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Brian
Reagin
July
5, 2008
Concertmaster
of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra since 1988, Brian Reagin
was for eight years Assistant Concertmaster with the Pittsburgh
Symphony under André Previn and Lorin Maazel. With the
Pittsburgh Symphony he toured Japan, China, Hong Kong, Europe,
Canada and Puerto Rico and performed numerous recital and chamber
works in Europe, Africa and the West Indies. Prior to joining
the Pittsburgh Symphony, he served as Concertmaster of the Cleveland
Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra and taught in Carnegie
Mellon University. Named Concertmaster of the Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra in 1996 at the Chautauqua Institution in New York,
he became only the fourth Concertmaster in the history of that
summer orchestra since its inception in 1929, joining a distinguished
list of musical leadership. With Chautauqua he has also performed
concertos of Korngold, Bruch, Bartók, Prokofiev, Schumann
and Stravinsky.
Brian Reagin
made his solo début with the Cleveland Orchestra performing
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Since that time he has appeared
as soloist in performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the
Charleston Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Syracuse Symphony,
and the Wheeling Symphony. He has made annual solo appearances
with the North Carolina Symphony performing concertos by Vieuxtemps,
Paganini, Sibelius, Bruch, Korngold, Mendelssohn, Barber, Stravinsky,
Tchaikovsky, Bach and Vivaldi. Two days after the terrorist attacks
of 11th September he was called on by the North Carolina Symphony
to substitute for Itzhak Perlman, stranded in Detroit, for a
performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto at their Gala season
opening concert. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute
of Music, where he earned a Diploma in Violin Performance in
1976 and an Artist Diploma in 1977. For four years he participated
in the Cleveland Chamber Music Seminar, coaching with the Guarneri
Quartet and with Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet. He
spent seven summer seasons at the Meadowmount School of Music
where he studied with Ivan Galamian, coached with Josef Gingold
and served as both an assistant and faculty member. He has been
a recipient of numerous prizes, including First Prize in the
Ohio Music Teachers Association Collegiate Artist Competition,
First Prize in the Cleveland Institute Concerto Competition,
the Society of American Musicians Talman Award in Chicago, and
the Jerome Gross Memorial Prize at the Cleveland Institute. |
