Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Presents Chamber Concert, 11/21

Join the A2SO on November 21th at 1:30 pm at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor for the next in our continuing chamber recital series. This hour-long chamber concert features works by Mozart and Schumann played by Arie Lipsky our Music Director and Conductor, Aaron Berofsky, Concert Master, Kathryn Votapek, A2SO Associate Concert Master and Kathryn's father Ralph Votapek, Piano Professor of Piano at Michigan State University. With such talented musicians this will a concert you won't want to miss.

Cellist, Music Director and Conductor, Arie Lipsky served as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Ohio Opera. He moved to Buffalo in 1984 to become the Buffalo Philharmonic's principal cellist and in 1990, he became the Resident Conductor. In early 1995, on short notice, Arie replaced the late Eduardo Mata conducting the Israel Chamber Orchestra, where his success resulted in return engagements with many of Israel's

orchestras. Lipsky also conducted the Arthur Rubinstein Orchestra in Lód?, Poland. Lipsky is the Music Director of the Ashland Symphony (Ohio), Principal Guest Conductor of Haifa Symphony Orchestra, and also conducts major orchestras in the United States, Canada and Europe. He teaches Chamber Music during the summer at the Chautauqua Institution.

Violinist Aaron Berofsky has performed with orchestras in the United States, Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada. He has performed the complete cycle of Mozart violin sonatas at the International Festival Deia in Spain and has appeared in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Corocoran Gallery, Het Doelen, L'Octogone, the Teatro San Jose and the Museo de Bellas Artes. Mr. Berofsky has been featured on NPR's Performance Today and on the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Recent recital tours have taken him to Germany and Italy, and he was featured soloist on the 2009 NAXOS recording of music by Paul Fetler, performed by the Ann Arbor Symphony, including the debut recording of Fettler's Concerto No. 2. An alumnus of the Juilliard School, Mr. Berofsky was a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay.

Violinist, Kathryn Votapek has been Guest Lecturer of Violin and Viola at the University of Michigan and has served on the faculty of the Meadowmount School of Music, the Interlochen Arts Camp, the Las Vegas Music Festival, the Madeline Island Music Camp, the Quartet Program, the Banff International Festival, and the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival (Italy), as well as performing at the Speedside Festival (Canada), the Klosterkamp Kammermusikfest (Germany), the International Deia Festival (Spain), the Garth Newel Festival, the Fontana Festival, and with the Chicago Chamber Musicians. Ms. Votapek received her Bachelor of Music degree at Indiana University and Masters degree from the Juilliard School. Her teachers were Robert Mann, Franco Gulli, and Angel Reyes.

Pianist, Ralph Votapek's has made hundreds of appearances with major American orchestras. Featured no less than16 times as the Chicago Symphony's guest soloist, Votapek has frequently played with the Boston Pops, also concertizing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and elsewhere. Mr. Votapek began his musical education at age nine, when he enrolled in the Wisconsin Conservatory. Continuing his studies at Northwestern University, he subsequently attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Rosina Lhevinne and Robert Goldsand.
He has served as Artist-in-Residence at Michigan State University where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Piano at the College of Music.