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Home > Soloists
NWSO Soloists
Soloists for Northwest Symphony Orchestra's twenty-first season are Geisa Dutra, performing Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel and NWSO Concertmaster, Eric Rynes, performing Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Geisa Dutra, Piano Soloist
Geisa Dutra has kept a versatile and ever growing career as concert pianist, master teacher, lecturer, recording artist, producer and an ambassador for Brazilian Music and Culture.
Winner of numerous awards and prizes, she won the prize for the ”Best Performer of Brazilian Music“ at the age of 14. She is also a recipient of the 1985 Cliburn International Piano Institute Award, the 1986 Ladies Musical Club Award, the 1983 Johannesen International School of the Arts Award,the 1984 Northshore Musicians Club Award, the Illinois Collegiate Artist Prize and the Sigma Alpha Iota Award, the 1985-87 Milnor Roberts Scholarship, the 1988 Foster and Houts scholarship and many first prizes in Competions in Brazil.
She has performed in England, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Brazil and the USA, including performances and interviews on National Public Radio and Television.
Ms. Dutra has played as soloist, with the Philharmonia Northwest, Broadway Symphony, U. W. Symphony, Cascade Symphony, Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional, and Orquestra Sinfonica da Universidade do Rio de Janeiro. The 2007/08 season will include concerts with the Vancouver Symphony(Rachmaninoff’s Rapsodie) and the Northwest Symphony Orchestra (Ravel in G) in addition to Recitals, Lectures and Master Classes.
Highlights from the 2006-07 season included performances as soloist and recitalist in Brazil and United States, where standing ovations were the norm and invitations to return immediately followed. Geisa Dutra is included at the 4CULTURE 2007-2008 Touring Arts Roster for the Northwest.
Eric Rynes, Violin Soloist
Eric Rynes has been described by the Seattle Weekly as an "intrepid" violinist, "devoted to the sort of edgy, path-breaking works that give the glossy composers of today's Age of Accessibility hives." In addition to his many performances of solo, chamber, and orchestral works composed before 1900, he has performed 150 solo, chamber, and electro-acoustic works from the 20th and 21st centuries, often giving world or national premieres. His festival appearances include June in Buffalo, Aspen, the International Computer Music Conference (Havana), the Internationales Bodenseefestival (Konstanz), and the Rotterdam Music Biennial; he has given solo recitals at Tesla (Berlin), Queen's University (Belfast), Stanford University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), the University of California at San Diego, and several other locations. He has worked extensively with both established and student composers, and has lectured on composing for the violin at universities including De Montfort (U.K.) and the University of Montana.
Eric received his M.M. from the University of Washington, where he was a top scholarship winner, concertmaster, instructor, and a researcher at the University's Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities. He previously earned degrees in physics from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois, and studied contemporary violin literature in Paris with Maryvonne Le Dizès of the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He has also received private coaching from Irvine Arditti of the Arditti Quartet and lessons at Aspen with David Perry of the Pro Arte Quartet, and participated in a masterclass with Christian Tetzlaff.
As a concerto competition winner, he has soloed with university orchestras in Seattle (Bartók Concerto No. 2) and Chicago (Shostakovich Concerto No. 2); he has also performed Giacinto Scelsi's Anahit for solo violin and 18 instruments with the Contemporary Group at the University of Washington. As an orchestral musician, he has performed under the batons of Barenboim, Boulez, Comissiona, DePriest, Foster, Slatkin, and many others. In 2006, Eric served on the violin faculty of Marrowstone Summer Music, and judged auditions for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is currently recording a solo CD, funded in part by an Artist Assistance Program grant from Jack Straw Productions. His recording of Richard Karpen's Sotto/Sopra, for violin and real-time computer processing, is available on the Centaur label.