JAVS Spring 1994

Karen Elaine was the First Place Grand Prize winner of the 1988 Bruno Giuranna Inter national Viola Competition. She is noted by the Los Angeles Times as "the soloist to bring the viola out of obscurity." Miss Elaine has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia (for which she received nomination for a 1992 Grammy Music Award), and the Orquesta Sinfonica da Paraiba. Her 1994 tour to Australia will feature the premiere of Gordon Kerry's Viola Concerto and a series of performances of newly-published works by Katrina Wreede. Gordon Kerry in 1991 visited the USA, first at an artists' colony in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and then in San Diego, where he was the guest of a short festival of Australian music held at SDSU. Karen Elaine performed his viola work Parardi and subse quently commissioned his viola concerto.

KAREN ELAINE, viola Soloist, Master Instructor, Lecturer

available through: viola concerts, inc. 208 Welling Way

San Diego, CA 92111-5947 Phone & Fax: (619) 263-3147

Karen Elaine concert tour of Australia, May 1994

May 7,1994 En Shao, conductor and the Tasmanian SymphClny Orchestra Peggy Glanville-Hicks Concerto Romantico Hobart, Tasmania May 13, 1994 Isaiah Jackson, conductor and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Gordon Kerry Viola Concerto Melbourne, Victoria

May 17, 18, 19, 1 0 94 Isaiah Jackson & MSO Alfred Hill Viola Concerto Country tour

Karen Eliane, viola Isaiah Jackson, conductor Queensland Symphony Orchestra

-Recording of all concerti on ABC Classics.