February 13, 2001

“Berick

phrases with meticulous care, and the beauty of his full-bodied tone

is ravishing.”

—Montreal Gazette

Violinist

Yehonatan Berick to perform Feb. 27

MIDDLEBURY,

Vt.―Violinist Yehonatan Berick will perform unaccompanied in a

free lunchtime recital at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the

Concert Hall of the Middlebury College Center for the Arts on South

Main Street (Route 30). His program will consist of the Bach Partita

2 in D Minor and the Bela Bartok Solo Sonata.

A native of

Israel now living in Montreal, Berick studied in Tel Aviv,

Cincinnati, and New York, where he was a pupil of Dorothy Delay. He

is currently Professor of Violin at McGill University in Montreal and

performs widely in North America, Europe, and Israel. A performer at

the Marlboro Festival, he has played with the ensemble Musicians from

Marlboro at Middlebury College, as well as at Wigmore Hall in London,

the Kennedy Center and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.,

the Ford Centre in Toronto, the Metropolitan Museum in New York City,

and the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Berick is the

sixth offering of the Brainerd Commons Presents! Series, which is

supported by the Christian A. Johnson Foundation. Brainerd Commons is

part of the Middlebury College commons system, which divides the

campus into five groups of dorms housing approximately 400 students

each.

For more

information about the concert, please contact the office of Brainerd

Commons at 803-443-3321.

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