Bio : Artists

John Fadial : Violin I

John Fadial celebrates his twelfth season as assistant concertmaster at the Eastern Music Festival. He serves as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held for the last fourteen seasons. Recent concert highlights include: performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra; the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William Bolcom?s Suite for Violin and Cello; and chamber music performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Konstantin Lifschitz, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich, and Jon Nakamatsu. Fadial?s recording of the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for the Centaur label was deemed ?not to be missed? by American Record Guide, and his recording on the disc Where Does Love Go?: Chamber Music of Mark Engebretson for the Innova label was a Grammy? semi-finalist for best chamber music recording for 2007. Spring 2010 saw the release in Europe of the Complete Sextets of Johannes Brahms on CD performed with Fadial as member of the Stanislas Sextet, produced by Ville de Nancy and Radio France. Currently, he is completing a recording of the sonatas for violin and piano of Johannes Brahms, also for Centaur, which is scheduled for release in fall of 2011. Fadial holds a D.M.A. from the University of Maryland, the M.M. from the Eastman School and the B.M. from the UNC School of the Arts. His teachers have included Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, Zoltan Szekely, and Arnold Steinhardt. He is associate professor of violin and graduate coordinator for the music department at the University of Wyoming.