School of Music
P.O. Box 26170
UNC Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
(336) 334-5789 OFFICE
(336) 334-5497 FAX

e-mail: music@uncg.edu

STRING FACULTY

DOUBLE BASS

Craig Brown holds a BM degree from the University of Michigan and has been a member of the North Carolina Symphony since 1979. His major teachers included Lawrence Hurst, Stuart Sankey, and Winston Budrow. He has served in the capacity of principal bass in both The Des Moines Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and has been a member of the Toledo Symphony and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. His Chamber Music activities have included performances with Mallarmé Chamber Players, the American Chamber Music Festival, and the NC Symphony Chamber Music Series. He has also been a member of the Swannanoa Chamber Players since 1982. Brown has been a bass clinician with the American String Teachers Association and was a Clinician/Recitalist at the 1999 Florida Bass Bash. Recently, he transcribed and published five volumes of duos for basses from the music of Jacques Offenbach. Brown is a member of the faculty at the Brevard Music Center and performs as principal bass in the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. 336-334-4065 or 919-828-3544 or email: cmbrown4@earthlink.net

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VIOLIN

John Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Maryland. As a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador, he has toured extensively on four continents. Recent recital appearances have included performances at the Phillips Collection; the Kennedy Center; the Sale Poirel, Nancy, France; and the American University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A highly successful teacher, his students has been accepted by such prestigious institutions as Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School, The Cleveland Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. They also have included winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition; and winners and finalists in the MTNA National Competitions. John Fadial currently serves as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, as well as violinist of the Chesapeake Trio and the McIver Ensemble. His mentors include Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, and Arnold Steinhardt. 336-334-5519 or email: jmfadial@uncg.edu

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GUITAR

Mark Mazzatenta is active in both the classical and jazz worlds as performer and composer. He earned the MM degree at Florida State University in 1987 and began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he currently heads the guitar program. Mazzatenta's concerts feature contemporary and original music--everything from solo classical guitar pieces to improvisatory electric guitar synthesizer. He performs in a duo with twin brother Michael on piano/harpsichord/keys and with his jazz group MAZZJAZZ. Mazzatenta has played in workshops with Fred Wesley and Byron Stripling and performed concerts with Chris and Dan Brubeck. He has published in Soundboard Magazine, the Jazz Educators Journal and has recorded 3 CDs of original music. 336-334-4065 or email: mamazzat@uncg.edu

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Janet Orenstein enjoys an active performing career in the United States and abroad as both a chamber musician and soloist. As a founding member of the Guild Trio, she has won the USIA Artistic Ambassador and Yellow Springs Competitions, and has toured extensively with this group in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 1996-2001 she performed and taught violin at UVA where the Guild Trio held the position of Ensemble-in-Residence. As winner of the1996 USIA Duo Competition, she gave recitals and master classes in seven African countries with pianist Christina Dahl. She has been a top prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the Philadelphia Orchestra Concerto Competition and the West Palm Beach Invitational Concerto Competition. Since coming to North Carolina with her husband, UNCG cello professor Brooks Whitehouse and their two sons, Ms. Orenstein has appeared as soloist with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, and in recital at Lees-McRae and Mt. Olive Colleges. She has also performed at Meredith College where the Guild Trio was resident ensemble for the 2003 NCMTA State Conference. Her principal teachers include Joyce Robbins, Szymon Goldberg, Ivan Galamian and Christine Dethier. 336-334-5518 or email: jorenstein@attglobal.net

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VIOLA

Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Chamber music endeavors include performances with the Diaz Trio, Kandinsky Trio and Ciompi Quartet as well as with members of the Cleveland, Audubon and Cassatt String Quartets. His most recent CD recording, released on the Centaur label, features the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and was released summer 2004. His recording of chamber works for viola and clarinet was released spring 2003 on the same label. The ensemble, Middle Voices, will record another disc for Centaur featuring the chamber music of American composer, Eddie Bass. Additional chamber music recordings can be heard on the CRI, Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. Also a champion of new music, Rawls has toured extensively as a member of Steve Reich and Musicians since 1991. As the violist in this ensemble, he has performed the numerous premieres of The Cave and Three Tales, multimedia operas by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, videographer. And under the auspices of presenting organizations such as the Wiener Festwochen, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Holland Festival, Berlin Festival, Spoleto Festival USA and the Lincoln Center Festival, he has performed in major music centers around the world including London, Vienna, Rome, Milan, Tokyo, Prague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. He is a founding member of the Locrian Chamber Players, a New York City based group dedicated to performing new music. Dr. Rawls currently serves as Associate Professor of Viola and Chair of the Instrumental Division in the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Under the baton of maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky, he plays principal viola in the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. He is very active as guest clinician, adjudicator, and master class teacher at universities and festivals in America and Europe. During the summers, Rawls plays principal viola in the festival orchestra at Brevard Music Center where he also coordinates the viola program. He holds a BM degree from Indiana University and a MM and DMA from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His major mentors include Abraham Skernick, Georges Janzer, and John Graham. 336-334-3417 or email: viola_studio@uncg.edu

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CELLO

Brooks Whitehouse (BA, Harvard College; MMA and DMA, SUNY Stony Brook) comes to Greensboro from the University of Florida where he spent a year as Assistant Professor of Cello and Chamber Music. Whitehouse has performed and taught chamber music throughout the US and abroad, holding Artists-in-Residence positions at SUNY Stony Brook, the Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, the University of Virginia (as a member of The Guild Trio) and The Tanglewood Music Center. The Guild Trio was a winner of both the "USIA Artistic Ambassador" and "Chamber Music Yellow Springs" competitions, and with them he has performed and held master classes throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Norway, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Belgium,Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal, France and Australia. In 1991 The Guild Trio received a three-year grant from Chamber Music America for their unique music/medicine residency at SUNY Stony Brook's Medical School. The trio has been a frequent feature on National Public Radio's "Performance Today", and has also appeared on the University of Missouri's public television series "Premiere Performances", and "Front Row Center" on KETC-TV9 in St. Louis. As a soloist Whitehouse has appeared with the New England Chamber Orchestra, the Nashua Symphony, the New Brunswick Symphony, the Billings Symphony, and the Owensboro Symphony, and has appeared in recital throughout the northeastern United States. His performances have been broadcast on WQXR's "McGraw-Hill Young Artist Showcase", WNYC's "Around New York," and the Australian and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation networks. He has held fellowships at the Blossom and Bach Aria festivals, and was winner of the Cabot prize as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. As guest artist he has appeared with the Seacliffe Chamber Players, the New Millennium Ensemble, the JU Piano Trio, The Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Atelier Ensemble and the New Zealand String Quartet. His principal teachers were Timothy Eddy and Norman Fischer. 336-334-5518 or email: cello_studio@uncg.edu