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Thank you for another fantastic year of the Music Institute!
2009 Music Institute coming June 14-22nd |
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For the Development of Personal Style
in memory of Jascha Heifetz
June 15-22, 2008
at Shady Side Academy
423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 |
Celebrating the Musical Partnership of
Walter Hendl and Jascha Heifetz
Dedicated To The Tradition of The Great Masters Whose Distinct Musical Personalities Were Instantly Recognizable Trademarks
A performer’s personal style is comprised of those special qualities that distinguish one artist from another. Too often in today’s musical education, there is a conspicuous absence of meaningful focus on the development of an individual sound, a palette of colors, a depth of interpretation, and other ingredients, which combine to define a unique musical artist. The Music Institute is devoted to this special level of musical understanding.
“So much good occurs: The intense study of style, musicianship and techniques from masters of their instruments, the Heifetz connection and memories, hearing new repertoire, observing others learning, and meeting other players with the same passions”
- N.L. Portland Oregon
The Fifteenth Annual Music Institute Gala Opening Night Faculty Concert
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 at 7pm
 Download Program
Please Join Us For The Following Institute Events:
All events open to the public at Shady Side Academy, Hillman Center for the Performing Arts, Fox Chapel.
Daily classes: 9:00am-12:30pm and 2:00pm-5:30pm
Daily guest presentations: 2:00pm
$10 per session
TBA: David Liebmann
"Music of the Birds - Avian Bioacoustics"
Early morning bird-walk
Monday: Claire Hodgkins
“Jascha Heifetz Practice Routine”
Tuesday: Roy Sonne
“Building Musical Artistry” - Kreisler’s Music
Tuesday 3:15pm: Liz Seidel
“Getting to Know the Piano”
Wednesday: Richard O. Price
“The Music of Poetry”
Thursday 9am: Don Freund
“Transcription, A Lost Art”
Thursday: Sidney Harth
“The Violinist & Pianist as Conductor”
Friday: Sherry Kloss
“The Unaccompanied Transcription: Nathan Milstein’s
”Paganiniana”
Final Participants Concerts:
Saturday June 21, 2008 - 7:00pm
Sunday June 22, 2008 - 3:00pm
Donation
Faculty:
Sherry Kloss
 Former master teaching associate of Jascha Heifetz, recording artist, concert violinist, music reviewer and author, Miss Kloss is the heiress to the Heifetz-Tononi violin and co-founder of Jascha Heifetz Society. Her recordings, "Forgotten Gems", "Lost and Found Treasures of the Heifetz Legacy" vol. I & II, and her book, "Jascha Heifetz Through My Eyes", have placed her in the forefront of the musical world today. In 1998 and 2004, Country Commissioners issued proclamations recognizing her achievements as a prominent Pittsburgh artist. She has held University Professorships in Australia, California, and Indiana.
Don Freund
 Pittsburgh native, Don Freund has composed over 100 performed works, ranging from solo, chamber, and orchestral music to pieces involving live performance with electronic instruments, music for dance and large theatre works; also active as a pianist, conductor, and lecturer, his numerous awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. A prolific artist, with more than a dozen CD releases of his compositions, and conductor or pianist in the performance of some two hundred new pieces, he has been Professor of Composition at the Indiana University School of Music since 1992.
Claire Hodgkins
 Concert violinist, educator and founder of the Chanterelle Chamber Music Festival, (Vienna, Switzerland and California), Ms. Hodgkins has been a faculty member of five Southern California Universities. Her chamber orchestras toured extensively throughout the West Coast and Scandinavia. Former pupil of Jascha Heifetz and teaching associate for 14 years, she is the Founder of Jascha Heifetz Society.
Gerald Robbins
 Piano soloist, chamber musician, conductor, recording artist, and educator, Mr. Robbins has performed in virtually every major music center of the world. Championing neglected romantic repertoire, he has recorded on the Black Box, Cala, Koch, London-Decca, Orion and 4-Tay labels. At UCS, he assisted in the Master-classes of Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and William Primrose. Co-founder of the Lyric Piano Quartet at Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music, he is on the faculties of Hoff-Barthelson and Manhattan Schools of Music in New York.
Liz Seidel
 Pianist, chamber musician and educator, Liz Seidel is founder and artistic director of Pianoforte Inc, She has held adjunct university positions, served on the Board of the Indiana Music Teachers Association and maintains a highly successful piano studio in Indiana with state and national winners.
Guests:
Sidney Harth
 Treasured violinist, conductor, educator, recording artist, concertmaster or the Louisville, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, Mr. Harth was the first American to be awarded the Laureate Prize at the Wieniawski Competition in Poland at the height of the Cold War. He was a pupil of Joseph Knitzer, Georges Enescu and Michel Piastro, who was a pupil of Leopold Auer.
Elaine Skorodin
 With an illustrious career as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and educator, Ms. Skorodin has performed with the orchestras of Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, National and St. Louis. Touring extensively throughout Europe after capturing a major prize in the Paganini Violin Competition, her programs included many premieres of American compositions. She was a student in the very first Jascha Heifetz Master class at UCLA.
Roy Sonne
 Violinist, pianist, conductor, jazz violinist and teacher, Roy Sonne was a member of the first violin section of the Pittsburgh Symphony for 28 years. He maintains a large private teaching studio and is affiliated with both Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne Universities. He was a pupil of Raphael Bronstein, Vladimir Graffman, and Jascha Fishberg, who were all students of Leopold Auer.
Walter Hendl
 Walter Hendl was a musician's musician who impacted the world as a concert pianist, conductor, composer, transcriber and educator. Among the leading conductors of his era, a pupil of Fritz Reiner and Serge Koussevitsky, he was associated with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Chicago, NBC, Erie and the Chautauqua Symphonies. Walter Hendl studied the piano at the Curtis Institute with Josef Hofmann and David Saperton, and later served on the 1996 piano jury for the 3rd Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow. Director of the Eastman School of Music from 1964, he was appointed conductor and teaching faculty at the Juilliard School in 1974. In addition to concert performances with Jascha Heifetz, there are the unforgettable collaborative recordings of the Glazunov Concerto, (RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra in 1963), and the Miklos Rozsa Concerto (Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1956). We honor the memory of this esteemed American artist.
Louis Lev
Louis Lev, Violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, is a graduate of Yale and the University of Michigan. He has served as concertmaster of the Haifa Symphony, Israel, and as Principal 2nd Violin with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He performs in international music festivals and plays a 1855 J.B. Viullaume violin.
David Premo
Associate Principal Cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Artist-Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Premo is a native of Chicago and former pupil of Margaret Evans, Robert Newkirk and Janos Starker. He has performed in leading orchestral positions in Washington D.C., and with the Wolf Trap Festival as chamber musician and soloist on his 1860 J.B. Vuillaume cello.
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