Friday, March 22, 2024
7:30 p.m.
1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, KS
Born in Tel-Aviv in 1941, Shmuel Ashkenasi began his musical training at the Musical Academy of Tel-Aviv studying with legendary teacher Ilona Feher. He is a noted teacher, currently holding the post of Professor of Violin at the Curtis Institute of Music. Shmuel Ashkenasi will be in concert at the 1900 Building. Mr. Ashkenasi will be accompanied by Park ICM’s own Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Piano.
Patron Society Members RSVP at icmrsvp@park.edu by March 15
Program
Violin Sonata in A major, BWV 1015 by J.S. Bach
Grand Duo for Violin and Piano in A-major, op. posth.162, D.574 by Schubert
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: presto
Andantino
Allegro vivace
Program will be followed by a champagne reception where audience members can greet Mr. Ashkenasi and Mrs. Lolita.
Biographies
Shmuel Ashkenasi
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Shmuel Ashkenasi attended the Musical Academy of Tel Aviv and gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After studying with Ilona Feher, he came to the United States to study with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music.
He won the Merriweather Post Competition, was a finalist in Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth competition, and received second prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1969, he formed the famed Vermeer Quartet and remained its first violinist throughout the quartet’s 39-year career, gaining a reputation as one of the world’s outstanding chamber musicians.
Mr. Ashkenasi has toured the former Soviet Union twice and concertized extensively in Europe, Israel, the Far East, and the United States; and he has collaborated with Rudolf Serkin, Thomas Hampson, Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, and Menahem Pressler. He has performed as soloist with many leading orchestras, including those of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Moscow, and Tokyo.
Shmuel Ashkenasi IN THE PRESS
“Ashkenasi’s performance displayed an ease of that technique and musical expression that is something that only long experience with the composer can provide.” -The Shiny Sheet, By Michael O’Connor, January 12, 2017
“Genuine talent…profoundly gifted.” -The Vienna Express
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich Born into a Tashkent (Uzbekistan) musical family, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich began studying piano at the age of 4. In 1985 she entered the Uspensky Central Music School in Tashkent. In 1993 she started attending a private school for young musicians in Moscow, and that same year received the first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Göttingen, Germany. She entered the Tchaikovsky Special Music School in 1995, and two years later was accepted to the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Vera Gornostaeva, with whom she continued postgraduate study from 2002 to 2004. Lisovskaya-Sayevich also studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University. Read Full Biography Here
