Friday, December 18, 7:30 Show (7 door) An Evening with Violin Virtuoso Kara Eubanks, Accompanied by Pianist Adam Whiting
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Dr. Kara Eubanks
As a classical artist, Kara has performed solo and chamber music across the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, and the Czech Republic. She has performed solo and chamber music in New York’s Music in Midtown series, the Pablo Casals Festival, Zeist Music Days, Ameropa Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music, and many more. She has performed at New York’s Lincoln Center and Chicago’s Symphony Center, in Napoleon’s castle in Paris and played sonatas with Mozart’s own piano at his former home in Prague.
Her orchestral career includes membership in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Fontainebleau Chamber Orchestra in Paris, and the DiCapo Opera of New York City. In 2014, she was inducted into the Sycamore Music Hall of Fame in her hometown of Sycamore, Illinois.
Kara’s greatest passions are solo practice and teaching. More than any stage or concert hall, Kara’s favorite place to make music is in her home studio with her own students. She is a mentor to 18 young violinists ranging in age from 3 to 18 at the Willamette Violin Academy, where she serves as director.
As a recording artist and popular-music performer. Kara has been featured on mtv.com, National Public Radio, and daytrotter.com, and on record labels such as Eenie Meenie and Lookout! Records. Her discography includes arrangements and performances with Troubled Hubble, The Gunshy, Future Monarchs, and Andrew Jackson Jihad. In 2023, she released her solo debut, an EP called “Something Might Otherwise Have Profitably Happened.” Kara maintains an active studio career, recording for artists from as far as Abu Dhabi in her home studio in Oregon.
Kara has held faculty positions at Northern Illinois University and CUNY Brooklyn Conservatory, and has taught music theory at the University of Oregon. In the summers, she teaches at Japan-Seattle Suzuki Institute and the Oregon Suzuki Institute. Her most dear and impactful teachers and trainers include Mathias Tacke, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Danny Phillips, Cyrus Forough, Ann Montzka Smelser, Ed Kreitman, Charles Krigbaum, Daina Staggs, and Jackie Bartsch. https://www.karaeubanks.com
About Oregonian Adam Whiting
Adam Whiting was a staff accompanist at the Cleveland Institute of music for 20 years; he was hired for this position upon graduation from CIM in the spring of 2005 with a double-masters degree in piano performance and accompanying. He is also a new Suzuki piano teacher and returning staff accompanist at the Cleveland Music School Settlement (since 2004) and accompanist for the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies (since 2003). At CIM, he studied solo piano with Daniel Shapiro; collaborative piano with Anita Pontremoli, head of the collaborative piano department; and cello with Merry Peckham, cellist of the Cavani String Quartet. In 2002, he graduated with a BM in performance from Marylhurst University where he studied with Sr. Anne Cecile Daigle SNJM and Susan DeWitt Smith. He attended the Oregon Suzuki Institute for thirteen years; after a few years' hiatus, he returned in the summer of 2004 as a staff accompanist, at the invitation of the directors of the institute. He studied with the Cavani string quartet for six summers at the Britt Chamber Strings Camp in Ashland, Oregon.