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Since winning the First Silver Medal and Radio Prize in the Geneva International Competition at the age of eighteen, Patricia McCarty has performed to consistent critical acclaim throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, appearing as soloist with orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Boston Pops, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kyoto Symphony, Shinsei Nihon Symphony and Turiae Camerata of Valencia. Her recital appearances include New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Valencia, Geneva, four International Viola Congresses and a debut at London's Wigmore Hall hailed by the Times to be "an outstanding exhibition of string playing of the highest American class." Ms. McCarty has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist grants, the John Knowles Paine Award for performance of new American music, and Gramophone's Critic's Choice designation for her recording of works by Rebecca Slarke on a Northeastern compact disc.
As a chamber musician Ms. McCarty participates in the Sarasota Festival, and has also performed at Aspen, Marlboro and Tanglewood. A frequent guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, she has toured with them as well as with Music from Marlboro, the Lenox Quartet and Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and she has recorded chamber works by Loeffler, Brahms and Dvorak for Northeastern and Nonesuch. Other collaborations include musicians as diverse as composer Lou Harrison and his gamelan ensemble, Maureen Forrester, Joseph Silverstein, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, and jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose work for viola and orchestra Ms. McCarty comissioned, premiered and has recorded for ECM.
Soloist in the New York premiere of the orchestral version of Britten's Lachrymae, Ms. McCarty has performed world premieres of works by Daniel Pinkham, Tibor Serly, Jerome Rosen, Marjorie Merryman, Elizabeth Vercoe and Martin Amlin. Her research of viola repertoire has produced articles published in The Strad, Symphony Magazine, Strings, American Viola Society Journal and American String Teacher. Former assistant principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ms. McCarty presently teaches at the Boston Conservatory and the Longy School in Cambridge. Her recording of the Bach Cello Suites is planned for summer 2000 release on the Ashmont label.
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