| I graduated from MHC in 1994,
with a degree in Psychobiology and a minor in music. I'm currently
a Ph.D. candidate at New York University at the Center for Neural
Science, focusing on neural processing in primary visual cortex.
My curriculum vitae can be found through my web site. I didn't
continue to study music, but I have continued to play.
I'm a first violinist in a New York City community orchestra,
the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, that rehearses once
a week from September through May at the High School for the
Humanities in Chelsea. We play 5 concerts a year, and last
year our repetoire included Gershwin's An American in Paris,
Dvorak's New World Symphony, Beethoven's 5th Symphony,
Mahler's 2nd Symphony, the Mozart Requiem, an
all-Chinese music concert, Barber's 1st Essay, and
many other works.
I play in a violin, cello, piano trio, and we rehearse once
a week. The other trio members are Jonah Sachs, cellist (Harvard,
class of 1994) and Makiko Kitamura, pianist (Yale, class of
2000). We're currently working on the Premier Trio
by Hector Villa-Lobos (1911), and will be performing it on
August 26th at Canada Lake, New York, and in mid-September
at New York University.
I also attend a chamber music play-athon in Vermont every
August, organized by a group of medical doctors and medical
students from Columbia University. 16 players (a string octet
and a wind sextet plus 2 pianists) spend 5 days playing any
chamber music that catches our interest. It's a lot of fun.
My web site is: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~zab/
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