“Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony have announced the launch of a new five-day viola festival,” reads an unsigned article on Wednesday’s (8/7) Violin Channel. The October 15-19 festival at the New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida, entitled “Viola Visions,” will “bring together leading violists, young artists and online participants from around the world for a series of intensive masterclasses, seminars, performances and online interactions…. Guests are set to include violists Roberto Díaz, Kim Kashkashian, Cynthia Phelps, Nadia Sirota, Jonathan Vinocour, Tabea Zimmermann and VC Young Artist Matthew Lipman—plus composers Steven Mackey and Nico Muhly…. Up to 3 pre-professional violists will be invited to participate…. The New World Symphony has indicated this is the first of a number of upcoming annual summits—each to be devoted to a different orchestral instrument.”
Posted August 8, 2019
