APPLETON, WIS. — The Lawrence University “Performing Arts at Lawrence” Artist Series continues Saturday, March 3 with cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han. The duo takes the stage of the Lawrence Memorial Chapel at 8:00 p.m.
Finckel leads a multifaceted career as a concert performer, recording artist, educator, arts administrator, and cultural entrepreneur. He is the co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, teaches during the summer at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and has served as a regular faculty member of the Issac Stern Chamber Music Workshops in New York, Jerusalem, Paris, and Japan.
Born into a family of cellists, Finckel began his music studies with his father. At the age of 15, he made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and at 17 he played for Mstislav Rostropovich, and soon after became the great cellist’s first American pupil. Finckel has been hailed as a “world class soloist” by the Denver Post and “one of the top 10, if not top five, cellist in the world today” by the Nordwest Zeitung in Germany. Recent engagements include performances at the Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Chamber Music Northwest. He has played throughout the world, including in Mexico, Canada, the Far East, Scandinavia, and continental Europe. As cellist of the Emerson String Quartet, Finckel has won six Grammy Awards including two unprecedented honors for Best Classical Album, three Gramophone magazine awards, and the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize.
Han has performed at many of the world’s most prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 92nd Street Y in New York. She has given performances in England, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Japan, and Taiwan, along with engagements in the United States. Han maintains an active teaching schedule at the Aspen Music Festival and has been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern International Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center.
In August 2003, Finckel and Han launched Music@Menlo, a new chamber music festival at Silicon Valley that has attracted widespread attention and international acclaim. Han and Finckel’s wide-ranging musical activities also include the founding of ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company.
Tickets for this concert are $22 and $20 for adults, $19 and $17 for senior citizens, and $17 and $15 for students. Tickets are on sale at the Lawrence University Box Office, located in the Music-Drama Center, or by phone at 920-832-6749. Tickets, if available, will be sold beginning one hour before the concert at the box office.
The final concert of the 2006-07 Artist Series takes place at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 21 with Lawrence alum Peter Kolkay ’98, on bassoon. For more information on this concert, visit: www.lawrence.edu/news/performingartsseries
