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Master Course 2001

Venues

St Cyprians Church & Rudolf Steiner House

Faculty

• Sherrill Milnes Voice)
• Gyorgy Pauk (Violin)
• Ralph Kirshbaum (Cello)
• Norma Fisher (Piano)
• Benjamin Zander (Conducting)

Voice Class:

Zara Ballara (New Zealand), Megan Dorke (UK), Donna Maree Dunlop (Australia), Lalitha Bellino (Italy), Michael Dewis (UK), Joao Fernandes (Portugal), Catriona Gallo (UK), Nicolino Giacolone (UK/Canada), Fan Chang Kong (China), Alenka Ponjavic (Croatia), Jonathan Prentice (UK), Sani Muliaumaseali'I (Samoa/New Zealand)

Accompanist - Nigel Foster

Violin Class:

Andra Arnicane (Latvia), Eva Mjoll Ingolfsdottir (Iceland), Carrie Kennedy (USA), Lu Lu (China), Alan Parmenter (UK), John Pearce (UK), Aya Sanada (Japan), Matama Takahashi (Japan), Sanaya Tanabe (Japan), Monika Vavrinkova (Czech Republic), Sara Wolstenholme (UK)

Accompanist - Tom Blach

Cello Class:

James Barralet (UK),Nathaniel Boyd (UK), Pierre Doumenge (France), Lea Duret (France), Claes Gunnarson (Sweden), Andreas Gulden (Norway), Yoohong Lee (Korea), Jane O'Hara (UK), Tim Smedley (UK), Mateusz Swoboda (Canada), Nicholas Trgygstad (USA)

Accompanist - Gretel Dowdeswell

Piano Class:

Arta Arnicane (Latvia), Oksana Guramalta (Romania), Damian Girvin (UK), Dmytro Onyshenko (Ukraine), Kodo Osada ( UK/Japan), Alexandre Pirojenko (Russia), Greg Smith (Australia), Lilia Stoycheva (USA), Sarah Tysman (France), Sophie Postal-Vinay (France)

Conducting Class:

Rufus Frowde (UK), Jonathan James (UK), Yuri Kimizuka (Brazil), James Lowe (UK), Michael Mishra (USA), Mark Mortimer (UK), Christopher O'Reilly (UK), Paul Sanders (UK)

Accompanists: Stephen Gutman/ Masahiko Shimo (pianos), LMC double string quartet with Katrin Gilbert (Viola) Natalie Cole (Horn), Ben Cunningham (Double Bass), Emma Ramsdale (Harp)

Selections for the Young Master Concert were:

Michael Dewis and Donna Maree Dunlop (Voice), Yoohong Lee (Cello), Lu Lu (Violin), Alexandre Pirojenko and Dmytro Onyshenko (Piano)

Other news

The entire Course was filmed by Iambic Productions Ltd for Digital Classics TV and onlineclassics.com. A series of five one-hour programmes has been made and will be shown on Arts Channels worldwide. Master Concert given by Faculty members.