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Edition: June 19, 2009
| SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL KICKS OFF THIS SUNDAY WITH WORLD-CLASS CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES |
 Indiana University's 2009 Summer Music Festival enters its16th year firmly established as Bloomington's signature summer event, attracting audiences from throughout the Midwest and beyond. The festival is increasingly gaining notice as one of Indiana's premier music festivals. A festival highlight this year is a world-class Chamber Music Series featuring an array of free and ticketed events that includes members of the prestigious Jacobs School faculty, as well as high-profile visiting artists, including Jacobs alumna Sarah Kapustin. >>Click here for more.
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| RENOWNED MUSICIAN, BLOOMINGTON NATIVE JONATHAN BISS RETURNS FOR FESTIVAL |
Indiana University's 2009 Summer Music Festival will include a diverse series of piano recitals highlighted by a July 3 performance by international soloist and chamber musician Jonathan Biss, who was raised in Bloomington and studied with IU Jacobs School of Music professors Karen Taylor and Evelyne Brancart.
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| JACOBS PROFESSOR STANLEY RITCHIE RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD |
 Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Professor Stanley Ritchie was awarded Early Music America's (EMA) Howard Mayer Brown lifetime achievement award June 12 at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival. Ritchie is the first Indiana University faculty member to receive a lifetime achievement award from EMA, although one of its annual honors is named for former IU Early Music Institute Director Thomas Binkley. >>Click here for more.
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DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR JANOS STARKER RECEIVES HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP |
 Legendary cellist Janos Starker, a distinguished professor in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, received the title of honorary professor of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, at a spring ceremony in Bloomington. Starker, who was born in Budapest in 1924, received the certificate and academy plaque from Hungarian Consul General in New York Viktor Polgar in recognition of his contribution to universal music culture, international music life and lifetime artistic achievements.>>Click here for more.
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| ADDITIONAL EVENTS |
 The IU Summer Music festival kicks off this Sunday with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio in Recital Hall at 4pm. Also this Sunday at 4pm, is the Summer Opera Workshop, featuring scenes from Die Zauberflöte, Madame Butterfly, Falstaff, and more. Check out additional great festival events this week, including the Biava Quartet with Atar Arad on Tuesday, the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio on Thursday, the Festival Chamber Players on Friday, and pianist Hans Boepple on Saturday. >>Click here for more.
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| FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENT, AND ALUMNI NEWS |
 This edition of Fanfare celebrates the achievements of ¡Sacabuche!, Sylvia McNair, Susan Moses, Menahem Pressler, Brendan Faegre, Rena Kimura, Nathan Bartley, Andres Moran, and many others! >>Click here for more.
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| ARTICLES, PREVIEWS, AND REVIEWS |
|  Read the Boston Musical Intelligencer’s great review of early music ensemble ¡Sacabuche!, as well as all the music school coverage in the Herald-Times and beyond.>>Click here for more.
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NOTE: The next issue of Fanfare will be published July 2, 2009. Please e-mail submissions to musicpub@indiana.edu by June 29, 2009. Don't forget to include Web-quality photos! To ensure that the most accurate information is published, please proof materials before submitting. |
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