Preparatory Division Faculty
Arik BraudePremier Prix in violin performance, The Royal Concervatory of
Music, Brussels, Belgium; Doctoral studies (A.B.D.) CUNY Graduate center.
Teachers include: Felix Andrievsky, Piotr Bondarenko, N.V. Braude, Jens
Ellermann, Yfrah Neaman and Sally Thomas.
Violin
Profile:Master classes with Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci, Alexander
Schneider. Featured Interview, Strad Magazine. Students have
performed solo with the New York Philharmonic, orchestras in the US, France and
Germany; won competitions including From the Top; served as concertmasters of
the New York Youth Symphony. Master classes in France, Germany, England
and in the US. Solo and chamber performances in US, Europe, Asia and
Israel include solo with Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Sinfonietta,
the Belgorod Symphony Orchestra (Russia), the Antwerp Chamber Orchestra
(Belgium); festival orchestras, including the International Master Players
(Switzerland), the Yehudi Menuhin Festival Orchestra (Switzerland), the Minsk
Orchestra of Belo Russia (Fetes musicales de Savoie, France), the Interharmony
Festival Orchestra (Germany Music festival appearances include Music@Menlo
(CA), Festival des Arcs (France), Fetes musicales de Savoie (France), Musicales
Internationales (France) the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and
Killington Chamber Music Festival (VT). Recordings for Music@Menlo, Talent
Cassics and Le Chant de Linos labels. Radio/ TV broadcasts: France 3
& BRT (Belgium Radio TV),Formerly
Director, the Young Artist workshop, Music@Menlo (CA); guest violin professor,
Festival des Arcs (France); artist-faculty: Sulzbach-Rosenberg International
Music Festival (Germany), Killington music festival (VT), Interharmony Music
Festival (Germany); Chair, String Department Mannes Preparatory Division.
Present positions: Artistic director of Jeunes Virtuoses de New York, Inc.;
faculty: Aaron Copland Conservatory of Music, Queens College (CUNY), Green
Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division
since 1994.
