Events for Spring 2010

The events listed on this page are held in the salon of Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, in the Stradivari Music & Arts Center, 30 E. Adams, Suite 1200 (12th floor), Chicago, Illinois 60603.

Callisto Ensemble Concert

The Callisto Ensemble will close its four-concert 2009-10 concert season with Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng's Stream Flows for Solo Violin (1990) performed by Robert Waters; the Chicago premiere of some birthday... for two violas and cello (1992) by prizewinning Australian composer Brett Dean, and the String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97 (1893) by Antonín Dvořák. Guest violist Yukiko Ogura will join Callisto Ensemble for the Dean and the Dvořák. The April 5 concert will conclude the Ensemble's season-long focus on the music of the internationally renowned, prize-winning Australian composer Brett Dean.

Tickets are $20 ($8 for students with ID). Call 312-566-0429 to purchase tickets.

April Master Classes—open to the public

As part of its program offering Chicago-area students string instrument classes, Darnton & Hersh has announced that it will present Steven Doane, professor of cello at the Eastman School of Music, in a master class for advanced cello students on Friday, April 9 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.; and Joseph Silverstein, the Aaron Rosand chair in violin studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, in a class for advanced violin students on Monday, April 12 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Both classes will take place in the Darnton & Hersh salon. Tickets for class observers are $5 and can be purchased by calling 312-566-0429.

Steven Doane

Steven DoaneSteven Doane, a professor of cello at the Eastman School of Music since 1981, studied with Richard Kapuscinski, Bernard Greenhouse, Jane Cowan, and Janos Starker. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and a Master's of Music from SUNY Stony Brook. He currently combines activities as recitalist, concerto soloist, recording artist, and chamber musician, appearing at festivals and on concert series throughout the U.S. and overseas. Doane records for the Bridge record label, for which he earned the Diapason D'or, and his work has been broadcast throughout the United States and Canada, over the BBC in England, and throughout Europe. Additionally, Doane is the recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Piatigorsky Prize in teaching (New England Conservatory), and is a prizewinner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award with New Arts Trio, the Washington International Competition for Strings, the San Francisco Symphony Foundation Competition, and the Piatigorsky Prize at the Berkshire Music Center.

Joseph Silverstein

Joseph SilversteinCurrently the Aaron Rosand chair in violin studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Silverst studied with Josef Gingold, and, at Curtis, with Efrem Zimbalist and Veda Reynolds. After earning his degree from Curtis in 1950, he held positions with the orchestras of Houston, Philadelphia, and Denver, then joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1955 as its youngest player. In 1959 he won third prize (silver medal) in the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and in 1960 he won the Naumburg Award. In 1962 he was appointed concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and he became its assistant conductor in 1971. He served as music director of the Utah Symphony for fifteen years and was named its conductor laureate in 1998. A member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Silverstein performs frequently in New York and has appeared as a soloist and conductor with more than 100 orchestras in the U.S., Japan, Israel, and throughout Europe. He has served on the faculties of Yale and Boston Universities, New England Conservatory, and Tanglewood Music Center, and has recorded for such labels as RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, Delos, CBS, Nonesuch, EMI, and Image. Silverstein joined the Curtis faculty in 2000.

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