Department of Music

Guest cellist, Alan Weinstein, will be teaching UVa cello students in an open master class on Saturday, February 11th at 1pm in Old Cabell Hall room 107. Mr. Weinstein is Associate Professor of Cello at Virginia Tech University. He is a founding member of the Kandinsky Trio with which he has performed and collaborated internationally, including multiple television and radio broadcasts.

Alan Weinstein, assistant professor of cello and bass at Virginia Tech, holds degrees in music performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and the Eastman School of Music. His principal teachers include Steven Doane, Robert Sylvester, Timothy Eddy and chamber music studies with the Cleveland Quartet, Menachem Pressler, Walter Trampler, and Eugene Lehner. As cellist with the Kandinsky Trio, Mr. Weinstein has performed throughout North America and Europe and has appeared on television and radio broadcasts throughout the United States and Canada. He has given over 200 master classes at institutions including Penn State, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Vanderbilt University. He has performed with the Portland String Quartet, the Rochester Philharmonic and served as principal cellist of the Eastman/Dryden Orchestra. Along with the Kandinsky Trio, he is the recipient of an NEA Meet the Composer Award. His jazz collaborations have included performances with Larry Coryell, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dave Samuels, and as a harmonica player with Ray Charles. In August of 2005 Mr. Weinstein performed an original score for electric cello with his wife, actress Patricia Raun at the Edinborough Fringe Festival. Mr. Weinstein has recorded for Arabesque Records and the Brioso labels.

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.

For more information call the Music Department at 434.924.3052. All events are subject to change.