 Margaret Batjer
Adjunct Professor of Violin
(213) 740-7703 phone
batjer@usc.edu
Serving as concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 1998, Margaret Batjer made her first solo appearance at the age of fifteen with the Chicago Symphony. Since then, she has re-appeared with the Chicago Symphony as well as a succession of other major orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, the New York String Orchestra, the San Jose Symphony and the Dallas Symphony. Ms. Batjer has also appeared as a soloist throughout Europe with orchestras including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Halle Symphony Orchestra at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Claus Peter Flor. Equally respected as a chamber musician, Ms. Batjer has performed regularly at the Marlboro Music Festival and on tour with "Music from Marlboro." She has appeared at the Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, the La Jolla Summerfest, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival and the Naples and Cremona festivals in Italy. Maurizio Pollini invited the Accardo Quartet, of which Ms. Batjer was a member, to perform at the Salzburg Festival in 1995 and 1999, at Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2001, and in Tokyo during the 2002 season. She has recorded the Bach Concerto for Two violins in D Minor with Salvatore Accardo and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for Philips and more recently with Hilary Hahn and LACO, directed by Jeffrey Kahane, for Deutsche Grammophon. She has also made numerous chamber music recordings on the EMI, Nuova Era, and BMG labels.
In 2003 and 2005, Ms. Batjer performed the complete Beethoven and Brahms Violin Sonata cycles with Jeffrey Kahane at Zipper Hall in Los Angeles. In 2001, she performed the Beethoven "Triple" Concerto with Mr. Kahane, Yo-Yo Ma and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Batjer graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Ivan Galamian and David Cerone.
 Martin Chalifour
Adjunct Professor of Violin
(213) 740-7704 phone
martin.chalifour@gmail.com
Martin Chalifour began his tenure as Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1995. This concert honors his tenth year in that post. The recipient of various grants and awards in his native Canada, he graduated with honors from the Montreal Conservatory at the age of 18 and then moved to Philadelphia to pursue studies at the Curtis Institute of Music.
In 1986 Chalifour received a Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and was a laureate of the Montreal International Competition the following year. Since then he has concertized extensively, playing hundreds of concerto performances from a repertoire of more than 50 works. He has appeared as soloist with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Outside the United States he was a guest soloist with the Auckland Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, the Queensland Symphony (Brisbane, Australia), the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Malaysian Philharmonic among others.
Chalifour began his orchestral career in 1984 with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, playing as Associate Concertmaster for six years. Subsequently he occupied the same position for five years in the Cleveland Orchestra, where he also served as Acting Concertmaster under Christoph von Dohnányi. While in Cleveland, Chalifour taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a founding member of two chamber ensembles, Myriad and the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio.
Chalifour is a frequent guest at several summer music festivals, including the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Ottawa International Music Festival. Maintaining close ties with his native Quebec, he returned there recently to teach and appear as soloist with the Quebec Symphony, with Yoav Talmi conducting. He also performed several chamber music concerts with cellist Lynn Harrell at the Amelia Island Festival in Florida and at the Madison Chamber Music Festival in Georgia. Chalifour and two of his Philharmonic colleagues, Joanne Pearce Martin and Peter Stumpf, recently joined forces and formed the Los Angeles Philharmonic Piano Trio to explore the wonderful repertoire written for this combination. All three artists met in 1981 while studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The trio performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in September 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl.
 Midori Goto http://www.gotomidori.com/
Chair, strings department; Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin
Professor of Violin
(213) 740-7703 phone
mgoto@usc.edu
Midori Goto, strings professor and department chair, and the Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin, is an internationally-renowned musician whose performing career has spanned 25 years. She earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from New York University in 2005, and her first teaching position was at the Manhattan School of Music, where she was on violin faculty from 2001-2006. Midori has been renowned not only for her skills onstage, but also for her devotion to developing new educational and community-based outreach programs. She has taken an active role in availing musical opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds through her three foundations: Midori & Friends and Partners in Performance in the U.S., and Music Sharing in Japan; as well as in annual, individually-designed residency projects with youth orchestras and universities.
The 2008-2009 academic year marks Midori’s third as a full-time faculty member at Thornton and her second as Chair of the Strings Department. One of her first initiatives at USC was to create the Midori Center for Community Engagement, which aims to train and educate future generations of musicians about the importance of connecting with audiences outside of the concert hall. In the classroom, Midori employs a hands-on philosophy with her students; she finds that making music together is one of the best ways for everyone – including the teacher – to learn. She firmly believes in an interdisciplinary approach to music education, in which the lessons go beyond instrument instruction to enhance students’ growth and development as musicians.
Alice Schoenfeld Chair Professor Emerita, Violin
(213) 740-7704 phone
aschoen@usc.edu
Internationally renowned violinist Alice Schoenfeld was educated in Berlin. At age ten she made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of P. Scheinpflug. A protégé of the eminent professor Karl Klingler, the heir of the great Joachim tradition, she rose quickly to the top ranks of violinists.
After moving to Los Angeles, she continued her career extensively as a recitalist and soloist with the major Philharmonic and Radio Orchestras in Europe, Australia, Canada, the Far East and the U.S., performing many times under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Lawrence Foster, Hans Swarowsky, F. Leitner, C. Dragon, Hans H. Schmidt-Isserstedt, Otvos, E. von Rezniek, J. Keilberth, Eschenbach, Albert, J. Koetsier and E. Jochum, among others. She also concertized internationally with Eleonore Schoenfeld, cello, as the Schoenfeld Duo. Alice Schoenfeld has performed more than 300 radio recordings for the European networks, including 34 violin concerti from the classical to the contemporary literature.
Ms. Schoenfeld is a frequent guest artist at national and international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany), Centre d’Arts Orford (Canada), Bowdoin Summer Festival (U.S.), Summer Festival in Hvar (Croatia), Asian Youth Orchestra (Hong Kong), chamber music festivals under the auspices of the National German Music Council and the Klingler Foundation.
A renowned pedagogue, Alice Schoenfeld has given master classes and lectures worldwide. As professor emerita of violin at the USC Thornton School, she has attracted talented students from all over the world. Her students have been top prize winners in national and international competitions, and many of them have performed repeatedly as soloists with the New York Philharmonic, Concertgebow Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, under such eminent conductors as Zubin Mehta, Kiril Kondrashin, Joseph Krips, Horst Stein, Sergiu Comissiona, Sir George Solti and Carl St.Clair. Her students have appeared on national radio and television, including The Dick Cavett Show (with Arthur Rubinstein), That’s Incredible, and The Johnny Carson Show.
Ms. Schoenfeld has received the USC Ramo Music Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. She frequently serves as chairperson and American juror in national and international solo and chamber music competitions.
Most recently, Alice Schoenfeld and her sister, Eleonore Schoenfeld, posthumously, were honored by the American String Teacher’s Association. They were presented with the coveted emblem as National Winners of the 2008 Artist-Teacher Award.
 Bing Wang
Adjunct Associate Professor Program:StringsDivision: Classical Performance and CompositionInstrument:Violin Biography Violinist Bing Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Concertmaster in 1994. She previously held the position of Principal Second Violin of the Cincinnati Symphony, and has served on the faculty and as Concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2003. Starting in 2009, she has also been Guest Concertmaster of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, her tenure highlighted by a televised New Year’s concert conducted by Riccardo Muti. As a soloist, Wang has won critical praise for her appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In September 1997, during the Philharmonic’s celebration of the Brahms anniversary year, she performed the composer’s Double Concerto with Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Hollywood Bowl. She made her Walt Disney Concert Hall concerto debut in May of 2005, and appears annually as both concertmaster and soloist at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of composer John Williams, performing his signature movie classics such as Schindler’s List and his Fiddler on the Roof arrangement. Wang has appeared regularly with the American Youth Symphony since 1997, and she has also been featured as a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Manhattan Symphony, and other orchestras. In 2002, she gave her first performances in China since emigrating to the U.S., touring as a soloist with her hometown orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Active as a chamber musician, Wang has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, among others. Chamber music appearances include performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, and the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. She also performs regularly on the Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella and Chamber Music Society series. Bing Wang began studying the violin with her parents at the age of six. She entered the middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she was concertmaster of the school orchestra and graduated with highest honors. After coming to the United States to study with Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory, she received her Master’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, under the tutelage of Glenn Dicterow. Bing Wang has been named an Adjunct Associate Professor at the USC Thornton School of Music, starting in 2012.  Glenn Dicterow
Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music Professor Program:StringsDivision: Classical Performance and CompositionInstrument:Violin Biography After more than three decades of service as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Dicterow joins the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music in 2013 as the first holder of the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music, forging a new chapter in a distinguished, multifaceted career. Dicterow made his debut in 1960, at age 11, as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, his New York Philharmonic debut following seven years later, again performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto. He became associate concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1970, joining his father, Harold Dicterow, the principal second violinist of that orchestra. He rose to the position of concertmaster three years later. Dicterow came to the New York Philharmonic in 1980, serving as concertmaster under four music directors, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, and Alan Gilbert. Beside his first chair duties, Dicterow performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic annually, his renditions of Mozart, Brahms, Bruch and Bartok balanced by more recent concerti by Korngold, Rózsa and Szymanowski, plus contemporary compositions such as Aaron Jay Kernis’s Lament and Prayer and Karel Husa’s Violin Concerto. Highlights include the orchestra’s 1982 performance at the White House with Dicterow as soloist, a 1986 tour performing Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade After Plato’s “Symposium,” under the composer’s baton, and a 1990 performance of Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy, after Bizet, led by Zubin Mehta and shown on a PBS Live From Lincoln Center telecast. Dicterow has participated in such leading chamber music festivals as those of Santa Fe, Seattle and Bowdoin, among many others. He is also a founding member of the Lyric Piano Quartet and the Amerigo Trio. His wide discography includes two separate New York Philharmonic recordings of Scheherazade, one led by Kurt Masur, the second by Yuri Temirkanov. His New York Legends recital includes the premiere recording of Bernstein’s Sonata For Violin and Piano, while his recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, in collaboration with violist Karen Dreyfus and the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, is paired with William Thomas McKinley’s Concert Variations, written expressly for those forces. His music making extends to performing solos in the scores of such movies as The Turning Point, Altered States, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Interview With the Vampire. The recipient of the Bronze Medal in Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition of 1970, Glenn Dicterow studied under the tutelage of Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Naoum Blinder, Manuel Compinsky, Henryk Szeryng and Jascha Heifetz. He received his B.A. in Music from the Juilliard School, where he was mentored by Ivan Galamian, years later serving on the Juilliard faculty himself. Beside his ongoing dedication to master classes, from Austin, Texas and Aspen to North Korea and Vietnam, Dicterow has chaired the innovative Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music for two decades. Mr. Dicterow is now also a Faculty Artist at the Music Academy of the West, following three years of participation in Music Academy Summer Festivals.  Lina Bahn
Beginning Fall 2015 Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music Program:StringsDivision: Classical Performance and CompositionInstrument:Violin Biography Lina Bahn is a violinist who has a keen interest in collaborative and innovative repertoire. She has been called “brilliant” and “lyrical” by The Washington Post. A committed educator, she has taught masterclasses and lessons throughout the world, including those at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, the Sydney Conservatory, Hong Kong University, Renmin University in Beijing, and the Curtis Institute of Music among others. Bahn has served on the faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder since 2008, and in Fall 2015 she will begin teaching full time at the USC Thornton School of Music. She has served on the faculty of the Sierra Summer Academy of Music since 2001, the Institute of the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, Italy, and is on the faculty at Green Mountain Chamber Music Summer Festival. From 1998-2010, Bahn was a member of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet. With the Corigliano Quartet, she has held prestigious residency posts at The Juilliard School, Indiana University and Dickinson College, as well as on summer faculty at Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival, Marrowstone, Canandaigua Chamber Festival and the Chicago Suzuki Institute. The quartet’s performances have brought them to such venues as The Library of Congress, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia, Corcoran Gallery, Phillips Collection, Carnegie Hall, and the Library of Congress, and earned them the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming. In 2007, their Naxos Records recording of quartets by John Corigliano and Jefferson Friedman was selected by The New Yorker magazine as one of the year’s “Best 10 Recordings.” The Corigliano Quartet was lauded by Strad Magazine for their “abundant commitment and mastery” and praised as “musicians who seem to say ‘listen to this!'” by The New York Times. They have been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today, All Things Considered, and Backstage Pass, Chicago’s WFMT’s Live From Studio One, and can be heard on the Albany, CRI, Naxos and Bayer Labels. |
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