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2008 RISING STARS PROGRAM
                                         

Rising Stars - Distinguished ArtistsConcerts - Supporting the Rising Stars Program

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Photos from these concerts are available for purchase from our house photographer Gabe Palacio

The development of emerging artists is an essential part of the mission of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. In 1991, Will Crutchfield gathered together young singers and began producing opera in the Music Room. The following year, then Artistic Director André Previn initiated the Rising Stars Program by inviting eight young instrumentalists to join distinguished artists for a week of chamber music activities. Shortly thereafter, Misha Dichter and Peter Oundjian began conducting master classes as part of the annual summer International Music Festival. Through these programs Caramoor has identified some of the finest musicians of the next generation and helped them cross the threshold from their student years into the early stages of their professional careers.

Now in its seventeenth year, the Rising Stars Program is led by Co-Directors Peter Oundjian and Pamela Frank,
who search for young musicians with the talent, personality, and musicality to best benefit from this program and place them in ensembles for an intense week of rehearsals and coaching sessions. This year, the Co-Directors are assisted by Distinguished Artists: Atar Arad and Ronald Thomas, who mentor and coach the young musicians and perform with them in the ensembles.

Following their participation in these workshops, the Rising Stars have been invited to return to Caramoor to give recitals in the Music Room and to participate in the Festival. As the years have passed, alumni of the Rising Stars Program have begun to establish themselves in the world of classical music performance, building reputations and making connections with audiences around the world.

These return visits have been fulfilling for all involved and prompted the question of what to call this ever growing body of Rising Stars alumni. The answer came during the concluding week of the 1999 Festival, when 24 Rising Stars came together under the name Caramoor Virtuosi.  The Virtuosi are now the resident ensemble for one week of the Festival every year and perform concerts in both the fall and spring during the Caramoor Indoors series.

THE 2008 RISING STARS:

Tessa Lark, violin   bio    Emily Deans, viola   bio 
 Laura Lutzke, violin   bio Dimitri Murrath, viola   bio
   David McCarroll, violin   bio
Dmitry Kouzov, cello   bio
   Arnaud Sussmann, violin   bio   Yu-Wen Wang, cello   bio

THE 2008 DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS:

 
 

 
 
 
 

 Pamela Frank, violin  bio
Co-Director for Rising  Stars

 Atar Arad, viola bio
Distinguished Artist
 Ronald Thomas, cello bio
Distinguished Artist

2008 CONCERTS:
NOVEMBER  1  RISING STARS I
Saturday, 7:30pm ~ Music Room
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Bach                  Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 
Schoenberg  Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 
Schubert  Quintet in C Major for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 163, D.  956 

NOVEMBER 2  RISING STARS II
Sunday, 4:00pm ~ Music Room
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HaydnQuartet No. 23 in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5, Hob. III:35
Beethoven Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 (Razumovsky)
Mendelssohn Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18

The Fall 2008 Indoors season is made possible, in part, through funding from Floy and Amos Kaminski.
  

SUPPORTING THE RISING STARS PROGRAM
Caramoor relies on special gifts both to its Endowment and Annual Fund to support the Rising Stars Program. This unique endeavor is made possible only by contributions from donors who recognize the important work Caramoor is doing to identify and nurture the next generation of artists. Gifts of any size are welcome to support the Rising Stars Program. For more information about creating a named Endowment Fund or about giving to the Annual Fund for Rising Stars, please call Elisabeth Saxe, Director of Development, at 914.232.3681.

                                 

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