2012 Adult Workshop Faculty
Arielle Levoff
Pianist Arielle Levioff has performed at Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and
internationally in London, France, and Italy. She has appeared as a soloist with the Merion Symphony
(PA), the Christ Church Festival Orchestra in Oyster Bay (NY) and the Astoria Symphony (NYC), and
she will make her debut with the Rapides Symphony in Louisiana in January, 2013. She was a finalist
in the 2009 Sorel Medallion Competition in Collaborative Piano, and was the sole recipient of the award
for excellence in chamber music upon graduating from the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Levioff has
served on the faculty of the 92nd Street Y School of Music since 2005 and has been on the faculty of the
Point Counterpoint Adult Chamber Music Workshop since its beginning in 2010. She recently made
her debut at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in the inaugural concert of the newly formed New York
Women’s Ensemble. Her playing was described as “elegant” by Steve Smith, music critic for the New
York Times.
Anton Miller
Rita Porfiris
Lawrence Zoernig, cellist: BM Cleveland Institute of Music; MM Juilliard School. Zoernig has been principal ‘cellist of many New York symphony and chamber orchestras including New York Chamber Orchestra, Bachanalia and Opera Manhattan. Mr. Zoernig premièred Lars-Erik Larsson’s Concertino for ‘Cello and String Orchestra at Trinity Church with the New York Scandia Symphony, for which he is also principal ‘cellist.
As a chamber musician, he has performed with Goliard Ensemble and the Cosmopolitan Chamber Players. He has appeared with such noted artists as violinists Nina Beilina, Sidney Harth and Mark Peskanov and clarinetist Charles Neidich; and dance ensembles including the famous Paul Taylor Dance Company and the David Parsons Dance Company. He has appeared as soloist and chamber musician at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall in New York and the Phillips Collection and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In April 2005 he was invited to play for President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. As a concert artist on the international scene, Mr. Zoernig has also been presented at the Teatro Amazones in Manaus, Brazil and the World Expo in Seville, Spain and has also performed extensively on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth II, Caronia, Vistafjord, Sagafjord and Royal Viking Sun throughout the world.
Meet the Composer Foundation recently provided Mr. Zoernig with a grant for his work as a composer of music for ‘cello. Additionally, he maintains an active teaching schedule and is presently a faculty member of the Sylvan Academy of Music in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Lawrence Zoernig was born in 1960 in Sioux City, Iowa. He began studying ‘cello at age eight in his home town. He has studied with Harvey Shapiro. At Juilliard he also worked with Felix Galimir, Joel Krosnick, John Cage, Albert Fuller and Jaap Schröder. He plays a ‘cello made by Tim Hulley completed in 2004.