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I ,11--2-.-1)5 0`(- _ PRD 1 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC for , SCOTT NICKRENZ (violist) is Music Director Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa. Mr. Lesser 9gs 00-377 BAM's Chamber Music Series. He divides his has appeared as a soloist with the Boston .0! time between New York and Hartford, where he Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, is chairman of the string department of the the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other major University of Hartford. orchestras. He has appeared at the Casals, Together with his wife, flutist Paula Marlboro, Charleston, and Spoleto Festivals, Robison, he directs chamber music for the as well as London's South Bank Summer Music ff ar Spoleto Festivals, both in the United States Festival, and has been a frequent guest at the and Italy. Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in New Long a performer in his own right, Mr. York. He has recorded with Columbia, Nickrenz attended the Curtis Institute and was Melodiya, and Desto. 4j. a founding member of both the Lenox and Mr. Lesser was a Visiting Professor at the Vermeer Quartets. While he was a member of Eastman School of Music in 1980 and was the Claremont Quartet he formed the New appointed President of the New England Chamber Quintet and later created the Quartet Conservatory of Music in 1983. series at the University of Chicago. He also began the Chamber Series at Northwestern University. Mr. Nickrenz has appeared extensively in 1 concerts in the United States and all over the SEYMOUR LIPKIN (pianist) won first prize in world. He has played with the Music from the Rachmaninoff Piano Competition in 1948. A Marlboro tours, the Casals, Aldeburgh, and graduate of the Curtis Institute, he studied Spoleto Festivals. He has appeared frequently with Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln David Saperton. Center and performs and tours regularly with Mr. Lipkin has performed repeatedly with the Orpheus Trio. the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and St. Louis Symphonies, among others, under LAURENCE LESSER (cellist), a native of Los the direction of conductors such as Munch, Angeles, studied with Gregor Piatigorsky at Steinberg, Reiner, Ormandy, Koussevitsky, and the University of Southern California after Snell. He recorded the Stravinsky Piano completing a degree in mathematics at Harvard, Concerto with Leonard Bernstein and the New where he was graduated cum laude with Phi Beta York Philharmonic. He has also performed at Kappa. He had studied earlier with Gasper New York's 92nd Street Y, Orchestra Hall in Cassado in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. He Detroit, and at the Spoleto Festivals in Italy was a prize winner in the 1966 Tchaikovsky and the United States. Competition in Moscow and was a guest He studied conducting with Serge performer in the historic Heifetz-Piatigorsky Koussevitsky at Tanglewood and served as concerts and recordings. Before his departure apprentice to George Sian in Cleveland. He to the faculty of Baltimore's Peabody toured Europe and Russia with the New York Institute in 1970, he was a leading figure in Philharmonic, which he also served as the Los Angeles musical scene. In 1976 he Associate Conductor. gave the first performance of Nenotti's "Fantasia" (written for him under a Ford Foundation grant) with the New Japan CHAMBER MUSIC a About The Artists DAWN UPSHAW (soprano) was the winner of the JOSEPH SWENSEN (violinist) made his 1984 Young Artists International Auditions. In sensational Vienna orchestral debut in March 1985, she was presented in the Young November 1984. So remarkable was his New York Series in Washington, D.C. Lepercm Space Concert Artists and debut in March 1982 that in reviewing the made her New York recital debut at the 92nd recital, The New York Times said, " Mr. Saturday, March 23, 1985 at 8:30 pm Street Y. In 1984, Miss Upshaw was selected Swensen's account of the Bartok (solo sonata) Sunday, March 24, 1985 at 2:00 pm for the Young Artists Development Program at was prodigious, and his playing throughout the the Metropolitan Opera and was a finalist in program left the impression of exceptional the Eastern Regional Metropolitan Opera talent...The young violinist displayed Auditions. At the Met she has sung in "Simon awesome control of intonation and dynamics." SCOTT NICKRENZ, Music Director Boccanegra", "Elektra", and "Rigoletto" and In 1984-85, his performances include debuts will tour with the company this spring. Miss in Munich, Paris, Prague, and Vienna, as well Upshaw recently performed Barber's as tours in Switzerland and appearances with "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" in New York City the Scottish National Orchestra. Following his with the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble conducted DAWN UPSHAW, soprano SCOTT NIOKRENZ,9iola London debut in February with the Scottish JOSEPH SWENSEN, violin LAURENCE LESSER, cello by Gunther Schuller. She will be heard this Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mr. Swensen SEYMOUR LIPKIN, piano summer at the Wolf Trap Summer Festival and appears as guest artist with the Chamber Music the Brattleboro Music Festival. Society of Lincoln Center and in recital at Miss Upshaw is the recipient of the Paul A. New York's 92nd Street Y. As soloist, he will String Trio in G major, Op 53 Haydn Fish Memorial Prize of Young Concert Artists, play with the Orchestre de Allegretto ed innecente (1)32-18099 Lyon and the Czech Presto as well the Minna Kaufman Ruud Philharmonic, among others. He will also Distinguished s Performers Award. She will perform in Frankfurt, at the Concertgebouw in Fruhlingsglaube Shubert appear as soloist in Bach's "B Minor Mass" Amsterdam, and with the Baroque Orchestra of Roman. (1797-1828) with the Handel and Haydn Oratorio Society Berlin. Die Forella of Boston, and as winner of the Chamber Orchestra Mr. Swensen made his European debut with Die Lotos Blume Schumann of New England's 1984 Concerto Prize, will the Copenhagen Philharmonic in 1980. Er Ist's (1810-1856) perform with that orchestra in its 1985-86 Thereafter he invited to perform in a season. chamber concertwas with Issac Stern at Carnegie To Her Rachmaninoff Miss Upshaw earned her Bachelor's degree Hall honoring the Maestro's 60th birthday. The Pied Piper (1873-1943) A Dream from Illinois Weslyan University as a student Subsequent engagements included performances of David Nott, and her Master's degree from with the Montreal Symphony and the St. Louis -Intermission the Manhattan School of Music, where she Symphony, and a 13-concert tour with the studied with Ellen Faull. Rochester Philharmonic under the baton of Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 87 Dvorak Zinman, Allegro confioro (1841-1904) David which marked his Kennedy Center Lento debut. In 1982, Mr. Swensen was the recipient Allegretto moderato, grazioso of the first Avery Fisher Career Grant Award. Allegro va non troppo Born in 1960, the native New Yorker began his violin studies at the age of five and gave his first public performance in New York two years later. By age thirteen he had won competitions at the Aspen Festival and the BAM's Chamber Music Series is supported by funds from Juilliard School, Abraham 6 Straus/Federated Department Stores, Inc., the where he studied with Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the National Endowment for Dorothy Delay. In 1978, Mr. Swensen was the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and awarded the Sponsorship by the Leventritt the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Foundation. Broadcasts on WNYC-FM 94 and stations of the American Public Radio Network are sponsored by Bankers Trust Company. The BAM facility is owned by the City of New York and its operation is supported in part with public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. .