Department of Music

The UVA Department of Music is proud to present the first concert of the UVA Chamber Music Series 2024-2025 season on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 at 3:30 PM in Old Cabell Hall! The concert features violinist David Sariti. Sariti is a faculty member at the UVA Music Department, Director of the period-instrument Baroque Orchestra, performs in the Rivanna Quartet, and is the Principal second violin of the Charlottesville Symphony. Pianist John Mayhood, piano instructor for the UVA Music Department, will accompany Professor Sariti. The program features works by Gabriel Fauré, Olivier Messiaen, Franz Schubert, and Florence Price.  

David Sariti

Violinist David Sariti enjoys a multifaceted career, with performance and scholarship interests that span four centuries. On both modern and period instruments, he has appeared as a recitalist at universities across the country, as a soloist with orchestra, and in diverse chamber collaborations. He plays regularly with Chapel Hill, NC-based Baroque and Beyond, and has appeared with numerous other early music ensembles.  He enthusiastically presents both new music and older but lesser-known works, and as an improvisor has appeared as a guest with the UVA Jazz Ensemble, John D'earth, and the late Greg Howard.

Sariti joined the UVA faculty in 2005, currently serving as Associate professor.  He is Director of the period-instrument Baroque Orchestra, performs on the faculty Chamber Music Series, and is Principal Violin II of the Charlottesville Symphony, having previously served in over a dozen professional symphonies. He holds degrees from the Hartt School, where he also taught studio violin and music history, the University of Akron, and Ithaca College; studies were with Pamela Gearhart, Katie Lansdale, Pamela Frank and members of the Cleveland and Miami quartets and the Meadowmount Trio.

Pianist John Mayhood enjoys a busy performance schedule that in recent seasons has taken him across North America and Europe in a wide variety of solo and collaborative settings and in repertoire that spans from the English virginalists to music of the present day.  His concerts often explore the works of a single composer, combining solo piano and chamber music – he has dedicated complete evenings to the works of Poulenc, Hindemith, Feldman, and Schubert, and to new works by emerging composers.  He has recently given world premieres of works by Matthew Burtner, Daniel Kessner, and James Sochinski, and the US premiere of Bruce Mather’s Doisy Daëne III.  His performances are often featured on NPR, CBC, and SRC radio, and his recordings can be heard on Ravello Records and the EcoSono label.

Also a scholar, he has presented work on ‘transformational theory’ and ‘theory and performance’ at the University of Chicago and at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie.  His main interest is the philosophy of music, particularly meaning in abstract music and the philosophy of performance.

John holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Ian Hobson; his other major teachers are Caio Pagano and Jean-Paul Sévilla.  He has taught piano at the University of Illinois and philosophy at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.  He currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is head of the piano faculty at the University of Virginia.

The UVA Chamber Music Series presents innovative performances by the University of Virginia's world-class performance faculty and celebrated guest artists, is comprised of six professional performances for the University and the central Virginia community. These intimate concerts are programmed to offer both new and traditional works that will delight the novice as well as the well-tempered critic. The UVA Chamber Music Series is directed by Jiyeon Choi. 

To see all concerts in the series, please visit https://music.virginia.edu/uvacms.   

Individual Tickets: $15 General / $13 UVA Faculty & Staff / $5 Students / Free for UVA Students who reserve in advance / Free for students under 18. Tickets are available at the UVA Arts Box Office by calling 434.924.3376, or by visiting artsboxoffice.virginia.edu. Individual tickets will also be available at the door one hour prior to the concert. UVA students need to reserve their tickets 24 hours in advance at the UVA Arts Box Office student ticket portal. 

This event will be live-streamed for those who can not make it to the University.

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 call the Department of Music at 434.924.3052 or send a message to music@virginia.edu.

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