JAVS Fall 2011

uSA: 6 Contestants Canada: 1 Contestant China: 7 Contestants France: 2 Contestants Germany: 1 Contestant Italy: 1 Contestant Japan: 2 Contestants New Zealand: 1 Contestant Norway: 1 Contestant (Elias Goldstein, representing both the uS and Norway) Romania: 1 Contestant Russia: 1 Contestant South Korea: 6 Contestants Taiwan: 1 Contestant

Dr. Dwight Pounds is past Executive Secretary of the International Viola Society, photographer of many vio lists, and frequent contributor to the Journal of the American Viola Society. He is also the author of The American Viola Society: A history and Reference and Viola for Violinists. Dwight has served on the AVS Board multiple times and has often appeared as a presenter at viola congresses.

Dwight Pounds photographing the 2011 PIVC (photo courtesy of David Dalton)

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