Chamber Music Featuring Pianist Itay Goren and Violinist Evelyn Estava
Sunday October 28th, 2012 4:00PM
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Artist Information:
ITAY GOREN, Pianist
Pianist ITAY GOREN was born in Haifa, Israel. From an early age, his love of music led him into a broad range of musical activities as a performer, composer and arranger. After attending a music high school in Ra’anana, he joined the army bands where he served for three years and gave over three hundred performances. Following a year at the Rimon School of Music, Itay continued his studies at William Paterson University of New Jersey where he studied with Elka Kirkpatrick. He graduated with highest distinctions and awards with was the first student to graduate with a double major in Classical Performance and Jazz Studies, a program he initiated together with Professor Elka Kirkpatrick which is now offered at the University. He is currently on the faculty of the music department at Ramapo College of New Jersey where he teaches piano and theory aside from his work with the various vocal ensembles.
In the past few years he has performed extensively in solo recitals, chamber music and as soloist with orchestras in the metropolitan area and abroad. His performances in the Hindemithon festival, the Pacific Music Festival in Guam and a choral festival in the Czech Republic were greeted with high acclaim. Classical New Jersey described his playing as "an evocative journey from shimmering excitement to calm contemplation". In the summer of 2008, Itay gave successful recitals at the Palffy Palace in Prague and in the American Cathedral in Paris, where he played again in 2009. Itay was the featured soloist in the Beethoven Celebration concert at William Paterson University, where he performed the G major Piano Concerto. In recent seasons he performed at concerts dedicated to Bela Bartok’s, Robert Schumann’s and Villa-Lobos’ music. He was asked to give a special solo concert at the Stephen Wise Synagogue in New York in honor of Israel’s Memorial Day and prepared a very successful Russian program which he presented in several venues including the Nicholas Roerich Museum in NYC and the Scots Church in Paris.
Last season’s performances included collaboration with the Madison String Quartet, an appearance at the 10th Hindemithon Festival, a return tour of France, solo recitals at the Cornelia Street Cafe and St. Peter’s Church in New York City as well as a fund raising concert at the Israeli Arts Festival in Mahwah, NJ which featured the world premiere of NYC composer David Winkler’s Ballade.
EVELYN ESTAVA, Violinist
Violinist Evelyn Estava has earned recognition as one of the top performing artists in her native Venezuela. She has made many guest soloist appearances with orchestras in North and South America, including the Mexico State Symphony, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Falcon. At age 15, Ms Estava became a member of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the crowning jewel of that country’s celebrated music education program “El Sistema”. Later she won the Associate Concertmaster position in the Orquesta Filarmonica Nacional, where she was also the first violinist of that orchestra's string sextet. Ms. Estava completed her musical studies at the Simon Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas, where she was a student of Jose Francisco Del Castillo. She has studied chamber music with Josef Gingold, Philip Setzer, Lawrence Dutton and Arnold Steinhardt, and performed for six years at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont, where she was a scholarship student and assistant of Margaret Pardee. She has also played in Master Classes for Augustin Dumay, Olivier Charlier, Ruggiero Ricci, Eugene Fodor and Henryk Szeryng. Ms. Estava performs regularly with the Harrisburg Symphony, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the Westfield Symphony, and is in the Faculty at Felician College and Vermont Music and Arts. She currently serves as concertmaster of the Plainfield Symphony, and is the first violinist of the Madison String Quartet. With this group she has recorded their first CD, “Life is a Dream”, which includes music from North and South America. As winner of the Artists International Special Presentation Award, Ms Estava made her New York debut in 2005 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
Reviews of her playing include the following: "Special mention should be made of Evelyn Estava’s gorgeous tone. She exploited every nuance in the book" (Win Pusey, Mount Desert Islander); "That intangible subliminal is luminosity, sparked by [MSQ] first violinist Evelyn Estava, who generated a supersonic brilliance that turned scores to prisms, phrases to facets of light." (Kitty Montgomery, Rhinebeck Daily Freeman)
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