Special Guest Artists: MARK PTASHNE, violin with Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, and Steven Beck, piano.
MARK PTASHNE holds the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He has studied the violin with Roman Totenberg and Eric Rosenblith in Boston, with Patty Kopec in New York, and with Mela Tenenbaum in Brooklyn. He is a past participant in The Roundtop Music Festival (Roundtop, Texas), the Hurwitz Chamber Music Festival (Cinque Terra, Italy) and The Yellow Barn Music Festival (Putney, Vermont). Now he plays at the IMAI Festival in Fryeburg, Maine, the Pro-Am Seminar in Cooperstown, NY, and the Tenenbaum Festival in Prince Edward Island, Canada. His Personal web site is found at www.markptashne.com and his scientific site at the Sloan-Kettering Institute.
As a former founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, cellist RAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN won the grand prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. American pianist STEVEN BECK continues to garner impressive acclaim for his performances and recordings worldwide.
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