GRAND FORKS – A panel of musicians will present a one-hour panel discussion, “Career Paths in Music for Women,” beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 22, at the North Dakota Museum of Art, 261 Centennial Drive, on the UND campus.
The panelists are pianist Simone Dinnerstein and violinist Rebecca Fischer, from New York; Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flutist and UND music faculty member; and Naomi Welsh, executive director of the Northern Valley Youth Orchestras.
Dinnerstein and Fischer will be in town to perform in concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 23, as part of the Myra Presents: Concerts in the Galleries series at the museum. The program will include works by Bach and Beethoven, as well as polished displays of their solo artistry with modern-day compositions by Missy Mazzoli and Keith Jarrett.
In their “Career Paths in Music for Women” conversation Saturday, the musicians will discuss some of the ways in which they have been supported and challenged as they built careers that are professionally and artistically satisfying, according to Brian Loftus, director of membership and marketing, North Dakota Museum of Art.
Following that discussion, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Dinnerstein and Fischer will conduct masterclasses and chamber music coaching sessions. Intermediate- and advanced-level musicians are welcome to participate.
Both the discussion and the classes are free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Box lunches will be available at no charge for masterclass participants and at a nominal charge for other guests. Reservations are accepted by email Chambermusic@ndmoa.com or calling Jenny Tarlin, (701) 777-4195. Student violinists and pianists who are interested in lessons — or coaching sessions for chamber groups — will be contacted by the museum to schedule 30-minute sessions.
Dinnerstein and Fischer will also be participating in outreach activities during their three-day visit here.
They will perform a 45-minute concert for children and families beginning at 3 p.m., Saturday at the Grand Forks Public Library Children’s Room. All are welcome.
On Monday, the pair will be at Valley Middle School, and perform for residents and their guests at the Edgewood assisted living facility in south Grand Forks.
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These visiting musicians have built distinguished careers in music, primarily as successful performers and concert musicians, but also as teachers, mentors and directors of music programs. Both are faculty members at the Mannes School of Music in New York.
Dinnerstein is a Grammy-nominated recording artist and founder and director of the chamber orchestra Baroklyn. She has made 13 albums, all of which topped the Billboard classical charts, with repertoire ranging from François Couperin to Philip Glass.
Dinnerstein has played with orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic and Montreal Symphony Orchestra to the London Symphony Orchestra and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Italy. She has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Arts as well as prestigious concert halls in Germany, Switzerland, South Korea and Australia.
Fischer, concertmaster of Barokyn, performs as a soloist, chamber musician and as a member of the art-music duo The Afield. Executive director of the Greenwood Music Camp in western Massachusetts, she is best known in Grand Forks as the former first-violin for the Chiara Quartet, in residency here from 2000 to 2002.
She has held residencies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University.
Recent appearances include Carnegie Hall, the Atlanta Contemporary Museum, and the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe.
Support for the musicians’ visit to Grand Forks has been provided by the Myra Foundation and the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Region.
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