Miriam Fried will present a violin master class on Friday, November 19, 2004 at 9:30 a.m., at Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University. Mannes master classes are free and open to the public and take place at Mannes College of Music, 150 West 85th Street, NYC. (By subway: Take the #1 train to 86th Street.)
Miriam Fried has been recognized for many years as one of the world’s preeminent violinists. She is a consummate musician - equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician. She has played with virtually every orchestra in the United States and Europe and has been a frequent guest with the principal orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Vienna Symphony. She has given recitals in all of the major music centers in North America and to Brussels, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm, and Zurich.
Since 1993, Fried has been Artistic Director of the Ravinia Institute, one of the country’s leading summer programs for young musicians. She is a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet.
Fried has been the recipient of many awards, including first prize in Genoa’s Paganini International Competition, top honors in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition, where she was the first woman ever to win the award. She was born in Romania and emigrated to Israel with her family at age 2. She studied with Alice Fenyves in Tel Aviv. She came to the United States as a protegee of the late Isaac Stern and continued her studies with Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School and Joseph Gingold at Indiana University.
Fried performs on a 1718 Stradivarius that is said to have been the favorite of its 18th-century owner, composer/conductor Louis Spohr.
About Mannes College of Music
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 visit the Web site at www.mannes.edu.