2024 Primrose International Viola Competition & American Viola Society Festival Program Book

2024 Primrose International Viola Competition & American Viola Society Festival Schedule of Events — WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2024

4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

Lecture Olive 270 Occupational Health Problems of Violists, an Epidemiological Study

Hollie Dzierzanowski – Violists represent an occupational group with specific biopsychosocial demands, including the physical characteristics of the viola, viola-specific repertoire and performance techniques, and the unique occupational role violists play in the social context of classical music. In addition to the lack of viola-specific data due to researchers grouping string players together, novel web-based survey methodologies based on biopsychosocial frameworks offer increased specificity and precision regarding the lived experiences and consequences of performance-related musculoskeletal pain at specific body sites, non-musculoskeletal problems, and psychosocial challenges including being on the receiving end of viola jokes. For example, while only one known article documents the viola joke cycle, no known studies have reported on the influence of these jokes on violists. The purpose of this study was to apply these new research methodologies to better understand the occupational health problems of violists. Representing the first known epidemiological study exclusively for violists, this study deployed new survey protocols that allowed for detailed assessment of playing-related musculoskeletal problems of violists.

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Primrose International Viola Competition Semi-Final Round Continued Zipper Hall

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

The Primrose Recital, with Featured Artist Jessica Meyer Zipper Hall

Sounds of Being: a Collection of Self-Composed Works for Loop Pedal and Viola

Source of Joy

Jessica Meyer

Hello

(b.1974)

Getting Home (I must be…) Flooded Flower on the Destin Shore Duende

Love Songs (a collection of words & music) I. The Light that Still Lives (poem: "Eros" by Jennifer Beattie) II. The in between only us (poem: "I do not" by Lucy Anderton) III. Touch (poem: "Riverside Park, Late Summer" by Giancarlo Latta) IV. Unbearable Lightness (poem: "Not Anyone Who Says" by Mary Oliver)

Works for Solo Viola I. Naughty Kitty (from "Snapshots") II. Delta Sunrise III. Tempest (from "Snapshots")

Swerve

8:30 pm

AVSF Opening Ceremony & PIVC Finalists Announcement Zipper Hall

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