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Gregory Maytan
String Area - Violin, Viola Faculty Biography
Maytan’s first CD, consisting of music from his native Scandinavia, was selected by The Strad as the top recital CD of April 2009 and highly praised by Strings Magazine and the American Record Guide. Two more recordings, one featuring the sonatas of Faure, Franck and the Chausson Poeme and the second more music by Grieg and Maier are almost finished and should be ready for purchase by December 2012.
He has participated in the International Chamber Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, where he was a featured prize winner, and he has placed and been awarded significant cash awards in the Swedish Royal Academy’s competition for post-graduate violinists during the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. He has performed and toured with numerous orchestras, and his concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in the U.S. and Europe. A sought-after teacher, he has presented masterclasses at Butler University (Indianapolis), the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the University of Nevada-Reno, Northern State University-Aberdeen the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway, the University of North Texas-Denton, The University of Florida- Gainesville and the University of Wyoming-Laramie. He has also himself participated in masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, Leonidas Kavakos and Michela Martin.
Gregory Maytan is on the faculty at Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI). He performs regularly as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Maytan has performed extensively in Europe and the US, playing about 50 recitals a year. Recent engagements include multiple performances of the Paganini, Sibelius, Bruch, Barber and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos with orchestras in Nevada, Indiana, Michgan, South Dakota and Sweden. He has also performed as a soloist in the Paganini and Tchaikovsky concertos in tours throughout China, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia under conductors such as Dennis Russell-Davies, Raymond Harvey and Evind Gullberg-Jensen. An avid chamber musician, he has participated in the prestigious chamber music festival ‘Musikveckan’ in Junsele, Sweden; the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee; the CICA festival in Eureka Springs, AR; and the Sagatuck Chamber Music Festival in Sagatuck, MI. He has performed at venues such as Ravinia, Tanglewood and the Chicago Cultural Center. Recently he performed live on Chicago Public Radio as part of the Dame Myra Hess series.
Maytan was recently invited to join the musical ensemble Luna Nova. He also maintains a regular collaboration with his outstanding pianists, Nicole Lee and Mei-Hsuan Huang. He has served as guest concertmaster of the Northwest Indiana Symphony, the West Michigan Symphony and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and is permanent concertmaster of the Battle Creek Symphony. Maytan has also performed as concertmaster and section leader for legendary conductors Kurt Masur and Christoph Von Dohnanyi.
Maytan also serves as concertmaster for the CICA orchestra (where he most recently has performed Scheherazade) and is a regular and returning faculty for that summer festival. For the summer of 2013 he will be performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the CICA orchestra.
He earned his doctorate in violin performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, where he studied with the renowned violinists Miriam Fried and Paul Biss. Other teachers include Igor Petruschevski (London), Federico Agostini (Bloomington) and Alexander Kerr (Bloomington). He is currently performing on the 1766 ‘ex-Loeb’ Nicolo Gagliano.
