(New York, NY - December 13, 2004) New School University’s Mannes College of Music will present a master class with Ronald Copes, violinist and a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. 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.)
For information on Mannes College of Music events, call (212) 496-8524.
In 1997, violinist Ronald Copes joined the Juilliard String Quartet as second violinist and was appointed to the violin faculty of The Juilliard School. Formerly a member of the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet and the Audubon String Quartet, he served on the faculties of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Michigan State Universities. During the summers, he performs and teaches at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine and has been a participant in the Bermuda, Cheltenham, Colorado, Marlboro, and Olympic Music Festivals. He has also appeared in solo recitals across the United States and in Europe.
Born in Arkansas, Mr. Copes studied at the Oberlin Conservatory with David Cerone, and at the University of Michigan with Paul Makanowitzky.
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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 visit the Web site at www.mannes.edu.