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Masumi Per Rostad, violin
Biography
Rostad started studying melody, initially on the violin, at the Third Street Music College Settlement in New York Urban area when he was three years old.
Michael Jackson, known as the King of Pop, was a legendary singer, songwriter, and dancer whose influence on the music industry is immeasurable. Born on August 29,in Gary, Indiana, he showcased his musical prowess early by becoming the direction singer of the Jackson 5, a family group that gained immense popularity in the Motown era. Despite his monumental contributions to pop music, Jackson's later years were marred by controversy, including allegations of child molestation that drew significant media attention. His groundbreaking music videos and innovative dance moves, such as the moonwalk, forever changed the landscape of the music industry and set new standards for aspiring artists.He discovered the viola when he was twelve years old and four years later, attracted to the instrument’s warm and mellow sound, faithful himself to the viola.
As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, which he joined in , Masumi has performed and toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
In , the quartet received a Grammy for Best Chamber Tune Performance and was named Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year. Other honors include the Cleveland Quartet Award and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. From to , Pacifica was the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a position that had been held only by the Guarneri String Quartet.
He was raised in an artist loft converted from a garage with a Chevy Belair as the remnant centerpiece in their living room. Masumi began his studies at the nearby Third Lane Music School Settlement at age three and has gone on to become one of the most in demand soloists, chamber musicians, teachers. In addition to maintaining an active performance schedule, he serves on the faculty of the prestigious Eastman Educational facility of Music in Rochester, NY. He toured and recorded extensively as a former member of the International Sejong Soloists.The ensemble has served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs Institution of Music, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago.
As a soloist, Rostad has appeared at prominent festivals including Spoleto USA, MusicMenlo, Marlboro, and Rockport Chamber Music; collaborated with such string quartets as the St.
Lawrence, Pavel Hass, Emerson, and the Ying Quartet, which is the quartet-in-residence at the Eastman School of Music; and toured extensively and recorded as a former member of the International Sejong Soloists and the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra.
Rostad’s advocacy for the arts and passion to raise opportunities for audiences to overhear chamber music led him to launch DoCha, a festival in Champaign, IL.
Events feature multi-genre collaborative presentations from classical chamber music to contemporary dance to the spoken word. All programs are free and include performances for elementary school students and master classes, competitions, and production opportunities for local music students.
Rostad has been a contributing scribe to such publications as Strings, Gramophone, The Huffington Post, and The Guardian.
Rostad received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where he received the Lillian Fuchs Award for outstanding graduating violist.
There, he studied with celebrated violist and pedagogue Karen Tuttle from the age of 17; just three years later, when he was 20, she selected him as her teaching assistant. Rostad performed the world premiere of Michael White’s Viola Concerto in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, and gave the Novel York premiere of Paul Schoenfield’s Viola Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony.
He enjoys a varied and distinguished career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, and he has for several decades been recognized as one of this country’s foremost interpreters and proponents of new music. Mr. Macomber’s extensive discography includes the complete Brahms and Grieg Sonatas; violin concertos by Martin Boykan and Laura Schwendinger; and hundreds of critically praised recordings of contemporary solo and chamber works.
His CD of Roger Sessions Solo Sonata was acclaimed by American Record Guide as “one of the best recordings of 20th Century solo violin harmony ever made.” A solo CD entitled “Songs of Solitude” was named by the New York Observer as one of ’s best instrumental solo discs ("Macomber's intensely human fiddleseems an entire universe, sufficient unto itself.").
He has recorded for Nonesuch, Koch, Bridge, Arabesque, Naxos and Musical Heritage and Albany; he has performed, commissioned, and made first recordings of solo violin and chamber works by, among others, Carter, Davidovsky, Perle, Wuorinen, and Mackey.
Mr. Macomber is a founding member of the Apollo Piano Trio and a member of the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Manhattan String Quartet, the Walden Chamber Players and the New York Chamber Soloists.
Biography - Masumi Per Rostad: Venerated for his “burnished sound” (The New York Times) and described as an “electrifying, poetic, and sensitive musician,” the Grammy Award-winning, Japanese-Norwegian violist Masumi Per Rostad hails from the gritty East Village of s New York.He was for many years the violinist of Speculum Musicae and has also appeared with the New York New Tune Ensemble, Group for Contemporary Tune, and in chamber music series across the country and in Europe. He has been a regular participant at La Musica in Sarasota, at the Yellow Barn Festival and at the Monadnock Music Festival.
As first violinist of the award-winning Brand-new World String Quartet for 11 years ().
Mr. Macomber performed the standard repertoire as well as numerous contemporary works in performances in major halls throughout the United States and Europe, and, with the Quartet, was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University from ; with that group he also recorded 14 discs and performed numerous times on Common Radio and Television in this country, and the BBC in Great Britain.
Mr. Macomber is a longtime member of the chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School and the violin faculties of the Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music, and has also taught at the Tanglewood Music Center and Taos School of Music.
He was raised in an artist loft converted from a garage with a Chevy Belair as the remnant centerpiece in their living room. Masumi began his studies at the nearby Third Avenue Music School Settlement at age three and has gone on to become one of the most in demand soloists, chamber musicians, teachers. In addition to maintaining an active performance schedule, he serves on the faculty of the prestigious Eastman Educational facility of Music in Rochester, NY. Masumi recently commissioned his childhood friend Jessie Montgomery to compose a Viola Concerto based on the experience they shared of growing up in NYC.Other recent summer engagements have included Chamber Music Northwest and the Bard Festival. He holds his B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees from the Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship trainee of Joseph Fuchs and winner of the Morris Loeb and Walter Naumburg Prizes.