About

John Pruett, viola

John Pruett is a musician who plays both modern and baroque violin. He is regularly heard in Carolina Baroque and Mañana Barrocco. He also concertizes with Angelo Rosati in Spoleto, Italy while teaching in the Spoleto Study Abroad Program. The program in the Umbria region of Italy is an educational program for the Renaissance student, ages 15 - 19. There he coaches chamber music and gives private lessons. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music. Last season Pruett was a guest artist at East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Conservatory of Music in Lima, Peru playing Baroque and Transitional violin. John has played principal viola for 20 years with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. This season he has been organizing orchestras and ensembles of period instruments for Old Salem, the Moramus Choir and Piedmont Chamber Singers where. He also is concertmaster for these groups. John was featured with Richard Kingston at the North Carolina Music Teacher's Convention at Davidson College speaking on the beneficence of teaching Baroque music to young people. They did a comparison of equal and unequal temperaments with Marylou Kapp Peeples collaborating on mulitple harpsichords.

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