 LYNN CHANG
Lynn Chang earned a B.A. in Music from Harvard University and completed violin studies at Juilliard Pre-College with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. He was a top prize winner at the International Paganini Competition, the Concert Artists Guild and the Young Concert Artists Auditions. Chang attended Marlboro and performed at the Tanglewood and Wolf Trap Festivals. He has also collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, Cleveland, Vermeer, Muir and Orion String Quartets, and has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on PBS's “Live from Lincoln Center.” He can also be heard on Dawn Upshaw’s Grammy-award winning “Girl With Orange Lips” (Nonesuch records). Chang recently performed live with Yo-Yo Ma on his Silk Road Project and can be heard on his CD, “Made in America” (Sony records). Many of Chang’s former students are now members of orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Chang is currently the director of The Boston Conservatory’s Hemenway Strings. Jascha Heifetz.
 JUDITH EISSENBERG
Judith Eissenberg earned a M.M. from Yale University. She is the second violinist and a founding member of The Lydian String Quartet, which has been in residence at Brandeis University since 1980. With the quartet, Eissenberg has won several international prizes— including the Naumburg Award for Excellence in Chamber Music—and has toured extensively in the US and abroad. A performer on both modern and period instruments, Eissenberg is also a member of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and has appeared with other performing organizations in Boston, including the Boston Chamber Music Society, The Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, Emmanuel Music, Boston Pops and Boston Baroque. She is a founding member and assistant director of Music From Salem, a chamber music festival in upstate NY founded in 1987. At Brandeis, Eissenberg created and currently teaches the chamber music course "Performance and Analysis from the Players' Perspective," a course integrating structural analysis with traditional chamber music coaching. She also created and instructs an advanced course for performers, "Surfing the New Wave: Survival Techniques in Contemporary Chamber Music Performance.”
 RONAN LEFKOWITZ
Ronan Lefkowitz earned a B.M. from Harvard College. His teachers have included Gerald Gelbloom, Max Rostal, Louise Vosgerchian, Joseph Silverstein and Szymon Goldberg.
Born in Oxford, England, Lefkowitz joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) as a violinist in 1976. He was concertmaster of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the International Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. In 1986, Lefkowitz joined Collage, a contemporary music group. That summer, he performed the American premiere of Witold Lutoslawski's Chain 2 for violin and chamber orchestra as part of the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood. This led to additional performances of the piece, most notably in October of 1990 with the BSO under the composer's direction. Lefkowitz’s recent concert engagements have included two performances with Yo—Yo Ma, a benefit at Harvard for Philips Brooks House and a Tanglewood performance of the Ives Piano Trio with pianist Gilbert Kalish.
Most recently, Lefkowitz has been involved with the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation, directed by BSO colleague Mark Ludwig. The foundation seeks to find, perform and record music written in the early 1940s by such composers as Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, Viktor Ullmann and Pavel Haas during their internment at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Additionally, Lefkowitz has recorded two albums of chamber music written by Arthur Foote and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for Koch International with fellow artists Harold Wright, Virginia Eskin and the Hawthorne String Quartet, of which he is first violinist. Lefkowitz is part of the faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center and The Boston Conservatory.
 SHARAN LEVENTHAL
Sharan Leventhal has toured the US and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording and the Fromm and Koussevitzky foundations. She has premiered more than 100 compositions and has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Toledo, Milwaukee, Topeka and Albany symphonies and many others. She is currently a member of the Gramercy Trio, the Kepler Quartet, the Boston Artists Ensemble and Present Music. Leventhal is the co-founder of the duo Marimolin and the founder and director of Play On, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports chamber music programs for children.
Leventhal can be heard on the Newport Classic, New World, GM and Catalyst labels. In addition to her performances, Leventhal is a coach with the Hong Kong-based Asian Youth Orchestra and teaches at Interlochen Arts Camp. She has also served on the faculties of Michigan State University and the Berklee College of Music.
 RICTOR NOREN
Rictor Noren earned a B.M. from Indiana University and a M.M. from the University of Wisconsin. He has studied viola with Mimi Zweig and Abraham Skernick and violin with Joseph Gingold and Yuval Yaron. He has also studied chamber music with Rostislav Dubinsky and Janos Starker. Noren has given recitals in North America, Europe and Japan and is involved with orchestras such as the Naples Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New York String Orchestra and the American Sinfonietta.
Noren is on the faculties of The Boston Conservatory, the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Atlantic Union College and the Prelude Music Academy. Additionally, he has taught at the National String Workshop, the Longy School of Music, the Crowden School, Rocky Ridge Music Center, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Sapporo, Japan.
Noren works with pre-college and college students both nationally and internationally to achieve practical and professional outcomes. His collaborative approach emphasizes balance, goal setting, efficient practice techniques, musical development and a hands-on approach to training. His work supports students overcoming technical barriers, conquering physical pain and developing a professional identity.
 MARKUS PLACCI
Markus Placci holds a Bachelor of Music from the Bologna Conservatory, as well as a Graduate Performance Diploma and an Arist Diploma from The Boston Conservatory. Placci has studied extensively with Zakhar Bron (Lubeck, Germany) and Mela Tenenbaum (NY).
Placci's awards include 1st Prize at the XXVI Biannual Vittorio Veneto Competition (Italy), the Brahms Preis (Germany), the Carl Flesch Akademie Preis (Germany), the Baden-Baden Philarmonie Foundation Preis (Germany), the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize (Tanglewood Music Festival, where he has also appeared as Concertmaster of TMCO), the Villecroze Academy Award–Emanuel Ax with the Fortuna Piano Trio (France) and was a top prize winner at the Washington International Competition.
Placci's solo engagements include performances in world renowned venues such as the Great Philharmonic Hall (Shostakovich Hall) and the Glinka Philarmonic Hall in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Kursaal in Baden-Baden, the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, the Auditori in Barcelona, the Teatro Comunale and Mozart Hall in Bologna, the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.
Since his debut at age 13 with the Bologna Symphony, Placci has appeared as soloist with major symphony orchestras such as the Barcelona Symphony, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain (RTVE), the Baden-Baden Philarmonie, the Bologna Symphony, Milan's Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, Teatro San Carlo of Napoli Symphony, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, the St. Petersburg State Orchestra and the Padova e del Veneto Orchestra, among others.
In September 2005, collaborating with conductor Uwe Mund and the RTVE Orchestra (Orchestra of the Radio-Television of Spain), Placci world-premiered with great acclaim the Violin Concerto written by Catalan composer Jordi Cervello’. The concert was broadcasted live from Teatro Monumental in Madrid, both on the radio and the national television (Tve2). In 2007, Cervello' composed and dedicated to Placci his “Tre Pensieri” for violin and piano.
Placci is also an avid chamber musician, with performances in prominent concert seasons such as Musica Insieme and Accademia Filarmonica Mozart in Bologna, Societa' del Quartetto of Vicenza, Asolo Musica and live appearances on RadioTre Suite (Rome, Italy) and WGBH (Boston). He is a founding member of the Fortuna Piano Trio with K. Lee and M. Carbonara, which performed in France, Italy, and toured South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay).
 Katie Lansdale
Violin Faculty Katie Lansdale has been widely lauded as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She has performed as soloist and chamber artist in South America and Europe, and on numerous North American concert series, including the Phillips Collection, the Caramoor Series, and Lincoln Center’s Rose Room. Winner of Grand Prizes at the Fischoff and Yellow Springs national chamber competitions, she has collaborated in chamber concerts with artists such as Yo Yo Ma, Felix Galimir, Donald Weilerstein, the Miami Quartet, Robert MacDonald, and Charles Neidich. Lansdale's concerto appearances have included with the National Symphony, the Austin Mozart Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Schroeder Classical Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the NY Spectrum and Repertory Orchestras. Particularly widely acclaimed for performances of solo Bach, Lansdale has performed the complete cycle over a dozen times in North and South America. “This is one of the best recordings of this music,” wrote the American Record Guide of her Bach CD (Amazon.com). Lansdale directs the Promisek Bach workshop program. In New York, where she founded the acclaimed Locrian new music group, Lansdale’s extensive chamber music concerts have ranged from Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center with Yo Yo Ma to Merkin Hall with the Twentieth Centuryists; she performs twice a year in Carnegie's Weil Hall with the Festival Chamber Society.
Lansdale is a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio, an internationally-acclaimed piano trio touring the United States and Europe for more than 25 years. Winners of the Koussevitsky Award for recording and lauded by the press for their CDs, the Trio has recorded for Triton and Centaur labels, featuring new American trios, duo and trio music of French composer Nicolas Bacri, the complete trios of Robert Schumann, and, most recently, trios by Ravel, Ives and Rebecca Clarke. The Trio has worked closely with a number of leading composers and served residencies at Tanglewood, Yale University and the University of Pittsburgh; they are now resident chamber ensemble in Connecticut at the Hartt School and at the Fairfield Library.
Lansdale studied with Josef Gingold, Felix Galimir, Ronda Cole, Donald Weilerstein and Mitchell Stern. She graduated cum laude from Yale, where she was awarded prizes in both the arts and humanities, and earned graduate music degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M., A.D.) and Manhattan School of Music (D.M.A. cum laude). She has taught at Boston University and State University of New York-Stony Brook, and she now teaches at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, as well as The Boston Conservatory. Lansdale is a champion of musical connections to children and communities, and is conducting her fourth outreach campaign this year called Music for 1000 Children.
 Irina Muresanu
Chamber Music; Violin Faculty Irina Muresanu earned a B.M. from the Music Academy in Bucharest and a M.M. from the University of Illinois. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Artist Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the New England Conservatory (NEC).
Muresanu is a top-prizewinner in the Montreal International Violin Competition, the Washington International Competition, the Queen Elizabeth Competition, the Schadt String Competition and the UNISA International String Competition, and she was awarded the Pro Musicis International Award. She has received career grants from the Presser Foundation, the Harvard Musical Association, the Copland Foundation and the Paul Rolland Memorial Foundation.
Muresanu has performed in renowned concert halls throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Her most recent engagements as soloist include performances with the Boston Pops, Miami Symphony, Williamsburg Symphonia, the Metropolitan Orchestra (Montreal), Syracuse Symphony, the Transvaal Philharmonic (South Africa), the Orchestre de la Radio Flamande (Brussels), the New England String Ensemble and the Romanian National Radio Orchestra (Bucharest), among others.
An avid chamber music performer, Muresanu is a frequent guest of the Killington Summer Music Festival, the San Juan Festival (Colorado), the Maui Festival (Hawaii), the Rencontres des Musiciennes (France) and Strings in the Mountains (Colorado).
Muresanu, along with pianist Michael Lewin recently released the integrale of the William Bolcom violin sonatas for the Centaur laber. In Europe, her recording of the G. Lekeu and A. Magnard late Romantic French sonatas has sparked enthusiasm. The artist has also recorded the world premiere of the Marion Bauer violin sonata for Albany Records, and a CD featuring works of E. Korngold which was released by the VPRO Radio Amsterdam label.
Muresanu is a member of the Lewin-Muresanu Duo, the Boston Trio, the Walden Chamber Players and the Andover Chamber Music Society. She can often be heard on major radio stations such as NPR, Boston’s WGBH, New York’s WQXR, Radio France Classique, Hong Kong Radio and Romanian Radio Classical.
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