- Kneisel Hall
Kneisel Hall is an annual chamber music festival and school located in
Blue Hill, Maine . The season runs for seven weeks each summer from mid-June until early August. A small faculty works with approximately fifty pre-professional musicians, concentrating almost exclusively on chamber music for strings and piano. Since 1986, pianist Seymour Lipkin has served as Artistic Director.History
The origins of the festival date back to 1902, when violinist
Franz Kneisel first brought his students to his summer home in Blue Hill. Kneisel and his colleagues in the Kneisel Quartet established a summer teaching tradition that lasted until Kneisel's death in 1926. After a long hiatus, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School was reestablished in 1953 by Kneisel's daughter Marianne Kneisel, pianist Artur Balsam, violinistJoseph Fuchs and violistLillian Fuchs . From Marianne's death in 1973, the post of Artistic Director was held by cellistLeslie Parnas .Faculty
Ronald Copes ,Laurie Smukler ,Roman Totenberg , violinDoris Lederer ,Katherine Murdock , violaJerry Grossman ,Joel Krosnick ,George Sopkin ,Barbara Stein-Mallow , celloJane Coop ,Seymour Lipkin ,Marian Hahn , pianoSeymour Lipkin , Artistic DirectorEllen Werner , Executive DirectorPatty Stowell , Director, Maine Young Musicians ProgramExternal links
* [http://www.kneisel.org/ Kneisel Hall website]
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