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Faculty
Svetozar Ivanov
Scott Kluksdahl
Carolyn Stuart
Averill Summer
Miroslava Panayotova Dharshini Tambiah
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 Dr.
Svetozar Ivanov, Associate Professor
of Piano
Pianist Svetozar Ivanov has made numerous appearances
as recitalist and orchestra soloist in Europe and North
America. All Music Guide praised his two recent solo
CD’s; the CD “Naked
Tango” was called “superbly original, quite moving,
personal and musically absorbing” while his CD “Vers la flamme” was
celebrated for performances which were “played with aplomb, panache
and complete conviction” and interpretation “filled with
sensual longing, anguished yearning, anxious dread and provocative energy”.
Svetozar Ivanov recent
performance venues include the Seiler Piano Festival in Crete, Association Philomuses in Paris, “Salon des Arts” and
“Sofia Music Weeks” in Bulgaria, Royal Irish Academy of Music,
North Netherlands Conservatory, Zurich Conservatory in Switzerland, Vicenza
Conservatory in Italy, Robert Helps International Competition and Festival
at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, Fox
River Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin, Chautauqua Music Festival in New
York, Sequoia Concerts in San Francisco, The Steinway Series and the Encore
Series in Florida and numerous concert series at universities throughout
the US. Svetozar Ivanov
is Associate Professor of Piano at University of South
Florida, serves as Artist Faculty at Green
Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont,
and is the Artistic Director of the Steinway Piano Series at USF. He has
served on juries for the Konzerteum International
Piano Competition in Greece,
the Seiler International Piano Competitions in Crete, the International
Youth Music Festival and Competition in Bulgaria, and the Chautauqua Music
Festival Piano Competition. Svetozar Ivanov holds degrees from the Bulgarian National
Conservatory and University of Michigan (DMA).
email:
svetozar@att.net website:
svetozarivanov.com
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 Scott Kluksdahl,
Associate Professor of Cello
A native of California, cellist Scott Kluksdahl made his debut with The San
Francisco Symphony, and has been heard since as orchestral soloist, recitalist
and chamber musician in major metropolitan centers throughout the United
States, Europe, Israel and Latin America.
In addition to The San
Francisco Symphony, Scott Kluksdahl has appeared as guest soloist with the
orchestras of Asheville, Marin, Omaha, Richmond ( Indiana) and Tampa Bay as
well as Bulgaria’s Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Colombia’s
Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá. He gave the premiere performances of
Augusta Read Thomas’ Passion
Prayers with the Chicago Contemporary Players and the
Philadelphia Network for New Music, with whom he subsequently recorded the
work, performed Ralph Shapey’s Double
Concerto for Cello, Piano and Orchestra with Florence Millet at
the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, and presented the world premiere of
James Lewis’ Doubles Singles
Variables. Israel’s Hed Music Center featured Mr.
Kluksdahl in premieres of Hanoch Jacoby’s King David’s Lyre, Oedeon Partos’ Yzkor and Mourning Music and Tzvi Avni’s Khaddish, all for cello and
orchestra.
As a recitalist, Scott
Kluksdahl has been heard throughout the United States, including the major
musical centers of New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washington, DC. He possesses a special
affinity for the unaccompanied cello repertory spanning four centuries, and
following a daring unaccompanied program at Carnegie Hall’s Weill
Recital Hall in New York City, Strings magazine
identified him as “a simply superb cellist, playing with consummate
technical ease, a beautiful sound, total conviction, authority and
dedication to the music.” Mr. Kluksdahl received national
attention for his celebrated presentation of the complete Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach
at the Oregon Bach Festival, and he performs the complete six-suite cycle
bi-annually in venues that include the Philadelphia Bach Festival, San
Francisco Theological Seminary and Tampa Bay’s historic Springs
Theatre.
Scott Kluksdahl is widely
esteemed as an ardent advocate of the music of our own time, and he
continues to commission, premiere and record works from a widening spectrum
of composers, including Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Bernard Rands,
Augusta Read Thomas, David del Tredici and Richard Wernick. Recent
cutting-edge recordings - “Lines for Solo Cello” (CRI) and
American Piano Trios (Centaur) - have garnered widespread acclaim.
Mr. Kluksdahl’s latest CD, “Sound Vessels,” features
cello-piano works of Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas and
Richard Wernick, and is to be released on Centaur in the fall of 2005.
The recipient of the
Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and top prizes
in the 1990 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition and the
Washington International Competition, Scott Kluksdahl holds a Bachelor of
Arts Degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and
a Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School. His principal
teachers were Margaret Rowell, Joel Krosnick, William Pleeth and Leonard Rose.
A dedicated teacher,
himself, Scott Kluksdahl is the Theodore and Vennette Askounes-Ashford
Distinguished Scholar at the University of South Florida and also serves on
the faculties of Vermont’s Killington Music Festival and California
Summer Music. He has been an invited soloist and guest faculty member
at Indiana University and, with the Lions Gate Trio, he is in residence at
The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Mr. Kluksdahl’s
commitment to teaching prompted renowned cellist Zara Nelsova to remark,
“It is rare to find a cellist who is equally at home as a concert
artist as well as a great pedagogue. In my opinion Scott Kluksdahl
has one of the great talents of his generation.”
email: kluksdah@arts.usf.edu
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 Dr. Carolyn Stuart, Associate Professor of Violin
Violinist Carolyn Stuart has been acclaimed as a performer of
“astonishing effectiveness, radiant inspiration, deep sensitivity,
and colossal temperament” - Musical
Horizons. She is heard regularly
in North American and European centers, including her recent appearances in
New York City, Washington
DC, Dublin,
Toronto, Paris,
Sofia, Athens,
Vicenza, and Zurich. She has performed on national
radio and television broadcasts in the Netherlands
and Bulgaria, as well as
NPR stations throughout the US.
Her recordings may be heard on Gega New, Albany, Capstone, and
Blue Griffin labels. Carolyn Stuart is a frequent performer at festivals
including those at Green Mountain, Chautauqua, Interlochen,
Killington, Garth Newel, Hot Springs, Pine Mountain, and Fox River, and
abroad in the Netherlands (Peter de Gröte),
Bulgaria (Salon des Arts and Sofia Music Weeks), and France (Association Philomuses, Paris). An eloquent interpreter of modern
music, Ms. Stuart avidly collaborates with current composers and has been a
member of the celebrated new music ensemble Quorum. She has performed for
the Cleveland Composers' Guild, the American New Arts Music Festival, and
the International Alliance of Women in Music, and continues to serve as a
Resident Artist for the annual Robert Helps Composition Competition and
Festival. Carolyn Stuart currently serves as Associate Professor of Music
at the University of South Florida, Artist-Faculty at the Green
Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont,
and as chair for the Rutenberg International
Chamber Music Festival and Competition at University of South Florida.
She has presented master classes at universities and conservatories
throughout the US, Canada, and Europe and has served as a jury
member for the International Youth Music Festival in Bulgaria. Carolyn
Stuart holds degrees from the Juilliard
School, the University of Michigan,
and from SUNY Stonybrook (DMA).
email:
carolynstu@att.net
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 Dr. Averill Summer, Associate Professor of Piano
Averill Summer is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, where
she received the master and doctor of music degrees in Piano Performance
with high distinction, and the University of South Florida, where she
received the bachelor of arts in music. Her teachers have included Sidney
Foster, Rosina Lhevinne, and Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. She
has taught piano at Bucknell and Susquehanna Universities in Pennsylvania,
and at Indiana University as a graduate fellow. In addition to teaching
applied piano and keyboard literature at USF, Dr. Summer maintains a career
as a piano soloist, chamber player, adjudicator, and lecturer. She has led
study-tours and performed in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe as well as in
the United States, and has appeared as soloist with many area orchestras.
email: asummer@arts.usf.edu
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