| Along with the talented students who will
be performing at the Festival we are delighted to announce
that there will be additional performances by our featured
performers.
Schedule:
After Recital Session One: Trudy
Kane and Ed Freedman (Flute, Piano)
After Recital Session Two: Nancy
Allen (Harp)
After Recital Session Three: The
Rood Trio: Richard Rood, Denise Rood, Russell
Hirshfield (Violin, Violin, Piano)
After Recital Session Four: The
Rood Trio: Richard Rood, Denise Rood, Russell
Hirshfield (Violin, Violin, Piano)
After Recital Session Five: Russell
Hirshfield (Piano)
All are invited to attend the featured performer
concerts.
The Rood Trio are:
 Russell
Hirshfield (Piano) — has appeared in recitals
throughout the United States including programs of works by
Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen in New York’s Florence
Gould Hall of the French Institute, in Miami, as part of the
Annual Convention of the College Music Society, and throughout
Connecticut. He has also performed internationally - - most
recently in Bermuda, Brazil and South Africa. An active chamber
pianist, he has collaborated with members of the Detroit Symphony,
Slovak Philharmonic, Chicago Lyric Opera, New York City Opera
and Cleveland Orchestra, performing a wide repertory of works
from all eras. Dr. Hirshfield is Associate Professor of Music
at Western Connecticut State University. He also served for
four years on the faculty of Northwestern State University
in Louisiana during which time he performed widely throughout
the South; and, in Brazil where he served as visiting professor
at the State University of Campinas. He received his earliest
musical training in New Haven and later graduated from the
Eastman School of Music, Boston University and the University
of Colorado.
 Richard
Rood (Violin) — Richard is currently a violinist
with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra a well as a 1st violinist
member of the New York City Opera and Associate Concertmaster
of the Santa Fe Opera in the summers. He has performed in
over 20 countries, on over 75 recordings, and as a member
of Orpheus has been awarded 3 Grammy Awards. His first solo
TV appearances were at the age of 12. The New York Times praised
him as “an especially fine young violinist” and
the Newark Star Ledger raved that “he is worth his weight
in gold!” He lives in Pelham with his wife Denise and
children Michael and Nicole.
 Denise
Rood (Violin) — Denise has for 15 years been
a member of Philharmonia Virtuosi chamber Orchestra and is
currently a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra in the
summers. She has participated in numerous concert tours of
Japan and North America, and dozens of recordings with EOS,
Philharmonia Virtuosi, and the American Symphony. Mrs. Rood
was formerly a member of the Goldovsky Opera Company, performing
in over 75 American cities. Her recording of Copeland and
Barber with the Atlantic Symphonietta was nominated for a
Grammy award. She lives in Pelham with her husband Richard
and children Michael and Nicole.
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Nancy Allen — principal harpist of
the New York Philharmonic, appears regularly with the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, and is head of the harp departments of
The Juilliard School, the Yale School of Music, and the Aspen
Music Festival and School. With The Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center, she has appeared on PBS' “Live From
Lincoln Center” and has performed as recitalist for
“Music at the Supreme Court” in Washington, D.C.
Her recording of Ravel's Introduction and Allegro with the
Tokyo String Quartet and CMS's flutist Ransom Wilson and clarinetist
David Shifrin was accorded a Grammy Award nomination. A native
of New York, Ms. Allen studied in Paris with Lily Laskine
and at The Julliard School, with Marcel Grandjany. In 1973,
she won the Fifth International Harp Competition in Israel
and was later awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Solo
Recitalist Award.
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