Musical Performance

Item Description

A one hour chamber music concert in your home featuring Adriana Rosin, violin; Elzbieta Weyman, viola; and Jonathan Spitz, cello. Selections will include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Richard Strauss and more. The musicians will introduce the works and offer insight into their collaborative artistic process.

Romanian-born NJSO violinist ADRIANA ROSIN gained international attention after winning a top prize at the Carl Nielsen Violin Competition in Denmark and remains engaged in the musical scene as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist.An active performer with the NJSO Chamber Players and a founding member of the Athena Trio, Rosin has enjoyed chamber music collaborations with renowned artists including Franco Gulli, Nobuko Imai, Ruth Laredo, Wu Han, Rostislav Dubinsky and Rohan de Silva. Summer festival participation has included Aspen; Tanglewood; Grand Teton; Regensburg and Hitzacker, Germany; and Cremona, Italy, where most recently Rosin was featured as soloist with pianist Esther Ning Yau in the Chausson Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.

A Juilliard alumna, Rosin studied with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki and Felix Galimir. This followed a Master's Degree from  Indiana University with legendary violinist Josef Gingold.

JONATHAN SPITZ has served as Principal Cellist of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1991. He has established himself as one of the leading cellists in the New York area with his performances as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral principal. He tours internationally as a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and serves as one of that ensemble’s artistic directors. He also performs as Principal Cellist of the American Ballet Theater Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra at the Bard Music Festival.

Spitz has performed as a soloist with the NJSO on numerous occasions, including performances of the cello concertos of Schumann, Dvorak and Haydn, as well as Brahms’ Double Concerto with NJSO Concertmaster Eric Wyrick. He has also performed frequently as a soloist with Orpheus, the Riverside Sinfonia and Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. He first performed Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme as a 16-year-old soloist with the Bergen Youth Orchestra.

He is in great demand as a teacher and serves on the faculties of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Brevard Music Center and Sommer Sinfonie in Valdres, Norway. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Spitz has recorded for multiple record labels.

Spitz performs on a cello by Grubaugh and Seifert from 2012.

Assistant Principal Viola ELZBIETA WEYMAN joined the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in 2013. A native of Newton, MA, Weyman began studying violin at age 4 and switched to viola at 13, studying with Boston Symphony member Michael Zaretsky. She continued her musical education at The Juilliard School, where she studied with Masao Kawasaki and Michael Tree. Weyman was a member of the New World Symphony, an orchestral training program for postgraduate musicians, from 2011–13.

Weyman has made several solo and chamber music appearances. She performed Walton’s Viola Concerto at the Aspen Music Festival under the baton of Leonard Slatkin in 2007 and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Juilliard Orchestra with conductor Xian Zhang in 2010. In addition to the Aspen Music Festival, she has participated in many summer festivals, including La Jolla Summerfest, Saito-Kinen Music Festival and, most recently, the Verbier Festival Orchestra.

Item Special Note

Performance must take place by April 16, 2017. Date to be mutually agreed upon. Must be within a one-hour drive of Newark, NJ. Please be sure to provide three armless, hardback chairs for the performers as well as adequate lighting.