Marina Minkin and Anatole Wieck
Piano and Violin
Marina Minkin Biography
Marina Minkin left Ukraine (former Soviet Union) for Israel in 1981; there she studied piano with Michael Boguslavsky and harpsichord performance with David Shemer at the Jerusalem Academy of Music.
Between 1988 and 1990, Ms. Minkin studied harpsichord with Professor Mark Kroll at Boston University, earning a Masters degree in Harpsichord Performance. In 1998, she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance, her dissertation being a study of the Italian composer Anna Bon’s life and work. She was the winner of the 1990 Boston University Concerto-Aria Competition, a semi- finalist in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Performance Competition in Atlanta, and a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Artist’s Award of 1994 and the Elsbeth Melville Guild Scholarship of 1997.
Among many chamber music festivals, Marina Minkin has appeared at the Fifth International Recorder Festival in Montreal, Canada, the Abu Gosh Festival, Israel, the Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival, US, Cluj International Festival, Transilvania, and Brianza Early Music Festival, Italy among many others. Shewas a founder and an Artistic Director of the “LAUDA: Jewish-Arab Youth Ensemble of early and ethnic music based in Galilee.
Anatole Wieck Biography
Born in Latvia, Anatole Wieck received his first musical education in Riga and Moscow. In the United States since 1973, he studied violin and viola at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where he completed his Doctorate in Musical Arts working closely with Ivan Galamian, Lillian Fuchs, and Paul Doktor. He also studied baroque interpretation with Carol Lieberman at Boston University. He plays baroque viola, viola d’amore and baroque violin. Since 1986 Dr. Wieck has taught upper strings at the University of Maine and conducted the University of Maine Orchestra. He has performed and conducted in Europe, North and South America, and has participated in chamber music festivals such as Chamber Music/West (San Francisco), White Nights (St. Petersburg, Russia) and festivals in Montepulciano, Italy and Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Wieck also performed for Baroque Chamber Music festivals in Spain. In May, 2006 he traveled to Guatemala as a Fulbright Senior Specialist where he conducted the Juventud y Música Foundation orchestra, gave master classes to students and faculty of the Guatemala National Conservatory. As a member of the Ad Libitum Ensemble that specializes in Baroque music, Dr. Wieck toured Israel in December 2007. In April 2008 Dr. Wieck performed at Carnegie Recital Hall in NY City. Between 2009 and 2012 he traveled five times to Mexico to teach, perform, and conduct. Dr. Wieck collaborated with Artes Revueltas. In the spring of 2013 Dr. Wieck performed and taught in Japan as a soloist and chamber musician. He performs regularly with the Baroque Orchestra of Maine and is director of the String Program at Maine Summer Youth Music at the University of Maine. In 2010 Dr. Wieck co-founded the Chamber Music Institute (CMI) with his Juilliard classmate Akiko Hirose-Silver.
