Timothy Deighton Timothy Deighton is Assistant Professor of viola at Penn State University, where he also teaches chamber music, viola pedagogy and literature, directs the Penn State Viola Ensemble, and performs in the Castalia Ensemble. A native of New Zealand, he received a bachelor of music and first class honours degree from Victoria University of Wellington, an artist diploma from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, and a doctor of musical arts degree in violin and viola from the University of Kansas. He is a National Recording Artist for Radio New Zealand, and was a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Deighton maintains a busy performing schedule as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and is active as a teacher and clinician. In 2002 he was recognized by PADESTA with PSOA (the Pennsylvania-Delaware String Teachers Association with Pennsylvania School Orchestras Association) as Outstanding String Teacher of the Year. A regular contributor to musical periodicals, his articles have appeared in such publications as Strings, the American String Teacher, Journal of the American Viola Society, the New York Violist, and VIOLOZ (the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society). In 1999 he directed "ViolaFest," a three-day event at Penn State which involved more than 200 violists from across North America and abroad.
Having long held a fascination for new music, he has performed U.S., European, and International premieres of numerous works by contemporary composers, several of which were commissioned by or written for him. In April 2001 he was featured as an invited performer at the XXVIII International Viola Congress, where he performed several new works. His first solo CD, featuring music for viola by New Zealand composers, was recently released on the Atoll label.
During the summer he serves on the faculty of the International Musical Arts Institute at Fryeburg, Maine, and has performed at other summer festivals including Yellowbarn, the Hampden-Sydney Music Festival, and Music at Penn's Woods. His teachers have included Ben Sayevich, Eric Rosenblith, Michael Kimber, and Gavin Saunders.
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