Violin Master Class with Noah Bendix-Balgley

Noah Bendix-Balgley

Monday, February 2, 2015

6:30 -9 pm

Nichols Concert Hall

1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston

MIC students: free with student ID
General Admission:  $10 at the door

(proceeds benefit the Music Institute of Chicago Student Scholarship Fund)

The Music Institute of Chicago is pleased to sponsor Secrets of the Virtuoso, a master class series featuring special guest artists working with talented young MIC musicians.

“an artist of great intellectual capacity.”  ~ the Strad

Recently appointed 1st Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Noah Bendix-Balgley has thrilled audiences around the world. A Laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, he won third prize and a special prize for creativity at the 2008 Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris. Mr. Bendix-Balgley was the first prize winner at the 2011 Vibrarte International Music Competition in Paris and was awarded first Prize and a special prize for best Bach interpretation at the 14th International Violin Competition “Andrea Postacchini” in Fermo, Italy.

Mr. Bendix-Balgley has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Italy), Orchestre Royal Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), the Binghamton Philharmonic and the Erie Philharmonic.

Since 2011, Noah Bendix-Balgley has been Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. His Pittsburgh debut recital in January 2012 was named the “Best Classical Concert of 2012” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.