Department of Music

On Monday, March 30th, 2015, at 8pm Cellist Adam Carter will perform in Old Cabell Hall.  Joining him will be be pianist Peter Kairoff and violinist David Sariti.  The program includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti and Kodaly. 
 

Cellist Adam Carter is currently on the faculty of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia, where he serves as principal cellist of the Charlottesville Symphony and teaches cello and chamber music.  Before joining the faculty at UVA, Mr. Carter played with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and taught at Ripon College in Ripon, WI.  He has also won positions with the Akron Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, and Cedar Rapids Symphony, and performed with the Erie Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Richmond Symphony, and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.

As a founding member of the Tarab Cello Ensemble, Adam travels the country playing new works for cello octet. This Ensemble was awarded grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, the Foreman Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts, and a grant from the Fromm Foundation. The Ensemble has recorded on Bridge Records and Albany Records. Mr. Carter is also a top prizewinner at the 1998 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Peter Kairoff was born in Los Angeles, and studied at the University of Southern California, where he received Master’s and Doctoral degrees with highest honors.  He also studied for two years in Florence, Italy, as winner of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Rotary International Fellowship.  His teachers include Jerome Lowenthal and Brooks Smith in California, and Orazio Frugoni in Florence.  He has performed throughout the world as pianist and harpsichordist to great critical acclaim.  In recitals in Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Rome, Shanghai and many other musical centers, reviewers have noted his “meticulous accuracy and profound musicality” (Oxford MAIL, UK), and his “Fire and Passion” (Washington POST, USA).   His CD recordings of 19th-Century American music, published on the Albany Records label, have also been enthusiastically received for their “powerful romantic passion and broad sweep” (American Record Guide), and are frequently heard on classical music radio stations throughout the world. 

Dr. Kairoff is Professor of Music and Director of the Venice Program at Wake Forest University, where he has taught since 1988.  He also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the State University of New York, and Middlebury College, and has given master classes at conservatories in Moscow, Brazil, Italy, China and several states in the U.S.    He has also served as judge in a number of international piano competitions, most recently the Scriabin International competition in Tuscany, and the Sala Gallo competition in Milan.  In 2012 he was named a “Steinway Artist” in recognition of his “outstanding artistic contributions” in the field of piano performance.

Violinist David Sariti is known for his performance and research interests that cut across styles and eras, with a repertoire spanning from the seventeenth century to the present day.  He has recently appeared as recitalist at universities across the country, as soloist with orchestra, and in diverse chamber collaborations, hailed by critics as “magisterial… [by] first-class performing artists” (Classical Voice of North Carolina).  Faculty at UVa since 2005, he directs the period-instrument Baroque Orchestra, maintains a violin studio, coaches chamber music, performs in the Rivanna Quartet, and is Principal Violin II of the Charlottesville Symphony.  He can even be found playing jazz, on occasion, sitting in with trumpeter John D’earth.

Sariti also maintains an active presence on the Baroque violin.  Along with members of the Baltimore Consort and Harmonious Blacksmith, he recently founded “Mr. Jefferson’s Music”.  In collaboration with Monticello, he has presented programs of music from the collection of Thomas Jefferson since 2006, and is featured on the CD “Music from the Jefferson Collection”.  He is currently serving as Performance Chair of the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Chapter.  He holds degrees from the Hartt School (University of Hartford), University of Akron, and Ithaca College, with election to the National Music Honor Society; studies were with Katie Lansdale, Pamela Gearhart, Pamela Frank and members of the Cleveland and Miami quartets.