Susanna Mälkki led Ensemble ACJW Saturday night at Zankel Hall. File Photo: Hilary Scott
Now in its seventh season, Ensemble ACJW has become New York’s de facto leading chamber orchestra and one of the strongest ensembles in the city. The group was created through a collaboration between Carnegie Hall, Juilliard and the Weill Music Institute, working with the New York City Department of Education, and is a two-year, post-graduate training ensemble for young professional musicians.
The players not only perform but teach in the city’s public schools, and the great extramusical byproduct of their influence is the number of kids and adolescents at each of their Zankel Hall concerts, there to see their teachers play
Article source: http://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2014/05/malkki-ensemble-acjw-shine-in-varied-program/