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Chamber Music Institute Alumni Updates
(Summer 2009)

Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute offers students daily interaction with world-renowned musicians, multiple performance opportunities, and an engaging series of classes and lectures. This immersive, personal, and rigorous approach to teaching is paying off, and we are pleased to share with you some recent accomplishments of our talented alumni. We will add new updates to the Web site quarterly, so please check back often. If you have alumni notes you’d like to share, please email them to info@musicatmenlo.org.

Cellist Jeremiah Campbell (Young Performers Program ’03, ’04, and ’05) won the Senior Division of the Oakland East Bay Symphony’s 2008 Young Artist Competition and consequently performed Barber’s Cello Concerto with the orchestra in June 2008. Campbell is currently a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

The Hausmann Quartet (International Program ’08) won the Morrison Fellowship International Competition and will be in residence at San Francisco State University working alongside the Alexander String Quartet for the 2009–2010 school year. The group is looking forward to extensive teaching, studying, and performing on its own and with the Alexander String Quartet and other artists while in residence. The musicians loved reconnecting with members of the Music@Menlo community at the competition in San Francisco and are happy to be moving to the Bay Area. The quartet will spend this summer at the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival.

Violinist Bella Hristova (International Program ’06) won First Prize in the 2008–2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where she was also awarded the Rhoda Walker Teagle Prize, which will sponsor her New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series.

Violist David Kim (International Program ’04) was recently offered a position with the San Francisco Symphony’s viola section.

Violist Edward Klorman (International Program ’06) was appointed to the faculty of the Juilliard School (as its youngest member), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music theory. He continues as Executive and Co-Artistic Director of the Canandaigua Lake Music Festival, which is entering its fifth season. Klorman is grateful to David Finckel, Wu Han, and Music@Menlo’s staff for their guidance and mentorship with that project. He performs regularly with the newly formed Tessera Quartet.

Violinist Kenneth Renshaw (Young Performers Program ’07 and ’08) was named a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist by NPR’s From the Top and performed live in a September 2008 show, which was later broadcast nationwide. Renshaw is the Co-Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra for the 2008–2009 season and is also a member of the Youth Orchestra Quartet. In January 2009, he won first place in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Bronislaw Kaper Awards for Young Artists competition. As winner of the CYS Young Artist Competition, he played the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the California Youth Symphony in March 2009.

Cellist Julia Rosenbaum (Young Performers Program ’07, ’08, and ’09) performed the Lalo Concerto with the Landon Symphonette in Maryland in April 2009 as one of five finalists in the 2008–2009 Landon Symphonette String Competition and won Third Prize. Rosenbaum was the youngest of the thirty-six musicians in the competition. She also won First Prize at the Young Soloist Recital series at the Alden Theatre in Virginia and Second Prize at the Washington Performing Arts Society’s annual Feder String Competition in the advanced level, cello/bass category.