Course Description
July 13 to 24
Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm
Zakarias Grafilo, Camp Director
Student Performance: July 23 and 24 at 6:30pm
Faculty Concert: tbd
Our internationally celebrated faculty guides serious high school- and college-aged string and piano students through an intensive and inspirational two-week course. Develop ensemble playing skills through the performance and study of the world’s greatest chamber music masterworks! Students participate with at least two chamber groups in daily coached rehearsals, and receive additional instruction in string chamber orchestra or piano duo, master classes, alternative style and improvisation workshops. The workshop includes open faculty rehearsals and a public faculty concert, and culminates with two high-level concerts performed by the students.
Violinist, conductor, arranger, and Bay Area native Zakarias Grafilo has been the first violinist of the internationally acclaimed Alexander String Quartet since 2002. With the quartet, he has performed in major concert halls around the world and recorded acclaimed works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Dvořák.
In addition to his performance career, Grafilo is widely recognized for his arrangements for string quartet and voice, including works by Mahler, Wagner, and Strauss. He is currently Director of the Morrison Chamber Music Center Instructional Program at San Francisco State University and serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College Division.
Audition required; Crowden will contact prospective students after receipt of registration.