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

2024 Primrose International Viola Competition & American Viola Society Festival Schedule of Events — SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2024

10:30 am – 11:30 am

AVS Shared Recital Thayer Hall

AVS Presents

Hear a variety of selections from the AVS Presents CD releases, as well as Zenith, for viola and tape , First Prize winner of the 2024 AVS Gardner Competition for Composers, performed by composer Christopher Lowry.

Re-Tuning

Ann Southam (1937-2010)

Jay Julio, viola

Sanctum (Rhapsody for Viola and Piano)

Dr. Adolphus Hailstork (b.1941)

Meghan Yost, viola TBA, piano

Zenith for Viola and Tape

Christopher Lowry 2024 Gardner Competition Winner

Christopher Lowry, viola

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Masterclass: AVSF Featured Artist, Tatjana Masurenko Mayman Hall

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

AVSF Closing Ceremony Featuring the Mass Viola Ensemble & Invited Ensembles Zipper Hall

Dawn of Hope

José Elizondo (b. 1972)

Settlement Music School Viola Choir & CCM Prep Viola Quartet

Deal’s Off!

Hadley Griffin

III. Sisyphean Staircase

(b.2004)

IV. Solar Battle

Desert Violas

Fantasies in Alto Clef*

Melia Watras

I. Alto lines

(b.1969)

II. Viola visions III. Spin

*composed for the 2024 American Viola Society Festival Mass Viola Ensemble

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