17 year old violinist Giancarlo Latta is a student at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy
Violinist Giancarlo Latta studies with Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy for pre-college musicians, where he is an Academy Special Merit Scholar, a distinction awarded to students demonstrating an “unusually elevated level of proficiency and musicianship.”
Giancarlo has performed with the Toledo Symphony and the Dexter Community Orchestra as a winner of their concerto competitions in 2011 and 2012, respectively. He has also performed with the Oistrach Symphony as a winner of the Eighth Annual DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers, and has won prizes in the Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra Young Artist and the Society of American Musicians competitions.
A passionate chamber musician, Giancarlo is a member of Quartet Enigma at the Music Institute of Chicago, and has studied chamber music with members of the Cleveland and Cavani quartets and the Lincoln Trio. As a member of the Calliope Quartet, Giancarlo won the SHAR String Quartet Competition in 2012 and 2010. He is the founder and leader of the Pioneer Chamber Orchestra, a conductorless string ensemble based at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is a student.
Giancarlo has performed in master classes with Joel Smirnoff, Milan Vitek, John Kendall, Jacques Israelievitch, and David Taylor, and has attended the Chautauqua Music Festival, the Meadowmount School of Music, and the Ithaca Suzuki Institute’s Preludio Violin Program. He was concertmaster of the Pioneer High School Symphony Orchestra for performances in Vienna, Salzburg, and Munich in April 2011, and was previously concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Youth Symphony Orchestra. Also in 2011, Giancarlo played in the Chicago Youth in Music Festival Orchestra, where he worked with Riccardo Muti and performed side-by-side with the Carlos Chavez Youth Orchestra of Mexico.
Giancarlo began his violin studies at age six with Anna Bittar Weller. He enjoys biking, reading, and listening to music in his free time.
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2
I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante, più tosto allegretto
III. Allegro piacevole
Augusta Read Thomas: Incantation
William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost Rag
Johannes Brahms: Sonatensatz, WoO 2