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Press Release - MOC NYC String Camp/Concerts 7/26-30/10
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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JULY 26 - 30, 2010 - Mark O’ Connor’s String Camp in Manhattan Draws Players From Around the World
With classes sold out for the second straight year, Mark O’ Connor’s Annual NYC String Camp will feature concerts and discussions with music notables free and open to the public.
The public is invited to attend five evening concerts of students and world-class faculty and daytime discussions with music experts Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Bill McGlaughlin and Gilbert Hetherwick.
Mark O'Connor, the multiple Grammy-Award-winning violinist and composer, will kick off his second annual New York City String Camp this month with a series of evening student-teacher concerts July 26-30 featuring the world's top string players. The concerts will be held at the Society for Ethical Culture, a block from Lincoln Center, and Mark is reserving 500 seats per performance for public enjoyment free of charge.
The camp features instructors ranking among the world's most respected violinists, violists and cellists in genres ranging from folk fiddling to jazz and classical to world music.
O'Connor will also be conducting a series of discussions at 4:15 p.m. July 26-28 with classical violin virtuoso Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, award winning radio show host Bill McGlaughlin and former Sony/BMG president Gilbert Hetherwick. These discussions will provide insight and information to fledgling artists looking to further their education as they begin their performing careers. Members of the public are invited to attend these sessions free of charge.
Starting fifteen years ago in the hills of Tennessee and later expanding to Southern California and now New York, O' Connor's camps have taught thousands of students. These students have the chance to try out new musical styles and techniques under expert guidance, play informally with their peers in jam sessions, hear performances by their teachers and fellow students in the evenings, and more in this truly life-changing program. Many current professional musicians have been students of O' Connor’s camps, including:
- Natalie McMaster * Members of Nickel Creek * Members of Crooked Still * Members of The Infamous String Dusters * Andy Leftwich (member of the Ricky Skaggs Band) * Casey Driessen (plays with Bela Fleck)... and many more!
Mark O'Connor String Camp in New York City July 26-30, 2010
Concert Series
Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West - All concerts 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm (Monday-Friday). A different lineup of students and teachers will appear each night. Admission is free and first-come, first-serve for 500 members of the public. A donation box will be at the door for a scholarship fund to help send deserving students to the Camp in 2011.
Featured faculty in evening performances:
Monday July 26
-Kenji Bunch (violist and composer)
-Martin Hayes (Irish fiddler)
-O’Connor String Quartet featuring Kelly Hall-Tompkins,
Gillian Gallagher and Patrice Jackson
-Christian Howes (jazz violinist)
Tuesday July 27
-Federico Britos (Cuban Jazz violin legend)
-Casey Driessen (modern bluegrass fiddler)
-Matt Haimovitz (Classical cello)
-April Verch (Canadian, stepdancing fiddler)
Wednesday July 28
-Kelly Hall-Tompkins (classical violinist)
-Kevin Burke (Legendary Irish fiddler)
-Maya Beiser (Classical cellist)
-Lev Zhurbin (violist and composer)
Thursday July 29
-Sebastian Baverstam/Patrice Jackson (two new classical cello talents)
-Jim Chancellor (Texas Fiddling World Champion)
-Byron Berline (Bluegrass fiddling legend)
-Rachel Barton-Pine (Classical and Heavy metal violinist)
Friday July 30
-Pam Wiley and the O’Connor Method Teacher’s Class
-Matt Glaser (Berklee's Jazz violin professor)
-Daniel Pearl Awards Presentation (three instruments to be loaned)
-Joe Deninzon (Rock and Fusion violinist)
-Yale Strom (Klezmer violinist)
Interview Series
Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West - All sessions 4:15 - 5:15 pm (Monday-Thursday) Admission free. Questions from the audience will be welcome at the end of each session. Interviews will be conducted by Mark O’ Connor.
Monday June 26
Gilbert Hetherwick, former President of Sony BMG's classical division renamed Masterworks in 2005. Hetherwick's experience has spanned over twenty years and six labels. He has worked with such artists as Ravi Shankar, Thomas Hampson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Bobby McFerrin, Evgeny Kissin, and Kristin Chenoweth.
Tuesday, July 27
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, one of the leading concert violinists of our generation. A Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition winner, Avery Fisher Career Grant and Avery Fisher Prize winner, she was the subject of the 2000 Academy Award-nominated film, Speaking In Strings. Nadja: On My Way, her autobiography written for children discussing her experiences as a young musician building a career. Nadja is also the Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco.
Wednesday June 28
William "Bill" McGlaughlin, an American composer, conductor, music educator and radio host of Saint Paul Sunday, America's most widely listened to weekly classical music program produced by public radio. The show, with Bill as host and music director since its inception, was awarded the Peabody Award in 1995. After Exploring Music debuted nationally in 2003, Bill earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from Fine Arts Radio International in 2004.
http://markoconnor.com/index.php?page=about&family=fiddle
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkOConnor
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