Music on Mondays with Violinist Emily Ondracek-Peterson and Pianist Richard Masters
Venue: Squires Recital Salon, Blacksburg
Organizations: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts
Date: Monday, April 1, 2024
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:

Description:
The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts continues their Music on Mondays series with Violinist Emily Ondracek-Peterson and Pianist Richard Masters on Monday, April 1, 2024 inside the Squires Recital Salon within the Squires Student Center on the campus of Virginia Tech.

Violinist Emily Ondracek-Peterson is a leader in numerous fields: performance, artistic direction, arts advocacy, administration, education, career research, entrepreneurship, and academia. She holds performance degrees from The Juilliard School and a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As violinist, she has received acclaim from leading publications including The New York Times, been soloist with ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and recorded for leading record labels. Ondracek-Peterson is a leader in multiple organizations – Executive Director of the Diehn School at Old Dominion University Festival Director of the Crested Butte Music Festival. Additionally, she holds an MBA with specializations in both Leadership and Entrepreneurship.

Praised by The New York Times for her "elegant solowork," and by Strad magazine for her “dazzling passagework,” Ondracek-Peterson is a rising star of violin performance. She is a native of Chicago and began playing the violin at the age of four. When sixteen, she gave her solo debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Concertos. She has performed solo and chamber music performances at all of the major venues in New York City including as soloist at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim, Apollo Theatre and more.

Currently, she is Co-Artistic Director of the Crested Butte Music Festival, a summer-long festival presenting the world’s best opera, symphony, chamber music, bluegrass, rock, electronica, and more. She has recorded for Naxos, Albany, and Toccata labels.

General admission tickets are $15.00, $12.00 for seniors and $10.00 for Virginia Tech students and youth.

Tickets can be purchased online at https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=5B416D4A-7D68-4896-90AF-AD0A7284B9CD or in person at the Moss arts Center ticket office, by calling 540-231-5300 or at the venue beginning one hour prior to the concert (cash only).

The Squires Recital Salon is located at 241 Squires Student Center in Blacksburg, VA on the campus of Virginia Tech.

For more information, visit: https://sopa.vt.edu/events/performances/2024/04/sopa-ondrackkpetersonmasters1.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTperformingarts or https://www.instagram.com/hokiesonstage/.