Department of Music

• Friday, March 28 2009
• Old Cabell Hall Room B12
• 2:30pm
• Free

Exactly what a composer expected to hear when a score was performed is the topic of an intriguing master class to be given by Edward Klorman at UVA on March 27, 2009 in B12 from 2:30 to 4:30PM.

A score of music is a written message which relates the sounds a composer anticipates hearing. Instruments have developed since Bach composed the Ave Maria. Notations or the lack of them have been replaced with convention. Messy scores have been reduced to predictable performance directions. How should a modern musician play an historical composition?

In a master class setting, Edward Klorman will tickle our imagination and musicality to approach performances in a stimulating, challenging, historical viewpoint given our modern perspective and technological advances.

Edward Klorman is rapidly emerging as one of most exciting violists of his generation and as an innovative leader in the music community. Mr. Klorman graduated with distinction from The Juilliard School, where he held the Irene Diamond Scholarship and received the William Schuman Award and the John Erskine Graduation Prize. A musical scholar as well as a performer, Mr. Klorman is pursuing a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, funded in full by a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the Department of Education. He has presented illuminating lectures and master classes that integrate music performance and the historical imagination at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Universite Montreal, Aspen Music Festival, and The Juilliard School. Mr. Klorman makes his home in New York City.

"Edward Klorman gave a thoroughly researched and imaginatively illustrated lecture on historical performance practice and how this relates to 21st century viola performers. Touching on how we can use cultural context, composer biography and knowledge of notation to inform our performance, he succeeded in turning a subject which is often dry and theoretical into a practical and fascinating one." --The Strad

All chamber groups and musicians are invited to attend this master class sponsored through UVA’s McIntire Department of Music. Be in Room B012 of Old Cabell Hall on March 27, 2009 between 2:30 to 4:30pm for an inspiring experience of performance styles and suggestions how to incorporate the historical into our modern interpretations.