Support the Virtuosi
A key part of Caramoor's mission is mentoring young professional musicians. The Caramoor Virtuosi, Rising Stars (Instrumental and Vocal) and Bel Canto Young Artists are excellent examples how we guide their careers at a crucial point.

To support these programs or any others at Caramoor, please contact
Gary Himes, Director of Development, at 914-232-5035, Ext. 235, or at gary@caramoor.org
or donate online via our secure server

 About the Caramoor Virtuosi

Sample a Virtuosi Performance
Listen to Schubert - Quintet in C Major, D. 956 Scherzo: Presto; Trio: Andante sostenuto
performed and recorded in the Spanish Courtyard by the Virtuosi on July 27th, 2007
LISTEN NOW (length 10:18)
Karen Gomyo, Ayano Ninomiya, violins; Nicholas Cords, viola; Alexis Pia Gerlach, Edward Arron, cellos

Upcoming Concerts

About the Caramoor Virtuosi
The Caramoor Virtuosi is an ever-evolving ensemble of some of America's finest young professional musicians who began their association with Caramoor as participants in our Rising Stars workshops. Founded by André Previn in 1992, the Rising Stars workshops were designed to identify exceptional young musicians and provide them with the artistic and collegial support needed to cross the threshold from promising student to committed artist. Over the past seventeen years, only 100 musicians have qualified for this highly selective mentoring and performance program, which is directed this season by Pamela Frank.

After completing Rising Stars, these young musicians may be selected to participate in the Caramoor Virtuosi and traditionally appear as the resident ensemble during one week of the Caramoor International Music Festival. There are currently 40 active Virtuosi who perform in various combinations at concerts during Caramoor's Indoors and Festival seasons. While still young, they are artists and musicians with exceptional command-of their instruments, of the music, of the ensemble process and ultimately, of communicating a musical message to the audience. 

According to Edward Arron, Artistic Director of the Caramoor Virtuosi, "Each Caramoor experience is memorable. The musicians establish relationships, even if only for a week, and a chemistry develops. Caramoor is unique in that the Rising Stars and Virtuosi programs have created an association among musicians that’s especially long lasting. The number of musicians who consider Caramoor to be their musical home grows each year. Each year we see familiar faces combined with newer talents; each year the combination changes, creating a different chemistry every season."

	2010 Virtuosi
Jeewon Park	Jesse Mills	Yura Lee
Max Mandel	Raman Ramakrishnan	Edward Arron

April 17 Turns of the Centuries: Caramoor Virtuosi
Saturday, 8:00pm ~ Rosen House Music Room
Tickets: $40.00   order online  

Jeewon Park, piano; Jesse Mills, violin; Yura Lee, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Edward Arron, Artistic Director and cello

Beethoven		Variations in E-flat Major for Piano Trio, Op. 44 (1804)
Webern		Two Pieces for cello and piano (1899)
Webern		Three Little Pieces for cello and piano, opus 11, (1914)
Chen Yi		Sound of The Five for Cello and String Quartet (1998)
Dohnanyi		Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 (1895)