Artists

Harold Levin has led a varied career as violist, conductor, composer, and teacher. He has
performed and conducted in both North and South America, and has held viola and Luba Sindler, Artistic Director of the Blue Mountain Festival was born in St. Petersburg,
conducting appointments at West Virginia, Bucknell, and Western Illinois Universities. An Russia, where she studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory, graduating with a doctoral degree
active performer, Dr. Levin has played viola with the orchestras of Louisville, Cincinnati, in piano and chamber music. She later taught at the same institution while maintaining an
Omaha, Memphis, Long Island, Orlando, and Jacksonville, and has taught and performed in active performance schedule. Having moved to the United States in 1987, after suffering a
summer festivals including Cabrillo, Blue Mountain, Interlochen, Rutgers Summerfest, Bedford nine-year political persecution in the former Soviet Union, she continued her career as a
Springs, Bay View, Breckenridge, Lake Placid, and the Colorado Philharmonic. He holds soloist, chamber artist and teacher. Ms. Sindler participated in major music festivals and
degrees from Ball State University, the University of Cincinnati, and Rutgers University, where presented numerous recitals throughout the United States and in many European countries
his teachers included Michael Tree, Donald McInnes, Raymond Stilwell, and Robert Slaughter. with great success.
In addition to his college work, Dr. Levin has led youth orchestras in Indiana, Nebraska, New
Jersey, and Florida. A commissioned, recorded, and published composer; his works have
Luba Sindler received her second doctoral degree in piano performance from Rutgers
been performed across the country. In 2014 he was appointed Orchestra Conductor and
University in 1995 and served on the faculties of San Jose State and Rutgers Universities.
Professor of Viola at The College of New Jersey.
She is the Director of Cultural Programs at the Museum of Human Rights, Freedom and
Tolerance. Recently, she started a piano consulting service Piano Playing Solutions.
Emanouil Manolov made his debut performing on Bulgarian National Television at the age of
10. Since then he has gone on to concertize throughout his native Bulgaria, Germany, the
United States and Japan. He has appeared in recitals at the Kennedy Center, the Library of
Arthur Cook is Co-Artistic Director with pianist Deborah Gilwood of Blue Door Chamber
Congress, the National Museum of American History, as well as in the Embassy Series in
Music at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He has appeared as a chamber
Washington, DC. As a chamber musician Mr. Manolov has performed at Barge Music in New
musician and soloist in summer festivals at Sandpoint, Meadowmount, Yale at Norfolk,
York, and on the stages of the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie and Symphony Space as
Rutgers, Apple Hill, and Taos. He has served as principal cellist and soloist for the Wayne
concertmaster and soloist for the Young Soloists of New York Chamber Ensemble. He has
Chamber Orchestra, the New Philharmonic, and the New York Symphonic Ensemble on its
been featured soloist with the Virginia Commonwealth Symphony and a guest artist at the
Japan Tour. He has partnered with pianist Deborah Gilwood since 1985. They have appeared
Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Brunswick, ME. Mr. Manolov makes frequent concerto
in recital at Princeton University, the Beethoven Festival at Oyster Bay, Haverford College,
appearances with One World Symphony in New York, where he also serves as guest
Rutgers University, Smith College, UMASS Amherst, and in New York City on the New
concertmaster, and is the Artistic Director of the North Shore ProMusica chamber music series
Horizons Series at the Greenwich House Music School, Mannes College, Manhattan School
on Long Island, NY.
of Music, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center. Their CD - Censored by Hitler: the
Rediscovered Masterpieces- was released in 2002 by Centaur Records. Mr. Cook has been
Mr. Manolov began his musical studies at the Central Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria, and
on the faculties of Seton Hall University and Smith College. His teachers include Arthur
later attended the Eastman School of Music where he received his Bachelors of Music
Follows, David Geber, Felix Galimir, Louis Krasner, and counterpoint with Dr. Mary Jean van
Degree under the tutelage of Ilya Kaler. He earned his DMA at SUNY Stony Brook, working
Appledorn. He holds degrees from Texas Tech University and Mannes College.
under the supervision of Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian and Philip Setzer.

Susan Gaylord A versatile performer and a dedicated teacher, Ms. Gaylord enjoys a varied
Amy Goodman Wulfman has had an international career as a concert violinist, performing
and rich musical career. As a vocalist, she is equally at home on the operatic, oratorio and
with orchestras in Europe and in the U.S. She studied at the Vienna Academy with Gnter
symphonic stages as well as in more intimate venues where a pianist or a small ensemble are
Pichler and Michael Frischenschlager, performing and recording with the baroque ensemble
her musical partners. Ms. Gaylord also has a passionate commitment to teaching and has
Capella Academica under Eduard Melkus. In the U.S., Ms. Wulfman received her B.A. from
more than 20 years of experience in instructing beginning vocalists. She is the Vocal Director
Yale University, where she studied with Shirley Givens, and her M.M. from the University of
of the Blue Mountain Festival, maintains a busy private voice lessons studio and is a teacher
Wisconsin. Ms. Wulfman has been an active performer, playing numerous chamber music
in the Private Instruction Programs of both The Lawrenceville School and The Pennington
concerts including performances at the Bach Aria Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. Ms.
School. Ms. Gaylord began her vocal training at the School of Music of Converse College
Wulfman is on the violin faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA and
where she graduated with Highest Honors in Vocal Performance. For the next two years, she
Princeton Day School in Princeton, NJ. She also maintains her private violin and viola studio,
continued her studies in the graduate program for Opera Studies at the Manhattan School of
Princeton Violin, in Princeton, NJ.
Music and enjoyed over a decade of private voice studies with world-renowned mezzo
soprano, Beverly Wolff. Ms. Gaylord was a winner in several highly regarded national vocal
competitions. Vocal highlights include appearances with the opera companies of Santa Fe,
Sarasota, Lake George, the Florida Lyric Opera, The Princeton Festival, as well as solo
performances with many regional symphony orchestras throughout the East Coast.
Marc Ramirez began his violin studies at the age of 7 and began performing publicly at age
12. He has concertized throughout North America, Europe and Japan, and has appeared as
soloist and chamber musician in such halls as the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection
(Washington DC); Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall and Symphony Space (NYC); Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall (Baltimore); Cleveland Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Chicago
Convention Center; Tretyakov Museum (Moscow); Dartington Hall (UK); Mozarteum (Austria);
and the Nagasaki National Shrine (Japan). He studied with Aaron Rosand and Daniel Heifetz
at the Peabody Institute, Erick Friedman at Yale University, and Henryk Szeryng by invitation.
In 1984 he was chosen by Henryk Szeryng and sponsored by Peabody to tour with him in
Europe for four sequential summers visiting Geneva, Monte Carlo, Nice and Siena. Among
his awards are first prize in the Henryk Szeryng Competition, shared first prize in the Parisot-
Friedman International Competition, first place in the Cavallaro International Competition, and
Whos Who among college students.

Olivia Hajioff, a Fulbright scholar, was born in London. From the age of seven to seventeen
she studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a finalist in the European Violin
Competition at the age of twelve and was a regional winner in the BBC Young Musician of the
Year at seventeen. She performed regularly on British television and on Radio London.

Ms. Hajioff has toured regularly with Daniel Heifetz throughout the United States performing
Bach's Double Violin Concerto amongst other works. She has performed solo and chamber
recitals throughout Britain, Europe, Japan, Canada and the US. Venues include Wigmore Hall
and the South Bank Centre (London); Cheltenham Festival; Paderewski Hall (Lausanne);
Nagasaki National Shrine; Tokyo College of Music; Banff Centre (Canada); Merkin Hall and
Symphony Space (NYC); Corcoran Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Phillips Collection and
Kennedy Center (DC). Chamber music collaborators include Edgar Meyer; James
Sommerville (Principal horn, Boston Symphony); David Owen Norris, Stephen Kovacevich
and Awadagin Pratt.

Olivia Hajioff and Marc Ramirez perform as the Marcolivia Duo - a violin and violin/viola duo
giving over 30 concerts annually in recital and as double concerto soloists. They are founding
members of the Phillips Camerata regularly performing chamber music at the Phillips
Collection and National Gallery of Art. The Marcolivia Duo has been featured several times on
NPR's "Performance Today" and Front Row Washington. They are regular guest artists at
the Tokyo College of Music, Japan, and have performed for the Federal Reserve Board in
Washington DC, for the Hungarian American Coalition at the Cosmos Club, and annually at
the Phillips Collection (where they are included on several CDs of Series Highlights and
Distinguished Performers), also the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Merkin Hall and Symphony
Space, NYC. Marcolivia were the only chamber music finalists in the Concert Artists Guild
Competition in 2000. Marcolivia has adjudicated and given master classes for events
organized by the Washington Performing Arts Society.
Joanne Choi studied at The Juilliard School with Aldo Parisot and Darrett Adkins, where she of Music). His music, iridescent and captivating, a cascade of weaving twists and turns (All
earned her B.M. and at the Manhattan School of Music with David Soyer, where she earned About Jazz), represents an innovative combination of the gentle flavor of European jazz with
her M.M. She has performed as soloist with the Queens Symphony, the Lake George intricate musical landscapes full of exotic rhythms and sophisticated harmony. Vasiljevi got
Chamber Orchestra, the Sarah Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Youth his Bachelor Degrees from both Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and University of Arts
Symphony, with whom she made her Carnegie Hall debut. As a chamber musician, she has in Belgrade, Serbia and his Masters degree from NYU Steinhardt in NYC. He is currently
performed with members of the Tokyo String Quartet, with members of the Met Opera working on his doctorate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in jazz
Orchestra as a part of the Memling Ensemble, Lera Auerbach, and Roberto Diaz. She was a performance. He holds a Teaching Assistant position at the same institution. Previously he
member of the Honolulu Symphony and is currently a cellist in the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, was on the jazz piano faculty at NYU Steinhardt. Dimitrije has performed concerts at such
the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In her summers, renowned venues as Carnegie Hall (NYC), United Nations (NYC), Kennedy Center
Ms. Choi performs with the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Fayetteville, AR. She has also (Washington, DC), Krannert Center (Urbana, IL). He performs extensively in Chicago and
participated in the Spoleto Music Festival, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and in New York City jazz venues and concert halls. In 2008 he won third jury prize and the audience
masterclasses at the Banff Centre. Ms. Choi has taught at the Summer Youth Music Sessions prize at the world renowned Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition in Switzerland, and last
at the University of New Hampshire and currently teaches at the Center for Preparatory year was a finalist of Luminarts Jazz Competition in Chicago and the Kate Neal Kinley
Studies in Music at Queens College. She also maintains a private studio in New York City. Fellowship Competition. During his time at Berklee he received the Jazz Performance Award
and the Piano Department Achievement Award. Dimitrije has performed with the jazz greats
such as Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Charles Chip McNeill, Tito Carrillo, Marko Djordjevic,
Dimitrije Vasiljevi is an award-winning jazz pianist and composer who has been hailed as Klemens Marktl, and Brad Shepik.
a strong jazz player with an impressive vocabulary and a powerful modern improviser who
shows promise that he will be a new voice in modern jazz (Tony Germain - Berklee College
Special thanks to: Daevon Austin
Lisa Bentz
The Blue Mountain Festival Board: Colleen Ferry
Milka Verhaegen, President Cortize Hicks
Mark Weinglass, Vice-President Jordan Lescouflair
Robin MacDonald, Treasurer Steve Mejias
Susan Gaylord, Secretary Daniel Saford
Lisa Bentz, Community Outreach Evelyn Song (CIT)
Harold Levin, Community Outreach Brian Slawta (CIT)
Helena May, Fundraising Liz Strobel
Ram Pemmireddy, Marketing Mark Weinglass
Xi Shen, Fundraising
Fang Teng, Fundraising
Priscilla Allman, Alumni Advisor Franklin & Marshall College
Faculty
Sherri Anderson Upcoming 2016 Concerts:
Joanne Choi
Arthur Cook
Student: Sat, Aug 6 at 11:00am Chamber
Susan Gaylord
Olivia Hajiof All concerts will take place in Barshinger Center for
Susan Kim Musical Arts
Harold Levin
Emanouil Manolov
Marc Ramirez
Susan Saford (Junior Faculty/Head of Staf)
Luba Sindler
Farshad Zadeh (Junior Faculty)
Dimitrije Vasiljevic
Amy Goodman Wulfman
Staf
Arik Anderson (CIT)
 Faculty Concert
Friday, August 5, 2016

Dr. Luba Sindler, Artistic

Director

Sherri Anderson,

Executive Director

Lisa Bentz, Assistant

Director
 Friday, August 5, 2016 Arthur Cook, cello
8:00 pm Luba Sindler, piano
Barshinger Center for Musical Arts
Franklin & Marshall College

String Quartet No.2 in A Major, Op. 68 (1944)

Dmitri
Shostakovich
(1906-
1975)
Overture
Recitative and Romance
Waltz
Theme with Variations

Olivia Hajiof, violin

Marc Ramirez, violin
Harold Levin, viola
Joanne Choi, cello

All the Things You Are Jerome Kern/Oscar

Hammerstein II
Honeysuckle Rose Fats Waller/Andy Razaf
Misty Erroll Garner/Johnny Burke
The Man That Got Away Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin
Goody Goody Matty Malneck/Johnny
Mercer

Susan Gaylord, mezzo-soprano

Dimitrije Vasiljevic, piano

~ Intermission ~

Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 44 Robert Schumann

(1810-
1856)
Allegro brillante
In Modo d'una Marcia. Un poco largamente
Scherzo. Molto vivace
Allegro, ma non troppo

Emanouil Manolov, violin

Susan Kim, violin
Amy Goodman Wulfman, viola
 BMF Patrons - $1000+
Dr. Caralee Capone and Dr. Howard Bethel
The Kaul Family
Harold A. Levin Scholarship
The May-Zammit Family
The Pemmeriddy Family
PNC Foundation Matching Gift Program
Caroline D. Strobel
Xi Shen and Fang Teng
Supporters of BMF
Katherine Chubbuck
Angela Knight
BMF would also like to acknowledge our many annual donors who donated
to the Stretto Youth Chamber Orchestra Tour of China this year. Stretto is
now an independent non-profit, and so these donors will be listed on the
Stretto website. Thank you to all for the continued support of the children
and youth in our community.

BMF Sponsors - $500+

Dr. Sharon and Rev. Herb Anderson
The Song Family
The Verhaegen Family

Friends of BMF - $100+

Maureen and Richard Gaylord
Megumi Kobayashi
Robin MacDonald
Virginia MacDonald
Neuberger Berman
Stephanie Sindler
The donor list is current as of July 30, 2016. If there are any errors or
omissions please contact BMF at bluemountainfestival@gmail.com