ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
AMERNET RESURRECT MUSIC IN NEW ALBUM FIU’s Artist-in-Residence Ensemble, The Amernet String Quartet, has just released a groundbreaking album of string quartets nos. 2 - 4 by composer Hans Winterberg. This remarkable collection, now available on Toccata Classics, unveils Winterberg's hidden genius to the world. Winterberg, a Czech Jew who endured the horrors of internment in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto during World War II, remained in obscurity until recently. In 2016, the Amernet performed his Third Quartet after the lifting of the embargo and also performed the world premiere of his Fourth Quartet in November 2022 at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. His recordings and performances have since revealed him as one of the major Czech voices of the twentieth century. This music is now being made accessible and published for the first time by Boosey & Hawkes in cooperation with the Exilarte Center at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the composer’s grandson, Peter Kreitmeir. PAGE 14
FACULTY PAYS TRIBUTE TO HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE IN PARIS In Paris this January, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESO) commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a ceremony to pay tribute to the victims of Nazi persecution. The ceremony, hosted in partnership with the Shoah Memorial, included a performance of Jorge Grundman's Shoah, for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple, interpreted and played by our FIU Artist-in-Residence, Robert Davidovici. Romanian-American Davidovici was the son of survivors of the extermination camps. He began his studies with the legendary David Oistrackh and later with Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School. The work arose from the need to write music to honor, among others, the children who made more than four thousand five hundred drawings made between 1942 and 1944 in the concentration camps to escape the terror that surrounded them
