Summer Music Fest continues tonight

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Indianapolis Symphony musicians violinist Jayna Park and cellist Ingrid Fischer-Bellman will be joined by pianist Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando in two Romantic-era favorites, the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Richard Strauss and Anton Arensky's Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello, as the Greencastle Summer Classical Music Festival continues Wednesday evening.

The concert is at 7:30 PM in the sanctuary of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church. Admission is free, with donations accepted. York Chrysler Jeep Dodge of Greencastle, Inc., is the festival's main underwriting sponsor, with additional support from the DePauw School of Music, Arts at DePauw, Fine Print Books, and many individual donors.

"Jayna and Ingrid are both spectacular players," says Eric Edberg, Professor of Music at DePauw and Artistic Director of the Festival, "and Eugenio is well-known to Festival audiences from his prior appearances this and in past summers. The audience is in for a real treat!"

Violinist Jayna Park was born in Daegu, Korea, and earned a Bachelor of Music degree and an Artist Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her major teachers have included Sylvia Rosenberg, Victor Danchenko and Berl Senofky. She joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2001. Since then, Ms. Park has been an adjunct faculty member of Taylor University in Indiana, and has served as a coach at the Masterworks Music Festival in Winona Lake, IN and as a coach for the Side by Side program of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Winner of the American String Teachers Association competition, she has been heard throughout South Korea as an orchestral soloist and in recitals in many parts of the United States. In 2002, she was a participant in the Sixth Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Ms. Park has a one year old daughter with husband Brian Smith who is a bassist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Ingrid Fischer-Bellman is a member of the Indianapolis Symphony cello section. She studied cello with Janos Starker at Indiana University where she earned a Masters Degree in Music. Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Ingrid immigrated with her family to Israel. She was a scholarship recipient of the American Israeli Foundation for Young Artists and has concertized in Israel and the United States.

She has performed as soloist with the Carmel Symphony and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis. Ms. Fischer-Bellman is a co-founder and Artistic Director of the Ronen Chamber Ensemble which will celebrate its 25th Anniversary Season during 2008-'09. Ingrid is also devoted to bringing music to young people, and has an active private studio as well as a busy schedule with the ISO education department's public school initiative, where she presents thematic programs that coordinate with teachers' curriculums.

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