Presenter: Nethanel Pollak In recent years the American viola community shared an increased interest in viola music by composers of underrepresented backgrounds, from the present and from the past. In...
Presenter: Nick Revel What if learning etudes felt like casting spells in epic boss battles? DragonScales: The Hero Levels – 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil invites violists into a...
Presenters: Anna-Sofia Botti Nicholas Lindell Francis Poulenc’s 1940s Sonata for Cello and Piano carries a notorious reputation for its diabolical difficulty. After dreaming of stepping up to the challenge, I...
Presenter: Douglas Temples Bernadette Lo This lecture recital draws from my doctoral research into the legacy of Maurice Vieux (1878–1951), the Paris conservatory professor who shaped the modern French viola...
Presenters: Danielle Wiebe Burke Ayn Balija David McCormick Johanna Beaver Sam Suggs What sounds might a visitor to Monticello have heard? Music was often in the air - Thomas Jefferson...
Presenter: Andrew Braddock Ting-Ting Yang French composer Betsy Jolas (b. 1926) has written a body of captivating and beguiling works for the viola. While she once joked that she belonged...
Presenters: Clara Qiyun Zhao Christopher Raphael What can AI do in music? No, not to generate, not to steal and copy, nor taking away the fundamentals and essences of human...
Presenter: Penny Tong This lecture-recital introduces a remarkable rediscovery in the viola repertoire: the Suite for Solo Viola (1940) by German composer Reinhard Oppel (1878–1941). Written in the final year...
Presenter; Roselyn Hobbs Bernadette Lo Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Concerto Romantico for Viola and Chamber Orchestra is a powerful gem of viola writing that most violists have never heard. Premiered in 1957...
Presenter: Angela Rubin Denzel (Enzo) Abarquez Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867–1944) stands as a monumental figure in the history of American classical music, renowned for her achievements as the first...
Presenter: Gregory K. Williams Over the past 30+ years, longer than I have been playing the viola, I have been exploring my family tree, absorbing the experiences of my ancestors,...
Presenter: Ames Asbell Violist Ames Asbell shares her journey into composition from the performer’s perspective, informed by a variety of creativity texts and interviews with active violist-composers. This session details...