Renate Falkner, viola, is equally at home on both modern and baroque viola. She performs regularly with groups such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik, the Yale Collegium Players, Baltimore’s Pro Musica Rara, and Artis-Naples. Summer appearances have included the Verbier Festival, the Spoleto Festival, a faculty appointment at the Carvalho Festival of Music in Fortaleza, Brazil, and annually at the Bellingham Festival of Music. Falkner completed her graduate studies at the Yale School of Music as a scholarship student and assistant to the Jesse Levine, and holds a doctorate from the Florida State University, under the direction of Pamela Ryan. Her treatise examining York Bowen’s viola music in the context of the English Musical Renaissance was the first to focus entirely on his compositions for viola. Dr. Falkner is an active board member of the American Viola Society, where she has served as Chair of the AVS’s Orchestral Audition Competition and Seminar, the Dalton Research Competition, and presented lectures, and panel discussions. After nearly a decade at the University of North Florida, she and her husband, violoncellist Steven Thomas, she joined the faculty of the Peabody Preparatory. Previously on faculty at the George Mason University School of Music, she is an Artist Affiliate at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). Dr. Falkner records for the Chandos, Nimbus, and Rezound music labels.
Renate Falkner
Viola
