Concert Details

Friday, June 18th, 2004 at 6PM
Honroing Katherine Damkohler, Executive Director, Education Through Music, Inc.
The Bar Association of the City of New York

Saturday, June 19th, 2004 at 6PM
Immanuel Lutheran Church
122 East 88th Street, Between Park and Lexington Avenues
 

David Bernard, Conductor
Andrea Berger, Flute
Elizabeth Keadle Markey, Harp
Isaac Krauss, Violin

Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Op. 64
Beethoven Symphony No. 7, Op. 92

About the Soloists

Andrea Berger has served as Administrative Director of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony since 2001, and has been Chair of the Lawyers' Orchestra Committee of the City Bar Association since 1999. In her role with the Lawyers' Orchestra, Ms. Berger led the growth of the ensemble from 40 to 70 musicians, defined its role as a community organization and established the "Friday Evening Chamber Music at the Association" program in 1999. An accomplished flutist who in 1996 rekindled her childhood interest in the instrument, Ms. Berger is a member of both The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and The Lawyers' Orchestra, has participated in the Lincoln Center/Amateur Chamber Music Players workshops and has attended the Chamber Music Conference of the East summer sessions at Bennington College. Ms. Berger studies the flute with Suzanne Gilchrest. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, NYU Graduate School of Public Administration, and Fordham Law School. A former President of the NY Women’s Bar Association and Vice Chair of Lawyers Alliance for NY, she is a Board Member of the Citizens Union. Andrea serves as Senior Counsel in the Division of Legal Counsel of the NYC Corporation Counsel’s Office, where she counsels Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s top staff on ethics, criminal justice and employment issues.

A native of Buckhannon, West Virginia, Elizabeth Keadle Markey has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s. In 2003 she appeared as Principal Harpist with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. She has been a member of the New York Lawyers’ Orchestra since 2002.
     Elizabeth has received a number of awards in national and local competitions, including the Anne Adams Award for full-time study of the harp, the American Harp Society Competition, and the Pittsburgh Concert Society Competition. As a recipient of the Vira I. Heinz Award, Ms. Markey spent the summer of 1997 in Prague, the Czech Republic, studying with Czech harpist Jana Bouskova.
     Elizabeth received her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Nancy Allen, and her Bachelor of Music Degree from Duquesne University, where she was a harp scholarship student of Gretchen Van Hoesen.
     In May 2003, Elizabeth graduated from Fordham University School of Law, where she volunteered for the Lincoln Square Children’s Neighborhood Law Project and served as Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review. She is currently a law clerk for the Honorable John F. Keenan of the Southern District of New York.

A native of Fairbanks, Alaska, Isaac Krauss has been a member of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony since 2002. At age 5, he was encouraged to begin study of the violin and later the piano, two instruments for which he formed a life-long passion. His first influential music teacher was Kathleen Butler-Hopkins of the University of Alaska. Other formative musical experiences included a half year of study in Leningrad, USSR in 1990 with Lev Alexandrovich Ivashenko at the Pre-Conservatory School, as well as several summers studying with Linda Cerone at ENCORE School for Strings, near Cleveland.
    At the end of high school Mr. Krauss decided to attend Stanford University rather than continue along the path of professional musical training. There he actively continued violin studies under the tutelage of Phillip Levy. He also pursued extensively his interest in chamber music. In academic studies, his favorite subjects included the Russian and Japanese languages, English literature and chemistry. After receiving his B. A. in chemistry in 1998, he continued with graduate work, obtaining his Ph. D. from Columbia University in August 2003. Mr. Krauss now works as a postdoctoral research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and hopes eventually to continue his career as a professor at a major university.