Janos Starker Schedule for September '99 to June 2000

At 75, the great cellist Janos Starker continues to teach 13-15 students at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He also tours the world performing in recital and with orchestras of all kinds, scheduling master classes in conjunction with these appearances whenever time permits. A summary of Starker's activities for the remainder of the 1999-2000 season follows.

1999-2000 Schedule for Janos Starker

NOTE: Mr. Starker is limiting his travel from now on. Those who wish to hear him in person should not hesitate.

CLASSES:

There are classes listed throughout his schedule. Mr. Starker accepts students for master classes only through the venues presenting him.Therefore, one must travel to his classes at Bloomington, or register at a festival or with a presenter where he is performing and/or planning to give classes. The presenters make all the arrangements and choose the students.

If you would like to contact a particular presenter and need more information, please write to me.

Mary Johnson
mejohnson@kennedy-center.org

Chronological Schedule for JANOS STARKER, 1999-2000. There may be more dates added later.

UNITED STATES:

Bloomington, Indiana
September 14, 1999
14th Eva Janzer Weekend Starker is honoree
Rostropovich will conduct orchestra
multiple cellists will perform, including Starker
FOR A PRESS RELEASE ON THIS EVENT PLEASE SKIP TO BOTTOM OF DOCUMENT.

Little Rock, Arkansas
September 18-19
Arkansas Symphony
David Itkin, cond.
ELGAR: Cello Concerto
(Opens Orchestra's 1999-2000 season)

Stonybrook, New York
September 25, 26, 1999
Long Island Philharmonic
David Lockington, cond.
SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto
master class 24th

JAPAN

Tokyo Sept. 30, 1999
Ohji Hall

Kyoto
October 1
Kyoto Concert Hall

Miyazaki
October 2
Miyazaki-kenritsu Geijutsu Gekijo

Nagasaki
October 3
Nagasaki Brick Hall

Tokyo
October 5, master class
Casals Hall

October 6-7, recitals
Casals Hall

October 13-14
Suntory Hall, with NHK Orchestra

Fukuoka
October 15
Kitakyushu Hibiki Hall, with NHK Orchestra

Okayama
October 16
Okayama Symphony Hall, with NHK Orchestra

EUROPE:

Frankendorf, Switzerland
October 20, 1999
Martinu Festival,
Recital w/Shigeo Neriki, pianist

Kroenberg, Germany (near Frankfort am Main)
Kroenberg Cello Congress
October 21-24, 1999 "World Capital of the Cello" coincides with the Kroenberg Book Fair + Photo Exhibition
(Internationale Kammermusik Akademie Kroenberg e.V.) (Int. Acad. of Ch. Music Kroenberg)
Raimund Trenkler, Geschäftsführer)
Tel: 06173-95.00.86
Fax: 06173-95.00.85
e-mail: IKACello@aol.com

Cello Soloists include: Julius Berger, Klaus Gunnarsson, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, Kee-Hyun Kim, Maria Kliegel, Miklos Perényi, Boris Pergamenschikow, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Tatjana Vassiljewa, and the honoree, Janos Starker

Concerts including Starker are listed below:

1) Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Stadhallle: Kiev Chamber Orch.
Roman Kofman, Dirigent; Janos Starker, cellist
DOHNANYI: Konzertstück for Cello & Orch., Op. 47

2) Oct. 22, 7 p.m., Stadhallle: Recital w/Shigeo Neriki
KODÁLY: Sonata, op. 4
DOHNÁNYI, Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 8
BARTÓK: Rhapsody

Finale, Oct. 24, 5 p.m.
"Happy Birthday Janos" w/all soloists of the festival, the cello ensemble, and the students.

UNITED STATES

Indianapolis, Indiana
November 8, 1999
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra
Kirk Trevor, cond.
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in D major

Knoxville, Tennessee February 17-18, 2000
Knoxville Symphony
Kirk Trevor, cond.
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in D major

St. Louis, Missouri
Feb. 25, 26, 27, 2000
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Semkow, cond.
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in D major

EUROPE

Madrid, Spain
March (6-7), 2000
Reina Sofia School
Master Classes

Mallorca, Spain
March 9, 2000
Baleares Symphony

Paris, France
March 11, 2000
Theatre de la Ville, Paris
Recital (w/György Sebök, pianist)

NOT YET CONFIRMED (Helsinki, Finland)
March 14-19, 2000
Sibelius Academy
Recital (w/????)
+ Master Class

Budapest, Hungary
March 22, 2000
Recital (w/György Sebök, pianist)

UNITED STATES

Chicago, Illinois
May 6, 2000
Chicago Chamber Music Society
One-hour program followed by black tie dinner

New York, NY
May 16, 17, 2000
92nd Street Y
Chamber Music
SCHUBERT: Cello Quintet (cello I)
STRAUSS: Capriccio Sextet
Jamie Laredo, Cynthia Phelps, violin; Michael Tree, Ida Kavafian, viola; Sharon Robinson, Janos Starker, cello

Baltimore, Maryland
May 28-June 4, 2000
World Cello Congress III
Helene Breazeale, director
800 York Rd., Towson University
Towson, MD 21252-0001
http://www.towson.edu/~breazeal/cello.htm
Janos Starker, honorary president
Bernard Greenhouse, artistic advisor
Yo-Yo Ma, featured guest artist
(Please check program with organizers)

PRESS RELEASE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 14 JANOS STARKER 75TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 16, 1999

75TH BIRTHDAY OF PEERLESS CELLIST JANOS STARKER TO BE CELEBRATED BY EVA JANZER MEMORIAL CELLO CENTER IN SEPTEMBER 14 CONCERT CONDUCTED BY MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY MUSICAL ARTS CENTER

Performers Include Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra and Soloists: Violinist William Preucil, and Celllists Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Starker Himself

Cellists from Around the World Conclude Concert In Mass Cello Ensemble Conducted by Emilio Colón

Performance Marks First Appearance of Starker and Rostropovich Together!

In tribute to the great cellist and teacher Janos Starker, the Indiana University School of Music, where he has taught since 1958, and the University's Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center Foundation will bring together a number of distinguished artists in a celebratory concert. The gala concert will take place on Tuesday, September 14, 1999, at 8 p.m. in Indiana University's Musical Arts Center. Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich (Slava) will conduct the Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra and soloists including violinist William Preucil, and celllists Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Starker himself. This concert also marks the first time in their two careers as world-renowned musicians that Slava and Starker have performed together.

Tickets:

This concert benefits the Eva Janzer Memorial Fund.
Benefit tickets begin at $100.
Reserved seat tickets are $50.
General Admission tickets are $25.

For information and tickets, phone the MAC Box Office at (812) 855-7433. Calls are taken Monday-Friday from 3-5 p.m. EST.

Starker Biography

Janos Starker's distinguished sixty-year career has brought him recognition as one of the 20th century's supreme musicians. He has premiered concertos by David Baker, Antal Doráti, Bernard Heiden, Alan Hovhaness, Jean Martinon, Miklós Rózsa, Robert Starer, and Chou Wen-chung, as well as countless recital works. His many honors include a 1948 Grand prix du disque (France) and the 1997 Grammy Award (USA) for recordings from more than 100 albums on numerous recording labels. Starker's concert tours have touched every inhabited continent.

In 1958 Starker joined the Indiana University/Bloomington School of Music faculty and became Distinguished Professor of Music in 1962. He established two student scholarships to honor his former teachers and founded the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center to support cello performance, teaching, and research at IU and throughout the world. He gives seminars and classes during every performance tour, and has taught at the Banff Centre (Canada, 17 years) and the Essen Hochschule fur Musik (5 years). His students have become world-renowned soloists, members of recognized chamber music ensembles, principals or members of the cello sections in leading orchestras, and administrators and teachers in schools and institutions of higher education worldwide. Starker has also written and edited several famous cello and bass methods and exercise books.

Born in Budapest in 1924, Starker left Hungary in 1946. Antal Doráti invited him to the Dallas Symphony as first cellist in 1948. He moved, with Fritz Reiner, first to the Metropolitan Opera and then to the Chicago Symphony. Starker resumed his touring solo career in 1958, the same year he joined the IU faculty.

For Media interviews with Janos Starker, please contact Mary Johnson at (202) 416-8445.
Mary Johnson
personal representative for Janos Starker