Guest viola recital Sunday

Friday, October 26, 2012

 

 

Guest artist recital Sunday

Dr. Eliza Thomason, director of strings and assistant professor at Texas Lutheran University, will perform a viola recital on Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Seretean Center Concert Hall, admission is free.

In addition to having previously won positions with the Spokane, New Haven, and New World Symphonies, her orchestral solos as principal violist with the Aspen Concert Orchestra have been featured on The Classical Station of New York City and NPR's Performance Today.

An advocate of new music, Thomason has premiered several works for solo viola, chamber ensemble, and orchestra. Most recently, she recorded new chamber music for the MSR Classics recording label, "Winning Works of the 2010 Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition," and serves on the Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition Board of Directors.