About

Award-winning violinist Gary Capozziello enjoys a varied musical life as both highly versatile performer and passionate teacher. As a chamber performer he has participated at festivals such as Kneisel Hall Chamber Festival, Cambridge International Music Festival, Maine Chamber Music Institute, the NYU String Quartet Program, and the Music @ Salem series. A frequent soloist with orchestra, his concerto appearances have included concerts with the Manchester Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of New Haven, American Chamber Orchestra, Connecticut Valley Chamber orchestra, Hartt Symphony and the Hartt Wind Ensemble. A featured guest artist at the 30th Annual Fairfield County String Festival, Gary has made appearances on “The Exchange” television broadcast and benefit concerts for Music for Youth and South Shore Music Inc. He has performed in concert with the Lions Gate Trio and in a string quartet as a member of the full- scholarship 20/20 chamber program at Hartt, where he was teaching assistant studying with Katie Lansdale.
A native of Fairfield, CT, Gary earned his B.M. at SUNY Purchase Conservatory and his M.M. from New England Conservatory, where his principle teachers were Laurie Smukler, Lucy Chapman and Nick Kitchen. Gary has performed in masterclass for Isaac Stern, Midori, Pamela Frank, Maxim Vengerov, Glen Dicterow, Ani Kavafian, Bayla Keyes and Vadim Gluzman, and in chamber music masterclasses for members of the Juilliard, Mendelssohn, Tokyo, Borromeo, American, Orion, Audubon, Fine Arts and Chicago String Quartets.

Music

Bartók: Quartet for Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 7/Sz 40
Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 1 in F major, Op. 18 no 1
Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 8 in E minor, Op. 59 no 2 "Razumovsky"
Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 11 in F minor, Op. 95 "Serioso"
Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 16 in F major, Op. 135
Brahms: Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, Op. 51 no 1
Brahms: Quartet for Strings no 2 in A minor, Op. 51 no 2
Dvorak: Quartet for Strings no 12 in F major, Op. 96/B 179 "American"
Haydn: Quartet for Strings in D major, Op. 50 no 6/H 3 no 49 "Frog"
Ives: Quartet for Strings no 1 "From the Salvation Army"
Mendelssohn: Quartet for Strings no 2 in A Minor, Op. 13 "Ist Es Wahr?" (Is It True?)
Shostakovich: Quartet for Strings no 1 in C major, Op. 49
Shostakovich: Quartet for Strings no 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Schumann: Quartet for Strings in A major, Op. 41 no 3
Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major
Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10
Tchaikovsky: Quartet for Strings no 1 in D major, Op. 11: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Sz 111
Beethoven: Trio for Piano and Strings no 5 in D major, Op. 70 no 1 "Ghost"
Beethoven: Trio for Piano and Strings no 7 in B flat major, Op. 97 "Archduke"
Beethoven: Allegretto for Piano Trio in B flat, woo39
Beethoven: Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D major, Op. 25
Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115
Brahms: Trio for Piano and Strings no 3 in C minor, Op. 101
Brahms: Quintet for Strings no 2 in G major, Op. 111
Debussy: Trio for Piano and Strings in G major
Dvorak: Trio for Piano and Strings no 4 in E minor, Op. 90/B 166 "Dumky"
Dvorak: Terzetto for 2 Violins and Viola in C major, Op. 74/B 148
Glazunov: Quintet for Strings in A major, Op. 39
Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Cello (Based on a Theme by Haydn)
Haydn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in F sharp minor, H 26 no 40
Kodály: Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 12
Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in D minor, Op. 49
Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Schumann: Quintet for Piano and Strings in E flat major, Op. 44
Schumann: Quartet for Piano and Strings in E flat major, Op. 47
Smetana: Trio for Piano and Strings in G minor, B 96/T 64/Op. 15
Shostakovich: Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Ravel: Sonata (en duo) for Violin and Cello
Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins in C major, Op. 56

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