Philadelphia Orchestra Violinist Kimberly Fisher
To Perform With Great Hall Chamber Orchestra

Kimberly Fisher

Philadelphia Orchestra violinist Kimberly Fisher will be the guest soloist of the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra at its spring concert on Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall at Bryn Mawr College. The program will include works by Mozart, Max Bruch and Beethoven.

The Great Hall Chamber Orchestra is composed of 37 of the area's finest young professional and conservatory musicians, performing under the direction of founding conductor Michael Krausz.

Tickets are $15 general admission, and free for students. Early seating is recommended. For reservations call 610-526-5332 or e-mail lkirschn@brynmawr.edu.

Lecturer and composer Kile Smith will present a pre-concert lecture titled "How to Be an Active Listener" at 7 p.m. in Thomas Hall, Room 110.

The program will include Mozart's "Prague" Symphony no. 38 and Beethoven's Symphony no. 8. Fisher will be the guest soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto no. 1.

Michael Krausz

Well known and much admired by Philadelphia audiences, Kimberly Fisher has served as the principal second violinist of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2000. She attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Philadelphia Orchestra violinist Yumi Ninomiya Scott. Fisher is founder of the Strings International Music Festival, in summer residence at Bryn Mawr College.

Michael Krausz studied with his late father, conductor Laszlo Krausz, with Frederik Prausnitz at the Peabody Conservatory, and with Luis Biava, former Resident Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. A guest conductor of numerous professional orchestras in Bulgaria including the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Krausz is the Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College and teaches aesthetics at the Curtis Institute of Music. He founded the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra in 2004.

Kile Smith is curator of the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music and co-host of Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection on WRTI-FM. His works have been performed by orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Delaware Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and the Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria. Smith was a resident composer for Jens Nygaard's acclaimed Jupiter Symphony in New York City and Bucks County's Musica 2000.

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