Marlboro 50th Anniversary Tour Musicians from Coming To Seligman, 4/9

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present Musicians from Marlboro as part of the Marlboro Music Festival's 50th anniversary 8-city national tour on Saturday, April 9, 2016, 8 PM at Seligman Performing Arts Center. This year's ensemble features brilliant young professional musicians together with celebrated master artists, including violinists Robin Scott and Itamar Zorman, violist Samuel Rhodes, cellist Brook Speltz and pianist Cynthia Raim. The program includes Haydn's String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 2, Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, and Dvo?ák's Piano Quintet in A major.

Tickets for this concert are $32 - $64 for adults and $16 - $32 for students, and may be purchased by phone at 248-855-6070 or online at www.CMSDetroit.org. Seligman Performing Arts Center is located at 22305 West 13 Mile Road (at Lahser Road) in Beverly Hills, on the campus of Detroit Country Day School.

Two members of this year's ensemble have Michigan connections. Violist Samuel Rhodes served as artist-in-residence at Michigan State University where he was awarded an honorary doctorate, and pianist Cynthia Raim was born in Detroit. Please see their bios below for more details.

Samuel Rhodes celebrated his 44th and final year as a member of the Juilliard String Quartet in 2012-13. He remains on the faculty of the Juilliard School, where he is chair of the viola department. Mr. Rhodes also has served on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center, and has been a participant in the Marlboro Festival since 1960. He has appeared as a guest artist with many ensembles, including the Beaux Arts and Mannes Trios and the American, Brentano, Cleveland, Guarneri, Pro-Arte, Mendelssohn, and Sequoia String Quartets. Samuel Rhodes appeared on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit twelve times during his years with the Juilliard String Quartet; he also spent time in Michigan as artist-in-residence at Michigan State University, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate.

Native Detroiter Cynthia Raim, unanimously chosen as the First Prize winner of the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, has been acclaimed for her concerto and recital appearances throughout the United States and abroad. She also won the prestigious Pro Musicis Award and, in 1987, was the first recipient of the Distinguished Artist Award of The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia (America's oldest continuing musical organization), given for "outstanding achievement and artistic merit." Ms. Raim has appeared as soloist with the Detroit, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, the New Orleans Philharmonic and the major orchestras of Prague, Hamburg, Lausanne and Vienna. She has also participated in such major international music festivals as Marlboro, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Meadow Brook, Grand Teton, Bard, Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Luzern and Montreux. Cynthia Raim graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1977, where she studied with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and where she was awarded the Festorazzi Award for Most Promising Pianist at Curtis.

Violinist Itamar Zorman is the winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where he performed in the winners' concerts with Maestro Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. He previously won the first prize and special prize for best performance of a Mozart Concerto at the 2010 Freiburg International Violin Competition in Germany. In April 2011, upon winning the Juilliard Berg Concerto Competition, he made his Avery Fisher Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra led by James DePreist. Born in Tel-Aviv to a family of musicians, Mr. Zorman holds degrees from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music.

Born in Los Angeles to a family of musicians, cellist Brook Speltz made his concerto debut with the Houston Symphony after taking First Prize in the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition. He has since appeared as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in the U.S. and abroad.

Violinist Robin Scott has won top prizes in a number of competitions, including the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, the Irving M Klein International String Competition and the Stulberg International String Competition. He has performed as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre National de Lille (France), among others and has performed chamber music at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, and Jordan Hall, and has taken part in the Marlboro, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall and Maine Chamber Music Festivals.

Called "the classical world's most coveted retreat," Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival has been based, since its inception in 1951, on the concept of having master artists play together with exceptional young professionals, creating a dynamic, collaborative approach to learning. Musicians from Marlboro tours have introduced such great talents as Yefim Bronfman, Pamela Frank, Richard Goode, Jaime Laredo, Murray Perahia, Paula Robison, András Schiff, Peter Serkin, Richard Stoltzman, Christian Tetzlaff, Benita Valente and Harold Wright, among others. They have also included other exceptional artists who later joined the Brentano, Chicago, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, Miami, Muir, Tokyo, St. Lawrence and Ying Quartets, and the Beaux Arts, Eroica, Mannes, and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trios and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.