Concert

[Dan Kazez <kazez...>]

Please attend the fifteenth concert in a year-long world tour of...

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ASSISTED BY Cantor Vicki L. Axe, soprano and Mikhail Popov, piano

FRIDAY, March 22, 1996, 8:30 pm, Temple Israel
        5419 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio USA.                             


MUSIC BY Stutschewsky, Steinberg, Bloch, Chajes, Kingsley, 
         Popper, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

A CELEBRATION of classical music influenced by the many musical styles of 
              the Jewish world--Sephardic, Yiddish, Klezmer, Hebrew, 
              Hassidic, Israeli, and others.

MUSICAL IMAGES of Jewish life--a Prayer, an Israeli dance, a Hebrew melody, 
               a Sephardic dance, and traditional folk songs.  The gamut of 
               emotions--joyously festive to poignantly plaintive.

CONTACT:  Temple Israel / tel: 614-866-0010 / fax: 614-866-9046
          or Daniel Kazez / kazez (at) wittenberg(dot)edu
              

**************************** 1995-96 CONCERTS ****************************
        Prague, Berlin, Rome, Florence, Paris, Salzburg, Brussels, 
            Hong Kong, DeKalb, Dayton, Akron, Columbus, Bombay, 
                Toronto, London, Delhi, Madras, Istanbul
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    Daniel Kazez began playing the cello at the age of five, under the 
tutelage of Leonard Feldman, cellist of the Alard String Quartet.  Kazez 
has earned music degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, the Peabody 
Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and a doctorate from the 
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where he was awarded three consecutive 
Rackham Fellowships.  His Paris and Florence debuts (in 1995) earned him 
standing ovations; and he recently performed to a standing-room-only 
audience in Rome.  His first performance in eastern Europe was at the 
1995 Prague International Festival of Jewish Culture.  Kazez has also 
appeared in most of the major metropolitan areas of the United States, 
including Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, 
Milwaukee, New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C.  He performed as 
founding member of the Castalia String Quartet, and is now a member of 
the Corinthian Chamber Players.

    Kazez is the author of two books (both dealing with the rhythmic 
aspect of music), a dozen scholarly articles (dealing with music theory 
and music performance pedagogy), and a dozen editions and arrangements 
of music (mostly from the English and Italian Baroque).  In late 1996, 
W.W. Norton will release the second edition of his book Rhythm Reading: 
Elementary Through Advanced Training, a widely used college textbook.  
Kazez has given talks on his research at twenty-five of the leading U.S. 
schools of music and conservatories, including the New England 
Conservatory, the University of Texas, and the Manhattan School of 
Music.  An enduring student of world music, Dr. Kazez has traveled to 
Java and Bali (where he studied gamelan music, dance, and shadow 
theater) and to Turkey and Greece (where he studied urban folk music).  
He is currently Associate Professor of Music at Wittenberg University.

    Kazez has been heard by radio and television audiences in the U.S. 
and Europe.  In 1993, his performance of J.S. Bach's first Cello Suite 
was broadcast on the ABC program 20/20, to an audience of over 20 
million.  In May, 1996, Kazez will travel to Asia for a concert tour of 
India, at the invitation of Virgo Music (Bombay) and the Indian Council 
for Cultural Relations (New Delhi).  In Spring of 1997, as a Fulbright 
Scholar, Kazez will teach at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.

    Kazez's interest in Jewish music is at once personal and professional.  
His father, now an eminent physicist, is a Sephardic Jew who emigrated to 
the U.S. from Turkey after World War II in search of further education.  
His mother, an accomplished artist and internationally recognized triathlete, 
is of Ashkenazic descent.  Dan lives in central Ohio with his wife, Anne, 
who is full-time mother to their two young children, Benjamin and Rachel.

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For concert booking information, contact:

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Daniel (Dan) Kazez                      e-mail:  kazez (at) wittenberg(dot)edu
Associate Professor Music                          tel:  513-327-7354
Wittenberg University                              fax:  513-327-6340
Daniel Kazez / Wittenberg University / Springfield, Ohio 45501  U.S.A.
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    Cantor Vicki L. Axe serves as Cantor and Music Director of Temple 
Israel in Columbus, Ohio.  She received her Bachelor of Music Education 
from Temple University in Philadelphia, and her M.A. in Music Education 
from The Ohio State University, and has held teaching positions in Ohio, 
Massachusetts, Israel, and New York.  She received her Degree in Sacred 
Music and Investiture as Cantor from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish 
Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music, where she is a member of 
the Advisory Council and has served on the faculty.

    Cantor Axe has performed extensively in the United States and in 
Israel.  She was featured as soloist with the Connecticut Chamber 
Orchestra, was soprano soloist with Dave Brubeck in a performance of his 
cantata "The Gates of Justice," which she also produced and performed 
with Marvin Hamlisch and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.

    The recipient of many awards for her fine scholarship and talent, 
Cantor Axe is the immediate past president of the American Conference of 
Cantors, a past president of the School of Sacred Music Alumni 
Association, and served for many years on the National Commission on 
Synagogue Music, and the executive committee of the Union of American 
Hebrew Congregations.

    Locally, Cantor Axe serves on the Women's Cabinet of the Columbus 
Jewish Federation and the board of the Jewish National Fund.  Cantor Axe 
has become known as a teacher, conductor, performer, and Ambassador of 
Good Will throughout the Columbus, Ohio Community, both sacred and 
secular.

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    Mikhail Popov was born in Leningrad, USSR, and emigrated to 
Columbus, Ohio in 1990.  He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory's 
Music College, with a specialty in music theory (1986), and then studied 
composition for three years at the Leningrad Conservatory (1986-1990).  
Mr. Popov plays many different instruments, in addition to the keyboard, 
and has participated in numerous local and international competitions as 
a composer and improviser.  He has performed as rehearsal accompanist at 
the Ohio Center of Dance and now serves as rehearsal accompanist for the 
Ballet Met.  He is the accompanist for Koleinu, the Columbus Jewish 
Community Adult Choir, Music Director at St. Edward's Episcopal Church, 
and organist at Temple Israel.