Daniel Sweaney Viola Recital

April 5, 2022 - 8:00pm
Old Cabell Hall
Free

On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 8:00pm, violist Daniel Sweaney and pianist Lynn Kompass will perform a diverse recital of viola works in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium. This event, presented by the UVA Music Department and supported by the Eleanor Shea Music Trust, is free and open to the public. The warmth and versatility of the viola will be showcased in works by Robert Schumann, Sergei Prokofiev, Joan Tower, and Rebecca Clarke. The program is listed below.

Daniel Sweaney has had a diverse education in the United States and Europe and performed throughout the globe.  Dr. Sweaney has held faculty positions at the Sewanee Summer Music Center, the Interlochen Viola Institute, the North American Viola Institute at the Orford Arts Centre, the Rocky Ridge Music Center, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and the University of Alabama.  He has given masterclasses at the University of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Bowling Green State University, Louisiana State University, Texas Tech University, Brandeis University, the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana Cuba, the National Orchestra Festival, and has been a guest artist at the South Carolina Viola Intensive.  

While living in Austria, he performed regularly with the Camerata Salzburg at such venues and festivals as, the Salzburg Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Singapore Arts Festival, The Beethoven House in Bonn, Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Orchestra Hall in Chicago.  He has performed at the International Viola Congresses in Krakow Poland, Porto Portugal, and Rochester, NY.  Daniel Sweaney performs regularly as a duo with violinist Annette- Barbara Vogel.  Their first recording Violin Viola Duos Through the Centuries was described by American Record Guide as “superior playing and a gorgeously recorded performance.”

Daniel Sweaney studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Rice University, and the Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg.  He is currently Associate Professor of viola at the University of South Carolina.

Active as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, Lynn Kompass has performed in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, South Korea, and Lynn Kompass, pianoThailand and has appeared in venues across the United States, including Weill Recital Hall and the Nicholas Roerich Museum (NYC), the Strings in the Mountain Festival (Colorado), Harold Washington Library (Chicago), and the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh).  

Program:
Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder for piano and viola, Op. 113

Sergei Prokofiev: Selections from the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” arr. Vadim Borrissovsky
Joan Tower: Wild Purple for solo viola
Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for viola and piano (1919)

Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA’s historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda. (map) Parking is available in the central grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Rd, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner.  Handicap parking is available in the small parking lot adjacent to Bryan Hall.

All programs are subject to change.

For more information please contact the UVA Department of Music at 434.924.3052 or music@virginia.edu

This event is supported by the Eleanor Shea Music Trust.

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Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu