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November 13, 2011
The 2012 Montecito International Music Festival application is now available here!
October 1, 2011
The 2012 Montecito International Music Festival dates have now been set for July 16 - August 4, 2012!
October 23, 2010
The website has now been updated with the latest information for the 2011 season! We will continue to update our updates as more information becomes available.
October 20, 2010
Ida Haendel, Aaron Rosand, and John Perry have been announced as our special guest artists for the 2011 season!
Summer Session: July 16 - August 4, 2012
Application Deadline: March 15, 2012
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 5, 2012
Deposit Due: April 15, 2012
Tuition Balance Due: May 15, 2012
2012 Season Application - Now available!
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| Lorenz Gamma - violin |
Violinist Lorenz Gamma is internationally active as teacher, soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He has given master classes in the United States, Europe and Asia and taught violin as visiting professor at UCLA before joining the faculties at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and California State University in Long Beach. In 2008, Mr. Gamma also served as visiting professor at Indiana University in Bloomington.
As former co-leader of the Amar Quartet Mr. Gamma performed a full-time concert schedule touring through many of Europe’s most important chamber music venues, including the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Residence in Munich, the Cologne Philharmonic, as well as in many other cities such as London, Paris, New York, Teheran etc. Prior to his activity with the quartet, Lorenz Gamma served as concertmaster of the Northwest Sinfonietta in Seattle and later as Principal of the Zurich Opera Orchestra.
As a soloist Lorenz Gamma has performed over twenty different concertos by Bach, Beethoven, Berg, Bruch, Lutoslawski, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Piazzolla, Schumann, Spohr, Tartini, Vivaldi, and Wieniawski. He also holds an extensive record of appearances on radio, both in Europe and in the United States. His radio broadcasts and CD recordings include Schubert’s String Quintet and Piano Trio in E-flat, the “Quartet for the End of Time”by Messiæn, the complete String Quartets as well as all works for violin and piano and the Piano Sextet by Carlos Chávez, the Dvorák Piano Quintet, Mozart Clarinet Quintet, sonatas and partitas by Bach, Kodály, Lazarof, Mozart and Ravel, as well as string quartets by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák, Haydn, Hindemith, Ives, Janácek, Mozart, Ravel, Shostakovich, Smith, Ullmann and Verdi. Musicians he collaborated with include Heinz Holliger, Paul Katz, Ronald Leonard, Donald McInnes, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and many others.
Mr. Gamma’s private and professional violin students have won numerous prizes and gone on to continue their studies at such schools as Indiana University, Manhattan and Eastman Schools of Music, University of Southern California and others. Having performed internationally a large part of the string quartet repertoire of more than fifty composers, as well as most of the other standard chamber music repertoire of over eighty composers, Lorenz Gamma dedicates himself with passion to coaching chamber music in addition to teaching violin.
He is a frequent guest at various summer festivals and serves since 2002 as first violinist of Southwest Chamber Music. The ensemble’s recordings of the complete chamber music works of Carlos Chávez have been nominated for six Grammy Awards and received two in 2004 and 2005. The ensemble work “Aura” by Grawemeyer Award winning composer Chinary Ung, commissioned, premiered and recorded by the group in 2006, was nominated for a Pulitzer Price. In 2010, the ensemble traveled to Vietnam as one of three organizations chosen by the U.S. State Department for the Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange, the largest cultural exchange in the history of the two countries.
Lorenz Gamma was born in Switzerland, where he received his initial training as a violinist. His further studies took place in the United States, with Franco Gulli, Steven Staryk and Mark Kaplan. |
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