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The U.S. premiere of Tõnu Kõrvits' Chaconne for solo viola

30.04.2009

Tõnu Kõrvits

On Sunday, May 3 at 7 pm, viola player Rebecca Osborn will perform Chaconne for solo viola by Tõnu Kõrvits at the New York Viola Society concert in New York Church of Christ and St. Stephen's.

At the concert, different works for viola and chamber groups by Max Reger, Ernest Bloch, George Quincy, Toru Takemitsu, Johann Sebastian Bach and others will be played.

Tõnu Kõrvits wrote his viola piece Chaconne in 2008 for Estonian viola player Arvo Haasma who premiered the work on December 5, 2008 in Tallinn Meder Hall.

Viola player Rebecca Osborn is a graduate of the University of Colorado with degrees in Piano Pedagogy and Viola Performance and The Juilliard School with a Master's Degree in Viola.

After graduation, she lived and performed in Switzerland and Venezuela with side trips to England, Germany, France and Austria for quartet performances and chamber orchestra concerts. Moving back to New York City, she is a freelance musician performing with many groups over the years in all the main venues of the city. In 1993, Rebecca became a part-time resident of Sitka, Alaska and has played in orchestras, chamber groups and solo recitals for concerts in Anchorage, Homer and Sitka. Her new project is playing music for solo viola composed in north countries of 57 degrees North Latitude - Sitka's latitude - for people who have little acquaintance with "classical" string playing.



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