JAVS Fall 2011

P RIMROSE I NTERNATIONAL V IOLA C OMPETITION , 2011

by Dwight Pounds

grand, piano tuner, luthiers and bow specialists, and even shuttle service between the competition site and the hotel.

The Competitors

Twenty nine quarterfinalists 1 representing the united States, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan were officially welcomed by competition chair Nokuthula Ngwenyama and drew lots to determine their respective places in the performance order for the next two days. The international jury of distinguished violists assembled by Ngwenyama and the AVS Competition Committee included Karin Brown (uSA), Che-yen (Brian) Chen (Taiwan), Kirsten Docter (uSA), Wing ho (China), Luis Magín (Spain), Karen Ritscher (uSA), yizhak Schotten (Israel/uSA), Barbara Westphal (Germany), current AVS President Juliet White-Smith (uSA), and one external juror, Claudine Bigelow (uSA) or David Dalton (uSA), who would cast a vote should one of The Jury

Welcome sign at the PIVC hotel (unless otherwise indi cated, all photos courtesy of Dwight Pounds)

The Hosts

Opening ceremonies of the 2011 Primrose International Viola Competition (PIVC) got underway at exactly 5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 30, at Robertson and Sons Violins in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a comfortable and spacious facility that hopeful ly will become the permanent home for the competition. Services included an auditori um, practice rooms, concert

The 2011 PIVC jury at work

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