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.
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