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David Winkler Premier

Sunday May 22nd at 3PM at the Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 East 65th Street (btw Madison & Fifth Ave). Program includes works of: 

St. Lubin
Ravel - Tzigane
Winkler - Tanyetz Spirituoso
Schubert - Fantasy
Chopin - Scherzo

Wine and Cheese reception to follow. Tickets are $20 at the door, or you can call Chamber Players International for tickets at 1(877)444-4488

Grammy Nominee Anastasia Khitruk, Violin & Olga Vinokur, Piano

Anastasia Khitruk

Olga Vinokur

 

 

Hope to see you there.

The Long Island Mozart Festival is fast approaching. Got your Shades?

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Long Island's Chamber Players International, now in it's 41st year, is a world class ensemble that not only performs subscription events but also plays charity events for a reduced fee. The charity event fee depends of the size of the group you'd like and how long you'd like us to play. Since we are a not-for-profit, that may also help you.

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Music that Resonates

It seems to me that fine art, in particular classical music really resonates with older adults. Probably it's their life experience which finds a friend in the depth and the dimensions of musical master works - which had to have been crafted with care and seriousness of purpose to have lasted for decades and centuries.

Music and Mathematics

The ancient Greeks had it right - mathematics helps us to explain the outside world - but we need the fine arts, particularly music, to help explain our inner world. Classical music provides a multi-dimensional counter-weight, a way to balance our lives in a technological age dominated by computers, robotics and their inherent lack of passion. These two can live together  - but we must see to it that they do.

The Long Island Mozart Festival, May 28th & 29th

About this year's long Island Mozart Festival

This year, the Chamber Players are proud to introduce several new elements to this outdoor family event, including a children's Music Fair, lectures on “Classical Music and Nature,” and interactive concerts for families.

On Saturday May 28 and Sunday, May 29, the LI Mozart Festival grounds will open at 10:00 am, featuring day-long pre-concert events including children’s activities, tours of Old Westbury Gardens, lectures on “classical music and nature,” and more. The Mainstage concerts will be at 2:00 pm featuring renowned violinist Anna Rabinova and Flutist extraordinaire, Lance Suzuki, and the LI Mozart Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Boico, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

These magnificent programs in the exquisite setting of Old Westbury Gardens are presented at a very reasonable price to the public and parking is free.

Support our cultural events and bring your date, your family and friends. It's a great place for seniors to enjoy the gardens and the music of Mozart.

Review the Schedule of events for Saturday May 28th and Sunday May 29th
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The Line Up
A Captivating Flutist

There's something for everyone whether it's a tour of the Westbury House and Gardens or it's a Flute Quartet by Lance Suzuki.

Lance Suzuki has been described as "an unusually passionate flutist who captivates an audience" by the New York Concert Review. The Los Angeles Times has called his playing "musically poised" and "cool in sound" and the New York Times has deemed his collaborations "the evening's most compelling offerings." Recent highlights include chamber music performances in Weill and Merkin Halls, at the 92nd StY, The Stone, live on National Public Radio's Performance Today, and at the Marlboro Music Festival.

Mr. Suzuki has collaborated with many leading artists including flutists Paula Robison and Marina Piccinini, pianists Gilbert Kalish and Lang Lang, cellist David Soyer, and principal wind players from many major US orchestras. He has appeared as a soloist with the Manhattan School Philharmonia, the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra, the Young Soloists of New York chamber orchestra, and in Vivaldi's double concerto with Paula Robison at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Work with guitarist/composer David Leisner has led to the New York and Boston premieres of works by William Bolcom and Osvaldo Golijov, a live appearance on WGBH Radio in Boston, and performances at guitar festivals in New York and Long Island. He has also premiered new works through Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshops led by Dawn Upshaw, Osvaldo Golijov, and John Harbison.

Born and raised in the state of Hawaii, Lance Suzuki began studying the flute at age nine. Since then, he has been the recipient of numerous honors and grants in his home state and abroad. Among these are a Hawaii Music Award, fellowships from the Aspen and Marlboro Music Festivals, and prizes from the MSM Eisenberg-Fried, YMF Debut, and Pasadena Instrumental Competitions. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and from the University of Southern California where he was named "Outstanding Graduate" in his class by the faculty. His teachers have been Linda Chesis, Michael Parloff, Nadine Asin, Gary Woodward, and Jean Harling.

Support your Russian Heritage!

Violinist Anna Rabinova was born in Moscow. At 13 she performed the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Ernst Concerto, the Paganini Concerto No. 1 and the Prokofiev Concerto No. 1. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow with a Master of Arts Degree and a diploma certifying her status as Soloist of the First Degree (Russia’s highest). Her teachers were Igor Bezrodnyi and Leonid Kogan. After moving to New York she studied with Joseph Fuchs at The Juilliard School. Ms. Rabinova was the winner of the Bach International Violin Competition in Leipzig, Germany and first prize winner of the 16th International Jeunesses Musicales competition in Belgrade. In recent seasons she has toured Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria performing concertos with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and numerous other European orchestras.

Konstantin Soukhovetski, pianist, was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his special subjects also included composition and acting. He then studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, gaining his bachelor's degree in 2003 with the Anton Rubenstein Prize as an outstanding pianist. He received his Master's degree from Juilliard in 2005, and is presently in the Artist's diploma program at Juilliard, studying with Jerome Lowenthal. He was named winner of the William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award for 2006. His NYC debut recital was on April 20, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
In 2002, Soukhovetski won Second Prize in the Walter W. Naumberg Piano Competition and Second Prize in the Hilton Head International Competition. This was followed in 2003 with success in Juilliard's Gina Bachauer Competition and the Cleveland International Piano Competition, and in 2004 he won Second Prize in the UNISA International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa.

Conductor

Called by critic Guiseppe Calliari an “undisputed star who combines a magnetic charisma with a skilled technique,” Daniel Boico is the Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic since June, 2009. Mr. Boico debuted with the New York Philharmonic in January, 2009, and will lead all of the Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts, among other concerts, in the 2009-2010 season. In December 2009, Mr. Boico led the New York Philharmonic with soloist Itzhak Perlman in the “Concert to End Polio” – as part of Rotary International’s efforts to eradicate Polio from the Earth. Mr. Boico was Apprentice Conductor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he worked closely with, and was assistant to then Music Director Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta.

Born in Israel and raised in both Paris and the United States, Mr. Boico was a student and assistant of Russian Professor Ilya Musin at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. A prize winner at the Prokofiev and Pedrotti conducting competitions, Mr. Boico has led numerous major orchestras worldwide, including the New York Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico City. Mr. Boico has collaborated with many international soloists, including Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and Shai Wosner. In August 2000, he directed I Virtuosi Italiani in the highly praised world premiere recording of Nino Rota’s two cello concertos with cellist Dmitry Yablonsky on the Chandos label.
Upcoming engagements include concerts with the New York Philharmonic, the Moscow State Academic Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico City, and the Limburg Symphony Orchestra in Maastricht, Holland. Daniel Boico resides in New York with his wife, Anastasia, and daughter Naomi.

Introduction to Classical Music for Children

Join these young musicians as they interact with children discussing the sounds of the major composers over the centuries The Kende Trio

  

David Winkler Premieres

April 30 and May 1

Premieres of David Winkler's new: Duo No. 2 for Viola and Cello

The second in a series of six works for this unusual combination

Chamber Players International


Coe Hall
Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay

April 30  12:30 and 3:30
May 1  12:30 and 3:30













Bela Horvath violist

 

Andrew Janss, cellist

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Founded in 1971 as the Sea Cliff Chamber Players, the organization’s objective was to fill the need for a professional classical music and educational ensemble in the Long Island Region. As the first independent groupof its kind in the nation, it became the model for other regional chamber music societies throughout the country.

In 1998, its name was changed to Chamber Players International to more accurately reflect the composition of its world class roster of performing artists. Since its founding, CPI has developed a strong presence within the Region and boasts a noteworthy Board of Directors, comprised of civic, professional and business leaders. Its artists, who are internationally renowned concert musicians, regularly win major competitions, record for the leading music labels, and are faculty members at some of the most prestigious conservatories, music schools and universities.

Today, CPI is a dynamic organization bringing chamber music to its audiences in venues throughout the region and serving as an educational medium for musical artistic expression.

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Chamber Players International Upcoming Events

April 30/May 1

Coe Hall, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay

Duo No. 2 for Viola and Cello (commissioned by R. Phipps)

Read more about Coe Hall and the Planting Fields Arboretum

Tickets available from http://www.chamberplayersinternational.org/ or call

1(877) 444 4488

 

May 22

Kosciuskzo Foundation, New York, NY,
Tanyetz Spirituoso
Tickets and information or call 1 (877) 444 4488
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May 27

LI Mozart Festival, Old Westbury Gardens
Red Ballroom: Tanyetz Spirituoso

Visit the Long Island Mozart Festival website for more information or call 1 (877) 444 4488

Musical Cuisine Tickets Donated to Japan Relief Fund

10 tickets were donated to Japan Relief Fund to our upcoming Musical Cuisine event on April 10 at the beautiful DeSeversky Center, Westbury, LI. Brunch at 12 noon. Concert at 1:30pm featuring the beautiful Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Op. 50, led by star performers and Grammy nominee cellist Natalia Khoma.

Tickets for purchase available at (877)444-4488 or http://www.chamberplayersinternational.org/

Musical Cuisine: April 10th at the DeSeversky Center

Champagne Brunch and Concert !! The BEST !!
Chamber Players International presents its next unique and beautiful Musical Cuisine program this coming Sunday April 10, at the wonderful DeSeversky Center in Westbury.

Champagne Brunch begins at 12 noon. The concert starts at 1:30 and features Grammy nominee cellist Natalia Khoma with Anna Rabinova violinist and Volodymyr Vynnytsky pianist in the great Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Op. 50 - plus a surprise!!

For tickets and/or info: call toll free 1(877)444-4488 or click here

Our History: The Long Island Mozart Festival

LAST November, thousands of teenage fans mobbed Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City for an appearance by the pop sensation Justin Bieber. The event was canceled because of the chaos. Now if only the Long Island Mozart Festival, taking place a few miles away at Old Westbury Gardens, would have the same drawing power.

“Classical music is really not getting the kind of direct connection to youngsters that it should,” said David Winkler, the executive director of Chamber Players International, the organization that is presenting the festival. “We’re trying to do our part to ameliorate that.”

The primary focus of the Mozart Festival is, naturally, the work of one particular musician, but many of the activities are geared toward young people. And while carriage rides and fencing demonstrations may not immediately seem related to the Austrian composer, they could entice children and teenagers to stick around for the music.

“There is an opportunity to engage the first-time listener,” Mr. Winkler said. “Sometimes it’s a good idea to give them something to experience that is from the Mozart period but not necessarily the music right away, to soften the introduction.”
Among the many youth-friendly offerings is a concert for preschoolers by Music for Aardvarks, which is dedicated to teaching children about music. A combination performance and educational introduction to classical music by the Kende Trio is also scheduled. And the main-stage concerts will include several works by Mozart performed on Saturday by the Voxare String Quartet and on Sunday by the Long Island Mozart Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Old Westbury Gardens will be accessible for tours and strolls, as it is almost every day from now until the end of October. “Arguably, May is the prettiest month,” said Vince Kish, a spokesman for the gardens.

If Mr. Winkler has his way, not only will the weather hold — all events are outdoors — but classical music and younger audiences will also prove a felicitous match. “Since there is less and less classical music happening for young people in their normal school experience, it’s become our responsibility to try to reach out to those people,” he said. “That’s the audience of the future for classical music.”

 Information: (877) 444-4488 or longislandmozartfestival.org

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New York Times: Want Mozart fans? Plant seeds early

WHEN Anatoly Ditinsky was a teenager in the early 1980s, his mother, a classical pianist, was hellbent on exposing him to high culture. “She was dragging me to museums and orchestras and opera and concerts,” Mr. Ditinsky says. This was not his idea of a great time. “What I loved was sitting in front of the TV on Friday night listening to the concert shows,” he says. “I had this cheap cassette and I’d be recording the Rolling Stones.” Read the article