Jerome Rosen -piano & Laura Hamilton - violin (Concerts)

September 12, 2010 8:00 PM

Jerome Rosen returns to CSSC to perform with violinist Laura Hamilton

in DUO CONCERTANTE - Two Centuries of Music for violin and piano.

Featuring music of J.S. Bach, L.v. Beethoven, A. Webern and C. Franck.

Concert is FREE

About the Artists:

Laura Hamilton - violin: is the Principal Associate Concertmaster, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Jerome Rosen - piano: Violin and Keyboard, Retired from Boston Symphony

A note from Jerome Rosen:

In the summer of 1976, as an adjunct to my job as violinist and keyboard player of the Boston Symphony, I was the chairman of the Chamber Music Department  and violin teacher at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, a summer program for musically talented high school students from all over the United States. One of my students  that summer, both in private violin lessons and in a chamber music group, was a tallish young lady from San Francisco,  who so impressed me that I encouraged her to strive for a professional  career. Knowing from much first-hand experience how difficult was that path, pointing anyone along it was something that I rarely  did.  

We then went our separate ways, I to continue in the BSO and discover that I really preferred to play the piano (even though most of my training and career had been with the violin) and Laura Hamilton  to study at the Manhattan School,  the Moscow Conservatory, to play in the Chicago Symphony and make her way to her present position as Principal Associate Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera. It’s nice to know that once in a while you make a call that turns out to be right.    

I retired from my day job in 1998, concentrated seriously on being a pianist without worrying about making a “career” of it (I’d already had one of those!) ,  and in 2007 moved to the Greater New York City area  to be near my  newly arrived grand-daughter. By a series of unlikely coincidences Laurie and I re-established contact, she now a mother of three with a most impressive career of her own. We got together to play some music and decided quickly that we made a natural fit, and thus this concert came into being.        

And a response from Laura Hamilton:

When I was 17, I came to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute wide-eyed and on the cusp of a period of rapid growth as a young musician.  The summer program at Tanglewood was so exciting and stimulating for me, in no small part due to the high-level instruction offered there.  The two months spent with Mr. Rosen as my violin teacher and chamber music coach that summer made a lasting imprint on me at animportant point in my musical development, and his encouragement was quite important to me at a pivotal time in my life.  When the opportunity came, so many years later, to collaborate on this program, how could I resist?