MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC ANNOUNCES
THE MANNES BEETHOVEN INSTITUTE
JUNE 8 - JUNE 14, 2003

(New York, NY – May 12, 2003) New School University’s Mannes College of Music announces the third annual Mannes Beethoven Institute, which will explore Beethoven's sonatas, piano trios, and string quartets in a week of intensive study. Students work closely with a distinguished faculty toward public performances at the end of the Institute. The program runs from June 8 - June 14, 2003.

Participating faculty include: Stephen Drury, piano; Jacob Lateiner, piano; Thomas Sauer, piano; Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Yukiko Takagi, piano; Joel Lester, Dean of Mannes College; Yehonatan Berick, violin; Pamela Frank, violin; Mark Steinberg, violin; Colin Carr, cello; Michael Kannen, cello.

Faculty concerts will take place on Sunday, June 8 at 7:30 p.m., and Friday, June 13 at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $10. Student performances will occur on Saturday, June 14 beginning at 12:30 p.m.

The Beethoven Institute will be held at Mannes College of Music at 150 West 85th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues) in NYC. For more information, call (212) 580-0210, ext. 285 or e-mail [email protected]. The Web site for the festival is at www.mannes.edu/bi.

	FOR LISTINGS:
	Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. Artists: Stephen Drury, Thomas Sauer, Yukiko Takagi, piano. Program: Beethoven Eroica and Diabelli Variations; Grosse Fuge for piano four hands, Op. 134.
	Friday, June 13, 2003 at 8:00 p.m. Artists: Yehonatan Berick, Mark Steinberg, violin; Colin Carr and Michael Kannen, violoncello; Thomas Sauer and Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano. Program: Beethoven Variations for Cello and Piano, WoO 46; Violin Sonata Op. 30, No. 1; Piano Trio Op. 1, No. 3.

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Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of the world’s major conservatories of music. A division of New School University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include soprano Frederica von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes, call (212) 580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu.