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Conductor Jorge Mester Makes a Commute Down Under

MUSIC NEWS

May 20, 1990|DANIEL CARIAGA

During the coming seasons, Miller will conduct Hollywood Bowl subscription concerts, Music Center concerts and occasional tour engagements. He will continue to conduct youth education concerts; he directed 29 of them during the 1989-90 season. Miller joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute as a conducting fellow in 1985.

PEOPLE: Violinists Gil Shaham and Chee-Yun and cellist Yosif Feigelson are the winners of the 1990 Avery Fisher career grants of $10,000 apiece "designed to give recognition to talented instrumentalists on the threshold of major careers." Shaham, 19, was born in Illinois and now studies with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang at the Juilliard School in New York. Chee-Yun, 19, is a native of Korea now under the same tutelage at Juilliard. Feigelson, 35, was born in Riga, Latvia, and emigrated to this country from the Soviet Union in 1981 . . . Jacqueline Brand, a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for the past four years, has been named assistant concertmaster.

SUMMERTIME: Philip Glass, Lou Harrison and Tania Leon will be composers in residence at the 1990 Cabrillo Music Festival in Santa Cruz, July 19-29. Dennis Russell Davies, in his 17th summer as music director, has also programmed a healthy sampling of music by Brahms. . . . Philharmonia Baroque from San Francisco, the Smithson String Quartet, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, conductor Neal Stulberg, fortepianist Malcolm Bilson and singers Judith Nelson, Ann Monoylos, Lorraine Hunt, Lisa Saffer, Frank Kelley, Jeffrey Thomas and Douglas Lawrence are among the participants just announced for the third E. NakamichiCQ?? Baroque Music Festival at UCLA June 27-July 1. The schedule includes six concerts, three recitals and three auxiliary events, all in Royce Hall and Schoenberg Hall Auditorium. Information: (213) 825-9261. . . . Twenty Southern California dance companies and/or soloists will participate in the 1990 Dance Kaleidoscope at Cal State Los Angeles' Playhouse, July 20-22, 27-29.

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