Thursday, October 29, 2015
10 am till 1 PM
Room 108
Master class and a performance by Joseph Silverstein, violin
"J.S.Bach and More"
Internationally acclaimed conductor and violinist JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN has appeared with hundreds of orchestras in the United States, as well as the Far East, Israel and Europe. In an impressive solo career, he has performed with the orchestras of Geneva, Jerusalem, Brussels, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Rochester.
As a participant in major international competitions, he was the Silver medallist in the 1959 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, and also won the Walter W. Naumburg Award in 1960.
Recognized throughout the musical world as one of the foremost violinists of our day, Joseph Silverstein has served as a concertmaster of the Boston Symphony for 22 years and and, in the view of many, established himself as the "quintessential" concertmaster.
A former faculty member of the New England Conservatory, Yale University, and Boston University, he is presently on the faculties of the Tanglewood Music Center and The Curtis Institute of Music.
Mr. Silverstein has recorded extensively for RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, CBS, Nonesuch, New World Records, Telarc and Pro Arte. His Telarc recording of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with the Boston Symphony Orchestra received a Grammy nomination.
http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/artists/artist/joseph_silverstein
For more information, contact: Solomiya Ivakhiv at Solomiya.Ivakhiv@uconn.edu