Performing Artists Concert Series: David Brickman, violin and Diane Walsh, piano

RIT College of Liberal Arts Performing Artists Concert series presentsDuo Recital performed by David Brickman, violin and Diane Walsh, pianoNearly every great composer since Mozart has been inspired to write for the combination of violin and piano. In this program, discover how Dvorak, Debussy and Brahms use the instruments to create utterly contrasting sound worlds, full of joy and melancholy.David Brickman, who was Principal Second Violinist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for 23 years, is both a performer and sought-after teacher. Mr. Brickman is known for his great versatility and for his dramatic, highly personal interpretations of the solo and chamber music repertoire. He is a founding member of the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble and the Amenda Quartet, and he has also performed with Chamber Music Rochester and First Muse, and at the Skaneateles Music Festival with Hilary Hahn, Diane Walsh, Eliot Fisk and members of the Emerson String Quartet. He is the Concertmaster of The Rochester Chamber Orchestra, and has also played with the Pittsburgh, Columbus, Honolulu, Milwaukee, Austin, and National Arts Center Orchestras. Mr. Brickman has recorded several works of contemporary American chamber music for the Milken Foundation, released on the Naxos Label. He is a featured soloist on the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's 75th Anniversary CD, performing an arrangement of Vernon Duke's jazz standard Autumn in New York written for him by Jeff Tyzik. Mr. Brickman is himself a skilled arranger; he recently performed Elgar's Suite, his own orchestration of four short works originally for violin and piano. Mr. Brickman and his wife, violinist Patricia Sunwoo, have recorded Suzuki songs and other student pieces which can be downloaded at iTunes. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University. He lives with his wife and daughters in Rochester, where he owns and runs Bodymind Float Center.The award-winning Steinway Artist Diane Walsh has given solo and chamber music concerts in major venues in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Russia, China and New Zealand. Diane has appeared with the San Francisco, Indianapolis, Austin, Rochester, American, Delaware, Rochester, Portland, Springfield and New Bedford symphonies, Orpheus and St. Luke’s chamber orchestras, and the Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Berlin radio symphonies. Ms. Walsh has performed Beethoven’s Variations on a Waltz of Diabelli well over 200 times in the Broadway production of 33 Variations, a play by Moisés Kaufman starring Jane Fonda, and in three other productions in Washington, La Jolla and Los Angeles. A frequent chamber music partner, she is a member of the quintet La Fenice and the Walsh-Drucker-Cooper Trio, and has appeared at many summer festivals, including Marlboro, Bard, and Santa Fe. She led the Skaneateles Festival (New York) as Artistic Director from 1999 to 2004. Ms. Walsh has released eighteen recordings of repertoire ranging from Bach to Corigliano. She was an Associate Professor at Mannes College of Music in New York City for 32 years, and in 2015 was a Visiting Artist at Colby College. She lives in Maine with her husband, the writer Richard Pollak.Tickets are $5 for students, $15 for RIT faculty/staff/alumni, and $20 for the general public. They may be purchased at the door, in advance from the University Arenas Box Office (585-475-4121) or online at http://rittickets.com/. All seating is unreserved. For more information about the Performing Artists Concert Series, please visit https://www.rit.edu/cla/finearts/music/performing-artists-concert-series...? Please email performingarts@rit.edu. For more information about the Performing Artists Concert Series, please visit https://www.rit.edu/cla/finearts/music/performing-artists-concert-series Questions? Please email performingarts@rit.edu.