Stefan Milenkovich

Proceeds from the Violin Recital announced below were donated to the Center for Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Zvecanska Street, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and General Hospital in Pancevo, Yugoslavia. During his visit to Yugoslavia in June 2001, Mr. Milenkovich visited these two institutions, and handed in the checks in the amount of 2,400 US dollars both to the Center for Orphaned and Abandoned Children and to the General Hospital.

MIT Organization of Serbian Students
presents

Violin Recital

Stefan Milenkovich, violin
Rohan De Silva, piano

Bach, Beethoven, Bloch, Paganini, Dvorak

Sunday, April 29^th, 2001, 8:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium, MIT
Tickets: $5 students and seniors, $10 general public. Free for children under 12.

Reception will follow the recital.

Made possible by the generous contributions from
the President's, Provost's, and Chancellor's Offices,
by the Graduate Student Council, and
by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Photo credit: Christian Steiner
Courtesy of the Young Concert Artists, Inc

**Tickets can be purchased at the door before the concert **

Tickets at MIT can be purchased in Lobby 10 from 11-3 pm Monday through Friday. On Sunday April 29, tickets can be purchased before the concert at the door.
Further ticket information via email:

For MIT sales: Vlada Bozin.
For outside of MIT sales: Jelena Popovic.
For sales at Harvard University: Nedeljko Varnica.
For sales at Longy School of Music: Sibora Miloradovic.

Click here for directions on how to get to MIT. To locate the Kresge Auditorium, click here.
Questions and comments about the concert can be sent to most_sef@mit.edu.

Program:

J. S. Bach: Partita in E-Major No.3 BWV 1006

- Preludio

- Loure

- Gavotte en Rondeau

- Menuet I - II

- Bouree

- Giga

L. V. Beethoven: Sonata Op. 12 No. 3 in E-flat Major

- Allegro con Spirito

- Adagio con Molt' Espressione

- Rondo, Allegro Molto

E. Bloch: "Nigun"

N. Paganini: "Moto Perpetuo"

A. Dvorak: "Slavonic Dance" Op. 46, No. 2

N. Paganini: "Polacca con Variazioni"

N. Paganini: "La Campanella"

Brief Notes and Reviews

Stefan Milenkovich, was celebrated as a child prodigy. Following his Christmas concert in the White House where he was invited to play for President Ronald Reagan at the age of 10, he played for Mikhail Gorbachev at the age of 11 and at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II at the age of 14. At eleven, he made his London debut with the London Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel and had his first taste of a full-size violin when the Italian Cultural Ministry invited him to play on the famous 1742 Guarneri tha once belonged to Paganini. Currently, Mr. Milenkovich owns a 1738 Camillo Camilli and is performing on a 1702 Stradivarius on extended loan through the Stradivari Society. Mr. Milenkovich gave his 1000th concert when he was 16. Before he turned 16 he won top prizes at many prestigious international competitions such as: Rodolfo Lipizer (Italy), Ludwig Spohr (Germany), Paganini (Italy), Tibor Varga (Switzerland), Yehudi Menuhin (United Kingdom), the Queen Elisabeth International Competition of Belgium, Hanover (Germany),etc. He was awarded the Silver Medal and the special prize for the Best Paganini Performance in 1994 at the Indianapolis when he was 17 - the youngest player ever to win a medal at that competition. He has appeared as a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Orchestra of Radio-France, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, the Mexico State Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Estado de Sao Paolo in Brazil, and the Melbourne and Qeensland symphonies inAustralia. Mr. Milenkovich is currently a teaching fellow at Juilliard's DeLay Institute. He divides his offwork time between Italy and New York City. More information about him can be found at Young Concert Artists, Inc. and Stefan Milenkovich - The No Joke Page. You can listen to some pieces played by Stefan on this page.

Review #1

Review #2

Rohan De Silva's partnerships with violin virtuosos Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Joshua Bell, Benny Kim, Kyoko Takezawa, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Julian Rachlin have led to highly acclaimed performances at recital venues all over the world - Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Philadelphia Academy of Music, Ambassador Theater in Los Angeles, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and La Scala in Milan. Mr. De Silva performs frequently with Itzhak Perlman, and last season was seen with Mr. Perlman on the "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast in early January 2000. Mr. De Silva joined the collaborative arts and chamber music faculty of The Julliard School in 1991, and in 1992 was awarded honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Radio and television credits include "The Tonight Show" with Midori, CNN's " Showbiz Today", NHK Television in Japan, National Public Radio, WQXR and WNYC in New York, and Berlin Radio. He has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, CBS/SONY Classical, Collins Classics in London, and RCA Victor.

Acknowledgments

We are greatly indebted to Mr. Stefan Milenkovich and to all those that have contributed in any way to make this event possible. A partial list follows:

The MIT Office of the President

The MIT Office of the Provost

The MIT Chancellor's Office

MIT Graduate Student Council

Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT

Special thanks go to the renowned Iggy's Bakery, which will be donating their wonderful specialities for the reception following the concert.

We also extend our thanks to Boris from MadeInYu for designing this beautiful poster. You can get a smaller version of the poster here. To view these posters, you will need the freely-available Adobe ® Acrobat ® Reader

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