A.I. LACK MASTER SERIES

The A. I. Lack Master Series at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music annually presents distinguished artist-teachers in a series of free master classes and recitals, which provide a broader educational experience for Moores School students and the Houston community at large. The endowment that supports the series was established in memory of Abram I. Lack in 1989. Lack’s daughter, legendary violinist and teacher Fredell Lack Eichhorn, held the C. W. Moores Professor of Violin at the University of Houston, where she served for 50 years until her retirement in 2009.

Previous Lack Series guests have included violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Young Uck Kim, Ruggiero Ricci, and Midori; vocalists Diana Soviero, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, and Samuel Ramey; pianists Christoph Eschenbach and Jeffrey Siegel; flutists Julius Baker and Paula Robison; and composers Philip Glass and Richard Rodney Bennett, among others.

Piano Master Class Lydia Artymiw, piano

Lydia Artymiw, Pianist

The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Prize, Philadelphia-born Lydia Artymiw has performed with over one hundred orchestras world-wide including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Solo recital tours have taken her to all major American cities and to important European music centers, and throughout the Far East. She has performed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland, and Poland, as well as in China, Singapore, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

Critics have acclaimed her seven solo recordings for the Chandos label, and she has also recorded for Bridge, Centaur, and Naxos. Her debut Chandos “Variations” CD won Gramophone Magazine’s “Best of the Year” award, and her Tchaikovsky Seasons CD sold over 25,000 copies.

In 2018 her CD of “The Complete Cello-Piano Works of Felix Mendelssohn” with cellist Marcy Rosen for the Bridge label was nominated for a Grammy award. Her festival appearances include Aspen, Badenweiler (Germany), Bantry (Ireland), Bay Chamber, Bravo! Vail Valley, Caramoor, Chamber Music Northwest, SaltBay, Chautauqua, Grand Canyon, Hollywood Bowl, Marlboro, Montréal, Mostly Mozart, Seattle, and Tucson.

An acclaimed chamber musician, Artymiw has collaborated with such celebrated artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, Marcy Rosen, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Kim Kashkashian, John Aler, Benita Valente, and the Guarneri, Tokyo, American, Alexander, Borromeo, Daedalus, Miami, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets, and has toured nationally with Music from Marlboro groups. A recipient of top prizes in the 1976 Leventritt and the 1978 Leeds International Competitions, she graduated from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and studied with distinguished concert pianist and former Director of the Curtis Institute of Music, Gary Graffman, for twelve years.

Sonata in C minor, D.958

Franz Schubert Allegro (1797-1828) Adagio

Janinna Eliana Peña (MM student)

Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Opus 19 Alexander Scriabin Andante (1871-1915)

Shu-Peng Wang (DMA student)

Selected Préludes, Opus 34

Ilya Ivanov (Performer’s Certificate student)

Ballade in A-flat Major, Opus 47

Dmitri Shostakovich (1900 -1975)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Kaysi Yearous (High School Student who studies through Community Arts Academy)

Today's performers come from the studios of piano faculty Andrew Staupe, Tali Morgulis, and Todd Van Kekerix.