Calhoun Chamber Orchestra in Concert
Monday, May 24, 2010

Featured Student Soloists

Noah Kraus '14, who has been playing piano for seven years, will be competing as a finalist for the American Music Teachers (AMTL) Annual statewide competition, on Sat., May 15, at The Church in the Gardens in Queens. He recently won the Suzuki Association of America (SSA) global audition to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto K414 with the Suzuki Faculty Orchestra in Minneapolis, MN, over Memorial Day weekend.  In addition to piano, Noah has been playing the cello for nine years. He is completing eighth grade at Calhoun.

Alva Stux '11 began studying violin at the age of two-and-a-half at the Manhattan School for Strings. She has been playing continuously ever since for the past 14 years. More recently, Alva has been studying the violin and viola at The Diller Quaile School of Music under the guidance of Phillip Hough, the head of the strings department in addition to studying music and performing at The Calhoun School. She participates in a multitude of chamber music groups, and orchestras. Alva primarily plays classical repertoire ranging from Bach to Kreisler to Stravinsky, but she also enjoys playing kletzmer music. At a young age, Alva was extensively involved in opera and sang, amongst others, the title role in the full-length opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti.

Rex Wei '13, a Calhoun ninth grader, is a student of Dr. Peter Vinograde at the Manhattan School of Music (Precollege), where he is majoring in piano performance.  He was the winner of his age category in the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey in 2009, and a selected performer at the Young Musicians Concert 2010 organized by the Associated Music Teachers' League at Weill Recital Hall.

OTHER FEATURED MUSICIANS

LAURA GOLDBERG (Violin) has been active in the New York chamber music scene for many years. She was a founding member of the Cassatt Quartet, which has held residencies at Caramoor, Tanglewood, Juilliard, and Yale. The quartet premiered more than fifty 20th century compositions, performing in France, Canada, Japan, and throughout the US. Laura is on the faculty at The Juilliard School in the pre-college division and is Music Chair at Belvoir Terrace.  Director of ArtsAhimsa, she has presented concerts in celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence, established by the United Nations, at the Rubin Museum of Art and in Calcutta, New Delhi, London and Beijing.  For more info see www.artsahimsa.org

SAGE COLE (Viola), a native of Massachusetts, received her BA in music, summa cum laude, from Barnard College, and her MM in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the first violinist of the Graduate Fellowship Quartet. Cole has been a member of the Madison Symphony, the Madison Ballet, and the Madison Opera orchestras. She has studied at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Accademia Internzionale della Musica in Milan. Her major teachers include Curtis Macomber and David Perry. Cole currently teaches at the Calhoun School, the P.S. 8 Beacon Program, and the Family School.

STEVE NELSON (Violin), Calhoun's Head of School since September 1998, is also a serious violinist. While a student at Case Western Reserve University, he studied violin performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Prior to joining the Calhoun community, Mr. Nelson was president of both the Center for Creative Studies (CCS) - Institute of Music and Dance in Detroit, and the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.