NewsPress Release - 2/2/2000

MARLBORO, VT - The Kammerfeld Quartet will perform works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Prokofiev at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 13, in the Whittemore Theater at Marlboro College.

Featuring four Harvard undergraduate students, the Kammerfeld Quartet was formed in spring 1999. Senior Joseph Lin and junior Johnny Lee play the violin, junior Isaac Nakhimovsky plays the viola, and senior Albert Pan plays the cello. They have worked with such coaches as Robbie Merfeld, Robert Mann, Marcy Rosen, and Isaac Stern.

Lin was the winner of the 1999 Pro Musicis International Award and the 1996 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. His recent engagements have included appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. He is studying the violin with Lynn Chang at Harvard.

Lee, who has been playing violin since the age of 5, is concertmaster of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and a founding member of the Brattle Street Chamber Players. He recently performed the Brahms Concerto with the Holden Consort Orchestra. He is studying the violin with Lynn Chang at Harvard.

Nakhimovsky is a principal violist of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and a founding member of the Brattle Street Chamber Players. He is studying history at Harvard, as well as viola with Lenny Matczynski.

Pan, who has played the cello since the age of 8, attended the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division, the Juilliard Pre-College, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, and the New York String Seminar. He is studying chemistry at Harvard, as well as cello with Andres Diaz.

The performance is free and open to the public, and the Whittemore Theater is fully accessible. For more information, call (802) 257-4333. The Marlboro events calendar can be found on-line at http://www.marlboro.edu/calendar/calendar.html.