Concert Details

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 at 7PM
Alice Tully Hall
Benefit Concert for the Juilliard Pre-College Parents Association Scholarship Fund

David Bernard, Conductor
Sandy Wolf-Meei Cameron, Violin
 

Mozart Overture to "The Magic Flute", K. 620
Sibelius Concerto for Violin, Opus 47
Schubert Symphony in C, "Great"

Pictures from this Event

Left: Dr. Joseph Polisi, President of The Juilliard School, welcoming guests to the event.  Right: David Bernard leads The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in a performance of Mozart's Overture to "The Magic Flute".

Left: Sandy Wolf-Meei Cameron performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, David Bernard conducting. Right: David Bernard conducting The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Schubert's Symphony in C, "Great".

About the Soloist

Sandy Wolf-Meei Cameron,  a senior at Poolesville High School in Maryland, began her violin studies in Germany at the age of eight. Upon her return to the United States she entered the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, where she studies with Dean Stephen Clapp. For the past eight years, Ms. Cameron has been traveling every Saturday from Maryland to New York City in order to attend the Pre-College Division.

Ms. Cameron made her European debut in November, 1998, performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the State Orchestra in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and her American orchestral debut at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in July 1999. In August of 2000, she was chosen as the youngest winner of the Salzburg Mozarteum’s outstanding student prize and received extraordinary critical acclaim in concert at the Salzburg Festival. While in Salzburg, she played for Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who immediately engaged her to play with him in 2001 at both the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and at the Salzburg Festival.

Ms. Cameron’s 2002-03 engagements included a tour of North America with the Kirov Orchestra and Maestro Valery Gergiev, where her performance at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, of which was stated “... Cameron, a 16-year-old fire ball with a bouncing ponytail and laser-sharp precision, offered as vivid a portrait of the piece as one might hope for. (Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1)... She has the accuracy and intensity of Midori at that age, but a broader, hotter stage personality..." Concerts with the symphony orchestras of Greenwich, Connecticut, Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina, as well as her US recital debut at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida in the fall of 2002 rounded out the season.

Highlights of the 2004-05 season will include a performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and conductor David Bernard. She will open the season for the Springfield Symphony (OH) with Music Director Peter Stafford Wilson, and is engaged to play with the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra (KY). In spring of 2005, Sandy Cameron will make her debut with Maryland Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Elizabeth Schulze, and has been re-engaged to play with the Augusta Symphony (GA). Ms. Cameron’s highly acclaimed 2001-02 orchestral engagements included the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Magdeburgische Philharmonic in Madgeburg, Germany. She made her recital debut at the Festival St Denis in June 2002 and repeated that success at the Festival Verbier the next month with pianist Itamar Golan.

In the 2000-01 season Ms. Cameron performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn, earning the following review, “.... the teenager with the flip-flopping ponytail displayed as much passion and as formidable a technique as you’d likely encounter in a dozen professional performances...(demonstrating) intensity and focus beyond her years.... a profound concentration.... whether exploring the grasping, yearning moments of the slow movement or ... attacking the opening subject of the concluding Allegro....”