Jaime LaredoPerforming for over five decades before audiences across the globe, Jaime Laredo has excelled in the multiple roles of soloist, conductor, recitalist, pedagogue, and chamber musician. Since his stunning orchestral debut at the age of eleven with the San Francisco Symphony, he has won the admiration and respect of audiences, critics, and fellow musicians with his passionate and polished performances. His education and development were greatly influenced by his teachers Josef Gingold and Ivan Galamian, as well as by private coaching with eminent masters Pablo Casals and George Szell. At the age of 17, Jaime Laredo won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition, launching his rise to international prominence.

Symphony Orchestra, and along with his wife Sharon he is Artistic Director of the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Pamela FrankAmerican violinist Pamela Frank has established an outstanding international reputation across an unusually varied range of performing activity. The breadth of her accomplishments and her consistently high level of musicianship were recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize.

Ms. Frank has appeared with such orchestras as the Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, National, and Vienna symphonies; the Berlin, Los Angeles and New York philharmonics; the Cleveland,

soloist, or chamber musician – she has been heralded for her “fiery intensity and emotional depth” (Musical America), as well as for her technical mastery.

Miriam Fried has played with virtually every major orchestra in the United States and Europe and has been a frequent guest with the principal orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Vienna Symphony. Recital tours have taken her to all of the major music centers in North America and to Brussels, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm, and Zurich.

Chamber music plays an important role in Ms. Fried’s musical life. She was the first violinist of the

In past seasons Mr. Laredo has conducted and performed with the Chicago, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis symphonies; the Los Angeles and New York philharmonics; and the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, among many others. Abroad, Mr. Laredo has performed with the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which he led on two American tours and in their Hong Kong Festival debut.

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, ensemble in residence at the Kennedy Center, was founded by Mr. Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and pianist Joseph Kalichstein in 1976. The trio was named Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year in 2002 and performs regularly at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y in New York, and internationally. For fifteen years Mr. Laredo was also violist of the renowned piano quartet consisting of Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, and Yo-Yo Ma.

This past December, Mr. Laredo celebrated his 20th year as the conductor of the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, which brings young musicians from around the world to the stage each year for professional training. He is also Music Director of the Vermont

Minnesota, and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras; the Orchestre National de France, and the Orchestre de Paris. She has performed under many esteemed conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, and David Zinman. She appears at numerous festivals including Aldeburgh, Berlin, Blossom, Bravo! Vail Valley, Caramoor, the Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and Verbier.

Among her numerous recordings, she has recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas and an all-Schubert disc with her father, pianist Claude Frank, the Brahms sonatas with Peter Serkin, Chopin Piano Trio with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, all the Mozart concertos with David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra, and the Dvořák Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic.

A noted pedagogue on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Pamela Frank presents master classes and adjudicates major competitions throughout the world.

Miriam FriedMiriam Fried has been recognized for many years as one of the world’s preeminent violinists. A consummate musician – equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto

Mendelssohn String Quartet, and she collaborates regularly with her son, pianist Jonathan Biss. She is the Artistic Director of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, one of the country’s leading summer programs for young musicians. A noted pedagogue, Miriam Fried is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and is invited to give master classes throughout the world.

Dong-Suk KangBorn in Korea, Dong-Suk Kang has been hailed for his outstanding artistry, musicianship, and virtuosity and has performed on five continents to extraordinary acclaim. Among the many renowned orchestras with whom he has soloed are the orchestras of Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Montreal, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Rotterdam; all the Australian Broadcasting Corporation orchestras; the London Philharmonia, Leipzig Gewandhaus, French and Belgian National orchestras; NHK in Japan, and the Hong Kong, Seoul, and Malaysian philharmonics.

Mr. Kang came to the United States to study at The Juilliard School and later at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian. In 1971 he created a sensation by winning the San Francisco Symphony Foundation Competition and the Merriweather Post Competition in

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9TH Quadrennial International Violin Competition of IndianapolisSeptember 5–21, 2014

Announcing the Acclaimed Jury Led by Artistic Director Jaime Laredo

Jaime Laredo Miriam Fried Dong-Suk KangPamela Frank Boris Kuschnir

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Washington, D.C. Following a Kennedy Center debut and an appearance with Seiji Ozawa, Mr. Kang went on to win top prizes in the Montreal, Carl Flesch, and Queen Elisabeth competitions.

Mr. Kang has recorded Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Nielsen, Elgar and Walton concertos, the complete

chamber music of Honegger and Alkan, and the Furtwängler Sonata. He is a professor at Yonsei University and artistic director of both MusicAlp Festival in France and the Seoul Spring Festival in Korea.

Boris KuschnirBoris Kuschnir was born in Kiev and studied the violin at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Boris Belenky and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet. His many encounters with Dmitri Shostakovich and David Oistrakh (with whom he also studied) had a lasting influence on his artistic development.

Mr. Kuschnir was a founding member of the Moscow String Quartet and remained a member until 1979. He also founded the Vienna Schubert Trio and the Vienna Brahms Trio and has made numerous recordings for EMI, Naxos, and Nimbus Records. Mr. Kuschnir co-founded the Kopelman Quartet in 2002 with whom he is giving concerts worldwide and has released CDs for Nimbus Records and Wigmore Hall Live. Mr. Kuschnir performs with such illustrious

partners as Elisabeth Leonskaja, Leif Ove Andsnes, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Julian Rachlin, Nikolaj Znaider, Maxim Vengerov, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Renaud Capuçon, Yuri Bashmet, Gérard Caussé, Mischa Maisky, Boris Pergamenschikow, Natalia Gutman, and Steven Isserlis.

In 1984, Mr. Kuschnir became a Professor at the Konservatorium Wien University and a distinguished Professor at the University of Music in Graz in 1999. His

reputation as a teacher won international recognition with the recent outstanding success of his pupils Julian Rachlin, Nikolaj Znaider, Dalibor Karvay, Lorenzo Gatto, and Eugene Chepovetsky, to name only a few.

Cho-Liang LinViolinist Cho-Liang Lin is lauded the world over for the eloquence of his playing and his superb musicianship. He is equally at home with orchestra, in recital, with chamber music, and in a teaching studio. Mr. Lin appears this season as soloist with the orchestras of Detroit, Toronto, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, and San Diego, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; in Europe with the Bergen, Stockholm, and Munich philharmonics, and the English Chamber Orchestra; and in Asia with the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonics, and the Singapore and Bankok symphonies.

Mr. Lin has recently expanded his engagements to include performances as both soloist and conductor. He completed season-long residencies with the Shanghai and Singapore symphonies in both capacities, while also performing chamber music concerts and giving master classes.

As an advocate for music of our time, Mr. Lin has enjoyed collaborations and premieres with composers Tan Dun, Joel Hoffman, John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lalo Schifrin, Paul Schoenfield, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Lin is Artistic Director of Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and appears at the Beijing Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Aspen Music

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Notes from the Executive DirectorEvery time I watch the winter Olympics, I am invigorated by the thought that “The Indianapolis,” often referred to as the “Olympics of the Violin,” is right around the corner, since we share the same quadrennial cycle. In just six months, we will once again discover the latest emerging talent at the 9th Quadrennial Competition. From the glorious Opening Ceremonies at the Indiana Roof Ballroom to the celebratory Closing Ceremonies at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, every hour of the 17-day Festival of the Violin is being meticulously sculpted to showcase the finest violin talent in the best way possible.

We are proud that Indianapolis will be center stage in the international cultural spotlight as we welcome 40 aspiring concert artists, distinguished jury members, and guests from around the globe. Concertgoers of all ages, students, and seasoned professionals will delight in our activities ranging from scintillating performances and fascinating lectures to exhibits and trade shows. New for 2014, we are extraordinarily excited to host the Violin Society of America and its Biennial Instrument Making Competition during the week of our Finals. This collaboration will provide visitors with a unique opportunity to try instruments by today’s finest makers and hear the next generation of concert violinists all in the same day!

Visit www.violin.org for complete details and know that whether you join us for live performances, follow along via our Internet streaming, or listen to our radio broadcasts, one thing is for sure – you will be able to hear the Competition from wherever you are! For now, save the dates September 5-21, and we look forward to welcoming you to the 9th Quadrennial!

Glen Kwok

Save the DatesSeptember 5 Opening Ceremonies

September 7-10 Preliminaries

September 12-15 Semi-Finals

September 16 Return of 2010 Gold Medalist

Clara-Jumi Kang

September 17-18 Classical Finals

September 19-20 Finals

September 21 Closing Ceremonies

Dmitry Sitkovetsky Kyoko Takezawa

Philip Setzer Cho-Liang Lin

Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Lin has been Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 2001.

Philip SetzerViolinist Philip Setzer is a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, which has produced more than 30 acclaimed recordings, won nine Grammys®, three Gramophone Awards, and the Avery Fisher Prize. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began studying violin at the age of five with his parents, both former violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Rafael Druian, and later at The Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky. In 1967, Mr. Setzer won second prize at the Marjorie Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, D.C., and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. He has appeared with the National Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony (David Robertson, conductor), Memphis Symphony (Michael Stern), New Mexico and Puerto Rico symphonies (Guillermo Figueroa), Omaha and Anchorage symphonies (David Loebel), and on several occasions with the Cleveland Orchestra (Louis Lane).

Mr. Setzer has been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center. His article about those workshops appeared in The New York Times on the occasion of Isaac Stern’s 80th birthday celebration. He also teaches as Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at SUNY Stony Brook.

Dmitry SitkovetskyDmitry Sitkovetsky is an artist whose creativity defies categorizing. He has an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician, and festival director. Mr. Sitkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw Orchestra, all of the major London orchestras, Japan’s Nippon Hōsō Kyōka (NHK), and the Chicago, Philadelphia, and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier, Istanbul, Mostly Mozart, and Festival del Sole (Napa Valley). In 2003, he was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Sitkovetsky’s diverse engagements this season include concerto performances in Bologna’s Teatro Comunale and Weimar’s Thüringer Bachwochen, in Tbilisi and Yerevan, and concerts with London’s Orchestra of St. John’s, Lucerne’s Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Bucharest’s Enescu Festival. He performs chamber music concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has play/direct engagements with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and conducting appearances with the Bangkok Symphony, Japan Century, and Poznan Philharmonic orchestras.

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, he grew up studying at the Moscow Conservatory and later at The Juilliard School.

Kyoko Takezawa As the embodiment of musicality, Kyoko Takezawa electrifies audiences with a richness of playing, a virtuosic confidence of feeling, and a fiery intensity that establishes her as one of today’s foremost violinists.

Ms. Takezawa has performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis, Houston, Toronto, Dallas, Montreal, Detroit, and Cincinnati. She has also appeared with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the London Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestra National de Radio France, the orchestras of Lyon and Nice, Japan’s NHK and Tokyo Metropolitan symphonies, and the New Japan Philharmonic. She has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, Sir Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin, and Charles Dutoit.

Kyoko has given chamber music performances at the Grand Teton and Aspen Music festivals, the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, and the Casals Festival in Prades.

Ms. Takezawa was the Gold Medalist of the 2nd Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1986. She is on the faculty of Toho Music School in Japan.

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Each Competition features a commissioned work that receives its world premiere during the Semi-Finals. The work has become a signature item of the 75-minute recital program and is performed by 16 violinists.

Renowned American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has written “Fantasy for Solo Violin” as the compulsory work for the 9th Quadrennial. The commission and a special prize given to the artist who gives the best performance of the work have been generously underwritten by the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation in honor of the children and families of Christel House. Associate Sponsorship support has been provided by Charles and Carol Ward.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, whose unique musical “fingerprint” reflects an optimistic and humanistic spirit, is the first woman to receive the coveted Pulitzer Prize in Music. Other prizes and honors include the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohnányi Citation, four

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Chosen as Composer for Commissioned WorkGrammy nominations, and the Medaglia d’Oro in the G.B. Viotti Competition.

Named to the first Composer’s Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall, Ms. Zwilich currently holds the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professorship at Florida State University.

A prolific composer in virtually all media, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s works have been performed by most of the leading American orchestras and by major ensembles abroad. Her music first came to public attention when Pierre Boulez conducted her Symposium for Orchestra at Juilliard (1975), but it was the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Symphony No. 1 that brought her instantly into international focus.

Commissions, major performances, and recordings soon followed, including the Symphony No. 2 (Cello Symphony) premiered by Edo de Waart and the San Francisco Symphony; Symphony No. 3 written for the New York Philharmonic’s 150th anniversary; and the Juilliard-commissioned Symphony No. 5 (Concerto for Orchestra) premiered at Carnegie Hall under James Conlon’s direction.

Among the multitude of compositions which Ms. Zwilich has written for a variety of instruments, a few of her notable string works and the artists who gave their premieres are her Violin Concerto (Pamela Frank and the Orchestra of

St. Luke’s), the Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello (Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Minnesota Orchestra), Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Orchestra (Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, and the Louisville Orchestra), Commedia dell’Arte for Violin and String Orchestra (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra), Double Quartet for Strings (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with the Emerson String Quartet), Septet for Piano Trio and String Quartet (Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Miami String Quartet), Romance for Violin and Piano (Ida Kavafian and Menahem Pressler), String Quartet No. 2 (Emerson String Quartet), and Episodes for Violin and Piano (Itzhak Perlman and Rohan DeSilva).

IVCI Artistic Director Jaime Laredo remarked, “Ellen is one of my favorite composers and one I’ve admired all my life.  I’ve had the honor to have her write five pieces for me, and I am thrilled that she is writing the piece for this year’s Indianapolis.”

Former composers of the IVCI’s commissioned works include Richard Danielpour, Leon Kirchner, Joonas Kokkonen, Witold Lutoslawski, George Rochberg, Ned Rorem, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower.

Photo Credits: Jaime Laredo – Christian Steiner; Pamela Frank – Nicolas Lieber; Miriam Fried, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Kyoko Takezawa – J Henry Fair; Boris Kuschnir – Wolf-Dieter Grabner; Cho-Liang Lin – Paul Body; Philip Setzer – Lisa Mazzucco; Glen Kwok – Denis R. Kelly Jr.; Ellen Taafe Zwilich – Bill Keefrey

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