Music at Main: The Chelsea Duo January 29, 2011

The Cleveland Public Library is pleased to present the Chelsea Duo on January 29th, 2011at 2pmin the Fine Arts Department on the 3rd floor of Main Library (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114). The Chelsea Duo, consisting of Annie Fullard, violin (from Cavani String Quartet) and Marcia Ferritto, viola, will perform a program entitled "A Bohemian Sampler" with music by Béla Bartók and Bohuslav Martinů. This concert is FREE and open to all ages. For more information call 216-623-2848 or visit http://cpl.org/musicatmain. Please join us for this informal, intimate and entertaining concert.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Annie Fullard, violinist, is a founding member of the Cavani String Quartet which is a winner of numerous awards and prizes including the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Cleveland Quartet Competition and the Banff, Fischoff and Carmel Competions. Ms. Fullard and her colleagues in The Cavani Quartet were named Musical America's Young Artists of the Year 1989 and received the 1998 ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, the 2005 Guarneri String Quartet Residency Award and eight Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Grants. Ms. Fullard has toured extensively throughout the United States and abroad, including a Mozart 2006 tour of Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague, and a tour with Chamber Music Connection Italia, featuring a performance at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome. Other appearances include Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Corcoran Gallery and Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Ambassador Series in Los Angeles, Festival L'Epau in France, and the Ijsbreker Series in Amsterdam. Ms. Fullard has had the honor of collaborating with Itzhak Perlman, Robert Mann, Alisa Weilerstein, Anton Nel, Stephanie Blythe Charles Neidich and Joel Smirnoff as well as members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Miami, Takacs, Ying, Emerson, Borodin, Amadeus, and St. Lawrence String Quartets.
Deeply committed to arts-education, Ms. Fullard has given master classes and lecture demonstrations at music festivals, universities and public and private schools in communities across the country. As member of the faculty and Quartet-in-Residence at The Cleveland Institute of Music since 1988, Ms. Fullard also serves as Artistic Advisor for Community Engagement at CIM and Director of Chamber Music at Case Western Reserve University since 2002 and is the Director of Chamber Music for the Young Artist Program at CIM.
In collaboration with her colleagues she has developed the Apprentice Quartet Program, Intensive Quartet Seminar, New Quartet Project and M.A.P. (Music, Art & Poetry) PROJECT. Ms. Fullard is former artist-in-residence at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Texas and is currently visiting-artist at the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Ms. Fullard pursued additional studies at the Indiana University and Yale University. Her teachers and mentors include Donald Weilerstein, Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli, Earl Carlyss and Peter Salaff. A resident of Shaker Heights, Ms. Fullard, lives with her husband Jim, son Sam, and two cats named Music and Art and enjoys reading, and downhill skiing.

Marcia Ferritto, violist, is a nationally recognized solo and chamber music performer currently on the faculty at The Cleveland Institute of Music. Called "a violist with a full singing tone, delicacy, grace and instrumental command" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, her background includes a distinguished career as a chamber music player, soloist and teacher. She has performed in major concert halls in the United States and Canada including the Kennedy Center and Blossom Music Center. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she received her professional training in Philadelphia as a student of Max Aronoff at The New School of Music. Her studies also include work with William Lincer, Joseph Fuchs and Donald McInnes. Having served on the artist faculty at Wittenberg University and Baldwin-Wallace College in past years she has taught at Kent State University and has been a member of the artist faculty of the Kent/Blossom Summer Music Festival. Ms. Ferritto is a member of Chamber Music America and has served as a panelist at national conferences in recent years as well as consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residencies Program initiative. She has served as clinician and adjudicator for OMEA and ASTA and as a member of the Young Artists Competition Advisory Board for the National Federation of Music Clubs. She has served on the finals jury of the Sphinx Competition for Young Black and Latino String Players as well as a review panelist for Chamber Music America/National Endowment Awards. She is currently Director of the Youth String Camerata at the Cleveland Institute of Music and performs as principal viola of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. She is recorded on Crystal records.

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 19th, 2011 "New Instrumental Works of H. Leslie Adams"
February 26th, 2011 Holy Grove Missionary Baptist Church Choir
April 2nd, 2011 Cavani String Quartet
July 2nd, 2011 Cleveland Clinic Concert Band

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