Thaler Violin Series Brings Leila Josefowicz to Ithaca College

02/19/07

Dynamic violin virtuoso Leila Josefowicz will give this year’s Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series performance at Ithaca College on Friday, February 23. The free concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Along with pianist John Novacek, Josefowicz will perform works by Schubert, Stravinsky, and Brahms, a Prokofiev sonata, and Ekkri Sven Tüür’s “Conversio.” In addition to her public performance, Josefowicz will also give a master class on Saturday, February 24. The series was established in 2002 to honor Louis Thaler’s lifelong love of the violin.

Josefowicz came to national attention in 1994, when she made her Carnegie Hall debut with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. She has since appeared with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras and eminent conductors. A regular, close collaborator with leading composers of the day such as John Adams and Oliver Knussen, Josefowicz is a strong advocate of new music -- a characteristic reflected in her diverse programs and her enthusiasm for premiering new works. Recent engagements in North America include re-engagements with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Toronto, St. Louis, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and Vancouver Symphonies.

No stranger to television, Leila Josefowicz has appeared on numerous national broadcasts such as The Tonight Show, Evening at Pops, and PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center. Her most recent television appearance was Eugenia Zukerman’s profile of her on CBS Sunday Morning. For more information, visit www.leilajosefowicz.com.

Pianist John Novacek regularly tours North and South America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. In the latter capacity, he has presented over 30 different concerti with dozens of orchestras at such venues as Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Paris’s Theatre des Champs-Elysees, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, and most of the major concert halls in Japan.

For more information, contact Erik Kibelsbeck in the School of Music at (607) 274-3717 or ekibelsbeck@ithaca.edu.
https://www.ithaca.edu/thaler/violin/

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