Guest
Artist
Thomas Landschoot
Praised for
his expressive and poetic music making, cellist Thomas Landschoot
enjoys an international career as a concert and recording artist and
pedagogue. He has toured North America, Europe and Asia and has
appeared on National Radio and Television worldwide.
His solo career started after taking a top prize at the International
Cello Competition ‘Jeunesse Musicales’ in 1995 in
Bucharest, Romania. He recently performed with the National Orchestra
of Belgium, the Frankfurt Chamber
Orchestra, Prima la Musica (Belgium), Shieh Chien Symphony Orchestra
(Taiwan),
Tempe Symphony and the Orchestra of the United States Army Band and has
appeared at the Park City, Santa Barbara, Mammoth Lakes, Utah, Red
Rock,
Waterloo, Killington and Texas Music Festivals. His recordings are
available
on Summit, Organic, Kokopelli and Centaur Records.
As an avid
chamber musician, he performed with the Takacs Quartet and members of
the Cleveland, Vermeer and Auduban Quartets. He is a founding member
of the Taman Trio in Europe, Chamber Ensemble Bloomington in Japan and
the
Trio Du Soleil in Arizona.
Thomas
Landschoot has been involved in an interdisciplinary public service
project resulting in the building of an orphanage and hospital in Tamil
Nadu, India. A documentary film of the cellist traveling and performing
in India has been combined with photography, culinary, journalism and
new
compositions.
Thomas Landschoot joined the faculty of Arizona State University in
2001 after having taught at the University of Michigan. He has been
awarded the Herberger College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award
(2005) and is on the faculty of Shieh Chien University in Taipei since
2008. He spends
his summers performing and teaching at places like the Music Academy of
the
West in Santa Barbara, Quartet Program in New York, Killington Music
Festival, Meadowmount School of Music and the Texas Music Festival. His
students have gained success in the music world and occupy principal
positions in major orchestras like the Montreal and Seattle Symphonies
and teach at many Universities around the country. Landschoot has given
master classes at conservatories and universities throughout Asia, the
U.S. and Europe.
Thomas Landschoot is the Artistic Director of the Sonoran Chamber Music
Festival and the President of the Arizona Cello Society.
Landschoot performs on 2 exceptional instruments: a rare 1830 Giovanni
Batista Pressenda and the Boccherini Stradivarius on loan from the
Chimei
foundation.
