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The American violist, Patricia McCarty is winner of the First Silver Medal and Radio Prize in the Geneva International Competition when she was 18, she has also been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grants and the John Knowles Paine Award for performance of new American music.
An active proponent of the solo viola, Patricia McCarty has performed to consistent critical acclaim throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and Venezuela, appearing as soloist with orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Turiae Camerata of Valencia, and Kyoto and Shinsei Nihon Symphonies. Her recital appearances include New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Caracas, Valencia, Geneva, five 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."
As chamber musician Patricia McCarty has performed at festivals including Aspen, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Sarasota, Bowdoin, Bay Chamber Concerts, Aria (Canada), Hokkaido (Japan) and the Australian String Academy in Sydney. Former member of the Lenox Quartet, she has also toured with Music from Marlboro, Boston Chamber Music Society, and Boston Symphony Chamber Players, with whom she has recorded works by Johannes Brahms and Dvorak. Other collaborations include musicians as diverse as composer Lou Harrison and his Gamelan ensemble, Joseph Silverstein, Maureen Forrester, and jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose work Bridge of Light for viola and orchestra she commissioned, premiered and has recorded for ECM.
Soloist in the New York premiere of the orchestral version of Benjamin Britten's Lachrymae, Patricia McCarty has performed numerous world premieres, including works by Daniel Pinkham, Tibor Serly, Jerome Rosen, Marjorie Merryman, Elizabeth Vercoe and Martin Amlin.
Her recordings for Ashmont, Equilibrium, ECM, and Northeastern labels, featuring viola works by Rebecca Clarke, J.S. Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Schubert, L.v. Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, George Balch Wilson and Keith Jarrett, have received international accolades, including Gramophone's "Critics Choice" and Strad "Selection CD".
Her research of viola repertoire has been published in Strad, Symphony Magazine, Strings, American Viola Society Journal and American String Teacher and she is a contributing author to the book Playing & Teaching Viola, published in 2005 by American String Teachers Association. She has given master-classes throughout the USA, as well as in Canada, Venezuela, Australia and Spain, and her translated articles have appeared in Korean and Dutch string teaching publications. Former assistant principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Patricia McCarty presently is faculty member of the Meadowmount School of Music where she teaches viola, chamber music, and professional orchestral audition preparation. Her former students are employed in professional orchestras, chamber ensembles, university and pre-college faculties worldwide. |
