VIOLIN – VIOLA – CELLO
OCTOBER 2 - 3, 2021
Come hone your strings skills under the expert guidance of the UCSB String Faculty. You will have the opportunity to improve your fundamentals, discuss career paths and practice techniques, while engaging with like-minded young colleagues.
FOR AGES 15-25
Daily SCHEDULE
FOR AGES 15 – 25
FULL TUITION $400
* $150 Non-Refundable Deposit due by SEPTEMBER 10
Remaining $250 due by SEPTEMBER 26
To apply, please complete the Online Application Form and send a $150 non-refundable deposit check, payable to UC REGENTS to: Jennifer Kloetzel, 3739 Balboa St #202 San Francisco, CA 94121 by SEPTEMBER 10, 2021.
Please include - Jennifer Kloetzel UCSB Strings Intensive weekend – in the memo section of your check.
* Students with completed application forms and full deposits will be given preference. $150 deposit is NON-REFUNDABLE.
For more information please contact Prof. Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor of Cello, Head of Performance & Strings @ JMK@UCSB.EDU
All proceeds will go to support the UC Santa Barbara String scholarship fund.
FACULTY
JENNIFER KLOETZEL, cello
A graduate of The Juilliard School and a Fulbright Scholar, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel has concertized throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. A founding member of the San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet (1996-2016), Ms. Kloetzel has toured the globe and performed at such renowned venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Chautauqua Institute and the Ravinia Festival, the Lobkowicz Palaces in both Vienna and Prague, as well as prominent colleges and conservatories worldwide.
Ms. Kloetzel is noted for her elegant playing and her vibrant tone. She is a sought-after recitalist, performing concerts for San Francisco Performances and on WQXR in New York. Strad Magazine hailed, “Cellist Jennifer Kloetzel is impressively passionate…” A fervent champion of new music, she has received the Copland Award for her work with living American Composers and has commissioned and premiered over fifty works, including five concertos written specifically for her. In the past few seasons, premieres included a Cello Suite by Daniel Asia, a Cello Concerto, “Cloud Atlas” and two unaccompanied cello works “Lift” and “Cricket the Fiddler,” which were both written for her by MIT composer Elena Ruehr and a Cello Sonata dedicated to her by Joseph Landers. The San Jose Mercury News proclaimed, “Cellist Jennifer Kloetzel shines in premiere” and called her a “terrific soloist…with a robust and earthy sound.” Ms. Kloetzel has recorded the Ruehr Cello Concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which was released to critical acclaim in October 2014. “Lift” is the title track of an all-Ruehr disc, released on the Avie label, and was included on Keith Powers’ 13 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016. Ms. Kloetzel is the featured cellist on a 2019 Albany Records release of music by Richard Aldag, and recently premiered Lee Actor’s Cello Concerto, written for her in 2017. Upcoming world premieres include sonatas by Richard Aldag and Elena Ruehr and “Inferno: Double Concerto for Viola, Cello and Chamber Orchestra” by Joel Friedman, as well as six ‘companion’ pieces for solo cello commissioned by Ms. Kloetzel to pair with the Bach Cello Suites.
Ms. Kloetzel is winner of The Juilliard School’s top award, the “Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement in Music,” and a Presser Music Award, as well as a Fulbright Grant to England. In 2004 she was honored with the McGraw-Hill Companies’ “Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach” in recognition of years of outreach work in schools and community centers. She has appeared at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota and Aspen Music Festivals, the Britten-Pears School, the Prague Mozart Academy, and performed as cellist of the Cassatt Quartet during the 1995-96 season. From 2003-2009, Ms. Kloetzel taught cello and chamber music at San José State University, where the Cypress String Quartet was Ensemble-in-Residence. She has given master classes at The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory and at universities throughout the U.S.
Growing up near Baltimore, Ms. Kloetzel began her cello studies at age six. Her teachers included Aldo Parisot, William Pleeth, Harvey Shapiro, Stephen Kates and Paula (Virizlay) Skolnick, as well as members of the Juilliard String Quartet, the Amadeus Quartet and the Cleveland Quartet. After performing with pianist Andre Previn at the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Ms. Kloetzel was invited to appear as one of his select “Rising Stars” for two seasons at the Caramoor Festival in New York.
Ms. Kloetzel has been featured regularly on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” as both a soloist and a chamber musician and her performances have been broadcast on radio stations from coast to coast. A passionate recording artist with 36 CD releases to date, recent recordings include the entire cycle of Beethoven Quartets and Brahms Sextets on the Avie label. In 2022, Avie will release her recordings of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano with Robert Koenig. She performed as principal cellist of the Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Baltimore Opera and the Juilliard Orchestra under Maestro Kurt Masur. In addition, she is a frequent soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, performing works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Elgar, Glazunov, Fauré, Ibert, Haydn, Hindemith, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Strauss, and Walton. In 2016, Ms. Kloetzel was invited to join the faculty at University of California Santa Barbara, where she serves as Professor of Cello and Head of Performance and Head of the string area.
JONATHAN MOERSCHEL, viola
Jonathan Moerschel was born in Boston, Massachusetts into a musical family. His mother, a pianist, and his father, a cellist in the Boston Symphony, fostered his early music studies both in piano and violin. At the age of sixteen, he began studying the viola with John Ziarko and chamber music with the violist from the Kolisch Quartet, Eugene Lehner. Moerschel made his Boston Symphony Hall solo debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra, directed by Keith Lockhart, in 1997 after taking first prize in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.
He is the violist of the reknowned Calder Quartet, which enjoys a diverse career, playing both the traditional quartet literature as well as partnering with innovative modern composers. The quartet, a receipient of the 2014 Avery Fischer Career Grant, has recently premiered new works by John Luther Adams, Andrew Norman, Tristan Perich, Daniel Bjarnason, Aaron Jay Kernis, and David Lang. They have had recent performances at Lincoln Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall as well as London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre and at the Salzburg Festival. They have performed at top halls and festivals across the globe including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Ojai Music Festival, Melbourne Festival, IRCAM in Paris, Frankfurt Opera, Berkeley’s Cal Performances, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Edinburgh Festival and the Mozarteum.
Moerschel is a Lecturer of Viola and Chamber Music at the University of California Santa Barbara. He has collaborated with eminent musicians Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Paul Neubauer, Steven Tenenbaum, Joseph Kalichstein, Claude Frank, Menachem Pressler and Anne-Marie McDermott. He plays on the “ex-Adam” Gasparo Da Salo viola made in the late 16th Century on generous loan from the Stradivari Society.
He received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in viola performance from the University of Southern California, studying with Donald McInnes, and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School.
ERTAN TORGUL, violin
Throughout his career Turkish-American violinist ERTAN TORGUL has enjoyed an eclectic and multi-faceted musical path. As a recitalist, chamber musician, soloist, concertmaster, and teacher he has toured around the world and collaborated with some of today’s most sought-after musicians and ensembles.
Currently serving as a Lecturer of Violin & Chamber Music at University of California, Santa Barbara, and Affiliate Artist in violin at University of Houston, he has also been on faculties of University of Texas, at San Antonio, and Florida International University. He has conducted masterclasses, lectures, and workshops across the U.S. as well as in Turkey, Iceland, and Italy.
Mr. Torgul has been a member of the award-winning SOLI Chamber Ensemble since 1996 and until recently, had been serving as its Managing/Artistic Director since 2011. Specializing in contemporary repertoire, the Ensemble performs concerts and residencies on both National and International stage. A strong advocate of contemporary music and living composers he has commissioned over 100 new works with SOLI and recorded six CDs, featuring commissioned works of American composers. Mr. Torgul is also a founding member of the critically acclaimed SUONO Trio, Quartet ES, and Quinteto Quilombo - a Tango Quintet specializing in Tango Nuevo – and has performed with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Michael Tilson Thomas, the Miami, Plymouth, Fry Street, Degas, and ROCO String Quartets, around the world. As a member of the Plymouth Quartet he was in-residence at the Ojai Festival, Mainly Mozart, Point Counterpoint, and the Internationale Quartettakademie Prag-Wien-Budapest. He was the recipient of Austria’s prestigious Prix Mercure, a prize winner in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and a laureate of the Paolo Borciani International Quartet Competition.
As a soloist, guest concertmaster, and orchestral musician he has performed with some of the most recognized conductors, soloists and orchestras including San Francisco, Indianapolis, Houston, Sacramento, Phoenix, Tucson, Fort Worth symphonies and Dallas Opera orchestra among others. Before deciding to leave his post in 2012, Mr. Torgul has served as Associate and Acting Concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony for 17 seasons. He has recorded “Defining Dahl. The Music of Ingolf Dahl.” under the Argo Label with New World Symphony, under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Recent season highlights include performances with Quartet ES for Hartt School of Music's "Uncertainty of Fate" virtual Festival, Beethoven Triple Concerto performance in Waynesboro and Staunton, Virginia with renowned cellist Jennifer Kloetzel and pianist Robert Koenig, under the Baton of Peter Wilson, performance with SUONO Trio on Four Seasons Arts series in Berkeley, CA, world premiere performance of composer Peter Lieuwen’s new work The QUAD Concerto with University of Houston Symphony Orchestra at Moores Opera House in Houston, TX, and a two-week tour to Northern Italy with SOLI Chamber Ensemble.
Torgul started his violin studies at the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of twelve. Soon after he was entered in the “Special Status” program designed for gifted students where he studied with Prof. Suna Kan, one of Turkey’s premier soloists. In the U.S. Ertan continued his violin studies with Prof. William Barbini at California State University, Sacramento, and with Prof. Franco Gulli at Indiana University, and studied chamber music with Janos Starker, Menachem Pressler, Norbert Brainin, and members of Miami, Bartok, and Guarneri string quartets.
For more information on the UC Santa Barbara Strings Program, please visit music.ucsb.edu/programs/performance/strings