While maintaining his solo career, he also served ten years as principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and Carlo Maria Giulini, guest principal violist of the New York Philharmonic, and was a member of An die Musik, the Aldanya String Quartet, and the White House Quartet.
It is a retelling of the apprenticeship of Marin Marais in the house of austere, recluse, and mysterious violist Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, obsessed with his late wife, and of his romantic entanglements with his master's two daughters.
Karttunen plays in the Zebra Trio with the violinist Ernst Kovacic and the violist Steven Dann.
In addition to performing the traditional quartet repertoire, the Ariel Quartet regularly collaborates with many Israeli and non-Israeli musicians and composers, including pianists Roman Rabinovich, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Stefano Miceli and Yaron Kohlberg; the Jerusalem String Quartet; composers Matan Porat, Matti Kovler, and Menachem Wiesenberg; clarinetist Moran Katz; violist Roger Tapping; and the Zukerman Chamber Players.
Originally called the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, its founding members include such distinguished musicians as cellist and artistic director emeritus of BCMS Ronald Thomas, cellist and founding executive director Bruce Coppock, violinists Stephanie Chase and Lynn Chang, violist Katherine Murdock, and clarinetist Thomas Hill, among others.
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Other current members of BCMS include: violist and artistic director Marcus Thompson, violinists Ida Levin and Harumi Rhodes, violist Roger Tapping, pianists Randall Hodgkinson and Mihae Lee.
Previous conductors of the orchestra have included Martin J. Fischer 1917-2011, violist, Juilliard alumni circa/with Robert Mann & Walter Trampler, tenured conductor through the early 1980s, Eiji Oue and Richard Westerfield.
His brothers were Nikolai Bakaleinikov (flautist, composer and conductor), Vladimir Bakaleinikov (violist, composer and conductor), and Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (composer).
Allard de Ridder (1887-1966), Dutch and Canadian conductor, violist, and composer
As a violist, he belonged to several instrumental groups like I Virtuosi di Roma, I Musici, Quintetto Chigiano, Quartetto Italiano string quartet from 1977 to 1980.
Among his musical partners, soprano Arpiné Rahdjian, violist Demetrio Comuzzi, cellists Luca Pincini and Giorgio Gasbarro (first cellist at Palermo Teatro Massimo), dancer Oriella Dorella (étoile at Teatro alla Scala, Milan).
Its première took place on Friday, July 15, 1966, in Philharmonic Hall, New York; the violist was Jesse Levine; the first City Ballet performance was Thursday, July 28 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, again with Jesse Levine.
His Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, entitled "Illuminatio", was premiered by violist Lars Anders Tomter and South Jutland Symphony Orchestra in October 2008.
As a harpsichordist, on February 20, 1938 he participated in the Carnegie Hall premiere of J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata under the direction of Walter Damrosch; the other performers on that occasion included singers Charles Kullman, Helen Jepson, and Lawrence Tibbett; flutist Frances Blaisdell; violinists Jascha Heifetz and Sascha Jacobsen; violist Leon Barzin; cellist Gaspar Cassadó; and double bassist Anselme Fortier.
With this group for the entire period of its existence played such violist Jan Hrubý (Framus Five), bassist Jiří Veselý (Stromboli, Žlutý Pes), guitarist Petr "Kulich" Pokorný (Framus Five, Žlutý Pes), drummer Ivan Kadaňka, bassist/cellist Jaroslav Olin Nejezchleba, bassists Vladimír Padrůněk and Vladimír Guma Kulhánek and many others.
Both violinists and the violist had been students of the Belgian maestro César Thomson, who would also teach members of a contemporaneous pioneering American chamber group, the Zoellner Quartet.
He played for the ballet, musicals and pop concerts and on a number of occasions toured with the Lindsay Kemp Theatre Company as violist, pianist & percussionist.
He is a violist that has left his trade-mark in many international viola competitions, as First Prize Winner of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition 1994, and Third Prize Winner (1993) of the ARD Munich International Music Competition.
The performers were: first violinist Irvine Arditti and pilot Marco Oliver; second violinist Graeme Jennings and pilot Lieutenant Denis Jans; violist Garth Knox and pilot Lieutenant Robert de Lange; cellist Rohan de Saram and pilot Captain Erik Boekelman (Stockhausen 1996, 216).
In 1895, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he spent two years as the principle violist in the newly formed Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frederic Archer.
Renowned musicians who have openly acknowledged Zhong's talents include pianist Constance Keene, Robert Koenig, Yuan Sheng, violist Hong Mei Xiao, violinist Daniel Phillips, Pierre Amoyal, Elmar Oliveira, Nathan Milstein (as mentioned above) among others.
Among his collaborators in performances and recordings are soprano, Renée Fleming; mezzo-sopranos, Cecilia Bartoli and Angelika Kirchschlager; violist, Yuri Bashmet; violinists Joshua Bell and Julia Fischer; cellists, Truls Mørk, Daniel Müller-Schott, and Gautier Capuçon, and the Rossetti String Quartet.
He is also, with his brother violist Emilio Moreno, co-founder of the Spanish classical music label Glossa Music.
The original members were violinists Robert Mann and Robert Koff, violist Raphael Hillyer, and cellist Arthur Winograd; Current members are Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes violinists, violist Roger Tapping, and cellist Joel Krosnick.
Ueno has collaborated with violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky on the works Hypnomelodiamachia for viola, percussion, and electronics (2007), and Two Hands, a Kashkashian commission, for viola and percussion (2009).
After a long hiatus, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School was reestablished in 1953 by Kneisel's daughter Marianne Kneisel, pianist Artur Balsam, violinist Joseph Fuchs and violist Lillian Fuchs.
Founded in 1987 by Artistic Directors Bruno Giuranna (violist) and Derek Han (pianist), the festival draws many of the world's finest performers.
Her chamber music partners throughout many concerts and festivals include pianists Masha Belooussova, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden, Julien Gernay, Sanja and Lidija Bizjak violinists Nemanja Radulovic, Gil Sharon, Grigory Zhislin, violist Vladimir Mendelssohn, cellists Michel Strauss and Alain Meunier, clarinettists Philippe Berrod, Sandrine Vasseur as well as string quartets Talich and Ebene.
Maurice Edgard Vieux (April 14, 1884 at Savy-Berlette near Valenciennes – April 28, 1951 in Paris) was a French violist whose teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris plays a key role in the history of the viola in France.
The Musethica concept was conceived in 2009 by the violist Avri Levitan and was officially launched in 2012 in Zaragoza, Spain under the auspices of Avri Levitan and Professor Carmen Marcuello.
Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16, 1976) is an American solo violist of Ndbele and Japanese descent.
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, violist Gina Warnick and their daughters, Olivia and Julia, and teaches viola and chamber music at the Colburn Conservatory.
Cleveland Orchestra principal violist Robert Vernon gave the world premiere of Schoenfield's viola concerto in 1998.
Paul Silverthorne (born 1951 in Cheshire, England) is an English viola soloist and principal violist of the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta.
Former students at the festival who have since become faculty artists include violist Robert Vernon, violinist Ani Kavafian, oboist Allan Vogel, bassoonist Nancy Goeres, and cellist Timothy Eddy among others.
The Sault Symphony School of Music was established by the Symphony in 1997, when a joint venture with Lake Superior State University allowed the Symphony to relocate world renowned violinist, Oleg Pokhanovski, and his brother, Mikhail, an accomplished violist, to Sault Ste.
In 1969, she won first prize in the Juilliard Concerto Competition performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violist Nobuko Imai.
Elspeth Hanson subsequently joined the group in 2008 as the violist.
It was produced by Lewis Merenstein and featured violist/multiinstrumentlist John Cale, with whom Merenstein collaborated on number of projects including his debut album Vintage Violence.
Vic Legley (18 June 1915 in Hazebrouck – 28 November 1994 in Ostend) was a Belgian violist and composer of classical music, of French birth.
Mr. Feigelson has collaborated with some of the world's best known musicians as soprano Barbara Hendrix, pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Bella Davidovich, violinist Oleh Krysa, violist Yuri Bashmet, conductors Neeme Jarvi, Gennady Rozhdestvennsky, Lukas Foss, Lawrence Foster, Gerard Schwarz, Andre Raphel Smith, David Amram and Moshe Atzmon.