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Janice Carissa
, piano
Harriet and Harry Bernbaum
Piano Fellowship*
Janice Carissa, from Surabaya,
Indonesia, entered the Curtis
Institute of Music in 2013 and
studies piano with Gary Graffman
and Robert McDonald. A recipient of numerous
awards and honors, Ms. Carissa was a Young Scholar
of Lang Lang’s International Music Foundation;
the runner-up in the 2014 piano competition at the
American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Music
Festival and School; Star PerformanceAward Winner
of the 2012 American Protégé International Music
Talent Competition in New York; the runner-up in
Indonesia Pusaka International Piano Competition
in 2011; and the Top Prize Winner of the IBLA
Foundation’s 2006 International Piano Competition.
Recent career highlights in 2017 include her debut
with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra playing Mozart
Piano Concerto and a solo recital tour in New
Mexico, Arizona, California, Long Island, and New
York. She has performed with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea; Midwest
Young Artists Symphony Orchestra; Symphony
in C; the Eastern Wind Symphony; Bay Atlantic
Symphony; and appears regularly with the Jupiter
Symphony Chamber Concert Series. She also has
performed at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris
for the Auditorium opening in 2016. Other notable
venues include The Sydney Opera House, Stern
and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway
Hall in New York, Miller Theater in Columbia
University, the Richardson Auditorium at Princeton
University, the Kimmel Center, United Nations in
New York, Oxford University’s St. Hilda’s College,
Chicago’s Jay Priztker Pavilion, the Kennedy Center
in Washington DC, the Sydney Opera House, the
Fryderyk Chopin University of Music’s Concert
Hall in Warsaw, Theatre Hall of the Karol Lipinski
Academy of Music in Wroclaw, and performances in
Rimini, Ragusa, and Cesena in Italy.
PIANO AND STRINGS FELLOWS
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Donald Weilerstein
, violin
Residency made possible in part by the Helen L. Adler and
Robert S. Adler Fund
Donald Weilerstein was first violinist of the Cleveland
Quartet for 20 years and currently performs with pianist
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein as the Weilerstein Duo and,
joined by their cellist daughter Alisa, as the Weilerstein
Trio. Formerly professor of violin and chamber music at
the Eastman School of Music and then at the Cleveland
Institute of Music, he is now on the faculties of the Juilliard School and New
England Conservatory. His own studies at Juilliard were with Ivan Galamian
and Dorothy DeLay.
PIANO AND STRINGS FACULTY
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Lindsay Garritson
Residency supported by the Dr. Scholl Foundation
Pianist Lindsay Garritson has performed throughout the United
States and abroad since the age of four. She has appeared as
soloist with the Phoenix Symphony, Charleston Symphony
Orchestra, Las Colina Symphony Orchestra, Eastern
Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain
(Montreal), Orquestra Sinfônica Barra Mansa (Brazil), and
the Yale Philharmonia. Lindsay has received top prizes at
the Montreal International Piano Competition, the USASU
Bosendorfer International Piano Competition, and the Mozarteum International
Chopin Competition. She was nominated as one of six pianists for the German
International Piano Award (Frankfurt), and in 2013 was one of thirty participants
in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. An active chamber musician,
she has collaborated with Carter Brey, Ani Kavafian, Andres Cardenes, and Ettore
Causa, among others. A participant of many festivals, Lindsay has performed at the
Prussia Cove International Musicians Seminar, Music at Menlo Chamber Music
Festival, and the Holland International Music Sessions. Lindsay is a graduate of
Principia College (B.A. in music) and the Yale School of Music (M.M. and Artist
Diploma). Her piano teachers include Boris Berman and Santiago Rodriguez, and
she is currently a doctoral student at the University of Miami.
Renana Gutman
Residency supported by the Harry Bernbaum Fund for
Collaborative Piano
A 2011 alumna of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Israeli
pianist Renana Gutman has toured with Musicians from
Marlboro and collaborated with pianists Richard Goode and
Mitsuko Uchida, clarinetists Anthony McGill and Franklin
Cohen, and members of the Guarneri and Mendelssohn
Quartets. Recent seasons have included performances at
the Gardner Museum, People’s Symphony Concerts, Washington National and
Freer Galleries, Marlboro College, and the Stresa Music Festival in Italy, in
addition to Ravinia’s $10 BGH Classics series. She has taught at the Yehudi
Menuhin School in England and Bard College Preparatory. A recent soloist
with the Jerusalem, Haifa, and Lansing Symphony Orchestras, as well as I
Fiamminghi, the Orchestra of Flanders, Renana has also won top prizes at the
Los Angeles Liszt Competition, International Keyboard Institute in New York,
and Tel-Hai International Master Classes.
Joseph Liccardo
Joseph Liccardo is active as a chamber musician, soloist,
and music educator. Recent performances include recitals
in New York, Baltimore, Boston, San Antonio, and other
major cities across the U.S., as well as several tours of
China. For the last four summers, he has participated in the
Yellow Barn chamber music festival in Putney, Vermont,
where he has performed a wide variety of repertoire
ranging from standard classics to new 21st century works.
In 2006 he won first prize in the Young Artist Division
of the MTNA National Piano Competition. Joseph holds a bachelor of music
degree from the Eastman School of Music and a master of music degree from
the Juilliard School. In addition to his performance activities, he maintains a
large private piano studio. He is on the faculty of the Center for Preparatory
Studies in Music at Queens College, where he teaches private piano, chamber
music, and group performance classes. His primary teachers include Donald
Pirone, Douglas Humpherys, and Robert McDonald.
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COLLABORATING PIANISTS