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Musicians Performing at the Fall 2014 Concert
A Magic Firebird!
November 9, 2014
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director/Conductor
November 9, 2014
Susan Davenny Wyner, Music Director/Conductor
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Barton Samuel Rotberg, viola
Barton Samuel Rotberg has performed as a violinist in the U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico and has been a prizewinner in the Boston International Chamber Music Competition and the Liberty Freemont Young Artists Competition in Illinois. Currently Assistant Concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra in Ohio, he has served as concertmaster for the Opera Project Columbus Chamber Orchestra, the Opera Per Tutti Chamber Orchestra of Cleveland and for three seasons in the Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Illinois. He has also been a member of the Illinois Philharmonic, Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony orchestras. An avid chamber musician, Dr. Rotberg was a founding member of the Davanti Trio, in residence with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Endowed by an original founder of General Motors, the Davanti Trio gave concerts in the U.S. and abroad. As an artist in residence at Mercyhurst University, he was featured on WQLN Public Radio as violinist of the D'Angelo Trio.
Dr. Rotberg has been teaching for more than 20 years. His students have frequently been awarded competition prizes, music scholarships to universities and concertmaster positions in festival and all-state orchestras. During his time as a doctoral student at Michigan State University, he taught undergraduate and graduate students as an assistant to Professor Dmitri Berlinsky. He has since been a violin instructor at Mott Community College and Assistant Professor of Music at Mercyhurst University's D'Angelo Department of Music. He is on faculty at International Festival for Strings and More at Western Reserve Academy, and Conservatory Summer Intensive music festival at Baldwin Wallace University, Conservatory of Music. Rotberg has given guest recitals and master classes at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, the Conservatoire de Limonest in France, University of New Mexico and Jamestown Community College in New York. He has been an adjudicator for the Music Teachers National Association Competition and the Lakeland Civic Orchestra Concerto Competition.
Samuel Rotberg’s primary teachers have included Marc Zinger, Dmitri Berlinsky, Shirley Givens and Herbert Greenberg. Secondary teachers include Joseph Fuchs, Berl Senofsky and Earl Carlyss.
Sam Rotberg will be playing a viola loaned as a courtesy by Peter Zaret and Sons Violins.
Barton Samuel Rotberg has performed as a violinist in the U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico and has been a prizewinner in the Boston International Chamber Music Competition and the Liberty Freemont Young Artists Competition in Illinois. Currently Assistant Concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra in Ohio, he has served as concertmaster for the Opera Project Columbus Chamber Orchestra, the Opera Per Tutti Chamber Orchestra of Cleveland and for three seasons in the Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Illinois. He has also been a member of the Illinois Philharmonic, Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony orchestras. An avid chamber musician, Dr. Rotberg was a founding member of the Davanti Trio, in residence with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Endowed by an original founder of General Motors, the Davanti Trio gave concerts in the U.S. and abroad. As an artist in residence at Mercyhurst University, he was featured on WQLN Public Radio as violinist of the D'Angelo Trio.
Dr. Rotberg has been teaching for more than 20 years. His students have frequently been awarded competition prizes, music scholarships to universities and concertmaster positions in festival and all-state orchestras. During his time as a doctoral student at Michigan State University, he taught undergraduate and graduate students as an assistant to Professor Dmitri Berlinsky. He has since been a violin instructor at Mott Community College and Assistant Professor of Music at Mercyhurst University's D'Angelo Department of Music. He is on faculty at International Festival for Strings and More at Western Reserve Academy, and Conservatory Summer Intensive music festival at Baldwin Wallace University, Conservatory of Music. Rotberg has given guest recitals and master classes at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, the Conservatoire de Limonest in France, University of New Mexico and Jamestown Community College in New York. He has been an adjudicator for the Music Teachers National Association Competition and the Lakeland Civic Orchestra Concerto Competition.
Samuel Rotberg’s primary teachers have included Marc Zinger, Dmitri Berlinsky, Shirley Givens and Herbert Greenberg. Secondary teachers include Joseph Fuchs, Berl Senofsky and Earl Carlyss.
Sam Rotberg will be playing a viola loaned as a courtesy by Peter Zaret and Sons Violins.
Photo credit: Google.com
Hristo Popov,
violin
Described as "Virtuoso-violinist extraordinaire" (Musical Horizons), Hristo Popov made his orchestra debut at the age of nine with Plovdiv State Philharmonic Orchestra and since then has performed as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist at major performing arts venues in the U.S. and throughout Europe.
His Carnegie Hall debut was hailed by The Strad Magazine as "…alert and energetic." Hristo Popov was a prizewinner at the Kocian International Violin Competition, Silver Medalist at the California Young Artist Competition, winner of the Grand Prize at the International Institute of Music (Germany, USA), and first place winner at the American String Teachers Association Chamber Music Competition. He was selected as Artist of the Month at the Obama for Arts and Entertainment Organization in April of 2009.
Born in a family of musicians and educators of four generations, he began studying the violin at the age of four in his native country, Bulgaria. He completed most of his studies in the U.S, and holds bachelor's degree and Artist Diploma from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a doctorate from the University of Kentucky.
Hristo Popov performs music from the standard repertoire as well as significant works of the contemporary genre. He performs over twenty violin concerti and maintains a wide variety of recital programs. His performances have been documented on TV and radio stations in the U.S., Mexico, and Bulgaria and he has recorded albums for TC Recordings and Bravante Records. He has performed with members of the Juilliard Quartet, Miami Quartet, Miro Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, among others.
Mr. Popov has led residencies at many universities on Early 20th Century Eastern European Composers and the violin focusing on specifically on the composers Bela Bartok, George Enescu, and Pancho Vladigerov. The New York Concert Review praised his 2013 Carnegie Hall performance of these composers as "outstanding from start to finish," saying "Mr. Popov played with sensitivity, panache and fire, and his singing tone in the high register was unfailingly exceptional…Hristo Popov is a musician's musician."
He continues to receive rave reviews, as described recently by the Plain Dealer, "…the performance benefited from the elegant purity soloist Hristo Popov invested in every phrase. Popov traced the lyrical and vibrant lines (Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish) with unruffled assurance. He enabled the music to float where necessary and made easy work of the acrobatic demands."
Hristo Popov plays on a violin by Giovanni Battista Gabrielli made in Florence, Italy, in 1765. He has served as concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012.
Described as "Virtuoso-violinist extraordinaire" (Musical Horizons), Hristo Popov made his orchestra debut at the age of nine with Plovdiv State Philharmonic Orchestra and since then has performed as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist at major performing arts venues in the U.S. and throughout Europe.
His Carnegie Hall debut was hailed by The Strad Magazine as "…alert and energetic." Hristo Popov was a prizewinner at the Kocian International Violin Competition, Silver Medalist at the California Young Artist Competition, winner of the Grand Prize at the International Institute of Music (Germany, USA), and first place winner at the American String Teachers Association Chamber Music Competition. He was selected as Artist of the Month at the Obama for Arts and Entertainment Organization in April of 2009.
Born in a family of musicians and educators of four generations, he began studying the violin at the age of four in his native country, Bulgaria. He completed most of his studies in the U.S, and holds bachelor's degree and Artist Diploma from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a doctorate from the University of Kentucky.
Hristo Popov performs music from the standard repertoire as well as significant works of the contemporary genre. He performs over twenty violin concerti and maintains a wide variety of recital programs. His performances have been documented on TV and radio stations in the U.S., Mexico, and Bulgaria and he has recorded albums for TC Recordings and Bravante Records. He has performed with members of the Juilliard Quartet, Miami Quartet, Miro Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, among others.
Mr. Popov has led residencies at many universities on Early 20th Century Eastern European Composers and the violin focusing on specifically on the composers Bela Bartok, George Enescu, and Pancho Vladigerov. The New York Concert Review praised his 2013 Carnegie Hall performance of these composers as "outstanding from start to finish," saying "Mr. Popov played with sensitivity, panache and fire, and his singing tone in the high register was unfailingly exceptional…Hristo Popov is a musician's musician."
He continues to receive rave reviews, as described recently by the Plain Dealer, "…the performance benefited from the elegant purity soloist Hristo Popov invested in every phrase. Popov traced the lyrical and vibrant lines (Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish) with unruffled assurance. He enabled the music to float where necessary and made easy work of the acrobatic demands."
Hristo Popov plays on a violin by Giovanni Battista Gabrielli made in Florence, Italy, in 1765. He has served as concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012.
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FLUTE Kathryn Thomas Umble* Heidi Keener OBOE Martin Neubert* Rachael Swanson CLARINET Deborah Alexander* Joseph Mansfield BASSOON Janice Pylinski* Eric Louie HORN Heather Johnson* Christina Garmon Adam Zagotti Rob Cole TRUMPET Christopher Krummel* Logan Mueller-Jonas |
TROMBONE Randy Bibri* Ryan Ham Greg Bibri TUBA Christian Dennis* TIMPANI /PERCUSSION Scott Thomas* Ariel Zaviezo VIOLIN I Hristo Popov, Concertmaster Barton Samuel Rotberg Megan Benchwick Mariana Szalaj Tina Gant Natalie Sahyoun** Abigail McLaughlin VIOLIN II Brendan Considine* Karen Considine Jerry Koziorynsky Katherine O’Niell Jeffrey Johns Melinda Perttu Robert Pavalko |
VIOLA Anders Janson* Rachel Aiken Hillary Lenton BeckyAnn Harker CELLO Michael Gelfand* Jackie Pitman Chrissy Lucivjansky Scott Burns Fra Vit Fiala DOUBLE BASS Jeffrey Bremer* Joshua Tripp Dan Kalosky HARP Caitlin Mehrten* PIANO Spencer Reed* *Principal **Concert Manager/Librarian |