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The Carolina Summer Music Festival
 Meet the Artist . . .  Simon Ertz, violaSimon Ertz joined the Degas Quartet in June 2002; before that he was pursuing a doctoral degree in viola performance at Michigan State University. Simon grew up in the north west of Scotland and moved to Manchester to study at Chethams and to have regular lessons at the age of seventeen. After two years there he studied viola at the Royal Northern College of Music with Roger Raphael and Simon Rowland-Jones. Simon was a member of several chamber music groups which won prizes including the Terrence Weil and Leonard Hirsch competitions. He was also awarded the Thomas Barret memorial prize for viola. By the time Simon graduated from the RNCM he was working with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Northern Chamber, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. With the quartet Simon has performed throughout the country including for the Chicago Chamber Music Society, as a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival, and at the Library of Congress on the Library's Tuscan Medici Stradivarius. The quartet also performs and teaches throughout North Carolina, including residencies at Appalachian State University and UNC Wilmington. In the summer the quartet is in residence with the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival. After two years working in the UK, Simon moved to Michigan to continue his education. As well as completing his Master's degree at Michigan State University, he served as assistant principal viola of the Greater Lansing Symphony and played in the orchestra's string quartet. During his time in Syracuse, Simon was a member of the Syracuse Symphony and played at Carnegie Hall with them in April 2003. He has also made chamber music appearances with members of the orchestra including concerts for the 2003 Geneva festival. Currently Simon is principal viola of the Winston Salem Symphony and the Oleander Chamber orchestra and also plays regularly with the Greensboro, Charlotte and Charleston Symphonies. Simon Ertz plays a viola made by his brother, Neil Ertz. |
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