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

2024 Primrose International Viola Competition & American Viola Society Festival Schedule of Events — FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2024

4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

Lecture Olive 229 Rekindling the Music Educator’s Flame After Burn-Out

Christiana Fortune-Reader – Transcending If education is the kindling of a flame among students eager to learn, what happens when the music educator is burned out and has forgotten why they even got involved in this difficult field? Discover strategies to continue as a music educator by rekindling one’s original passion for music through research-based approaches in growth mindset and grit, self-determination and goal-orientation, internatl resilience, dopamine and cortisol regulation, and examinations of the meaning and influence of awe.

7:30 pm

The Primrose Featured Juror Recital Zipper Hall

Viola Sonata (‘Buoyant Forces’) (2017)

Paul Wiancko

I. Paracosm

(b.1983)

Ayane Kozasa, viola Mitsuko Morikawa, piano

Children of Conflict:

Mary Kouyoumdjian

A Boy and a Makeshift Toy (2015)

( b.1983)

Ayane Kozasa, viola Barry Tan, piano

Sonata for Solo Viola (1992)

Atar Arad (b.1945)

I. Melancholia

II. Alla Bulgarese III. Finale sul ponticello

Caprice No. 12 (‘Unknown’) (2012)

Atar Arad, viola

INTERMISSION

Varsha for Viola (2019)

Reena Esmail (b.1983)

Jig and Pop for Viola (2022)

Tessa Lark (b.1989)

Ayane Kozasa, viola

Sonata for Viola and Piano (1944)

Pierre de Bréville

I. Modéré

(1861-1949)

II. Très modéré, presque lent III. Un peu vite

Steven Dann, viola Vivan Fan, piano

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