Maia Quartet Farewell Concert

November 10, 2011 at 7:30pm

Riverside Recital Hall

Join the University and Eastern Iowa community as our beloved Quartet In Residence performs its last CLAS-sponsored recital.  This event is free and open to the public.  Following the concert, all are invited to a reception to celebrate the Maia's long association with the University of Iowa.    

Tricia Park, violin
Robin Sharp, guest violin
Elizabeth Oakes, viola
Hannah Holman, cello
Assaff Weisman, guest piano

Program:
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major 

Violinist Robin Sharp, a native of California, is a solo performer, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher. In addition to maintaining private teaching studios in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Ms. Sharp performs as concertmaster of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra with conductor Benjamin Simon, and is on the music faculty at Stanford University as full-time Lecturer in Violin. Ms. Sharp also served as concertmaster for the Berkeley Symphony with conductor Kent Nagano for six seasons, and was a guest concertmaster for a concert in Germany under conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. She is currently on the Artistic Advisory Board of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and is also on the faculty of California Summer Music.

Assaff Weisman’s performances have taken him to some of the major venues in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. These include appearances at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Philips Hall in The Hague, the Millennium Piano Festival in Spain as well as in Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. As first prize winner in the 2006 Iowa International Piano Competition he has appeared as soloist with the Sioux City Symphony, American Chamber Orchestra, Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Peru.