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