He has also played concerts and tours with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society as well as many seasons as a part of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society with Kenneth Slowik. Over the years he has been a part of many great music festivals around the world both as teacher and performer including Tanglewood, Music from Menlo, The Spoleto Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music, Bowdoin Music Festival, Orford Music Academy, Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, Marlboro Music Festival, and Morningside music bridge. These experiences rehearsing and performing with such fine musicians have created a rich musical life for Ian. He has worked with so many wonderful artists including Robert Mann, Donald Weilerstein, Menahem Pressler, Leon Fleisher, Bernard Greenhouse, Paul Katz, Yo Yo Ma, Bonnie Hampton, Norman Fischer, Lynn Harrell, Steven Isserlis, Colin Carr, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Kalish, Kim Kashkashian, Martha Katz, Dimitri Murrath, Ani Kavafian, Joseph Silverstein, Mark O’Connor, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Shai Wosner, members of the Cleveland Quartet, Juilliard Quartet, Concord Quartet, Emerson Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, Takacs Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Mendelssohn Quartet, Ying Quartet, Berg Quartet, Jupiter Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, and the exceptional performing faculty and students at SFCM. In 2015, he was presented in a Naumberg Foundation’s solo recital in Carnegie Recital Hall.Ĭhamber music has dominated his performing career. Naumburg International Competition’s top prize for both solo violin and chamber music (as first violinist of the Meliora String Quartet). He is one of the few musicians to have been awarded the Walter W. He had taught there in the college and pre-college divisions for 31 years. Ian Swensen, violinist, chamber musician and teacher holds the Isaac Stern Chair of Violin and Chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. I've never played the complete Beethoven quartet cycle. Professional Development & Engagement Center.Technology & Applied Composition Immersive.
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