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Violinist Ann Goldschmid is the daughter of a pianist and composer.
VICTORIA BELYEU DIAZ
Special to The Jewish News
Glenn Triest
Ann Elliott Goldschmid finds being
a first violinist is a full-time job.
eet Ann Elliott Goldschmid,
a talkative, 28-year-old dy-
namo who believes in
dreams. To prove it, she
spends just about every wak-
ing minute of every hour of every day,
working to make hers come true.
Goldschmid is first violinist in
Detroit's all-female Lafayette String
Quartet, which, in the three years
since it was established, has gone far
toward making a name for itself in to-
day's highly-competitive music world.
(In addition to Goldschmid, the group
is composed of second violinist Sharon
Stanis, violist Joanna Hood and
cellist Pamela Highbaugh.)
Recently, the group, Detroit's only
full-time string quartet, topped off a
string of successes by walking off with
first prize at the national Fischoff
Chamber Music Competition in
South Bend, Ind. The win led to a con-
cert tour of the Midwest, plus perfor-
mance dates in such far-flung places
as Massachusetts, Ontario and
Switzerland. 'Ibday, the group is book-
ed through early next year, and look-
ing forward to its New York debut in
January 1990 at the Frick Museum.
"String quartet is our dream,"
says Goldschmid who, as first
violinist, serves as a kind of unofficial
leader of the group. "It's the first
thing in our lives."
What with her 12-hour working
days, endless rehearsals, practices,
concert schedules, and business
management of the quartet, it's easy
to see that this young musician
means what she says.
A life in music is something for
which Goldschmid seems to have
been destined. The daughter of a con-
cert pianist and a composer/choral
conductor, the New Brunswick-born
violinist began her study of the violin
at age 5, with Pauline Harborn, who
produced some of Canada's top
violinists. Later, she would study with
noted violinist, Victor Yampolsky,
before he left New Brunswick to teach
at Boston University.
"When I was 18, I followed him to
Boston University," she says. "I con-
sider him the foundation for my play-
ing."
After graduating from Boston
University, she found her way to
Detroit via a network of Russian-
Jewish musicians who had come to
the United States in the '70s. Misha
Rachlevsky, establishing the
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and
Saturday, admission, 538-1670.
UNIVERSITY PLAYERS
IVIendeissohn Theatre, Ann
Arbor, The Trojan Women, now
through Sunday, acln-iission.
764-0450.
PROJECT THEATRE
Trueblood Theatre, Ann Arbor,
The Last American in Paris/Le
Dernier Americain a Paris, now
through Feb. 26, admission.
764-0450.
STAGECRAFTER'S SECOND
STAGE
415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak,
Talking With . . . today and
Saturday, admission. 541-6430.
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