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Michi Wiancko, violin
Michi Wiancko, violin Featured as an “Artist to Watch” on the cover of the January 2007 issue of SYMPHONY Magazine, violinist Michi Wiancko has distinguished herself as a soloist with orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philarmonics and in recital and chamber appearances. An artist with a unique vision and deemed “Pure Gold” by the Des Moines Register, Michi has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, Sydney Opera House, Merkin Hall, Town Hall, National Gallery, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Banff Centre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frick Center in Pittsburgh, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BargeMusic, and Philadelphia's Kimmel Center.
Her current season highlights include a performance of the Brahms Concerto with the Columbus Symphony in Georgia as well as the Omaha Symphony, and Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen and Carmen Fantasy with the Victoria Symphony in Texas. Michi will also be performing with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble as well as the International Contemporary Ensemble. In the 2006-2007 season she embarked on a multi-city recital tour of the US in conjunction with Live on Stage and appears on Concert Artist Guild’s lauded New Music/New Places initiative as part of the Barbes Classical Series.
Michi has attended the Marlboro Music Festival and toured several times with Musicians from Marlboro. She was a participant in Isaac Stern’s Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall, as well the Aspen Festival Center for Advanced Quartet Studies and Music Academy of the West. She has been a guest artist at the Lincoln Center Outdoor Series, Olympic Music Festival in Seattle, Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and the Tucson Chamber Music Festival, and has performed and toured regularly with the Mark Morris Dance Group.
Michi is a founding member of ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), a young conductorless string ensemble that tours twice yearly in venues such as The Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Convention Center, New York’s Town Hall, Barge Music, among others. She is the concertmaster of the Cleveland-based CityMusic Orchestra conducted by James Gaffigan, with whom she premiered a violin concerto in March 2007 which was composed for her by Margaret Brouwer.
A native of Southern California, Michi began playing the violin at the age of 3, and her early teachers include Haroutune Bedelian, Sharon Holland, and Mehli Mehta. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein, and earned her master of music degree at The Juilliard School, working with Robert Mann.
Having traveled extensively, she has many world music influences inspiring her to push the boundaries of classical repertoire and explore new genres. She is a singer/songwriter and composes for her band Kono Michi, comprised of string quartet, drums and bass. Samples of her work can be heard at www.myspace.com/konomichi.
This season, Ms. Wiancko will be traveling to the UK as well as the Netherlands as a singer and fiddler in one of her many non-classical projects. She has performed in many of New York's well-known venues including The Knitting Factory, Tonic, Continental, Arlene's Grocery, Hank's Saloon, Village Underground, The Blue Note, Vibe and Tribeca.
“Platinum Spirals,” Ms. Wiancko’s debut solo CD, is now available online at www.concertartists.org/recordings.htm
Ms. Wiancko joined the Los Angeles Piano Quartet in 2001.
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