The Altos de Chavón Amphitheater will be presenting an encounter of classical and popular music on 29 December. The event is directed by Maestro Carlos Piantini (http://www.fiu.edu/~music/piantini.html). Leading Dominican merengue music star Milly Quezada (http://www.lamusica.com/millyquezadaeng.htm) will go on stage as of 9 pm together with internationally acclaimed violin soloist Eugene Fodor and pianist Susan Starr from the United States. With them, the Dominican Philarmonic Orchestra. They will present Dominican classics such as, "Mi Quisqueya," by Mercedes Sagredo, "La Billirrubina", by Juan Luis Guerra. Tickets are already for sale at Casa de Campo for RD$350 and RD$600. Fodor has performed for more than three decades as a soloist with appearances in more than 35 countries on five continents. His solos have been heard by two presidents and he has appeared on a number of television shows, including 20/20, Sunday Morning, the Tonight Show and others. H also has performed on television in Italy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Japan and Korea. Fodor made his solo debut at the age of 10 with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. He began touring after that, winning his first national competition at the age of 12. At 15, he performed with the Detroit Symphony and within three years won first prizes in six national competitions. In 1972 he won first prize in the International Paganini Competition in Italy and in 1974 won the highest prize awarded that year in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He attended the Juilliard School in New York, the Vienna Academy, Indiana University and the University of Southern California. His violin instructors have included Harold Wippler, Ivan Galamian, Josef Gingold, and Jascha Heifetz. Susan Starr is regarded as one of America’s most celebrated pianists. Since her triumph in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition, she has played to standing ovations in recital and with the world’s most distinguished orchestras and conductors. Audiences throughout the world have be en enthralled by her artistry and her active international career has taken her on extensive tours of the Soviet Union, Far East, South America and Europe. Well-known for her recordings for RCA and Orion Master, Ms. Starr has been acclaimed by The New York Times as "a star of the first magnitude."
