The Heifetz 25-Year Advent Calendar
Day 12: 1999 - Transitions, Passions, & Potential
Welcome to December! For our final-month celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Heifetz Institute, we’ll be sharing audio, video, images, and programs from across the decades of the Institute. Check back each day from Dec. 1 – Dec. 25 as we share some memorable moments from each golden year of the Institute!
This is the first time I've ever performed at my Institute. I feel that the Institute is a place for our students and faculty, not for me, to do any performing. But we are starting a tradition that will continue next year - in the Marlboro style of bringing in great guest artists and inviting the highest caliber students to perform together in a professional performance setting. - Heifetz Institute founder Daniel Heifetz, 1997
July 16, 1999: Annapolis, MD
1999 was a transitional year for the Heifetz Institute. Having outgrown its original home at a private school in Howard Country, Maryland, the summer program headed a few miles to the south to take up residence in homes and venues in the historic state capital of Annapolis, Maryland.
From the very beginning, the Heifetz Institute has been devoted to helping our students – each and every last one of them brimming with ability – realize their full artistic potential. As our founder Daniel Heifetz explains in his opening remarks, the same could be said for some of the composers whose music they play. With the able assistance of the “Heifetz Classical Band,” made up of former Heifetz Institute students Marc Ramirez and Olivia Hajioff (today the popular Virginia two-violin duo Marcolivia),violist Sel Kardan (now the head of the prestigious Colburn School) , cellist Douglas Poplin, and pianist Micah Yui, Daniel introduces and then performs the searing third movement Grave from the Concerto for Piano, Violin, and String Quartet, Op. 21, by French composer Ernest Chausson. In concert at the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis in the summer of ’99.
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