JAVS Spring 2024

Festival Host Letter

Festival Host Letter

Dearest AVS Community, Happy New Year!

Registration opened in February, so make sure you sign up and take advantage of our Early Bird rate. Information is available at: https://www.americanviolasociety.org/avs festival/ Virtual participation through the Whova online platform will also be available for those for whom Los Angeles is too far away.

As 2023 comes to a beautiful end, I’m taking a moment to reflect on all the wonderful viola moments of this past year. I am grateful for teaching marvelous students and performing with dear colleagues throughout Texas,

May the new year bring you much violistic happiness and renewal!

Cheers!

Daphne Gerling President-Elect

as well as in Honduras, Thailand, and Tennessee. I hope your love for the viola brought you joy and many great moments this season as well. The AVS team has been hard at work to bring you very exciting programs and activities in 2024, particularly the AVS Festival and Primrose International Viola Competition, which will be held June 19-22, 2024 , at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. We are so excited for you to join us to hear the amazing artistry of the PIVC competitors, and master classes and recitals by select members of the PIVC jury, which includes amazing artists such as Atar Arad, Cathay Basrak, Ensik Choi, Steven Dann, Tim Fredriksen, Ayane Kozasa, and Geraldine Walther. The AVS will be hosting three Youth Solo Competitions, the Ensemble Invitational, the Orchestral Audition Competition, and the Exhibition of Modern Violas and Bows, as well as more than 80 panels, presentations, lectures, recitals, and workshops. The week’s events culminate with the Primrose Competition final concerto round, which will be broadcast by Medici TV and the Violin Channel.

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

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