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Harris Shilakowsky is the founder and first violinist of the Shilakowsky String Quartet and also conducts and performs as violin soloist of the Bristol Chamber Orchestra, a professional ensemble dedicated to performing music of all periods in diverse settings, educational concerts & special events including choral concerts. He is the director of the Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra and has also directed rehearsals with youth orchestras in Burlington, VT and at New England Conservatory of Music. In 2002, Shilakowsky was guest conductor of the Rocky Ridge Music Festival Orchestra (YAS program). He has conducted chamber orchestra concerts in Grand Rapids and Baroque readings in Germany with international musical colleagues. He was also the Founder & Director of the Strauss Orchestra of Boston and conductor of fund-raising concerts for Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic. In 1994, Mr. Shilakowsky, performed as a guest leader (a position leading the violin section) 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. Upon returning to the USA, Shilakowsky was called to serve as concertmaster for the Bocksch Concerts Production of My Fair Lady, the European Tour with Maximillian Schell. Harris Shilakowsky is a former concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (D.Stahl), the New Orleans Symphony under Maxim Shostakovich, the Omaha Symphony directed by Bruce Hangen, the Grand Rapids Symphony (Semyon Bychkov), the Orquesta Sinfonica de Las Palmas and the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has also worked with the Boston, Chautauqua and Nashville Symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Handel-Haydn Society of Boston, and the Opera Company of Boston. Other recent U.S. free-lance work includes guest-concertmaster work with Vermont Symphony, the Granite State Symphony, the Nashua Symphony. As solo violinist, Shilakowsky has appeared with the New Orleans, Omaha and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, the New England Conservatory and Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras performing Mozart, Bach and Dvorak Violin Concertos, Vaughan-Williams' "Lark Ascending" and Ravel's "Tzigane", the Brahms Concerto and Chausson "Poeme" and in live recitals on NPR Stations in Boston, Omaha and Nashville. He performed recitals in 1999 in Brockton, MA at Temple Beth Emunah, in 1998 at the Newton Free Public Library & Jewish Community Center in Newton, MA, and in Johannesburg & Pietersburg, South Africa. He also performs with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Pops, the Boston Ballet, Pro Arté Chamber Orchestra, and the American Symphony. He was a first violinist and on-stage solo musician for the Really Useful Group 'Frankfurt-1995' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. In 1995, he completed a three month contract of West Side Story performing at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany. 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, chamber music with Joseph Gingold, Louis Krasner, Rudolph Kolisch, Eugene Lehner, master classes and chamber music with Oscar Shumsky and members of the Tokyo Quartet at Yale. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1955. He is a Tanglewood alumnus, and is an active composer. He has been listed in 'Who's Who in Musical America'. He has taught at several schools, including the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, the Thayer Conservatory @ Atlantic Union College, and The South Shore Conservatory, where he was the head of the string department, and as an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston. Currently teaching individuals and coaching both youth and adult chamber ensembles privately and in conjunction with the ensembles program of the Chamber Music Society of Easton & the Bristol Chamber Orchestra and lecturing in music. Concertmaster/contractor of professional orchestras for Nutcracker performances with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre at the Collins Center in Andover, Massachusetts. Shilakowsky performs on a violin by Dom Nicolo Amati made circa 1725. |
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What is it? I've pulled my Oxford Companion to Music by Percy A. Scholes (Tenth Edition, published by Oxford University Press London, New York, Toronto 1970) from the shelf. Let me excerpt a bit from that tome. "Definition. Before public concert-giving began (in the late seventeenth century...") "...set musical performances fell into three classes, those of the church, those of the theatre, and those of the halls of royalty and the aristocracy. Those of the last class, whether vocal or instrumental, were 'Chamber Music'. we find the adjective also in the terms Sonata da Camera, or 'chamber sonata', as distinguished from the Sonata da Chiesa, or 'church sonata'..." "...and Cantata da Camera as distinguished from Cantata da Chiesa. A definition of chamber music at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, when the concert had long been a public thing, is that by Dr. Burney in Rees's Cyclopaedia (c.1805): 'Chamber Music-compositions for a small concert room, a small band, and a small audience; opposed to music for the church, the theatre, or a public concert room.' Similarly, in his History Burney spoke of chamber music comprehensively as 'cantatas, single songs, solos and trios, quartets, concertos and symphonies of few parts'. The term 'chamber music', as now used, has a narrower sense than it had in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. It excludes (quite logically) music for orchestra, chorus, and other large combinations, but also (more arbitrarily) excludes all vocal music and all instrumental music for one instrument (e.g. piano sonatas). It includes all seriously intended instrumental music for two or more instruments played with one instrument to a 'part'--and it includes nothing else. a concert of music of this sort is a 'Chamber Concert'." The Oxford continues with some examples of typical configurations, like the sextet, the quartet, duo, etc. A bit further down the page, we come across the following..."...There are too, a good many compositions for 'Chamber Orchestra', i.e., some comparatively large combinations with only one instrument to a 'part'. But this definition is not always accepted. There are organizations calling themselves 'Chamber Orchestra' that are merely small ordinary orchestra. The term is a new one and has not yet settled down to precise meaning...." Well, says Professor Harris, things change. Music and all art forms must evolve or die! The Chamber Orchestra is indeed becoming an important part of the musical scene...I hope, since I've formed one recently myself and wish for its acceptance and success! |
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about studying with Harris Shilakowsky e-mail for information & to schedule an appointment Master Violin Teacher String Clinics & Educational Programs
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in support of the Chamber Music Society of Easton
On June 8th at 7 pm a program of unaccompanied violin pieces representative of the greatest composers of unaccompanied violin music; Telemann Fantasies Bach from the Sonatas & Partitas Ysayë Sonata Paganini Caprices
On the stage at the Frederick Law Olmsted School 101 Lothrop Street North Easton, MA 02356
For directions: http://www.easton.k12.ma.us/Olmsted/index.htm
This Concert is free and open to the public and is intended to bring attention and support for the Chamber Music Society of Easton, the non-profit organization which also supports the concerts and educational activities of the Bristol Chamber Orchestra, the only professional chamber orchestra in Southeastern Massachusetts. Admission: FREE We are a non-profit organization interested in promoting and creating music of high artistic standards. Sponsored by the Chamber Music Society of Easton & the Bristol Chamber Orchestra
1200 Center Street, Roslindale 617-325-8000 on November 29, 2006 at 10:15 am Harris Shilakowsky, concert violinist with Rina Shiller, pianist in a Duo Recital featuring works by Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Gershwin, Debussy, Grieg and Jewish Favorites.Shiller is an active piano teacher and performed in Carnegie Hall. |
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String Clinics & Educational Programs available for schools. To augment existing programs or to help jumpstart new string programs, or simply to help students who are studying string instruments. Harris Shilakowsky performs one-day clinics, period-long lecture-demonstrations and/or residencies with structured curriculum, designed for the student demographic. Please e-mail for details. |
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