Jan 19, 2016 | Sabine Wiedemann News Video for Roland Glassl - Works for Viola solo

​Watch impressions of the recording session with Roland Glassl, the longstanding violist of the Mandelring Quartett: He presents his debut solo album performing suites for solo viola by Max Reger, Adolf Busch and Justus Weinreich. Weinreich's suites of 1894 are a wonderful discovery and now available as a recording for the first time. The production will be released in February 2016.

Roland Glassl has established his reputation as a soloist and chamber musician. Numerous prizes at international competitions (including first prize at Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition; first prize at Washington International Competition for Strings; winner of the first International Viola Competition Vienna) as well as sixteen years of playing in the Mandelring Quartett have taken him to many of the great international concert stages and festivals. Roland Glassl studied the violin with Prof. Ana Chumachenco at the Munich Musikhochschule and the viola at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, with Atar Arad. After his return to Germany he began his career as a chamber musician and soloist. Alongside his intensive involvement with the Mandelring Quartet he has given many concerts with the Trio Charolca and has also continued performing as a soloist. Roland Glassl teaches at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, whose staff he joined as professor of viola in 2004.

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