Chicago Fine Arts Music Society Kicks Off Summer Music Festival, Now thru 7/21

Chicago-based Fine Arts Music Society (FAMS) previously announced its 2012 Fine Arts Music Society Summer Music Festival in Brown County, IN (home of the Brown County Art Colony) from today, July 7 through July 21, 2012. Renowned Festival faculty includes FAMS Founder, Artistic Director, and violinist David Yonan (bio below), critically acclaimed "passionate pianist and scholar" Svetlana Belsky (Coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago), and clarinetist Cory Tiffin (Principal, Las Vegas Philharmonic and Chicago High School of the Arts faculty member) plus the following pedagogues: Myra Patterson (violin/viola), Nazar Dzhuryn (cello), Saori Chiba (piano) and Susan Merdinger (piano).

This two-week festival will feature daily private lessons, master classes, performance classes, Sonata class, scale class as well as an evening lecture series on German composers and their contemporaries in literature and art and other topics. Students will take part in select chamber music ensembles and all students will perform in at least one of two Young Artists concerts.

Festival staff will also hold excursions to the Brown County State Park and a tour of Indiana University's prestigious Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. Additional activities will include hiking, biking, fishing, horseback riding, and canoeing. More information about the beautiful Brown County may be found at http://www.browncounty.com.

The Fine Arts Music Society (FAMS) was founded in 2002 through the artistic vision of its founder and artistic director David Yonan. The name of the organization originates from Yonan's long association with the Chicago landmark, the Fine Arts Building (http://www.fineartsbuilding.tv). This historical building has long been associated with the arts and culture of an international standard. Musicians, painters, and artists of other mediums occupy the space that inspires the mission of FAMS. More information about FAMS may be found at http://www.fineartsmusic.org.

Berlin born violinist David Yonan is the founding member and artistic director of the Fine Arts Music Society in Chicago and began studying violin at the age of six. At ten he made his recital debut in Berlin, Moscow and St. Petersburg after winning the Berlin Youth Competition. His debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall was at the age of twelve. He's studied at the Berlin Music Academy where he received his Masters of Music, Artist, Graduate and Soloist Diplomas in Music with additional post-graduate studies at Northwestern University, the Music Institute of Chicago, the Juilliard School New York, and the Aspen Music Festival. The Price Waterhouse, Berlin, released his debut recording in 1995. He has since recorded numerous CDs and DVDs.

Yonan is currently Coordinator of String Studies at Columbia College Chicago and was previously on faculty at North Park University in Chicago.

Yonan performs and gives master classes around the globe. His Festival appearances included the Aspen, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Rheingau, Cervo, and Bowdoin Music Festivals. He has won 1st prizes at the International Violin Competition Kloster Schoental (1993); the International Ruggiero Ricci Competition (1995) and Hanns Eisler Competition (Berlin); the silver medal at the 1995 International Violin Competition Vina del Mar, Chile; the Brahms prize at the Carl Flesch Academy (1995); and the International Queen Sophie Charlotte Violin Competition, Germany (2005). More information about David Yonan may be found at http://www.davidyonan.com.

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