
WKU Summer String Institute
Director of the WKU Summer String Institute, a week-long day camp for beginning to advanced string students in the Kentucky and Tennessee area. More info here: https://www.wku.edu/strings/ssi.php
Director of the WKU Summer String Institute, a week-long day camp for beginning to advanced string students in the Kentucky and Tennessee area. More info here: https://www.wku.edu/strings/ssi.php
Penderecki: String Trio
Roberto Sierra: Duo Concertante
Britten: Lachrymae
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, op 25
Faculty and coordinator of chamber music at the IU Summer String Academy
https://jacobsacademy.indiana.edu/descriptions/summer-string-academy.html
Performing works by Britten, Brahms, Sierra, and Penderecki
Director and faculty of viola and chamber music at the 2025 Hilltop String Festival.
https://www.wku.edu/strings/hilltop.php
Samuel Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal
C.F. Kip Winger: Violin Concerto No. 1 | World Premiere | Live Recording
Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3
https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/barber-winger-and-copland/
Carmina Burana
https://www.paducahsymphony.org/performances/carmina-burana
https://suzukiassociation.org/resources/events/2025-leadership-summit/
Principal Viola at the Paducah Symphony
Dvorak’s Symphony No 8, Rossini’s Barber of Seville, and Bizet Symphony no 1
https://www.paducahsymphony.org/performances/dvoraks-eighth
Faculty and guests at WKU Recital Hall
Performing:
Britten - Lachrymae
Hindemith - Sonata op 25 no. 1
Henze - An Brenton
Bach - Suite in G for solo cello
Sunday, March 9, 3:00pm
Western Kentucky University, FAC Recital Hall
Performing Britten’s Lachrymae, Roberto Sierra’s Duo Concertante, and Hindemith’s Sonata op 25/1.
With Alessandra Volpi, Ching-Yi Lin, and Meghan Berindean.
Academy Grand Opening
Music by Mozart, Kabalevsky, Barber, and more!
https://www.paducahsymphony.org/performances/pso-academy-grand-opening
Cinemagic
Music by Tchaikovsky, Dukas, WIlliams and more!
https://www.paducahsymphony.org/performances/cinemagic
Celebrating Ravel’s 150th birthday!
https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/18943
https://www.paducahsymphony.org/performances/pictures-at-an-exhibition
Performing Augusta Reed Thomas’s Rumi Settings, with Ching-Yi Lin
Principal Viola
Tchaikovsky - Symphony no 6
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Rossini - William Tell
With Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet) and Matthew Gianforte (piano)
Six Bagatelles for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (2007)
By Philippe Hersant
Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, K. 498 (“Kegelstatt”)
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Black Birds, Red Hills: A Portrait of Six Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe (1987)
By Libby Larsen
Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83 (1910)
By Max Bruch
With Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet) and Matthew Gianforte (piano)
Six Bagatelles for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (2007)
By Philippe Hersant
Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, K. 498 (“Kegelstatt”)
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Black Birds, Red Hills: A Portrait of Six Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe (1987)
By Libby Larsen
Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83 (1910)
By Max Bruch
With Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet) and Matthew Gianforte (piano)
Six Bagatelles for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (2007)
By Philippe Hersant
Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, K. 498 (“Kegelstatt”)
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Black Birds, Red Hills: A Portrait of Six Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe (1987)
By Libby Larsen
Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83 (1910)
By Max Bruch
Direct, teach, and perform at the WKU Summer String Institute
The WKU Summer String Institute is a concentrated week of study for violin, viola, cello, and bass students ages 4 - 18. Enrolled students will participate in master classes, group instruction, orchestral study, concerts, and musical enrichment on the campus of Western Kentucky University. The Institute features two courses of study:
Twinklers: A half-day session for young beginners
Young Musicians: A full-day session for elementary through high school age students
The Institute offers all students the valuable opportunity to deepen their knowledge of string playing in an engaging and exciting environment. The teaching faculty of the Summer String Institute includes WKU music faculty members and guest artist teachers.
https://www.wku.edu/strings/ssi.php
Recital at the 2024 Jacobs School of Music Summer Chamber Music Festival.
Gordon Jacob - Prelude, Passacaglia, and Fugue for violin and viola
Henze - Sonata for viola and piano
Bruch - Eight pieces, op. 83, for viola, clarinet (violin), and piano
With Aram Arakelyan and Ching-Yi Lin
Teach, perform, and direct chamber music program at the IU Summer String Academy.
More info here: https://jacobsacademy.indiana.edu/descriptions/summer-string-academy.html
Direct, teach, and perform at the 2024 Hilltop String Festival
The Hilltop String Festival is an intensive program housed on the beautiful campus of Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Festival offers dedicated string players the opportunity to deepen their musical and instrumental skill through studying with world-renowned faculty members. The program includes lessons, master classes, chamber music, performance opportunities, faculty concerts, practice coaching, and musical enrichment.
https://www.wku.edu/strings/hilltop.php
Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Gustav Mahler, arr. Cooke: Symphony No. 10
Chamber music performance at the WKU Recital Hall, with Arun Nadgir
Shostakovich - Sonata for viola and piano
Bach - Suite no 4 in E flat major
Henze - Serenade for solo viola
Nashville Symphony | Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Gil Shaham, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Performing works by Martinu, Gordon Jacob, Prokofiev, and more on the chamber music series of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra.