Primrose International Viola Competition "Field Trip"
Academic Year:
2017 - 2018 (June 1, 2017 through May 31, 2018)
Funding Requested:
$500.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
The Primrose International Viola Competition (PIVC) is the world’s most prestigious viola competition for violists under the age of 30. The week-long competition occurs every 4 years and will be held in June 2018 in Los Angeles, CA at the Colburn School.
In 2014, I was chosen as one of 9 international judges of the Primrose Competition. We judged the 24 Quarter finalists in their performances for nearly a week. The experience was profound.
My request for funding from the Instructional Development Fund is to help realize my goal of creating a really phenomenal “Field Trip” to Los Angeles for my 5 violists who applied to PIVC. Regardless of outcome (whether or not any of my 5 are invited to the Quarter finals), I want to have these 5 who applied to PIVC experience the live Primrose Competition. In conjunction with the PIVC is the American Viola Society Festival, which will run Master Classes, Lectures, and Recitals at the Colburn School during that same week in June.. These events will give my students access to the biggest names in our viola world. This will be an incredible networking event for my students.
After a week in Los Angeles observing the Primrose Competition and participating in the workshops of the American Viola Society Festival, my students will have insights and knowledge that they could only gain from such an intense concentration of viola-related lectures, recitals, and witnessing the final rounds of the world-renowned Primrose Competition.
In 2014, I was chosen as one of 9 international judges of the Primrose Competition. We judged the 24 Quarter finalists in their performances for nearly a week. The experience was profound.
My request for funding from the Instructional Development Fund is to help realize my goal of creating a really phenomenal “Field Trip” to Los Angeles for my 5 violists who applied to PIVC. Regardless of outcome (whether or not any of my 5 are invited to the Quarter finals), I want to have these 5 who applied to PIVC experience the live Primrose Competition. In conjunction with the PIVC is the American Viola Society Festival, which will run Master Classes, Lectures, and Recitals at the Colburn School during that same week in June.. These events will give my students access to the biggest names in our viola world. This will be an incredible networking event for my students.
After a week in Los Angeles observing the Primrose Competition and participating in the workshops of the American Viola Society Festival, my students will have insights and knowledge that they could only gain from such an intense concentration of viola-related lectures, recitals, and witnessing the final rounds of the world-renowned Primrose Competition.