| Short Bio | Christina Placilla is a viola soloist, chamber musician, scholar, teacher, and Associate Professor of Strings and Musicology at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, U.S.A. She earned her Bachelor of Music in performance at California State University, Long Beach; her Master of Music at the Hartt School in West Hartford, Connecticut; and her Doctorate of Musical Arts in viola performance at the University of Colorado in the United States. Dr. Placilla has given solo and chamber music recitals in Sydney, Australia; Madrid, Spain; and throughout the United States. A first and second prize winner of the American Viola Society’s David Dalton Research Competition, Christina has published articles and given lecture recitals on the use of folk and popular music in the viola repertoire, including the viola and piano works of Arnold Bax, Stan Golestan, and George Enescu. Her CD, Remembrances from Home, released by Centaur Records, features some of these folk viola and piano pieces, and includes the viola sonatas of Jose Pablo Moncayo, Bohuslav Martinu, and shorter works by Cecil Forsyth, Isaac Albeniz, Maurice Ravel, Ivan Khandoshkin, and Stan Golestan. Her current research area is in viola and piano literature by women, such as Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Ina Boyle, and Julia Klumpkey. She actively performs with duo partner Gregory Thompson in the PlacillaThompson Duo and is the violist of the piano quartet Ensemble Argos. |
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