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John Fadial, associate professor of Violin, is familiar to Greensboro audiences as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. He maintains a vigorous schedule as soloist, chamber music performer, recording artist and teacher, performing on four continents as a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador. He has appeared at the Smithsonian Museum, the Philips Collection, and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, with numerous engagements at summer festivals in Aspen, Banff (Canada), Brevard, Eastern, Heidelberg (Germany), Mirecourt (France), Costa Rica and Salvador (Brazil).
He has shared the stage in chamber music collaborations with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, harpsichordist Anthony Newman, cellists Tillman Wick and Paul Katz, violist John Graham, and bandoneon virtuoso David Alsina of the New York Tango Trio, among others, and has performed widely in the U.S. and Europe since 1997, as violinist of the Chesapeake Piano Trio.
The 2004-05 season featured concerts throughout the U.S., Brazil and France, including the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William Bolcom's Suite for Violin and Cello and chamber music performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich and the Quatuor Stanislas. Fadial's recent recording of the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for the Centaur label, with members of UNCG's Artist Faculty Chamber Players, was a Featured New Release at Tower Records.com for spring 2005, and deemed ““not to be missed”” by American Record Guide.
In October of 2005, he is to give the world premier of Arthur Gottschalk's Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Aycock Auditorium at UNCG, as part of the SCI National Conference for contemporary music. Dr. Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM) and the University of Maryland (DMA).
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