The Catskill Chronicle

Pictured above is Stephen Rovitz Chamber Music Scholarship winner, Marina Lombardi.

MONTICELLO, NY – Six students from Monticello High School (MHS) have earned the distinction of being named Weekend of Chamber Music Summer Festival Interns, and will perform at 7 p.m. July 23 in the Summer Festival event, At Work & Play Behind the Notes.

The students were chosen based on their dedicated participation in the WCM Artist Coaching Project, which took place at the school during the year, and on their accomplishments as members of the MHS Chamber Music Program.

As interns, students are given full scholarships to work with the WCM artists, including private lessons on their instruments and intense coaching as an ensemble throughout the Festival, which runs from July 11 to 24 at the Eddie Adams Farm in Jeffersonville.

In the July 23 program, students and artists will demonstrate the coaching process they experienced at MHS during the school year, and then will perform a short piece – Maurice Ravel’s Petit Poucet (from Ma Mère L’Oye) – arranged by MHS Director of Chamber Music, Nancy Wegrzyn.

Informal and intimate, At Work & Play Behind the Notes is also an open rehearsal by the Festival Artists for the following Saturday night’s concert. The rehearsal includes pieces by Fauré, Debussy and Dutilleux, and welcomes audience participation and questions. Musicians Judith Pearce, flute; Nurit Pacht, violin; Yuval Waldman, violin/viola; Caroline Stinson, cello and Tannis Gibson, piano will be on hand for this event.

WCM is dedicated to encouraging young people in the pursuit of music, and pleased to present the Festival Intern Scholarships, as well as its annual Stephen Rovitz Chamber Music Scholarship. Additionally, two of the interns will receive the Eugene D. Nesin Scholarships for Summer Study.

The Stephen Rovitz Chamber Music Scholarship

Marina Lombardi, violin

WCM Summer Festival Intern Scholarships

Arielle Chin, violin

Jennifer Giza, violin

Jessica Nesin, piano

Emma Laufersweiler, dance

Eugene D. Nesin Scholarships for Summer Study

Marina Lombardi, violin

Aimee Pelosi, violin

WCM is a non-profit 501(c)3 Non-Profit, sponsored in part by public funding

from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.