Aaron Rosand in Recital

**As Seen on Classic Arts Showcase**

Winner: Golden Davey Award for Artistic Excellence in Entertainment [press release]

Now Available from Video Artists International
[press release]

"Some of his best recordings are of very recent vintage. A recital filmed in California last fall, featuring remarkably assured and sensitive playing    ...delivered with technical aplomb and, above all, exquisitely tasteful, old-world style."
--Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun.

Elfenworks is pleased to announce that segments of our film of virtuoso violinist and elfenworks client Aaron Rosand in Recital, which is available through retail outlets, worldwide, as well as from major on-line vendors including amazon.com, has been aired on Classic Arts Showcase.

This film features virtuoso violinist Aaron Rosand accompanied by pianist Robert Koenig and includes works by Bach, Tschaikovsky, Sarasate, Chopin, Brahms, LeClair, Franck, and others. This recital concert helped establish an Aaron Rosand Music Lesson Scholarship Fund at Mills College, where the recital took place. Donations to this fund are always happily accepted when directed to: Mills College OED - RE: Rosand Lesson Scholarship Fund, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland CA 94613.

DVD Highlights

• Sonata III in D Major (J.M. LeClair)
• Sonata in A Major (Cesar Franck)
• Adagio & Fugue from Sonata I in G minor for Solo Violin (J.S. Bach)
• Preghiera (Rachmaninoff-Kreisler)
• Hopak (Moussorgsky-Rachmaninoff)
• Valse Sentimentale (Tschaikovsky-Press)
• March (Prokofieff-Heifetz)
• Zigeunerweisen (Sarasate)
• Nocturne in C# minor (Chopin-Milstein)
• Hungarian Dance #2 (Brahms)

• Executive Producer/Director: Lauren Speeth.
• Co-director/Cinematographer: Dan Coplan.

About Aaron Rosand

Among the world's outstanding violinists is Aaron Rosand, whose masterful playing has captivated audiences and critics throughout the world. A true violinist's violinist and "one of the great living exponents of Romantic violin music," (New York Times), Rosand has made "some of the greatest recordings of this century" (Gramophone Magazine); recordings lauded by Strad magazine as "synonymous with immaculate technical achievement, beautiful multi-coloured tonal luster, artful phrasing, stylistic elan, and a probing musical intellect."

Rosand carries on two traditions of playing, having studied both with Leon Sametini (a student of Eugene Ysaye) at the Chicago Musical College, and with Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (a student of Leopold Auer) at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. As Dorothy Richard Starling Chair of Violin Studies at Curtis as well as in master classes throughout the world, Rosand seeks to impart the twin strains embodied in his own playing - the Russian school of Auer and the Ysaye tradition - to a new generation.

A prolific recording and performing artist, Aaron Rosand enjoys an enduring career that has spanned more than six decades. According to Strad magazine, Rosand's technique is "undiminished by the passing years, interpretations honed to perfection by a lifetime of performances. He has always had that ability to make music sound fresh and spontaneous, his tone shaded with a flexible vibrato ideal for Romantic music." For more information, visit the artist's website at www.aaronrosand.com or Video Artists International.

About Robert Koenig

Canadian pianist Robert Koenig has quickly established a reputation as a much sought-after collaborative pianist and chamber musician. He performs regularly in major centers throughout the world with many of this generations most renowned musicians. Recent engagements have included performances at Carnegie Hall in New York, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, The Concertgebuow in Amsterdam, and the Louvre Museum in Paris. He has performed with many of today’s leading artists including Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Pamela Frank, Ida Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, and Aaron Rosand.

Mr. Koenig has appeared at many festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Banff, Saratoga, Caramoor, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the El Paso Pro Musica, the Campos do Jordao Festival in Brazil, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He is frequently heard on radio and television including ABC’s “Good Morning America” and CBS “This Morning”. From 1992-1999, Mr. Koenig was staff pianist at The Juilliard School and in 1999 he became a staff pianist at The Curtis Institute of Music. In the fall of 2000, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Chamber Music at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. With the assistance of the University of Kansas Center for Research, Mr. Koenig has commissioned renowned American Composer Lowell Liebermann to write a new trio for flute, cello and piano.

Mr. Koenig has recorded for Artek, Ambassador, Biddulph, Cedille, CRI, Decca, Eroica, and Naxos. His most recent CD of the complete works for viola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps with violist Roberto Diaz was released in June/2002 on the Naxos Label.

Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Robert Koenig began his formal training at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Lee KumSing and Gwen Thompson and later studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Academie Musicale di Chigiana in Siena, Italy. During this time he received several awards from the Canadian Government including a Canada Council Project Grant. He completed both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Accompanying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff and chamber music with Felix Galimir and Karen Tuttle.

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