Kneisel Hall Artistic Director
SEYMOUR LIPKIN, Artistic Director of Kneisel Hall, 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. He will be at Kneisel Hall for the entire season.

CHAMBER MUSIC SCHOOL FACULTY

violin: Lucy Chapman, Ronald Copes, Laurie Smukler, Mark Sokol, Roman Totenberg
viola: Doris Lederer, Katherine Murdock, Ira Weller
cello: Jerry Grossman, Joel Krosnick, Barbara Stein Mallow
piano: Jane Coop, Gilbert Kalish, Seymour Lipkin

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

violin: Lucy Chapman, Ronald Copes, Laurie Smukler
viola: Doris Lederer, Katherine Murdock, Ira Weller
cello: Jerry Grossman, Joel Krosnick, Barbara Stein Mallow
piano: Jane Coop, Gilbert Kalish, Seymour Lipkin

PROGRAM FOR MAINE STUDENTS

strings: Scott Woolweaver

cello: Clyde (Tom) Shaw
piano: Patricia Stowell, Program Director

ACMI (ADULT CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE)

Seymour Lipkin Artistic Director

violin: Abram Loft, Paul Wolfe, Yuri Voldovoz
viola: Scott Woolweaver, Program Director
cello: Jan Pfeiffer
piano: Lora Tchekoratova