Coast Symphony, Inc. He is a former board member and chairman of the Education committee of chamber Music America and received chamber Music America's 1995 Citation for Excellence in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the development of chamber music in America.

The other faculty (violist & pianist) to be announced. If you are interested in joining us for five days of dedicated and joyous music making in sunny Sarasota Florida, ($600 for tuition and lunches and the New Year's Haydn Orgy) please write to:

Kneisel Hall Amateur Chamber Music Institute
New Year's Festival
P.O. Box 648
Blue Hill, Maine 04614

and remember KEEP VIBRATING !!!!!!!!!!

Seymour Lipkin, Artistic Director
Ellen Werner, Executive Director
PO Box 648
Blue Hill, Maine 04614
Facsimilie and Telephone 207 374 2811
kneisel@hypernet.com