Molly Gebrian, viola
Faculty Artist
Friday, April 2, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Virtual Event on YouTube
The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Series Virtual Recital featuring violist Molly Gebrian.
Music, Dance, Prayer: Music for Solo Viola from Around the World
In this forty-minute program, Fred Fox School of Music viola professor Molly Gebrian presents music for unaccompanied viola from around the world, centered on themes of dance and prayer. With every continent represented, this program honors and celebrates universal aspects of the human experience: our desire to make music, to dance, and to pray, whatever our individual customs and traditions may be. This concert was recorded to mark one year of the pandemic and as a way to bring people together after a year of unprecedented isolation.
Program
Meloritmias No. 5 by Ernani Aguiar
III. Allegro vivo
Luna de abajo by Mario Carro
[take what you need.] by Reena Esmail
Sieben kleine Barock-Tänze by Charlotte Hampe
VI. Menuett und Musette
Prayer by Katia Tiutiunnik
Antahkarana by Narong Prangcharoen
Sieben kleine Barock-Tänze by Charlotte Hampe
VII. Gigue
Credoscapes V by Bongani Ndodana-Breen
Sephardic Suite by Elaine Fine
Violist Molly Gebrian has distinguished herself as an outstanding performer, teacher, and scholar throughout the US and Europe. Her love of contemporary music has led her to collaborate with many composers, often in premieres of works written for her. She has worked closely with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Boulez for performances at the Lucerne Festival and she spent the 2011/2012 academic year in Paris to undertake an intensive study of contemporary music with violist/composer Garth Knox. Her other principal teachers include Peter Slowik, Carol Rodland, and James Dunham. Molly completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in viola performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and also holds graduate degrees in viola performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and Bachelors degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, in both viola performance and neuroscience. She served as the Assistant Director for two interdisciplinary conferences on music and the brain while at Rice, has published papers dealing with music and neuroscience in the Journal of the American Viola Society, Frontiers in Psychology, Flute Talk Magazine, The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain, and The Strad. Her background in neuroscience gives her unique insight into how the brain learns and how musicians can best use this information to their advantage in the practice room. Given this expertise, she is a frequent presenter on topics having to do with music and neuroscience at conferences and universities in the US and abroad. During the summer, she is on faculty at the National Music Festival and Montecito International Music Festival, and has also taught at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. After teaching for five years at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, she joined the faculty at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona in the fall of 20
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