Sarah Pizzichemi, violin

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1 Seattle, Washington Sarah Pizzichemi, violin curriculum vitae CAREER EXPERIENCE Violin 1 Skyros Quartet - Austin, Texas and Lincoln, Nebraska present. Founding member of the ensemble. Adjunct Instructor of Violin Union College - Lincoln, Nebraska present. 1st Violin Section Lincoln s Symphony Orchestra Lincoln, Nebraska 2013-present. EDUCATION Doctorate of Musical Arts Chamber Music Performance University of Nebraska Glenn Korff School of Music - Lincoln, Nebraska Graduate String Quartet in Residence. Hyeyung Yoon, the Chiara String Quartet (principal teachers). Doctoral Document Thesis: Virtuoso Violinist Maud Powell: Enduring Champion for Women in Professional Music Master of Music Chamber Music Performance University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music - Austin, Texas Sandy Yamamoto, the Miró String Quartet (principal teachers). Bachelor of Music Violin Performance University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music - Austin, Texas Brian Lewis (principal teacher). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Instructor of Violin Union College (Lincoln, Nebraska) Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Nebraska-Lincoln Music Theory, Outreach, Chamber Music, Teaching-Artistry. Masterclass Seattle University May University of Texas at Austin String Project Group lessons, sectionals, orchestral conductor, music theory, chamber music, Suzuki Early Childhood Education, private violin studio.

2 curriculum vitae, page 2 Chamber Music in Public Schools (CHAMPS) - Austin, Texas Chamber music coach, Informance Masterclasses. Japan-Seattle Suzuki Institute International - Seattle, Washington Personal assistant to the director. Private Violin Studio Seattle, Washington; Austin, Texas and Lincoln, Nebraska present. RECORDINGS Introspective Odyssey The debut album of the Skyros Quartet features works by Britten, Turina, and Sibelius. It was released through PARMA Recordings on the Navona label in AWARDS and HONORS Hixson-Lied Grant for the Presentation of Creative/Scholarly Activity Funding for Introspective Odyssey, the debut album of the Skyros Quartet. Hixson-Lied Grant for the Presentation of Creative/Scholarly Research Funding for a Skyros Quartet performance and community engagement tour of the Pacific Northwest. Graduate Teaching Assistantship present. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Thomas J. Gibson IV Endowed Presidential Scholarship University of Texas at Austin. Sarah and Ernest Butler Excellence Scholarship University of Texas at Austin. Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship University of Texas at Austin. Shostakovich String Quartet (Winner) Miró Quartet Intensive Seminar and Competition. Mendelssohn String Quartet (Winner) Miró Quartet Intensive Seminar and Competition. Merit Scholarship Quartetfest Chamber Music Festival. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

3 curriculum vitae, page 3 SELECTED PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE Chamber Recitals 2015 Aspen Music Festival and School (Advanced Quartet Studies Recital, Faculty Chamber Music Recital, Chapel Chamber Music, Hotel Music at the St. Regis, Music with a View, First Glimpse Composition Program Recital) Aspen, Colorado Skyros Quartet Recital Lincoln, Nebraska University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colorado 2014 QuartetFest 2014 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Skyros Quartet Doctoral Recital III University of Nebraska-Lincoln Skyros Quartet Doctoral Recital II University of Nebraska-Lincoln Skyros Quartet and music by the W4 New Music Collective at Fast Forward Austin Austin, Texas 2013 Skyros Quartet Recital Lincoln, Nebraska Deer Valley Music Festival Park City, Utah Skyros Quartet Recital Seattle, Washington Skyros Quartet Recital Portland, Oregon Xi an Jiaotong University Xi an, China Xi an Jiaotong University City College Xi an, China Xi an Conservatory of Music Xi an, China Zhejiang University City College Hangzhou, China Hangzhou Normal University Conservatory of Music Hangzhou, China Skyros Quartet Doctoral Recital I University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2012 Skyros Quartet Recital Lincoln, Nebraska Mendelssohn Octet with the Chiara and Skyros String Quartets Lincoln, Nebraska

4 curriculum vitae, page 4 Kaleidoscope X: Music From Film at the Kaleidoscope Concert Series Austin, Texas Skyros Quartet Master s Recital II University of Texas at Austin 2011 Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society The Music Room Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Meadowlark Music Festival Recital International Quilt Museum Lincoln, NE Skyros Quartet Master s Recital I University of Texas at Austin 2010 Sunflower Music Festival Concert White Concert Hall, Topeka, Kansas Faculty Recital Series: Miró Quartet Shostakovich Octet Bates Recital Hall, Austin, Texas 2009 Faculty Recital Series: Miró Quartet Mendelssohn Octet Bates Recital Hall, Austin, Texas Solo Recitals 2014 Doctoral Lecture Recital - Topic: Maud Powell: Pioneering American Social and Cultural Change Through Music University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013 Doctoral Solo Recital University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2012 Solo Violin Recital St. Paul United Methodist Church, Lincoln, Nebraska 2011 Master s Solo Recital University of Texas at Austin 2010 Senior Recital University of Texas at Austin 2009 Junior Recital University of Texas at Austin 2008 Non-Degree Recital University of Texas at Austin 2007 Solo Violin Recital Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Italy 2006 Solo Violin Recital Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Italy

5 curriculum vitae, page Professional Solo Debut with the Seattle Symphony Discover Music! Concert Series Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington Orchestral Concertmaster Seattle Collaborative Orchestra (2015-present) 1st Violin Section Lincoln s Symphony Orchestra ( ) Concertmaster and Section Violin University of Nebraska-Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra ( ) 1st Violinist University of Texas at Austin New Music Ensemble ( ) Section Leader and Section Violin University of Texas at Austin Symphony Orchestra ( ) Section Leader University of Texas at Austin Opera Orchestra ( ) Section Leader and Section Violin Blanton Chamber Orchestra ( ) Austin, Texas Substitute Violin Waco Symphony Orchestra (2008) Collaborations 2014 Joshua Zink DMA Voice Recital University Nebraska-Lincoln Jared Hiscock DMA Voice Recital University Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chamber Singers and Nebraska Organization of Vocal Artists At the Threshold University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013 Jared Hiscock MM Voice Recital University of Nebraska- Lincoln Janka Krajciova DMA Piano Recital University of Nebraska- Lincoln David Kamran DMA Clarinet Recital University of Nebraska- Lincoln 2012 Mary Kausek BM Oboe Recital University of Texas at Austin Brendon Bushman BM Oboe Recital University of Texas at Austin

6 curriculum vitae, page 6 MUSIC FESTIVALS 2015 Aspen Music Festival and School Center for Advanced Quartet Studies Aspen, Colorado 2013 Deer Valley Emerging Quartets and Composers Festival Park City, Utah 2011 Sir Wilfrid Laurier University QuartetFest Waterloo, Ontario, Canada University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chamber Music Institute Lincoln, Nebraska 2010 Sunflower Music Festival Blanche Bryden Institute Topeka, Kansas 2009 Castleman Quartet Program Fredonia, New York 2007 Casalmaggiore International Music Festival Casalmaggiore, Italy 2006 Casalmaggiore International Music Festival Casalmaggiore, Italy PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Suzuki Association of the Americas 2007-present. Member; Teacher. Certified in Violin, Viola, and Early Childhood Education. Chamber Music America 2012-present. Member; String Quartet. SELECTED REPERTOIRE (full list available upon request) Concerto Bach, Johann Sebastian Violin Concerto in a minor, BWV 1041 Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043 Barber, Samuel Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 Beethoven, Ludwig van Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Bruch, Max Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46

7 curriculum vitae, page 7 Concerto No. 1 in g minor, Op. 26 Glazunov, Alexander Concerto in a minor, Op. 82 Lalo, Édouard Symphonie Espagnole in d minor, Op. 21 Mendelssohn, Felix Concerto in e minor, Op. 64 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364 Sibelius, Jean Concerto in d minor, Op. 47 Tchaikovsky, Peter Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 Wieniawski, Henryk Violin Concerto No. 2 in d minor, Op. 22 Recital Works Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney Romance for Violin and Piano Bauer, Marion Eugénie Up the Ocklawaha, Op. 6 Beethoven, Ludwig van Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, Kreutzer Romance No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50 Brahms, Johannes Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in d minor, Op. 108 Deep River from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 10, transcribed by Maud Powell Debussy, Claude Sonata for Violin and Piano in g minor, L 140 Franck, César Messiaen, Olivier Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major Quartour pour la fin du temps VIII. Louange à l Immortalité de Jésus Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Sonata for Violin and Piano in e minor, K. 304

8 curriculum vitae, page 8 Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat Major, K. 454 Piazzolla, Astor Ravel, Maurice Ridout, Alan Le Grand Tango for violin and piano, arranged by Sofia Gubaidulina Tzigane Ferdinand the Bull for violin and narrator, words by Munro Leaf Schubert, Franz Rondo Brillant in b minor, Op. 70, D. 895 Traditional Vaughan-Williams, Ralph Vitali, Tommaso Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, African-American Spiritual, arranged by Johnson, J. Rosamond, transcribed for violin by Maud Powell The Lark Ascending Ciaccona in g minor Wieniawski, Henryk Légende for Violin and Piano, Op. 17 Solo violin works Bach, Johann S. Biber, Heinrich Bryant Tavani, Alexandra Paganini, Niccolo Powell, Maud Ysaÿe, Eugène Complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV Sonata No. 16, Passacaglia The Guardian Angel Letters to Home Various selections from the 24 Caprices, Op.1 Caprice on Dixie for Violin (unaccompanied) after Herman Bellstadt Jr, based on the song Dixie by Dan Emmett Sonate No. 2 Op. 27 Obsession Sonate No. 3 Op. 27 Ballade Sonate No. 5 Op. 27 L Aurore String Quartets Bartok, Bela String Quartet No. 4, BB 95

9 curriculum vitae, page 9 Beethoven, Ludwig van String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 String Quartet in c minor, Op. 18, No. 4 String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 String Quartet in f minor, Serioso, Op. 95 String Quartet in a minor, Op. 132 Britten, Benjamin Dvorak, Antonin Three Divertimenti for String Quartet String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51, Slavonic String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, American Haydn, Franz Joseph String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2 String Quartet in g minor, Op. 20, No. 3 String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5 Frey, Matthew Ko, Tonia Martin, Stephanie Procession Escape-Landscape From a Distant Island Mendelssohn, Felix String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1 String Quartet No. 4 in e minor, Op. 44 No. 2 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus String Quartet in d minor, K. 421 String Quartet in F Major, K. 590 Naeff, Ruben Ravel, Maurice JACKASS String Quartet in F Major Schubert, Franz Quartettsatz, D. 703 String Quartet in d minor, D Death and the Maiden

10 curriculum vitae, page 10 Shostakovich, Dmitri String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 Schulhoff, Erwin Sibelius, Jean Five Pieces for String Quartet String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56, Voces Intimae Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 Turina, Joaquín La Oración del Torero Collaborative Chamber Music Barber, Samuel Dover Beach, Op. 3 Bartok, Bela Contrasts for Piano, Violin, and Clarinet Brahms, Johannes Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34 Beethoven, Ludwig van Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 Britten, Benjamin Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings, Op. 2 Butterworth, George Debussy, Claude Love Blows as the Wind Blows for baritone and string quartet Piano Trio in G Major Dvorak, Antonin Piano Trio No. 3 in f minor, Op. 65 Finzi, Gerald Herron, Molly By Footpath and Stile for baritone and string quartet Nelson for string trio Mendelssohn, Felix String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 320 Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major, K. 423 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 Prokofiev, Sergei Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56 Ravel, Maurice Piano Trio in a minor

11 curriculum vitae, page 11 Schubert, Franz String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956 String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 581 Schumann, Robert Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 Shostakovich, Dmitri Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57 Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 Commissions Bryant Tavani, Alexandra Maxwell, Devin Sobel, Liza Letters to Home for solo violin Bouquet Canyon, California for string quartet Prayer for string quartet References available upon request. updated September 2015