On Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m., in Edmunds Hall, the department of music at Presbyterian College will host a performance by Catherine Culp Hazan, violin and viola instructor at the College and the Laurens County Academy of Music at PC. The event is free and open to the public.

Hazan joined the Presbyterian College faculty in 2016. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Converse College and a master’s degree from the Catholic University of America, where she studied under Robert Gerle. In addition, she holds a performance certificate from the University of South Carolina under William Terwilliger. Hazan has also received further instruction from David Kim of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Joey Corpus in New York, as well as Paul Kantor from the Cleveland Institute of Music at the Aspen Music Festival.

Hazan has played under such conductors as Kurt Masur, Mendi Rodin, and David Zinman, and performed in master classes by Eugene Fodor, Vadim Gluzman, and Rachel Barton Pine. She was a full-time member of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra for six years and premiered a number of Brazilian solo and chamber works while residing in Rio de Janeiro. Her solo career includes concerto performances with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Spartanburg Symphony, and the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, as well as a featured soloist appearance on the CD “Baroque Christmas” by the Rio Strings Chamber Ensemble.

Her teaching background is extensive and includes a professor of violin appointment at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She is currently a tenured member of the Greenville Symphony, SC Philharmonic, and Symphony Orchestra Augusta, as well as a regular section violinist in the Charleston Symphony. Hazan plays on a Georges Chanot violin from 1856.

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