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Jacob Clewell
Viola
About
American violist Jacob Clewell stands in the vanguard of musicians of his generation. Gold Medalist of the 2017 Vancouver International Music Competition, his recent performances include Mozart’s Viola Quintet in C major and Chausson’s Piano Quartet with Vera Beths and Pedja Muzijevic at Le Domaine Forget in Quebec, Vasks’ Piano Quartet with the Velox Quartett at the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, and his first appearance in New York City’s Carnegie Hall with his duo partner, pianist Sasha Bult-Ito. He has served as principal violist of the Royal Conservatory Orchestra under maestros Gabor Takacs-Nagy and Bramwell Tovey, and at the Marrowstone and Eastern Music Festivals under maestro Gerard Schwarz. He holds diplomas from the Cornish College of the Arts, Stony Brook University, and The Glenn Gould School, where he studied with Mara Gearman, Nicholas Cords, Lawrence Dutton, and Steven Dann. He has undertaken additional study in Europe with Yuko Inoue and Roger Chase.
Music
Viola and Piano
Brahms: Sonatas in F minor and Eb major
Clarke: Viola Sonata
Coulthard: Sonata-Rhapsody
Franck: Sonata in A major (trans. Clewell)
Higdon: Viola Sonata
Hindemith: Sonata Op. 11 no. 4
Piazzolla: Le Grande Tango (trans. Clewell)
Schubert: Sonata in A minor, "Arpeggione" (trans. Dann)
C. Schumann: 3 Romances (trans. Clewell)
R. Schumann: Marchenbilder
Shostakovich: Viola Sonata
Vieuxtemps: Elegie
Vieuxtemps: Viola Sonata
For Viola Alone
Bach: Suite nos. 3 and 6
Britten: Elegy
Carter: Figment IV
Clewell: In the Shade of Giants
Hindemith: Sonata Op. 25 no. 1
Krenek: Sonata for Solo Viola
Kodaly: Fantasia Cromatica
Shaw: in manus tuas
Stravinsky: Elegie
Vieuxtemps: Capriccio
Representative Chamber Works
String Quartets/Quintets: Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, etc.
Piano Quartets/Quintets: Brahms, Chausson, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Vasks, etc.
Sextets: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Schoenberg
Videos
