Faculty for 2011 Litomysl International String Master Class

November 18, 2010 at 8:22 PM

Litomysl International String Master Class, July 17 - August 7, 2011, Litomysl, Czech Republic

FACULTY

MILAN VITEK has been professor of violin at Oberlin College Conservatory since 2001, and is Professor Emeritus at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Denmark. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen from 1974 to 2001, and a guest professor at the Music Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 1992 to 2001. Before moving to Denmark in 1968, Prof. Vítek was a founding member, concert master and soloist with the Prague Chamber Soloists, and a member of the Czech Nonet and the piano trio Pro
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In Denmark, he was alternate concert master with the Danish Royal Orchestra. Following two years as a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, Milan Vitek returned to Denmark in 1974 to become Professor at the Royal Danish Music Academy. During this time, he co-founded the Trio Pro Arte, which made acclaimed recordings of the complete Brahms trios and trios by Smetana and Mendelssohn for the BIS label.

Prof. Vitek is much in demand as a teacher at master classes such as Aldeburgh (England), Keshet Eilon (Israel), Yokosuka Festival (Japan) a Yuriko Kuronuma Academy (Mexico City), Weikersheim (Germany) and Savonlinna (Finland). He also served as Chairman of the Danish Suzuki Society.

He has adjudicated international violin competitions in Denmark - where he is Chair of the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competion and the Danish String Competition - Germany, Japan, Estonia and Italy. His students are winners and laureates of among others the Carl Nielsen, J. Kocian, Heino Eller, Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, Washington International, Yehudi Menuhin International, the Jean Sibelius Violin Competitions, and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

PER ENOKSSON began studying the violin with Alice Goldschmid and later continued his studies with Professor Milan Vitek. After gaining a Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, in 1982, he then continued his studies in New York with Professor Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. Per Enoksson also participated in masterclasses with Henryk Szeryng and Isaac Stern.

He has distinguishing himself as 1st prize winner in the Carl Nielsen and the Jean Sibelius International Violin Competitions. Per Enoksson's career includes solo performances with all the leading Scandinavian orchestras, including the Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Swedish Radio, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Malmö S.O., Helsinki and Danish Radio Orchestras

Per Enoksson has recorded several discs, which include the complete Brahms sonatas, Busoni and Sjögren sonatas and Messiaens Quartet for the end of time.

In recent years, his teaching posts have included positions at the College of Music, Oslo and at the Academy of Music, Copenhagen. Per Enoksson is presently Professor at Edsberg, Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm and the College of Music, University of Gothenburg.

Per Enoksson is leader of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and plays a Stradivarius (1697) and a Nicolas Lupot (1798).

KIRSTEN DOCTER, violist, is a member of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award winning Cavani String Quartet. She was the first prize winner of the Primrose International and the American String Teachers Association Viola Competitions Ms. Docter has toured extensively throughout the United States and abroad, including appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Corcoran Gallery and Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Ambassador Series in Los Angeles, and Festival L'Epau in France.

She has performed with distinguished artists including members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Takacs, Miami, Ying, Emerson, Borodin, Amadeus, St. Lawrence and Colorado String Quartets, the Weilerstein Trio, Itzhak Perlman, Robert Mann, Franklin Cohen, Anton Nel, Stephanie Blythe, Nathan Gunn and Charles Neidich. Ms. Docter and the Cavani quartet received the ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, the Guarneri String Quartet Residency Award, the Ohio Governor’s Award and five Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Grants. The quartet records for Azica Records, and can also be heard on the Gasparo and New World Records labels.

Ms. Docter has performed and taught at festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, Yellowbarn Young Artist Program, Interlochen Arts Camp, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk, Mimir Festival, Encore School for Strings and the Perlman Music Program. She serves on the national board of the American Viola Society.

Deeply committed to arts-education, Ms. Docter has given master classes and lecture demonstrations at music festivals, universities and public and private schools in numerous communities throughout the US and abroad. She serves on the viola and chamber music faculties at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and is Visiting Assistant Professor of Chamber Music at the Oberlin Conservatory. As a member of the faculty and Quartet-in-Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Ms. Docter, in collaboration with her colleagues has developed the Apprentice Program, Intensive Quartet Seminar, New Quartet Project and M.A.P. (Music, Art & Poetry) PROJECT. She is former artist-in-residence at the University of Texas and the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale.

NIELS ULLNER, cellist, studied with the Danish cellist Asger Lund Christiansen and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier, William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Since his debut recital in Copenhagen in 1981, he has received a number of prestigious awards, namely the Jacob Gade Prize, the Artist Prize of the Danish Music Critics’ Society and the Memorial Prize of the Breuning-Bache String Quartet.

Prof. Ullner was a member of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1985, and is currently the principal cellist of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden). He has taught at the Music Academies in Copenhagen, Århus, Odense and Malmö since 1986, becoming an Professor on the faculty of the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense (Denmark) in 2009.

Internationally, Niels Ullner is a much sought-after teacher at master classes and as a judge in music competitions. Since 1999 he has been a permanent faculty member of the summer master class.”Danish Strings” and, since 2001, a permanent member of the jury in ”The International Duo Competition” in Katrineholm, Sweden. As of 2004, he is a member of the board of and a judge in ”The Danish String Competition.” In 2010 he will sit on the jury of “The International Cello Competition in Åbo, (Finland).

Prof. Ullner has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, Japan and in Cuba. He has been a member of several chamber music groups including The Danish String Quartet and Musica Danica, and has a permanent duo partnership with the Danish pianist, Anne Øland. In 1995 he was nominated for a Swedish Grammy award for his recording of the Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra by Gösta Nystroem with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Järvi.

Niels Ullner plays an instrument built in Cremona in 1667 by Francesco Ruggieri, which was purchased for him by the MSO 1992.