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FRIEDEMANN EICHHORN A Master’s Workshop Masterclass and Conversation

SUNDAY, MARCH 21 - SUNDAY, MAY 2 12:00 Chicago / 18:00 / 19:00 Berlin Streaming from PianoForte Chicago on NSCMF.ORG and The Violin Channel

North Shore Festival nstage/offstage nscmf.org FRIEDEMANN EICHHORN A Master’s Workshop Violin Masterclass and Conversation

Students and Repertoire

Masha Lakisova J. S. BACH - Largo and Allegro assai from No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005

Jacqueline Audas MAURICE RAVEL - Tzigane

Julian Rhee - No. 1, in G minor

Masha is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree at the New England Conservatory in the studio of Professor Miriam Fried; Jacqueline is finishing her Master’s Degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in the studio of Professor Paul Kantor; and Julian is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree at the New England Conservatory in the studio of Professor Miriam Fried.

Vadim Gluzman, artistic director Angela Yoffe, executive director

Today's masterclass is produced with special thanks to PianoForte Chicago and The Violin Channel Friedemann Eichhorn, guest artist Masha Lakisova, violin

One of the leading German violinists of his generation, At just nineteen, Chicago violinist Masha Lakisova is fast Friedemann Eichhorn is a regular guest on concert becoming one of the rising stars of her generation and stages around the world. has appeared as a soloist with worldwide. Highlights for the 2021-22 season include She has taken top prizes at prestigious competitions concerts with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the such as the Stulberg and Klein International String Hong Kong Philharmonic under the baton of Christoph Competitions, the Tibor Junior and Andrea Postacchini Eschenbach and with the di Santa Cecilia di International Violin Competitions, National YoungArts, Roma under , CD recordings with the and the Walgreens National Concerto Competition. Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie under Valentin Uryupin, As a member of string quartets at Midwest as well as tours to USA, and Korea. Young Artists Conservatory, Masha won two In past seasons, Friedemann has collaborated with consecutive Gold Medals at the Fischoff International the SWR Radio Orchestra, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Chamber Music Competition. She became the first St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Hamburger Symphoniker, recipient of the Arkady Fomin Scholarship and was Rheinische Philharmonie, Bangkok Symphony and the featured on NPR’s “From the Top,” both as a soloist and Korean Chamber Orchestra and others. As a chamber as a member of various chamber groups, where she musician, Eichhorn has collaborated with Gidon Kremer received the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. and , as a soloist with . Masha currently studies with Miriam Fried at A longtime recording artist for Naxos and New England Conservatory, where she is a recipient Hanssler Classic, Friedemann has recorded 20 violin of the Dean’s Scholarship. She graduated from Julliard concertos and lots of duo and chamber music repertoire Pre-College where she studied with on more than 30 CDs. His recent album of Fazil Say’s and Li Lin, and she has also previously been a student complete violin works (Naxos), recorded together with of Grigory Kalinovsky, Drew Lecher, and Larisa Zhizhin. the composer, the Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie and Masha has taken lessons and masterclasses with such , has received many distinctions prominent virtuosi as Ana Chumachenko, Anne Sophie and was featured with rave critical acclaim. Mutter, Pinchas Zukerman, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Paul Mr. Eichhorn is the artistic director of the Huang, and Augustin Hadelich. She has collaborated . He lives in Weimar, Germany and with Vadim Gluzman, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlin Roussev, enjoys teaching selected students as a professor at the Ilya Kaler, Ani Aznavoorian, Mark Kosower, and University of Music Franz Liszt. Among his students Christopher O’Riley. are many prize winners of international competitions Masha has been involved with many prestigious and members of the , Deutsche summer music festivals. She attended the 2015 Heifetz Oper am Rhein and many radio orchestras, among Music Institute and has been a student at the Perlman them several concertmasters and violin professors. Music Program since 2016. She is the recipient of a Mr. Eichhorn studied with Valery Gradow in violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Turin, 1845 on Mannheim, Alberto Lysy at the Menuhin Academy loan from The Stradivari Society of Chicago thanks to in Switzerland and with Margaret Pardee at the the generosity of her patron, Edward Manzo. Juilliard School New York. He was awarded a PhD in Masha is a 2015 recipient of NSCMF’s Arkady musicology at the University of Mainz. Fomin Scholarship Fund. Jacqueline Audas, violin Julian Rhee, violin

Violinist Jacqueline Audas began studying the violin The first prize winner of the Johansen International at age three. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with Competition in Washington DC, Julian Rhee was also a BM in violin performance from The Shepherd School awarded the Solo Bach, Commissioned Work, and the of Music at Rice University. As the recipient of the Elaine H. Klein Prize at the Irving M. Klein International Winifred and Maurice Hirsch Memorial Scholarship, String Competition. In 2019, he was named the winner she is currently pursuing her master’s degree in violin of the Aspen Music Festival Violin Concerto Competition performance at Rice, with the renowned Professor and was a Finalist of the 2018 National YoungArts Paul Kantor. Before entering college, she studied Foundation. He has appeared at the John F. Kennedy with the late Arkady Fomin who was a member of the Center as a Presidential Scholars in the Arts and received Dallas Symphony and the director of the New Dallas his medal at the White House. Conservatory. Julian made his Milwaukee Symphony debut at At the age of 14, Jacqueline made her solo age 8 and has gone on to perform with orchestras such as debut with the Meridian Symphony after winning the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Symphony their young artist competition. In recent years, she has Orchestra, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Madison appeared as a soloist with the Shepherd School of Symphony Orchestra, the Avanti Symphony Orchestra, Music Symphony Orchestra, the Texas Medical Center West Suburban Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Orchestra, the Boise Philharmonic, the Music in the Philharmonic, the Lacrosse Symphony Orchestra, the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the McCall Summerfest Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and most recently, the Orchestra, and the Walla Walla Symphony. Audas has San Diego Symphony. He has performed at Ravinia’s collaborated with a number of conductors including Bennett Gordon Hall, Heinz Hall, the Overture Center Guillermo Figueroa, Robert Franz, Yaakov Bergman, for the Arts, Teatro El Círculo in Rosario, , the and Libi Lebel. Musikverein in Vienna, Bartok Hall in Hungary, New She has performed in masterclasses for Vadim World Center, and the John F. Kennedy Center. Gluzman, Ivry Gitlis, Chaim Taub, Ida Kavafian, Grigory A passionate chamber musician, Julian’s Kalinovsky, Arnold Steinhardt, Sergey Ostrovsky, and performance on violin and viola earned him and his Rachel Barton Pine, among others. She attended the String Quartet first prize in the 2018 A.N. & Pearl G. Keshet Eilon Mastercourse in in 2015 and 2017, Barnett Chamber Music Competition and Rembrandt the Sommermusik im Oberen Nagoldtal in Germany in Chamber Music Competition, Gold Medals at the 2017, and the Aspen Music Festival in 2016 and 2018. Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the Jacqueline is a 2017 recipient of NSCMF’s M-Prize International Chamber Arts Competition. Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund. Julian studied with Almita and Roland Vamos as a scholarship recipient at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. He is a graduate of Brookfield East High School as Class President and Valedictorian. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory. Julian is a 2020 recipient of NSCMF’s Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund.