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The concertmaster (from the German Konzertmeister), first chair [1] (U.S.) or leader [2] (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band). After the conductor , the concertmaster is the most significant leader in an orchestra , symphonic band or other musical ensemble .
S. Nikolai Sachenko; Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio; Shunsuke Sato; Heinrich Schachtebeck; Gustav Schmahl; Alexander Schneider; Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violinist) Werner Scholz (violinist)
In the subsequent year, 1974, he performed in Puerto Rico as a member of the Casals Festival Orchestra. [5] In 1975, he was appointed as the concertmaster of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until 1976. In the subsequent year, he took on the position of concertmaster with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, a role he held until 1983.
As a guest concertmaster, Greenberg has performed with the Houston, St. Louis, San Diego, and Oregon Symphonies, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway. He was the first American to serve as concertmaster for the Japan Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble of top players from Japan and ...
The name “BandArt” was chosen because it captures perfectly the orchestra’s talent and aspirations. 'Band' comes from the Spanish word bandas , traditional wind ensembles , still strongly alive in many localities in Spain where local people of all generations meet regularly to socialize and play music of all styles, from zarzuela to Bizet ...
He served as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra for 43 years; upon his appointment in 1957 at age 26, he was the youngest person to ever hold the post. He also enjoyed a career as a soloist. [1] His final performance as concertmaster with the orchestra was a concert performance in Carnegie Hall of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's ...
The orchestra recorded with the Mendelssohn Choir, [7] with CBC's Festival Singers, and with pianist Glenn Gould. [ 8 ] The CBCSO performed and recorded many of the works of composer/conductor Igor Stravinsky , [ 9 ] including his Symphony of Psalms , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] which featured Stravinsky as conductor and violinist Steven Staryk as concertmaster.
The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...