Carolyn Stuart

Carolyn Stuart is an American violinist, Associate Professor of violin and chamber music at the University of South Florida, trained at The Juilliard School, the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University. She recorded Victor Chouchkov's Triple Concerto as soloist with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. For more than two decades she has played in duo with the Bulgarian pianist Svetozar Ivanov; she is also a member of the violin quartet MoVE, directed strings and chamber music at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Italy for six seasons, and has recorded for Bridge, Albany, Innova and Blue Griffin, among them the first recording of Joan Tower's Rising with the flautist Carol Wincenc. She commissioned Viktor Chouchkov’s concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra and played its world premiere with Scott Kluksdahl and Svetozar Ivanov, the Sofia Philharmonic and Nayden Todorov on 24 March 2005. The programme also included music by Webber and Gershwin, with Boyko Tsvetanov and Ina Kancheva among the other soloists; Lyuba Pesheva and Adriana Blagoeva prepared the choirs.