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Ullanta Music Works 2-CD and 2-DVD Sets UMW03-RI1 and RI1D:
Limor Toren Conducts
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2-DVD Set: $29.95
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ULLANTA DVD and CD UMW03-RI1(D): Limor Toren Conducts
This live recording features Limor Toren conducting (and performing
violin solos for) Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Grieg's
Holmberg Suite, and Haydn's Farewell Symphony with the
Southern California Chamber Ensemble. The multi-camera video on the
DVD set shows how the Farewell Symphony is performed in
beatiful candlelight that diminishes as the musicians leave the stage
one by one...)
About Limor Toren
Ms. Toren has won numerous regional and national competitions and has
appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout Russia, Israel, and the
United States. Her concert career has additionally taken her through
France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Egypt, the Canary Islands,
Japan, and Canada. She has recently performed the concerti of
Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and Bach as well as major chamber music recitals
in collaboration with Bernadene Blaha, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Patrick
Gallois, and many others. She has held principal positions in the
U.S.C. Thornton Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, the Y.M.F. Debut
Orchestra, and the American Youth Symphony. She currently sits
Assistant Principal for the New West Symphony Orchestra, in Southern
California. She has performed under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Kurt
Mazur, Michael Tilson-Thomas, and Charles Dutoit; and, in support of
Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Emanuel Ax, and Evgeny Kissin.
Ms. Toren began her formal musical education in Russia, at the Moscow
Gnessins College of Music. In Israel, she completed her Bachelors of
Music degree and Artist Diploma at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of
Music and Dance. In 1997, Ms. Toren, with full scholarship to the
U.S.C. Thornton School of Music, came to pursue graduate-level studies
with the distinguished Professor Alice Schoenfeld. She completed her
Masters of Music degree in 1999 and her Doctor of
Musical Arts degree in May 2004.
Throughout her career, Ms. Toren has been distinguished and honored:
the U.S.C. Associates Musical Scholars Award, the U.S.C. Chamber
Orchestra Ensemble Award, the Baroness Leni Fe Bland Award, and the
H.I.A.S. Award. She was also the recipient of the America-Israel
Cultural Foundation Scholarship and Jascha Heifetz Endowed Violin
Scholarship.
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