VOICES
OF TIME
Works
for Solo Violin & Solo Viola
JS BACH, BIBER,
PROKOFIEV,
SUNG & VARGA
MATITIAHU
BRAUN
CAMILLUS CAMILLI VIOLIN
(1739)
GUY RABUT VIOLA (1998)
MS1336 [2 CD set] ~ $19.95
Matitiahu
Braun began his study of
the violin in 1946, at age six, in his native Jerusalem. He gave his first
recital six months later, performing a Vivaldi concerto. He graduated from the
Israel Academy of Music where he studied with Ödön Partos, a composer and
performer who began as a violinist and became a violist. It was Partos’s
remarkable deep tone on the viola that has ever since inspired Braun. Early in
his own career, after his 1977 Town Hall recital playing on both instruments, a New
York Times critic called Braun a “Master of Strings.”
Matitiahu
Braun came to America in 1962 to study violin at the Juilliard School with
Joseph Fuchs. He received his Artist and Post-graduate diplomas from the
Juilliard and was the recipient of the prestigious Naumburg
Prize. After stints with the Musica
Aeterna Orchestra and Denver Symphony, he joined the New York Philharmonic, a
position he held from 1969 until 2006. He also served as Principal and Solo
Violist with the Dallas Symphony in the late 1970s. Mr. Braun’s busy career
includes recitals, chamber music, and appearances with orchestras throughout the
United States and in Finland, Japan, and Israel. Likewise, he has taught,
coached, and conducted master classes in hopes of inspiring young talent
throughout the world to follow his approach and understanding. Understanding for
Matitiahu Braun comes from a never-ending exploration of each musical work’s
spiritual, emotional, and intellectual meaning.
Currently
a resident of Florida, Matitiahu Braun teaches at Rollins College in Winter Park
and has private students in both violin and viola. Since settling in the Orlando
area in 2006, he has presented faculty recitals at Rollins and at other venues,
performing on both violin and viola. He recently appeared in New York City in
recital and chamber music concerts at Weill Hall and Lincoln Center, in Iowa and
Wisconsin, and at the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival in East Aurora and
Buffalo, New York, and at the International Grieg Festival in early 2009. He
appeared as soloist with the COSM Orchestra in New York City in May 2009
performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
ALSO AVAILABLE
SOLO VIOLIN
WORKS
J.S. Bach,
Francesco Geminiani,
Eugène Ysaÿe and Paul Ben-Haim
MS1068
