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Main entrance of campus to the Anderson Center: Go to traffic circle; bear right (follow sign pointing WEST). Turn at 1st left into parking lot "C" (next to Science IV), main entrance to the Anderson Center is at the end of lot "C".
Parking garage: Go around traffic circle to left (follow sign pointing EAST). Turn at 1st right into parking garage. For more information about parking visit the parking services website.
Event Calendar
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Artist Bio:
William Knuth, violinist and Fulbright Scholar, has earned recognition for his artistry as a solo and chamber musician. He is Assistant Professor of Violin and string department coordinator at the Syracuse University Setnor School of Music with a private teaching studio in Syracuse, NY. As a member of Duo Sonidos with guitarist Adam Levin, Knuth has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Canary Islands, and South America. During the Fall of 2024, he was Visiting Professor of Violin at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil in addition to solo and chamber music and recording engagements around Brazil.
Knuth’s most recent recording project, Sessions: Rhode Island, blends world sounds from the Far East, Middle East, and the West with some of the foremost international performers in the field and reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover charts in the fall of 2024. As Duo Sonidos, Knuth and Levin released their most recent album Duo Sonidos: Wild Dance on the NAXOS label, which immediately rose to no. 3 on the Billboard classical music charts. The duo was awarded First Prize at the 2010 Luys Milan International Chamber Music Competition in Valencia, Spain, and BBC Music Magazine chose the debut album Duo Sonidos as the “BBC Top Choice US Release Album.” Knuth is a Grammy Recording Academy voting member. Current projects include a planned record release of original new works commissioned by the duo for violin and guitar by internationally celebrated Brazilian composers Sergio Assad, Clarice Assad, João Luiz, Marco Pereira, and Egberto Gismonti. A recent 2024 chamber music recording project Sessions Rhode Island placed #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Charts.
Knuth has taken the role of Assistant Concertmaster of the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, Associate Concertmaster of the vibrant Boston-based chamber orchestra Discovery Ensemble, is a member of the esteemed New York City-based new music group Ensemble Signal, and was a long-standing member of the Boston Philharmonic.
Knuth’s concerts in the U.S. have included a debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall; performances in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Strathmore Center, Austin Chamber Music Center, Guitar Foundation of American International Festival, National Gallery of Art, University of Miami Frost School of Music, Fundacao Oscar Americano Sao Paulo, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Harvard Sanders Theater, Boston WGBH radio, Chicago WFMT radio, WCNY radio, Austin Classical Guitar, NPR radio and Mayne Stage Chicago; guest solo appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Boston International Guitar fest; and ensemble work with Jacksonville Symphony, Discovery Ensemble, Signal Ensemble, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Harvard Group for New Music, IMPULS Festival Austria, June in Buffalo Festival, Big Ears Festival, and the Ojai Festival. Special projects have included collaborations with Sergio Assad, Clarice Assad, Joao Luiz, Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho, Salvador Brotons, Eduardo Morales-Caso, Phillip Glass, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Lukas Foss, Norah Jones, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, Goldfrapp, David Byrne, Jon Brion, Bright Eyes and the Goo Goo Dolls.
Knuth holds an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studie dviolin with Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo Quartet; a Fulbright certificate for studies in Austria with Ernst Kovacic at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts; and a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, where he was a student of Lynn Blakeslee.
Composed by Malcolm Fox
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Composed by Malcolm Fox
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Ticketing Information
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Composed by Malcolm Fox
Ticketing Information
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Composed by Malcolm Fox
Ticketing Information
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Ticketing Information
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Ticketing Information
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