Hudson Valley Music Club May Concert


The Music Club will present a concert of violin and cello works. Ingrid Shank, cello, and David Way, violin, will perform works by Kodaly, Bloch, J.S. Bach and Ravel.

Ingrid Shank grew up in Ardsley and was a winner of the Hudson Valley Music Club student awards in 1980. She went on to study music at S.U.N.Y. Purchase and the University of Michigan, where she was the recipient of the Rostropovich Scholarship and was the principal cellist in the University Symphony Orchestra and the Plymouth Symphony Orchestra. In Norway, she was a member of the Molde Piano Trio, The Tromsø String Quartet and Narvikmusikken, where she taught music and performed chamber music in Northern Norway and St. Petersburg, Russia. She has also performed with the Bergen Philharmonic, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and the Norwegian National Opera. She and the violinist David Way have performed in England, Ireland and Norway. Ingrid Shank also has a degree in psychology from the University of Oslo and is active in cognitive rehabilitation for persons with multiple sclerosis. She lives in Oslo, Norway.

David Way lives in London and studied at the Guildhall School of Music, London. As a student he formed the Hill Quartet, which appeared at the Cambridge Festival, and he was leader of the Westminster Camerata, with whom he appeared as soloist in Bach’s fourth Brandenburg Concerto. On graduating, he joined the first violin section of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In Norway he worked as alternating principal second violin in Stavanger and Trondheim. Recent recital appearances have included Radcliffe Observatory, National Opera Studio, The Charterhouse, The Riverhouse Barn, Open University, Santa Maria della Scala (Siena), the Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, and the Bognor Regis Music Society, He has also performed many of the famous violin concertos with orchestra. He is an active teacher.

Event Location and Ticket Information

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Dobbs Ferry Woman’s Club
54 Clinton Avenue
Dobbs Ferry , NY
Handicap Accessible? Yes

Date: Monday, May 19, 2014
Times: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Presenter: Hudson Valley Music Club
Presenter Phone: 914-591-6851