String
Harp
Jacquelyn Bartlett was born in Detroit , Michigan where she was surrounded with music since her beginning. Her mother, Mary Bartlett, is a noted harpist, arranger, composer and teacher and Jacquelyn began her musical studies at an early age with her mother. After continued studies with world renowned harpists, Carlos Salzedo and Alice Chalifoux, Ms. Bartlett, at age sixteen, made her solo debut in Chicago 's Orchestra Hall in a performance of the Handel Harp Concerto which received high critical praise. She graduated with honors from Interlochen Arts Academy and then attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she majored in harp and minored in piano. Her harp teachers also include Lucy Lewis, Lucille Lawrence, and Susann McDonald. Subsequently, Ms. Bartlett was invited to perform with many of the world's leading orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the Kansas City Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Milwaukee Symphony working with some of the world's most distinguished conductors such as Eugene Ormandy, Sixten Ehrling, Sergiu Commissiona, Aaron Copeland, James Paul, Izler Solomon, and Pierre Boulez. Having toured America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, Jacquelyn has also appeared frequently at American Harp Society Conferences and the World Harp Congress as a speaker and a performer. Having served on the faculties of Duke University and the University of North Carolina , Ms. Bartlett currently is a member of the Artist Faculties of UNC-Greensboro, North Carolina School of the Arts and Appalachian State University with an additional private studio in Charlotte , NC . She is much sought after as a teacher and coach and her students have garnered top prizes at national competitions and have been featured in Europe at the World Harp Congress and on Christopher O'Reilly's National Public Radio Show, ‘From The Top'. A champion of chamber music, Ms. Bartlett continues to work with today's composers to bring new compositions to the concert stage. For ten years, she was the Founder and Artistic Director of SummerMusic, a chamber music festival in Blowing Rock, North Carolina . She has also written and published articles in professional journals, has edited music for publication and is a recorded artist on the ALBANY and NAXOS labels.
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
Violin
New Faculty in 2009! Violinist Marjorie Bagley made her Lincoln Center concerto debut in 1997 with the Little Orchestra Society after beginning her performing career at the age of nine in her home state of North Carolina with the Asheville, Winston-Salem, and North Carolina Symphonies. Having graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in the first class of Pinchas Zukerman, she is active as a recitalist, chamber musician, and teacher. Marjorie has also performed as soloist with the Utah Symphony, Idaho Falls Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, the University of Michigan Symphony, and the Washington Square Music Series. As first violinist and founding member of the Arcata String Quartet, Marjorie
performed in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, London’s Wigmore Hall, and across Western Europe and the United States. She is also an active proponent for new music and has premiered works by Paul Chihara, David Noon, Nils Vigeland, and Judith Shatin. Through her travels to music festivals, Marjorie has had the opportunity to play with some of the great artists of our time including Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Joseph Kalichstein, members of the Guarneri, Emerson, American, Tokyo, and Borromeo String Quartets. Ms. Bagley can be heard on recordings for the VOX, New World and Summit labels, and a recording of music for violin and percussion on the Equilibrium label featuring a concerto by Lou Harrison. Marjorie is the Co-Director of the Juniper Chamber Music Festival in Logan, Utah, which is becoming one of the most elite chamber music festivals in the nation. Ms. Bagley has been on the faculty of Ohio University, Utah State University, and the International Music Academy in Pilsen, Ms. Bagley has also taught at the Brevard Music Center, the Perlman Music Program, the Kinhaven Music School, and the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Program. 336-334-4065 or email: mhbagley@uncg.edu
Fabián López is a native of Málaga, Spain. Upon graduation from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga at age 18, he received a scholarship from the Hispanic-American Joint Commitee/Fullbright Commission to continue his studies in the U.S. His principal teachers have been: Nicolae Duca, Jaroslav Copak, Laura Klugherz, Kevork Mardirossian, and Camilla Wicks.
Fabián is a full of life performer playing recitals, chamber music, and appearing as soloist with orchestras such as the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla, Orquesta Ciudad de Córdoba, Chamber Orchestra of Andalucía, Orquesta Filarmónia de Málaga, Orquesta Ciudad de Almeria, “Manuel de Falla” Chamber Orchestra, etc. In the pedagogical terrain he is an active and dedicated teacher, maintaining a studio of talented and committed students. He has given courses and master classes for the Youth Orchestra of Andalucía (O.J.A.), Conservatorio Superior de Granada, Cartagena Conservatory, UNC Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University, Ball State University, Puerto Rico Music Conservatory, Hebert Springs Chamber Music Festival, International Violin Symposium in UNC Chapel Hill, the Chamber Strings Summer Music Workshop in Pennsylvania, etc and has been a jury member at the I International Violin Competition “Violines por la Paz”, Auditions for Violin Professors in Spanish National Conservatories, ASTA, MTNA, etc. Fabián taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music “Manuel de Falla” of Cádiz, Spain (1999-2004) and was a member of the “Manuel de Falla” String Quartet (2000-2003). He started teaching at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2007. In North Carolina he has appeared as guest concertmaster with the Ashville and Greensboro Symphony Orchestras.
During his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Fabián had the opportunity of playing a concert with the Guarnerius del Gesu that belonged to J. Heifetz. He is the lucky owner of a violin made by Ioan Guillami, 1756, which is called “little strad” among good friends. He is a graduate from Baylor University (M.M.), studying with Bruce Berg, and The University of Michigan (D.M.A.), studying with Andrew Jennings. Fabian’s love for etudes and infinite curiosity of the trades from the great masters of the past and present, leads him to be the author of a violin etude anthology “Master the Violin Etudes” made possible by a New Faculty Grant from UNCG. This is a comprehensive and on going five-volume collection with explanatory texts accompanying each etude and free access videos. For more information check soon at: www.mastertheviolinetudes.com. 336-334-5519 or email: f_lopez@uncg.edu 
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky to the School of Music faculty as Distinguished Visiting Artist. Sitkovetsky is one of a rare breed of artist whose career successfully manifests itself in many artistic fields. As a violinist, Sitkovetsky has performed with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and Los Angelos Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Philharmonia, London Symphony, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier, Istanbul and the Georges Enescu festival as well as being a founding artist of the IMG Tuscan Sun Festival since 2003. He has also built a flourishing career as a conductor. In 1996, he was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra for five years, in 2001, was appointed Conductor Laureate, and from 2002-2005 held the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian State Orchestra. In 2003, Sitkovetsky was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and in 2006, named Artist-in-Residence of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain), positions he still holds. In Spain, the position involves orchestral touring, conducting, playing as a soloist and in chamber music as well as giving masterclasses. As a guest conductor, he has worked with the London & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, BBC, San Francisco, St. Louis, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Santa Cecilia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. Sitkovetsky was born in Baku/Azerbaijan, but grew up in Moscow where he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and, after his emigration in 1977, at the Juilliard School in New York. Since 1987, he has been living in London with his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Julia.
Guitar
Mark
Mazzatenta - click for web site - earned
the Master of Music degree at Florida State University in 1987 and began teaching
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he heads
the guitar
program. His students have played in master classes for John Williams and William
Kanengiser, among others. Graduates from the guitar program now hold most
of the teaching jobs in colleges and academies locally, and some have earned
graduate degress in performance. Mazzatenta published "Expanding Your Horizons
with Horizontal Scales" in the Winter/Spring 2001 issue of Soundboard Magazine.
He has recorded two film scores of original music for classical guitar, and
performs with twin brother Michael on piano and
with his jazz group MAZZJAZZ. 336-334-4065 or email: mamazzat@uncg.edu
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
Cello
The
School of Music is pleased to announce that Alexander Ezerman has
joined the school as the new associate professor of cello. Ezerman comes from a family where the cello
runs four generations deep, including two former associate principals of
the Philadelphia Orchestra. A prize winner in national and international
competition, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across the
United States, Canada, Europe and South America. He is newly appointed
to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Associate
Professor of Violoncello. His previous position was at Texas Tech University,
where he was a founding member of the Botticelli String Quartet. He also
regularly performs with his wife, violinist Stephanie Ezerman, as the Ezerman
Duo. An active advocate and performer of new music, he has been involved
in numerous premiers, and has performed all twelve of the “Sacher” pieces
for solo cello in a single recital. His most recent premiere, Ignis Fatuus
for solo cello, by composer Teresa LeVelle, has been recorded on the Innova
Label. During the summer, he is on the faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber
Music Festival in Burlington Vermont. He has previously been on the faculties
of
the Brevard Music Center and the Killington Music Festival. Ezerman holds a
BM degree from Oberlin College Conservatory and a Master of Music and Doctorate
of Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His primary
mentors include Timothy Eddy, Norman Fischer, David Wells and his grandmother
Elsa Hilger. 336-334-5518 or email: abezerma@uncg.edu
