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Thoughts from the President • Around the State
Daniel Milner
Thoughts from
the President
It is with a sense of great
excitement and joy that I
write my first thoughts as
we begin our new year at
the Cleveland Institute of
Music. I feel so very honored
to be following one
of the longest and most
significant tenures of any
living leader of an American
conservatory, that of
David Cerone. And I stand
in awe of his effectiveness
as a leader and his commitment
to comprehensive
education.
I come to the Institute
from many years of playing,
conducting and teaching
and with a nurturing
attitude toward the young
people who are the future of great music: our young
performers and composers. Having visited CIM many
times in past years to give master classes as part of the
Juilliard String Quartet, I had found the chamber music
program to be energetic, informed and well-organized.
How wonderful to encounter young students where the
fire for chamber playing had been kindled and burnt
brightly!
Honorary Trustee Stanley Adelstein and his wife Hope donated
“The Spontaneous Invention of Distant Memories,” an earthenware
and concrete sculpture by Danville Chadbourne, to CIM. The Adelsteins
are pictured above next to the sculpture, located near the garden
entrance to Pogue Lobby, with David and Linda Cerone and CIM
friend John Bolton.
Around the State
In June, Preparatory students the Animato Quartet –
Gabe Katz Napoli, violin student of Stephen Sims; Kaelyn
Quinn, violin student of Kimberly Meier-Sims; Jessica Pasternak,
viola student of Lembi Veskimets; and Braden McConnell,
cello student of Melissa Kraut – performed for more
than 80 residents of Montefiore Home. Each quartet member
performed a solo piece by a composer with a Jewish connection.
The group was coached weekly by Preparatory and Suzuki
violin faculty member Stephen Sims (M.M., 1988, violin),
student of Linda Cerone and David Russell. Alicja Basinska
(M.M., 2002, accompanying), Doctor of Musical Arts degree
student of Anita Pontremoli, was the piano accompanist.
Now that I am beginning to know the school more
completely from my vantage as president, I can see that
the excellence and involvement I had perceived in our
chamber music program in fact permeates the whole
school, in all of its programs. In our faculty, we boast a
marvelous mix of the inspired and virtuosic performers
of The Cleveland Orchestra with a wonderful group of
other top-notch artists and teachers − altogether the
best pedagogues this country has to offer.
There is so much young talent out there today. The Institute
must maintain and extend its ability to compete
for that talent, both with teaching excellence and with
scholarship resources. My wish is that we move forward
toward a greater position of international visibility,
using creative and relevant events to fuel the fire. I look
forward to helping to bring the Cleveland Institute of
Music to the awareness of the world and to the service
of our community.
− Joel Smirnoff
Golovin
Animato Quartet
Sarah Gardner, Master of
Music degree voice student
of Mary Schiller, was awarded
the John MacDonald
Vocal Scholarship by the
Akron Symphony Chorus.
Stanislav Golovin, clarinet
student of Franklin Cohen,
joined CityMusic Cleveland
in September.