Guest Artists
STERN / ANDRIST - VIOLIN & PIANO
The Stern/Andrist Duo, James Stern, violin and Audrey Andrist, piano, gave their first performances in New York City in 1987. Since then, this husband and wife team has been heard in recital at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Banff Summer Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music concert series, the Oberlin Conservatory, and numerous colleges and conservatories throughout North America. In October 1990 they played at New York's Steinway Hall in a duo concert sponsored by the government of Saskatchewan. Both Mr. Stern and Ms. Andrist hold the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Julliard School.
An active recitalist and chamber musician, violinist James Stern has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. As a finalist in the United States Artistic Ambassador auditions, he performed at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. A native of New York, Mr. Stern received all of his formal training at the Julliard School, studying with Louise Behrend, Joseph Fuchs aand Lewis Kaplan, and coaching chamber music with members of the Julliard Quartet. Mr. Stern's extensive summer activities have included performances at the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival, Maine's Bowdoin Festival, where he was the recipient of the Performing Associate Fellowship, and the Monomoy Festival in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Canadian pianist Audrey Andrist, 1994 winner of the San Antonio International Keyboard Competition was born in Saskatchewan. She began her piano studies with Mary Murakami in Estevan, later completing a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Regina as a student of William Moore. Ms. Andrist continued her studies at Julliard as a scholarship student of Herbert Stessin. She has been a top prize-winner in many North American competitions, including the Eckhardt-Grammatte Competition, the Mozart International Competition in Colorado, the Julliard Concerto Competition, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Competition. Ms. Andrist has appeared as soloist with the Julliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall under the baton of Sixten Ehrling. An ardent exponent of 20th century music, Ms Andrist recently gave the world premiere of a Piano Concerto written for her by Andrew MacDonald, with the CBC Vancouver Symphony. As a result of the Eckhardt-Gramatte win, Ms. Andrist toured Canada, presenting 20 solo recitals. |
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Former faculty members of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Stern and Ms. Andrist currently reside in Stockton, California, where Mr. Stern is Associate Professor of Violin at the University of the Pacific, and Ms. Andrist maintains a private studio. Highlights of the duo's 1998-99 season include recitals in Canada, Utah, Oregon and throughout California.
Guest Artist Recital
Tuesday June 16, 1999
6:30 PM
Auditorium, Jordan High School
Sponsored by a generous donation from Grace Steed, a Suzuki Grandparent.
The Wieniawski Youth String Orchestra
Eleanora Stebel, Principal
Ryszard Osmolinski, Conductor
As special guests this year, the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute would like to welcome members of The Weiniawski Youth String Orchestra. The orchestra was founded in 1988 at The Henryk Wieniawski Secondary School of Music in Lodz, Poland, on the initiative of Ryszard Osmolinski and under his artistic direction. The orchestra has won awards at The National Chamber Music Competition, held in Wroclaw in 1989 and The Grazyna Bacewicz Chamber String Ensembles Competition in Lodz in 1992. The orchestra has performed in the United States, Mexico, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Poland. Their March 1998 tour of Utah, which included an exchange concert with the Rocky Mountain Strings, was the subject of a one hour documentary on Polish T.V. These students will participate in the Advanced String Camp and will homestay with Advanced String Camp students. Advanced String Camp students please call if you would like to have the Polish teens stay at your home for the week.
We would like to announce the creation of the Hiroko Primrose Scholarship fund. Mrs. Primrose spent almost 15 years in Utah. She trained many teachers in the Salt Lake area and had a large studio. Many attribute the quality of good teaching that exists in the Salt Lake area to her long term teacher training program. Many of her former students are now professional musicians, She was president of the Suzuki Association of Utah for two years; her greatest contribution was to suggest that all parents also join as members, helping the association to grow to the strongest state organization in the nation.
| She made the initial contribution to this scholarship fund with a $1,000.00 donation a few months before her passing. She was a long time supporter of the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute, teaching at it for 18 consecutive years. A full scholarship will be awarded annually to the Advanced String Camp in her name. This year an additional Scholarship will be given to a young Polish violin teacher who will come from Lodz, Poland. She will participate in Teacher Training in order to establish a Suzuki program in Poland. We feel that the greatest tribute we can give to Mrs. Primrose will be to help Suzuki teaching begin in a new part of the world where the Suzuki Method has not been experienced before. |
Hiroko Sawa Primrose |
Those who would like to donate to the Primrose Scholarship Fund or to help fund our Polish project please make a check to the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute (ISSI), indicate Primrose Scholarship Fund or Polish Project. Mail to ISSI Scholarship Funds, 7374 S. 1710 E., SLC, UT 84121. Thank You!