String Area Masterclasses and Recitals
Claudia Schaer | Violin
In Recital, with Maria Kiki on Piano
Monday October 6, 12-1 p.m. | Convocation Hall
- Performing music by Bach, Peterson, Mozart, Tower, and Bartok
Masterclass
Sunday October 5, 2-4 p.m. | FAB 2-7
- Conversation and masterclass with a special focus on Bach solo violin and new music.
About the artist:
Violinist Claudia Schaer (DMus, Stony Brook; BMus and MMus, Juilliard) distinguished herself from an early age and is now an internationally recognized musician. The Japan Bach Review acclaimed her 2014 recording of the Bach unaccompanied works as “elegant, unique; a wonderful performance with secure skills.” Her recent activities include: Beethoven, Brahms, and Sibelius concertos in New York and Pennsylvania; New York première of Max Lifchitz' violin concerto Intervenciòn (with the composer conducting); world premières of concerti by Zosha di Castri, Andrew Thomas, Winnie Yang, Margarita Zelenaia; debut at New York’s Carnegie-Weill Hall; chamber music with members of the Berlin Philharmonic; recording of Tyler Capp’s Stranger Variations (Bridge Label); performances in the Lucerne Festival Chamber Orchestra under Pierre Boulez; chamber collaboration with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the North/South Chamber Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, 20-21, and the European Musical Alliance; and appearances at festivals Prussia Cove, Barga, Thy, Banff, Bar Harbor, Hancock, Crested Butte, EAMA and JISA. Claudia Schaer worked with Pierre Boulez, Zoltán Székely, Lorand Fenyvés, Jaap Schroeder, and Joseph Silverstein and served as concertmaster at Juilliard under Otto-Werner Mueller. Her primary teachers included Sally Thomas, for whom she was an assistant at Juilliard, Mannes, and Meadowmount; Ani Kavafian; Phillip Setzer; Pamela Frank; Lise Elson; Taras Gabora; Cenek Vrba; Olga Kotova; and Edmond Agopian. She was a guest professor at Guangxi Arts College in Nanning, China, alongside faculty members from Juilliard. She is a recipient of the Sonia Streuli Maguire Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award from the Swiss Benevolent Society of New York. []