Music Institute of Chicago Presents Acclaimed Vamos Family

Assembling a family of noteworthy musicians and teachers, The Music Institute of Chicago presents a Vamos Family Concert. Playing a program of Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, Poulenc’s Violin Sonata, and Bach’s Concerto for Three Violins in D Major, Vamos family members are recipients of numerous honors and have performed widely to great critical acclaim.

Wife and husband Almita (violin) and Roland Vamos (conductor), both members of the Music Institute’s violin faculty (Roland also serves on the viola and chamber music faculties and conducts the Music Institute’s Senior Academy Orchestra), have received multiple Presidential Excellence in Teaching Awards and launched the careers of numerous individual musicians and renowned chamber groups, including Rachel Barton Pine, Jennifer Koh and several members of the Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet, including their son Brandon Vamos, cello, and his wife Simin Ganatra, violin, who join them on this program. Also performing are Almita and Roland’s son Rami Vamos, guitar, and his wife Nurit Pacht, violin, as well as Almita’s sister Eugenia Monacelli, piano.