Lynn Chang
Lecturer, Violin
EDUCATION
Juilliard School; bachelor’s degree in music, Harvard University
A top prizewinner of the International Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, violinist Lynn Chang has enjoyed an active and versatile international career as soloist, chamber musician, and educator for over 30 years.
A native of Boston, Mr. Chang began his violin study at the age of seven with Sarah Scriven and Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Alfred Krips. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, and then went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in music from Harvard University. His former students now perform in such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. His former student, Joseph Lin, will become the new first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet in the fall of 2011.
For 25 years Lynn Chang performed as a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has also appeared at the Wolf Trap, Great Woods, Marlboro, and Tanglewood Music Festivals, and as soloist with orchestras in Miami, Salt Lake City, Oakland, Seattle, Honolulu, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. He has performed with members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, Vermeer, Muir, and Orion String Quartets.
Mr. Chang has collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on numerous occasions. Their performance of Leon Kirchner’s “Tryptich” has been recorded for Sony Classical. Their world premiere performance of Ivan Tcherepnin’s Double Concerto with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra received the Grawmeyer Award for best new composition in 1995. In 2004 he participated in Ma’s Silk Road Project residency at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. He also collaborated with Dawn Upshaw on her Grammy Award winning CD, “Girl with the Orange Lips”.
In 2001 Mr. Chang was honored with the first Distinguished Leadership Award from the Institute for Asian American Studies of the University of Massachusetts Boston for his achievements as educator and musician. In June 2008 he was elected to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University.
Bayla Keyes
bkeyes@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Music, Violin
B.M., Curtis Institute of Music; MM., Yale University Described as "a charismatic soloist of expressive generosity and technical élan," violinist Bayla Keyes is an ardent champion for a wide range of classical and contemporary repertoire. After her first professional experience with the acclaimed Music from Marlboro, Keyes founded the Muir String Quartet and toured internationally, winning the Evian and Naumburg Awards and two Grand Prix du Disques. Ms. Keyes currently concertizes throughout America as recitalist, as soloist with orchestras, and as a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva and the acclaimed piano trio, Triple Helix. Recent concert highlights include the BankBoston Celebrity Series, Brandenburg Concerti with the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Fromm Series at Harvard University, Bargemusic and Joan Tower's Birthday Concert in Town Hall in New York City, solo recitals in Pittsburgh, Boston, and Vermont, the complete Mozart and Bach Violin Sonatas and works of Bartok in Serkin Center, and premieres of concertos by Bernard Hoffer, John Crawford, and Richard Festinger, as well as performances of Stravinsky, Dvorak, Beethoven, Martinu, Brahms and Mozart Violin Concerti. Ms. Keyes naturally extends her musical commitment to education; she teaches violin and chamber music at Boston University and is Artistic Director of both the Interlochen Chamber Music Conference and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute String Quartet Seminar. Ms. Keyes currently serves as a board member of Chamber Music America and recently adjudicated at the Singapore, Stulberg, and Fischoff Competitions. Her piano trio, Triple Helix, is in residence at Wellesley College, where their series of Beethoven concerts garnered them the accolade of "Musicians of the Year" from the Boston Globe. Their CD, "A Sense of Place," was cited as "Best of North America" by Gramophone Magazine. Ms. Keyes has recorded for Video Artists International, Ecoclassics, CRI, Musical Heritage, EMI-France, Sony, Koch, Bridge, MRS and New World Records. She plays a Gennarius Gagliano made in 1740. Learn more about Bayla on her Facebook profile.
Lucia Lin
lucialin@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Music, Violin
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree, University of Illinois; master’s degree, Rice University
EMAIL
lucialin@bu.edu
PHONE
617-353-2579
Lucia Lin made her debut performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. Since then, she has been a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She has performed in solo recitals throughout the US, making her New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in March 1991, and has appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria.
A frequent collaborator in chamber music, Ms. Lin is a member of the Muir String Quartet, the quartet in residence at Boston University. She is also a founding member of the Boston Trio and the chamber group Innuendo. She has performed in the Sapporo Music Festival, Taos Festival, Da Camera Society in Houston, St. Barts Music Festival, and Barbican Hall Chamber Series in London. She has also recorded for Nonesuch Records as a guest of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, New World Records on a disc featuring the works of Bright Sheng, and most recently on a recording featuring the works of Gabriela Lena Frank.
A native of Champaign, Illinois, Ms. Lin received her bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois and her master’s degree at Rice University in Houston. Important musical influences include Sergiu Luca, Paul Rolland, Josef Gingold, Dorothy DeLay, and Louis Krasner.
Ms. Lin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1985 and served as assistant concertmaster from 1988 to 1991 and 1996 to 98. During the 1991–1992 season, she was acting concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and during the 1994 to 1996 seasons, she served as joint concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Malcolm Lowe
Lecturer, Violin
Diploma, Curtis Institute of Music. Malcolm Lowe joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as its concertmaster in 1984, becoming the tenth concertmaster in the orchestra’s history, and only its third since 1920. As the orchestra’s principal first violinist, he also performs with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. He appears frequently as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, and has returned many times to his native Canada to perform as a soloist with several orchestras, including those of Toronto, Montreal, and the National Arts Centre. He also teaches at the Tanglewood Music Center and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Dana Mazurkevich
dviolin@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Music, Violin.
Moscow Conservatory. Diploma with honors, Artist Diploma, and master’s degree. Student of David Oistrakh. Prize winner of Bach and Enesco International Competition. Former faculty member of Kiev State Conservatory and University of Western Ontario. Concerts throughout the Soviet Union, Russia, Europe, the Far East, and North and South America. Recordings on Masters of the Bow and SNE labels. Television appearances and broadcasts for BBC, CBC, ABC Australia, Radio Moscow, Paris, and others.
Yuri Mazurkevich
fiddle1@bu.edu
Professor of Music, Violin
Honors Diploma, Artist Diploma, and Master’s degree, Moscow Conservatory. Studied with David Oistrakh. Named outstanding artist of the Ukraine, 1969. Laureate and winner of Helsinki, Munich, and Montreal International Competitions. Former faculty member of Kiev State Conservatory, University of Western Ontario, and University of Illinois. Concertized widely in more than 35 countries, throughout the USSR, Eastern and Western Europe, Near and Far East, and North and South America. Recordings on Melodiya, Masters of the Bow, and SNE labels.
Ikuko Mizuno
imizuno@bu.edu
Lecturer, Violin
BM, Toho-Gakuen School of Music, Japan. MM, Boston University College of Fine Arts. Invited by Arthur Fiedler to appear as a soloist with the Boston Pops. First violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops since 1969. Has taught at the New England Conservatory of Music, Preparatory Division, and at MIT.
Peter Zazofsky
zazofsky@bu.edu
Professor of Music, Violin
BM, Graduate Certificate, Curtis Institute of Music. Student of Joseph Silverstein, Ivan Galamian, and Dorothy Delay. First Prize, Montreal International Competition, 1979; Second Prize, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Competition, 1980. Soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Vienna Symphony. Recitals throughout Europe and United States. Member, Muir String Quartet. Present position, 1987.
Heather Braun
Lecturer in Music, Violin
EDUCATION
BM, Eastman School of Music; MM, Boston University; DMA, Boston University
EMAIL
hbraun@bu.edu
Based in Boston, violinist Heather Braun performs as first violinist of the prize-winning Arneis Quartet; the Quartet has recently performed at venues including the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Modulus Festival in Vancouver, Stanford University’s Lively Arts Series, Aspen Music Festival, Reggio Emilia, Boston University, and Swarthmore College. Ms. Braun also performs as co-concertmaster and soloist with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, and was a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow in 2010-11. Other recent performing highlights include the Frederick Collection recital series, Rockport (MA) Chamber Music Festival, East-West Virtuosi, and the Manchester (VT) Music Festival. Ms. Braun has performed as a soloist with various orchestras in Boston, Milwaukee, Washington DC, and Manchester, VT.
Dr. Braun received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Mikhail Kopelman, and completed her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at Boston University, studying with Peter Zazofsky. While studying at BU, she was twice given the String Department Award and received the Zulalian Foundation Award in 2010. She has collaborated in concert with the Ying Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Robert Levin, and members of the BU School of Music faculty. Dr. Braun has coached chamber music and violin at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Manchester Music Festival, and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. She was appointed to the Boston University School of Music faculty in 2014, is a violin and viola faculty member for the Brookline Public Schools Extension Program, and coaches for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras.
Jane Starkman
Lecturer in Music, Baroque Violin, Historical Performance
EDUCATION
BM, MM, New England Conservatory of Music
EMAIL
starkman@bu.edu
Jane Starkman received BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies in Basel, Switzerland, at the Schola Cantorum with Jaap Schroeder and in New York with William Lincer. While living in Basel she performed with the Radio Orchestra Basel. Ms. Starkman has performed as both a violinist and violist with many groups in the US and abroad. In Europe she has performed with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Capella Clementina as well as ensembles in the Netherlands and Italy. Some of the ensembles Ms. Starkman performs with include the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Ensemble Florilege, La Donna Musicale, and the Aston Magna Festival as well as being a founding member of The King’s Noyse. Ms. Starkman teaches at Oberlin College’s Baroque Performance Institute, Boston University, and Wellesley College and has been a guest clinician at the Massachusetts Suzuki Festival and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Klaudia Szlachta
Lecturer in Music, Violin
EMAIL
szlachta@bu.edu
Award winning violinist Klaudia Szlachta has both performed and taught internationally. After earning her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Boston University with Professor Yuri Mazurkervich as her teacher, Ms. Szlachta was invited by the Institute and Festival of Contemporary Performance in New York to perform Luciano Berio’s Sequenza and Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo. Recently she returned to New York to give the World Premiere of “Six Minatures”, composed for her by Thomas Weaver. A Polish national, Ms. Szlachta has won numerous prizes and honors in Poland, including the First Prize and Grand Prix at the National Violin Competition in Elblag, as well as three special prizes for the best performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto. Ms. Szlachta also recently recorded music for a film entered in the Irish Film Institute’s Movie Festival. She has appeared in the prestigious Convergence Ensemble Chamber concert series, and in venues such as Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and Boston’s Symphony Hall. As the Concerto Competition Winner at the School of Music at BU, Ms. Szlachta performed the Szymanowski Violin Concerto under the baton of David Hoose. She also collaborated on stage with Menahem Pressler and Joseph Silverstein, and has worked with the Tokyo and Vermeer String Quartets. Currently, Ms. Szlachta is a member of the New England String Quartet. She was asked to join the faculty of the BU School of Music in 2014, where she presently teaches.
