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She began studying at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and switched to viola there. Then she went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University . She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1967 and won highest prize at both the Geneva International Music Competition and ARD International ...
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable viola players. In cases where a violist has also achieved fame in another musical area, such as conducting or ...
His recordings have received 21 Grammy nominations, and two Grammy wins. [13] He has collaborated with filmmaker Christopher Nupen on several projects, and was the subject of Nupen's "Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music" documentary of 1974.
The viola's back length is about 44 cm (~17.3 inches), but the bridge is further up the body than normal, so the playable string length is less and hence more manageable than what would be typical for such a large instrument. [33] He previously played on a 1677 viola by the Italian luthier, Giovanni Grancino. [34]
Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major for violin, viola and orchestra, K. 364 (K. 320d) (1779) Duo No. 1 in G major for violin and viola, K. 423 (1783) Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424 (1783) Kegelstatt Trio in E-flat major for clarinet, viola and piano, K. 498 (1786) Nico Muhly (b. 1981) Concerto for viola and orchestra (2014)
Artist Bill Viola, whose pioneering work with video since the 1970s opened the door to what would become a major artform internationally, has died. He was 73.
Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, has died ...
Maurice Edgard Vieux (14 April 1884 in Savy-Berlette near Valenciennes – 28 April 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. Vieux received his 1st Prize Viola in 1902 in the class of Théophile Laforge, the first viola professor of the Conservatoire ...