Introducing our new columnist (04/01/01)

Introducing our new columnist

With this issue, The Ukrainian Weekly inaugurates a new column, "Viewing the arts," and welcomes a new columnist, Adrian Bryttan.

A professional orchestral conductor and concert violinist, Mr. Bryttan has performed in the United States, Europe and Asia. He was the first recipient of the Pablo Casals Award at the Manhattan School of Music and also winner of the Concerto Competition with the Berg violin concerto. He has been featured as violin soloist in numerous concertos and has performed symphonic repertoire from all periods. Mr. Bryttan is also in demand as an opera conductor. His appearances in over 30 different operas include the Chicago Opera Theatre, the New Haven and New Rochelle operas, and in Europe with the Bielefeld, Lviv and Kharkiv theaters. He has organized many exchange concerts with composers and performers here and in Ukraine, and his recording of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" with the Sinfonia Varsovia is on the Schwann-Koch label. Formerly a music faculty member at Notre Dame, Memphis State and Kansas State universities and Vassar College, he was also conductor of the New Jersey Youth Symphony. Currently he is conductor and violin instructor at the Manhattan School of Music pre-college division.

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