Guest Artist Andrew Braddock and Professor Matthew Gianforte will perform a recital of music for viola and piano on Thursday, February 9, 2023, at 7:30pm in the Performing Arts Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Recital Assembly Credit is available to students.

Violist Andrew Braddock’s teaching and performing career has recently taken him to the Sejong Center in Seoul, South Korea, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, and the International Viola Congress in Rotterdam. A passionate educator, he has given masterclasses throughout the U.S. and abroad, and he is currently on the faculty of Western Kentucky University and co-director of the WKU String Academy. In the summers, he teaches at the Indiana University Summer String Academy and directs the WKU Summer String Institute. His creative teaching led him to co-found Bridging Cultures with Music, a 501(c)(3) organization that supports various pedagogical and outreach programs in his community and abroad. His writings have appeared in publications such as The Strad and the Journal of the British Music Society, and he has served as editor of the American Suzuki Journal, and the Journal of the American Viola Society. He is the principal violist of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and he regularly plays with the Nashville Symphony and the Nashville Opera. He holds degrees from Indiana University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Kentucky, where his principal teachers were Atar Arad, Kathryn Plummer, and John Graham. He plays a viola made by Giovanni Pistucci, ca. 1920.