BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2260@witherlelibrary.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T143000 DTSTAMP:20260402T200844Z URL:https://witherlelibrary.net/events/a-little-afternoon-music/ SUMMARY:A Little Afternoon Music DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nJoin us for a series of concerts on Saturday afterno ons in April. Co-sponsored by the Castine Arts Association. Light refreshm ents will be served. This event is free of charge and all are welcome.  L ibrary Reading Room\n\nThis Saturday we feature internationally renowned c ellist Marion Feldman.\nMarion Feldman is recognized as one of today’s l eading performers and pedagogues of cello and chamber music. She is a memb er of the artist faculty at New York University\, Steinhardt School Depart ment of Music and Performing Arts Professions\, where she teaches cello an d chamber music. Along with this\, she has been on the cello and chamber m usic faculty of Manhattan School of Music\, College and Preparatory Divisi ons\, since 1974 and the CUNY Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music since 1972. She also is a member of the faculty at the City University Graduate Center. Miss Feldman received her training as a scholarship student at Th e Juilliard School\, where she studied with her mentor\, Luigi Silva. Addi tional studies were with Leonard Rose\, Bernard Greenhouse\, and Zara Nels ova. Chamber music tutelage was with the members of the Juilliard String Q uartet\, William Primrose\, Artur Balsam\, Louis Persinger\, and Hans Letz .\nLater\, she attended the Accademia Chigiana in Siena\, ltaly\, for summ er courses with Andre Navarra. Following this\, she coached with Marion Da vies\, a student of the famous Emanuel Feuermann\, gaining musical and tec hnical insight into his highly regarded approach to music-making and cello playing. Miss Feldman has appeared extensively throughout the United Stat es and the Far East as orchestral soloist\, recitalist\, and chamber music ian. Included among her many engagements have been numerous recitals at Ca rnegie Recital Hall (Weill)\, Tully Hall (Lincoln Center)\, and Merkin Hal l in New York City. She has been invited to many festivals in the Far East \, among them those in Taiwan\, Korea\, and Mainland China. In 1992 and in 2001\, she participated in government-sponsored tours of Taiwan. In addit ion to this\, in 2001 she appeared in concert in Taipei giving master clas ses sponsored by the Quanta Education Foundation and the Taipei American S chool. This led to a collaboration for concerts at the National Concert Ha ll in Taipei\, and master classes with members of the Ars Trio Taipei. Fro m 1993 to the present\, she has appeared at many festivals in Korea. These include the Seoul Music Festival\, Cheju-Halla Festival\, and the Kangneu ng-Manhattan Festival.\nShe was invited to be a visiting professor for the spring festival at the Soong-Sil University in Seoul\, where she gave a s eries of master classes. During the last three summers she has taught and performed at the Dae-Jin University Festival in Seoul\, Korea. Ms. Feldman was invited by the government of Mainland China to give master classes an d a recital at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Central Conservatory in B eijing. Marion Feldman is presently a member of the chamber group Metamorp hosis\, a piano quartet that is comprised of NYU faculty members.\nShe was for ten years a member of the New York Lyric Arts Trio. The group not onl y toured the United States but also founded the Downeast Chamber Music Cen ter in Castine\, Maine. The Center ran both a summer school and a chamber series which featured the trio. Later\, she joined the New Manhattan Trio with the late Erick Friedman\, violinist\, and Joseph Seiger\, pianist. Sh e has also been a member of the Lorenzo Trio and the Aureus Ensemble.\nIn the Fall of 2014-15 she gave a series of master classes in Taiwan. They we re at the prestigious National Taipei Arts University\, Shih-Chien Normal University\, National Kaoshiung Normal University and Taiwan Classical Mus ic Society. In the United States her summer activities have included: Down east Chamber Music Center as co-director and cello and chamber music facul ty\, NYU String Quartet Intensive as co-director and cello and chamber mus ic faculty\, NYU Summer Strings cello and chamber music faculty\, Aria\, S ummit and Waterloo Summer Festivals and Manhattan in the Mountains. In Mar ch 2015 she became a recipient of an NYU Excellence in Teaching Award. One of her recent projects has been compiling and editing the Cello Legacy Se ries for Carl Fisher music publishing company. Her published works are Cas als Legacy\, Rostropovich: In Memoriam\, Feuermann Legacy\, and Du Pré Le gacy. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://witherlelibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2 026/03/Screen-Shot-2017-02-13-at-11-1.webp CATEGORIES:Adult Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR