The Ferris Burtis Music Foundation was established in 1987 by the late John Ferris and by Herbert Burtis to promote the education and careers of talented young musicians. Reservations for the concert are $20.00 each. If you wish to make a more generous tax-free gift to the Foundation here are the categories: Friend-$100.00-$299.00, Sponsor-$300.00-$499.00, Benefactor-$500.00-$699.00, Angel-$700.00-$999.00, Founder-$1000.00 or more. All funds go toward the aid of these talented young artists. You may mail checks for reservation orders and tax-free special gifts to Herbert Burtis, 53 Rood Hill Road, Sandisfield, MA 01255. Make out the check to 'Ferris Burtis Foundation'. Your name will be placed in the program for gifts of $100.00 or more. Please include your email address for confirmation.
At the moment the Foundation is sponsoring the following four brilliant young artists who will all perform at the concert on June 9th.
Hailed for his dazzling command of the violin and its repertoire, as well as a communicative immediacy that harkens back to the legendary Romantic masters, Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik has become a highly sought-after artist on the concert stage worldwide. The Foundation has helped in his education and in furthering his career.
Recent performances include guest soloist appearances with The Riverside
Symphony in New York City, of which The New York Times wrote that his
violin projected "an old-fashioned rhapsodic style…magnified by (his)
rich, sweet tone," the Atlantic, Bozeman, East Texas and Wyoming symphony
orchestras, Germany's Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock and WDR Rundfunk
Orchestra Koln, and Japan's Tokyo Vivaldi Ensemble. With the Tanglewood Music
Center Orchestra, Yevgeny Kutik gave the 2006 world-premiere performance of Ron
Ford's Versus, receiving praise from both The New York Times and The
Boston Globe. He has also returned to The Boston Pops, under the baton of
Keith Lockhart. Mr. Kutik has appeared in recital in Miami, New York City,
Chicago, Washington, DC, Montréal, Munich, Prague and Tokyo, while festival
audiences have heard him at Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (Germany) and
Verbier (Switzerland). Of special, personal significance, he was a featured
performer at the 2012 March of the Living observances, playing at the Krakow
Opera House and in front of over 10,000 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau.Early in 2012, Marquis Classics released Yevgeny Kutik's highly acclaimed debut CD - "Sounds of Defiance," featuring the music of Shostakovich, Schnittke, Pärt and Achron. Later in the year, he was the featured soloist with the newly formed All-Star Orchestra, recording Joseph Schwantner's Soliloquy for Violin and Orchestra - The Poet's Hour for a national broadcast on PBS. Comprised of distinguished American orchestral musicians from across the country, and under the baton of Gerard Schwarz, the All-Star Orchestra taped eight programs in August 2012, all of which will be broadcast on National Television and then issued on DVD by Naxos.
Yevgeny Kutik's current season is highlighted by a debut with the Juneau Symphony (conducted by Kyle Wiley Pickett), the Montenegro Symphony (Ronald Zollman), return engagements with the Bozeman and Wyoming symphony orchestras (both under Matthew Savery), and a pair of performances on Washington, DC's distinguished Embassy Series. He also appears as soloist with the Westchester Chamber Symphony, as well as in recitals in Chicago, NYC, and Connecticut.
Yevgeny Kutik made his debut with Keith Lockhart and The Boston Pops in 2003 as the 1st Prize recipient of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition. He was also awarded a 2006 Salon de Virtuosi Grant as well as the 2006 Tanglewood Music Center Jules Reiner Violin Prize.
A native of Minsk, Belarus, Yevgeny Kutik immigrated to the United States at the age of five. Shortly thereafter, he began violin lessons with his mother, Alla Zernitskaya, and continued with the late Zinaida Gilels. His other principal teachers have included Shirley Givens, Roman Totenberg and Donald Weilerstein. Mr. Kutik holds a bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Boston University and a master's degree from the New England Conservatory.
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Julian Müller is currently studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Sharon Robinson. He has also studied with Ronald Feldman, Helene Annas, Jay Shulman, and Georg Faust. In 2012 he was selected for the New York String Orchestra Seminar, performing in Carnegie Hall. In 2011 Julian won first prize at the Uel Wade Music Competition. He was also awarded grants from The Ferris Burtis Music Foundation and the Henriette Reiss Award. He won first prize at the Stefan Concerto Competition. As principal 'cellist in the Empire State Youth Orchestra, he performed at the Mozarteum, Rudolfinum, Carnegie Hall, the Fisher Center at Bard College, The Palace Theatre, Proctors Theatre, Ozawa Hall, and at the Troy Savings Bank. Last summer he was a young artist at the Manchester Music Festival.
Gabriella Makuc is a music student at Lawrence University in Appleton Wisconsin. She has studied piano with Anne Marie Enoch, Robert Neidig, and Jean Stackhouse. she now studies with Catherine Kautsky at Lawrence, where she is an accompanying fellow in a vocal studio and a member of the women's choir, Cantala. She has won top prizes in the Berkshire Music School Merit Scholarship Competition, The Young Artists Piano competition at Westfield State University, and the Berkshire Lyric Theatre Young Musicians Scholarship Competition. She was last year's winner of the Ferris Burtis Music Foundation scholarship grant. She recently represented the state of Wisconsin in a regional MTNA competition in Chicago. She has spent her summers at Point Counter Point Chamber Music Camp at Westminster Choir College and at Blue Mountain Festival. She has soloed with the Stockbridge Sinfonia.All of these brilliant young artists will perform at the June 9th concert. We recommend sending your reservation order in early to have a seat.
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Yevgeny Kutik has been under the aegis of the Foundation since graduating from high school. He is in the midst of a successful career as a solo violinist. To see his busy concert schedule go to 
Julian Muller is a brilliant young 'cellist who spent his first year at the Jacobs Music School at Indiana University and is now studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The Foundation has been helping him with his education.
