Jacques Lee Wood Biography Cellist Jacques Lee Wood has performed around the world as a solo artist, chamber, and orchestral musician. His activities as a performer reflects a varied and broad range of interests. Historical performance on period instruments, commissioning new works for both modern and baroque , improvisation that incorporates live electronics, and composing his own material are just a few of the areas he explores in his creative scope. Dr. Wood is Principal Cello of the Cape Symphony, and is a member of several musical groups including Aston Magna, StringLab, Pedroia Quartet, Triop Klaritas, Antico Moderno, and the NYC-based bluegrass band Cathedral Parkway. He is a frequent guest artist with A Far Cry, House of Time, Yale Schola Cantorum, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Bachsolisten Seoul, Bach Collegium Japan, Juilliard 415, Firebird Ensemble, and the Handel and Haydn Society. A recognized pedagogue, Wood holds faculty positions at the University of New Hampshire, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Milton Academy, and Concord Academy. Because of his diverse musical interests, Dr. Wood is an active guest lecturer and clinician and has presented on a wide-range of topics: from Historical Performance Practice to Music Technology in the Pedagogical Process. Wood is currently on the faculty of the Norfolk Festival (Yale Summer School), Summer Youth Music School (University of New Hampshire), and is a frequent guest artist at the Great Mountains Festival (South Korea), Korea Strings Research Institute, Bari International Music Festival, Banff Centre, Avaloch Farm, Aston Magna, and the Summer Chamber Music Festival. As a recording artist, Wood has released recordings on the Hyperion and Navona labels. Dr. Wood completed his BM at the New England Conservatory of Music under Laurence Lesser, and holds a MM and DMA from , where he studied with Aldo Parisot.

Yuri Mazurkevich

TITLE Professor of Music, Violin EDUCATION Honors Diploma, Artist Diploma, Master’s degree, Moscow Conservatory; studied with David Oistrakh OFFICE 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 423 EMAIL [email protected]

PHONE 617-353-9268

A native of Lviv, Ukraine, Yuri Mazurkevich studied with the legendary David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory, where he received his Master’s degree, Artist’s Diploma and Honors Diploma. A winner in the Helsinki, Munich and Montreal International Competitions, he performed extensively in Europe and the USSR. For his accomplishments as a concert violinist, he was designated “Outstanding Artist of the Ukraine.”

After leaving the USSR in 1975, Mr. Mazurkevich made his highly acclaimed solo debut with Toronto Symphony. Since then he has performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, the USSR, South America, Australia, and Asia. He has worked with many great artists including Sir Andrew Davis, Raphael Hillyer, Igor Markevitch, John Ogdon, Leslie Parnas, William Primrose, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Saulius Sondeckis and Quartet Italiano. Mr. Mazurkevitch is also active as a recitalist. He was the violinist of the Quartet Canada and was the first violinist if the Leontovych Quartet for many years. As the Mazurkevich Duo, he and his violinist wife, Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich, also a prominent student of Oistrakh, have toured numerous countries, receiving high accolades.

He has recorded on Melodiya, Masters of the Bow, SNE, and TNC/Cambria labels, and has been featured on radio and television performances for the BBC, ABC (Australia), CBS, Radio France, Sender Freis Berlin and Radio Moscow. Besides performing a vast repertoire of major concertos and other solo works for violin, he has also premiered and recorded many contemporary works.

Mr. Mazurkevich taught at the Kiev state Conservatory in the USSR, and he is a professor of violin at Boston University where he has taught since 1985. He has participated in numerous summer festivals including Tanglewood Institute, Victoria International Festival, Banff Center for the Arts, Heifetz International Music Institute and various European festivals.