East End Arts is now accepting student applications for the 2013 Music Masters Fellowship Program, an intensive nine-week string orchestra workshop opportunity which will be conducted and mentored by professional cellist and conductor Nico Olarte-Hayes, long-time student of Itzhak Perlman. The program will take place from September 30 through December 9, 2013. To apply, high school string students must submit an online application including a recorded performance sample.
The deadline to submit applications is Friday, September 13, 2013. Application and guidelines are available on the East End Arts website.
High school string musicians with exceptional musical ability and a passion for music are encouraged to apply for this rigorous workshop opportunity for violin, viola, cello, and double bass students, to be held on Monday evenings between September 30 and December 2, 2013 at the East End Arts School in Riverhead, with a final performance on Monday, December 9, 2013 at a Riverhead location to be announced. There are no fees for participation in the Music Masters Fellowship Program. Of the applicants, 16 to 24 string students from all 17 regional school districts will be selected to participate based upon their performance skills. Nico Olarte-Hayes, the conductor and mentor for this program, is one of today’s most promising musical talents, an alum of the Perlman Music Summer Program, and a long-time student of virtuoso Itzhak Perlman. The selected students will have the incredible opportunity to work under the baton of this professional string player and conductor, and will be given training in professional rehearsal and performance skills. This full scholarship, tuition-free fellowship program allows select students to participate in an ensemble of talent, under the guidance of a music industry professional.
Application submissions are now being accepted by the East End Arts School, and must be received by September 13, 2013 to be considered for this program. Recording quality of performance sample will not be judged. For application and complete details, click here.
This program follows East End Arts and the Perlman Music Program’s second annual collaborative master class opportunity for East End string students to work under the baton of Maestro Itzhak Perlman, which first took place in July 2012 and will again this July 2013. East End Arts is thrilled to be providing an additional opportunity for local string students to work with a professional string musician.
More Information about Nico Olarte-Hayes, 2013 Music Masters Mentor
Nico Olarte-Hayes is quickly establishing himself as one of today’s most promising musical talents. As a cellist, he has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center and the Neue Galerie in New York City, in Memphis’ Artists Ascending Series and New York’s Young Musician’s Forum, and throughout the Netherlands and Japan. He has played on Live From Lincoln Center (PBS) and The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS) in tribute to violinist Itzhak Perlman, a longtime mentor, and has collaborated frequently with Perlman, giving performances in Carnegie Hall, in Sarasota’s Van Wezel Hall, and most recently, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Other collaborations include performances with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and with pianist Christopher O’Riley in Boston’s Jordan Hall, broadcast on PBS and NPR, respectively.
Nico is also an accomplished conductor. Most recently, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra under Music Director Federico Cortese at Harvard University, and before that, was Music Director of Harvard’s Dunster House Opera, leading its fully staged production of Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. He was also founding Music Director of Harvard’s Haydn Society Orchestra. His teachers have included Hugh Wolff, Jorma Panula, Peter Eötvös, Larry Rachleff, Kenneth Kiesler, Harold Farberman, and Peter Gülke, and this past summer, he studied with Gianluigi Gelmetti at Italy’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He has also conducted the Sofia Festival Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Antonio Soler, and Salzburg Chamber Soloists as a participant in numerous international workshops.
Nico began his musical studies at the age of three, and completed his pre-college studies “with distinction” at The Juilliard School under David Soyer and Harvey Shapiro. During the summers, he studied at the Perlman Music Program, Itzhak Perlman’s private music school, under Ronald Leonard and Paul Katz. In 2012, he graduated with honors from the Harvard/NEC Joint Program, earning an A.B. in Physics from Harvard College, where he studied music with Robert Levin, and an M.M. in Cello Performance from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Laurence Lesser. He lives in New York City.
More about the Music Masters Fellowship Program
The Music Masters Fellowship Program was created with the goal of providing local students with one-on-one learning opportunities with masters in the music field, and to encourage student pursuit of post-graduate education. By creating this exciting and enriching program for the students, East End Arts is the catalyst for an expanded sense of opportunity and possibility throughout the academic year. The fellowship program is mentored by a master performer and composer in rock music, jazz, world music or classical music, who works with a small group of talented high school students. Participating students are selected based on auditions and recommendations from music teachers and administrators in 17 school districts. The pilot program, which took place during the spring of 2011, was mentored by Corky Laing, drummer and songwriter from “Mountain,” and “West, Bruce & Laing”; the second program, which took place in the spring of 2012 was mentored by singer/songwriter Lauren Kinhan of New York Voices and JaLaLa.
For more information about the Music Masters Fellowship Program, contact the East End Arts School at 631-369-2171 or education@eastendarts.org.
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