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Graybert Beacham
Violin

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Office: Bixler 206
Phone: 207-859-5679
Fax: 859-5635 (Music )
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Mailing Address:
5679 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8856

Education


M.M. in Violin Performance, Cleveland Institute of Music
B.M. in Violin Performance, Cleveland Institute of Music
Completed all courses toward a D.M.A. at Boston University (3.8 GPA)

Areas of Expertise:
  • Violin
  • Viola
  • Chamber Music
  • Conducting

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Professional Information

Graybert Beacham has been an active orchestral and chamber music performer throughout the United States and Mexico. He holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was the recipient of the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin.

Major teachers include David Cerone, Bernhard Goldschmidt, and Emanuel Borok. His conducting studies have been with Kenneth Kiesler at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, Lawrence Golan, and Max Bragado-Darman. He has studied chamber music with members of the LaSalle and Guarneri String Quartets. Recorded performances have been broadcast over public radio stations across the United States. His orchestral affiliations have included the Mexico City Philharmonic, Tulsa Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria, and Kansas City Philharmonic. He has served as Acting Concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jaime Laredo, and as Concertmaster and soloist for the Cascade Festival of Music in Oregon. From 1993 until 2002, Mr. Beacham was a member of the applied faculty at the University of Southern Maine School of Music, teaching violin, viola, and chamber music.

As a violist, he has been a guest artist with the Portland String Quartet and served as Principal Violist with Opera Boston (formerly the Boston Academy of Music) and the Maine Chamber Ensemble. Faculty positions have included the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Department, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Sunriver Institute for Strings, Music Festival of Arkansas, Bay Chamber Concerts Next Generation Program, Maine ASTA Summer String Conference, the New England Suzuki Institute and the Southern Maine String Academy. He has held the position of conductor with the University of Maine at Farmington Community Orchestra, guest-conducted the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, and is an active conductor/clinician at various educational festivals in Maine and Massachusetts.

Currently, Graybert teaches violin, viola and chamber music at Colby College and serves as Concertmaster for the Colby Symphony Orchestra. He also teaches strings in the School Administrative District No. 58 (Maine), inaugurating an exploratory violin class for elementary grade students He maintains an active performing schedule with the Nordica Trio (violin/viola, clarinet and piano), and has completed the coursework toward a D.M.A at Boston University School of Music.

In addition, Graybert has been a substitute player with the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1991, performing as Concertmaster, Principal Second Violin, Principal Viola, and soloist. In January 2011, Mr. Beacham performed as violin soloist on a concert tour of China with the New Sousa Band. Graybert has recorded for Albany Records and the Cambridge University Press.

Publications


"Peter Re String Quartets" on Albany Records
Performance of "Divertimento" for Violin, Cello and Piano by Peter Re
Graybert Beacham, violin
Susan Poliacik, cello
Cheryl Tschanz, piano


"...and the rendition of the Divertimento by violinist Graybert Beacham, cellist Susan Poliacik, and pianist Cheryl Tschanz is warm and lively, with spontaneous repartee." ~ Blair Sanderson, All Music Guide

Collaboration with author (Leon Harkleroad) on the accompanying audio CD for his book The Math Behind the Music, published by Cambridge University Press. As mentioned in the book's acknowledgements, (page xiii) the recording, production, and violin performance of musical excerpts are by Graybert Beacham.


"A special feature of of this book is the excellent accompanying audio CD of musical examples." Review in the Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society, No.363 October 2007.