I’ve been scouring YouTube for any new (and impressive) viola videos, and there are quite a few that I hadn’t seen before. If you are still of the notion that the viola is a second-string (sorry) instrument, then you are sadly misinformed! Enjoy.
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Omar Hernández-Hidalgo, one of Mexico’s and the world’s finest young violists was found dead in Tijuana after an apparent kidnapping. Post on Sequenza21. Post on Fono teca y música (Spanish). Post on Ócelsis (Spanish).
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This is one of those recordings that I’m very excited about getting my hands on. Roberto Dìaz, currently the president of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and a former principal violist of both the National Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, along with Jeremy Denk, one of the more exciting, interesting pianists playing today (and
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In 1998, composer Joan Tower was commissioned by violist Paul Neubauer (a perennial Chamber Music NW favorite) to write a work for solo viola. The result was Wild Purple, a fantastic tour de force that shows off the virtuosity of today’s violist. The title came from Tower’s association of the sound of the viola with
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Kjersten Oquist Angela Svendsen This from KVAL‘s website in Eugene: ALBANY, Ore. – A Salem woman is on trial in Linn County for the deaths of two members of the Eugene Symphony. Fivea Sharipoff, 26, at left, is charged with manslaughter, assault and driving under the influence after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 last
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P1050021 | Originally uploaded by dawnvla click photo to enlarge New York Philharmonic violist Dawn Hannay kept a blog of her tour of North Korea. You can find it here, along with photos here. UPDATE: link to Dawn’s blog fixed. P1050021 | Originally uploaded by dawnvla click photo to enlarge Thanks to MH for the
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Boise Phiharmonic violist/blogger/cyclist/survivor Jen Drake tells us about the audiences in Boise. Worth a look – it’ll make ya laugh.
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So it’s crunch time. I can feel it in my bones – actually in my bow-arm’s shoulder and my back. News which would normally be met with a shrug and “what can ya do?” is instead met with grumbled obscenities and toe-curling rage on the drive home. I feel sorry for the people that have to drive on the roads with me on my way home this week – they’re getting called every name in the book.* On the bright side, I usually only feel a simple sense of tiredness by the time I get home.
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Carrie Dennis, the phenomenal violist who has (by the anything but grizzled age of 30!) already been Assistant principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and was just named as Principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has a couple videos up on youtube. See and hear her for yourself
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Arguably one of the great violists of the 20th/21st century, Kim Kashkashian has made many critically-acclaimed recordings (almost all on ECM New Series) of both the standard repertoire and new works, many written especially for her. Born in Detroit, she was a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Md., but ended up spending much
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