Viola Master Class: Dana Kelley

Internationally acclaimed violist and assistant principal violist in the National Symphony Orchestra, Dana Kelley, visits Levine to lead a master class featuring violists of Levine’s Washington Musical Pathways Initiative (WMPI). All are welcome!

Violist Dana Kelley, Assistant Principal of the National Symphony Orchestra, has been praised for her rich and beautiful tone. She has been a top prizewinner in the Sphinx Music Competition, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, and Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. She is also a member of the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and has performed as guest Principal of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and as a member of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Dana’s performance schedule has brought her to many prestigious venues and festivals, including multiple recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Recital Hall at New York’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the Koch Theater, the Ravinia Festival, and Bravo! Vail. Dana has collaborated with artists such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Nobuko Imai and Miriam Fried, pianists Leon Fleisher, Anne-Marie MacDermott and Misha Dichter, and Astrid Schween of the Juilliard String Quartet.

Dana was a 2014-2016 Fellow in Ensemble Connect – a performance and teaching program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She received her Bachelor’s of Music from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, studying violin with Cornelia Heard and viola with Kathryn Plummer, and completed her Master’s of Music degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian. Dana received an Artist Diploma in String Quartet Studies with the Argus String Quartet as the 2017-2019 Graduate Quartet in Residence at The Juilliard School.

• • November 7
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST

  Lecture | Discovering Beethoven’s Heroic Style: The Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major

  Explore Beethoven’s heroic style with Evan Meier, Vasily Popov and Ralitza Patcheva through performance, discussion, and a closer look at the groundbreaking Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major.

  
• • November 8
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST

  Hiu Sing Fan: Violin Performance & Master Class

  In collaboration with Meadowmount School of Music, we are pleased to present violinist and Meadowmount Gurrena Fellow Hiu Sing Fan […]

  
• • November 14
  • 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST

  Suzuki Strings Fall Recital

  An afternoon of student performances from our Suzuki Strings Department.