International Viola Congress 2024
Congress Program
The program information below may change.
July 17th
| Horário inicio | Auditório IA + Watari/ atividade | Proponentes | Sala 35/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 41/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 22 | Espaço em BG |
| 09:00 | Recepção aos congressistas | Ensaios recitais do dia | expositor 1 | |||||
| 11:00 | Cerimônia de abertura - Apresentação quarteto de violas Unicamp | |||||||
| 12:00 | almoço | |||||||
| 13:00 | Masterclass Daphne Gerling | ABRAV | SR 3 - World Premiere of Matthew Heap's Finding Balance for Viola, Horn and Piano | Andrea Houde | LEC 1 - Body Mapping | Asdis Valdimarsdottir | expositor 2 | |
| 13:30 | SR4 - New Works for Solo Viola from Brazil and a tribute to Mr. Ricardo Kubala mudar para mesma sala mais cedo, trocando com multicultural | Jessé Máximo Pereira | ||||||
| 14:00 | SR 5 -Duo for Viola: New Music of the Americas | Timothy Deighton | ||||||
| 14:30 | SR 6 - A Musical Portrai of the American Southwest - Reflections on a Desert Winter | Stephen Nordtstrom | ||||||
| 15:00 | intervalo | |||||||
| 15:30 | FR 1 - Contrasts and Connections | Ayn Balija | SR 7 - Niccolò Paganini - Composizioni per Viola e Chitarra (New additions to the viola repertoire) | Rossana Cauti | WS 1 - Body Mapping | Juliet White-Smith | expositor 2 | |
| 16:00 | SR 8 -Concertino para Viola e Piano nº 2 - José Ursicino da Silva (Duda) | Camila Meirelles | ||||||
| 16:30 | ensaio Orq Jundiaí + Jutta | ABRAV | SR 9 -Trio in b minor | Alicia Valoti | ||||
| 17:00 | SR 10 - "Solo, duo, quattro" | Wojciech Kolaczyk et al | ||||||
| 17:30 | FR 12 - Trio Echinata - Música de Câmara do Brasil e AL para viola, clarinete e piano | Luiz Paulo D. Freire | LEC 2 - Jogo musical dados mágicos | Maria F. Canabarro | ||||
| 18:30 | jantar | |||||||
| 19:30 | concerto Orq Jundiaí + Jutta (aud) | ABRAV | ||||||
| 21:00 | viola café 1 |
July 18th
| Horário inicio | Auditório IA + Watari/ atividade | Proponentes | Sala 35/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 41/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 22 | Espaço em BG |
| 09:00 | Ensaios recitais do dia | Ensaios recitais do dia | LR 12- Sound as protest- The political influence of music | Lynn Rudolph | expositor 3 | |||
| 10:00 | LEC 3 - student centered | Hella | ||||||
| 11:00 | SR 1 - Marcin Murawski & Alina Kubik: "Emotions: 24 reflections" | Marcin Murawski | FR 13 - Perfect storm | Mason Spencer | WS 2 - Panel discussion | Hella + Daphne | ||
| 11:30 | SR 2 - Multicultural Mosaic from the United States | Diane Phoenix-Neal | ||||||
| 12:00 | almoço | |||||||
| 13:00 | Masterclass Marcin Murawski | ABRAV | FR 14 - Am Ende muss die Sonne untergehen | Roberto Luque Schoham | LR 13 - Ferdinando Giorgetti's "Gran Quintetto op 27", Publication Mysteries Solved! | Alicia Valotti | expositor 4 | |
| 14:00 | FR 15 - Música Latino e norte-americana para viola e piano | Daphne Gerling | WS 3 - CHALLENGES AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS IN PERFORMING BÉLA BARTÓK’S CONCERTO FOR VIOLA AND ORCHESTRA, Sz. 120, BB 128 | Rossana Cauti | ||||
| 15:00 | intervalo | |||||||
| 15:30 | FR 2 - Obras de Compositores/as Mineiros/as para viola e piano | Carlos Aleixo | SR 11 - A Collection of Mexican Duos for Violin and Viola | Kevin & Stephen Nordstromauti | LEC 4 - Toward an International Working Group for Viola Music Catalogues | Kristofer Skaug, Daphne Gerling, Myrna Layton | ||
| 16:00 | SR 12 - Two Brazilian Duos for Violin and Viola juntar com duos mexicanos | Kevin & Stephen Nordstrom | ||||||
| 16:30 | Ensaio Georgina Rossi | Georgina Rossi | SR 13 -Sonata T22 - Brenno Blauth | Daniel Marques Rolim | LEC 5 - Aprenda mais rápido! Torne seu estudo mais eficiente! | Hella Frank | ||
| 17:00 | SR 14 - Hindemith Solo Suite | Brenton Caldwell | ||||||
| 17:30 | Ensaio Bandel + Sinfônica da Unicamp | ABRAV | LR 2 - Unconventional Cadential Conventions: Exploring the World of Ogu Music on the Voila and through African Pianismrio Echinata - Música de Câmara do Brasil e AL para viola, clarinete e piano | Joseph Kunnuji & Jeanne-Louise Moolman | LR 14 - Uncharted Horizons: A Voyage of Exploration and Growth | Hsiaopei Lee & Borislava Iltcheva | ||
| 18:30 | jantar | |||||||
| 19:30 | Concerto Bandel + Sinfônica da Unicamp (aud) | ABRAV | ||||||
| 21:00 | viola café 2 |
July 19th
| Horário inicio | Auditório IA + Watari/ atividade | Proponentes | Sala 35/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 41/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 22 | Espaço em BG |
| 09:00 | Ensaios recitais do dia | Ensaios recitais do dia | LEC 6 - Exploring Pedagogical Connections between Karen Tuttle and Simon Fischer Through the Lense of Hindemith’s Sonatas for Solo Viola | Brenton Caldwell | expositor 5 | |||
| 10:00 | WS 4 -Teaching music with visualization - presenting the Amazing Violin Comics | Lauri Hamalainen | ||||||
| 11:00 | FR 3 - New Folk Romantic Music from Norway | Povilas Syrrist-Gelgota | SR 15 - Purple Fantasies for Solo Viola | Kevin Nordstrom | LEC 7 - Finding Smooth Pathways Through Viola Literature | Andrea Houde | ||
| 11:30 | SR 16 - Sing Viola | Nehir Ankansu | ||||||
| 12:00 | almoço | |||||||
| 13:00 | Masterclass Jutta | ABRAV | FR 16 - Música Brasileira para viola e piano | Luciano Pontes | LEC 8 - Métodos escritos originalmente para viola publicados entre 1773 e 1894 | Karyni Danielly da Silva Vila | expositor 6 | |
| 14:00 | FR 17 - Hidden Gems: 20th AND 21st Century Works for Viola | Juliet White & Ryan Behan | LR 15 - Going Outside the Etude Canon: Jorge Variego’s 18+3 Etudes for Solo Viola | Kevin Nordstrom | ||||
| 15:00 | intervalo | |||||||
| 15:30 | FR 4 - Magisterra String Quartet - Global Connections | Dhyan Toffolo, Fernando Ernesto, Lopes Pereira | SR 17 - Charlotte Hampe - Sieben Kleine Barock-Tänze für viola allein | Ames Asbell | WS 5 - Freedom in mouvement, and freedom in rythmiquement and ease in performing | Françoise Gneri | ||
| 16:00 | SR 18 - Grupo de violas da China | YueQi | ||||||
| 16:30 | FR 5 - TAIORO KI TE WHENUA | Donald Maurice | FR 18 - Viola estendida | Martinez | LEC 9 - Viola Family Trees: Complexities of Heritage and Lineage and their Effects on Viola Teaching ver horário meelhor | Dorotea Vismara & Andrew Filmer | ||
| 17:30 | FR 6 - The Devil with the three golden hairs | Karin Dolman, Emlyn Stam | FR 19 - China meets Europe | Ye Zi | WS 6 - A Linguagem do Choro na Viola - Rítmo, articulação e improvisação | Luiz Paulo D. Freire | ||
| 18:30 | jantar, para quem não for ao jantar de gala | |||||||
| 19:30 | concerto gala Tatjana + Mehmari (Wat) | ABRAV | ||||||
| 21:30 | jantar gala (espaço a definir) |
July 20th
| Horário inicio | Auditório IA + Watari/ atividade | Proponentes | Sala 35/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 41/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 22 | Espaço em BG |
| 09:00 | Ensaios recitais do dia | Ensaios recitais do dia | LEC 10 - Bowing Practices in the Baroque Era | Christine Rutledge | expositor 7 | |||
| 10:00 | LEC 11 - Aproximações históricas entre a viola e a viola d’amore | Felipe Galhardi | ||||||
| 11:00 | FR 7 - French viola music with viola ensemble from Cnsmd de paris | Françoise Gneri | SR 19 - Ensemble de Violas da ESMAE | Jorge Alves | LR 16 - Transcription of recently discovered Fantasies for Gamba by G.F. Telemann | Asdis Valdimarsdottir | ||
| 11:30 | SR 20 - Ensemble de Violas APVDA | Jorge Alves | ||||||
| 12:00 | almoço | |||||||
| 13:00 | Masterclass Tatjana | ABRAV | LR 3 -Ann Odd Couple: Music for Viola and Horn | Andrea Houde | LEC 12 - Abordagens tratadísticas para viola nos séculos XVII e XVIII | Marcus Held | ||
| 14:00 | LR 4 - Música Brasileira Contemporânea para Viola Solo - A colaboração entre compositor e intérprete | Luiz Paulo Dourado Freire, Kino Lopes | LEC 13 - 4 Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra (all in D major), and the Viola Concertos No. 2 & 3 by Karl Stamitz (1745-1801 | Keneth Martinson | ||||
| 15:00 | intervalo | |||||||
| 15:30 | FR 8 - Polish Landscape | Lech Balaban, Krzysztof Sowinski | LR 5 - Boris Isaakovich Zeidman Concerto no. 2 for viola and orchestra (piano) | Istvan Szabo | IVS Annual Gen meet | IVS | ||
| 16:00 | ||||||||
| 16:30 | FR 9 - T’Rio Trios Brasileiros | Fernando Thebaldi | LR 6 -Works for Viola and Taonga Puoro, Maori Musical Instrument - se tiver espaço colocar no auditório | Sophia Acheson, Ariana Tikao | ||||
| 17:00 | ||||||||
| 17:30 | FR 10 - Violatina: new works from the South American diaspora | Emlyn Stam, Sherry Grant | LR 7 - Fazıl Say, his life, career as an acclaimed pianist and composer, his solo viola sonata | Barış Kerem Bahar | LEC 14 - Some Ideas About Viola Making | Luis Claudio Manfio | ||
| 18:30 | jantar | |||||||
| 19:30 | Recital Georgina Rossi (aud) | ABRAV | ||||||
| 21:00 | viola café 3 |
July 21st
| Horário inicio | Auditório IA + Watari/ atividade | Proponentes | Sala 35/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 41/atividade | Proponentes | Sala 22 | Espaço em BG |
| 09:00 | Ensaios Mahle | Ensaios recitais do dia | WS 7 - How to Bow Baroque Music: A Hands-On Approach | Christine Rutledge | expositor 8 | |||
| 10:00 | LR 1 - Music for Viola by Ernst Mahle | Hella, Marco, Eric, Fabio, Sonia | LR 8 - Nueva música de compositoras y compositores chilenos para viola sola y dúo viola-piano | Carola Fredes | WS 8 - Improviola jazz | Nehir Akansu | ||
| 11:00 | LR 9 - Puss in Boots | Karin Dolman | ||||||
| 12:00 | almoço | |||||||
| 13:00 | Masterclass Timothy Deighton | ABRAV | FR 21 - | IVS Delegates + sections meet | IVS | expositor 8 | ||
| 14:00 | LR 10 - Two Cantilenas for viola and piano by M. Camargo Guarnieri: A transcription project | Diane Phoenix-Neal | ||||||
| 15:00 | intervalo | |||||||
| 15:30 | FR 11 - The viola french contemporary new repertoire | Karine Lethiec | SR 21 Quarteto Ensaio de Naipe | Eric Licciardi | LEC 15 - Six Effective Strategies for Enhancing Confidence & Achieving Performance Goals | Kevin & Stephen Nordstrom | ||
| 16:30 | Ensaio Jennifer + Ilumina | ABRAV | LR 11 - Sonata para Viola António Vitorino de Almeida | Jorge Alves | ||||
| 18:30 | jantar | |||||||
| 19:30 | Concerto encerramento Jennifer + Ilumina | ABRAV | ||||||
| 21:00 | viola café 4 |
Approved proposals by thematic axis
| Title | Proponent | Thematic axis |
| World Premiere of Matthew Heap's Finding Balance for Viola, Horn and Piano | Andrea Houde | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Ann Odd Couple: Music for Viola and Horn | Andrea Houde | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Toward na International Working Group for Viola Music Catalogues | Kristofer Skaug, Daphne Gerling, Myrna Layton | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Viola estendida | Martinez Galimberti Nunes, Daniel Vargas | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Perfect Storm | Mason Spencer | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| A Musical Portrai of the American Southwest - Reflections on a Desert Winter | Stephen Nordtstrom | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Música Brasileira Contemporânea para Viola Solo - A colaboração entre compositor e intérprete | Luiz Paulo Dourado Freire, Kino Lopes | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Am Ende muss die Sonne untergehen | Roberto Luque Schoham | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| New Folk Romantic Music from Norway | Povilas Syrrist-Gelgota | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| "Viola meet flute" | Wojciech Kolacyk | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Fazıl Say, his life, career as an acclaimed pianist and composer, his solo viola sonata | Barış Kerem Bahar | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Magisterra String Quartet - Global Connections | Dhyan Toffolo, Fernando Ernesto, Lopes Pereira | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Duo for Viola: New Music of the Americas | Timothy Deighton | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Works for Viola and Taonga Puoro, Maori Musical Instrument | Sophia Acheson, Ariana Tikao | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Niccolò Paganini - Composizioni per Viola e Chitarra (New additions to the viola repertoire) | Rossana Cauti | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| The Devil with the three golden hairs | Karin Dolman, Emlyn Stam | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Puss in Boots | Karin Dolman | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Polish Landscape | Lech Balaban, Krzysztof Sowinski | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Concertino para Viola e Piano nº 2 - José Ursicino da Silva (Duda) | Camila Meirelles | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Violatina: new works from the South American diaspora | Emlyn Stam, Sherry Grant | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Trio in b minor | Alicia Valoti | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| "Solo, duo, quattro" | Wojciech Kolaczyk et al | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| TAIORO KI TE WHENUA | Donald Maurice | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Boris Isaakovich Zeidman Concerto no. 2 for viola and orchestra (piano) | Istvan Szabo | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Marcin Murawski & Alina Kubik: "Emotions: 24 reflections" | Marcin Murawski | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Nueva música de compositoras y compositores chilenos para viola sola y dúo viola-piano | Carola Fredes | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| French viola music with viola ensemble from Cnsmd de paris | Françoise Gneri | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Sonata para Viola António Vitorino de Almeida | Jorge Alves | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Ensemble de Violas da ESMAE | Jorge Alves | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Ensemble de Violas APVDA | Jorge Alves | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| The viola french contemporary new repertoire | Karine Lethiec | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| Grupo de violas da China | YueQi | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| China meets Europe | Ye Zi | New additions to the viola repertoire |
| New Works for Solo Viola from Brazil and a tribute to Mr. Ricardo Kubala | Jessé Máximo Pereira | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Obras de Compositores/as Mineiros/as para viola e piano | Carlos Aleixo | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Trio Echinata - Música de Câmara do Brasil e AL para viola, clarinete e piano | Luiz Paulo D. Freire | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Música Latino e norte-americana para viola e piano | Daphne Gerling | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Música Brasileira para viola e piano | Luciano Pontes | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Two Cantilenas for viola and piano by M. Camargo Guarnieri: A transcription project | Diane Phoenix-Neal | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| A Collection of Mexican Duos for Violin and Viola | Kevin & Stephen Nordstrom | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Quarteto Ensaio de Naipe | Eric Licciardi | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Sonata T22 - Brenno Blauth | Daniel Marques Rolim | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| T’Rio Trios Brasileiros | Fernando Thebaldi | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Music for Viola by Ernst Mahle | Hella Frank, Marco Catto, | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Two Brazilian Duos for Violin and Viola | Kevin & Stephen Nordstrom | Music from Brazil and Latin America |
| Panel discussion: Viola Pedagogy in the 21st Century - What we can learn from research in Educational Psychology, Self-regulated Learning, Neuroscience and Somatics | Hella Frank & Daphne G. | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Aprenda mais rápido! Torne seu estudo mais eficiente! | Hella Frank | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Exploring Pedagogical Connections between Karen Tuttle and Simon Fischer Through the Lense of Hindemith’s Sonatas for Solo Viola | Brenton Caldwell | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Hindemith Solo Suite | Brenton Caldwell | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Métodos escritos originalmente para viola publicados entre 1773 e 1894 | Karyni Danielly da Silva Vila | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Finding Smooth Pathways Through Viola Literature | Andrea Houde | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Viola Family Trees: Complexities of Heritage and Lineage and their Effects on Viola Teaching | Dorotea Vismara & Andrew Filmer | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Going Outside the Etude Canon: Jorge Variego’s 18+3 Etudes for Solo Viola | Kevin Nordstrom | New strategies in viola teaching |
| CHALLENGES AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS IN PERFORMING BÉLA BARTÓK’S CONCERTO FOR VIOLA AND ORCHESTRA, Sz. 120, BB 128 | Rossana Cauti | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Six Effective Strategies for Enhancing Confidence & Achieving Performance Goals | Kevin & Stephen Nordstrom | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Teaching music with visualization - presenting the Amazing Violin Comics | Lauri Hamalainen | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Jogo musical Dados Mágicos! Uma ferramenta didática que fornece suporte lúdico para o ensino do instrumento | Maria Fernanda Canabarro | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Freedom in mouvement, and freedom in rythmiquement and ease in performing | Françoise Gneri | New strategies in viola teaching |
| Student - centered teaching and the development of sefl-regulated learning | Hella Johanna Frank | New strategies in viola teaching |
| A Linguagem do Choro na Viola - Rítmo, articulação e improvisação | Luiz Paulo D. Freire | Use of the viola in improvisation and popular music |
| Improviola jazz | Nehir Akansu | Use of the viola in improvisation and popular music |
| Sound as protest- The political influence of music | Lynn Rudolph | Use of the viola in improvisation and popular music |
| Sing Viola | Nehir Ankansu | Use of the viola in improvisation and popular music |
| Bowing Practices in the Baroque Era | Christine Rutledge | Historical Performance on the viola |
| How to Bow Baroque Music: A Hands-On Approach | Christine Rutledge | Historical Performance on the viola |
| Aproximações históricas entre a viola e a viola d’amore | Felipe Galhardi | Historical Performance on the viola |
| Abordagens tratadísticas para viola nos séculos XVII e XVIII | Marcus Held | Historical Performance on the viola |
| Transcription of recently discovered Fantasies for Gamba by G.F. Telemann | Asdis Valdimarsdottir | Historical Performance on the viola |
| Ferdinando Giorgetti's "Gran Quintetto op 27", Publication Mysteries Solved! | Alicia Valotti | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Purple Fantasies for Solo Viola | Kevin Nordstrom | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Hidden Gems: 20th AND 21st Century Works for Viola | Juliet White & Ryan Behan | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Uncharted Horizons: A Voyage of Exploration and Growth | Hsiaopei Lee & Borislava Iltcheva | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Unconventional Cadential Conventions: Exploring the World of Ogu Music on the Voila and through African Pianism | Joseph Kunnuji & Jeanne-Louise Moolman | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Charlotte Hampe - Sieben Kleine Barock-Tänze für viola allein | Ames Asbell | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Contrasts and Connections | Ayn Balija | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Shared Recital: Multicultural Mosaic from the United States | Diane Phoenix-Neal | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| five unique viola works featuring British Women composers from the 20th century | British Viola Society | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| 4 Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra (all in D major), and the Viola Concertos No. 2 & 3 by Karl Stamitz (1745-1801 | Keneth Martinson | Forgotten, lesser-known music and underrepresented composers |
| Exploring Movement: An Introduction to Body Mapping for Musicians | Juliet White-Smith | Violists’ health issues |
| Some Ideas About Viola Making | Luis Claudio Manfio | Violists’ health issues |
| Palestra Body mapping | Asdis Valdimarsdottir | Violists’ health issues |
The Brazilian Violists Association is a non-profit association created in 2014. We aim to bring together professional violists, teachers, students and amateurs from all over Brazil.
Our objective is to promote and value the artistic quality of the entire violist class, individually and collectively.