Proudly Introducing
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younger participants," she said. "We
have to demonstrate to them that the
beauty of chamber music is that you
can hear every single sound of every
instrument in an intimate setting that
is far different from a symphony
orchestra or a rock concert."
Community And Artistic Support
CMSD continues to have many
Jewish supporters among its almost
300 paid subscribers.
Other contributions include
$258,000 worth of endowments from
various foundations and corporate
support from businesses including
Comerica, Detroit Edison, BankOne
and the Beztak Companies.
Among the artists who have per-
formed for the CMSD are Itzhak
Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Bernstein,
Seiji Ozawa, James Galway, Jean-Pierre
Rampal, Richard Stoltzman, Ely
Ameling, Alicia de Larrocha, Midori
and Joseph Silverstein.
Chamber ensembles have included
the Guarneri String Quartet, the
English Chamber Orchestra, the Beaux
Arts Trio, the Juilliard String Quartet, I
Musici, the Cleveland Quartet and the
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Another highlight was a 50th
anniversary concert in 1994, where per-
formers from around the world played a
Beznos-inspired "musical chairs" game
by exchanging places in one another's
trios and quartets; the musicians even
contributed their fees to CMSD.
The group achieved national recog-
nition last April when famed opera
singer Jessye Norman gave a recital at
a sold-out Detroit Opera House con-
cert, again to raise funds for CSMD.
Beznos also has instituted education-
al initiatives. They include a series of
lectures and discussions by national
music authorities; master classes for
advanced music students by renowned
musicians who perform in the cham-
ber's concerts, presented in conjunction
with WSU's department of music; and
an educational enrichment program of
instruction and performance for young
students by visiting musicians.
In the 2000-2001 season, Brentano
String Quartet will conduct the educa-
tional enrichment program Feb. 1-2,
just before its Feb. 3 performance, and
will make a special trip to the area
Oct. 10-13 for educational programs
at five area elementary schools.
Formed in 1992, the group feat icres
Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin an
violin, Misha Amory on viola and Nina
Maria Lee on cello. ❑
Cantor David
Montefiore
"Cantor Montefiore, a strong tenor, has clarity
and fervor with all the right musical instincts."
New York Times
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very educated and will enjoy it."
The other musicians are violist
Kazuhide Isomura, a founding
member; violinist Kikuei Ikeda,
almost a founding member; and
cellist Clive Greensmith, the newest
addition, who replaced founding
member Sadao Harada in 1999.
"Our group is half Japanese and
half not Japanese, and that makes
us more international," says
Kopelman, 53, experienced in
international performances after 20
years with the Borodin String
uartet based in Russia.
Kopelinan's parents loved music
and gave their son a violin and start-
ed training when he was 5 years old.
They wanted him to have a very dif-
ferent life from theirs as his mother
tried to put a year in Auschwitz
behind her and his father worked as
a tailor after escaping the Germans
and becoming a prisoner in Russia.
Kopelman went on to graduate
from the Moscow Conservatory,
win second prize in the Jacques
Thibaud International Competition
in Paris, perform with the Bolshoi
Theatre Orchestra, serve as concert-
master of the Moscow Philharmonic
Orchestra and teach at the Moscow
Conservatory.
"All my family moved to the
United States together," says
Kopelman, saddened by the loss of
many relatives during World War II.
"For the first three years, I was usu-
ally out of the country playing with
the Borodin Quartet. The group's
management was in London."
Kopelman's wife, Anna, and their
daughter, Ellsaveta, are both
pianists pursuing their own careers
in America.
"When we first came to the
United States, we lived in a very
Orthodox Jewish area in Brookly
Kopelman says. "My mom and
Anna's parents have gone to syna-
gogue [regularly]. My wife and I
have moved to the Bronx, and last
year [for the holidays] we went to a
synagogue close to us,"
Although Kopelman's career keeps
him traveling, he still enjoys traveling
when not required by work.
"I like to see countries I have
never seen before," he explains. "I
always have been very interested in
teaching chamber music and solo
violin. The quartet has a residency
at Yale University, and I teach
there." ❑
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