Eva Maria Zimmerman, piano

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Saturday Feb 8, 2003   8PM
Concert #72

Program

A native of Berlin, Germany, Iris Stone currently resides  in San Francisco, where she plays with the New Century Orchestra as well as being active in several  performing ensembles in  the Bay Area. In Germany, she was a two-time prizewinner of the National German Young Musicians Competition and was accepted into the highly selective Honors Program at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. After finishing her graduate degree studying with violinist Ulf Hoelscher at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany, Iris first came to the United States in 1993 as a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. Subsequently she worked with violinist Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was granted a long-term residency at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. Iris played with the Munich Chamber Orchestra , San Francisco Opera, was Assistant Concertmaster of San Francisco’s Women’s Philharmonic,  Principle Second Violinist of the Monterey County Symphony Orchestra  and performed numerous critically acclaimed concerts on  chamber music series in Germany, Switzerland and the United States.

Eva-Maria Zimmermann was born into a family of musicians and began to study with her grandmother at the age of six in Bern, Switzerland, after an exciting young childhood in Indonesia. Eva-Maria graduated with distinction both from the Conservatory of Bern and again for her Artist Diploma from the Conservatory of Geneva. Eva-Maria is a founding member of the Charmillon Piano Quartet, which was formed in 1992. Winner of several Swiss national competitions both as soloist and with the Charmillon Piano Quartet, Eva-Maria has performed throughout Europe as well as in Israel and the United States. She has also appeared as a soloist with several orchestras, including the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra de la Suisse Romande. She has participated in solo and chamber music festivals with Isaac Stern, Leon Fleisher, Tatjana Nikolajewa, Gyˆrgy Sebˆk and other distinguished musicians. Eva-Maria came to the United States as a Rotary Scholar at Indiana University in Bloomington. She currently resides in San Francisco, happily married to violist Charlton Lee.