LOS ANGELES MUSIC WEEK
December 2 to 9, 2007
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Angeles Music Week, Incorporated is a non-profit 501(c)3,
community
based
outreach
program, now in its fourteenth
year
of service. Each year during the first two weeks of December, Los
Angeles Music Week honors the various contributions of local landmark
artists of all genres and works exhaustively to provide equitable
access to music education for children. LAMW shares the history
of
music
in Los Angeles with children
and event attendees, noting the part this city plays in shaping music
internationally.
L.A. Music Week is an instrument of unity, building bridges to the
diverse
citizenry while enhancing local tourism. All contents are Los
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Gina
Coletti
Professor and
Violist
Violist, Gina Coletti, was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised in Tacoma, Washington. Musical travels have brought her to China, Japan, Israel, Europe, and throughout North America. In 2003, she performed the role of composer/violist Rebecca Clarke in Virginia Wolfe's play "Freshwater" at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her performance of Clarke's Sonata "proved to be a thing of shimmering beauty...." Among the festivals she has participated are Aspen, Banff, as well as the Menuhin Seminar in San Francisco. In 2004, she joined the faculty of University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an artist in residence. She has also been a professor at the Ameropa Festival in Prague, as well as the Adriatic Chamber Festival in Italy. Currently she lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches a thriving Viola class, and she is the organizer of ViolaFest, which brings hundreds of young aspiring violists together. Ms. Coletti's versatile career has included the multi-faceted Sonus Quartet in repertoire from the classics to pop. Gina has also worked extensively with popular performers such as Rod Stewart, Sarah Brightman, Alicia Keys and Prince. On television she is both host and co-producer with Paul Coletti of "The Viola Show," an educational cable program broadcast in Southern California. Gina graduated in 1999 with a Masters degree from the Juilliard School in New York City. She was awarded the Golden Medal in the Humanities upon graduating from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1997. Her primary teachers have been Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory and Ben Simon. |
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Paul
Coletti
Violist, Professor, Composer, Arranger and Conductor The renowned violist Paul Coletti has played over 1500 solo and chamber music concerts all over the world, is a professor of viola, a published composer and a TV and radio personality. He has conducted the New Japan Philharmonic orchestra, written music for airline in-flight entertainment, arranged music for pop albums, performed jazz and tango concerts, and coached award winning Chamber music groups such as the Janaki Trio. His viola students hold positions of prominence in every field of music. Of Italian parentage, Paul Coletti was born in Edinburgh and began his viola studies at age eight. At 18, he won a scholarship to study in Switzerland at the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA). There, he studied with Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy. In 1981, Menuhin described Coletti as "an outstanding violist with a most beautiful tone and a first rate musician." Further studies took him to Cincinnati as Don McInnes' teaching assistant and to New York's Juilliard School with Dorothy Delay, William Lincer and Felix Galimir. Every summer for many years, Coletti collaborated with Sandor Vegh, first as his teaching assistant and at Vegh's request as his teaching colleague in Lenk, Switzerland. During the three years at IMMA, Alberto Lysy took Paul all over the world as soloist with the Camerata Lysy in such venues as London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Il Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and many of Europe's capital cities. With Menuhin and Lysy, Coletti performed and recorded frequently including in Paris, Edinburgh, Gstaad and London, and with the conductor Lord Menuhin, as soloist in Bela Bartok’s Viola Concerto televised live from Berlin. In 1984 after two years in the USA and a year at the Banff center, Paul Coletti returned to IMMA for his first teaching position, which subsequently led to his appointment at age 25 as Head of Strings at the University of Washington. In 1987, Mr. Coletti moved to New York, which became his home for 14 years, and concurrently taught at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University for seven of those years. In the 1980s and 1990s, as a founding member of the Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet, based in Germany, and Typhoon, based in Tokyo, Coletti appeared in over 1000 concerts in Asia, Europe, Australia, North and South America, in venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center, and in the fourth-century church San Miniato al Monte in Florence. He was also guest artist with the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center, Boston, Washington, Seattle, Melbourne, and Auckland. Coletti has been invited to many of the worlds most prestigious festivals in locations such as St Barths, the Grand Canyon, the Bahamas, Prussia cove,Vail, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Lyon, Assisi, Hawaii, the Highlands and the outer Hebrides of Scotland. Paul Coletti has made over 30 award-winning CDs and DVDs, among them Hyperion's extraordinarily successful 1994 release, "English Music for Viola." As a television and radio personality, Paul Coletti is the producer of "The Viola Show," an educational cable program broadcast in Southern California, in addition to serving as the director of music videos featuring Coletti's music with narration by actor Leonard Nimoy. Mr. Coletti’s concerts are broadcast worldwide, notably on CNN, the BBC, NHK and the Classical Arts channels. Also, he is a frequent guest of St. Paul Sunday on National Public Radio. In 2001, after seven years of tours, recordings and concerts, Paul accepted a position as visiting guest professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and the following year was appointed Head of Chamber Music at UCLA. As of 2007, Professor Coletti joined the full-time faculty at the world's newest music school, the Colburn Conservatory, in Los Angeles. Professor Coletti has given master classes worldwide including Rice and Baylor Universities, Indiana University, the Shanghai Conservatory, The Toho School in Japan, the Busan festival in Korea, and the European Chamber Music Academy at the Casals Festival in France. Paul Coletti's "Three Pieces for Viola and Piano" is published by Oxford University Press, his compositions are performed world-wide and are featured on the Epic-Sony label. Coletti is also credited as an arranger and editor on many of Rebecca Clarke's published pieces. Paul Coletti has performed jazz with the Claude Bolling Trio and has guest-conducted the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in a sold-out all Mozart concert in Tokyo. In 2008, he begins conducting a childrens orchestra in LA. His most recent CD's include Bruch's Concerto with the Hannover Radio Philharmonic, a compilation of St. Paul Sunday's greatest hits, and Charles Wuorinen's sextet with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2007, he performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gerard Schwarz at Disney Hall in Paul Schoenfield's viola concerto, and in Vaughn Williams' Flos Campi, with Donald Neuen, the Los Angeles Chorale and the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in Royce Hall. In February 2008, Coletti performs Walton's viola concerto with Yehuda Gilad and the Colburn Orchestra in Ambassador Auditorium, and in June he appears for the fifth time as a soloist at an International Viola Congress. In 2008, the congress is in Arizona. Paul's previous appearances were in Redlands CA, Chicago, Seattle and Minnesota. |
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