Michael Heald

Violin Soloist

November 4, 2000
April 24, 2004

            Michael Heald has been assistant professor of violin at the University of Georgia since 1998. While he was still in his native England he studied with Angus Watson at Winchester College, privately with Emanuel Hurwitz, and as an undergraduate at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Richard Deakin.  As a student of Walter Verdehr he obtained both his masters and doctoral degrees in violin performance at
Michigan State University.
            Between 1991 and 1994 Michael was a member of the English String Orchestra and played regularly with orchestras such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra.  He has been concertmaster of the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra and principal second violin of the Michigan Chamber Orchestra.  For five years he was a member of the American Sinfonietta with whom he
regularly toured throughout Europe and performed annually at the Bellingham Festival of Music in Washington.  He currently also serves as concertmaster of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra in Michigan.  He has been a member of many chamber ensembles, including the Arlington String Quartet, the Elgar Music Group, the Beaumont Piano Trio and the
Quadrivium Players, who were in residence at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.
               He has appeared in many solo and chamber recitals on both sides of the Atlantic, most notably at St.George’s, Brandon Hill in England, the Bellingham Festival of Music, Vanderbilt University, the College of Charleston and at the Wagner Hall in Riga, Latvia.  He recorded his first compact disc of violin sonatas by Elgar and Beethoven in 2002.
Various concerto performances have included those by Bach, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Elgar, along with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Brahms’ Double Concerto.  He will perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto in April 2004.