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- Bayla Keyes, violin
Bayla Keyes, violin
Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Described as "a charismatic soloist of expressive generosity and technical élan," violinist Bayla Keyes is an ardent champion for a wide range of classical and contemporary repertoire.
A seasoned performer on the international touring circuit, having played over one thousand concerts as a founding member of the Naumburg and Evian Award-winning Muir String Quartet, Ms. Keyes currently concertizes internationally as recitalist, as soloist with orchestras, and as a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva and the acclaimed piano trio, Triple Helix.
Recent highlights include premieres at the BBC and Kings Place in London, concerts in Beijing and Shanghai, frequent appearances on major chamber music series in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., numerous radio broadcasts, solo recitals in Pittsburgh, Boston, and Vermont, the complete Mozart Violin Sonatas and works of Bartók in Serkin Center, and performances with orchestra of concertos by Stravinsky, Chausson, Bartók, Dvorâk, Sibelius, Beethoven, Martinu, Piazzolla, Brahms and Mozart.
While earning degrees from Curtis Institute and Yale University and attending the Marlboro Music Festival, Ms. Keyes studied with major teachers such as Ivan Galamian, Oscar Shumsky, Jascha Brodsky, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle, Paul Kling, and Alexander Schneider, and she is committed to passing on their inspirational knowledge; she is Associate Professor of Violin at Boston University and also on the violin faculty at New England Conservatory. Former founding director of the String Quartet Institute at Tanglewood, and former director of the Interlochen Adult Chamber Music Conference, Bayla now teaches in the summer at ARIA International Music Academy and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival.
Her piano trio, Triple Helix, was in residence at Wellesley College from 1999-2012, where their series of Beethoven concerts garnered them the accolade of “Musicians of the Year” from the Boston Globe; the trio is presently Artist Ensemble in Residence at the Rivers School. Their CD "A Sense of Place" was cited as "Best of North America" by Gramophone Magazine.
Ms. Keyes has recorded for Video Artists International, Ecoclassics, CRI, Musical Heritage, EMI-France, Sony, Koch, Bridge, MRS and New World Records. She plays a Gennarius Gagliano made in 1740. Ms. Keyes served as a board member of Chamber Music America from 2003-2009 and has adjudicated at the Singapore, Stulberg, and Fischoff International Competitions.
Bayla Keyes
Residency Activities
Master Class for Strings
Tuesday, October 29, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Hudson Hall
Free and open to the public.
For further information contact the Willamette University Music Department at 503-370-6255 or email Diane Trevett at dtrevett@willamette.edu.