STANDBY ONLY An Evening of Chamber Music with Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic FREE April 25, 2007

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An Evening of Chamber Music with Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Performance by Edie Markman (violin), Stacy Wetzel (violin) and Minor L. Wetzel (viola)
In a special community concert, members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform a program featuring Haydn’s “Rider” and Beethoven's second "Razumovsky" quartets.
Co-presented with The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

Edith Markman (violin) was born in Detroit, Michigan, and began her formal musical training at the age of eight with her father, Luben Haladjoff. She studied with Josef Gingold and Ivan Galamian at the Meadowmount School, and in 1968 she enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music to study with Joseph Silverstein. Markman also spent four successive summers at Tanglewood at the Berkshire Music Center.

In 1971, she became the first undergraduate to be dually enrolled in Yale College and the Yale Graduate Music School. At that time she became concertmaster of the Yale Collegium and Philharmonia Orchestras and a principal player with the New Haven Symphony. She remained at Yale and received the Master of Music degree (1974) and beyond that completed her academic studies toward the Doctorate of Music.

Stacy Wetzel (violin)
Violinist Stacy Wetzel attended the Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Washington and her Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. She was first-place winner in the Washington International Competition and the Buffalo Young Artists competition. Wetzel has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic. She joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1987. In the fall of 1995, she won the audition for a position in the second violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2001 she moved up to join the orchestra's first violin section.

Minor L. Wetzel (viola) studied at Indiana University and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan. His teachers have included Roland Vamos, Emmanuel Vardi, Donald McInnes, Camilla Wicks, and Tadeusz Wronski. He joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the start of the 1994/95 season. Wetzel's orchestral experience includes the Spokane Symphony, principal viola of the Ann Arbor Chamber and Sacramento Symphony Orchestras, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and - for the six years prior to joining the Philharmonic - the San Francisco Symphony. He has performed as soloist with various local orchestras. His awards include the W. E. Hill & Sons Award at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. He currently teaches viola performance at California State University Fullerton. Wetzel is a regular performer on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Chamber Music Society series.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Neighborhood Concerts are supported by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates, B.C. McCabe Foundation, MetLife Foundation, David and Linda Shaheen Foundation

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