David's Viola concerto is dedicated to Pal Lukacz. This soloist, who was born in 1919, won the first prize for viola playing at the International Musical Competition held at Geneva in 1948, and since 1946 he has been a professor at the Academy of Music in Budapest.
August 13, 2013 at 10:30 PM I teach violin privately, and occasionally have a viola student. I currently have a student who is going to be a senior in high school this year. He is looking to audition for viola performance at the college level. He is currently working on the Marchenbilder by Schumann, and the first Bach suite. I don't have as thorough of knowledge about the standard viola concerti as I do violin, so what would be considered an appropriate standard concerto to audition with at this level?
August 14, 2013 at 02:12 PM Check out some cello concertos. You can get ones like Elgar on Virtual Sheet Music. My favorite is the Forsyth viola concerto. It is not quite as difficult as Walton, but will take some work.
August 31, 2013 at 12:54 PM Nobody mentioned my favorite sonatas, Schubert Arpeggione and Glinka Sonata. They are as meaty as a concerto movement, but probably check if acceptable at schools you want to audition for. I, too, am a violinist teaching advanced viola students. If any of mine decided to head to music school, I'd get them to a "name" violist. I'm near a couple major universities, conservatories.
Yi Zhou was named Principal Viola of the Los Angeles Opera by music director James Conlon and Placido Domingo. Yi has made recent appearances in the international music scene, including performing the Bartok viola concerto with the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra, a recital at the celebrated St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, performances at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a performance at the Three Rivers Music Center in California. He was selected as Principal Viola of the Pacific Music Festival in Japan in 2008 under the baton of Fabio Luisi, and returned to the Festival in 2009 and 2010. Yi has also performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.
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