RONALD GOREVIC has had a long and distinguished career as a performer and teacher on both the violin and viola.
As a violist, he has been a member of several well known string quartets spanning over twenty years and covering most of the quartet repertoire. He has toured throughout the US, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Australia and has been broadcast on radio stations across the US, South and Southwest German radio, and the Australian Broadcast network. He has performed recitals in major US cities, including New York, Cleveland, Chicago, and Atlanta. He has also performed in London, where he gave the British premieres of pieces by Donald Erb and Ned Rorem.
As a member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet, he has recorded piano quartets of Saint-Saens and D’Indy for Centaur Records. As a member of the Chester string quartet, he has recorded string quartets by Barber, Quincy Porter, and Walter Piston for Koch International. For Centaur, he has also recorded the Brahms clarinet quintet and trio in Brahms’s own arrangement for viola instead of clarinet. His most recent recording of Bach’s complete cello suites and the Chaconne on the viola will be released in 2022 for Centaur.
He is currently on the faculties of Smith College, The Prep department of New England Conservatory of Music, and UMass Amherst. In the past, he has held teaching positions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Akron, Indiana University at South Bend, and the Greenwood summer music camp. In addition to his teaching duties, he has an arrangement of the Mendelssohn violin concerto in E minor for viola and piano, which is available in the US through Sharmusic.com.