2012 Kneisel Hall Faculty
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SEYMOUR LIPKIN is a graduate of the Curtis Institute and first prizewinner of the 1948 Rachmaninoff Piano Competition. He has appeared as soloist with most major American orchestras, including those of Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland. He recorded the Stravinsky Piano Concerto with Leonard Bernstein, and performed with conductors such as Reiner, Munch, Steinberg and Ormandy. A conducting student of Koussevitzky at Tanglewood, Mr. Lipkin has served as an apprentice to George Szell in Cleveland, as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic and Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet and the Long Island Symphony. As a chamber musician he has participated at the Marlboro, Norfolk and Spoleto Festivals, has toured with both the Guarneri and the Juilliard String Quartets and has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Ricci, Tortelier, Zimbalist, Primrose and Heifetz. He is currently on the piano and chamber music faculties of the Curtis Institute and The Juilliard School. We celebrate Lipkin's 25th Anniverary this season.
CHAMBER MUSIC SCHOOL
June 24 - August 12, 2012violin: Krista Bennion Feeney, Ronald Copes, Bayla Keyes, Laurie Smukler, Mark Sokol, Roman Totenberg
viola: Doris Lederer, Katherine Murdock
cello: Jerry Grossman, Bonnie Hampton, Joel Krosnick, Barbara Stein Mallow
piano: Xak Bjerken, Jane Coop, Seymour Lipkin
FESTIVAL ARTISTS
violin: Krista Bennion Feeney, Ronald Copes, Bayla Keyes, Laurie Smukler
viola: Doris Lederer, Kathrine Murdock
cello: Jerry Grossman, Bonnie Hampton, Joel Krosnick, Barbara Stein Mallow
piano: Xak Bjerken, Jane Coop, Seymour Lipkin
PROGRAM FOR MAINE STUDENTS
June 18 - 23, 2012
piano: Patricia Stowell, Program Director
violin/viola: Scott Woolweaver
cello: Marisa Solomon
ACMI (ADULT CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE)
August 12, 19, 2012
violin: Abram Loft, Paul Wolfe
viola: Scott Woolweaver, Program Director
cello: Jan Pfeiffer
piano: Lora Tchekoratova
