CARTER BREY —continued from page VII which include the premiere of a work by Aaron Jay Kernis, commissioned for them by American Public Radio. Carter Brey cameto international prominencein 1981 when hetookaprizein the first Rostropovich International Cello Competition. He attracted the attention of Rostropovich himself and their subsequent collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra received enormous praise. His New York and Washington recital debuts followed in 1982 after his victory in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Among other honors, the artist held the first Anne and George Popkin Cello Chair on the YCA roster. He was also the first musician to win the Performing Arts Prize of the Arts Council of America. In the fall of 1990 he was featured in a concert with cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Avery Fisher Hall which was broadcast nationwide on PBS’s “Live from Lincoln Center.” Mr. Brey received his training at the Peabody Institute where he studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Kates, and later with Aldo Parisot at Yale University where he was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. His Violoncello is a rare J. B. Guadagnini made in Milan in 1754. REGIONAL ARTS THANKS THE FOLLOWING STAFF MEMBERS OF THE KRAVIS CENTER Judith Shepherd John D. Wilkes Executive Director Chief Operating Officer Clint Smith Technical Director Tim Lessig Stage Manager Mark Engel House Manager Dan McMenamin Head Carpenter Maria Quesada Box Office Manager Irma Haie Electrician Robert Davis Head Flyman Richard Howarth Head Property Jeff Curtis Sound Technician Reggie Hamilton Piano Technician
