January Concert Notes and Performers

PROGRAM- String Quartets

 

John Bullock - Silver Anniversary Overture

Mikhail Glinka - String Quartet in F

 

Intermission

 

Ludvig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 6 Op. 18

 

Krzysztof Zimowski - violin; Julanie Lee - violin

Willy Sucre - viola; Joan Zucker - cello

Willy's Friends Play String Quartets
Julanie Collier Lee
Violinist Julanie Collier Lee began playing at the age of five in Lexington, Kentucky.  She attended Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and received a B. A. in Music from the University of Cincinnati.  Lee is a registered teacher with the Suzuki Association of the Americas.  Lee has taught and played in various orchestras and summer festivals across the country.  Formerly a member of the Epcot Center All-American College Orchestra in Orlando, Florida, she also spent three summers as a member of the National Repertory Orchestra touring with them in Korea, Japan and Taiwan.  Lee moved to Albuquerque in 1989 and joined the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque.  She is a founding member of the New Life Symphony Orchestra Southwest.  Lee and Her husband, Jae, serve as co-presidents of the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Parent Association. 
Krzysztof Zimowski
Violinist Krzysztof Zimowski has been the concertmaster and featured soloist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade.  Born in Wroclaw, Poland, he began his musical studies at the age of six.  In 1977 Zimowski received his master's degree with honors from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw.  After participating in the 1978 Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, he continued his studies at the Morley College of Music in London.  Having been concertmaster of the State Opera Orchestra in Wroclaw, Zimowski joined the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra in 1981.  In 1985, he was appointed concertmaster of this orchestra which toured Europe, South America, and the U. S.  He moved to New Mexico in 1986 to help form the Helios String Quartet, the ensemble-in-residence of PAS from 1987 until 1997.  Zimowski lives in Albuquerque with wife, Urzula, also a musician, and their son. 
Joan Zucker
Cellist Joan Zucker, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra's Principal Cellist, is a native New Yorker who holds music degrees from Bennington and Ithaca Colleges. She was first heard by New Mexicans in the mid-seventies, as jazz cellist with the Johnny Gilbert Quartet and Principal Cellist of the Orchestra of Santa Fe. Since then she has performed in many of New Mexico's ensembles from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Opera, to Willy Sucre and Friends and the Santa Fe Chorale. She has performed with numerous chamber groups, orchestras, and festivals in the United States and in Venezuela, her home for four years. A versatile musician, she has taught extensively (cello, recorder, voice, orchestra, chamber music, theory, composition and improvisation), both privately and at various institutions including UC Santa Cruz, Ithaca College, and UNM. Zucker plays a Benjamin Banks cello made in Salisbury, England in 1788.

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