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STRINGS
String Faculty includes:
Lawrence Wheeler, Coordinator
LarryW@www.
music.uh.edu
Andrzej Grabiec
Violin
Vagram Saradjian
Cello
David Tomatz
Cello
STRINGS
The strings chamber music course offers a variety of instrumental combinations and repertoire, primarily string quartets. Ensembles may also include piano trios, quartets and quintets, as well as combinations with wind instruments. Groups are coached one hour week in addition to a weekly studio class. Group rehearsals should average three hours/week preparation. Group members are encouraged to develop responsible practice habits through individual preparation and effective rehearsal techniques. Performance opportunities include the studio classes, Tuesday one o'clock concerts, student recitals, and the chamber music recital/jury at the end of each semester. Grading is primarily based on the group performance level achieved, with individual factors such as responsibility to rehearsal/lesson times, preparation, and positive contributions being included.
Violist Lawrence Wheeler, Coordinator of String Chamber Music Studies, is the former Principal Violist of the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has performed as soloist with the Minnesota, Icelandic, UNAM, Mexico City, Texas Chamber Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony. He has performed as recitalist in London. New York, Stuttgart as well as performing at two International Viola Congresses. He has appeared on radio broadcasts by NPR and the BBC. He has served as guest principal with Dallas and Houston Syphonies and has taught at Meadowmount, Encore and the Texas Music Festival. In Houston, he performs frequent recitals and chamber music performances and is currently the Conductor of the Greater Houston Youth Orchestra.
CHAMBER MUSIC FACULTY INCLUDES:
David Tomatz, Cello
Andrzej Grabiec, Violin
Vagram Saradjian, Cello
STUDENT GROUPS:
The Moores Piano Trio, Mikylah Myers, violin, Erika Johnson, cello, and Tomoko Isshiki, piano, was formed in August of 1999 at the Moores School of Music. The Trio was a prize winner at the Carmel Chamber Music Competition and a finalist in the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in May 2000. The Moores Piano Trio was one of five groups selected nationally to perform at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Michigan in June. At the Festival the Trio was coached by William Bolcom for a performance of his "Spring Trio: A Bouquet of Traditional Flower Rags" at the Detroit Institute of Art. Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press wrote that "the Moores Piano Trio found the poetry in Mozart's B-flat Trio, K. 502..."
Former Director, Moores School of Music; former chair and professor of cello, Music Department, University of Wyoming; member, Western Arts Trio; performances at international cello congresses; international cello tours and solo concerts; recordings, Laurel; General Director and performer, Texas Music Festival; President, National Association of Schools of Music; Ph.D. in musicology, Catholic University of America
Former concertmaster, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio and Television Symphony, Wichita Symphony Orchestra; concertmaster, American Sinfonietta, Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra; prize winner, Wieniawski and Thibaud International Competitions; Carnegie Hall debut in 1984; member, Polish radio trio, Mozart Festival Chamber Orchestra, Fairmount String Quartet, and the Trio NOVA; faculty, Sarasota Music Festival; recordings, Summit and Vifon
Since his triumphs in the 1975 International Cello Competition in Geneva and the International Tchaikowsky Competition, Vagram Saradjian has performed around the world in major concert halls with leading orchestras and conductors, such as Rostropovich, Kondrashin, Khachaturian, Temirkanov and Shostakovich; and has participated in many prestigious music festivals. Mr. Saradjian also celebrated as a champion of contemporary music and has earned the admiration of many modern composers who have dedicated works to him. As a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage Mstislav Rostropovich for eight years. Mr. Saradjian's extensive discography includes the Schumann, Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Honegger & Karen Khachaturian Cello Concertos and the Tchaikoxsky Rococo Variations.
The members of the Trio have performed internationally as both soloists and chamber musicians, including appearances in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and France, and often perform with the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Symphony. They have been coached by Gilbert Kalish, Ruth Laredo, James Tocco, Nathaniel Rosen, Paul Katz, Scott St. John and Charles Castleman. The Moores Piano Trio is primarily coached by Timothy Hester, Laszlo Varga, and Fredell Lack. Violinist Mikylah Myers and pianist Tomoko Isshiki are both doctoral candidates at the Moores School. Cellist Erika Johnson received her bachelor's degree from the School in May 2000.