Cleveland, OH. (Top40 Charts/ Cleveland Institute of Music) It is with a sense of great anticipation that the Cleveland
Institute of
Music (CIM) welcomes violinist, violist and maestro Jaime Laredo and world-renowned cellist Sharon Robinson to its instrumental and chamber music faculties beginning fall 2012.
Concerning their appointment, President Joel Smirnoff said, "Maestro Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson are two world-renowned artist-pedagogues whose presence within Cleveland and within our school is going to be a source of great pride and excitement for Northeast Ohio. There can be no doubt that Maestro Laredo and Ms. Robinson will inspire our students in new and important ways and will offer CIM as an institution and Cleveland as a city a myriad of new artistic resources and possibilities for the future. And beyond their artistry and pedagogical excellence, these are two wonderful human beings of great depth."
The 2011-2012 season marks Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson's 35th anniversary as violinist and cellist respectively of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. Founded by Mr. Laredo, Sharon Robinson, and pianist Joseph Kalichstein in 1977, the Trio performs regularly at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y in New York and the Kennedy Center. They have toured internationally to cities that include Lisbon, Hamburg, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney and Melbourne. The trio was named Musical America's Ensemble of the Year 2002.
Recognized internationally as a sought after violin teacher, Mr. Laredo has fostered the education of violinists that include
Pamela Frank, Leila Josefowitz, Hillary Hahn, Jennifer Koh, Ivan Chan, Soovin Kim and Bella Hristova. After 35 years of teaching at the Curtis
Institute of
Music in Philadelphia, Mr. Laredo and Ms. Robinson both took teaching positions at the Jacobs School of
Music at
Indiana University. Additionally, Mr. Laredo is the conductor of the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, which brings young musicians from around the world to the stage every December.
For 15 years, Mr. Laredo was violist of a Piano Quartet with renowned pianist
Emanuel Ax, celebrated violinist Isaac Stern, and distinguished cellist Yo-Yo Ma, his close colleagues and chamber music collaborators. Together the Quartet recorded nearly the entire piano quartet repertoire on the SONY Classical label, including the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Fauré and Brahms, for which he won a Grammy Award.
At the age of 17, Mr. Laredo won the prestigious
Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition, launching his rise to international prominence. With 2009 marking the 50th anniversary of his prize, he was honored to sit on the Jury for the final round of the Competition. His stewardships of the annual New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis have become beloved educational pillars of the string community.
In past seasons Mr. Laredo has conducted and performed with the
Chicago Symphony,
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony,
Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. Abroad, Mr. Laredo has performed with the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which he led on two American tours and in their Hong Kong Festival debut.
Winner of the Avery
Fisher Recital Award, the Piatigorsky Memorial Award, the Pro Musicis Award, and a Grammy Nominee, cellist Sharon Robinson is recognized worldwide as a consummate artist and one of the most outstanding musicians of our time. Her guest appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, National, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco Symphonies, and in Europe, the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Zürich's Tonhalle Orchestra and the English, Scottish and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestras.
Highly sought after for her dynamic master classes, Ms. Robinson brings insight to her teaching from the rare combination of her lifetime experiences as member of the
Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Ciompi String Quartet of Duke University, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, plus countless solo recitals and concerto performances.
Ms. Robinson's television appearances have included The
Tonight Show, the Today Show, the Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, a profile on CBS Sunday Morning, plus guest staring with Garrison Keillor on the Prairie Home Companion on NPR. Equally impressive are her festival engagements, which include Spoleto, Mostly Mozart, Seoul
Spring Festival, Aspen, Marlboro, London's South Bank, Madeira, Granada, Edinburgh, and Prague's Autumn Festival where she performed the Dvořák Cello Concerto at the famous Dvořák Hall.
About CIM: Since its founding in 1920, CIM has offered a world class education to students from age three to 93 and provided concerts for the community. Located in University Circle, Cleveland's cultural hub, CIM is easily accessible to all music lovers - providing hundreds of concerts annually, most free of charge. CIM's alumni perform with the world's most acclaimed musical organizations, in major national and international orchestras and opera companies, as soloists and chamber ensembles, and hold prominent teaching positions world-wide.
The Cleveland
Institute of
Music is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
