SLSQ SUMMER CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP 2004

I had the tremendous fortune of participating in the St. Lawrence String Quartet's (SLSQ.COM) Summer Chamber Music Institute 2004, which commenced on Friday, June 26 and culminated in an epic recital at 11am on Sunday, July 4th. The institute has been running for four years now, and each year the caliber of students has improved noticeably. Also interesting was the incredible diversity among participants, many of whom have day jobs in medicine, law, engineering, and other arts.

The excellent staff this year consisted of members of the SLSQ (Geoff Nuttall, Barry Shiffman, Lesley Roberson, Chris Costanza), plus Stephen Prutsman (piano), Scott St. John (violin), Kwangwu Kim (piano), Yung Chin (bows), Rob Kapilow (evangelist/educator), and John Lad (tai chi). The masterclasses we participated in were among the most informative and funny of all the ones I've been involved with, and coaches were very good at mixing intense learning with fun.

In addition to two daily coachings and masterclasses, the workshop featured noon concerts and evening chamber music reading parties (which tended to run into the wee hours of the morning).

I'm exhausted! But here are some photos for you to enjoy. Also, please leave a comment!

Download hi-res versions of the group photos here (About 2MB each, AdobeRGB 1998):
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*UPDATE* See photos from the 2005 seminar!

Eric Cheng, Cellist (sometimes)
July 5, 2004

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EMBARRASSING PHOTOGRAPHS

At Golden Phoenix market: Eric Cheng (my evil twin), Chris Costanza, Ivy Zenobi, Warren Wu, Scott St. John
Chris, Eric, Warren, Ivy, and Scott eat mochi ice cream
Stephen Prutsman and Kwangwu Kim chat with the audience before performing
Scott St. John and Stephen Prutsman at a noon concert
John Lad, in the lounge
Chris Costanza inhales kumquats
Scott St. John and Daphne Wang eat nectarines
Chris drinks out of Yung Chin's cup
Lesley Robertson
Eric Cheng #2 (I was born first, so I get #1!), Warren, and Scott
Geoff Nuttall coaches the Engwin Quartet: Andrew Eng, Edwin Huizinga, Alastair Eng, and Emily Eng
Chris Costanza coaches the Engwin Quartet
Geoff and Chris with the Engwins
Geoff sits in with the Engwin Quartet
Geoff coaches the Engwins
Engwin Quartet, during masterclass
Peachtoad Productions films the Engwin Quartet being coached by Geoff Nuttall and Chris Costanza
Shoanie Young, Victoria Tchertchian, Ilya Levtov, Jessica Chuang, and Burkhard Bastuck play Brahms Quintet at masterclass
Shoanie Young, Victoria Tchertchian, Ilya Levtov, Jessica Chuang, and Burkhard Bastuck play Brahms Quintet at masterclass (Barry Shiffman coaching)
The entire St. Lawrence String Quartet jumps in to coach
Geoff Nuttall demonstrates something on the piano
Lesley Robertson and Barry Schiffman coaching Shoanie, Victoria, Ilya, Jessica, and Burkhard
Shoanie and Ilya's playing inspires Lesley to make skating motions across the stage
Geoff, Barry, Lesley, and Scott coach
Geoff gets really excited when he coaches
Shoanie Young, Victoria Tchertchian, Ilya Levtov, Jessica Chuang, and Burkhard Bastuck play Brahms Quintet at masterclass
Scott and Lesley coaching
The masterclass audience
The ENTIRE St. Lawrence String Quartet sits in with Burkhard Bastuck!
The ENTIRE St. Lawrence String Quartet sits in with Burkhard Bastuck
Check out Geoff's leg and expression!
Audience members
The ENTIRE St. Lawrence String Quartet sits in with Burkhard Bastuck
Joan and Sandra
Chris emotes during the coaching
Scott talks about left-hand technique
Chris gives Ilya some tips
Shoanie, Jessica, and Burkhard
Coaches Kwangwu, Geoff, and Barry
Seungja Kimn, Joan Norton, Jane Johnson, David Goodwin, and Sandra Goodwin
Barry coaches Seungja Kimn, Joan Norton, Jane Johnson, David Goodwin, and Sandra Goodwin
Geoff Nuttall sits in with Joan Norton, Jane Johnson, David Goodwin, and Sandra Goodwin
Chris, Scott, and Eric
The Calgary Quartet: Pam Hinman, Naomi Delafield, Mike Scholz, and Lael Stromberg
The Calgary Quartet: Pam Hinman, Naomi Delafield, Mike Scholz, and Lael Stromberg
Scott St. John coaches the Calgary Quartet: Pam Hinman, Naomi Delafield, Mike Scholz, and Lael Stromberg
The Calgary Quartet: Pam Hinman, Naomi Delafield, Mike Scholz, and Lael Stromberg
The Calgary Quartet: Pam Hinman, Naomi Delafield, Mike Scholz, and Lael Stromberg
Rob Kapilow hard at work preparing his talk
Daphne Wang, relaxing
Daphne Wang, relaxing
Sandra, Jane, Scott, Tricia, and Daphne at lunch
Rafael Hoekman, Yosef Tamir, Csaba Koczo, Victoria Tchertchian, Shoanie Young, Jessica Chuang, and Peter van Roessel
Ivy Zenobi, in the lounge
Ivy Zenobi, in the lounge
Eric Cheng #2 and Ivy Zenobi
Stephen Prutman coaches our group
Stephen Prutsman, Daphne Wang, and Patricia Chang
John Lad, Steve Ettinger, Sue Larson, and Joy Han play the Dvorak Bagatelles Op 47 in masterclass
Scott St. John coaches
The Unagi Trio: Daphne Wang, Eric Cheng (me!), and Tricia Chang
Kwangwu Kim coaches our group
Kwangwu Kim coaches our group
Kwangwu Kim coaches our group
Kwangwu Kim coaches our group while Peachtoad Productions films
Daphne, me, and Patricia
The Tokai String Quartet: Amanda Goodwin, Csaba Koczo, Yosef Tamir, and Rafael Hoekman
Scott St. John with the Tokai String Quartet
The Wakawu Trio: Joanna Kaczorowska, Warren Wu and Ray Walton
Amanda, Yosef, and Warren
John Lad chats with Emily Eng
Daphne Wang and Benjamin Chen
Ben surprises Daphne
Daphne, John and me drinking Fat Tire
Geoff and John
It's Burkhard's camera. Really.
The Tokai String Quartet performs Dvorak at Ilya's house
The Tokai String Quartet performs Dvorak at Ilya's house
Scott St. John and Daphne Wang
Ivy Zenobi and friends
Scott, Daphne, Isabel O'Meara, John, me, and Alastair reading Brahms Sextets
Jessice, Ed and Ilya
Amanda, Geoff, Rafael, and Yosef
Pam and Edwin
Julia Ogrydziak, Shoanie, and Mike
Amanda Goodwin
Geoff Nuttall
Rafael Hoekman
Yosef Tamir
Amanda, Geoff, Rafael, and Yosef
Daphne Wang and Scott St. John
Ilya and Geoff go wild on the dance floor
Ilya and Geoff go wild on the dance floor
John, Ilya and me
Pam and Daphne
Ilya and me
Some pizz'ing action from the cello
Cellist view of the world...
Shoanie arrives with a couple of drinks
Shoanie and Daphne
Me, Warren, and John
Reading Schubert Cello Quintet
Warren Wu
Me, on the cello
John Lad
Shoanie, Daphne, John, Warren, and I reading Schubert
Daphne, Shoanie, John, Ilya, and me
Reading Schubert Quintet
Geoff, Ilya and me
Daphne Wang
My cello scroll and the back of my head
Yosef and Rafael
Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Rob Kapilow and the St. Lawrence String Quartet
Alastair demonstrates his crazy hacky moves
Chris Costanza, with hat
John Lad, Pam Hinman, Stephen Hinton, and Warren Wu
Stephen Hinton, viola!
Pam Hinman
John, Pam, Stephen, and Warren
Stephen Hinton, viola
Chris pours some beer for Peter
The Tokai String Quartet perform at Ray and Jack's place
Watching the Tokai
Geoff and Rob enjoy the Tokai's performance
The Tokai String Quartet
Peachtoad Productions
Lesley Robertson and Ilya Levtov. Happy Birthday, Lesley!
Shoanie, Pam, Lesley, and Julia
Rob Kapilow, Warren Wu, Joanna, Kaczorowska, and Daphne Wang
Eric Cheng with Rob Kapilow
Andres, Victoria, Mike, Lael, and Alastair. More Schubert.
Lael and Alastair
Warren Wu and Daphne Wang
Chris and Rafael enjoy Schubert's cello theme
Alastair
Warren and me, looking mean
Cellists: Chris, Warren, and me
Chris, Warren, Tricia and I read Popper Requiem
Chris indulges in Popper
Daphne, Tricia and I read a tango
Csaba, Jessica, Yosef, Eran Mukamel, and Rafael read Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Daphne with Barry Schiffman
The effort to read all of Haydn's String Quartets!
Group Photo, 2004 St. Lawrence String Quartet Summer Chamber Music Institute
Group Photo, 2004 St. Lawrence String Quartet Summer Chamber Music Institute
Geoff walks up to get his gift
Edwin presents Geoff with a gift
Lesley gets a gift
Adam Tow and Rae Chang come to visit
This one is for Yung Chin's kid. Look! Your father is famous!
This one is for Yung Chin's kid. Look! Your father is famous!
Ivy and friend
"Smile!" I tell Ivy.
Daphne, Eric, and Patricia perform Brahms (photo: Adam Tow)
Daphne, Eric, and Patricia perform Brahms (photo: Adam Tow)
Daphne and Barry Shiffman (photo: Adam Tow)
Daphne and Stephen Prutsman (photo: Adam Tow)
Eric Cheng #2 with his mother, who knows my parents!
Eric Cheng #2's parents
Eric Cheng and Eric Cheng. Yeah, baby.
Eric Cheng (me), Daphne Wang, and Barry Schiffman
Ed Wu and Julia Ogrydziak
Emily Eng and Ilya Levtov performing baroque music
Geoff goes crazy with a burger patty and Corona
Geoff and Daphne
Geoff and Daphne
Geoff and Daphne
Peachtoad Productions interviews Edwin
Ed, Andrew, Victoria, ?, Jessica, and Daphne
Look! Daphne's mom is calling -- again!
Julia's shoes
Julia throws a frisbee
Music boys in the hot tub
Edwin and Julia playing frisbee
John Lad and me playing with our balls. Yep.
Geoff contributes to the ball game.
Daphne Wang. I have no idea what she is doing. Did Warren take this photo?
Geoff and Warren
Catching some balls
Daphne, Peachtoad, and Geoff play ultimate frisbee
Antonia learns the ball game
Daphne, in a shampoo commercial
Warren and me
Geoff uses Warren as as stool
A blurry photo of me and Warren, probably taken by Daphne.
The lens cap is about to hit Daphne
Daphne, Julia, Geoff, and I read Hye-den
Warren starts to get artsy!
Daphne, Julia, Geoff, and me
Geoff, Daphne, Ilya, and John
Csaba, Andrew, Alastair, Rafael, and Emily read Schubert AGAIN!
The enraptured audience
Look how indulgent Rafael is...
Alastair
READER COMMENTS

Reader Comments

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-- posted by Eric Cheng @ Monday, July 5 2004, 11:14 pm

Okay. I'll bite.

It took quite awhile to download the photo page. Then to scroll through all the pictures. Not that I'm complaining.

Looks like a wildly busy couple of days. To say the least.

Keep up the fun.

-- posted by Andrew @ Tuesday, July 6 2004, 04:38 am

Great photos, as always. Glad you enjoyed the camp so much! I haven't been to a camp in a few years now. You just reminded me how much fun they are!

~Ginny, trumpet all the time =)

-- posted by Ginny @ Tuesday, July 6 2004, 05:05 am

Looks like y'all had a blast, as usual. I wish I could have been there!

-- posted by Heidi @ Tuesday, July 6 2004, 08:54 am

Andrew - I must admit that I am broadband-centric these days. The problem is that I want to share many photos, and the number of dialup people I know is dwindling rapidly. Sorry for the large page sizes!

-- posted by Eric Cheng @ Tuesday, July 6 2004, 10:12 am

soo jealous! =) glad you got to have a musical retreat.

-- posted by fiona @ Tuesday, July 6 2004, 10:55 am

wow - intensity. humor. smiles. pornography. complete with shampoo commercials. hahahahha. couldn't help but smile while looking thru the pics. looks like so much fun. good stuff!

-- posted by Caroline :) @ Tuesday, July 6 2004, 10:59 pm

Its cool. I am actually on 512Kb ADSL. I can't imagine how long it takes for dialup.

I use to have cable which was super fast but gave it up as ADSL is better value. Thnaks to the current broadband price wars that Australia have at the moment.

Its good to see some updates you've been a bit quiet with all your travels. But those travels are amazing.

Thanks for sharing with us.

-- posted by Andrew @ Thursday, July 8 2004, 05:13 am

Was wondering what you've been up to...looks like loads of fun. Many cute musician girls to hang out with as well, nice. :)

-- posted by Dave P @ Monday, July 12 2004, 10:45 pm

Great pictures and captions! I found you by Googling "Stephen Prutsman", who I think is one of the most awesome pianists of our time. It's great you host and attend so many musical events!

-- posted by Anita C. @ Tuesday, September 28 2004, 09:50 am

Thanks for the photos! I hardly ever see Chris, so this was fun for me! Did you actually read all the Haydn String Quartets? I actually did that with friends while I was at Eastman--it took 24 hours, lots of beer, and chili.

-- posted by Lisa (Costanza)--Chris's sister @ Sunday, December 5 2004, 09:32 pm

These pictures are great. Sitting at my Frankfurt lawyer's desk I sometimes sneek to this address to look at the pictures and cherish the memories of a wonderful summer course with great people and great music.

-- posted by Burkhard Bastuck @ Tuesday, December 14 2004, 03:34 am

Hi Eric!

Great page and pictures - I'm a friend of Pam's from violin.

Keep smiling!

Luvs, Wendy

-- posted by Wendy @ Wednesday, February 9 2005, 10:48 am

hello to victoria tchertchian from a french grand father

-- posted by tchertchian jean @ Wednesday, March 15 2006, 12:14 am

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