Ronan Lefkowitz Born in Oxford, England, Ronan Lefkowitz joined the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra in 1976. Mr. Lefkowitz is a graduate of Brookline High School and Harvard College. His most notable teachers included Gerald Gelbloom, Max Rostal, Luise Vosgerchian, Joseph Silverstein, and Szymon Goldberg. While in high school he was con- certmaster of and a frequent soloist with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was also concertmaster of the Interna- tional Youth Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. In 1972 Mr. Lefkowitz won the Gingold- Silverstein Prize at the Tan- glewood Music Center, where he is now a part-time faculty mem- ber. In 1984 he helped establish and endow the Gerald Gelbloom Fellowship for a student of violin at the Tanglewood Music Center. Also in 1984 he was featured on the PBS televi- sion program "Evening at Pops" as a soloist with three of his Boston Symphony colleagues in a performance of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins. In 1986 Mr. Lefkowitz joined the contemporary music group Collage. The following summer he performed the American pre- miere of Witold Lutos/awski's Chain 2 for violin and chamber orchestra as part of the annual Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood; as a result, he was invited to per- form the piece on this week's Boston Symphony concerts under the composer's direction. Most recently, Mr. Lefkowitz has been involved with the Terezin Chamber Music Founda- tion, directed by BSO colleague Mark Ludwig, which seeks to find, perform, and record music written in the early 1940s by such composers as Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, , and during their internment at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Last month Mr. Lefkowitz recorded two compact discs of chamber music by Arthur Foote and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for Koch International with Harold Wright, Virginia Eskin, and the Hawthorne , of which he is first violinist, and which will tour Europe in January with Terezin Foundation repertoire. Mr. Lefkowitz has recently partici- pated in two concerts with Yo-Yo Ma: a benefit at Harvard last spring for Philips Brooks House, and a Tanglewood performance of the Ives Piano Trio with Gilbert Kalish this past summer.

DREAMS AND SCHEMES Conducted by David Hoose collage November 12, 1990 new music Longy School of Music, Cambridge

Jan Swafford They Who Hunger*

Luciano Berio Sequenza for Solo Voice Andrew Imbrie Dream Sequence* Henri Lazarof Divertimento**

'Boston Premiere 'World Premiere

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