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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. Recent venues include Seiler
Piano Festival in Crete, Association Philomuses in Paris, “Salon des
Arts” in Bulgaria, 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. He records for Gega New.
Svetozar Ivanov is on the Piano and Chamber Music Faculty 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 and the newly established International Piano Trio Seminar in
Sofia, Bulgaria. He is also a Jury member at 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. He has previously
served on the piano faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in
Michigan and the Morfova School of Music in Bulgaria and has served as
co-director of the Stuart-Ivanov Duo Seminar at USF and guest faculty at
Festival “Peter de Grote” in The Netherlands.
Mr. 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
As chamber musician and soloist, violinist Carolyn Stuart performs
internationally and is a member of the Stuart-Ivanov Duo and the new music
ensemble Quorum. She has recorded chamber music of Evan K. Chambers for
Albany Records and is currently recording Violin/Piano Works of Nikolai
Roslavets with pianist Svetozar Ivanov for Gega Records. Her performances
have been featured on national radio broadcasts in the Netherlands and
Bulgaria as well as public radio in the U.S. This season she will be a
guest artist for the Paris series Association Philomuses, the Crane School
of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and will perform as resident artist for the Fox
River Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin. This past season she performed
as soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria, was a guest
resident-artist at the North Netherlands Conservatoire in Groningen, and
recently has also held residencies for the Cleveland Composers’ Guild
at the Interlochen Arts Academy and for the University of Akron’s
2004 American Arts Music Festival. In addition to chamber music and solo
appearances at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, The National Palace of
Culture in Bulgaria, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Dutch
Embassy in Washington DC, Carolyn Stuart has been guest artist at over 40
festivals and universities internationally including the Zurich
Conservatory in Switzerland, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio
University, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, and the
Universities of Northern Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico, Florida, and
Virginia.
Carolyn Stuart is
currently Associate Professor of Violin at the University of South
Florida’s School of Music and serves on the summer artist faculty at
the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. She has previously
served as a member of the faculty/jury at the International Youth Music
Festival and Competition in Albena, Bulgaria, as guest faculty at the 2002
Festival “Peter de Grote” in The Netherlands, as co-director of
the Stuart-Ivanov Duo Seminar at USF, and on the violin faculties at the
Killington Music Festival in Vermont, the Hot Springs Music Festival in
Arkansas, Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and the Pine
Mountain Music Festival in Michigan.
Carolyn Stuart holds
degrees from the Juilliard School, University of Michigan, and SUNY Stony
Brook (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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