At this master class, advanced students of Dannielle Elliott and Arkady Heifetz will take turns performing for the audience and guest teaching artist, award-winning violinist Geneva Lewis. After each performance, Geneva will coach the student in ways to improve their playing, and may ask the student to play again, incorporating her advice.
After seeing Geneva perform as the featured soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra on April 25 or 26, this will be an exceptional way to learn even more about how she approaches her art. She will also perform the concerto at 7:30pm, Saturday night, April 27 at the Sandler Center in Virginia Beach. Student tickets for all three performances are available for $10. For more information click here.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
A master class is a public event where a teacher shares their knowledge and experience with a student in front of an audience to improve the student’s playing. The teacher will also share insights the audience can use in their studies. It’s like a mashup of a recital and a private lesson, with an audience.
More about Geneva Lewis:
Kiwi/American violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. Lauded for “remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch” (Musical America), Geneva is the recipient of a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Additional accolades include Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize, being named a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and Musical America’s New Artist of the Month. Most recently, Geneva was named one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists.
An advocate of community engagement and music education, Geneva was selected for the New England Conservatory’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program’s Ensemble Fellowship, through which her string quartet created interactive educational programs for audiences throughout Boston. Her quartet was also chosen for the Virginia Arts Festival Residency, during which they performed and presented masterclasses in elementary, middle, and high schools.
Geneva received her Artist Diploma and Bachelor of Music as the recipient of the Charlotte F. Rabb Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory, studying with Miriam Fried. Prior to that, she studied with Aimée Kreston at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. She is currently studying at Kronberg Academy with Professor Mihaela Martin. These studies are funded by the Strauss Family Patronage. Past summers have taken her to the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Steans Institute, Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Workshop, International Holland Music Sessions, Taos School of Music and the Heifetz International Music Institute.
Geneva is currently performing on a composite violin by G.B. Guadagnini, c. 1766, generously on loan from a Charitable Trust.