Sixth Annual Summer Workshop
June 10-16, 2012
The brochure for Summer Workshop 2012 is now available here!
Fifth Annual Summer Workshop
June 12-18, 2011
Congratulations to all who participated in MYCO's Fifth Annual Summer Workshop! We had a great week with lots of new students. View our 2011 brochure (pdf). We hope to see you next year!
MYCO Orchestra Spring Concert
April 17, 2011
Our final performance of the season featured our two orchestras performing the repertoire they studied rigorously throughout the year.
MYCO Chamber Groups Spring Concert
April 10, 2011
 Our 4 intensive and 5 honors chamber groups presented their finale performance of the year. What an incredible group of chamber music players!
MYCO receives IBM Community Grant
December, 2010
 We are proud to announce that MYCO was recently awarded a Community Grant for $500 by the IBM Corporation. IBM's Community Grants require IBM employees to complete 40 hours of volunteer work for a non-profit they believe in. MYCO thanks the IBM Corporation and our parent volunteers who put in the hours and took the initiative to apply for this grant.
MYCO Holds Masterclasses with Alexander Russakovsky, University of Southern Mississippi
April 2, 2011
Dr. Russakovsky has studied the cello at the Leningrad Conservatory, under renowned Russian professors Emmanuel Fishman and Anatoli Nikitin. Russakovsky received his bachelor of music from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy, where he studied with Shmuel Magen, and his master of music from the Yale School of Music under Aldo Parisot. He holds a doctorate in cello performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied with Geoffrey Rutkowski and Ron Leonard.
MYCO Holds Masterclasses with Richard Aaron, University of Michigan
March 5, 2011
Mr. Aaron served on the Cleveland Institute of Music and ENCORE School for Strings faculties
fourteen years prior to his appointment at the University of Michigan. Mr. Aaron's students have won numerous national and
international competitions and have performed as soloists with prestigious orchestras, including the Cleveland,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle Symphonies.
MYCO Hosts Visiting Violinist, Emanuel Borok
February, 2011
Emanuel Borok, concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony, spent a weekend with MYCO students, listening to MYCO's smaller chamber groups perform their best pieces. Mr. Borok served for 11 seasons as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Born and trained in the Soviet Union, Mr. Borok received his early musical instruction at the renowned Darzinya Music School in Riga, Latvia, and the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. In 1964 he became prizewinner of the most important National Violin Competition in the former Soviet Union. In 1971, he won the position of Co-Concertmaster in the Moscow Philharmonic.
MYCO Faculty Present February Concert
February 22, 2011
Artistic Director Yoram Youngerman and violinist Eric Pritchard (Duke) performed Tuesday evening at Duke University's East Duke Building.
Chamber Groups Perform at Carol Woods Retirement Community
February 23, 2011
MYCO groups presented parts of their winter repertoire for a warm and receptive audience at at Carol Woods Retirement Community.
MYCO Students Enjoy Masterclasses with the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio
January 9, 2010
Violinist Ani Kavafian is one of the most sought after chamber musicians in the country as well as a frequent soloist and professor of violin at Yale University. Clarinetist David Shifrin has appeared in critically acclaimed recitals across the country and is a frequent orchestra soloist with major orchestras. As a piano recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber musician, Andre-Michel Schub has been praised by critics and audiences since his career began over three decades ago. Combined they have performed with nearly every major orchestra around the world and in recital at the major concert halls.
MYCO Orchestras and Chamber Groups Present Two Winter Concerts
December, 2011
On December 5, MYCO's chamber groups met an enthusiastic audience as they played pieces by Haydn, Borodin, Mozart and others. MYCO's orchestras took their seats the following week on December 12 to present works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Barber and more. Both events were held at Hill Hall Auditorium on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Special thanks to our parent volunteers who provided delectable receptions at both concerts.
MYCO Students Attend Masterclasses with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano
October, 2010
Formed in 1982, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano is known worldwide as the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. This award-winning ensemble from Mexico consists of the three Bitrán brothers, violinists Saúl and Arón and cellist Alvaro , along with violist Javier Montiel. The Cuarteto has recorded most of the Latin American repertoire for string quartet, and the sixth volume of their Villa-Lobos 17 quartets cycle, recorded for Dorian, was nominated for a Grammy award in 2002 in the field of Best Chamber Music Recording as well as for a Latin Grammy.
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