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Mr. Lieberman is now in his twelfth year as double bass faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He began his career at age twenty-one as principal bass of the Winnipeg Symphony. In 1976 Zubin Mehta appointed him Associate Principal bass of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a post he held for sixteen years. Mr. Lieberman has been a regular performer with Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, the International Festival in Seattle, Bravo Colorado, Bargemusic, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, and served as Principal bass of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Most recently Mr. Lieberman performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, both in New York City and on tour in Europe. He has also performed with, and toured the Far East, Europe and the U.S. with the Mostly Mozart chamber orchestra. Additionally, Mr. Lieberman has performed with many of the worlds greatest conductors, including Pierre Boulez and Sir Simon Rattle (both in orchestral and chamber music settings), Erich Leinsdorf, Leonard Bernstein, Daniel Barenboim, Georg Solti, Eugene Ormandy, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, and Kurt Sanderling, amongst many others. He has performed chamber music with artists including Emmanuel Ax, James Galway, Lynn Harrell, Pinchas Zuckerman, Glenn Dicterow, and David Shifrin. A former member of the New European Strings for several years, Mr. Lieberman has toured both the US and Europe with it's leader, Dimirtri Sitkovetsky. Mr. Lieberman has also served as Principal Bass of the Seattle Symphony on many occasions. Mr. Lieberman has served as head coach of the Seattle Youth Symphony and faculty at the Marrowstone Music Festival since 1992, and performed the Koussevitzky Concerto with the Youth Symphony. His students have won positions in several orchestras, and for the last eleven years have won first, second and third place in the Washington State Solo competition. In l994, Mr. Lieberman created the series, "Barry Lieberman and Friends", at the University of Washington. A series that combines the talents of members of the Seattle Symphony (most notably his wife, Maria Larionoff) the University, guest artists, and most importantly, students from both the University as well as preparatory level. The series has met with great success and critical acclaim, and has incorporated Mr. Lieberman`s project of arranging standard chamber to include the double bass. Featured artists on this series include Gary Karr, Thomas Martin (Principal bass, London Symphony,) Hal Robinson (Principal bass, Philadelphia Orchestra,) Joel Quarrington (Principal bass, Toronto Symphony,) and many other prominent double bassists from around the world. The series continues and has become one of the most popular concert series in Seattle. 2000-2001 marked Mr. Lieberman's debut with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society in New York City. His recording of the complete Vivaldi sonatas arranged for the double bass and piano was released in 2001, and is the first and only recording of all ten of these sonatas. They were performed on Mr. Lieberman's 1597 Maggini double bass, one of the oldest in the world. In May, 2002 Mr. Lieberman launched a new series known as The American String Project, bringing together fifteen of the worlds greatest string players to form the first conductor less string orchestra. Concertmasters of major orchestras, chamber musicians and soloists performed in Benaroya Hall, works both for string orchestra, and Mr. Lieberman's own arrangements of chamber works. These works included the Ravel String Quartet, Mozart's g minor Quintet, Brahms Second Sextet and the Shostakovich Quartet # 3. Critical acclaim followed the three performances: "Astonishing! Kudos to all." Richard Campbell, Seattle Post Intelligencer "Intense and expert playing, with a unanimous approach to details." Melinda Bargreen, Seattle Times The Project was voted ‘Best musical event' of 2002 by the Seattle Post Intelligencer and Year II of the Project received even more praise in the two major papers of Seattle: "Instead of four players, there are now fifteen. Lieberman does all the arranging himself and with considerable deftness, and the effect is striking. With the bass as the anchor, the timbre of the orchestra is rich and varied, endlessly interesting. The Mendelssohn was larger than life with lightening speed when necessary and the smoothest lyricism when that was required. The Prokofiev was incisive and riveting, a testimony to the breadth and depth of these musicians' interpretive and technical abilities." RM Campbell, Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Project's most recent compact disc containing Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Prokofiev quartets is available at the following website: www.theamericanstringproject.org. In the fall of 2003, Mr. Lieberman conducted several master classes at the Guildhall School of Music in London, England, the equivalent of the Juiliard School in America. In the summer of 2005 Mr. Lieberman will be a presenter at the International Society of Bassists convention, their bi annual event, bringing together the world's most influential bassists. Mr. Lieberman is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He and his wife Maria Larionoff, the Associate Concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, live with their two golden retrievers, Norie and Randolph. " A consummate chamber player" Seattle Week "Sophisticated and elegant" Los Angeles Times "A sensitive, persuasive, and technically assured artist" Double Bassist Magazine |
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