The new Rising Artists Program of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach provides intensive performance, career, and education/community engagement development opportunities for exceptionally talented emerging professional and conservatory-level musicians. The program embraces a collaborative environment where rising artists create and learn with established leaders and musicians who have made a significant impact in the chamber music field.

Rising Artists Program, AGES 20–30



Program Details

Program Dates: January 5-12, 2025

Location: Palm Beach, Florida

Stipend: $1,500 + Housing , Meals, & Travel Provided

Application Deadline: September 15, 2024

Acceptance Decisions: October 14, 2024

Eligibility: Artists age 20-30 years old

Instruments: violin, viola, and cello

 

The Rising Artists Program offers a unique platform for musicians in the early stages of their careers to collaborate with and perform alongside world-renowned artist-mentors during an immersive week of rehearsals and performances.

Audition Requirements

  • 1st movement of a Major Sonata or Concerto (accompaniment preferred)

  • Two (2) contrasting movements from one or more major chamber music works (can be from the same work)
    • Recording of you playing in an ensemble
    • String trios or larger ensembles preferred
    • No sonatas with piano for this requirement 
    • Performances of full works are also welcome

Artist-Mentors

Arnaud Sussmann

Arnaud Sussmann

Director & Violin

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Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Arnaud Sussmann has distinguished himself with his unique sound, bravura and profound musicianship. Minnesota’s Pioneer Press writes, “Sussmann has an old-school sound reminiscent of what you'll hear on vintage recordings by Jascha Heifetz or Fritz Kreisler, a rare combination of sweet and smooth that can hypnotize a listener. His clear tone [is] a thing of awe-inspiring beauty, his phrasing spellbinding.”

A thrilling young musician capturing the attention of classical critics and audiences around the world, Arnaud Sussmann has appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Paris Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Further solo appearances have included a tour of Israel and concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Dresden Music Festival in Germany and at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Mr. Sussmann has been presented in recital in Omaha on the Tuesday Musical Club series, New Orleans by the Friends of Music, Tel Aviv at the Museum of Art and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. He has also given concerts at the OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest and Moritzburg festivals and appears regularly at the Caramoor, Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Seattle Chamber Music, Moab Music and Saratoga Springs Chamber Music festivals.

Recent concerto appearances include performances with Maestro Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra at the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony. This past season, chamber music performances included tours with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Korea’s LG Arts Center, Shanghai’s Oriental Center and Hong Kong’s Music Academy.

Arnaud Sussmann has performed with many of today’s leading artists including Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Gary Hoffman, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Wu Han, David Finckel, Jan Vogler and members of the Emerson String Quartet. He has worked with conductors such as Cristian Macelaru, Marcelo Lehninger, Rune Bergmann and Leon Botstein. A dedicated chamber musician, he has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2006 and has regularly appeared with them in New York and on tour, including a recent concert at London’s Wigmore Hall.

A frequent recording artist, Arnaud Sussmann has released albums on Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Concert Series, Naxos, Albany Records and CMS Studio Recordings labels. His solo debut disc, featuring three Brahms Violin Sonatas with pianist Orion Weiss, was released in December 2014 on the Telos Music Label. He has been featured on multiple PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts alongside Itzhak Perlman and the Perlman Music Program and with musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Born in Strasbourg, France and based now in New York City, Arnaud Sussmann trained at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Juilliard School with Boris Garlitsky and Itzhak Perlman. Winner of several international competitions, including the Andrea Postacchini of Italy and Vatelot/Rampal of France, he was named a Starling Fellow in 2006, an honor which allowed him to be Mr. Perlman’s teaching assistant for two years. Mr. Sussmann now teaches at Stony Brook University on Long Island and was recently named Co-Artistic Director of Music@Menlo’s International Music Program.

Edward Arron

Edward Arron

Guest Co-Director & Cello

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Cellist Edward Arron has garnered recognition worldwide for his elegant musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since that time, he has appeared in recital, as a soloist with major orchestras, and as a chamber musician, throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

The 2023-24 season marks Mr. Arron’s 11th season as the co-artistic director with his wife, Jeewon Park, of the Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Mr. Arron tours and records as a member of the renowned Ehnes String Quartet and he is a regular performer at the Boston and Seattle Chamber Music Societies, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Bargemusic, Caramoor, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Seoul Spring Festival in Korea, Music in the Vineyards Festival, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. He has appeared as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has performed numerous times in Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen Halls, New York’s Town Hall and the 92nd Street Y. Other festival appearances include Salzburg, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, PyeongChang, Bravo! Vail, Bridgehampton, Spoleto USA, Santa Fe, Evian, La Jolla Summerfest, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and the Bard Music Festival. He has participated in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project as well as Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters. Mr. Arron’s performances are frequently broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today. In 2021, Mr. Arron’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with pianist Jeewon Park was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label. The recording received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award from the Classical Recording Foundation.

In the May of 2022, Mr. Arron stepped down after 15 years as the artistic director of the acclaimed Musical Masterworks concert series in Old Lyme, Connecticut. In 2013, he completed a ten-year residency as the artistic director of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, a chamber music series created in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Museum’s prestigious Concerts and Lectures series. Mr. Arron was also the artistic director of the USCB Chamber Music Series in Beaufort, South Carolina from 2009-2021, and the Chamber Music on Main concert series at the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art from 2009-2018.

Edward Arron began playing the cello at age seven in Cincinnati and continued his studies in New York with Peter Wiley. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Harvey Shapiro. In 2016, Mr. Arron joined the faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst, after having served on the faculty of New York University from 2009 to 2016. 

2025 Rising Artists Program Schedule

Below is the typical daily schedule with important arrival/departure dates. Times may vary depending on concert schedules and are subject to change.

Arrival

  • Sunday, 1/5/25: Rising Artists Arrival

Daily Schedule

Monday, 1/6/25 - Saturday, 1/11/25

  • 10 am - 1 pm: Rehearsals or Outreach Performance
  • 1 pm -  2:30 pm: Lunch and Conversations on Career Topics
  • 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Rehearsals
  • 7:30 pm: Evening activities (Donor Dinner, attend a CMSPB Concert, Private House Concert, or Rising Artists Program Concert)

Departure

  • Sunday, 1/12/25: Rising Artists Departure evening of Sunday, 1/12 OR morning of Monday 1/13

FAQs

  • What is the Risings Artists Program about?
    • The new Rising Artists program of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach is very much inspired by Caramoor’s Rising Stars, a program that made a meaningful impact in our lives as young artists. Musicians of different generations come together, sharing their love and joy for playing chamber music. This collaborative spirit is at the heart of the program, creating a dynamic learning environment where young musicians can gain invaluable insights and inspiration from their experienced colleagues, and vice-versa!   
                      -Edward Arron and Arnaud Sussmann

  • Eligibility: Preprofessional and early career string players (violin, viola, cello); ages 20-30 years old

  • When is my application due?
    • The application deadline is by 11:59 pm on Sunday, September 15, 2024

  • When will application decisions be sent? 
    • Application decisions will be sent by Monday, October 14, 2024

  • Fees: $25 by August 15; $45 from August 16 - September 15, 2024

  • Do I need recommendation letters?
    • No letters are needed. Provide contact information (email address & phone number) for two (2) professional references.
  • Audition repertoire: 
    • Does my Sonata/Concerto selection need to be accompanied or unaccompanied?
      Accompaniment is preferred but not required.
    • Does my chamber repertoire need to be solo or playing in an ensemble?
      Please submit recordings of you playing in an ensemble.
    • I don't have a trio or larger work. Can I submit a string duo? e.g. Kodaly Duo for Violin & Cello
      Yes, a string duo is acceptable if you do not have a trio or larger work available.
    • Can I submit entire works?
      Yes, you can submit recordings of entire works.
  • How do I submit my application and audition videos?
    • In order to submit your audition videos, you will need a YouTube account. After uploading your audition videos to YouTube, include the links to your videos in the application page. (see link above)
  • Can I apply if I am an international student?
    • International students currently studying in the US can apply, but will need to apply for a work permit from your educational institution.
  • Program Repertoire:
    • TBD: 2025 Rising Artists Program repertoire will include a string trio, a string quartet, and a string sextet

  • Examples of Career Conversation topics to be covered:
    • Starting an organization
    • Donor relations
    • Education and Community Engagement programming

  • Stipends: Applicants chosen for the Rising Artists Program will receive a $1,500 stipend (USD).

  • Transportation: 
    • flights: CMSPB will cover round trip domestic economy flights
      • seats for cellos will be covered
    •  CMSPB will provide all local ground transportation
  • Housing: Rising Artists will have accommodations with private host families

  • Meals: All meals will be provided by CMSPB (home meals and restaurants)

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