Carol Rodland

Carol Rodland is an American violist and university teacher.

Rodland studied at the Juilliard School with Karen Tuttle and completed postgraduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the Musikhochschule Freiburg . She made her debut as a youth with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a soloist and won first prizes at the Washington International Competition , the Artists International Auditions and the Juilliard Concerto Competition as well as the Universal Editions Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition . She has taught at Arizona State University , the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin , at the New England Conservatory (where she received the Louis and Adrienne Krasner Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005 ) and at the Eastman School of Music and is professor of viola and chamber music at the Juilliard School. She also gave master classes at universities in the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Norway and Israel.

As a chamber musician, Rodland performs regularly with her sister, organist Catherine Rodland as the Rodland Duo , with pianists Marcantonio Barone and Tatevik Mokatsian, and cellist Scott Kluksdahl , regularly participates in the Portland Chamber Music Festival and the Halcyon Music Festival , and has been for 20 years Member of the Craftsbury Chamber Players . More recently she has appeared with the Boston Chamber Music Society , the Henschel Quartet and the Central Chamber Music Series , the Saar Music Festival and the Schwetzinger Festspiele , the Killington Music Festival , the Chautauqua Music Festival and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival .

Rodland is particularly interested in new music. She has commissioned Kenji Bunch , Dan Coleman , Adolphus Hailstork , David Liptak , Christopher Theofanidis and Augusta Read Thomas , among others , whose works she recorded and premiered. In 2009 she founded If Music Be the Food ... , a series of benefit concerts for the needy in the places where the respective concerts take place.

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SURNAME	Rodland, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American violist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century