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Wyatt Underhill, Violin & Piano - presented by Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, violinist Wyatt Underhill is active in many spheres of the music world today, from baroque to contemporary, as soloist, orchestral player and chamber musician. He has appeared as soloist in varied repertoire, from Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, to J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 on period instruments; as concertmaster in works from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade to an orchestral rendering of Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches with narration; and in chamber music settings from Beethoven String Quartets to free improvisation. Underhill is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory where he studied with Gregory Fulkerson, and is currently pursuing his Master of Music degree with Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School.
As a soloist, Underhill has taken top prizes in several competitions and has appeared with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Oberlin Orchestra and the Concord Chamber Orchestra. He was the winner of the 2nd Prize and the Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work at the 28th Annual Klein Competition for Strings in San Francisco, and was a winner of Oberlin's 2012-2013 Senior Concerto Competition, performing Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with the Oberlin Orchestra. Underhill has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center, performing Arnold Schoenberg's Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Opus 47 as part of the Conservatory Project. He has performed in masterclasses for James Ehnes, Stefan Jackiw and Christian Tetzlaff.
Underhill's concertmaster credits include the Juilliard, Oberlin and Colorado College Summer Music Festival Orchestras. As concertmaster of the Oberlin Orchestra he has performed at Carnegie Hall and on tour to China and Singapore. While at Oberlin he also served as concertmaster for several off-beat projects, such as the world premieres of '80s rocker-turned-composer Kip Winger's ballet Conversations with Nijinsky, and Lorenzo Palomo's The Sneetches, based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, narrated by John de Lancie. Underhill has performed under the batons of conductors such as James Levine, Nicholas McGegan, Emmanuel Villaume and Scott Yoo.
An avid contemporary musician, Underhill has performed with several notable new music ensembles. He has toured with Oberlin's Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME), and as concertmaster of that ensemble he gave the world premiere and first recording of Philip Cashian's Cello Concerto, written for Oberlin professor Darrett Adkins and CME. In recital at Oberlin, Underhill gave the first pairing of one of Elliott Carter's final works, Mnemosyne for Solo Violin, with Carter's 4 Lauds for Solo violin, a grouping he hopes to popularize in future "all-American" violin recitals. Underhill has given performances of the music of his colleagues, including Spiraling Sparks for violin and piano, by fellow Juilliard student Sayo Kosugi, and the premiere of fellow Oberlin student Jacob Market's Violin Concerto. At Juilliard he has performed with AXIOM and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and has given contemporary music performances under various auspices, from Wuorinen's New York Notes at Juilliard's ChamberFest, to Schnittke's String Quartet No. 4 on the 2014 FOCUS! Festival at Juilliard.
Also a baroque violinist, Underhill holds a minor in Historical Performance from Oberlin, where he studied with Marilyn McDonald. He has performed as assistant principal 2nd with Cleveland's baroque orchestra, Apollo's Fire; with Juilliard 415 in several concerts, including Juilliard's production of Handel's Radamisto; and at the Boston Early Music Festival as part of Oberlin Baroque. He has appeared as soloist with the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra, performing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major.
Underhill's summer festival credits include the ARIA International Summer Academy, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, the Heifetz International Music Institute, and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival.
Joseph Hauer, from Appleton, Wisconsin, completed his undergraduate studies at the Oberlin Conservatory with Professor Peter Takács. His former teachers include Catherine Kautsky, Kyung Kim, Catherine Walby, and Charlene Reitz. In past summers he has attended the Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium at Princeton University, PianoSummer at New Paltz, New York, and Pianofest in the Hamptons. Last summer, he performed multiple piano trios and piano duets in the inaugural season of the Houston, MN Chamber Music series, and is returning for a second season this summer.
As a soloist, he has collaborated with the Fox Valley Symphony, Madison Symphony Orchestra, and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, as well as performed Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with a student orchestra at Oberlin. His performances have been broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Television and Wisconsin Public Radio. Hauer's other recent performances of solo and chamber works include house concerts in New York City, Cleveland, OH, and Verona, WI; recitals in Oakton, VA, Valley Cottage, NY, Sheboygan, WI, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and UM School of Music in Ann Arbor, MI; and numerous recitals at the Oberlin Conservatory and Kendal at Oberlin. He is a winner of the 2013-2014 Oberlin senior concerto competition and, as a result, performed Rachmaninoff's Fourth Piano Concerto with the Oberlin orchestra, Rafael Jimenez conducting.
Hauer attended Oberlin on a full scholarship from the Miller Family Music Education Scholarship of Appleton, Wisconsin. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Piano Performance at NYU Steinhardt, where he holds a position as Adjunct Faculty of Piano. His other interests include jazz piano, Russian, racquetball and snowboarding.
Tickets are $25 advance; $5 more day of concert (buy your tickets early!). Children and young people ages 7 through 17 are admitted free with adult. To purchase in person,
visit the Gualala Arts Center or Dolphin Gallery in Gualala.
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LocationGualala Arts Center (View)
46501 Old State Highway
Gualala, CA 95445
United States
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