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PIANO AND STRINGS FACULTY
RSMI
Pamela Frank
, violin
Residency made possible by the William H. and Marjorie L. Green
Endowment
American violinist Pamela Frank has established an international
reputation as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician,
appearing with the world’s most esteemed conductors and at
music festivals throughout Europe and the United States. Her
numerous recordings range from the complete Beethoven violin
sonatas with her father, Claude Frank, to the soundtrack for the
film
Immortal Beloved.
Honored with the 1999 Avery Fisher Prize, she serves as a
faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music.
John Henes
, Alexander Technique
John Henes has been teaching the Alexander Technique for
more than 35 years. Certified by the Society of Teachers of the
Alexander Technique in London and the American Society for
the Alexander Technique, he teaches at Northwestern and DePaul
Universities. His private students include members of major
orchestras worldwide. He is a former member of the Lyric Opera
of Chicago Orchestra trumpet section.
Joseph Kalichstein
, piano
The Corinne Frada Pick Chair for Advanced Piano Studies
Acclaimed for the heartfelt intensity of his playing, pianist Joseph
Kalichstein enthralls audiences throughout the United States
and Europe, winning equal praise as orchestral soloist, recitalist,
and chamber musician. Kalichstein is a founding member of the
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson piano trio, which will celebrate its
40th anniversary in 2016-2017. Mr. Kalichstein is also a frequent
guest pianist with the world’s most beloved string quartets,
including the Guarneri and the Emerson. He serves as the Chamber Music Advisor to
the Kennedy Center and is the Artistic Director of the Center’s Fortas Chamber Music
Concerts. He continues to hold the inaugural Chamber Music Chair at the Juilliard
School, where he also has a limited class for advanced piano students. Born in Tel Aviv,
he came to the United States in 1962. His principal teachers included Joshua Shor in
Israel and Edward Steuermann and Ilona Kabos at Juilliard. Prior to winning the 1969
Leventritt Award, he won the Young Concert Artists Auditions, and as a result he gave
a heralded New York recital debut, followed by an invitation from Leonard Bernstein
to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the New York Philharmonic in a
nationally televised concert on CBS.
Gilbert Kalish
, piano
The Corinne Frada Pick Chair for Advanced Piano Studies
Pianist Gilbert Kalish has a distinguished career as performing
artist and teacher. Recipient of Chamber Music America’s 2002
National Service Award and the University of Chicago’s Paul
Fromm Award as a proponent of the music of our time, he is head
of the performance faculty at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook. A frequent guest with many distinguished chamber
ensembles, he is also known for his partnerships with cellists
Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and mezzo-soprano Jan
DeGaetani. His extensive discography encompasses classical repertory, 20th-century
masterworks, and new compositions. He is an artist member of the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, as well as artistic director of the International Program at
Music@Menlo.
Kim Kashkashian
, viola
Residency made possible by the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
Endowment, in honor of Renee Schine Crown, Hildegarde F.
Schine, Doris Schine Maxwell, and C. Richard Schine
Kim Kashkashian is recognized internationally as a unique voice
on the viola. She studied viola with Karen Tuttle and legendary
violist Walter Trampler at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in
Baltimore. She has taught viola and chamber music at the New
England Conservatory since 2000. Kim received a 2012 Grammy
Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for Kurtág and Ligeti: Music for Viola on the
ECM Records Label. Her recording of the Brahms sonatas with Robert Levin won the
Edison Prize in 1999. Her 2000 recording of concertos by Bartók, Eötvös, and Kurtág won
the 2001 Cannes Classical Award for a premiere recording by a soloist with orchestra. In
2016 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As an
advocate of contemporary music, she has worked to broaden scope of the viola’s voice
and repertoire in collaboration with composers Tigran Mansurian, Peter Eötvös, Ken
Ueno, Betty Olivero, Lera Auerbach, and Toshio Hosokawa. Marlboro and the Viennese
School, represented by her mentor, Felix Galimir, were major influences in developing her
love of chamber music. She is a regular participant at the Verbier, Salzburg, Lockenhaus,
Marlboro, and Ravinia festivals. She has appeared as soloist with major European and
American orchestras and has presented duo recitals in around the world. Kim resides in
Boston and is a founding member of Music for Food, an initiative by musicians to fight
hunger in their home communities. To learn more, go to musicforfoodboston.org.
Martha Strongin Katz
, viola
Residency made possible by the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
Endowment, in honor of Renee Schine Crown, Hildegarde F.
Schine, Doris Schine Maxwell, and C. Richard Schine
Violist Martha Strongin Katz was a founding member of the
Cleveland Quartet and has also appeared in recital and concerto
performances across the United States. Winner of the Geneva
International Viola Competition and the Max Reger Award,
she has served on the juries of the Banff International String
Quartet Competition and the Naumburg International Viola Competition. She was a
faculty member at Rice University, the Eastman School of Music, and Interlochen Arts
Academy, and is now at New England Conservatory.
Paul Katz
, cello
The MacLean Family Chair
As cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, Paul Katz appeared in more
than 2,500 concerts on four continents and made 70 recordings,
which included 11 Grammy nominations, two Grammy Awards
and a performance on the Grammy awards telecast. Now at New
England Conservatory, he teaches cello and mentors a training
program for young professional string quartets. Named Artist-
Teacher 2003 by the American String Teachers Association and
Chevalier du Violoncelle
by Indiana University, he was also honored in 2001 with
Chamber Music America’s highest honor, the National Service Award. In 2011 he
founded CelloBello.com, the world’s most active string website offering video lessons,
blogs by prominent artist teachers, live streamed master classes, weekly cello chats,
and much more.
Ralph Kirshbaum
, cello
The MacLean Family Chair
The distinguished career of Texas-born cellist Ralph Kirshbaum
encompasses the worlds of solo performance, chamber music,
recording, and pedagogy and places him in the highest echelon
of today’s cellists. He has appeared with many of the world’s
great orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra; Boston,
Chicago, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras; Los Angeles
Philharmonic; London Symphony, Philharmonia; Zurich Tonhalle;
Orchestre de Paris; and Israel Philharmonic. He has collaborated with many of the great
conductors of the time including Christoph von Dohnányi, the late Sir Colin Davis,
James Levine, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir André Previn, Sir
Simon Rattle, and the late Sir Georg Solti. Kirshbaum founded the RNCM Manchester
International Cello Festival in 1988 as a celebration of the cello, its music, and musicians.
The final festival, which took place in 2007, was awarded the Royal Philharmonic
Society’s Music Award for Concert Series and Festivals. In 2012, Kirshbaum inaugurated
the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles, centered at the University of
Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. The highly successful festival returned
to Los Angeles in May 2016 and was attended by some of the world’s foremost cellists
and rising young artists receiving international acclaim. With an extensive discography
which includes recordings on the EMI/Virgin Classics, Hyperion, Onyx Classics, and
Virgin Classics labels, among others, Kirshbaum is noted for his recordings of the Bach
Cello Suites, Brahms Double and Beethoven Triple Concertos with Pinchas Zukerman,
the Schubert Quintet with the Takács Quartet, and the complete cello sonatas and
variations of Beethoven with Shai Wosner.