Description
AmiciMusic, the award-winning chamber music organization based in Asheville, NC, returns to the White Horse on September 15 at 2:00pm with a fun, toe-tapping program entitled “BROADWAY VIOLIN,” featuring great arrangements of Broadway songs for violin and piano. Tim Schwarz, violin and Daniel Weiser, piano have been performing together for over 30 years since they met as graduate students at the Peabody Conservatory. They were the 1996 U.S. Artistic Ambassadors, for which they presented over 50 concerts in 11 different countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, including Syria, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and more. This program will highlight some great Broadway songs by George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, Jerry Bock, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and more.
Since his solo debut with the legendary Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine,
violinist Timothy Schwarz has had a brilliant career as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. Praised for his “charismatic playing” (Music Web International) and “A virtuoso tour de force” (Gramophone). Schwarz regularly performs throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas as a soloist and chamber musician. His teaching skills have earned him masterclass and residency invitations at prestigious institutions around the world. His many CD’s include the 2023 release of The Living American by Albany Records “Glorious tone and impeccable technique” (Music Web International), the 2018 release of Anthems from Prometheus by Albany Records “All credit to Timothy Schwarz for providing a performance as gripping from first to last as this one” (Fanfare Magazine), the 2013 release of Early Chamber Works by Jennifer Higdon by Naxos “Top 10 Classical Albums in 2013” (Philadelphia City Paper) and his 2006 release of Timothy Schwarz, Live! By Centaur Records “Good enough to be the only recording in your collection” (American Record Guide). An avid educator, Schwarz is currently Associate Professor and Head of Strings at Rowan University, President of the New Jersey chapter of the America String Teachers Association, and Artistic Director and Founder of Techne Music, which includes a summer chamber music camp and concert series. In 2023, Dr. Schwarz served as Visiting Professor of Performance at the London College of Music, where he worked closely with composition students and faculty. For a five-year period through 2001, Schwarz served three tours as Artistic Ambassador in South America, Asia, and Africa, performing over 100 recitals in 15 countries. As part of winning the Starling Violin Competition, he studied with Dorothy DeLay at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He later received a MM from the Peabody Conservatory and a DMA from Temple University. He owns an extensive collection of fine violins, including a 1745 Carlo Antonio Testore, an 1830 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume and a 1921 Leandro Bisiach. For further information and a performance schedule, visit
www.TimothySchwarz.com.
Daniel Weiser, piano and Artistic Director of AmiciMusic, has a Doctorate in Piano/Chamber Music from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Samuel Sanders and Robert MacDonald and won the Richard Franko Goldman prize for outstanding contribution to musical and educational life. He has performed on many great stages, including the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. He has also concertized around the world, including Israel, Thailand, Holland, and France and was the 1996 U.S. Artistic Ambassador Abroad, for which he performed on an eleven-country tour of the Middle East and Asia. He has been on the music faculty of Dartmouth College and the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. Besides founding AmiciMusic, he co-founded and still serves as Artistic Director for Classicopia, a similar type of chamber music organization based in New Hampshire. He was also a founding member of the Adirondack Ensemble, which won a Chamber Music America award for inventive programming and outreach. He has participated in the New Hampshire Music Festival, Musicorda, and the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival and has been the Music Director of the Da Corneta Opera Ensemble, the Opera North Young Artist program, and Opera New England. A phi beta kappa graduate of Columbia University with a degree in American History, he also spent a year at Harvard Law School and was a classmate of President Obama. A native of Buffalo, NY, he recently moved to Savannah, GA with his wife, Dr. Kisha Weiser and their eighteen-year old twin daughters, Rose and Sophie.