Faculty Artist Series: Michael Heald, violin

Tonight’s faculty recital will be given by Michael Heald, Professor of Violin at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and guest artist Timothy Lovelace, professor of collaborative piano at the University of Minnesota.  They will perform works by Schubert, Rubbra, Kaprálová, and Franck. The program provides audiences the chance to hear old favorites along with music that is less familiar. Edmund Rubbra’s Second Sonata is a dark work, full of angst and longing, while the Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová  wrote her Legend very early in her career in 1932 when she was 16 or 17. It is a short work, full of individual imagination, elegant contours, and youthful passion.

About Michael Heald
Michael Heald is currently professor of violin at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia. He primarily studied with Emanuel Hurwitz and Richard Deakin in England, and then with Walter Verdehr at Michigan State University. Heald has performed in a multitude of settings, collaborating with artists such as Peter Frankl, Joseph Lin, and  Ralph Votapek in chamber music. He has performed throughout Europe and the United States as an orchestral musician, playing and recording in such orchestras as the Philharmonia, the BBC Philharmonic, and the English String Orchestra. Conductors include Simon Rattle, Yehudi Menuhin, and Valery Gergiev.

This event is free and includes a reception with the artist immediately following.
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. 

RSVP for Michael Heald, violin 1/27/26 at 7:30 p.m.