The Vincennes University Music Department presents a: Duo Piano/Cello Recital Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Red Skelton Performing Arts Center Theatre Admission to the recital is free and the public is invited to attend. Yotam Baruch, cellist Mr. Baruch had served as the cellist of the Israel Contemporary String Quartet and as assistant principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony. Born in Tel-Aviv, cellist Yotam Baruch made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2007 with pianist Efi Hackmey. He also performed at the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, and the Phillips Collection in DC and in NYC’s Symphony Space. Mr. Baruch received his early education at the Tel Aviv Conservatory of Music and at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts. At the age of eighteen, he was appointed cellist of the Israeli Defense Force Quartet. Mr. Baruch studied at the Tel Aviv University, The Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore with cellist Amit Peled, and at Indiana University, with master cellist and teacher Janos Starker. Mr. Baruch has participated in several festivals, including Music@Menlo”, Musicorda, “Santa-Fe Chamber Music Festival”, “The Perlman Chamber Music Workshop at the Perlman Program”, and the “West-Eastern Divan Workshop”, where he played under the baton of Maestro Daniel Barenboim. Mr. Baruch recorded for the “Voice of Music” radio channel in Israel and WFIU radio of Indiana. He collaborated in chamber music with violinists Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell, clarinetist David Krakauer, cellists Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz, and vocalist Bobby McFerrin. Mr. Baruch has been a recipient of scholarship support from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation since 1995. He won the first prize winner of both the 2005 the Baltimore Music Club competition in Towson, Maryland and the 2009 Matinee Musicale Competition in Indianapolis and received several grants from IU Jacobs School of Music, including the Eva Heinitz Cello Scholarship. Recently, he was also honored with the Hatfield Merit Award by the National Society of Art and Letters. Mr. Baruch plays on a rare Italian instrument, made available for him by the Vincze family of Israel. Tony Weinstein, piano A fourth-generation musician who grew up in what is now Ukraine, pianist Tony Weinstein pursued a number of other interests when young, coming to pre-professional piano study significantly later than his heritage—the juggernaut that is the Russian musical tradition—would deem acceptable. As a child, he sang in an award-winning choir with which he won prestigious competitions in Cantonigrós (Catalonia) and Varna (Bulgaria) and performed in Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and all over the former USSR. Following his familys immigration to Cincinnati, OH, he found his way, almost by accident, to the School for Creative and Performing Arts and gradually grew more serious about the piano under the guidance of Derison Duarte. He went on to study piano performance (with Haewon Song and Sedmara Rutstein), as well as music history and pure mathematics at Oberlin College, from which he graduated with Honors and completed a research project in commutative algebra. Once having met Professor Luba Edlina-Dubinsky, at a summer chamber music program, he could not imagine continuing his studies anywhere but Indiana University, where he is currently pursuing a doctorate in piano performance. Thus far, he has continued to evade a narrowly focused career, teaching piano and an array of other music subjects to students of widely varying ages and backgrounds. He is in demand as accompanist and vocal coach, with special emphasis on Russian lyric diction, and he performs in piano duo with his wife Karina Avanesian. Having recently completed a project on the vocal works of Olivier Messiaen as well as a performance of Winterreise, he is involved, along with his sister, mezzo-soprano Yana Weinstein, in a project of performances, translations, and IPA transcriptions of the songs of Nicolai Medtner, and is preparing a tour of concerts with cellist Yotam Baruch (associate principal, Jerusalem Symphony). Tony is in his fifth year as director of the Accompanying Center at DePauw University, where he also teaches secondary piano, Advanced Keyboard Skills, Keyboard Literature, and Piano Pedagogy, and serves as staff accompanist. Concurrently, he has been adjunct professor of piano at Vincennes University, as well as an instructor of piano and music theory in Indiana Universitys Young Pianists Program and on the faculty of the IU Summer Piano Academy. Prior to these appointments, he served as an associate instructor of piano and music theory and as coordinator of piano accompanying at IU.
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