Studio Features: Viola

The DePaul viola studio prepares students to become musicians of the highest caliber. The studio emphasizes ensemble and chamber music experience along with the opportunity to explore a wide variety of solo literature.

Faculty

• Karen Dirks (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Rami Solomonow (Chicago Chamber Musicians, Lyric Opera of Chicago)

The Viola Studio

The viola studio consists of approximately 16 undergraduate, graduate, and performance certificate students. In addition to weekly lessons, students perform in DePaul's many orchestras and chamber ensembles.

All DePaul viola students also meet for studio performance class once a week. In this class, students perform for one another, share ideas about all aspects of performance, and work in master classes with prominent guest artists.

Past guests have included Pinchas Zukerman, James Dunham, Yitzhak Schotten, Richard Young, Karen Ritscher, Helen Callus, and Ralph Fielding.

Alumni Accomplishments

Graduates of the DePaul viola studio currently teach and perform in orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout the U.S.
and Europe, including:

Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Staatskapelle Berlin
Oregon Symphony
Utah Symphony
Virginia Symphony
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Quartet San Francisco
Kontras Quartet
Advent Chamber Orchestra