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ACCLAIMED VIOLINIST GIL SHAHAM PERFORMS RECITAL AS PART OF WILLIAM JEWELL’S HARRIMAN ARTS PROGRAM
Tim Ackerman, 816-415-5025
Tuesday, January 08, 2002
WHO: Gil Shaham, violinist
Jonathan Feldman, pianist
PRESENTED BY: Harriman Arts Program of William Jewell College
WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, January 26
WHERE: Folly Theater, downtown Kansas City, Missouri, 12th and Central Sts.
TICKETS: $41, $21. Call 816-415-5025 for tickets or information.
FREE OPEN REHEARSAL TO BE HELD PRIOR TO RECITAL
The public is invited to an open rehearsal at 5:30 p.m. at the Folly Theater. Come and listen to violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Jonathan Feldman as they prepare for an 8 p.m. recital.
This free educational event is made possible through the generosity of the H&R Block Foundation.
Violinist Gil Shaham is internationally recognized as one of classical music’s most virtuosic and engaging artists. Hailed as “the romantic violinist’s violinist,” Shaham and pianist Jonathan Feldman perform a recital that includes works by Schubert, Brahms, Ravel, Paganini and Williams at 8 p.m. Saturday, January 26, at the Folly Theater in downtown Kansas City. The recital is presented by the Harriman Arts Program of William Jewell College, with cooperation from The Jewish Community Center of Kansas City. Shaham previously appeared on the William Jewell series in 1993 and 1998.
Shaham is known throughout the world for concerto appearances with celebrated orchestras, as well as for recital and ensemble appearances on the great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.
He was born in 1971 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and moved with his parents to Israel in 1973. Shaham began violin studies at the age of seven with Samuel Bernstein of the Rubin Academy of Music and was immediately granted annual scholarships by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1981, while studying with Haim Taub in Jerusalem, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic. That same year he began his studies with Dorothy DeLay and Jens Ellerman at Aspen.
After taking first prize in Israel’s Claremont Competition in 1982, he became a scholarship student at Juilliard and also studied at Columbia University. Shaham was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990. He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius. Shaham lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony.
Pianist Jonathan Feldman, recognized by colleagues and critics alike as an exceptionally accomplished ensemble player and accompanist, has performed on four continents with some of the world’s greatest instrumentalists. Among these have been the legendary Nathan Milstein, Itzhak Perlman, James Galway, Joshua Bell, Kyung Wha Chung, Zara Nelsova and Sarah Chang. Feldman also enjoys an active solo career performing throughout the United States and Europe, and appears in concert regularly as a member of the Zephyr Trio.
The Washington Post praises Shaham for his “…rich, perfectly produced tone, exquisitely lyrical playing and, when needed, dazzling virtuoso fireworks.” Tickets for the Gil Shaham recital are $41 and $21. Please call the Harriman Arts Program office at 816-415-5025 (toll-free at 888-528-5521), or
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City at 913-327-8000 for tickets or information. Event information may also be found on the program’s web site at www.harrimanarts.org.
In its 37th season, the nationally recognized Harriman Arts Program of William Jewell College brings acclaimed performers from the worlds of music, dance and theatre to Kansas City’s Music Hall and Folly Theater. In addition, an Education Series offers free master classes and lectures that allow area students and community members to view artists in an informal setting. Dance Magazine calls the Harriman Arts Program “one of the nation’s premier presenting organizations.” Peterson’s Smart Parents Guide to College cites the William Jewell series as a prime example of how small colleges “can become centers of culture for an entire region.”
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Rob
Eisele
Director of Communications
816-415-7574 / ext.5387
Mark
Van Tilburg
Executive Director
of College Relations
816-415-7816 / ext.5518
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