Guest Artist
March 20, 2011
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.
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Guest Artists
February 13, 2011
Mike Crotty and Deater O'Neill
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