INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES - MASUMI ROSTAD
 Masumi Rostad, viola, has been heralded as headed for "the big career" by New York Magazine and has distinguished himself with numerous prizes and awards. Rostad was winner of the Bronx Arts Ensemble's Young Artist Competition Grand Prize and the Lillian Fuchs Award for outstanding graduating violist at the Juilliard School, where he received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. As a Juilliard competition winner in 1999, Mr. Rostad performed the world premiere of Michael White's Viola Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall with conductor James DePreist. Also in 1999, he gave the New York premiere of Paul Schoenfield's Viola Concerto with the Juilliard Symphony. The New York Times wrote that the work was "magnificently performed." He has performed concertos with the Mozart Players Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall and the New York Youth Symphony at Queens College's Colden Center. Rostad has performed internationally as a member of the International Sejong Soloists and the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival. He is currently on the faculty of University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana and the University of Chicago.
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