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

2024 American Viola Society Festival Artists

Alice Sprinkle Alice Sprinkle is a violist and doctoral researcher originally from University Park, Maryland. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance with Highest Honors (University of Colorado Boulder), a Master of Studies in Musicology (University of Oxford), and a Master of Arts in Music Education with Distinction (University College London). Currently, she is earning a PhD in Music Education at UCL. Having won first prize in the 2018 David Dalton competition, her article "Bach’s Slurs: Abandoned by the Editors" was published in the Spring 2020 issue of JAVS. She also presented her research at the 2021 AVS Gina Stonikas Violist Gina Stonikas is an accomplished performer. She collaborated with Joshua Bell for Michelle Obama's Classical Music Workshop in 2009. Her recordings for Naxos Records include Kevin Puts' Symphony No. 2, conducted by Marin Alsop. Gina holds a BM degree in Viola Performance from The Peabody Institute, studying with Victoria Chiang, and earned her Master of Music in Viola Performance and String Pedagogy under Erika Eckert, Geraldine Walther, and Richard O’Neil from the University of Colorado. Gina is currently pursuing a Performer's Certificate at Northern Illinois University with Anthony Martine Thomas Martine Thomas, violist, performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and improviser. She has appeared at the Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, BBC Proms, and Lucerne Festival and has performed with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Ghost Ensemble. Martine has recently premiered works by Tyshawn Sorey, Catherine Lamb, and Miya Masaoka. She looks forward to solo recitals this season in New York City, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and upstate New York. Martine studied in the Harvard-NEC dual degree program, is currently Joyce Tseng Joyce Tseng is an experienced performer in a diverse range of musical styles and ensembles. Her past orchestral experiences include performances at the Heifetz International Music Institute, Aspen Music Festival and School, the American Viola Society Festivals, and with the Eastman Philharmonia. As a dedicated chamber musician, she has performed at festivals such as the Heifetz International Music Institute as one of the violists of the Ashkenasi/Kirshbaum Chamber Music Seminar. She has also collaborated with Eastman faculty — Margery Hwang, Peter Kurau, Renee Jolles, and George Taylor, playing the Mozart Horn Quintet in one of the If Music Be the Food concerts. She

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working on her doctorate in viola performance at CUNY Graduate Center and is on the string faculty at Brooklyn College Conservatory. For more of her music and writing, please visit www.martinethomas.com.

has also performed chamber music at St. John Fisher College as part of their Music Appreciation class. Additionally, she has given numerous solo performances at the American Viola Society Festivals and at the Eastman School of Music, where she earned her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees. In 2022 and 2019 respectively, Joyce was the recipient of the Robert L. Oppelt Viola Prize, which is presented annually to an outstanding violist at the Eastman School of Music.

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