In Sunday’s (5/27) San Diego Union-Tribune, James Chute writes, “Every year, Rochester Philharmonic concertmaster Juliana Athayde looks forward to playing with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, in large part because she sits in the violin section with her mentor, Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil. He’s occupied Mainly Mozart’s first chair since its founding in 1989. ‘A lot of us sit in that chair during the year with our own orchestras, so it’s a different thing to sit in the section,’ said Athayde, who studied with Preucil at the Cleveland Institute of Music. ‘But all of us couldn’t be any happier to do it with him, because that’s who we learned from.’ In his role as the concertmaster of one of the world’s most celebrated orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra, and as a teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Preucil has influenced and trained a generation of concertmasters. They now have positions in ensembles ranging from San Diego to the Syracuse Symphony, and many of them gather in San Diego to play with the Mainly Mozart orchestra, which has its first 2012 concert June 6 at the Balboa Theatre. … Preucil, who was concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony and first violinist with the Cleveland Quartet before joining the Cleveland Orchestra in 1995, has developed an array of movements to communicate his and the conductor’s intentions to his colleagues.”
Posted May 29, 2012
