The Polasek Museum’s annual three-concert music series features internationally acclaimed violin/viola virtuoso Ayako Yonetani along with a variety of guest instrumentalists. Held in the
elegant salon of the Polasek residence, concert-goers experience acoustic perfection in an
intimate setting.
Tickets are $30 per person per concert or $80 per person for the season.
The 2010 – 2011 scheduled performances will take place:
Sunday afternoons
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tickets are $30 per person per concert or $80 per person for the season.
December 5, 2010
Tickets are $30 per person per concert or $80 per person for the season.
January 16, 2011
Tickets are $30 per person.
March 20, 2011
Tickets are $30 per person.
Dr. Ayako Yonetani, a world-renowned violinist, was born in Kobe, Japan. She started violin at the age of five. At ten, she made her solo debut after she was the youngest winner of the Japan National competition at the age of 9. Later, she made her United States debut as a concertmaster with the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Dr. Yonetani received her bachelor, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School. She has assisted great Dorothy DeLay, who taught many celebrated performers, including Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Chang, and Midori, Dr. Yonetani was the Juilliard Isaac Stern concertmaster chair of the Academy Orchestra at the Aspen Music Festival & School. Currently, Dr. Yonetani is a Professor of Violin/Viola at the University of Central Florida. She is a member of Japan’s premier chamber ensemble in Tokyo. She was recently selected as an official artist of the Florida Arts & Culture State Touring Program. Presently she travels the world as a guest soloist in addition to her professorship at UCF. In the summer of 2007 Yonetani recorded her second CD as the feature soloist with the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya, a world-class stem cell researcher, was recruited from University of Illinois in Chicago as a full professor by University of Central Florida. Dr Suguya is Chair of the Neuroscience Consortium and also with University of Central Florida College of Medicine. He received his PhD in Pharmacology from Science University of Tokyo. He became a full time lecturer of his alma mater after a postdoctoral training at Southern Illinois University. However, he decided to continue his research career in US and moved to Mayo Clinic Jacksonville where he became Associate Consultant in Neuropharmacology. He is a full professor and Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases at UCF. His research has appeared on Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS and other major Medias. Dr. Yonetani and Dr. Suguya have been conducting research on the impact of music on the brain. Dr. Sugaya is joining the performances using the latest technologies.
