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Musical Biography of Brett Deubner, Violist As One of This Generation's Musical Biography of Brett Deubner, violist As one of this generation's most consummate violists, Brett Deubner has received worldwide critical acclaim for his powerful intensity and sumptuous tone. Commenting on Mr. Deubner's performance the New Jersey Star-Ledger wrote, "Deubner played with dynamic virtuosity hitting the center of every note no matter how many there were." And, "There is a burning intensity to Deubner's playing, and a refreshing variation in the color of his viola tone." The Strad magazine cited his playing for its "infectious capriciousness," and Classical New Jersey praised him for being "extremely sensitive and expressive." As a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Mr. Deubner's career has included frequent solo recitals, membership in top American orchestras, and chamber music collaborations worldwide. He has collaborated with today's leading conductors Ann Manson, Perry So, Lucas Richman, David Lockington, Patricio Aizaga, Oliver Weder, and Rossen Milanov. While collaborating on chamber music he has performed with the Tokyo Quartet and Vermeer Quartet, pianists Joseph Kallichstein and Robert Koenig, cellists Wendy Warner and Sara Sant'Amrogio, clarinetists Guy Deplus and Alexander Fiterstein, violinists Timothy Fain, Stefan Milenkovich, Gregory Fulkerson, and Dimitry Sitkovetsky, flutists Ransom Wilson and Carol Wincenc, New York Philharmonic principal oboist Joseph Robinson, and Dallas Symphony principal oboist Erin Hannigan. His recent concerto performances have traversed over four continents with forty orchestras, including the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Thüringer Symphoniker in Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Germany, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony, the Grainger Wind Symphony in Melbourne, the Filharmonic del Quito, the String Orchestra of the Rockies, the National Symphony of Ecuador, the State Orchestra of Merida, Venezuela, the New Symphony of Sofia, Bulgaria, the Orchestra Bell'Arte of Paris, the Peninsula Symphony of California, and the Kiev Camerata in Ukraine. Mr. Deubner's dedication to expanding the viola's repertoire is demonstrated by his collaborations with some of today's foremost composers, such as Grammy-winner Richard Danielpour, Samuel Adler, Lalo Schifrin, Andrew Rudin, David Del Tredici, in addition to several of this generation's young composers. Thus far, over eighty works for the viola, including over thirty viola concertos and numerous solo and chamber works for the viola, have been dedicated to and premiered by Mr. Deubner. During the 2015 – 2016 season he will premiere five new viola concertos, including Dr. Donald L. Appert's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the Oregon Sinfonietta on March 13, 2016. Further evidence of his devotion to the advancement of the viola can be seen by his teaching of viola master classes. In the fall of 2014 he held his first ever "viola seminar" in Provence, France, and in the winter he gave master classes to talented violists from all over Brazil. Other highlights of Mr. Deubner's 2014 – 2015 season include the world premieres of Frank Levy's Concerto for Viola, Winds, Brass, and Percussion with the Omaha Symphonic Winds, Eric Whitacre's The River Cam for viola and strings in Seattle, and Bruno Louchouarn's Sol Path for amplified viola, sound scape, and projection art at the Pasadena AxS Festival. The season also saw his debut appearance with Symphony Irvine in Los Angeles performing Martinu's Rhapsody – Concerto for viola and orchestra, his invitation and participation in the international festival "Gramado in Concert" in the Rio dul Sol region of Brazil where he performed Bruch's Romanze for viola and orchestra, his performance of Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher in his home state of New Jersey, and several performances of the two Brahms viola sonatas with Cuban pianist Juana Zayas. The summer of 2015 Mr. Deubner will teach and perform chamber music concerts at the Round Top Festival in Texas, give a master class and recital at the New York Summer Music Festival, and perform at the Lenape Chamber Ensemble and the Gretna Festival in Pennsylvania, and the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice in the Catskills. During the 2015 – 2016 season he will give debut performances with the Oregon Sinfonietta, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Campinas and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Rio Norte in Brazil, Musique sur la Mer in Los Angeles, and the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, as well as make return appearances with the New Sussex Symphony in New Jersey, the Cal State LA/Olympia Youth Orchestra, and the Clark College Orchestra on March 9, 2016, during which he will perform Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher and Dr. Appert's Fantasy for Viola and String Orchestra (originally for contrabass) that was premiered by the Oregon Sinfonietta on November 9, 2014 with William Athens as soloist on contrabass. He will also make recordings of Dr. Appert's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the Oregon Sinfonietta, Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher with the Clark College Orchestra, and Amanda Harberg's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, with which he will tour Brazil performing her viola concerto. Also scheduled for the 2015 – 2016 season are recitals in Ecuador, California, New Jersey, and Italy. In the spring of 2016, Mr. Deubner will return to Europe to judge a concerto competition and perform Giorgio Cambissa's viola concerto. Mr. Deubner's own concert series, "Music and More," will mark its seventh year in the fall, and will feature world premiers by composers Richard Danielpour and Bruno Louchouarn, as well as chamber music by Mozart, Loeffler, and Brahms in a series of intimate concerts throughout the year. During the 2016 – 2017 season, Mr. Deubner will premiere and record Danielpour's viola concerto that is being specifically written for him, and he will tour the United States with this amazing work. He will go on a five city tour of the West Coast from Los Angeles to Vancouver, as well as an East Coast tour culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall. Performing in Gramado, Brazil For updates, video links to recent and future world premiere performances, guest master classes in the United States and abroad, please go to Mr. Deubner's website at www.BrettDeubner.com, as well as his own YouTube channel. .
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