Viola Mondays Series: Michael Klotz featuring John Wilson

“Expressive sensitivity” (Baltimore Sun)

Possessing an “assured touch”

Program

Notturno for Viola and Piano, Op. 42                                 Ludwig van Beethoven

Marcia: Allegro

Adagio

Menuetto: Allegretto

Adagio

Allegretto alla Polacca

Andante quasi Allegretto

Marcia: Allegro

Viola Sonata op. 11 no. 4                                                    Paul Hindemith

Fantasie

Thema mit Variationen

Finale (mit Variationen)

INTERMISSION

Elegy on the Name “Dmitri Shostakovich”                      Steven R. Gerber

Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 147                                 Dmitri Shostakovich

Andante

Allegretto

Adagio

(South Florida Classical Review)

JOHN WILSON
Biography

Hailed for his “elegance and energy” (Classical Miami Magazine”) and described as a “marvelous, musical mad scientist” (Music Critics Association of North America) pianist John Wilson is a Piano Fellow at the New World Symphony Orchestral Academy. He has performed in North America, South America and Europe. Mr. Wilson has performed as a soloist with the New World Symphony, Napa Valley Symphony Orchestra, New Amsterdam Symphony, and Orchestra Camerata. A top prize winner in international piano competitions, he most recently won the prize for the “Best Performance of an American Work” at the 2017 Liszt-Garrison International Piano
Competition. He is the recipient of the silver medal at the from the American Prize Foundation in Solo Piano Performance. An avid chamber musician, he has appeared in chamber ensembles with musicians of the San Francisco
Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and San Diego Symphony. He has performed in duo recital with violinist Joshua Bell numerous times, cellist Johannes Moser, and soprano Audra McDonald. He hasadditionally collaborated with violinist Gil Shaham, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Dedicated to contemporary music, he has performed on the U.S and World Premiere of solo piano works by Michael Tilson Thomas, Timo Andres, and ensemble works by Reinbert de Leeuw, HK Gruber, and Bernd Deutsch. As an ensemble musician he has appeared under the some of the world’s leading conductors, including Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Stéphane Denève, and John Williams. He frequently serves as Guest Principal Keyboard for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and San Diego Symphony Orchestra.