Tchaikovsky Summer School 2006

Please meet our Faculty and Staff:

Igor Frolov (Violin, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory)
Artistic Director, conductor and leading violin soloist of the Moscow Kamerata chamber orchestra. Born in Moscow into the family of musicians, he began to play the violin at the age of 6 under his father, a well-known teacher and conductor. Mr. Frolov has graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the eminent maestro David Oistrakh. Igor Frolov’s successful performances in the national and international competitions won him recognition worldwide. He performed both solo and with orchestras throughout all over the world. Mr. Frolov is a well-known composer of original music, arrangements and transcriptions for violin and piano. He has published several books of his selected works. Igor Frolov’s Scherzo, written especially for the event, was in the compulsory program for violinists at the 9th Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow.
 
Mark Lakirovich (Violin, Viola, Longy School of Music)
One of the most sought-after Violin and Viola teachers today, Mr. Lakirovich is currently the Dean of Preparatory and Continuing Studies at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a member of Violin, Viola and chamber music faculty of Longy Conservatory, Preparatory and Continuing Studies. Mr. Lakirovich travels extensively giving master classes, coaching chamber ensembles and conducting symphony and chamber orchestras in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Mexico, and the Ukraine. He frequently serves as an adjudicator at various National and International competitions. As a soloist, conductor, chamber and orchestral musician, Mr. Lakirovich has performed in major concert halls in Europe, Israel, former Soviet Union, Australia, and the US, including music festivals in Salzburg, Vienna, Bregenz, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Madrid and Amsterdam. He served as Associate Concertmaster with Queensland Theatre Orchestra and as Concertmaster with Queensland Pops Orchestra, Australia, was member of Beer Sheva Chamber Orchestra, Israel, and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and Stuttgart Philharmonic Trio, Germany. Mr. Lakirovich was the Co-Founder and Principal of the Stoliarsky School of Music in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia; string and chamber music faculty member of Sydney Conservatory of Music, Stuttgart School of Music, Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts, Special Music School and Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center in New York City. Prior to his appointment at the Longy School of Music, Professor Lakirovich has served as Associate Director for Education Programs at Kaufman Center and the Music Director of the Special Music School of America at Kaufman Center New York City, and as an Executive Director of Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts, Michigan. Mark Lakirovich is a graduate of Azerbaijan State College of Music and Azerbaijan State Conservatory of Music, Music Academies of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel, and Lucerne Conservatory of Music, Switzerland.

Vladimir Panteleyev (cello, Special Music School of America, USA) 
Professor of Cello at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, he is also a faculty member of the Special Music School and Lucy Moses School at the Elaine Kaufman Center in New York City.
Vladimir Panteleyev is a graduate of Kiev and Moscow State Conservatories. Between 1976 and 1991, he served as Professor of Cello and String Quartet at the Kiev Conservatory in Ukraine. Some of his students have won prizes at National as well as International Competitions. Mr. Panteleyev has served as an adjudicator at Cello and Chamber Music Competitions. He was named Outstanding Artist of Ukraine and was awarded the Lysenko Prize, the highest national Music Award. In 1971 Vladimir co-founded the Leontovych String Quartet, which has won the Leo Weiner International String Quartet Competition in Budapest and appeared at major International Festivals and concert halls throughout the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Germany and Italy. As a member of the Leontovych String Quartet, Vladimir Panteleyev has toured throughout the U.S., appearing in most major American cities including Washington, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York City. Some of the performance venues have included the United Nations, Merkin Concert Hall, the Frick Collection, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, as well as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Boston Universities, Eastman School of Music, Smith College, and the University of Texas, Georgia.  Mr. Panteleyev also appears in solo recitals and gives master classes at Music Festivals and Summer Music Schools throughout the U.S., Canada, Brazil, China, Holland, Switzerland, England, the Ukraine and Russia. Vladimir Panteleyev’s recordings were released on Greystone Records, Koch International Classics, The Musical Heritage Society, and Melodia (USSR) record labels.

Kirill Rodin (cello, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory) 
Graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music (Class of Prof.Natalia Shakhovskaya). International cello-competition winner: 1984 - Jeunesses musicales Int. competition for cellists 1 prize and prize Golden Harp (Belgrade); 1986 - VIII Int. Tchaikovsky competition 1 prize and Gold medal (Moscow); Moscow State Philharmonic sosiety soloist - since 1986 Moscow. Tchaikovsky Conservatory professor, Beijing Central conservatory of music guest-professor - since 2002, jury member at numerous international competitions. Recitals, symphony and chamber programms - concert-tours - over 40 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia, New Zealand. Masret-classes - Germany, UK, France, Spain, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Argentina, Uruguay, Singapore. CD-records - Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Schostakovitch, Piazzolla.