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University of Wyoming

John Fadial,
Violin
 

This year John Fadial celebrates his first year as associate professor of violin at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He comes to Wyoming from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he served as violin professor for ten years, and established a national reputation as an inspiring and successful pedagogue. During this time he also served as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (a position he maintains currently), first under the baton of Tony Award winning conductor Stuart Malina, and presently under the leadership of violoinist-conductor Dmitry Sikovetsky. He has been featured in the great standard concertmaster solos including Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade; Mahler’s 3rd and 4th Symphonies; Richard Strauss’ epic tone poems Till Eulenspiegel, Also Spracht Zarathustra, and Ein Heldenleben (which he will perform once again in September 2008); and as concertmaster of the Greensboro Opera, in Puccini’s La Boheme under the baton of Valeri Ryfkin. He also has served as associate concertmaster of the Eastern Music Festival and the Colorado Music Festival.

 

Violinist John Fadial has garnered critical acclaim for performances around the globe (“Wow!” The Washington Post, “sparkling technique” L’Est Republicain, Nancy, France) maintaining a vigorous schedule as soloist, concertmaster, chamber music performer, recording artist and teacher. He has performed on four continents as a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador and has appeared at such notable venues as the Smithsonian Museum, the Philips Collection, and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, with numerous engagements at such summer festivals as Aspen, Banff (Canada), Brevard, Eastern, Heidelberg (Germany), Mirecourt (France), Costa Rica and Salvador (Brazil). He has shared the stage in chamber music collaborations with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, harpsichordist Anthony Newman, cellists Tillman Wick and Paul Katz, violist John Graham, and bandoneon virtuoso David Alsina of the New York Tango Trio, among others, and has performed widely in the U.S. and Europe since 1997 as violinist of the critically acclaimed Chesapeake Piano Trio.

 

Recent seasons have featured concerts throughout the U.S., Brazil and France. Highlights included: performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra; the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William Bolcom’s Suite for Violin and Cello, performed in the historic Salle Poirel in Nancy (site of the world premier of the Poeme of Ernest Chausson, by the great Belgian virtuoso Eugene Ysaye); and chamber music performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Konstantin Lifschitz, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich and the Quatuor Stanislas. Fadial’s recent recording of the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for the Centaur label was deemed “not to be missed” by American Record Guide. In October of 2005 he gave the world premier of Arthur Gottschalk’s Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, as part of the Society of Composers International Conference for contemporary music. Upcoming projects include a recording with pianist Andrew Harley of the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano of Johannes Brahms, also for Centaur.

 

John Fadial has established a national reputation as teacher; and his students have been winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition and the Eastern Music Festival Concerto Competition, and include collegiate finalists and junior prizewinners in the Music Teachers National Association National Competitions. They have received scholarships for study at institutions including the Eastman School, Indiana University, Oberlin, the Peabody Institute, and the Juilliard School. They have performed as members of the National Repertory Orchestra and the Broadway touring company of show Fiddler on the Roof, as concertmaster. Dr. Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM) and the University of Maryland (DMA) and teaches a large studio of both undergraduate and graduate violin majors at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

 

Fadial’s teachers have included Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, Zoltan Szekely and Arnold Steinhardt. His mentors also include Alexander Schneider, Joseph Silverstein, Jan DeGaetani and members of the Cleveland, Juilliard and Guarneri quartets.