The Heifetz 25-Year Advent Calendar
Day 14: 2003 - A Texas Twofer: Shannon Lee & Stirling Trent
June 25 & July 23, 2003: Wolfeboro, NH
As you see on the map, it’s a 28-hour drive and approximately 1850 miles to get from deep-in-the-heart-of-Dallas, Texas, to the Heifetz Institute’s longtime home of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, the lakeside town that bills itself as “America’s oldest summer resort.”
But two who made the trip in the eventful Heifetz summer of 2003 were first-time attendees Shannon Lee and Stirling Trent, who both happened to be students of the renowned Heifetz Institute violin teacher of then – and now! – Jan Mark Sloman. Thus, today’s installment features two suburban Dallas products making music by the Winnepausakee lakeside: 11-year-old Shannon (Plano, TX) and her older counterpart Stirling (Colleyville, TX) playing a seaside serenade by Carl Engel and a bluesy prelude by George Gershwin.
PS: Nowadays, Shannon is prepping to compete as just one of six finalists in the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, while Stirling is the Associate Acting Concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony, one of many hats he wears in orchestras from LA to Live from Lincoln Center!
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