CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF EASTON

Presents:

the Bristol Chamber Orchestra

MASTER CLASS

Longy School of Music

3:10 pm Saturday, October 15, 2005

with Harris Shilakowsky

the Bristol Chamber Orchestra... a new chamber orchestra...built of a core of 11 highly talented, trained string players, to which we add french horns and oboes, flutes and trumpets and other instruments in concerts featuring talented guest soloists and collaborations with other area featured performing groups.

The orchestra also features the winners of the BCO Music Scholarship Fund, established in 1999 to reward excellence in the performance and composition of music.

The music director; Harris Shilakowsky has appeared as solo violinist 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.

Shilakowsky performs with groups such as the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Pops, the Boston Ballet, Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera Co. and the American Symphony. He was on-stage solo musician for the 'Frankfurt-1995' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. He has been a guest leader of the London Symphony Orchestra performing recording sessions, tours and performances under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and Sir George Solti, Sir Colin Davis and André Previn in performances with Jessye Norman, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Zimmerman, and Kiri Tekanawa, among others. He is an active performer in many New England venues.

He is a former concertmaster of the Charleston, New Orleans, Omaha, Grand Rapids and Las Palmas Symphony Orchestras and 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, and the Opera Company of Boston.

Harris 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 and Yair Kless, Joseph Gingold, Louis Krasner, Rudolph Kolisch, Eugene Lehner, Oscar Shumsky and members of the Tokyo Quartet. He is a Tanglewood alumnus, and is an active composer listed in 'Who's Who in Musical America'. He has taught at New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Thayer Conservatory, South Shore Conservatory, and as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston.

phone: 508-238-6015 email: mailto:boxoffice@bristolchamberorchestra.org