Juilliard Selects Ten Exceptional Student Artist to Participate in 2011 Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies
Student Violinists Selected to Play for Master Teachers During the Symposium
Juilliard has selected ten exceptional student artists to participate in this summer’s Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies at The Juilliard School at Lincoln Center in New York City. The symposium, which will be held from Tuesday, May 31 – Saturday, June 4 features five days of master classes, recitals, lectures, and pedagogy sessions and provides many opportunities for participants to observe and explore how to nurture and develop the exceptional student artist. This is the 6th Starling-DeLay Symposium, held at Juilliard every other season, focusing on the methods and philosophy developed by legendary Juilliard pedagogue, Dorothy DeLay, who established the first symposium in 2001. Each year, alumni of her teaching studio (this year including Brian Lewis and Itzhak Perlman) participate as symposium faculty and recitalists.
Brian Lewis, symposium artistic director and a faculty member at the University of Texas in Austin, will lead this year’s symposium. The roster of renowned performers, experts, and master teachers includes: Itzhak Perlman (Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair, The Juilliard School); Glenn Dicterow (Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic); Ida Kavafian (The Curtis Institute); Joseph Lin (Juilliard String Quartet); David Updegraff (Cleveland Institute of Music); Teri Einfeldt (The Hartt School, Chair, Suzuki Association of the Americas); Ray Iwazumi (Juilliard Violin Seminar Leader); Julie Lyonn Lieberman (Artistic Director, Strings Without Boundaries, Technique Rehabilitation Specialist); Ryu Goto (guest recitalist) and the Juilliard String Quartet (guest recitalists).
The 10 student violinists selected are:
-Alicia Choi, Juilliard master of music degree student from Douglaston, NY
-Brandon Garbot from Shaker Heights, OH
-Francisco Garcia-Fullana, Juilliard bachelor of music degree student from New York, NY
-Marie-Christine Klettner from Goldegg, Austria
-Justine Lamb-Budge from Philadelphia, PA
-Ji-Eun Anna Lee, Juilliard Pre-College Division student from New York, NY
-Doori Na, Juilliard bachelor of music degree student from New York, NY
-Blake Pouliot from Toronto, Canada
-Marie Rossano from Bellevue, WA
-Rachell Wong from Lynnwood, WA
These student artists will attend the symposium tuition-free as performers and recipients of on-stage coaching. They also will be presented in group recitals. The symposium is attended by string teachers from around the world. The 2011 Starling-DeLay for Violin Studies at The Juilliard School will have 170 such participants from 30 states (and Washington, D.C.) and 12 foreign countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, El Salvador, England, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, and Spain).
For more information on the 2011 Starling-DeLay Symposium, call (212) 799-5000, ext. 7161 or e-mail: symposium@juilliard.edu.
ARTISTS’ BIOS
Korean-American
violinist Alicia Choi has performed
extensively in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. Her solo appearances with orchestra include performances with the
Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra, the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Julian Kuerti and Ronald Feldman, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra, led by
Constantine Kitsopoulos. She is an avid chamber musician. Last summer, she was
selected as one of the four members of the Young Artists Quartet in the Piano
Texas International Academy and Festival. This summer, Ms. Choi will attend the
Yale School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music festival as a fellowship student. She
holds a bachelor of arts degree from Williams College, with degrees in Chinese
and Music, with highest honors awarded for her senior thesis exploring aspects
of performance practice in the solo violin music of J.S. Bach. She received her
master of music degree from Juilliard, where she studied with Robert Mann.
Brandon Garbot resides in Cleveland where he is a student in the
Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and studies with
Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster, William Preucil. He currently is
concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and previously held
the same position with the Portland Youth Philharmonic for three seasons. Following
his debut with the Oregon Symphony in 2008, he has performed as a soloist with
the Portland Columbia Symphony, the Olympia Symphony, the Portland Chamber
Orchestra, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra, the Newport Symphony, the Brevard
Music Center Orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and the Cleveland
Orchestra Youth Orchestra collaborating with conductors Gregory Vajda, Huw
Edwards, Yaacov Bergman, Adam Flatt, Daniel Meyer, Ken Lam, Mei-Ann Chen, and
James Feddeck. Mr. Garbot placed first in the 2010 International Young Artists
Competition of the Jefferson Symphony and was one of three finalists in the
2009 ASTA National Soloist Competition. He currently is enrolled in the Perlman
Music Program (PMP) in New York and the PMP Winter Residency in Sarasota, where
he studies with Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Sean Lee.
Francisco Garcia-Fullana made his debut at the National Auditory of Music in
Madrid performing on Pablo de Sarasate’s Stradivarius. In May 2007, he gave his
first recital in New York. In 2008, he played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
in Münich under Sir Colin Davis. Last March, Mr. Garcia-Fullana made his debut
appearance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a First Prize Winner of
the American Protégé International Competition 2011. He has played recitals and
concerts in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, and the United
States. As a soloist, he has performed with the Spanish Radio Television
Symphony Orchestra (ORTVE), Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, the Pablo
Sarasate Symphony Orchestra, Madrid-Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra,
among others. Mr. Garcia-Fullana studies with Masao Kawasaki at Juilliard and will
graduate this May with a bachelor of music degree.
Marie-Christine Klettner was born in Salzburg and started playing the violin at
an early age. She studied at the Mozarteum University
Salzburg with violinist Benjamin Schmid, and since 2010, Igor Ozim has been her
teacher. She has been a soloist with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the
Camerata Academica, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Illinois Philharmonic
Orchestra (2012), the Franz Liszt Kammerorchester, and others. Ms.
Klettner has given recitals in Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Holland,
Switzerland, Slovenia, and Spain. In 2010, she was the winner of the Austrian
Eurovision Young Musicians Competition, and won first prize in the
International Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar and special prize for the best
interpretation of a work by J.S. Bach and the EMCY prize. She was invited to
the Verbier Festival in Switzerland this summer.
Justine Lamb-Budge studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida
Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein. She has performed in venues including Field
Concert Hall, the Strathmore Center, The Academy of Music, the Kimmel Center,
and at Carnegie Hall. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras including
the Federal Way Symphony of Seattle, the Festival of the Youth Symphony
Orchestra of the Americas in Puerto Rico, and the Youth Chamber Orchestra of
Temple University Music Preparatory Division, where she was concertmaster and a
recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship four years in a row. She
works as a substitute violinist with the Symphony in C and the New World
Symphony, and currently is one of two finalists for concertmaster of the
National Philharmonic of Bethesda, Maryland. Last summer, Ms. Lamb-Budge was a
fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. This summer, she will be collaborating
with Time For Three and other Curtis alumni for Curtis on Tour.
Ji-Eun Anna Lee has appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall,
London’s Wigmore Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. She has won top
prizes in the 2010 Menuhin Competition (Junior Division), Aspen Music Festival
(AACA) Competition, and Blount-Slawson Young Artist Competition. She has been
featured on the NPR radio show, From the Top, as well as on its Emmy
Award-winning PBS television series, and was a recipient of its Jack Kent Cooke
Young Artist Award. Ms. Lee was featured in a cover story in the Wall Street Journal Magazine with her
Amati violin (which is on loan through the efforts of The Stradivari Society
and Mary Galvin, the patron). She
made her solo debut performing the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 with the
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by music director Lan Shui. She
currently studies in Juilliard’s Pre-College Division with Masao Kawasaki and
Cho-Liang Lin and is a sophomore at the Dalton School in New York City.
Doori Na is in the bachelor of music program at Juilliard,
where he studies with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho. Last spring, he was
appointed as a concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra. He began his violin
studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Li Lin. During his time
in San Francisco, he made his solo debut with the orchestra after winning first
prize at the Peninsula Symphony’s Concerto Competition. In 2004, he moved to
Los Angeles to study with Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School. There he
performed numerous times with local orchestras, such as the Brentwood Symphony,
the Palisades Symphony, and the Torrance Symphony. In the summer of 2010, Mr.
Na was invited to a special international residency in Jerusalem with the
Perlman Music Program. This spring, he performed the Brahms Viola Quintet with
Itzhak Perlman at Princeton University.
Blake Pouliot began violin and piano lessons at a young age and at eleven, made his concerto debut with the Trinity Chamber Orchestra. Since then he has appeared with dozens of orchestras including the Toronto Symphony. Mr. Pouliot also played viola, cello, clarinet, and trumpet in school bands. He even found time to do some acting, playing the lead role in two award-winning short movies: The Bicycle, which won the 2005 Film of the Year in Montreal, and A Bend in the Road, which won first prize at Malibu, California, and a bronze award at Worldfest in Houston, Texas. His most recent musical composition for piano, Starlight on the Water, won first prize at the 2010 Canadian Contemporary Music Festival.
Marie Rossano has appeared as guest soloist with over a dozen of the Pacific Northwest’s leading orchestras, including the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Philharmonic, and Northwest Sinfonietta. She was named First Laureate of the 2010 Stradivarius International Violin Competition, as well as National Winner of the 2008 Music Teachers National Association Junior Strings Competition. In past summers, she has performed at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the 2009 Starling-DeLay Symposium. This summer, she will perform at the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and at the Deer Valley Music Festval for her debut with the Utah Symphony. She studies with Simon James, Brian Lewis, and piano collaborator Hiro David. She will begin her studies with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music this fall. Ms Rossano is concertmaster and frequent soloist with the Academy Chamber Orchestra, directed by Alan Futterman. Also an avid chamber musician, Ms. Rossano was awarded the Academy of Music Northwest’s 2008 Chamber Music Award and also leads the conductorless string ensemble Orcastra, which she formed in 2009.
Rachell Wong is a sophomore at the Butler School of Music of the University of Texas (UT), Austin, where she studies violin performance in the studio of Brian Lewis. Her former teachers include Simon Jones and the late Kent Coleman. Last year, as co-winner of the UT Symphony Orchestra Strings Concerto Competition, she made her Austin concerto debut. Already an experienced soloist, she has performed numerous concerti with orchestra, including solo performances with the Seattle Symphony, Bremerton Symphony, Seattle Philharmonic, Bellevue Philharmonic, and the Philharmonic Northwest, among others. She has been featured soloist at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival Emerging Artists Concert. As an avid chamber musician, Ms. Wong and her quartet had the honor of being selected to join the Miro String Quartet on a subscription series at UT to perform in the Shostakovich Octet. This year, Ms. Wong was the winner of the Texas ASTA solo competition.