JAVS Spring 2024

AVS Presents: 2023 – Works by Underrepresented Composers

In 2021, the American Viola Society established a recording label to provide affordable recording opportunities for our members. For the inaugural album, the AVS requested submissions of works for solo viola or viola and piano by composers from underrepresented demographics. The response from the community was remarkable…

…and in the fall of 2023, the AVS proudly released the first recording in its “AVS Presents” series: “Works by Underrepresented Composers.”

This release includes music composed by: • Jeanne Behrend • Lycia de Biase Bidart • Andrea Clearfield • Reena Esmail

• Tigran Mansurian • Jessie Montgomery • Olivier Toni • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Featured viola performers are:

• Jacob Adams (with Paul Lee, piano) • Sheila Browne (with Julie Nishimura, piano) • Vijay Chalasani • Mary Moran • Fabio Saggin (with Mauren Frey, piano) • Tallā Rouge Duo

• Rafael Videira • Alyssa Warcup

Scan here to listen!

Journal of the American Viola Society / Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 2024

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