Currently, both are professors in the School of Music, Theater, and Dance at University of Michigan. In 1994 this musical team was appointed Music Directors of Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they served for fifteen seasons.
In 1983, the couple also founded the Festival Internacional de Musica Classical in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and the Belle Arte Concerts in Bellevue, Washington. On Maui in 1982, they met Colin Cameron and his wife, Margaret, and began the Kapalua Music Festival, now the Maui Classical Music Festival.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTH CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL SERIES
In 1978, they founded the prestigious Linton Music Series in Cincinnati, Ohio. Husband and wife team Katherine Collier, pianist, and Yizhak Schotten, violist, have been directing festivals and music series for over thirty years. Katherine Collier and Yizhak Schotten, Music Directors Feature articles written about the Festival have appeared in important musical publications such as Musical America, Chamber Music America, and American Record Guide. Over the years the Festival has received extensive coverage in national newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New York Times, the Hawaii newspapers, and travel and airline magazines. Wind players have included David Shifrin, Eddie Daniels, Daniel Gilbert, Chad Burrow, Michele Zukovsky, Jim Walker, Lorna McGhee, Leone Buyse, William Ver Meulen, and Yoonah Kim. Harold Robinson and Kurt Muroki, harpist Heidi Lehwalder, banjo player Bela Fleck, and prize- winning guitarists Ricardo Cobo, Dusan Bogdanovic, David Leisner, and Kevin Gallagher have appeared. Hoogeveen, David Requiro, Anne Martindale Williams, Clive Greensmith, EdwardĪrron, Desmond Hoebig, and Ronald Thomas.
Steven Kates, Leslie Parnas, Steven Dane, Norman Fischer, Andrés Diaz, Godfried John, Emanuel Borok, Arnaud Sussmann, andīenny Kim, Martin Beaver, Robyn Bollinger, Soovin Kim, Aloysia Freedman, Fabiola Andrés Cárdenes, Cho Liang Lin, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ilya Kaler,Īni Kavafian, Nick Eanet, Scott St. Included are world-renowned violinists and violists Joshua Bell. Pianists Jon Kimura Parker, Wu Han, Ralph Votapek, Jose Feghali, Anton Nel, and Philip Bush, Kevin Fitzgerald, Gloria Chien, Anna Polonsky, and Heng-Jin Park have performed.
Esteemed ensembles that have appeared at the Festival include the Tokyo, Shanghai, Jupiter, Amernet, Ying, and Formosa String Quartets, the Gryphon, Boston, and Koinonia Trios, and the Fine Arts Brass Quintet. Distinguished ensembles, winners of international competitions, recording artists, illustrious soloists, principal chairs of some of the major orchestras of the world, and famous crossover musicians have performed at the Festival. World-renowned musicians gather in a tropical setting of unparalleled beauty in historic venues across the island to create a program of wide appeal from the Baroque period to twenty-first century works. Held annually at the Kapalua resort, the Festival reorganized after 14 years, following the passing of both Camerons, and changed its name to the Maui Classical Music Festival. The Kapalua Music Festival was founded in 1982 by Maui visionary Colin Cameron and his wife, Margaret, with Yizhak Schotten and Katherine Collier as Music Directors.
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