Violinist Ilmar Gavilan To Perform Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Long
Island's South Shore Philharmonic - Performance Will Be Given on New Violin
Made by Charles Rufino

The rising young soloist and Grand Prize Winner of the 2001 Sphinx
Competition, Ilmar Gavilan, will perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
this Saturday May 4 at 8 PM with Long Island's South Shore Philharmonic.
The concert is free, and will be given at West Hempstead High School,
400 Nassau Boulevard, West Hempstead, New York. For directions to West
Hempstead High School, please go to
http://www.southshorephilharmonic.org/whhs.html.

Mr. Gavilan has just completed a 15 Orchestra Nationwide tour playing
with such groups as the Atlanta Symphony, The St. Louis Symphony, the Los
Angeles Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, and will tour Europe this
summer.  He lives in New York, where he studies with Glenn Dicterow.  He is
also a Laureate of the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition, and
Concertmaster of the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia.  For more
information about Ilmar Gavilan, please visit the Sphinx Competition
website at http://www.sphinxcompetition.org/.

Mr. Gavilan will perform the concerto on a new instrument by nationally
renowned violin maker Charles Rufino. Mr. Rufino and Mr. Gavilan
recently traveled to Puerto Rico for a series of concerts, lectures,
Master Classes and media appearances.

Master Violin Maker Charles Rufino is also based in New York City and is
a member of the American Federation of Violin & Bow Makers and the Entente
Internationale Des Maitre Luthiers Et Archtiers D'Art.  His instruments are
played & recommended by top professional orchestral and chamber musicians
in New York and abroad in live concerts, recordings, film scores, and radio
and television broadcasts.  For example, they were recently featured on the
Original Broadway Cast recordings of "The Producers" and "Aida".

For more information about Mr. Rufino's extraordinary new violins, violas
& violoncellos, please visit his New York City studio at 1841 Broadway,
Studio 1118, his website at http://www.rufinoviolins.com/ (which has
directions to his New York studio) or call him at 212-581-6226.

He can also be reached through Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at
516-797-9166 or
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