This concert brings together musicians participating in the Washington Conservatory’s Winter Chamber Music Weekend, an immersive program dedicated to learning, collaboration, artistry, and musical exploration. The performance highlights the depth of work developed during the weekend through ensemble rehearsals and coaching from WCM Faculty members. The program also features a special solo performance by Violinist Hal Grossman. Together, these performances celebrate the power of chamber music as both a collaborative and expressive art form.
Violinist Hal Grossman has been hailed by critics for his “tremendous virtuosic technique” and “outstanding artistic sense”. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with American, European, and Canadian orchestras, including the Rochester Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, Polish Sinfonietta, the Illinois, Lima, Guelph, and Battle Creek symphonies. Grand Award Winner of the Lima Young Artist Competition and Silver Medalist of the International Stulberg Competition, Mr. Grossman also received First Prize Awards at the prestigious International Cleveland Quartet Competition and the National Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. He has performed for their Royal Highnesses, Prince Charles and Princess Diana and his New York Debut at Carnegie Hall received exceptional reviews from the New York Times. Recital appearances have taken him throughout North America and Europe. In the United States he has also been heard on National Public Radio, WQXI-New York, and WFMT-Chicago.
Mr. Grossman has served as Concertmaster of the Echternach Festival Orchestra in Luxembourg, lllinois, Boise, Lansing, Kentucky and SaginawBay symphonies. He has been featured at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Evian (France), Orfeo (Italy), Aspen, Lancaster, Breckenridge, Fontana, Great Lakes, Manitou, and Garth Newel music festivals. As First Violinist of the Oxford String Quartet, he performed throughout the United States and Europe and recorded several new works for string quartet.
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