CANCELED: Elmar Oliveira Violin Master Class

Friday, April 3, 2020 at 5:00pm CDT

Regenstein Master Class Room

For the health and safety of the Bienen School community and our valued patrons, this event has been canceled.

The first and only American violinist to win the Gold Medal at Moscow’s prestigious Tchaikovsky International Competition, Elmar Olveira was also the first violinist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize and won first prize at the Naumburg International Competition. A regular performer at many of the world’s celebrated concert venues, he has appeared with the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as the philharmonics of Helsinki, London, Los Angeles, New Yrok, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Zürich Tonhalle, among many others. He received Grammy nominations for his recordings of the Barber Concerto with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony, and the Bloch and Benjamin Lees Violin Concertos under the baton of John McGlaughlin Williams. In this master class, he coaches Bienen School violin students.