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Cello Plus Dates and performers: Wednesday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 20, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 22, 3 p.m.
Tickets: Tickets for each concert are $9, $7 for senior citizens, and free for students and those under 18, and can be purchased at the MSU College of Music or at the door 30 minutes before each performance. For more information, call (517) 432-5253. New shuttle service available: Concertgoers can take advantage of a new service, the Vivace Shuttle, which will run from the campus' Grand River Avenue Parking Ramp (across from Barnes & Noble in East Lansing) to the Music Building every10 minutes before and after each Cello Plus concert. Riders will gather at the campus/southeast side of the parking ramp. $2 per person. To reserve a spot on the shuttle, riders can call Charlene Wagner at (517) 432-5154. MSU College of Music faculty, students, and ensemble performers Suren Bagratuni, professor of cello and co-chair of the string area, has won international competitions, including the silver medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition. He performs recitals and concertos with major orchestras and conducts master classes worldwide. Dmitri Berlinsky, associate professor of violin, took first prize in the Paganini International Violin Competition (Italy), and was the winner of the Montreal International Violin Competition, the Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. He has performed with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, Asia, and North and South America. Jack Budrow, associate professor of double bass and chair of the string area, has been a member of the Houston Symphony, and principal bass of the North Carolina Symphony, Santa Fe Opera, and the American National Opera orchestras. Budrow teaches at Interlochen Center for the Arts and Indiana University each summer and serves on the board of directors of the International Society of Double Bassists. Victor Coo, a DMA candidate in cello performance, has performed at festivals and with groups worldwide. He recently performed with the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra and won the Casadesus Prize at the Ecole d'Art Americanes de Fontainebleau, France. Lin Foulk, assistant professor of horn at Western Michigan University, is a member of the internationally recognized Western Brass Quintet. She has performed with Boston Brass, Monarch Brass, the Fontana Chamber Ensemble, and regularly performs with the Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, and Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestras. Yuri Gandelsman, professor of viola, was principal violist for both the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber and the Israel Philharmonic orchestras and has performed solo recitals around the world. He was professor of viola at the Rubin Academy at Tel Aviv University and performed more than 300 concerts worldwide as a member of the Fine Arts Quartet. Ilya Kaler, professor of violin at DePaul University School of Music, was born in Moscow and is the only violinist ever to win gold medals at all three of the world's most prestigious competitions, the Tchaikovsky, the Sibelius, and the Paganini competitions. Kaler's solo recitals have taken him throughout Europe, Scandinavia, East Asia, and the former Soviet Union. Michael Kroth, associate professor of bassoon, has earned a reputation as an excellent solo, chamber, and orchestra musician, having performed recitals and concerts throughout the United States and Germany. He is currently principal bassoon with the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, a Faculty Artist at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and second bassoon at the Peninsula Music Festival. Elsa Ludwig-Verdehr, professor of clarinet, has performed at numerous clarinet congresses and as a soloist in the U.S. and abroad. She has made annual national and international tours with the Verdehr Trio, including performances in Europe, Canada, Central and South America, Asia, and Australia. Massimiliano Mainolfi, associate professor of the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute in Italy, is also director of the International Academy of Music and chamber music supervisor at the Summer Music Festival. Mainolfi won several national and international competitions as a young pianist and at the age of 17, was awarded first prize at the P. Denza International Piano Competition in Italy. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, recently performing in Geneva, Bern, Munich, Stuttgart, and Berlin. Deborah Moriarty, professor of piano and chair of the keyboard area, made her musical debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age 11. Moriarty has served on the piano faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Lowell. She is an active recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the eastern United States, and has also performed in Belgium, Japan, Colombia, Mexico, and the Soviet Union. Carlota Amargos Rubio Yizhak Schotten, professor of viola at the University of Michigan, was brought to the United States from Israel by the renowned violist William Primrose, with whom he studied at Indiana University and the University of Southern California. Schotten has performed in concert in Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Holland, Austria, Mexico, England, Canada, and throughout the United States. Walter Verdehr, professor of violin, has received the Teacher-Scholar and Distinguished Faculty awards from the MSU College of Music. Verdehr was the first violinist to receive a doctorate at the Juilliard School and as a Fulbright Scholar, he graduated with distinction from the Hochschule fuer Musik. Ralph Votapek, professor emeritus of piano, was the gold medalist of the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and winner of the prestigious Naumburg Award. He has made hundreds of appearances with most of the major American orchestras, including 16 appearances with the Chicago Symphony. Kathryn Votapek, violinist, has performed throughout the U.S., and in Europe, Canada, and Central America with Chester String Quartet and as soloist at chamber music festivals in North America. She has participated in numerous commissioning projects and premieres and can be heard on the Koch, New Albion, and Audio Ideas labels. Cello Plus... Recordings
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