America House, Hungary, an Eastern European building and land development company, has created scholarships to send five music students from the prestigious Bela Bartok secondary music school in Budapest, Hungary, to Lancaster this summer to participate in the two week Vivace! summer festival at the Pennsylvania Music Academy (PAM).
Three of the students won national competitions this year.
When the artistic founders of PAM, Michael Jamanis and Fran Veri, concertized in Budapest earlier this year, a relationship was established between the two music academies.
In July, PAM faculty members comprising the Newstead Trio will perform seven concerts starting in Beijing at the famous China Performing Arts Center and continuing on to six other cities across China. They follow in the footsteps of Veri and Jamanis who have made several concert and teaching tours to China over the decades.
The Newstead Trio consists of Michael Jamanis, violin; Sara Male, cello; and Xun Pan, piano.
Richard Field, President of America House, Hungary, and Michael Jamanis (the younger) are both graduates in the same class of McCaskey High School.
