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SUMMARY:Curtis on Tour:  Viano String Quartet and Roberto Diaz\, Viola
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DESCRIPTION:Curtis on Tour - Viano String Quartet Praised for their “huge
  range\nof dynamics\, massive sound and spontaneity” (American Record Gu
 ide)\,\nthe Viano String Quartet is the First Prize Winner of the 2019 Ban
 ff\nInternational String Quartet Competition and the current Nina von\nMal
 tzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music.\nForme
 d in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles\,\nthe quart
 et has performed all over the world in venues such as Wigmore\nHall\, Plac
 e Flagey\, Izumi Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, and Segerstrom\nCenter for th
 e Arts. The 2022-2023 season brings the Viano String\nQuartet on extensive
  tours throughout Europe\, Canada\, and the United\nStates\, with recital 
 debuts in New York City\, Hannover\, Zurich\,\nBudapest\, Cologne\, Heidel
 berg\, Eisenstadt\, San Diego\, Denver\, Calgary\,\nNewport\, and Philadel
 phia\, among other cities. The quartet will also\nreturn to Southern Metho
 dist University\, where they are in residence\nthrough the 22/23 season. 
  Since the 2020 Covid pandemic\, the Viano\nString Quartet has been active
 ly presenting virtual and socially\ndistanced live concerts for various or
 ganizations\, including the\nDallas Chamber Music Society\, Great Lakes Ch
 amber Music Festival\,\nFriends of Chamber Music of Troy\, Corpus Christi 
 Chamber Music\nSociety\, Salt Lake Chamber Music Society\, Women’s Music
 al Club of\nToronto\, Schneider Series at the New School\, Bravo! Vail Mus
 ic\nFestival\, Rockport Chamber Music Festival\, and the Banff Internation
 al\nString Quartet Festival. With their colleagues in the Calidore String\
 nQuartet\, they presented a movement of the Mendelssohn Octet while\ndista
 nced across countries in a film project “The Way Forward.”\nThe quarte
 t achieved incredible success in their formative years\, with\nan unbroken
  streak of top prizes. In addition to their career-defining\nachievement a
 t the 2019 Banff International String Quartet\nCompetition\, they received
  the Grand Prize at the 2019 ENKOR\nInternational Music Competition and se
 cond prize at the 2019 Yellow\nSprings Chamber Music Competition. At the 2
 018 Wigmore Hall\nInternational String Quartet Competition they received T
 hird Prize\,\nthe Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet\
 , and the\nSidney Griller Award for the best performance of the compulsory
  work\,\nThomas Ades’ “The Four Quarters”. They received the Silver 
 Medal\nat the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition\, and Third
 \nPrize at the 2017 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition\nbef
 ore any of the members turned 20. Committed to engaging with\ncommunities 
 outside the concert hall\, the Viano String Quartet has\ngiven presentatio
 ns for school children and students of all ages\nthrough residencies in Be
 llingham\, Washington—the “Play it\nForward” residency\, a collabora
 tion between the Bellingham Festival\nof Music and the Whatcom Symphony to
  reach school children in the\nnorthern Washington State area—Northern M
 ichigan University\, and the\nSanta Monica Conservatory. In 2019 they gave
  multiple performances of\n“Over the Top”\, a Musical Encounter Intera
 ctive presentation they\nscripted\, developed and performed at the Colburn
  School for inner city\nschool children. At the Curtis Institute\, the Via
 no String Quartet is\nchiefly mentored by the Dover Quartet and other memb
 ers of the Curtis\nfaculty\, including Shmuel Ashkenasi\, Pamela Frank\, I
 da Kavafian\,\nArnold Steinhardt\, Steven Tenenbom\, and Peter Wiley. As t
 he inaugural\nensemble-in-residence at the Colburn Conservatory of Music f
 rom\n2019-2021\, they were mentored extensively by Martin Beaver\, Scott S
 t.\nJohn\, Clive Greensmith\, Paul Coletti and Fabio Bidini. The Vianos ha
 ve\nalso received coachings from artists such as David Finckel\, Gary\nHof
 fman\, Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, and members of the Alban Berg\, Brentano\,\nE
 merson\, Miró\, Shanghai\, St. Lawrence\, and Takács String Quartets.\nT
 hey have attended the Ravinia Steans Chamber Music Institute\, St.\nLawren
 ce String Quartet Seminar\, Festival d’Aix en Provence\, Norfolk\nChambe
 r Music Festival\, Great lakes Chamber Music Festival\, and the\nMcGill In
 ternational String Quartet Academy. Over the years\, the\nquartet has coll
 aborated in performance with artists such as Emanuel\nAx\, Noah Bendix-Bal
 gley\, Marc-Andre Hamelin\, Rodolfo Leone\, Eliso\nVirsaladze\, and Orion 
 Weiss\, and look forward to collaborations with\nInon Barnatan\, Michelle 
 Cann\, and Roberto Diaz in the upcoming\nseason.  The name “Viano” wa
 s created to describe the four\nindividual instruments in a string quartet
  interacting as one. Each of\nthe four instruments begins with the letter 
 “v”\, and like a piano\,\nall four string instruments together play bo
 th harmony and melody\,\ncreating a unified instrument called the “Viano
 ”. Learn more at\nVianoStringQuartet.com. Roberto Díaz  A violist of i
 nternational\nreputation\, Roberto Díaz is president and CEO of the Curti
 s Institute\nof Music\, following in the footsteps of renowned soloist/dir
 ectors\nsuch as Josef Hofmann\, Efrem Zimbalist\, and Rudolf Serkin. As a\
 nteacher of viola at Curtis and former principal viola of the\nPhiladelphi
 a Orchestra\, Mr. Díaz has already had a significant impact\non American 
 musical life and continues to do so in his dual roles as\nperformer and ed
 ucator. As a soloist\, Mr. Díaz collaborates with\nleading conductors of 
 our time on stages throughout North and South\nAmerica\, Europe\, and Asia
 . He has also worked directly with important\n20th- and 21st-century compo
 sers\, including Krzysztof\nPenderecki—whose viola concerto he has perfo
 rmed many times with the\ncomposer on the podium and whose double concerto
  he premiered in the\nUnited States—as well as Edison Denisov\, Jennifer
  Higdon\, Ricardo\nLorenz\, and Roberto Sierra. His recording of Jennifer 
 Higdon’s Viola\nConcerto won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical 
 Composition in\n2018. As a frequent recitalist\, Mr. Díaz enjoys collabor
 ating with\nyoung pianists\, bringing a fresh approach to the repertoire a
 nd\nproviding invaluable opportunities to artists at the beginnings of\nth
 eir careers. In addition to performing with major string quartets\nand pia
 nists in chamber music series and festivals worldwide\, Mr.\nDíaz has tou
 red Europe\, Asia\, and the Americas as a member of the\nDíaz Trio with v
 iolinist Andrés Cárdenes and cellist Andrés Díaz.\nThe Díaz Trio has 
 recorded for the Artek and Dorian labels. Mr.\nDíaz’s recordings on the
  Naxos label with pianist Robert Koenig\ninclude the complete works for vi
 ola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps and\na Grammy-nominated disc of viola tr
 anscriptions by William Primrose.\nAlso on Naxos are Brahms sonatas with p
 ianist Jeremy Denk and Jonathan\nLeshnoff’s Double Concerto with violini
 st Charles Wetherbee and the\nIris Chamber Orchestra led by Michael Stern.
  Mr. Díaz’s live\nperformance of Jacob Druckman’s Viola Concerto with
  Wolfgang\nSawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra is available on New W
 orld\nRecords. He has also recorded the Walton Viola Concerto with William
 \nBoughton and the New Haven Symphony for Nimbus Records\, and works for\n
 viola and orchestra by Peter Lieberson with Scott Yoo and the Odense\nSymp
 hony Orchestra and for Bridge Records. Since founding Curtis on\nTour in 2
 007\, Mr. Díaz has taken this successful initiative to North\nand South A
 merica\, Europe\, and Asia\, performing chamber music\nside-by-side with C
 urtis students and other faculty and alumni of the\nschool. His tenure as 
 president of Curtis has also seen the\nconstruction of a significant new b
 uilding which doubled the size of\nthe school’s campus\; the introductio
 n of a classical guitar\ndepartment and new conducting and string quartet 
 programs\; and the\nlaunch of Curtis Summerfest\, summer courses open to t
 he public. In the\nfall of 2013 Curtis became the first classical music co
 nservatory to\noffer free online classes through Coursera. Also under Mr. 
 Díaz’s\nleadership\, Curtis has developed lasting collaborations with o
 ther\nmusic and arts institutions in Philadelphia and throughout the world
 \nand established a dynamic social entrepreneurship curriculum\,\nsupporte
 d by a prestigious Advancement Grant from The Pew Center for\nArts & Herit
 age. Designed to develop the entrepreneurial and advocacy\nskills of young
  musicians\, this curriculum includes the project-based\nCommunity Artist 
 Program (CAP) and the post-graduate Community Artist\nFellowship program\,
  which gives recent Curtis graduates the\nopportunity to dedicate a year o
 f arts-based service to the community.\nMr. Díaz received an honorary doc
 torate from Bowdoin College and was\nawarded an honorary membership by the
  National Board of the American\nViola Society. In 2013 he became a member
  of the prestigious American\nPhilosophical Society founded by Benjamin Fr
 anklin. As a member of the\nPhiladelphia Orchestra\, he was selected by th
 en-music director\nChristoph Eschenbach to receive the C. Hartman Kuhn Awa
 rd\, given\nannually to “the member of the Philadelphia Orchestra who ha
 s shown\nability and enterprise of such character as to enhance the standa
 rds\nand the reputation of the Philadelphia Orchestra.” He received a\nb
 achelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music\, where\nhe 
 studied with Burton Fine\; and a diploma from the Curtis Institute\nof Mus
 ic\, where his teacher was his predecessor at the Philadelphia\nOrchestra\
 , Joseph de Pasquale. Mr. Díaz also holds a degree in\nindustrial design.
  In addition to his decade-long tenure as principal\nviola of the Philadel
 phia Orchestra\, where he performed the entire\nstandard viola concerto re
 pertoire and gave a number of Philadelphia\nOrchestra premieres\, Mr. Día
 z was principal viola of the National\nSymphony under Mstislav Rostropovic
 h\, a member of the Boston Symphony\nunder Seiji Ozawa\, and a member of t
 he Minnesota Orchestra under Sir\nNeville Marriner. He plays the ex-Primro
 se Amati viola. ​Note:\n Performance Insights prevention by Lani Spahr 
 at 1:00PM Coastal\nConcerts is supported\, in part\, by a grant from the D
 elaware Division\nof the Arts\, a state agency\, in partnership with the N
 ational\nEndowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts event
 s on\nwww.DelawareScene.com For the 2022-23 Season\, the engagement of the
 \nCurtis on Tour: Viano String Quartet with Roberto Diaz (Viola)\, and\nAm
 y Yang (Piano) is made possible through the Special Presenters\nInitiative
  program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from\nthe National E
 ndowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the\nArts. Venue: Coast
 al Concerts.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Curtis on Tour - Viano String Quartet Praised 
 for their “huge range of dynamics\, massive sound and spontaneity” (Am
 erican Record Guide)\, the Viano String Quartet is the First Prize Winner 
 of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the current
  Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of 
 Music. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles\
 , the quartet has performed all over the world in venues such as Wigmore H
 all\, Place Flagey\, Izumi Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, and Segerstrom Cent
 er for the Arts. The 2022-2023 season brings the Viano String Quartet on e
 xtensive tours throughout Europe\, Canada\, and the United States\, with r
 ecital debuts in New York City\, Hannover\, Zurich\, Budapest\, Cologne\, 
 Heidelberg\, Eisenstadt\, San Diego\, Denver\, Calgary\, Newport\, and Phi
 ladelphia\, among other cities. The quartet will also return to Southern M
 ethodist University\, where they are in residence through the 22/23 season
 .  Since the 2020 Covid pandemic\, the Viano String Quartet has been acti
 vely presenting virtual and socially distanced live concerts for various o
 rganizations\, including the Dallas Chamber Music Society\, Great Lakes Ch
 amber Music Festival\, Friends of Chamber Music of Troy\, Corpus Christi C
 hamber Music Society\, Salt Lake Chamber Music Society\, Women’s Musical
  Club of Toronto\, Schneider Series at the New School\, Bravo! Vail Music 
 Festival\, Rockport Chamber Music Festival\, and the Banff International S
 tring Quartet Festival. With their colleagues in the Calidore String Quart
 et\, they presented a movement of the Mendelssohn Octet while distanced ac
 ross countries in a film project “The Way Forward.” The quartet achiev
 ed incredible success in their formative years\, with an unbroken streak o
 f top prizes. In addition to their career-defining achievement at the 2019
  Banff International String Quartet Competition\, they received the Grand 
 Prize at the 2019 ENKOR International Music Competition and second prize a
 t the 2019 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition. At the 2018 Wigmore H
 all International String Quartet Competition they received Third Prize\, t
 he Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet\, and the Sidne
 y Griller Award for the best performance of the compulsory work\, Thomas A
 des’ “The Four Quarters”. They received the Silver Medal at the 2018
  Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition\, and Third Prize at the 2017
  9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition before any of the membe
 rs turned 20. Committed to engaging with communities outside the concert h
 all\, the Viano String Quartet has given presentations for school children
  and students of all ages through residencies in Bellingham\, Washington
 —the “Play it Forward” residency\, a collaboration between the Belli
 ngham Festival of Music and the Whatcom Symphony to reach school children 
 in the northern Washington State area—Northern Michigan University\, and
  the Santa Monica Conservatory. In 2019 they gave multiple performances of
  “Over the Top”\, a Musical Encounter Interactive presentation they sc
 ripted\, developed and performed at the Colburn School for inner city scho
 ol children. At the Curtis Institute\, the Viano String Quartet is chiefly
  mentored by the Dover Quartet and other members of the Curtis faculty\, i
 ncluding Shmuel Ashkenasi\, Pamela Frank\, Ida Kavafian\, Arnold Steinhard
 t\, Steven Tenenbom\, and Peter Wiley. As the inaugural ensemble-in-reside
 nce at the Colburn Conservatory of Music from 2019-2021\, they were mentor
 ed extensively by Martin Beaver\, Scott St. John\, Clive Greensmith\, Paul
  Coletti and Fabio Bidini. The Vianos have also received coachings from ar
 tists such as David Finckel\, Gary Hoffman\, Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, and mem
 bers of the Alban Berg\, Brentano\, Emerson\, Miró\, Shanghai\, St. Lawre
 nce\, and Takács String Quartets. They have attended the Ravinia Steans C
 hamber Music Institute\, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar\, Festival d
 ’Aix en Provence\, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival\, Great lakes Chamber 
 Music Festival\, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy. Over
  the years\, the quartet has collaborated in performance with artists such
  as Emanuel Ax\, Noah Bendix-Balgley\, Marc-Andre Hamelin\, Rodolfo Leone\
 , Eliso Virsaladze\, and Orion Weiss\, and look forward to collaborations 
 with Inon Barnatan\, Michelle Cann\, and Roberto Diaz in the upcoming seas
 on.  The name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual ins
 truments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instrume
 nts begins with the letter “v”\, and like a piano\, all four string in
 struments together play both harmony and melody\, creating a unified instr
 ument called the “Viano”. Learn more at VianoStringQuartet.com. Robert
 o Díaz  A violist of international reputation\, Roberto Díaz is preside
 nt and CEO of the Curtis Institute of Music\, following in the footsteps o
 f renowned soloist/directors such as Josef Hofmann\, Efrem Zimbalist\, and
  Rudolf Serkin. As a teacher of viola at Curtis and former principal viola
  of the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Mr. Díaz has already had a significant i
 mpact on American musical life and continues to do so in his dual roles as
  performer and educator. As a soloist\, Mr. Díaz collaborates with leadin
 g conductors of our time on stages throughout North and South America\, Eu
 rope\, and Asia. He has also worked directly with important 20th- and 21st
 -century composers\, including Krzysztof Penderecki—whose viola concerto
  he has performed many times with the composer on the podium and whose dou
 ble concerto he premiered in the United States—as well as Edison Denisov
 \, Jennifer Higdon\, Ricardo Lorenz\, and Roberto Sierra. His recording of
  Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto won the Grammy for Best Contemporary C
 lassical Composition in 2018. As a frequent recitalist\, Mr. Díaz enjoys 
 collaborating with young pianists\, bringing a fresh approach to the reper
 toire and providing invaluable opportunities to artists at the beginnings 
 of their careers. In addition to performing with major string quartets and
  pianists in chamber music series and festivals worldwide\, Mr. Díaz has 
 toured Europe\, Asia\, and the Americas as a member of the Díaz Trio with
  violinist Andrés Cárdenes and cellist Andrés Díaz. The Díaz Trio has
  recorded for the Artek and Dorian labels. Mr. Díaz’s recordings on the
  Naxos label with pianist Robert Koenig include the complete works for vio
 la and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps and a Grammy-nominated disc of viola tran
 scriptions by William Primrose. Also on Naxos are Brahms sonatas with pian
 ist Jeremy Denk and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Double Concerto with violinist C
 harles Wetherbee and the Iris Chamber Orchestra led by Michael Stern. Mr. 
 Díaz’s live performance of Jacob Druckman’s Viola Concerto with Wolfg
 ang Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra is available on New World Re
 cords. He has also recorded the Walton Viola Concerto with William Boughto
 n and the New Haven Symphony for Nimbus Records\, and works for viola and 
 orchestra by Peter Lieberson with Scott Yoo and the Odense Symphony Orches
 tra and for Bridge Records. Since founding Curtis on Tour in 2007\, Mr. D
 íaz has taken this successful initiative to North and South America\, Eur
 ope\, and Asia\, performing chamber music side-by-side with Curtis student
 s and other faculty and alumni of the school. His tenure as president of C
 urtis has also seen the construction of a significant new building which d
 oubled the size of the school’s campus\; the introduction of a classical
  guitar department and new conducting and string quartet programs\; and th
 e launch of Curtis Summerfest\, summer courses open to the public. In the 
 fall of 2013 Curtis became the first classical music conservatory to offer
  free online classes through Coursera. Also under Mr. Díaz’s leadership
 \, Curtis has developed lasting collaborations with other music and arts i
 nstitutions in Philadelphia and throughout the world and established a dyn
 amic social entrepreneurship curriculum\, supported by a prestigious Advan
 cement Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Designed to develop 
 the entrepreneurial and advocacy skills of young musicians\, this curricul
 um includes the project-based Community Artist Program (CAP) and the post-
 graduate Community Artist Fellowship program\, which gives recent Curtis g
 raduates the opportunity to dedicate a year of arts-based service to the c
 ommunity. Mr. Díaz received an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin College an
 d was awarded an honorary membership by the National Board of the American
  Viola Society. In 2013 he became a member of the prestigious American Phi
 losophical Society founded by Benjamin Franklin. As a member of the Philad
 elphia Orchestra\, he was selected by then-music director Christoph Eschen
 bach to receive the C. Hartman Kuhn Award\, given annually to “the membe
 r of the Philadelphia Orchestra who has shown ability and enterprise of su
 ch character as to enhance the standards and the reputation of the Philade
 lphia Orchestra.” He received a bachelor’s degree from the New England
  Conservatory of Music\, where he studied with Burton Fine\; and a diploma
  from the Curtis Institute of Music\, where his teacher was his predecesso
 r at the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Joseph de Pasquale. Mr. Díaz also holds
  a degree in industrial design. In addition to his decade-long tenure as p
 rincipal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra\, where he performed the enti
 re standard viola concerto repertoire and gave a number of Philadelphia Or
 chestra premieres\, Mr. Díaz was principal viola of the National Symphony
  under Mstislav Rostropovich\, a member of the Boston Symphony under Seiji
  Ozawa\, and a member of the Minnesota Orchestra under Sir Neville Marrine
 r. He plays the ex-Primrose Amati viola. ​Note:  Performance Insights p
 revention by Lani Spahr at 1:00PM Coastal Concerts is supported\, in part\
 , by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts\, a state agency\, in 
 partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promote
 s Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com For the 2022-23 Season\, t
 he engagement of the Curtis on Tour: Viano String Quartet with Roberto Dia
 z (Viola)\, and Amy Yang (Piano) is made possible through the Special Pres
 enters Initiative program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support fro
 m the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Art
 s. Venue: Coastal Concerts.
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