The spring version of the UNCSA Chamber Music Festival, introduced by the College of Music, will give two concert events that includes faculty, learners, and distinguished guest artists
Tatjana Masurenko, viola, and Peter Wiley, cello, as very well as a function by UNCSA composition
alumnus Tyson Davis (H.S. ’19).
The competition begins with a concert on Tuesday, March 14, showcasing Tyson Davis’ “Abstractions”
for woodwind quintet (2018) Felix Mendelssohn’s Sextet in D big, Op. 110 Antonín
Dvořák’s Serenade for Wind Devices in D insignificant, Op. 44 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s
Sextet in E flat important, Op. 81b (1770-1827).
A 2nd application on Saturday, March 18, with Tatjana Masurenko and Peter Wiley will
include Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A minor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano
Quartet in E flat major and Johannes Brahms’ String Quintet No. 2 in G big, Op.
111.
Both equally live shows will just take location at 7:30 p.m. in Watson Hall on the UNCSA campus. Tickets are $20 for grownups, $15 for students with valid ID, out there at uncsa.edu/performances and by contacting the box office environment at 336-721-1945. The concert events will also be livestreamed
as portion of Dwell From Watson Hall, free of charge with registration.
Established and led by creative directors Ida Bieler and Dmitri Vorobiev, the UNCSA Chamber Music Competition was introduced in slide 2021. The biannual festival delivers
priceless alternatives for students to accomplish along with college and guest artists,
and an intimate and gratifying expertise for audiences.
College violinist Ida Bieler was introduced into recognition when she won international
competitions on a few continents at a quite younger age. She has since been a regular
performer in key tunes capitals throughout the entire world, recording for radio and television
on 5 continents and showing with top intercontinental orchestras.
“Incorporating young men and women on the phase, who perform together with us, even though getting encouraged
by the faculty and visitor artists and taking part in superbly in their very own proper, is a
great matter,” Bieler reported. “It is wonderful that we can move together our skilled
practical experience, expertise, enjoy of new music, and steerage to our learners. We purposefully
decide on visitor artists who we know enjoy functioning with youthful individuals and are in a position to nurture
them and broaden their views.”
A native of Moscow, Russia, Dmitri Vorobiev was previously on the school at the University
of Northern Iowa Vivace International Songs Competition Worldwide Tunes Academy
in Pilsen, Czech Republic and the Cambridge Worldwide String Academy in Cambridge,
England.
“A superior share of our students get to carry out in the chamber new music pageant, and
the value to the pupils is priceless,” mentioned Vorobiev. “It’s a definitely particular prospect
for them to complete with these wonderful artists as effectively as the faculty.”
Celebrated for his “accurate intonation and warmth of tone,” Grammy-nominated cellist
Peter Wiley entered the Curtis Institute at 13 years of age and was appointed principal cellist
of the Cincinnati Symphony at age 20. He manufactured his concerto debut at Carnegie Hall
in 1986 with the New York String Orchestra carried out by Alexander Schneider. As a
recitalist he has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and Lincoln Center’s
Alice Tully Hall. A member of the Beaux Arts Trio from 1987 to 1998, Wiley was cellist
of the Guarneri String Quartet from 2001 to 2009. A member of the piano quartet Opus
One, he is a past receiver of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Bieler and Wiley carried out alongside one another when they were being just 16 under the way of
Schneider. Despite the fact that she had now been doing professionally for quite a few a long time
at that issue, it was her first Carnegie Corridor effectiveness.
“Peter is a master cellist with a huge career,” Bieler reported. “In addition to his large
practical experience, he is an optimistic and encouraging man or woman. He is devoted to the excellent
tunes that we are promoting.”
Tatjana Masurenko, a primary viola participant of nowadays, has a distinct type shaped by her expressive
actively playing and intense musical scientific studies. Alongside the terrific viola concertos by Walton,
Bartók and Hindemith, Masurenko’s large-ranging live performance repertoire also features fashionable
classical will work these as Schnittke, Gubaidulina and Kancheli and the not often performed
viola concertos by Hartmann and Bartel. After a 30-calendar year career in Europe, Masurenko
joined the school in 2022 at the Colburn Faculty in Los Angeles where by she teaches
viola and coaches chamber audio.
“Tatjana is a multidimensional artist who has recorded excellent albums of new songs,”
Vorobiev explained.
Tyson Davis is a composition pupil at The Juilliard University the place he matriculated soon after finding out
at UNCSA with Lawrence Dillon. In the summer of 2019, Davis was picked by the Countrywide Youth Orchestra (NYO) and
conductor Antonio Pappano to premiere his operate “Delicate Tension,” commissioned by
the American Embassy in Berlin for the 30th anniversary of the tumble of the Berlin
Wall, on tour with the NYO in Berlin, Edinburgh and Hamburg. Davis has acquired commissions
from The Juilliard String Quartet, the Albany Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,
Eighth Blackbird, WQXR, the New York New Music Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, and
other individuals. His a short while ago completed get the job done, “Amorphous Figures” (String Quartet No. 2), to
be premiered in April 2023, was commissioned for the Juilliard String Quartet by Da
Digital camera Modern society of Houston, The John F. Kennedy Centre for the Undertaking Arts, and
Chamber Songs Cincinnati. He is also now creating works for UNCSA college member Robert Younger, Zephyros Winds (of which New music Dean Saxton Rose is a member), pianist Jonathan Biss, and far more.
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