Michelle Makarski

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Michelle Makarski is an American violinist with an international reputation for the newest in American and international music, although her repertoire is broad and includes music of all periods, starting from the Baroque period. She is an strong and imaginative improviser, whether the style is Baroque ornamentation or jazz. Makarski described her birthplace as "the far western Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Lake Superior," although she spent most of her childhood days growing up in Detroit, at the opposite corner of the state. Her father was a musician and began teaching her, but soon graduated her to other teachers, including Mischa Mischakoff, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra who had also been Toscanini's concertmaster. She took high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She studied at the University of Michigan with Paul Makanowitzky, and in Europe with Nathan Milstein. She credits her studies with three very powerful but different personalities with having established a foundation. She found herself playing music of American composers. She entered the Carnegie International American Music Competition, so that she could have more of an opportunity to give a venue to the American composers whose works she was playing: Samuel Barber, Steven Hartke, Wallingford Rieger, William Bolcom, and William Schuman. She won the competition in 1989, and immediately got an opportunity to play the Barber concerto widely, as well as the other works, getting

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Sonatas For Violin And Piano

Tartini, Rochberg, Dallapiccola: Elogio Per Un'Ombra

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Elogio per un'ombra

Caoine - Biber / Hartke / Reger / Rochberg / Bach

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Cage/Harbison/Hartke/Wyner: Violin Works

Caoine

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To Be Sung on the Water

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Johann Sebastian Bach : Six Sonatas For Violin And Piano

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Bridge Of Light

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Tartini, Crockett: To Be Sung On the Water

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Keith Jarrett: Bridge of Light

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Biber, Hartke, Reger, Rochberg, Bach: Caoine

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