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Violinist Harris Shilakowsky, formed the professional ensemble, the Bristol Chamber Orchestra in 1999 and is its Music Director. Shilakowsky has appeared as soloist with the New Orleans, Omaha and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, the New England Conservatory and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, and in live recitals on NPR Stations in Boston, Omaha and Nashville. He also performs with groups such as the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera Co., and the American Symphony. He was a first violinist and on-stage solo musician for the Frankfurt, 1995, production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Sunset Boulevard'. In 1994, Mr. Shilakowsky was a guest leader of the London Symphony Orchestra where he performed in recording sessions, tours and performances under music director Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir George Solti, Sir Colin Davis and André Previn in performances with Jessye Norman, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Zimmerman, and Kiri Te Kanawa, among others. He is a former concertmaster of the Charleston, New Orleans, Omaha, Grand Rapids, and Las Palmas Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has also performed with the Boston, Chautauqua and Nashville Symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston, the Opera Company of Boston, the Lyric Opera Company of Boston and the Boston Ballet. Shilakowsky earned his Bachelor of Music cum laudé from New England Conservatory of Music and a Master's Degree from Yale University. His teachers include Joseph Silverstein, Koichiro Harada, Nancy Cirillo, and Leo Panasevich of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; David Cerone, Vali Bluttner, Yair Kless, Joseph Gingold, Louis Krasner, Rudolph Kolisch, Eugene Lehner, Oscar Shumsky and members of the Tokyo Quartet. He is a Tanglewood alumnus and an active composer. He has been listed in 'Who's Who in Musical America'. He has taught at New England Conservatory Preparatory School, the Thayer Conservatory, The South Shore Conservatory, where he was the head of the string department, and as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston. |
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